The Stars and a Wedding in France

Testimonial of a love-struck lawyer Part 1

By Judy Repol

I first consulted Resti in August 2012. My main reason for requesting a reading from him then was, I’ve been in a relationship with my (then) boyfriend but I felt like it was leading me nowhere.

It was my first reading with an astrologer ever, and I was amazed with his reading of my past and present situation, especially about my family and even my career. But of course, my main motive for the reading was about my relationship. And I did what I was set out to do— I actually asked Resti this: if the guy I’m currently in a relationship with is the man I am going to marry. Using the horary astrology method, Resti’s short answer was no.

I will be lying if I say I wasn’t devastated. I knew I was there and was consulting him precisely because I wanted answers. But I had a hard time accepting his answer. I even used my lawyer skills with Resti to get a qualified/nuanced answer from him, although the answer was already in black and white. I asked him if the answer will change even with the passage of time (What if I stay longer with him? What if he changes? What if I alter myself?). I felt that Resti, being ever sensitive, gave me the answer that I needed to hear at that point in time. He softened the blow somewhat, but it was still a blow. A hard one. I believe Resti mentioned that my next boyfriend will be the man I will marry, but at that time, that piece of information did not sink in.

Looking back, as hard as it was to accept, I knew what my intuition was really telling me. I was not meant for this guy I was with. And more importantly, we aren’t meant for each other.

Did I break up with my then-boyfriend because of my reading with Resti? No. I was in love with the guy (or at least I thought so then)—the rational side of me would never have ended a six-year relationship with him just because my astrologer told me he was not meant for me. But amazingly, just a few months later, by December, I finally got the courage: I broke up with him. I didn’t break up with him because of the reading–but maybe I also took the reading as one of my “signs”. I knew then I already had enough.

Fast forward to May 2014, my next reading with Resti. At that time, my issue was no longer love or relationship but my career. During that period, I was already in a serious relationship with a French guy named Arnaud. On that reading with Resti, I was very conscious that I will not mention Arnaud to Resti nor will I even ask if he is the one (because in my gut, I already knew, and I didn’t feel like asking Resti anymore about it). But to my surprise, in the midst of my asking questions about my career, he zeroed in on my current relationship. He affirmed that the period around the time when I first started dating Arnaud in 2013 was the perfect time for new romance for me. He mentioned that my future travels were connected to my current relationship (Coincidentally, Arnaud and I were about to leave for our trip to Europe in June). And more importantly, Resti even hinted that this guy I was with could really be the one based on our compatibility and I could even be looking at late 2015 to early 2016 as a wedding date. I had no expectations at the time! And yet, everything seemed to easily fall into place.

This was first published in Filipino Astrologer’s Medieval Astro-Clock 2016.