About Claudine Savelberg
In short: Associate editor and lead astrologer at 0800-Horoscope.com since 2023. Leo Sun, Gemini Moon, Gemini Ascendant. Reading astrology since the mid-1990s, influenced by Susan Miller, Jonathan Cainer, Eugenia Last, Rita-Ann Freeman, David Ryan, and Kelli Fox.
About me
I was born on August 4, 1975 in Aachen, Germany, with the Sun in Leo and the Moon and Ascendant both in Gemini. Anyone who has spent time around chart readings will tell you that's an unusual configuration — fixed-fire identity layered over mutable-air emotional life and outward style. It made me curious about astrology long before I understood the language for it.
Life since has taken me from Aachen through Belgium and Germany to a long stretch in Australia, with extended travel in between. I married in June 1995 and divorced in 2017 — the kind of relationship that astrologers usually file under profound chart classroom. I returned to Europe and now live in the Belgian-German border region.
How I came to astrology
I started reading astrology in the mid-1990s, when the web was just starting to make serious astrology accessible outside of bookshops. The voices that shaped my understanding — and that I still re-read — are Susan Miller, Jonathan Cainer, Eugenia Last, Rita-Ann Freeman, David Ryan, and Kelli Fox. Each taught me something different: Miller for narrative warmth and the long arc of a transit, Cainer for the small humane observation that lands the reading, Freeman for the unflinching practicality of week-by-week work, and so on. I am self-taught in the way most working astrologers are — from books, from chart practice, from years of writing for friends and family before doing it publicly.
My approach
A horoscope is most useful when it sounds like it was written by someone who has actually stood where you are standing. I read for current transits first — what the sky is genuinely doing this week — and then for how that intersects with the inner experience of the sign. I don't write predictions; I write observations and steers. Astrology is a tool for self-understanding, not a substitute for it.
I'm also careful about astrology jargon. Many readers don't know what a sextile is, and don't need to. If a transit is supportive, I say so; if it brings friction, I say so. The technical machinery stays under the hood.
At 0800-Horoscope
I joined 0800-Horoscope.com as a staff writer in 2023 and have been associate editor since 2024. I write the weekly sign forecasts that appear every Monday at 03:00 Brussels time, the daily readings that update each morning, and the occasional feature when a major transit asks for one. I work in the long tradition of the site's previous astrologers — Deborah Browning, who wrote the General Weekly Overview from December 1998 through 2023, and Rita-Ann Freeman, who wrote the weekly sign forecasts from October 2000 through January 2022 — and I try to honour the voice they established while bringing my own.
Who I write for
The readers I think about most are people in transition — a job change, the end of a relationship, a move to a new country, a year that just feels different. Astrology is at its best when it helps name what is already moving, not when it pretends to predict it. If a weekly reading helps you see a Tuesday morning a little more clearly, it's done its job.
A few moments
Contact
The fastest way to reach me about a reading, a correction, or a column suggestion is through the site feedback form. I read everything that comes through, even if I can't always reply at length.
