Gabriel Mojay is an author-researcher, educator and practitioner in the scientific and TCM-energetic aspects of medicinal and aromatic plants and their extracts. He has practiced and taught clinical aromatherapy, herbal medicine and acupuncture since 1987.

Gabriel was born in England, grew up in Maryland, has spent most of his career in London, and now resides in California. He first studied TCM in 1978, qualifying in shiatsu, and later co-authored ‘Shiatsu – the complete guide’. Following 4 years of study with TCM clinicians including Giovanni Maciocia, he became a member of the British Acupuncture Council. While at acupuncture school Gabriel trained in European and Chinese herbal medicine and in Scientific Aromatherapy with Pierre Franchomme and Daniel Pénoël MD, among others.

Since 1990 Gabriel has been Principal of the Institute of Traditional Herbal Medicine and Aromatherapy (ITHMA). He has presented lectures at international conferences and seminars in the USA, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Japan, Korea, China, Hong Kong, Australia, France, the Czech Republic, Ireland, and the UK. He is author of Aromatherapy for Healing the Spirit.

Gabriel’s interest in and study of astrology found its provenance in esoteric studies focused especially on Tarot undertaken with metaphysician Diane Lancaster 40 years ago in Baltimore, MD, when he was 25. This included a study of the work of astrologer Alan Oken and his books as well as attending lectures given by him.

Returning to England in 1983, Gabriel went on a private retreat to engage in an in-depth exploration of astrology, including Birth Chart erection at a time when software was not yet of widely available. This was reinforced with a largely continuous study of the work of astrologer Liz Greene and Howard Sasportas who together ran the Center for Psychological Astrology based at the same university campus in Regents Park, central London as Gabriel’s aromatherapy institute, ITHMA.

Liz Greene is well known as a leading author on in-depth aspects of astrology, and in particular, for applying her expertise and wisdom as a trained Jungian analyst to the art of Birth Chart interpretation. Gabriel indeed has had a long interest in the work of Carl Jung, and applies key Jungian psychological concepts in a simple way to aspects of aromatherapy as well as TCM mental-emotional health assessment.

In 1984 Gabriel undertook a course in psychological numerology with numerologist Theron Henley, and continues to this day to collect books on number symbolism.

Gabriel has given numerous in-depth astrological–numerological readings over the years since, and draws from a wide spectrum of esoteric knowledge ranging from alchemy, Kabbalah, and the work of Gurdjieff through to a long-standing experience of Tibetan Buddhism, Taoism and Tantra Yoga. Indeed, he once worked as the office manager of a yoga ashram in North London.

Gabriel applied his interest in, and insights gleaned from, the Western Esoteric Tradition in his 1996 publication Aromatherapy for Healing the Spirit ~ in which he discusses a range of aromatic plants from the perspective of their traditional astrological symbolism.

Gabriel sincerely believes that the door on the soul which this class will open for people will be one which will reveal a fascinating and often transformative new world ~ an ancient archetypal world which, unknowingly to the unknowing, informs every corner of our lives.