After a 20-year career in oil trading, an intense Uranus transit set Philippe on a different path. Or rather on different paths, such as setting up a Microfinance institution in Malawi, launching the first Fairtrade cola on the UK market, and working as a writer and Trustee for the Gaia Foundation in London. 

Philippe started to study astrology with the Faculty in 2012, gaining the Diploma in 2024. He also holds the MA in Myth, Cosmology and the Sacred from Canterbury Christchurch University (2017), and has been offering astrological consultations for the last two years.

He is the author of Scavengers of Beauty, a symbolic reading of the 1969 Apollo mission on the Moon, and of Songs of I Am, a poetry collection exploring consciousness. He has also written novels and poetry books in his native French language.

Philippe has been living in the UK for thirty odd years and is currently based in Canterbury, Kent.