Dennis Flaherty is one of the few Westerners who is practiced and certified in both Vedic and Western Astrology, having been certified through Professional Astrologers Inc. and he has been the recipient of the Jyotish Kovid and Jyotish Vachaspati awarded by Dr. B.V. Raman of the Indian Council of Astrological Sciences.
Dennis has a busy consulting business in the Seattle area. He has served four times as President of the Washington State Astrological Association and he is currently Membership Chair for Association for Astrological Networking, and a founding board member of the American College of Vedic Astrology. Dennis writes regularly for The Mountain Astrologer and co-authors the “Jyotish Currents” monthly column. He is the author of Mythic Measurements of the Moon’s Nodes and The Eastern Moon through Western Eyes featured in anthologies from Llewellyn and Samuel Weiser.
He teaches Jyotisha through his Audio Correspondence Course, which has been distributed widely. He is the founder and director of the NW Institute of Vedic Sciences, where he provides personal consultations, and teaches and tutors a curriculum in Vedic Astrology.