I gave it all away in the title. I'm bisexual and polyamorous.

But this article isn't just a coming-out announcement. I'm going to dive deep into my natal chart to show the astrological foundations of my unconventional lifestyle. My chart also shows why it's taken me so long to go public.

I'll also look at my current astrological influences - transits, secondary progressions, solar arcs and solar return - to see why I chose to reveal myself now. (The decision came first, the astrological analysis second.) And I've tried to write this so that even those with little or no astrology knowledge can understand it ... most of it, anyway!

As I contemplated coming out in the weeks leading up to this post, several supportive omens came my way. Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat Pray Love, publicly announced that she's in love with another woman on September 7. Celebrate Bisexuality Day, which I hadn't even known about, showed up in my Facebook feed on September 23. On September 29 The New York Times reported that "Brian Anderson, Skateboarding Star, Comes Out as Gay. (Mr. Anderson, 40, becomes the first openly gay professional in a sport once considered tinged with homophobia.)" And on September 30 a DC Comics writer confirmed that Wonder Woman, who will have her own major motion picture in 2017, is bisexual.

This was all very encouraging. But the thing that set me firmly on this course, strangely enough, was a critical insight about persistent congestion in my chest. I received this insight during an ayahuasca ceremony.

Ayahuasca, a hyperintelligent, multidimensional plant spirit teacher and healer, has been my most trusted advisor and main transformational catalyst for over 10 years. I asked at the beginning of a mid-September ceremony for healing of my chest congestion, which had been dragging on for weeks. During the ceremony, ayahuasca told me that the congestion would clear once I "got something off my chest." It was clear that this meant going public about my bisexuality and polyamory.

Further reflection helped me clarify how my coming out might benefit others....

I lived in fear of the shadow work I needed to do for my self-healing for most of my life. With my move from Oklahoma to Asheville, North Carolina in 2001 to live my dream at the age of 41, I gradually started to face the darkness that was blocking my inner light....