Nadia Reyes, editor of HeyHoroscope

Nadia Reyes is the name this site is written in. She edits HeyHoroscope, writes the articles, and is the byline the daily emails have carried since launch.

She is a house voice rather than a single person: the way a magazine keeps one style across many hands. The daily readings are written by three astrologers who each work in a different tradition, and she edits them.

The voice is consistent on purpose. Plain talk, no doom, no vague warnings, and nobody is told their week is ruined because a planet moved. Where a claim is astrological it comes from the chart math. Where it is interpretation, we say so.

The astrologers who write the daily readings

• Yusuf Karaca, classical astrology, money and work
• Ines Vasquez, evolutionary astrology, the daily reading and love
• Rhys Calloway, electional timing, pace and energy

What I check before a reading goes out

Every daily reading starts from the calculated positions of the planets for that date. Nothing is written from memory and nothing is written from a template, which means the astrology in a reading can be checked against the sky rather than taken on trust.

Past that, I am looking for three things. That the reading says something specific enough to be wrong, because a reading vague enough to fit everybody has told nobody anything. That it does not predict an outcome, because none of us knows what will happen to you today and pretending otherwise is where this trade loses its footing. And that it is written to somebody with two minutes and a phone, not to somebody studying astrology.

What I take out most often is hedging. Writers reach for might and perhaps when they are not sure they have earned the sentence, and a paragraph built out of those words is comfortable to write and useless to read.

Why three astrologers and not one

Yusuf, Ines and Rhys work in genuinely different traditions, and on any given morning they disagree about what matters. That disagreement is the point. A single voice reading twelve charts produces twelve versions of the same paragraph, however good the voice is.

So each of them writes the part their method is actually good at. Yusuf works in classical technique, which is strongest on timing and capacity, so he writes about work. Ines reads transits against the natal pattern and is interested in why a situation keeps recurring, so she writes the daily reading and love. Rhys works electionally, with exact timings and the windows they open, so he writes about pace.