“SELF-EVIDENT ASTROLOGY™" was born out of a thirty three year search. The search began at Cornell University in the late sixties. Mr. Close was driven by the same unrest as many of his contemporaries. But while his fellow students were filled with war and protests, he looked in a different direction.

With answers to social unrest not forthcoming from conventional society, Mr. Close joined a group that professed to be studying knowledge and human understanding. He culled through tens of thousands of pages of the writings of L. Ron Hubbard. Mr. Close distinguished himself in the Scientology world by being frequently demoted and reprimanded. After four tough, but enlightening years he concluded that this group could not transform itself into a group that might "get along with its neighbors". So he set out on the long slow path to gain a position from which he could make his ideas known.

In the years that followed, he developed his new theory. Part of this formulation process included reviewing the teachings of well-known philosophers from Confucius to Jefferson and the lesser-known New Age proponents from Edgar Cayce to Seth.

Meanwhile Mr. Close returned to the college life that he had forsaken previously. He completed a BA in Applied Physics from the College of Wooster (Ohio) and an MA in Telecommunications from the University of Colorado (Boulder). His Masters Thesis on “Broadcast Spectrum Utilization” was published in the telecommunications text book, “Telecommunications in the United States, Trends and Policies."

By the early eighties, a succession of disappointments forced him to begin putting his theory to use in his own life. Mr. Close became a recognized expert in telephone network design first at Xerox and later with The DMW Group consulting firm.

In 1990 Mr. Close began a company called Tri-Quad Enterprises, Inc. by himself. At the e

nd of the decade it was a multi-million dollar operation. Mr. Close sold the company to gain the financing required to fully express SELF-EVIDENT ASTROLOGY™ and other breakthroughs yet to come.

Mr. Close has been an amateur astrologer since 1969 and has dedicated himself full-time to SELF-EVIDENT ASTROLOGY™ and the Intrepid software since 2000.  Mr. Close's SELF-EVIDENT ASTROLOGY™ and Intrepid software have been gaining the attention of more and more professional astrologers since its initial release in late 2006.