“live this life now. even if in fury and grief, live it. it’s incredibly easy to find a way around experience rather than through it. but you will have cheated yourself out of your only possession: your life.” — jorie graham
hello fellow living —
i have 15 discounted astrology sessions available between now and the solstice (december 21st) - $111, 90 mins, online or in-person in my office. that’s half off the normal price!
bring your questions, curiosities, fears and inarticulate longings and we’ll delve into your birth chart, the relevant collective transits and the places they intersect in a ritually-held space we co-create to let the helping spirits, planetary teachers, elements and archetypes speak to, from and through your experience. for astro-heads or skeptics alike, new or returning clients. this is my last availability til mid-january at the earliest, so if you need divination or just a space to process in cosmic context, come on and get it.
but why?
i keep a small bundle of divination tools at hand in any moment, some i work with daily, some seasonally, some only in a pinch when everything else seems to bottom out. some folks may never need formal divination, or at least make their way fine without it, though my hunch is that those of you on my mailing list will at least have one kit, corner, art form or practice where you engage with the larger intelligence, however haphazard or skilled it looks, whatever you call it, and know the value of landing your life, times and experience in a perspective that yields more space for mystery, magic, meaning and depth and also perspective towards practical steps to actually work with the energy afoot.
astrology is one of those for me, a consistent companion i’ve grown to deeply value and trust but not one i’m always terribly disciplined with in my own personal practice. but one thing i’ve learned — when all else fails, and the events of the world or my life (and/or the way they intersect) have me ass-backwards and belly-up in the shit, astrology is a tool i can always use to relocate myself, depersonalize my stress or suffering just enough to be with it and then ask for the opportunity available to harvest from the moment in a way that actually gets me a helpful step, whether an action or just something to hold in mind or heart as i blunder about.
for example:
i’m in the process of bringing a couple really challenging projects to fruition between now and the new year, and while i feel pretty damn current in my transformational work around this, i was feeling deeply daunted and secretly avoidant of just how overwhelmed i’ve been by the unknowns of the next month. i kept telling myself, ‘i need to just sit with the transits,’ because the ephemeris will always have my / help me back at times like this (and i just love freakin charts and tables tbh), but i just hadn’t made time for it. but yesterday my acupuncturist casually asked me how the upcoming mars ingress into sagittarius might impact my life, and the lightbulb went off. ‘well, i have a sag stellium (ceres, saturn, venus), so that’s groovy for me, and actually so helpful to remember (as i hadn’t been tracking it), because the opportunity for a martian storm on jupiter’s palace is to accept that things will definitely take longer than we want, follow strange and circuitous and adventure-rich routes, and to open to the blessings which will come in unexpected moments vs expecting everything to work out the way the linear mind tries to force it, but to open to the learning with a transcendent but embodied quality of presence.’ wow, deep breath, i’m now landed in space-time and actually excited, having harvested the answer-as-energy from a question (what is the opportunity offered me by mars entering sagittarius this week?), in casual conversation with someone in my learning/healing network (very sagittarian of course, cuz mercury has been there since the 11th, also happens to be my 11th house of community), yielding just enough of an illuminating fire to act as a torch for this season and these feelings without feeling limiting or forced.
that’s the kind of shit i love about astrology, and love exploring with clients. the connections can be uncanny, the myths and stories both clarifying and mysterious, and even the most painful happenings in life, love, work, art or politics can benefit from the reminder that nothing is ever happening to just one of us.
recap:
15 half-off star circles available this month - $111, 90 mins, online or in-person in my office @ inner space. click here to book!
not the right time for you? maybe i’ll see you around the next equinox :) but please keep your eyes out for other exciting announcements about those two aforementioned massive projects! and thank you fabulous human and other-than community near and far for all your prayers, art, divination, dreaming and resistance work even in the face of crimes against humanity and spiraling climate chaos. when you share your gifts you enrich the ecosystem for all of us. thank you for living your life.
in cosmic love and mundane magic,
alexis