Ethical

Astrology

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Grounded

Energy

Care

Broken Worldview: My Crisis of Awareness

Most of us have similar origin stories. As kids, grownups told us who and how we were supposed to be, praised us for meeting expectations, and punished us for going outside the lines. Self-knowledge was only important if it helped us make a grade or perform a role. 

Then at some point, we reach the limits of what respectability, conformity, and people-pleasing can get us. We realize the equation we’re trying to solve is busted. No amount of compliance with cultural, corporate, or religious standards will give us inner safety, a stable sense of self, or satisfaction in our close relationships. And we’re very, very tired. 

These crises of awareness feel catastrophic, because they are. We are on the brink of losing what has held us together, albeit haphazardly and at great personal, social, and environmental cost. What we do at these crossroads hold immense power to shape our lives. 

Exquisitely Perfecting the Breakdown

Seeing through cherished illusions can be intensely uncomfortable, and shifting worldviews can feel like dying. For me, I ran screaming from the crisis crossroads the first couple times I reached it, doubling down on my tools of shame, people-pleasing, and overwork. I got faster at running through the maze, and reaching the same cliff’s edge no matter what path I took. The maps were still wrong, the stories lied, the authorities were false. Full breakdown, again and again.

If this is where you are, I absolutely get it. And I’m truly proud of you for trying your best with whatever tools felt safest. As we 

Allowing myself to accept the reality of my experience took immense courage. Old me performed for love and acceptance. New me thirsted for love and acceptance from the inside out. Old me needed to conform. New me needed to know who I was, at my core. 

This called for new tools. 

 

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New Tools for a New Chapter

My first and most powerful new toolset for moving from breakdown to breakthrough was learning to listen to my body, and speak its language. Our amazing bodies aren’t swayed by the busted stories of social conditioning, which is why our MINDSETS around our bodies become the primary target of over-control and shaming by dominant cultures, religions, and dysfunctional family patterns.  Transforming my relationship to my body from one of antagonism, oppression, and neglect has changed my life in so many beautiful ways. 

Great outcome, easier said than done. Figuring out HOW to listen to my body instead of fighting its messages was a gargantuan challenge. While I can and do recommend fabulous books, amazing practitioners, and powerful energetic practices that helped me and so many of my loved ones and clients reunite with our embodied selves, my second beloved tool is the biggest unlock of personal power and self-knowledge – astrological birth chart analysis.

When I engaged with my birth chart – the specific map of the sky at the moment and place of my birth – an incredible, UNIQUE, and resonant pattern emerged for me. Instead of wandering through the old painful maze I’d been battling,  trying to solo-unravel old conditioning while still experiencing its impact, I connected with the map of my embodied soul issued at the moment of my birth

Astrology is an incredibly potent tool – and it’s just that. A tool. Astrology is not a boss, a deity, a rulebook, or a scorecard. We unleash the phenomenal power of astrology for empowerment and transformation when we engage from a place of ethical embodiment. And that’s what I do with my clients, from a place of warmth, compassion, humor, and trauma-informed wisdom.  

I start with honoring you as the primary expert of your life, your sacred inner knowing as worthy of attention, and your personal power to effect change. I connect with the stories, energies, and potentials of your birth chart, bringing to bear modern, Hellenistic, medieval, folk, and personal astrological learnings. Together, we explore the gifting, strength, opportunity and challenge patterns of your birth chart at your pace as I hold a sacred and safe space for us. We examine the point of the sky coming over the horizon at the moment of your first breath, the placement of the Moon, the Sun, every planetary body in our solar system, and how these majestic energies within and around you relate to every aspect of life. How you heal, your body’s language, where you find satisfaction, the outline of your soul’s desires –  these often elusive truths live in your birth chart.

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So Electric! Embodiment & Energy Care

Regardless of planetary placements, we’re all experiencing and living our birth charts as physically embodied humans on Earth. There’s a capstone toolset I brought to my transformation journey of embodiment and self-trust. This one was absolutely essential for supporting myself as a highly sensitive (read: PTSD-haver from surviving pervasive childhood abuses, suspected autistic, late-diagnosed ADHD) person.

I’m an energy magnet. You might be too, especially if you identify as neurodivergent, highly sensitive, a survivor of a traumatic childhood, or just super, unrelentingly anxious. 

Leveraging tons of therapy, medications, self-help books, mindset shifts, podcasts, and somatic interventions helped me heal a TON of trauma, and grow as a responsible, caring, creative adult. And yet there were areas of my experience that remained woefully unmoved by the work I’d done. Like I’d done decades of decluttering, and yet a solid chunk of what I removed from my physical environment, mental space, heart, soul, and younger selves remained “on the property” and kept affecting me.  

What helped me? Energy clearing + reiki attunements + angelic energy healings, i.e. ENERGY CARE. The incredibly supportive tool that I bring alongside embodied, ethical astrology is grounded, consent-based, Divine Light-aligned energy care. By connecting to the energetic heartbeat of Earth and the divine light of Source, I gently clear the energy fields of people and places from stagnant, unwanted, or intrusive energies. I practice and teach angelic energy healings, and connect (attune) individuals with the always-on channel of universal life force energy, often called “reiki”.  

As humans, we are electromagnetic beings. Not only is electricity racing through our neurons and cells within our physical bodies, our energy fields measurably extend outward from what we see as the limits of our forms. Our energy fields naturally pick up traces (or big chunks) of energetic detritus from challenging experiences, other people, highly charged environments, and from our ancestral lines (by blood and spirit). When I learned how to connect to the magnificent power of Earth’s energy fields to clear my own on a regular basis, it created boundaries and safe space within myself in a way that decades of great therapy, effective meds, and good life choices had been unable to reach.  

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How We Work Together

In one-on-one sessions, we work together to:

  • Make space for you—your grief, exhaustion, longing, and power.
  • Rebuild a relationship with your body that isn’t based on judgment or frustration, but on deep listening and trust.
  • Transform the patterns of anxiety, overwork, self-doubt, and despair into their hidden superpowers:
    • Anxiety → Trustworthy Intuition
    • Mistrust of Self → Discernment that Includes Both Self & Others
    • Overwork & Sacrifice → Self-Love & Deep Acceptance of Your Own Needs
    • Despair → Grounded Acceptance & Openness to the Path Ahead
  • Offer clarity and relief—helping you step forward in a way that is sustainable, nourishing, and deeply in tune with what you need.

In Pursuit of Self-Trust

Maybe you’re untangling yourself from the way you were raised, trying to heal without losing yourself in the endless work of undoing. Maybe you’ve been trying to get pregnant or stay pregnant, and the process has taken you places you never expected—into exhaustion, fear, and self-doubt that no one prepared you for. Maybe you are holding both truths at once—on the edge of parenthood, knowing exactly what you don’t want to pass down, but unsure of what to replace it with.

Maybe you’re not sure where you’re headed at all—just that something in you is ready for a different way of seeing, a different way of being.

I know these spaces intimately. I have lived them. And I know that real clarity, real trust, and real transformation aren’t about following someone else’s roadmap.

They come from learning to engage with yourself—and the world—in ways that are fully your own, grounded in curiosity, self-trust, and internal integrity.

That’s what I hold space for.

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I had spent so much time trying to force myself to tolerate the intolerable. What I actually needed was to honor my sensitivity, to see it as a legitimate need, not a weakness. And once I did, the anxiety that had ruled my life started to shift. Not because I had overpowered it, but because I had finally listened to it.