Astrology holds a remarkable capacity in the modern world to look inward, transcribe the world within, and use that insight as a guide toward release, transformation, and deep spiritual healing. While modern practices such as clinical therapy can offer valuable tools, they often lack one essential element: the feeling of deep connectedness and the experience of truly being seen by another soul. Astrology bridges this gap. By recognizing the planets within us, we begin to understand the different areas of our lives that have been shaped through the natal chart. This process fosters self-awareness and invites the possibility of remediation, a conscious step toward healing, as well as a feeling of safety and empowerment.
At the core, people crave connection. There is nothing more connecting than being deeply aware of yourself and knowing who you are in the truest sense. The natal chart serves as a map for this process, while transits and other techniques such as zodiacal releasing serve as a compass of sorts. Through this journey we examine who we are, how we have come to be, when will grow into becoming and how we get there archetypally. The chart allows us to explore our shadow side, our family lineage, creative pursuits, values, and the way we project those aspects into the world. It reveals our relationship patterns, social circles, and the way we absorb and interpret knowledge. There is a chance to offer a complete view of the human story that incapsulates all facets of our reality from every angle and dimension, throughout time as we live it.
By working with planetary combinations, astrology will show us which parts of our lives are ready for healing, and which have reached an uncomfortable state of becoming. Mars and Saturn placements often point to areas of greater challenge or restriction. Planets in fall or detriment can highlight areas of discomfort or imbalance, and tense relationships between planets can reveal internal conflicts or competing drives. These placements are not meant to hold us back existentially, but rather, areas in which the universe is asking us to grow and transform towards a higher calling.
Our solar system is an observable cyclical motion. Just as the planets move in their orbits, our personal growth also unfolds in cycles as well. Over time, these rhythms help us uncover and unravel our truest inner selves. Once we align our life experiences with specific astrological patterns, we can identify the exact narratives playing out in our lives overtime. This process not only validates what we are experiencing but also provides a refined perspective that acknowledges our place in the sky and thus offers guidance rooted in both the spiritual and the practical.
Astrology is not simply about prediction or personality traits; it is a living and evolving divine tool for growth. It offers a pathway to connect more deeply with ourselves, honor and validate our personal journey, and find healing within the patterns that have shaped our lives from the moment we took our first breath.
Experiencing life is a physical, three-dimensional experience developed through the human senses of touch, smell, taste, sight, and hearing. However, the spiritual realm of healing is a complex, interwoven field of emotion and inter-connection, often difficult to translate through the human senses enough to fully describe the space. This feeling of connection, often described poetically, is not fully explored in the modern world we live in today. While we have a plethora of techniques for therapeutic practices, the spiritual world is often overlooked, judged, criticized, and dismissed as pseudoscience, unrelatable to the physical human experience. Emotions, thoughts, vibrations, and senses beyond the physical are all unseen outside the earthly realm we exist in. Astrology serves as a bridge, translating the observable universe vibrationally into the practical, physical human world.
By drawing on meanings developed by the ancients over thousands of years, astrology creates a framework to understand what a particular combination of planetary influences looks, feels, and acts like from a spiritual perspective. Even this vantage point is often over looked and considered “modern astrology” by many. This perspective allows us to assign, or delineate, extremely concise meanings to who we are. By bridging the connection between the spiritual and the physical, we create an environment where human experience feels valid, seen, and heard. This, in turn, leaves an opportunity to pave the way for true release and healing deep within our spirit.
Through this framework, we can reveal the external environment that shaped us throughout our lives. Our environment is molded in various ways, observed astrologically through the twelve-house system. Family, friends, circumstances such as debts we have experienced, secrets within our lives, and the aspirations formed by parental, sibling, friend, or cultural influences, among others, offer complex webs of ego creation. From there, we look at the specific planetary placements and relationships between them to crystallize a concrete evaluation to work with for the primary purpose of bringing awareness.
This offers a direct and, in some ways, "easy" pathway to cut to the core of who a person is and what they have experienced. Unlike modern techniques that may require endless hours of exploration to uncover a small piece of the grand puzzle, astrology provides a shortcut to the complex narrative of the human mind. Popular practitioners like Tony Robbins or John DeMartini create extensive programs for self-discovery that can take weeks, months, or even years. In contrast, by observing the environment in the chart, we can convey a vast amount of information in a short consultation. Sometimes as brief as 30 minutes to two hours. Where modern techniques are like assembling a puzzle from scattered pieces, astrology presents the picture already formed; we simply choose how to interrupt the image being provided, working from a baseline of what is already in front of us.
Interrupting can have a dark side. In the wrong hands, it can be used as a tool for manipulation and abusing power dynamics, creating discomfort for those unfamiliar with being seen at the profound level astrology offers. Reading a birth chart must occur in a safe environment, approached with love and true conscious awareness of the power an astrological chart holds for the individual. Astrology, especially when used for healing, must be treated with the same care as clinical therapeutic practices. It is not something to be carelessly thrown around or used in a lighthearted, conversational manner during a session.
When engaging in self-awareness or healing through astrology, the reading must be conducted with love and compassion, not with authoritative pressure or prescriptive notions of what one should or shouldn’t do. Instead, it requires a conscious, grounded understanding of where the person is coming from and how the information needs to be received. All of which can be gleaned from the chart itself. For example, someone with a Moon in Scorpio has a different capacity for handling deep emotional stress compared to someone with a Moon in Libra. Some individuals can handle tough love, while others require a softer delivery. This tailored approach is crucial for astrological practitioners, especially in the realm of self-awareness and healing. To provide an additional example. we cannot haphazardly throw out Plutonian insights such as those related to sexual trauma or abuse, without first incorporating the fullness of the individual’s chart and considering the audience receiving the delineation.
Healing in astrology mirrors healing in the "real world". In my experience working with clients, astrology can cut to the chase, offering an empowering, validating, loving, and healing space for true transformation and growth. By translating the chart, I’ve witnessed individuals with deep trauma express gratitude for the safe and compassionate approach provided during a session. Without such care, there could be dire consequences for both the client and the practitioner. Opening up wounds can be a triggering and dramatic experience. Again, it is crucial that some form of attention is brought to the delivery practice of astrological insights.
Astrology is not merely a collection of cool, trendy, or fun planetary horoscope personality traits. While it can shine brilliantly in creative spaces, when used to uncover and unravel unconscious patterns of behavior, self-awareness, and personal growth, it requires immense care. Astrology holds tremendous power. The power to heal spiritually and, in turn, fosters growth in the physical world. With great power comes great responsibility, whether working one-on-one with a client or with oneself.
We must avoid causing harm through judgments, criticisms, or uncompassionate enforcements of how the world says one should or should not be. Your chart is your power; your love is within. There is no greater purpose in this world than providing love, and that love must first be shown to yourself. When looking at your own chart or trusting another to interpret it, love must remain at the center of it all. There is an exponential opportunity for utilizing astrology for spiritual healing, but to do so we must step into the experience of the chart, not simply scholarly definitions and broad strokes of creative translations.
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