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The heart is the only organ in the body that regularly makes a choice. In the space between beats, the heart has to decide if it wants to keep thrumming. This choice is a leap. We do it because – in spite of everything – we want to live. Each beat is a leap for the love of being alive. Leo is the sign that rules the heart in medical astrology. Leo is a way of being human that leaps with aliveness. We all have Leo in our charts, whether we have placements in that sign or not. Leo is so important to each of us because – no matter what sign and which house you have your Sun placement…

Back in 2018, I named out loud: “I want to be a midwife for people moving through change, and I want astrology to be my primary tool.” This was a fairly ridiculous proclamation at the time. I was studying for my qualifying exams toward my PhD in Art History, and only a tiny handful of individuals on the planet knew that I was even into astrology. My first paying client came through a friend that spring within a month of vocalizing that spell out loud. I started my Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/brittenlarue/) in the summer. And then in the fall, I created a website for folks to find my offerings and my story. Creating a website was not a skill I’d imagined…

It was at least 6 months ago that I started noodling on an idea to create a series called Unshaming the Signs. The concept grew from my observation that every client, student, and emerging mystic who came into my space was struggling with moving through shame, and that the way I speak astrology helps transmute that shame into love, courage, and wonder. I gave a presentation to my students in Astrology as Praxis about the topic in February – a chance to see how it felt coming out of my mouth and to feel into whether the idea felt powerful to anyone besides me. That day I decided to begin rolling it out with Aries, giving the experiment an entire…

I have found it to be true that what most ails me is the persistent sense that something is wrong with me, that I am inherently bad, that I am unlovable, that I’m a problem. THIS IS SHAME. I have found it to be true that if I believe there is something wrong with me then I will bring that belief to the timelines that astrology can help me dream into being and project those beliefs into my future. I have found it to be true that it is very difficult to see my birth chart clearly when shame is the primary lens for self-witnessing. I have found it to be true that the planets cannot talk to me about…

I want to speak with you about the marvelous. But it’s a story that begins with grief. Funny thing: I’ve spent most of my life wishing my sadness would go away so that I could live inside the wondrous. Turns out, the way in was through my grief all along. Have you learned this, too? Saturn has entered Pisces. Both the planet of limits and the sign of limitlessness have wisdom for us on the nature of both grief and wonder. I want us to listen. You cannot hold the infinite in both hands without limiting it somehow. This is in fact the sentient experience: being limitless spirits in these limited meat suits. It’s the melancholy of existing at all.…

The magical path is wild. It’s weird. It’s chaotic and unforeseen. It’s radically taboo in our rationalized, evidence-based world… and so we’re never really ready for what happens when we let the magical self have a voice. For many of us, the mystical and intuitive arts bloom in the dark of solitude. We do this to practice what we love without the invalidation and shaming of the world outside. We protect what’s beautiful to us. We nurture our devotions with care and sweetness. But what lights up inside of us wants to find its way out to the world, sometimes before we think we’re “ready” for it. It takes audacity to name yourself a magical person to other people. You’ve…

Calling in the next two cohorts of 12 https://brittenlarue.com/the-magicians-table-2023 There is a table for you to feast on the delights of belonging to magic. It’s a space for you to listen for the throb of your unique channel, and dance to the thrum of frequencies from your colleagues. It’s a zone where it’s okay to be messy, to be unsure, to be unmasked, because it’s what is required to get us closer to our gifts. This is not an outcome space. There are no promises. Expectations unwelcome. What you receive will be just for you. A medicine just right for the moment you’re in. No two individuals will drink from the same cup. This table is a heart space. It’s…

I have been blitzing it up in Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/brittenlarue/) on a daily basis as words move through me. What I share is the accumulation of lived wisdom from participating with the Cosmic Body in daily, micro, mundane ways. It’s where I am with Emergence Astrology in the present moment. And most of the words I’m pollinating around are direct quotes from my most recent journals. If you’ve been in my space a while, you know that I used to write a lot more often: I shared updates about the astro, I wrote horoscopes, I produced podcast episodes on seasonal forecasts, I promoted Year Ahead Readings. In short, I did what astrologers do. But I stepped back from all of these…

I do not make resolutions. I draw my dreams down from the astral plane and plant them in the loamy soil of this timeline. The tradition of New Years resolutions presumes we can always be “better” than we are right now. This is a Time problem. Overculture tries to sell us on an aspirational version of ourselves that’s about maximizing “potential.” To this I say: THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS POTENTIAL. THERE IS ONLY EMERGENCE. Potential is the same performance-oriented, results-based urgency that’s separated you from the present moment. Potential is a fantasy that shames you. Potential feeds on attachments and expectations, which bring you disappointment and grief. Emergence Astrology (https://brittenlarue.com/emergence-astrology) wants to stop you from engaging so unkindly…

In deep reverence for the solstice, I am back after a break from Moon to Moon. Let Season 2 begin with this ode to the bridge between Sagittarius and Capricorn. So deeply important to the human experience. I hope you feel your spirit swell with mine. Listen Now (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/moon-to-moon/id1503553925) https://www.incaseofemergence.com/product/astrology-workbook-seeding-the-year-2023/ I created the framework “Seeding the Year” to radically reframe how you work with this time of year. Try this year’s workbook Seeding the Year 2023 if you love goals and aspirations, but are depleted from trying to make it work in the old paradigm. Order yours now so you can start engaging with it across Capricorn season. https://www.incaseofemergence.com Get Seeding the Year (https://www.incaseofemergence.com/product/astrology-workbook-seeding-the-year-2023/) Sending lots and lots of love…