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Why? is not an alchemical question In alchemy, you turn a base material into another material, usually something ordinary gets turned into something extraordinary. Carl Jung related the psychoanalytic process to alchemy by inviting us to consider how we alchemize our fear into empowerment, our contractions into expansions, and so on. And so when I say Why? is not an alchemical question, I mean that Why? doesn’t turn something ordinary into something extraordinary. Rather, Why? diminishes the wondrous, the mysterious, and the wild with the limitations of logic. If you’re interested in healing alchemy, if you crave delicious emergence, if you’re calling in new ways of being, then you will not find what you’re looking for if you center Why?…

And the eclipses said to me: Feeling more means feeling more Over the past week, I have been able to receive the most love I’ve ever felt process through my body in adult memory, and I’ve also encountered new expanses of grief I didn’t know I had waiting for me under my compacted numbness. How can this be?, I wondered as I considered the eclipse data. I heard: Because feeling more means… feeling more. Feeling more love means also feeling more grief, and the reverse. And I tremble as I write this with wonder and gratitude that I accessed more somatic understanding of such a basic truth. I have known this intellectually. I learned from my friend Luis Mojica of…

This is what I want from you here at the end of these eclipses: … I want you to give yourself even just a moment to recognize what a babe you are. … I want you to enthrall us with the full force of your unapologetic self-claiming. … I want you to suck on your shame like bone marrow, thanking it for the buffering you no longer need. … I want you to trust that the boundary you received and the boundary you enacted are exquisite acts of love. … I want to feel so satiated with your own validation that we can sense it in your presence. … And most of all, if nothing else, I want you to…

I love this photo of my friend Alika Ray bringing her Big Pisces Vibes How are you here at the blossoming of this gorgeous Virgo Full Moon? Things have been quite Piscean-Neptunian lately, which can feel in some ways overwhelming, intoxicating, confusing, too much, exquisitely beautiful, merge-y, and/or transcendently lit. Who am I? What am I doing here? What is this human experience? How did I get in this body? We’re at the crescendo point of the movie when they cue the strings. Remember: Aries approaches. What wants to come to life on the other side of the equinox? What’s worth living for? What do you love so much you’re willing to burn away your fear to experience it? Lately…

Me in a few days, resting in the exquisite joy of knowing that the 24 spots for this spring’s 2 cohorts of The Magician’s Table have filled with precisely the 24 humans meant to join The time has come. The period of Promo Magic is ending. The link to apply for this spring’s The Magician’s Table (https://brittenlarue.com/the-magicians-table-2022) will go out only to those on the waitlist (https://mailchi.mp/ece0b29cabc1/tmt-2022) . The spots will fill and then I will begin to quietly prepare to receive and experience the magnificent folks who will constellate in this community. I see The Magician’s Table as a spirit being that came to me to be its steward. It’s not about me. In this way, I don’t take…

Sometimes I hear “I’m not ready” from folks who are excellent candidates for The Magician’s Table (https://brittenlarue.com/the-magicians-table-2022) . I’m going to come in spicy and push back on this question of readiness because I love you. Please stop it with the magic-killing “I’m not ready.” I know I know. Sometimes we truly don’t have time-space capacity for a growth opportunity. Sometimes our circumstances make it such that there is no room for thriving transformation. But most of the time: is it an actual capacity issue, or is it fear? Are you afraid because your idea of readiness means perfection and you’re not “there” yet? Is this a story about needing another class before you’re good enough? Are you afraid because…

Call Me By My New Name https://www.crowdcast.io/e/new-moon-in-pisces-with NEW MOON NEW BEGINNINGS It is my spontaneous desire to offer something for the New Moon in Pisces. Join me for an experiential meetup to connect to the present moment at this super powerful lunation, two days before my birthday. ALL ten planets are involved and they all have something to say about this week, which we will discuss and feel into. MARCH 2 4 PM PST / 7 PM EST 75-90 minutes GET THE LINK HERE (https://www.crowdcast.io/e/new-moon-in-pisces-with) This is my heartfelt offering in honor of Pisces. There is no charge. Replay will be available if you want to do the ritual alone later. Please share this generously. I once heard it said…

THE AUDACITY OF SELF-PERMISSIONING If there’s anything I might advise my younger self, it would be to have more cheeky bravado in my self-fashioning, more playful experimentation in claiming divergent identities, and more plucky shazam in leaping out of automated pathways. I was under the spell from Overculture that to be “authentic” I had to stay the same, that it would be setting myself up for critique if I expanded the possibilities for my ways of being in the world, that it was my job not to confuse people with my contradictions, my mind-changing, my paradoxes. I started as a “good girl” and a “rule follower,” and I was under the impression I had to stay that way forever or…

It was over four years ago that I had a terrifying realization that I wanted to be an astrologer for other people. Like a hungry otter surging after a trout, astrology chased me everywhere: in my dreams at night, in how I looked at the world, in the minutiae of my routines. It took at least six months before I had the courage to tell another human about my wild romantic courting with this ancient language and tool. Who was I to claim the name astrologer? Wouldn’t that sound ridiculous? Was I losing my mind? At a larger level, to be an astrologer or a professional in metaphysical work means navigating largely outside of all institutional structures of protection. There…

If I was born just 8 minutes before my official birth time, that would make me 29 degrees Pisces Rising, instead of 3 degrees Aries Rising. Would that mean everything I’ve been learning about myself with astrology was all wrong and a total waste? No. Nothing is ever a waste. All life experience is food. Should I discover that I am actually Pisces Rising today, I would drop to my knees and thank the gods with tears streaming down my face for giving me 3.5 years of believing I was Aries Rising. Why? Because I fully and unconditionally accepted that invitation to discover my personal agency – a core motivation of Aries – and this was precisely what I needed…