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Call Me By My New Name I once heard it said that if you don’t have a story that you have to go out and get one. My own story is about emergence: the revealing of what was previously hidden or concealed. It occurred to me this week as I crossed the portal of my solar return that was just a week after my birthday three years ago that I first said out loud: “I want to be an astrologer, and I think I could be really good at it. But even more than this, I want to be a midwife for people as they transform themselves into new ways of being.” I felt a frisson of electricity surge through…

Welcome Pisces: Sign of My Sun! A year ago I created the prototype of the Living the Signs workbook series: Pisces, The Dreamer. My Pisces Mercury poured out a love libation of words to the Pisces in all of us. Pisces is surely the most misunderstood sign in pop culture. In the pages of this book you will learn how to connect to Pisces in ways that will surprise and open you. Truly my life changed when I first decided to pay attention to more reverent and respectful descriptions of the archetype. The Pisces part of you often feels deeply misunderstood, so to have the sign reflected back to you properly can feel like being fully witnessed for the first…

Astrology for Radical Change If you follow astrologers, then you are likely aware that today is the first of three events that together comprise the headlining astrology of 2021. I’m talking about Saturn in Aquarius squaring Uranus in Taurus. A “square” is a 90-degree angle, which brings dynamic tension. A square asks us to face two parts of ourselves that don’t usually see each other clearly. We have to be creative and solution-oriented with squares and this ideally brings us into supportive change. As I shared with my Patreon members (https://www.patreon.com/brittenlarue?fan_landing=true) in our Monday energy update: There is so much electricity and volatility in the air. There is so much opportunity for radical change here! And yet, Mercury is basically…

THE AUDACITY OF SELF-PERMISSIONING If there’s anything I might advise to my younger self – who very much wanted to please – it would be to have more bravado in my self-fashioning, in playfully claiming divergent identities, and in parting with the marked path. I was under the spell from Overculture that to be “good” and “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. I was most terrified of the dreaded words: “Who does she think she is?,” spoken behind my back. And so I waited for…

It was over three 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…

The 5 Path Dear friends, You may have heard that it’s a 5 year. 2 + 0 + 2 +1 = 5. In the tarot, the card we associate with 5 in the major arcana is The Hierophant. We are in a collective invitation to clarify the voice. Why do you say what you say, believe what you believe, value what you value, and teach what you teach? What if your word-making is really just an imported set of values that isn’t really you? It’s not easy or comfortable to realize you had built temples and drank of libations to deities that aren’t in alignment with who you’re becoming. The 5 cards of the minor arcana are some of the…

How are you? I have been stretching like this gorgeous plant into the new year. I already used this image in the last newsletter, but it’s so good I had to bring it back again. She’s like a fabulous old crone swaying her hips to music she loves. Thank you to Angela George (https://www.instagram.com/bygeorgepartners/) – my collaborator and very dear friend – for this amazing photo. (Meme by me.) Since we began the calendar year with a waning moon, it has felt more like a beautiful time to look back, honor, and name all that 2020 was. Has it been that way for you? With this week’s New Moon in Capricorn (late Tuesday), we’re now in a window of time…

Question: How does it change the way you approach 2021 intentions when you treat them as living, sentient beings? What if your dreams, goals, and longings for the year ahead were conceived of as animated spirits that want to live through your devoted tending? How does this framing shift the way you think about them? For me, it means that my intentions are no longer accomplishments or destinations. Rather, it’s about R E L A T I O N S H I P. And in relationships, we are always in a re-balancing based on subtle attunement shifts. Relationship has to do with deep listening and care. When your intentions are sentient beings that you lovingly nurture, it’s not about “success”…

MOON CLOSURE Dear community, I write to you on the day of the Full Moon in Cancer at 9:28 PM CT. The swelling of this lunation holds big opportunity for reflection and letting go. Let’s consider: The Moon rules Cancer in astrology, meaning that the Moon bestows on Cancer its qualities of heightened sensitivity, psychic intuition, need for love and validation, the desire for a felt sense of belonging, and shifting moods in one’s emotional body. Full Moons swell the tides of collective sensibility, and thus a Full Moon is an annual ripening of all the watery feels. Today we have the first Full Moon in Cancer since before Saturn moved into Capricorn December 2017 and since the eclipses moved…

LIVE THE LONGING This newsletter is full of announcements: – Important updates on workbooks – Gifting astrology without USPS – Rich Capricorn Season podcast episode – Brand new Patreon page! – Interview on Holistic Life Navigation, one of my favorite podcasts! Dear community, It’s been a rough few weeks. After all of that hard work to finish the workbooks in time to share for holiday buyers, I found out that my printer company was experiencing unforeseen delays due to COVID among workers and high demand. There were several days when I received no updates, no responses, just crickets. This was very unexpected because they have always been right on time or early with their promises. It required quite a lot…