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YOU ARE A CHANNEL As I shared in my last note (https://mailchi.mp/dc0fb90f9224/waking-up-to-the-magic-of-being-here) , I found astrology during a phase of huge change. I wanted to understand the past so I could pivot from the present moment into a different timeline for my future self. Timeline leaps are a thing that’s always available right here. It’s fairly simple magic that our culture promises in hacks (gratitude practice, abundance mindset, unfuckwithability). These are each supportive to transformation, but in themselves these frameworks didn’t ever work for me because I was still living inside the same fucking box I had always been in. The box is the reality you accept, the rules you follow, the ideologies that shape your choices in friends and…

Astrology & Your Life It was my brother who first gave me my birth chart. I was about two months into my separation from my ex-husband and had moved into a tiny 1930s duplex with hardly any furniture. The idea was that we would take turns with the kids in the old house until we could sell the property. When I wasn’t parenting, I retreated to this space like a hermit to their cave. In this stark chrysalis that seemed to hold no past or future, I named my desire to begin again with myself. Who am I? Why am I the ways that I am? What am I here for? It was a mystical time for me after years…

Astrology is a Rocket Boost It’s been a good while since I’ve written this newsletter. I have been allowing some serious alchemical processes to molt me new skin. My heart has been pretty bruised, you guys. The end of a relationship that I thought would always be there to hold me through anything has felt like a crisis for my spirit. Many times I’ve been determined to declare myself “ready” and “fine now,” and then grief pulls me back down into my Piscean mermaid cave to release more disappointment. How can I create without this force to sustain me? How will I ever trust in love again if even this can crumble? How will I know how wondrous and brave…

When I create a course, which is something that I’ve been doing for 21 years now, I like to imagine the experiential component for the participant in two ways. On the one hand, there is the experience of change, transformation, growth, and learning. This is the alchemy. There is both dissolution AND reintegration into a new way of being. This is something magical, delicate, tender, and evolving. This is the caterpillar goo-ing into butterfly. This can be huge or very subtle, depending on the class and your degree of openness to the process. But to ensure this, there also needs to be a container of structure, rhythm, and comfort. Something that “holds” you so you feel like the unfolding of…

This week I was supposed to be in Colorado to work with Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés, one of the great influences of my life. Dr. Estés wrote the seminal text Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype (https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780345409874) , which was nothing short of life-changing for me. Have you read it? If you haven’t, don’t stop, just go get your hands on it. It’s about intuition, which is the voice of our ancient wild self. The week-long workshop is called The Heart of the Wounded Healer, and it’s once again rescheduled for next year due to COVID. The Wounded Healer archetype is very dear to me. The Wounded Healer is different from The…

** Self-Trust Means Trusting Your Intuition ———————————————————— My teacher Deborah Kremins defines intuition as “the practice of recognizing your own truth.” Intuition is hearing your own information, and knowing when a thought you have is yours or someone else’s voice in your head. Why is it so hard for some of us to trust the inner voice? One of the most basic reasons, I’ve found, is the deeply-rooted desire to please. And that desire to please has a really beautiful reason for being there: to receive safety and security, love and validation. Somewhere in the past, you may have interpreted that you need to be XYZ in order to be pleasing and approved, as if your survival depended on it.…

** Are you ready to allow everything you need to flow to you? ———————————————————— Last year when I was writing Living the Signs: Cancer, and I was writing about how the Moon and Cancer relate to the past and to memories from childhood, and how they circulate around the feeling of belonging, of HOME, that we crave, unique to teach of us, and I remembered the title of Marcel Proust’s great novel À la recherche du temps perdu, translated as: In Search of Lost Time, or Remembrances of Things Past. Such an evocative name. Remembering the past is an essential part of the human experience. Who are you without memory? In many ways, you are your memory. And too: the…

** What kind of relationship do you want with astrology? ———————————————————— https://www.crowdcast.io/e/new-sight As many of you know, this week I hosted a free webinar (https://www.crowdcast.io/e/new-sight) with my student-teacher-friend-client-astrologer Jonathan Koe. As you can see from these stills, we had a good time. We all did! I have heard from so many of you that it was super helpful, thought-provoking, and great fun. You can still register and enjoy (https://www.crowdcast.io/e/new-sight) as it will live in my Crowdcast space (https://www.crowdcast.io/britten) for future eclipses. So far, 110 people have registered for this one-hour offering – evidence of the strong desire for more conversations like this. We are so proud and grateful for the opportunity to share what’s been on our minds about these…

** Gemini 2021 is “Grounded Choices” ———————————————————— In my last newsletter (https://mailchi.mp/987a3387bd34/the-emergent-no) , I shared with you a framework I am calling “The Emergent No” and its related concept “Vulture Magic.” These I developed deeply in my last episode of Moon to Moon (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/28-emergent-no-episode-in-honor-aries-taurus-teachings/id1503553925?i=1000520733857) . Never before have I heard from so many people thanking me for naming what feels right to put words to. I am full of gratitude to be connected to others through the shared languages of astrology, the tarot, and esoteric magic. In the aftermath of the Emergent No, many of you are making choices to honor what has come to light for you as you’ve connected more deeply to what you want and what you…

** When Your No is Ready to Become Conscious ———————————————————— Well well well… what a lunar cycle this has been. In order to help myself, and in the hopes that what’s coming through for me will be helpful to you, I have a lot to share about what’s been going on these last weeks. In a new episode of Moon to Moon (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/moon-to-moon/id1503553925) , I guide us in contemplating the ways that rooting into our Taurus values have allowed us to assert a more clear and sacred No. There has been a lot of separating energy in this Mars-ruled cycle. In the episode, I propose that when the No emerges – when it’s time to say no to a relationship,…