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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…

I first began to consciously call in Venus energy in the fall of 2017. I was newly separated from my ex-husband, and exploring completely new approaches to reimagining myself. In contrast to the vibrant aliveness of Venus energy, I saw with deep grief that I perceived myself as dead, dry, old, cold, prudish, and fallow. I had no idea what turned me on. I was terrified it was too late for me to know Venus in my body. Since then I have been in consistent mentorship with The Goddess, and I do not see myself this way anymore. Not at all. I am wildly alive, moist, fertile, and very, very erotic. I have at least one fully satisfying orgasm every…

Before I dive in to what I wanted to share here, I want to be clear about something as Mercury stations direct: I don’t know shit. I mean, I do know some things, of course. My insights are valuable to many people. Many resonate with the things I teach-share from my personal experiences and knowledge warehouse. My words have magical abilities. But this is true of everyone. Like everyone else, I am a human being who can be messy, unreliable, harmful, myopic, and deeply disappointing. Regularly. To love myself and let others love me in spite of what I’m capable of has been and continues to be the deepest journey – shall we say purpose? – of my life. It…

Most of my life, I learned by following other people and doing as they do. Between my Capricornian motivation to excel and my Piscean ability to become what others want me to be, I cultivated a lot of trust in my ability to follow other people’s rules and frameworks. “Tell me who you want me to be and I’ll be it.” Learning astrology was truly one of the first times in my life that I started as an autodidact (a wonderful word meaning self-teaching). I mean, I’m always self-teaching, but in this case I was doing my work outside of having a mentor-expert and without a community of peers. It was Hermit-learning. I eventually did undergo certification training, but only…

This is not your standard New Year New You email In the last couple of weeks, I have noticed waves of realizations about what a portal last year was. I feel like some time after those last eclipses, I was dumped out of a birth canal, remade by the planets. Do you feel this, too? Saturn and Uranus’s three squares in 2021 (Feb, June, and December) did not fucking play around, am I right? Uranus’s squeeze to make me accept the inevitability of change as the only sure thing, with Saturn’s insistence on slow, plodding tests and load-carrying… looking back I see how some days I was riding bolts of electricity into a new future, and other days I was…

FIRST LOOK! BEHOLD! The unveiling of the cover design for the fourth annual installment of Seeding the Year (https://www.incaseofemergence.com/product/seeding-the-year-2022/) ! Isn’t it lovely! To all those who have been emailing and DM’ing me about this project, thank you for your patience as my design and business partner Angela George and I have been putting the finishing touches on our first workbook since finishing the Living the Signs series and Seeding the Year 2021 last December! It has felt so good to get back to writing and to creating with Angela. For sure one of my dream seeds for 2022 is going to be MORE WORKBOOKS! https://www.incaseofemergence.com/product/seeding-the-year-2022/ Here is the new inside cover side by side with Rilke’s inspiring “Change.” I…

EAT THE DEAD The real trick to dealing with Pluto (https://brittenlarue.com/pluto-class) is to let learn how to alchemize the dead and dying in your life into fuel for your power. In other words: become a vulture. This is the third and final step that inspires me and propels me forward when dealing with the Plutonic in my life. The first step has to do with becoming conscious of the Emergent No (https://mailchi.mp/d87f78e197df/you-could-say-im-obsessed-with-power-6557260) , which is the say, of that which is rotting in your life and no longer resonant. A relationship, a behavior, a limiting self-belief, a job, a default mode… The gnawing Very Bad Feeling about it reveals to you what it’s about. Now you can’t unsee what you’ve…

THE EXHILARATION OF CHOICE The story always turns when the protagonist realizes with a sudden jolt of something like Fuck It Energy that they have a choice. In my last email (https://mailchi.mp/d87f78e197df/you-could-say-im-obsessed-with-power-6557260) , I talked about wrestling with Pluto: your inner monsters, fears, addictions, compulsions, lacks, holes, secrets, and yes, our trauma. (Gentle note: please stop reading and close this email if you are not up for this topic today.) These are all aspects of Pluto (https://brittenlarue.com/pluto-class) . Along with a lot of shadow material, Pluto is also deeply connected to our life force power, which we access and expand when we heal and integrate what we previously concealed, contracted around, hated, and otherwise kept hidden from our unconscious. I…

PLUTO IS ALCHEMY In my last note (https://mailchi.mp/a34efd255bd2/you-could-say-im-obsessed-with-power) , I shared how working with Pluto is a lot like Hercules’ confrontation with the Hydra, a nine-headed monster who lives in a cave at the bottom of a murky swamp. Every time Hercules would cut off a head, three more would appear in its place. Do you ever just feel like you’re fighting a monster that keeps defeating you? A thought process? A limiting self belief? A relationship pattern? A fear? An addiction? A compulsion? In the story, Hercules comes to a moment where he gains consciousness that he’s in a battle and he’s fucking losing. It is then that he remembers the words of his teacher to rise by kneeling,…