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** ———————————————————— Self-shaming is not self-confrontation. Self-shaming is a re-enactment rooted in the past. Self-confrontation is an attunement to your truth in the present moment. Self-shaming is not alchemical. (It doesn’t change anything.) Self-confrontation is an invitation to transform. Self-shaming is ostensibly about betterment, but the truth is it has a kink for feeling bad. (More on our kink for badness in Part 3 of this 5-part series.) Self-confrontation sits with discomfort as a means to move toward nourishing change. The discomfort gets metabolized and it becomes something else. Something soft. Even sweet. As long as we center pain in our healing path, we will choose self-shaming over self-confrontation. Unshaming is self-confrontation. This means discomfort is sometimes present in the…

NOTE: below, there’s time-sensitive information about Early Bird for Moon to Moon (https://brittenlarue.com/course/moon-to-moon/) : my foundational course in intuition, inner child healing, and The Moon for those who have been waiting all year to join, or who will feel an instant Yes and want $100 off tuition. Under the Moon in Sagittarius, I write with some contemplations on what we’re learning this Mercury Retrograde in the hopes that my words will support you with where you’re at. I was reflecting on a theme I keep seeing in every conversation, and these are the words I heard from my inner voice: What are the energetic consequences of straining to get someone to understand you? How many hours of your day are…

Just as our understanding of astrology can only be partial, because it’s so much more than we humans can fathom all at once, so your understanding of yourself is incredibly partial. You come into Emergence Astrology because you are so brave and so curious to find out more about who you are. It takes a lot of audacity because you have to be willing to surrender expectations around what that vastness looks like. In this way, it’s a lot like getting pregnant. You don’t get to control what kind of baby you have. That’s what we’re doing in the 9-month hermitage phase of Year One. Making babies. Some facet of you knows that your perception of yourself is part bullshit.…

One of the most painful things I had to surrender was my infatuation with the picture of myself as a beautiful, wounded bird. The mystical hermitage period after my separation back in 2017-2018 was utterly life-changing. I became acquainted with guidance from the other side of the visible world who were showing me my gifts as a seer and speech-artist of astrology. They showed me pictures of myself as a public astrologer, author, and business woman, a teacher and mentor to creative visionaries. This was wildly delusional at the time given that I’d only just started learning astrology and the tarot. I had only just discovered my innate capacity for ritual, ceremony, and intuitive space-holding. And I was paying bills…

Quick Announcements Are you a witch in Chicago or are you friends with witches in Chicago? Make sure to check out the summer solstice faire at Sideshow Gallery (https://www.sideshowgallerychicago.com/events-gallery-openings/summer-solstice-celebration) next weekend June 21-23. It’ll be a big market with vendors and teachers. I am flying up for it and doing a free book talk Friday night and a ticketed Unshaming the Signs workshop (https://www.sideshowgallerychicago.com/classes-services/unshaming-the-signs-workshop) for up to 12 people! New episode alert: “Astrology Has a This Side & a That Side” (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/moon-to-moon/id1503553925?i=1000658482760) The first half of my adulthood, I participated from the lens of my shame. When I say participation what that looks like to me is choices. The choice to act or not act. The choice to connect or…

“This Is Emergence Astrology” Free Talk (https://brittenlarue.teachable.com/p/this-is-emergence-astrology) tonight, 6-7 pm CST, with replay available and downloadable after. $200 off at all price tiers (https://brittenlarue.com/course/emergence-astrology-year-one/) for my brand new Emergence Astrology Year One course during Early Bird starting tomorrow and Friday only, June 6-7. Mark your calendar if you know you’re a Yes. A lot of the time when we’re learning astrology, there’s this sense of “I don’t get this” or “I can’t do this.” The “this” being a set of rules and techniques and a bank of knowledge that you feel the urgency to “get your head around,” or else. In Emergence Astrology, there is no “this” to get right or wrong. It’s not to say there isn’t structure. But…

Top Takeaways “This Is Emergence Astrology” Free Talk (https://brittenlarue.teachable.com/p/this-is-emergence-astrology) on Wednesday night, 6-7 pm CST, with replay available and downloadable after. $200 off at all price tiers (https://brittenlarue.com/course/emergence-astrology-year-one/) for my brand new Emergence Astrology Year One course during Early Bird this Thursday-Friday, June 6-7. Mark your calendar if you know you’re a Yes. Hot podcast alert to disrupt pictures of mystics as all non-corporeal light and sound: “What I’ve Got Under My Mystic’s Robe” (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/moon-to-moon/id1503553925?i=1000657571350) P.S. it’s chicken feet, fangs, and a big dick! There’s this picture that I think we have that mysticism is all light and sound frequency. That it’s not corporeal. That it’s not made of the body stuff. The thing is: I didn’t know that I…

The end of my marriage was the end of my Damsel Period. I said No. I also said No to finishing my PhD in the same 6 months. I had become obsessed with astrology, and I knew I could speak it in ways that would support other humans seeking rebirth. My first client came in through my intuitive healing mentor in the spring of 2018. I started my Instagram account that summer and this mailing list in the fall of that year. The way I saw it I had 3 years to get this dream rooted. Why 3 years? That’s how long I had alimony from my ex-husband to support me. In the fall of 2021, I was able to…

What I see again and again in my role as a mentor is that the vision of the offering is already here. It’s not that you don’t think you have an offering. You know you do. You may just invalidate some part of the process of bringing it down to the planet for us to experience it. Self-invalidation is what’s behind you not sharing your offering. Hiding your genius feels like the most loving thing to do if you don’t trust yourself to stay regulated inside the possibility of being critiqued or judged. Dismissing your beautiful ideas is a logical strategy if you are terrified of the consequences of visibility. Likewise, self-invalidation is behind over-giving. It’s in the voice that…

Time-sensitive reminders: Today (Monday, 5/13) is the last day to get the workshop Underdog to Diva for $95 (https://brittenlarue.teachable.com/private_pages/15998128?preview=logged_out) . Today is the last day to get into my brand new 6-month group mentorship container for 15% off. Today is the last day to reach out to commit to my brand new 1-on-1 leadership mentoring offerings for 20% off. Keep reading to learn more about the latter two. Jump here to learn more and get enrolled at a lower price. (https://brittenlarue.com/course/underdog-to-diva/) Most of us humans are deeply cut off from what we want. This is not our fault. We’ve been so deeply conditioned not to trust our desires as visions, and to invalidate our dreams as delusional. We’ve been told…