Episode Details

Ep. 35 - In this episode, I open up about my relationship with astrology, how I found it when I was 13 years old during a huge life shakeup, why I fell so deeply in love with it, how it became my full-time work, why I eventually walked away, & why I am now feeling called to return to it from a very different place inside of myself.

I share what I believe astrology actually is: not a belief system, not a fixed identity, & not a tool that was ever meant to box us in or flatten the depth of who we are. To me, astrology is an archetypal language. It is a symbolic language that can meet us at whatever level of consciousness we bring to it.

I also speak honestly about what turned me off from astrology for a season, especially the ways I saw it being used through meme culture & pop culture astrology as a reductive, dismissive, or victimizing framework. I share why that felt so disheartening to me, what I had to wrestle with in myself, & what has helped me come back into relationship with astrology now with more humility, reverence, trust, & respect for the mystery.

This episode is really about symbolism, consciousness, free will, archetypes, mystery, & what it means to engage something sacred without reducing it.

In this episode, I explore:

* why the tools meant to help us know ourselves more deeply were never meant to box us in

* how astrology first supported me during one of the hardest seasons of my childhood

* the journey from private study to full-time professional readings

* why I stepped away from astrology for a period of time

* why astrology is not a belief system

* astrology as an archetypal + symbolic language

* the difference between using astrology as a trap vs using it as a mirror

* why consciousness matters in how we engage archetypal tools

* the chart as a seed, blueprint, & pattern of potential

* how free will, agency, embodiment, & consciousness shape how our cosmic blueprint gets lived

Key reminder from this conversation

Astrology is not here to tell you who you are in a fixed, lifeless way.

It is here to help you enter into a deeper relationship with your own symbolic language, your own inner world, & your own unfolding.

Sometimes what is calling us back is not asking us to return unchanged, but to return with more of ourselves intact.

Ways to go deeper

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Ash Brouwer

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