Why astrology? How it became a center in my life and career.

My fascination with astrology began as a little girl when I was exposed to one of my mother’s pop astrology books (Joanne Woolfolk’s The Only Astrology Book You’ll Ever Need), though it would be years later (in 2010 to be precise) before I actually picked it up as a devoted practice towards growth and development. As it happens, the beginning of my education in acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine is when astrology made its way back into my life. Previous to that point, I had drifted from my roots from which I was taught to practice modern takes on magic and moved into a yang predominant phase of life in which I pursued a business degree in marketing and followed an aggressive regimen of a Thai boxing practice (aka Muay Thai) throughout my undergrad years.

At the time I thought I would finish business school and open a studio serving martial artists and dancers, alike, as dance had always been a natural love and talent of mine. In that time, however, I was in and out of hospitals for digestive issues and orthopedic injuries, stressed, and generally uninspired by business school and marketing guru hype. By the last year of school I found myself re-aligning to what felt natural (which had everything to do with healing and psycho-somatic awareness). I wasted no time in getting back into school to matriculate a 3 year program in Chinese medicine that would take me on a winding journey years after.

After graduating and getting licensed as a clinician, I was met with several social and economic challenges often presented to practitioners of Chinese medicine in the US that put my work as an acupuncturist in a humbling stop-go pattern before I eventually put it on pause for a few years after becoming a mother. Leading up to, and throughout the time that followed, I found a natural opening up of my career as a consulting astrologer and writer.

It seems that it was this fork in the road that fostered my education and made me adept at symbolic and associative thinking (something intrinsic to Chinese cosmology— the Chinese culture is genius in this). I wasn’t aware this is what was happening at the time, but my education and practice as an astrologer is largely what supported me to become a more prepared and complete clinician after having graduated from a modern TCM program with a curriculum aligned to the standard ideas of an exported politically (and colonially) influenced/received, and therefore, re-written indigenous medicine.