Astrology Readings
explore your life through archetypes find your place in the cosmic cycles trust your personal timing reframe your experiences as sacred unfoldings
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Soul Query Reading
- explore a particular query or part of your natal chart (scroll down for ideas)
- includes audio recording
Lilith Reading
- explore the archetype of the 'Wild Sovereign Feminine/Yin' in your natal chart
- get clear on your unique offering to the world!
- includes audio recording
Chiron Reading
- explore the motif of the Sacred Wound + Wounded Healer in your natal chart
- especially relevant around ages 48-51
- includes audio recording
Natal Chart Reading
- explore four main 'players' in your natal chart
- includes audio recording
"Our job in this lifetime is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it."
~ Steven Pressfield, The War of Art
Archetypes & Astrological Rites of Passage
Use the mytho-poetic language of astrology to deepen your self-understanding, get clearer on your life purpose, and explore how you embody particular archetypes!
natal chart: ALL life's a stage
Your natal chart functions as a celestial mirror of your lived experience, offering insights about your gifts and ways of being, the timing of difficult experiences, and soul-nourishing directions in which to head.
As we talk, we will correlate and anchor the rich tapestry of astrological symbolism to your lived experience ~ earthing this esoteric map in your embodiment.
progressed moon: life spiral
The ‘secondary progressed lunar cycle’ is a potent astrological timing technique which takes the Moon’s familiar 29-day journey, and extends it into a 29-year cycle. This cycle maps an emotional maturation process: the ‘seed’ of our Self unfolding over time, through various seasons of life.
Knowing what season you are in can be both validating and empowering, and crystalises the challenges, opportunities and soul-tasks you are facing right now.
Lilith: Wild Sovereignty
Explore the archetype of Lilith – the ‘wild sovereign feminine‘ – in your embodied experience. Reframe experiences you had as a child and teen, and find out where Lilith is asking you to ripple healing out into the world right now!
Saturn: Mastery & Discipline
Every 29 years (age 28-29, age 58-59, age 87-88), Saturn completes a full cycle through the zodiac and ‘returns’ to where he was in the sky when you were born.
Saturn, AKA Master of Discipline, Old Father Time, the Grim Reaper!
This is an archetype strongly rooted in the power of time. Think of a tree slowly growing roots that run incredibly deep and strong. Think of that tree eventually decaying and dying, offering itself as humus to feed new life. This is Saturn.
“As ye sow, so shall ye reap.”
We work with Saturn’s energy and lessons throughout our life, all the way to the ‘peak experience’ of our death.
By listening for these saturnine lessons now, we may well have the opportunity to ‘die well,’ something which is a significant gift to those we leave behind, and something which is becoming increasingly rare these days…
Suffice it to say, we are apprentice to Saturn for the whole of our lives.
Seven-Year Cycles
Saturn’s cycle can be broken down into increments of seven years. It can be illuminating to reflect back on what was happening at these times when Saturn’s challenges and soulful invitations were ‘louder’ than usual.
As we look at these four moments in time (roughly age 7-14-21-28, or age 29-36-43-51-58, etc), insights flow in about what Life is asking of you right now.
New Identity
Saturn represents order, form, tradition, mastery, maturity, boundaries, death, karma, culture and the status quo, and this significant astrological ‘rite-of-passage’ often correlates with significant life restructuring and shifts in identity.
If you are in a Saturnine rite of passage, you may wish to gain clarity on where you are being called to take more responsibility, or step out of your own personal status quo into a brand new reality.
AGE 12, 24, 36, 48, 60, 72: First house profected year
These are years of significant identity shifts ~ let’s talk about the new aspects of self that are calling for expression!
Age 27-30: Progressed Lunar Return and Saturn Return
Age 41-42: Uranus Opposition
Age 48-50: Chiron Return
Age 57-60: Second Saturn Return
Soul Query
This is a 1-hr session to talk about whatever is on your mind!
Bring your questions, and we’ll see what the astrological lens and/or shamanic perspective can add to the conversation.
Afterwards, I send you an audio recording of our conversation.
Would love to talk!
Possible queries:
- Explore a current dilemma and and see what your natal chart has to say
- Unpack an astrology question you have
- Hone in on the opportunities of a current or upcoming rite of passage
- Explore a particular area of life, such as vocation, relationships, ancestral lineage or 'destiny'
- Shine a light on a particular archetype within you (Sacred Wound, Wild Feminine, Warrior-Protector, Loyal Soldier, 'Captain' of your Ship, etc)
** Not currently taking bookings **
Please note: Bookings open 45 days in advance. If you can’t see any dates available here, please check back next week.
** I offer some free sessions ~ scroll down to the FAQs to find out more!
Cosmic Mirror
This is a 75-min clarity session in which we dive deep on a particular Astrology or Shamanic Womancraft topic.
The symbolism on one’s natal chart is incredibly specific ~ I sometimes think of it as astrological ‘acupuncture’ pinpointing aspects of our experience with incredible nuance.
In the same way, our rites of passage, and those of our predecessors, offer a significant, customised picture of the themes we are transmuting in this lifetime.
The planets and points, and your embodied experience at specific moments, all illuminate your Personal Myths.
I prepare beforehand, and spend time afterwards writing up our conversation into a personal myth or document, anchoring your embodied wisdom for you to return to again and again in the future!
It is a privilege to put my scribe/scrybe self in service to your story.
You receive a written myth/record, and an audio recording of the conversation.
Possible explorations:
- Natal Chart Reading (four main 'characters': Sun, Moon, Ascendant and Ascendant Ruler)
- Life Spiral Reading (current life season and themes you're exploring over a 30-year period ~ progressed lunar Cycle)
- Lilith Reading (wild, sovereign feminine archetype)
- Chiron Reading (sacred wound, perpetual dilemma)
- Current Transits and Astro Rites of Passage (eg. Saturn Return)
- Shamanic Womancraft Session (embodied rites of passage ~ discover the key personal and ancestral themes you are transmuting in this lifetime)
** If you are tight on resources, I offer some free sessions
~ scroll down to the FAQs to find out more!
What if life is "a custom-ordered curriculum for our highest development as people?
From this perspective, we can feel gratitude for whatever is occurring in our lives, greasing the wheels of learning, curiosity and wonder."
~ Dethmer, Chapman & Warner Klemp,
The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership
Tough Times
Change rarely feels comfortable; in fact, it can feel like a stretch we may not survive!
Significant shifts of life circumstance ~ loss, divorce, moving house, betrayal, changing jobs, not to mention the “spiritual PTSD” of global crises such as COVID and climate ~ can deeply challenge our confidence, perspective and purpose.
In these situations, you are invited to return to the gentle wisdom of your body, of Nature, of the Cosmos ~ in order to reconnect with your truth, curate your energy and embrace the opportunities of the present moment and who you are being called to Be and Become.
Who am I?
I’m a wife, mother to three teenagers, astrologer, shamanic journeywoman, circle facilitator, lifelong journaller, writer and creator.
I have always had a passion for embodying our values and living with integrity, even when – and especially when! – this involves making choices that shift us away from the mainstream.
I’m also passionate about returning to our organic intelligence, our intuition, and the wisdom of our body, rather than being a slave to any “expert” opinion.
I am committed to providing a space in which there’s room to follow, cultivate and celebrate the emergent truth within you.
I bring:
- a decade of studying astrology and receiving people’s life stories
- five years of apprenticing in, and teaching, shamanic awareness, presence, stamina, ecstasy-tolerance and space-holding with The School of Shamanic Womancraft
- almost two decades of journeying in conscious relationship with my partner
- my experiences of birthing my children at home and journeying consciously with my menstrual cycle and sexual expression.
This is my “expertise,” real and embodied, and laid in service to you and your journey!
"What we need right now is more women who have detoxed themselves so completely from the world's expectations that they are full of nothing but themselves.
What we need are women who are
full of themselves.
A woman who is full of herself knows and trusts herself enough to say and do what must be done.
She lets the rest burn..."
~ Glennon Doyle, Untamed
FAQs
Perhaps you have a particular challenge or question, and you’re wondering about the best timing for unpacking it.
Or perhaps you know that roughly, you’re in the middle of your Chiron Return, or heading up to it, but you don’t know exactly when it is. Astrological rites of passage aren’t always obvious, and often unfold over the course of a year or two.
Whatever your situation, feel free to email me (grace at priestessyourlife.com) with what you’re sitting with. I’ll have a look at your chart to see what might be bubbling symbolically, and get back to you with some suggestions and potential clarity(!) around timing!
When I am seeing clients, I in general offer a free-gift Soul Query session once a week. However, at this stage, I am not taking bookings. Thankyou for your patience.
Perhaps you have a particular challenge or question, and you’re wondering about the best timing for unpacking it.
Or perhaps you know that roughly, you’re in the middle of your Chiron Return, or heading up to it, but you don’t know exactly when it is. Astrological rites of passage aren’t always obvious, and often unfold over the course of a year or two.
Whatever your situation, feel free to email me (grace at priestessyourlife.com) with what you’re sitting with. I’ll have a look at your chart to see what might be bubbling symbolically, and get back to you with some suggestions and potential clarity(!) around timing!
I offer a free-gift Soul Query session once a week.
Bookings open one month in advance. If there’s a time available on this calendar, it’s all yours!
Please note: Bookings open 30 days in advance. If you can’t see any dates available here, please check back next week.
Chiron Reading
This astrology reading explores the archetype of Chiron ~ the Sacred Wound, the Wounded Healer ~ in your natal chart. Listen for what painful experiences you are being called to transmute or reimagine, and anchor the original vision for love and connection which you brought with you to this life when you were born.
Myth
Chiron is the centaur of Greek myth and namesake of a particular asteroid in the cosmic sky. Chiron is the archetype of the Sacred Wound, the Wounded Healer, the Embodied teacher.
Archetype
Chiron as a point on your natal chart represents “a ‘tender spot’ within the self-definition, a place which cannot be strengthened through self-talk, outer achievements or outside validation. It might also be described as the raw feeling of being too exposed, too vulnerable, permanently broken or somehow defeated.” (from astrologer Adam Gainsburg)
Sacred Wound
A wound implies an original vision. We come into this world with some kind of knowing how things could be, especially in terms of love and connection.
The wound occurs when our vision is lost, hidden, discarded, undermined, scattered and shattered in our interactions with our families and the world we find ourselves in.
We render our wound sacred when we welcome home these excruciatingly vulnerable and endangered parts of ourselves, by feeling all the feelings they invoke in us, by hearing their stories and needs, by holding our witness perspective and practicing radical self-acceptance. Truly a lifework!
Spiritual Awakening
Powerful words from Jean Houston in her book The Search for the Beloved:
“In times of suffering, when you feel abandoned, perhaps even annihilated, there is occurring – at levels deeper than your pain – the entry of the sacred, the possibility of redemption. Wounding opens the doors of our sensibility to a larger reality, which is blocked by our habituated and conditioned point of view. Consciousness that had been previously well-robotised and trained to the consensual perspective of our particular culture is excruciatingly sensitized and has a vastly extended sensorium. Pathos give us eyes and ears to see and hear what our normal eyes and ears cannot.”
And from this place of seeing and hearing, of feeling all the feelings, of “doing a Rumi” and welcoming them all in…
… from this place we are the Wounded Healer, the Embodied Teacher, sharing a humble yet extraordinarily potent medicine with the world.
Astrological Rite of Passage
Chiron has a roughly 50-year cycle, so when we reach 49-50 years of age, we experience what astrologers call our CHIRON RETURN.
Our Chiron Return represents a powerful call to include/integrate and transcend the stories of pain and vulnerability that have shaped us and the corresponding defensive postures which continue to constrain our full potential.
In this session we pull out key dates from your Chiron journey (throughout your life to date), enquiring into repeated themes and stories at these times in your life, listening for what soul evolution is being sung up within you, and doing our best to discover and anchor the original vision for love and connection which you brought with you when you were born.
This astrology reading includes:
- a 1-hour conversation via Zoom
- a copy of your natal chart
- download link to the digital recording of our conversation