I love your newsletter and look forward to it in my inbox. I'm here for the intersection of creative work, especially writing, with astrology, but beyond that... I'm here for all the personality, community, human storytelling, honesty, and vulnerability you put into the content. Not to mention the community you have built around it. We gotta get the higher ups at Substack to peep this. I might know a person 😉
I’m an astrologer and healer who has become a therapist, and I use multiple divination tools (including astrology) to understand why we are “like that” 😂 Relational astrology and cosmology are my favorite things to talk/read about and though pop astrology can be fun and silly, most of the time I prefer to go deeper beneath the surface. I’m new to your newsletter, but this post let me know that I came to the right place.
“Here, there is reciprocity with the world around us, not merely a capitalist extraction of vitality from the sun, or manifestation from a verdant New Moon.” <- YES! As someone who did the Chani free trial but never purchased, this statement opened my eyes to why. I felt the commoditization, perhaps, and it didn’t feel right. (Totally get the dopamine tho!! 😂) Anyway congrats on five years!!
I cannot tell you how much I ADORE this Jeanna! You have put words to how I also feel about astrology and you have captured how it is dynamic, like a living force in our lives that we integrate. I’ve always found it difficult to explain to people how I incorporate astrology differently from folks who are more ‘app astrology’ - and you have completely captured how I feel (and how many of us feel!) in this post! Astrology has also helped me slow down in many ways, and it is one of the many reasons why I have so much gratitude for it as a practice. Thank you for this!! And I also have to say, I’m PROUD to be a paid subscriber of your newsletter! (Also so many exclamation points, just me being a Libra rising with Venus in the Fifth, showering you with adoration through text!)
All of the above is exactly what I've been thinking, feeling and talking about (with other astrologers) this past year or so. It's a huge reason why, as an astrologer concerned with the ethics of astrology, (and wanting to serve as well as offer a slower, more meaningful practice), I left Big Platform social media. I do feel that social media has seen the rise & saturation of - as well as addiction to - "app astrology" (dopamine & cortisol hits aplenty). When there's a constant stream of astrology providing sugar hits & apocalyptic woe, it can be a challenge for astrologers to manage expectations, and show people another way of experiencing astrology. It can also be harmful to creators/astrologers when we're expected to perform like apps, instead of reflecting our own human rhythms & cycles.
Thankyou for such a great article, and especially for your beautiful words regarding mindfulness and astrology.
Wow, I love this one. It's not surprising to me that this is the first newsletter in a long while that I've read start to finish as soon as it came in. That's some divine timing. The concept of relational astrology is a good call-out for me. Thank you, thank you.
Love this idea of astrology being a practice, as a place to be in relationship with our ancestors and the cosmos...feel like that’s what it has definitely become in my life, but I haven’t been able to really recognize that until reading this, so thank you 💫🌿
I love this. I often feel that astrology is used in the most trivial way, when it’s actually deeply healing & transformative when put into practice as you describe. Thank you
Love your Substack 🌟 Pop-culture astro is certainly having its moment. As an Australian, non-millenial (by far) who first learnt astrology from my grandmother, and brushed up with a Canadian school (online), I was curious about the rise in social/app astro for the reasons you share here. However, I yearn for the day when astrology is legitimately inclusive: the connection to nature and the seasons is the core of it but that means bringing the ecliptic and the southern hemisphere into focus (Taurus season begins here tomorrow, for example). To observe and connect to the reality of seasonal astrology as a truly universal format is still as controversial as many other societal non-norms, but I hope to see that change (and it is in some places, including the Canadian astro school I mentioned). As I face north (not south) to see the sun on the MC; the sun will set in the west in about 8 hours; the first quarter moon appears to wax from left to right; I'm embracing the momentum towards freedom that is evident in the abundance of fiesty spring outside my window right now... that is the experience of living with astrology as we know it, south of the ecliptic. Of how we are connected to nature in specific locations, recognising the ecliptic and the hemispheres. Observing the differences in seasonal timings between the hemispheres is the greatest (and most ignored) untapped well of astrological knowledge that has existed for millennia, but is truly alive (and life-changing) for those living where I am right now. 💫🧡
I love your newsletter and look forward to it in my inbox. I'm here for the intersection of creative work, especially writing, with astrology, but beyond that... I'm here for all the personality, community, human storytelling, honesty, and vulnerability you put into the content. Not to mention the community you have built around it. We gotta get the higher ups at Substack to peep this. I might know a person 😉
I’m an astrologer and healer who has become a therapist, and I use multiple divination tools (including astrology) to understand why we are “like that” 😂 Relational astrology and cosmology are my favorite things to talk/read about and though pop astrology can be fun and silly, most of the time I prefer to go deeper beneath the surface. I’m new to your newsletter, but this post let me know that I came to the right place.
“Here, there is reciprocity with the world around us, not merely a capitalist extraction of vitality from the sun, or manifestation from a verdant New Moon.” <- YES! As someone who did the Chani free trial but never purchased, this statement opened my eyes to why. I felt the commoditization, perhaps, and it didn’t feel right. (Totally get the dopamine tho!! 😂) Anyway congrats on five years!!
I cannot tell you how much I ADORE this Jeanna! You have put words to how I also feel about astrology and you have captured how it is dynamic, like a living force in our lives that we integrate. I’ve always found it difficult to explain to people how I incorporate astrology differently from folks who are more ‘app astrology’ - and you have completely captured how I feel (and how many of us feel!) in this post! Astrology has also helped me slow down in many ways, and it is one of the many reasons why I have so much gratitude for it as a practice. Thank you for this!! And I also have to say, I’m PROUD to be a paid subscriber of your newsletter! (Also so many exclamation points, just me being a Libra rising with Venus in the Fifth, showering you with adoration through text!)
All of the above is exactly what I've been thinking, feeling and talking about (with other astrologers) this past year or so. It's a huge reason why, as an astrologer concerned with the ethics of astrology, (and wanting to serve as well as offer a slower, more meaningful practice), I left Big Platform social media. I do feel that social media has seen the rise & saturation of - as well as addiction to - "app astrology" (dopamine & cortisol hits aplenty). When there's a constant stream of astrology providing sugar hits & apocalyptic woe, it can be a challenge for astrologers to manage expectations, and show people another way of experiencing astrology. It can also be harmful to creators/astrologers when we're expected to perform like apps, instead of reflecting our own human rhythms & cycles.
Thankyou for such a great article, and especially for your beautiful words regarding mindfulness and astrology.
Wow, I love this one. It's not surprising to me that this is the first newsletter in a long while that I've read start to finish as soon as it came in. That's some divine timing. The concept of relational astrology is a good call-out for me. Thank you, thank you.
LOL Accidently deleted... the gist was that this image is giving off big Capricorn energy.
I just became a paid subscriber and reading both of the posts you linked as primers for what to affirmed what I already knew: I’m in the right place!
Love this idea of astrology being a practice, as a place to be in relationship with our ancestors and the cosmos...feel like that’s what it has definitely become in my life, but I haven’t been able to really recognize that until reading this, so thank you 💫🌿
I love this. I often feel that astrology is used in the most trivial way, when it’s actually deeply healing & transformative when put into practice as you describe. Thank you
Love your Substack 🌟 Pop-culture astro is certainly having its moment. As an Australian, non-millenial (by far) who first learnt astrology from my grandmother, and brushed up with a Canadian school (online), I was curious about the rise in social/app astro for the reasons you share here. However, I yearn for the day when astrology is legitimately inclusive: the connection to nature and the seasons is the core of it but that means bringing the ecliptic and the southern hemisphere into focus (Taurus season begins here tomorrow, for example). To observe and connect to the reality of seasonal astrology as a truly universal format is still as controversial as many other societal non-norms, but I hope to see that change (and it is in some places, including the Canadian astro school I mentioned). As I face north (not south) to see the sun on the MC; the sun will set in the west in about 8 hours; the first quarter moon appears to wax from left to right; I'm embracing the momentum towards freedom that is evident in the abundance of fiesty spring outside my window right now... that is the experience of living with astrology as we know it, south of the ecliptic. Of how we are connected to nature in specific locations, recognising the ecliptic and the hemispheres. Observing the differences in seasonal timings between the hemispheres is the greatest (and most ignored) untapped well of astrological knowledge that has existed for millennia, but is truly alive (and life-changing) for those living where I am right now. 💫🧡