Parenting asks us to see ourselves with greater kindness & clarity
and to become more of who we truly are.
I can support you with both.
I help multi-passionate parents who want to integrate and embody more of their creative energies, experience a wilder living wholeness and discover how their path of self-acceptance and creative empowerment can create the just-right timing and educational environment for their child’s own inner wisdom to unfold that which is within them … and vice versa.
Find your rhythm in the challenging and beautiful symbiotic dance of parenthood.
Embodied Astrology for Ensouling Parenthood
Most of us who have been initiated into parenthood know from experience that the brain changes with immersive caregiving. The phrase “mom-brain” refers to an overwhelm of disorganized thought, fogginess, forgetfulness, emotionality, heightened sensitivity that comes with early parenthood and intensive caregiving. Often, it is a source of frustration, stress and shame.
Living astrology is a way of reminding our minds that they are not separate. Mind extends beyond our individual skulls. Mind is woven into a living body of relations, moments, memory and Story. This can be directly experienced. When we contemplate astrology and myth in experiential ways, the mind can make meaningful connections that are most relevant and supportive for what you’re meeting in this now moment.
Astrology is so much about finding life-giving contexts that support creative and compassion perception. Tending an embodied relationship with the planets and celestial rhythms is a way to access a wider, wilder mind, to perceive from this moment, this place on Earth, this body you are in.
By surrendering to the limits of where we are in the here-and-now, we can paradoxically expand wildly beyond the limits of what was previously known to be possible through an either/or conceptual mindset around taking care of ourselves and taking care of others, and dive into a radically fluid co-creative journey with what and who we most deeply love.
Does this sound like you?
You have a huge heart. You’re passionate, highly sensitive and prioritize a deep listening for and attending to what makes Life and Love more possible for more beings on Earth, especially for our children.
You’re committed to showing up for your kids — and to showing up for your own sense of aliveness and integrity.
Likewise, you’re devoted to making a meaningful contribution to the world — and to keep turning inward and tending a rich inner life.
You know that these orientations aren’t inherently pitted against each other — you know that taking time for yourself and taking care of yourself benefits your family and benefits the world — but you still feel like a good portion of your creative energies are spent juggling everyone’s needs including your own, navigating these “either/or” dilemmas, and feeling drained by disappointment when your plans are interrupted by a child’s cold or any other number of things.
Parenting is hard. It just is. Especially in a world that’s not built for parents and children. And every season of parenting has its own particular challenge. Just when you feel like you’ve got a hang of things — it changes. And still, it’s possible to cultivate relational practices that fill your cup at a foundational level, so that even at the end of a day where there’s little sense of order and/or little time for “you”, there’s still the spiritual nourishment of feeling part of an animate world, held together in rhythm and in season, and (at least more and more often) in the right place, at the right time.
You’re already making your own way as a parent. And, you’re making more and more space for the path to have its own kind of intelligence, responding to you with each step you take. In other words, it’s becoming more un-scripted and emergent from your capacity to be in curious conversation with the evolving desires and expressions of yours and your child’s authentic nature.
But — the side effect of this re-wilding, is that the old markers of measuring “success” as a parent don’t resonate anymore. So, when you do encounter self-doubt, it can feel overwhelming to not have an external reference point to re-calibrate to, or some external permission slip that says yes, keep going or yes, it’s time to let this piece go.
Astrology is not this “external” authority that tells you what is right for you. It is a way to deepen connections with your wider nature and a wider system of support and resourcing, so that you can come back to your core strength and vision.
There is a place and a need for your authentic way of parenting. You belong here. And your unique child belongs here. Reconnect to the cosmos to remember why you’re here.