Living Astrology with the Animals of the Zodiac
Cultivating Kaleidoscopic Vision & Relational Wisdom for Finding Our Way Together
Living Astrology with the Animals of the Zodiac
is a series of journeys that weave together biology, astrology and myth to foster a lively education with the creatures of the constellations themselves. While attending to these animals in order to learn about them in their own right, we cultivate the conditions for a spontaneous discovery of, and embodied empathy for, the places inside us through which the Zodiac comes to life.
Through experiential exploration, creative process and reflective inquiry, you will be guided into a truly participatory engagement with the symbols of astrology. This course centers your own lived experience, while fostering perceptual flexibility and co-creativity with our other-than-human kin of Earth & Sky.
The Zodiac means
“Circle of Animals”
The Zodiac offers us a kaleidoscopic vision to Life, to which each animal contributes its own turn.
Every animal (i.e. astrological symbol, planet, mythic character, archetype, aspect of self) perceives through its own evolutionary adaptations and limits, strengths and vulnerabilities, hungers and desires.
Every creature lives in their own perceptual world that is distinct from all the others — both enlivened by its own genius and limited by its own particular logic, language and knowledge.
This kaleidoscopic capacity of perceiving through a multiplicity of eyes, without giving a single one supreme reign, can aid us humans in finding our way through the most perplexing of situations.
Attune to the polyvocal, polyrhythmic song of the Earth and find your voice already woven within it — as well as how this song is woven within you.
Claim your place at the unique nexus of Earth & Sky that is yours to inhabit, in this particular form and incarnation.
Explore the vastness and dimensionality of each Zodiac Sign through the sensuous intelligence of your animal body.
Experience your own creative rhythms and embodied joy from playing in the living field of astrology.
Rest within a benevolent container that supports authentic connection to your inner world and the deep waters of creation.
Frequently Asked Questions
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A Foundation of Self-Care
These sessions are meant to be joy and play based sources of discovery, renewal, growth and connection. They are not psychotherapy nor a substitute for psychotherapy.
However, since we may be connecting to the felt-sense and the body, and the body is a beautiful storehouse of memory, emotion, impulse, instinct, sensation — we know that it sometimes can bring us unexpected places. Participants are required to come with a current self-care practice and familiarity with their nervous system. While our connection with each other and with the astrological field can be richly resourcing, participants are ultimately expected to be responsible for their own wellbeing and what they need to do to take care of themselves.
— and willingness to play.
I know that play doesn’t always come easily, especially during stressful moments. When we center the imagination in our lives, play is exactly what we need to perceive a situation through fresh eyes and to find our way through challenging situations.
Here, play is given a chance to expand beyond the confines of our old notions or definitions of “play”. We can surprise ourselves, discovering that play is something that comes naturally even amidst life’s challenges.
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Fundamentals are helpful (signs, planets, houses). If you want an orientation to your birth chart, please email Nicole to schedule a 30-min reading specifically for this offering. Cost for this is $135.
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No - you only need to come with a genuine sense of curiosity for this animal.
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Each Zodiacal Animal will be a different journey with a different time commitment.
Please go to the specific course to find the details of the educational container (e.g. time, dates, live groups or self-study).
Have more questions?
Book a free 15-minute discovery call and let’s explore together whether this work feels like a good fit.
Meet the Instructor
Nicole is an astrologer, artist and parent raising two young humans. Each of these journeys draw her ever more deeply into the question of how to tend a benevolent field of consciousness that’s able to receive a child and foster their incarnation —whether this ’child’ is an actual human child or a creative vision within that wants to be lived out. She approaches experiential astrology as a practice of giving permission, resource and relational container to our many creative instincts, so that these creatures might express and be felt from the depths of their own essential nature while also re-membered into wider life cycles, rhythms and wholes.
Nicole has been a consulting astrologer since 2017 with formal training in Biology and Internal Family Systems. She is the Elements teacher at the Hermes-Hestia Center and a Living Astrologies Practitioner trained under the mentorship of Jason Holley in the Hermes-Hestia Experiential Astrology Practitioner Program.
Nicole is a Sagittarius Rising (Jupiter in Aquarius), Taurus Sun, Capricorn Moon and deeply loves her work.
