# Ep. 35 - Why I Walked Away From Astrology & Why I’m Returning

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Podcast: [Reclaim Within the Podcast: Emotional, Spiritual, & Somatic Intelligence](https://stenobird.com/podcast/reclaim-within-the-podcast-emotional-spiritual-somatic-intelligence-7116379)
Published: 2026-05-06T13:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://reclaimwithin.substack.com/p/ep-35-why-i-walked-away-from-astrology
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Ep. 35 - In this episode, I open up about my relationship with astrology, how I found it when I was 13 years old during a huge life shakeup, why I fell so deeply in love with it, how it became my full-time work, why I eventually walked away, & why I am now feeling called to return to it from a very different place inside of myself. I share what I believe astrology actually is: not a belief system, not a fixed identity, & not a tool that was ever meant to box us in or flatten the depth of who we are. To me, astrology is an archetypal language. It is a symbolic language that can meet us at whatever level of consciousness we bring to it. I also speak honestly about what turned me off from astrology for a season, especially the ways I saw it being used through meme culture & pop culture astrology as a reductive, dismissive, or victimizing framework. I share why that felt so disheartening to me, what I had to wrestle with in myself, & what has helped me come back into relationship with astrology now with more humility, reverence, trust, & respect for the mystery. This episode is really about symbolism, consciousness, free will, archetypes, mystery, & what it means to engage something sacred without reducing it. In this episode, I explore: * why the tools meant to help us know ourselves more deeply were never meant to box us in * how astrology first supported me during one of the hardest seasons of my childhood * the journey from private study to full-time professional readings * why I stepped away from astrology for a period of time * why astrology is not a belief system * astrology as an archetypal + symbolic language * the difference between using astrology as a trap vs using it as a mirror * why consciousness matters in how we engage archetypal tools * the chart as a see…

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