Welcome to my Astrological Playground
Hello friends!
This is the start of my blog, or what I would like to call my astro playground. It will be messy, silly, and personal. My social media pages tend to be an 11th house place, where I try to reach a broader audience and expand my reach through a very technical and precise approach. But this is MY corner of the internet, and this is a place where my voice can be explored in a much lower-stakes way.
I started my astrological journey when I was young, probably in elementary school or middle school. Since my sun sign matches my moon sign, I always gave this as the reason why astrology always hit for me. The stereotype of the curious, talkative, scatterbrained Gemini always resonated. Part of my story has always come from a curiosity about other people and the depth they held. No one is a flat character. That curiosity led me to be the person who would put birth data into cafeastrology.com and read about the placements. This gave me, at a young age, a good understanding of the five personal planets: Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, and Mars. I never paid attention to the others since I mostly looked at charts of people in my grade, and we were all Jupiter in Aquarius and Saturn in Aries.
Why was I in grade school reading about the planets? I had no plans of being an astrologer.
A photo of The Astrology Shop in London
The first time I experienced astrology in the real world was when I was 16. Instead of a Sweet Sixteen, I got my mom to take me to London. I got so excited stumbling across The Astrology Shop. I dragged my mom and her friend into the shop and they got me one of those chart analysis printouts. This was the first time I saw a chart and read about houses.
A few years later, I went back when I was 19. The shopkeeper looked at my chart and gave me my first human delineation: “You will be working for the rest of your life.” Not my favorite news.
Meeting Chani Nicholas for the first time in February 2020
Three years later, when I was 22 right before the COVID lockdowns, I was bored at my dead-end job. I saw a New York Times article about Chani Nicholas, an astrologer. I liked astrology, and when I Googled her more, I saw she was having a book signing event a couple of days later at Skylight Bookstore, a mile from my home in LA. I knew I had to go. So I snuck out of work early, headed there, and bought You WereBorn for This. I was hooked and after reading that book, I wanted to know more. I understood the signs and the planets, but what were houses? And what were aspects? Soon after, I learned about transits and that the sky is impacting us all right now. My mind was being blown (a classic 9th house experience).
I asked Chani for some resources. That sent me on a journey of consuming every episode of The Astrology Podcast and The Strology Show. The pandemic gave me plenty of time to dive deep. I started saving more charts in astro.com, got readings from real astrologers, and read a bunch of tweets on Astro Twitter. But this was all as a silent outsider. I didn’t want to be an astrologer. But do people who don’t want to be astrologers look at charts of everyone close to them, buy astrology books, tutoring sessions, and courses?
I slowly got into electional astrology and explored timing techniques like zodiacal releasing, just like any casual hobbyist.
Going back to The Astrology Shop in London in October 2022 as a hobbyist and buy $100+ worth of books.
At the end of 2025, I was faced with a crossroads about where I wanted to go and what next skill I wanted to sharpen for my career. My mentor, an astrologer, nudged me toward astrology. At this point, I had to face that the only thing stopping me from pursuing this field was the fear of what other people thought. I love astrology so much. I love how it helps me understand the people around me with complete empathy. I love how it lets me understand the depths of myself. But what I love most is how it helps me heal my relationship with time.
As someone who can feel like they are behind in life or impatient for when things will click, astrology teaches me that we are exactly where we need to be. Every experience we have builds on top of one another and can be shown through our natal promise.
Even when I was little, I felt the pushes of the universe. It felt like a soft wind gently pushing me to where I needed to be. The “coincidences” that lined things up for me. Astrology gives me a clearer picture of what the universe is up to. It affirms the story that I live every day. If astrology is the map, your life is the territory. It gives perspective on something you intuitively know. As someone who has struggled to listen to their intuition, astrology has given me a path back to listening to my inner voice and a self-understanding that has been part of my deepest inner work, reverberating out to the most public parts of my life.
Something happens when you start to live your life with self-awareness. People notice the confidence that comes when someone is truly themselves. That doesn’t happen overnight, but I do think it can happen when you allow yourself to play, when you allow yourself to create unapologetically. This even shows up in astrology. The 1st house of self/body trines the 5th house of play and creative projects and trines the 9th house of self-discovery and astrology.
This astro playground will be a place to explore my thoughts and let my voice form. I won’t put any requirements on myself, but for now, I hope you get to laugh and ponder in my astro playground.