while i love you all, sometimes i feel blessed that i wasn't part of any astrological community while first developing my professional practice, and that there wasn't much on the internet other than astrodienst and skyscript while developing my personal one early on. (thread??)

i think many of our astro community debates, while important, can hide the nuances of our individual practices to the detriment of beginners. i am for rigour and discipline in education, but we need to encourage more than that to foster robust community. we need creativity.

professional astrologers carry a lot more creativity and nuance in our practices than can be expressed on twitter. nuance generally doesn't get likes.

like i've used essential dignities in aspect-heavy psychological astro for ages. i was oblivious to the internal/external divide imposed on modern/traditional. i've used traditional rulerships without knowing they were traditional, while not discounting the gravity of the outers.

i've used whole sign interpretation and quadrant cusps my entire practice (even if sloppily at times and always refining). no one ever told me this was odd. had i felt pressured to pledge allegiance to a house system early on, my teenage uranian ass would have done tarot instead.

the astrological community continues to rock my world and shift my practice as i continue to study, meet people, grow, but my clients are the ones i continue to learn from the most. i can be in love with a technique, but if it doesn't hold up for my clients, i won't use it there.

in my practice, i find the astrology we need for you, with you, the human with the particular peculiar beautiful chart, in that moment. yes this means i'm not as efficient as some astrologers, but i'm not focused on being "right" (even if i often am ). that's just my practice.

i'm as likely to bring to our reading a biomimicry anecdote as i am myths of Jupiter. i am as likely to quote Robyn as i am to cite Lilly or Sam Reynolds. i might ask you a question based off your Saturn signature that is also from a dream i had last night. astrologers are weird.

if you're feeling discouraged in your studies, feeling like you're not doing astrology "the right way," get off twitter, put your chart down, read a book on a subject you're passionate about that's NOT astrology, talk to a friend about it, then look at your chart again, repeat.

astrology encompasses everything, so you don't just have to study astrology to do it well. to do it really well, i think we should study diverse arts, disciplines, and topics. develop a keen mind open to creative nuance, and a good heart willing to speak and question soulfully.

ty for coming to my ted talk will see you on other side of natal saturn square mercury mars moment byeeee