About POPSTROLOGY
Hi, I’m Jesse! I’m an astrologer, cat lover, lesbian, and general lover of mysticism, Carl Jung, and divination practices. I’m a Virgo Sun, Gemini Moon, and Pisces rising - a mutable T-Square that is certainly related to my ADHD, but more importantly my calling to use astrology to help others heal and find meaning in their lives.
For a long time, my knowledge of astrology was similar to most - Seventeen magazine horoscopes, knowing I was a Virgo and sort of disagreeing with the related stereotypes, and being unsure how it was actually relevant to my life.
In 2022, I got very sick and was in more physical and mental anguish than I had ever felt. I haven’t had an easy life, but I’ve always been hopeful and optimistic- until then. I was searching for meaning, for a reason I was in so much pain, for a light at the end of the tunnel. Astrology showed me that light, and completely changed my life.
Over the past three and a half years, I’ve used a combination of astrology, spirituality, tarot, yoga, meditation, deep self-exploration, and therapy to heal my complex PTSD. It’s a journey that’s certainly still ongoing, and like any healing journey it hasn’t been linear, but I feel more authentically ‘me’ than I ever have. I ground my practice in being trauma-informed, compassionate, feminist, anti-capitalist, and LGBTQ+ inclusive.
Why Astrology?
Skeptics love to say “you can’t honestly believe that the planets millions of miles away actually causes something to happen in your life.” This is akin to saying “you can’t honestly believe that turning the calendar page actually causes a new month to happen.” Astrology is an observational practice, an understanding of the cycles of the planets and how they correlated to events that happened on Earth. Over the course of 5,000 years, astrologers have been able to distill the significations of each of the planets in each of the signs and how they relate to each other and to us here on Earth. As new planets and asteroids are discovered, astrologers do an in-depth study of how these placements have shown up in the lives of people over time, and use this information to add to our understanding of astrology.
I don’t know or claim to know the mysteries of this universe, I don’t think anyone actually knows that, or will in my lifetime or yours. I have ideas and theories, but that’s as far as any of us can really go.
What I do know is that our universe abides by an extensive set of archetypal principles, retold time and again in myth, fairytale, tarot, astrology, numerology, and - most importantly - in life. I’ve devoted years of my life to reading the work of Carl Jung, Marie Louise von Franz, Joseph Campbell, Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Jessica Dore, and many other Jungian analysts and scholars of the collective unconscious, archetype, psychology, and myth.
There’s so much to learn about astrology that you could study it 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for your whole life and still be left with many questions. This isn’t something that Chat GPT can give you the answers to. Astrology is not formulaic. You use math for the calculations, but there’s so much nuance and archetypal understanding needed to interpret a birth chart. That’s why I’m here!
My Practice
Your birth chart is a snapshot of the sky from Earth at the moment you’re born. Your rising sign is where the Sun was rising when you entered this world, screaming and crying about being thrust from your warm first home into this bright, harsh, and beautiful world.
Your birth chart is unique to you (and anyone else who was born at the same moment as you). Your birth chart will not be replicated for at least 500,000 years. That’s all you, baby! Which is why it’s such an excellent way to analyze your life, in a way that’s specific to you and to no one else.
Everyone you meet also has a birth chart. Synastry, one of my specialties, is the study of how two people’s birth charts interact. Different people will activate your natal placements in different ways. I believe every significant person who comes into your life is destined to be there for some reason - whether it’s to uplift you, to challenge you, or to show you something entirely new is a question only the universe can answer. But I can give you a pretty good idea!
At the end of the day, you are the one who has all the answers. There is a primal part of your soul that KNOWS exactly what you are meant to be doing - your soul, your gut, your intuition, whatever you want to call it. But the pressures of capitalism, society, your parents, your traumas, and more can make it hard to hear or trust your intuition.
My job is to be a guide, to share with you key themes and important dates and kernels of wisdom that were gifted to you at birth. To ask you questions that help you get back on the right path if you’ve strayed or gotten lost. If you’re going through a hard time, to share secrets that will help get you through, and an estimate of when things will get easier. If you’re feeling unmoored, to share with you what your birth chart says is your destiny and re-orient your compass. And if you’re wondering whether someone is a potential soulmate, to share whether that’s truly your intuition talking, or the magnetic pull of The Patterns ingrained in you by past trauma.
I love people, I love math, I love myth, and I love astrology. Starting this business after a 10-year soul-crushing corporate career is the first time I’ve felt like I’m finally following the whispers of my soul, and I want to help you do the same. I can’t wait to work with you! And if you have any questions, feel free to email me and I’ll get back to you ASAP.
