✧ ALTAR OF STARS ✧ with Teagan West

Hello beloveds! I truly hope you’re all faring well out there. Here with a little pared-down share this week, in regards to my relationship to Animism. As I prepare to anchor a course through Ancestral Medicine on Animism + Earth Reconnection , it has me thinking a LOT about my own relationship to these topics and the teachings that have been so graciously shared with me over the years. I talk a b...

Hello beloveds. How we doin out there? Each day has felt like a lifetime, which is usually a sign of some serious tectonic plates shifting in time/space reality. Lots of change underfoot, a constant tide to swim amidst. This doesn’t necessarily have to be a bad nor stressful thing, but of course it all depends on how we choose to relate to it. I’m taking notes on that daily. As I sat down to recor...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit altarofstars.substack.com Beloved ones! oh BOY do we have a week ahead of us! So many planetary shifts, so many big moments. I do declare the next wave of astrological changes are taking place in the field, and thus in our own psyche. May the Capricorn Full Moon help us to find our anchor amidst the flux. First of all, we are at the fin...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit altarofstars.substack.com First thing’s first! Doors are OPEN for the next cohort of Live Group Astrology Mentorship! We will travel through the Shadow Months together, forming animist relations with the celestial powers and tending the colonial wounds embedded within this study. We do this work together, in community, on purpose. To le...

Beloved ones, this week’s reading is a pretty wide-view look at the karmic web as it exists in this moment. Surprisingly as I tuned into Venus’ energy this week, she brought me pretty ‘far out’ to look at the context of the moment we’re all navigating together from the Eagle’s Eye view. The teachings of the Vedic Ancestors came in pretty strong to help ground the bigness into something (somewhat)...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit altarofstars.substack.com Hello my friends! This week holds some Big Magick, and with that comes big responsibility. It all depends on how we wield this wand within, the direction of our will, the clarity of our mind. This kind of energy will go wherever it’s directed, so may we be discerning and hella intentional with how we use it acc...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit altarofstars.substack.com Beloveds! I hope the Full Blue Moon was good to you. If anyone did the very Jupiterian ritual from last week , I’d love to know how it felt! I certainly feel it’s a practice I could stand to incorporate more often, beyond once a year! The week ahead is pretty docile, marked by Mercury’s ingress into Cancer and...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit altarofstars.substack.com Hey beloveds, I hope that Uranus Cazimi on Friday was good to you. Definitely felt like the proper welcome for the sky god’s blessings in this Mercurial realm. Hidden keys being discovered within, to open doors we do not even know about yet. Perhaps you found one over the last few days! This week holds some gro...

Beloveds, the tides continue to turn by the day. I have heard many reflections during readings with folx over the past week that the change is getting to be intense, uncomfortable, disorienting. So much kindness to this. May we catch the current that brings us into deeper rhythm + pulse with the transformation at hand. There are multiple planets shifting sign territories this week, which I hope wi...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit altarofstars.substack.com Beloveds, blessed dark moon to you. I hope you’re feeling resourced by your connection to something ancient + sustaining. It was a big week here, the land seems to be processing a lot this time of year. So much moving through above + below, in Land + Sky, within + without. May you find ways to metabolize so muc...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit altarofstars.substack.com Hellooo beloveds! We have an enlivening week ahead of us, culminating with a TAURUS NEW MOON on Saturday, May 16th at 4pm EST. I am looking forward to this exalted lunation, an anchor amidst such churning waters. This New Moon is at 25* of Taurus, the third decan ruled by Saturn and corresponding to the 7 of pe...

Beloveds! Hello! I wanted to offer a bit of a high-level look at the month ahead, as so much is constantly shapeshifting as we speak. This week’s reading is part divination / ancestral messages, part astrology (at the end). One hot take that came through this one from my people: * every revolution throughout history has been unique. This One we’re currently navigating involves the recovery of our...

Beloveds, how are you faring out there? The waters continue to ebb, pulled by the winds of change. As Luna waxes into fullness, we become that great sea guided by her will. The winds of change sweep through the landscape, and we are shaped by their making. What are we becoming? Uranus is now in Gemini , bringing greater winds to fan the flames that have taken root in Aries. We are becoming firekee...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit altarofstars.substack.com Whether we like it or not, that level of activation is here. The winds of change have arrived, only to fan the flame that Aries has already set in motion. Whatever already has momentum will gain it. Be intentional about how you use this energy. What fires do you want to burn stronger, and which ones are you rea...

Friends, wow. We have a LOT of fire in the skies, and I’m certain I’m not the only one experiencing it very somatically. Mars tends to bring that embodied level into the mix, and now our work is tempering it accordingly. I’ve been thinking a lot about warriorship, devoting ourselves to something bigger than us and preparing for a battle that may never come. And yet, here we are. What are you fight...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit altarofstars.substack.com Friends, welcome to April. This month is on fire, quite literally, ignited by a cluster of planets in Aries. If you’ve been with me since the beginning of this year, you likely remember me mentioning in the Year Ahead Reading that April was the month where these BIG CHANGES start to set in stronger. We need no...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit altarofstars.substack.com Beloveds, this week is full of Venusian Magick. It feels in many ways as though Persephone is making her grand appearance in the landscape, within and without. Emerging from many months in the Underworld, she returns with an invitation to harvest what we learned from our time in the Great Below. On Monday, Venu...

My friends! This week brings go-power. Multiple Cazimis + conjunctions in Aries asks that we are willing to KEEP MOVING, as a way to break out of the confusion + fragmentation that our own dis-memberment creates within. "You will freeze in place if you remain this way. You must not, dear. You have to move.” — Rainer Maria Rilke So many messages in this reading that I want to leave for the recordin...

Beloveds! Whoa. What a whirlwind it’s been. I feel quite like that meme of the Polar Bear emerging out of slumber, discombobulated and hair amess. Eclipse season paired with a fallen Mercury retrograde is NO JOKE. Feeling relief as I look to the week ahead and sense glimmers of breakthrough on the horizon. The Pisces New Moon peaks at 28* on Wednesday, March 18th @ 9:23pm ET. The first lunation af...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit altarofstars.substack.com Hello beloveds! My goodness, what a portal that Blood Moon Eclipse was. Never underestimate the power of the Mystery to bring just what the doctor ordered ~ it is all absolutely part of the dance, even + especially when it catches our fumbling footsteps. Welcoming the edges as necessary curriculum. Welcoming th...

Tonight, as the Full Moon rose in the East, we gathered in circle as we do every Moonday to speak of Earth + Stars (as part of the Altar of Stars Live Mentorship Group). There was tenderness in the air, and overwhelm from just how dizzying this energy has been to navigate. This practice felt like a prayer, an offering. I wanted to share it with you all in the hopes that it supports whatever proces...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit altarofstars.substack.com Okay beloveds, here we are ~ round two. Our next Eclipse of the Season occurs this Tuesday, March 3rd at 6:33am EST. It is nearly exact, the Sun + Moon coming within 4* of the Lunar Nodes. Bringing the precision of Virgo’s scythe, we are invited to thresh old narratives that have clouded our vision. This is a F...

Beloveds! Wow, there are so many new faces here. WELCOME. I feel so moved by your presence here, and excited for all that you will bring to this web we’re weaving. Thank you, thank you, thank you. · ⚭ · We have entered the space between eclipses, the center of the Vesica Piscis, time beyond time ~ OPENING ~ to make way for new realities to emerge in the space between. ‘The next wave of activism is...

When I asked the Ancestors about this week, they had one word; INITIATION . Tuesday is a huge day. Ancestral traditions that have observed cycles by Lunar Calendars across the world have marked this moment in suit. Shivaratri in the Vedic tradition, the Chinese Lunar New Year, Ramadan begins ~ it is a signal of some great threshold we are crossing, elbows locked in solidarity through this Mystery...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit altarofstars.substack.com Friends ~ this week ahead holds some major Astrology, and feels quite like the entrance to some Great Undoing. Using the word “Transformation” feels to diminishing to the slow + steady process of dismemberment, being taken apart to see what we are truly made of. The work of revealment, of Truth, of threshing. R...