The Astro Psyche

The astrology this week is lighter and more liminal than the last several weeks. It invites a re-enchantment with life, especially in matters of your heart. This week's astrology includes: - Venus moves into Aries on Wed 4/30: An energizing initiation of fresh energy around relationships, love, beauty, healing pursuits, art, creativity. You may feel a readiness to move forward now, especially...

This week's astrology deepens some themes we've been experiencing over the last week and month. The astrology symbolizes a process where we continue to encounter shadow (unconscious parts) of ourselves. This is a process of allowing more of yourself to come forward. This process is a rebirth - possibility involving labor pains, relief, existential contemplation, and release into the unknow...

This week's astrology focuses on how we can reclaim parts of ourselves that have been disowned or distorted via unconscious processes. There is a strong theme of action, enthusiasm, expression, and also strong activation. This week's astrology includes: - Mercury moves into Aries (and will conjunct Neptune in Pisces & sextile Pluto in Aquarius): Quick thinking, inspired talks, rapid in...

This week's astrology involves a bit of mystery and some initiations (actions which lead you to a new path). There are a lot of themes involving healing, relationships, and how you perceive things. This week, you may be reflecting on how you respond to a variety of situations. There may be changes in how you connect with others that has far reaching effects. This week's astrology includes:...

This week's astrology brings themes of empowerment from the inside out. We're still in this eclipse and retrograde-y portal of unexpected transformations with many reflections on the past. Make the most of this period by allowing yourself to reflect; and wonder what's being called forward from within you. This week's astrology includes: - Mercury & Venus conjunct the North Node in Pisces: incr...

In this week's astrology, we have a several themes around igniting your passion and enthusiasm for life (Aries) as well as falling into flow states that may be delightful or confusing (maybe both at once!) (Pisces). This week's astrology contains a mixture of themes. Many of them circle around something new emerging when you connect to your Self. This week's astrology includes:- Neptune in Aries:...

In this week's astrology involves a dramatic shift from Pisces season to Aries season in the midst of this transformational month of eclipse season. This mid-week shift may feel more energizing and renewing. There are gifts to receive when you listen to your inner world. This week's astrology includes:- Sun conjunct Neptune in Pisces: lots of synchronicities, seeing thru the veil of material reali...

In this week's astrology, we're moving into the eclipse time of year where there are beginnings, endings, transitions, & transformations. There's a feeling of flux in the air. This particular eclipse is a Full Moon of illuminating what has been hidden and seeing how the past informs the future. This week's astrology includes: - Full Moon Total Lunar Eclipse in Virgo: culminatio...

This week's astrology heavily emphasizes the relational component of life, and how you think about things. This may involve not only evaluating your concept of relationships, but also how you view yourself and your idea about what is valuable or desirable about you. Mercury's emphasize this week also correlates to a playful or trickster type vibe. This week's astrology includes:- Mercu...

This week's astrology involves an exploration of your fluctuating state of consciousness. There are correlations around new beginnings with your intuition and how you can tell the difference between an intuitive knowing vs. illusions. Overall, this week brings many of the planets together via aspect and this may feel like a lot of inner integration over the next month as this New Moon cycle pr...

This week's astrology provides opportunities to contemplate many possibilities and potentials as well as intentionally direct your mind-body-heart in directions that support your vitality. This week's astrology includes: - Sun moves into Pisces: conscious focus on the experiential vs. the literal, connecting with ideals, dreams, imagination, creativity, and bending reality - Last Quarter M...

This week's astrology centers authentic self-expression and our craving to be in loving connection with others who really "get" us. There's also something new (and possibly unexpected) that may emerge by exploring these experiences of giving & receiving affection. This week's astrology includes: - Full Moon in Leo: culmination of awareness around your experiences of being...

This week's astrology includes lots of big ideas and potential for shifting your philosophy to find more ease. There's also themes around returning to what's truly important to you, especially when it comes to relationships. This week's astrology includes: - Mercury in Aquarius trine Jupiter in Gemini: bright ideas, optimism, inspiration, all the pieces in your mind click into plac...

This week's astrology includes major renewals of your mind, thought process, & communication. There's also possibilities for transcendent experiences via beauty or social connections that feel magical and heart-felt. This week's astrology includes: - Mercury moves into Aquarius: a shift in your mental focus to making sustainable change in your life, processing info or communications that help...

This week's involves processing and transmuting your sense of self (ego). There is a tone of revealing or realizing what has been hidden, and the renewal and growth that comes from seeing what has been unknown or unconscious. This week's astrology includes: - Sun conjunct Pluto in Aquarius: revealing what is hidden, mysterious, or rejected. realizing a core or fundamental truth, exploring...

This week is a focus on feelings & enthusiastic emotional expression along with contemplations about what is truly important to you. This week's astrology includes: - Nodes move into Pisces & Virgo: experiences around transitions and beginnings/endings over next year and a half involve shifts in your consciousness, perception, processing, and healing (physical, mental, emotional, spiritual...

Hope you're doing well as we move forward into 2025. This week is a mixture of inspiration, action, and also opportunities for healing your vitality, ego or sense of self. This week's astrology from a depth psychological astrology perspective: - Mars (retrograde) moves into Cancer: emotionally motivated to introvert or self-reflect, emphasis on feelings around taking action, agitation, anger, frus...

Welcome 🦋 My name is Shawna McGrath (she/her). I'm a depth psychotherapist (AMFT) and astrologer. I'm honored to share the astrology of this week with you, from a depth psychological perspective. This week includes: - New Moon in Capricorn: initiating fresh energy in practical matters, security, safety, and care for your household, also seeking support from those with experience who are ready, wi...

.Welcome 🦋 My name is Shawna McGrath (she/her). I'm a depth psychotherapist (AMFT) and astrologer. I'm honored to share the astrology of this week with you, from a depth psychological perspective. This week includes: - Mercury-Jupiter-Saturn t-square: renewed insight, continuing to contemplate how you are expanding & contracting, navigating experiences of overwhelm or constriction, practical...

Welcome 🦋 My name is Shawna McGrath (she/her). I'm a depth psychotherapist (AMFT) and astrologer. I'm honored to share the astrology of this week with you, from a depth psychological perspective. This week includes: - Sun in Sagittarius square Neptune in Pisces: softening or questioning your concept of self, opening new experiences of what it means to be you, flow states or altered states of cons...

Welcome 🦋 My name is Shawna McGrath (she/her). I'm a depth psychotherapist (AMFT) and astrologer. I'm honored to share the astrology of this week with you, from a depth psychological perspective. This week includes: - Full Moon in Gemini: culmination around communications, ideas, transitions, and review. shifting your mindset, hi-lighting hopes & wishes vs. restrictions, healing possibilities...

Welcome 🦋 My name is Shawna McGrath (she/her). I'm a depth psychotherapist (AMFT) and astrologer. I'm honored to share the astrology of this week with you, from a depth psychological perspective. This week includes: - Mars stations Retrograde in Leo: exploring your relationship to physicality, assertiveness, & action, also reviving your ability to say 'no' or initiate boundaries - Sun conjunc...

Welcome 🦋 My name is Shawna McGrath (she/her). I'm a depth psychotherapist (AMFT) and astrologer. I'm honored to share the astrology of this week with you, from a depth psychological perspective. This week includes: - Mercury stations Retrograde in Sagittarius: contemplation, reflection, re-imagining - Mercury-Jupiter-Saturn t-square: serious thoughts about where you’re going in life, seeing the...

Welcome 🦋 My name is Shawna McGrath (she/her). I'm a depth psychotherapist (AMFT) and astrologer. I'm honored to share the astrology of this week with you, from a depth psychological perspective. This week includes: - Pluto moves into Aquarius: transitioning into a different phase of our ongoing collective experience of unconscious dynamics, power, marginalization, the rejected parts of self (per...

Welcome 🦋 My name is Shawna McGrath (she/her). I'm a depth psychotherapist (AMFT) and astrologer. I'm honored to share the astrology of this week with you, from a depth psychological perspective. This week includes: - Mercury in Sagittarius square Saturn in Pisces: analyzing limitations and capabilities, the only way out is through, meeting adversity, accepting what is so you can do something abo...