✧ ALTAR OF STARS ✧ with Teagan West

Beloveds, we have arrived at that long awaited threshold. This week, Venus prepares to make her descent into the Great Below. Our Beloved Queen of Heaven will disappear from the evening sky, where she has been hanging like a diamond each evening, since the beginning of the year. For 40 days and 40 nights, she will travel through the Underworld, shedding old skins and meeting the fullness of hersel...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit altarofstars.substack.com Beloveds, here we are at another crossroads in the wheel of the year. I can hardly believe we have already reached the Equinox, yet it comes with such relief for my animal body. The turning of time, the descent of the Sun in the Northern Hemisphere. & Welcome to Spring for my friends in the South!

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit altarofstars.substack.com Okay beloveds, this week welcomes our first Lunation out of Eclipse season. A moment of clarification, distillation, discerning what is most essential for us to take with us into the future of our path unfolding. The Virgo New Moon peaks on Thursday, September 10th at 11:27pm EST. This lunation is occuring at 1...

Beloveds ~ I hope you all survived that Pisces Lunar Eclipse with ease — it brought such unexpected energy, I am still swirling in the wake of it all. I don’t have much to say this week beyond the usual, and have made this episode open for all to listen in the spirit of Eclipse Szn Aftercare

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit altarofstars.substack.com Beloved ones, here we are now, crossing the threshold into the final phase of Eclipse season. How are you faring out there? Have you been utterly rearranged? Not quite sure which way is up yet? Good, stay with it. I personally feel really moved by how potent this Eclipse season has been, and continues to be. It...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit altarofstars.substack.com Beloved ones, I hope you’re doing well out there, all things considered. The wake of the Eclipse left me ragged, in need of resource. I have been returning to drink from the well of the practices that nourish me, which has often looked like waking up before sunrise to sit and listen to the dawn chorus. Drinking...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit altarofstars.substack.com Beloveds, hello. I don’t know about you, but that Leo Solar Eclipse impressed me with its potency. We are in for some deep teachings in this year to come. May we meet the moment skillfully, and resource ourselves accordingly. These are exceptional times we’re living through, there’s not doubt about that. This w...

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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit altarofstars.substack.com Friends, our first Eclipse of the season arrives this week. There has been much hullabaloo about this one, it is a big moment indeed. Nothing is as it seems; may we take time to drop into the Deep Self, to hear it speak. My guides unexpectedly had a LOT to say about this one, so it turned into mostly a live ora...

Wow friends, recording this episode was a feat in and of itself! SUCH big Astrology awaits us this week, a continuum of energy as we integrate Barbault’s Basket. I’m releasing this a few days early so folks can be present with the big shifts as they roll in!

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit altarofstars.substack.com Beloveds! Have you heard the news!? It’s a bird, it’s a plane — no! It’s Barbault’s Basket! (Which I have jokingly referred to as Barbault’s coffin in the title because I thought it was a silly and somewhat true correspondence)! To be honest with you friends, I’m not so interested in surgically examining the ex...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit altarofstars.substack.com Beloved Ones, hello. Each week I sit down it feels like lifetimes have passed since last writing to you. I hope you are faring well out there, genuinely. Wrapped inside this little care package is a ritual + tarot spread to support your New Moon renewal. This New Moon is curious; the luminaries will converge at...

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...