Welcome to my blog. My name is Yara and I’m an astrologer practicing for 7+ years. I fell in love with astrology in 2019 after a pretty bad car accident and was left with so many questions, questions about my existence, death, how life could be taken away in mere seconds. It didn’t help my already existential-crisis self, who was always pondering the point of living, what I was meant to do, what the afterlife looks like — if there even is one. My mental health truly declined and shortly after my accident, I started to experience bizarre and very scary changes in my body. I was later diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in the later part of 2019 and started my indefinite bi-yearly treatment in 2020 (what fun it was to experience that when the world started to fall apart). I became even more disoriented, exhausted, and deeply lost.
It started off as a hobby and something I nerded out over but it quickly became a second language for me and a way of living. While I do not believe that astrology is a “religion” by any means, I did see it in a way that felt like an anchor and a guide, a way to cope with my existence. It helped me understand myself and others better, guided me through some very honest shadow work, and answered (some) of my questions about why certain things may have happened to me. It also gave me words to describe the undercurrents in my life but also the collective and the people around me, especially once I learned transits.
Anyone who knows me knows how much I talk about astrology. God bless my girlfriend, my closest friends, and anyone who has ever listened patiently while I go off about a transit, a placement, or whatever rabbit hole I’ve fallen into that week. Through explaining charts and breaking down concepts for the people around me, my understanding deepened quickly.
It definitely started off like a kid bursting through the door with a recent discovery, only to be met with half-attention and polite nods, brushing it off like it was babble, but it eventually became something I couldn’t keep contained to just the people around me. To me, the practice felt like I had a cheat sheet to life; I definitely did not have all the answers and I will never subscribe to that, but a lot of what I learned and integrated from the practice would start playing out in real time and it was something I could keep track of. It’s not that astrology predicts things before they happen, rather, the movement of celestial bodies coincide with many plausible scenarios and it’s learning how to work with that energy, whether it be to will something to happen, or to be cautious of doing something that may not play out well. How cool would it be if we knew when the best time to launch a business or get married would be for the best success (or when to not do those things)? Or maybe it’s understanding that the tension with your sibling, your boss, or your neighbor isn’t random, but rather, it’s the universe nudging you through a transit, creating just enough friction to push you toward the changes you’ve been needing to make. It’s putting a face to the name, a noun to the feeling, and words to an experience. Well, we can and that’s what I obsessed over.
I became so hungry to learn and to share my knowledge with people, I could practically shout it from the rooftops. I just wanted everyone to have this tool to help cope with life, to grow, to heal, to make the necessary decisions to help make the changes they’ve always wanted. I won’t lie, there were times I’d get frustrated because it felt like I was standing behind a glass wall shouting my discoveries to anyone walking by, but it felt like others wouldn’t listen. Not because they didn’t find it interesting, but because without foundational knowledge of houses, signs, archetypes, etc. very few understood the meaning and significance of what I was trying to explain and I probably sounded like a woo-woo insane person to them. Sometimes I’d feel embarrassed for sharing my thoughts because it seemed like no one was interested in learning more about it. And I get it, deep astrology, not the pop culture kind that tells you Leos are loud and Tauruses are lazy, can be very intimidating. Here’s what I did figure out though — people loved hearing things about themselves. That’s just psychology. So when I found ways over time to break things down to others, I could tell people were blown away. I felt like I could read people to filth. It was like watching a lightbulb go off right above their head and that feeling was everything. I was just happy to shift their perspective, help them inch closer to their true self, and feel seen.
Then came the birth of my new astrology business. I had avoided doing this for years due to imposter syndrome, fear of being written off as another “crazy astrology girl,” you name it. But a conversation with a friend shifted something in me, and I finally just did it.
I put out two offerings, natal chart readings and transit chart readings. I started to get into creating content and noticed that I took more of a “teacher” role in my posts, wanting to teach others the basics of astrology so that they could follow along my conversations about transits and what was going on in other people’s lives. I also just wanted people to feel empowered and discover themselves, but how could anyone do that without the foundations? Then I put out a third offering, written reports. I figured this was a budget-friendly entry point for people who didn’t have $135 to blow on a reading they would understand very little of. Eventually, I want to expand my offerings to include things like synastry readings, Saturn return readings, and more. I’m also working on a series of ebooks to help people understand astrology and their own chart configurations better, but more on that soon.
Since even before launching the business, I’ve been itching to write for several months now as I want to share my thoughts, perspective, and knowledge with the world in hopes that it stirs something in others and propels them into the journey of reflection and self-actualization. Maybe you find this blog and can relate to some of my perspectives or experiences (I’ll definitely be raw and honest with some of the things I’ve gone through and relate it back to astrology) or use it to learn the basics of astrology so that you may understand yourself, others, and the universe better. Or maybe it’s just something to read over the toilet to pass time, I don’t know. I just want my thoughts out in the world and have them land in front of the right people, or whoever they’re meant to reach. Stay tuned for more posts!