When I was only 19 years old, I got my first personal training certification and worked at 8 different fitness centers. While I was working in fitness, I got my Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering, a Minor in Mathematics, a Certificate of Biomedical Engineering, and I'm two damn credits away from a minor in physics. I graduated and worked as a Digital Design Engineer in the aerospace industry for 11 years. During that time, I went on to get my teaching certifications in Yoga, Lagree Pilates, and Barre, and completed the Muscle Activation Technique (MAT) Jumpstart training program. Then, for the next three years, I worked as the Assistant Manager to the Regional Manager at a sensory deprivation studio owned by my friend.... there were only four employees, but I took this title very seriously ;-)  Now, I am also a professional Evolutionary Astrologer! I’m all over the place!

 

But also, did you see what I just did there? Went from electrical engineer in the aerospace industry to working at a meditation studio? Who does that!? Well, rewind back several years and you’d find me in a very, very toxic romantic relationship. Not long into this relationship, I could truly say I did not even know who Michelle was anymore. I developed a deep depression and was in a constant mode of fight or flight. I began studying psychology to help me understand the condition of not only my partner, but also my own mental health. So much psychology! Honestly, I was frantic for answers looking through the darkest lens of my existence. It was my "dark night of the soul”. Trauma takes us into the underworld, but this is where we most often begin exploring the spiritual side of our existence. I entered into a yoga teacher training program, and slowly it opened the door to new ideas and teachings of a spiritual nature. A couple years later I hit a breaking point and decided to take a sabbatical from working. This naturally gave me time to further my understanding of astrology, philosophy, psychology, human design, the teachings of spiritual leaders such as Paramahansa Yogananda, Thich Nhat Hanh, and the work of Carl Jung. I studied everyday, often all day. I coupled this with daily meditation. Most days I would meditate for hours. I did this for over three years. During this path of exploration, I found this beautiful spiritual tool called Evolutionary Astrology (EA). This part was pivotal. 

 

For the first part of my life, I was a predominantly left-brain individual. Ideas that were non-science based, such as astrology, were not easily accepted by my conditioned mind. EA, however, has a concrete component to it, a process. It utilizes such widely researched and scholarly principles of psychology, that it was able to grab a hold of my structure-oriented mind. Then as time progressed, it helped me to develop my own abstract, right-brain thinking. This was the turning point for deepening my insight into how my inner world met my outer world. I learned how to step above any situation, examine myself, and then face the darker parts of me, the shadows. EA can literally show us the shadows contained within our own psyche. It taught me that for all the darkness I saw in this OTHER person who was hurting me, an equal amount of darkness existed in me. This was extremely hard to realize with the constant reinforcement from my environment telling me that I had a beautiful shining personality and kind heart and he had a horrific personality disorder. But I promise you, that darkness was also in me. 

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So I looked directly at the damaged parts of myself, and realized the dynamics to create my experiences were engrained in me. Programmed. Through my natal chart and it’s interpretation using EA, I could see how I had been programmed to attract my experiences, including the painful ones. But through powerful realizations, I stepped into my own PERSONAL POWER to mindfully navigate them with more awareness and then consciously transform and rewire my psyche through the neuroplasticity of the brain. I adjusted my actions, reactions, viewpoints and just overall how I was programmed in romantic relationships. My transformation culminated with a change to the Mercurial part of my consciousness. Like the 0's and 1's of how a computer is programmed, but it's your freaking brain, and it's all based on a transmutation in how one intellectualizes their own reality. Now, I navigate romantic relationships with more ease, do better at choosing myself over others in every moment, and my boundaries of consciousness have changed towards my personal growth in regards to love, personal values, core beliefs, family, friends, career - ok with everything. My boundaries have transformed with everything, just everything, in a much more healthy expression.

 

It was a beautiful thing that was happening to me in all my pain and despair. This turmoil asked me, it ORDERED me to connect. Connect with my SELF again. I was connecting with something greater than myself. It's powerful stuff. With all these positive changes, I viewed myself differently relative to the world. One day I just said to myself, "You are just a programmed body, but the YOU inside of you is something far greater". The Soul. The You inside you is what comes to the surface to make changes, consciously.

 

And to you reading this, I want this for you. I want to help you through this process of using a spiritual tool of wisdom, such as astrology, to make your life ultimately better. If you just hear one thing, just one thing in our session that makes you think differently or causes you to ask yourself questions about your reality, it can potentially create a changed pattern in your life that was before unsuccessful. Astrology can give you one profound idea, and this idea can transform into 10 more ideas, and then the ball is rolling on your own transformation. It's a lifelong process, and completely up to you to even start. 

 

The last thing I would say about myself is that I'm still an imperfect work in progress using my astrology chart to find more aspects of myself that I can improve. Life is a process, and thus, learning from astrology is a process.  And another more important truth is that I use my astrology chart to find all the beautiful gifts in my personal self expression. My chart gives insight to the wonderful parts of me or where I have the most potential and natural gifts. It really has shown me what to bring to the surface of my consciousness for all to see. For me, that's bringing my weirdness and spiritual healing out into the world. Astrology is fucking awesome my friend. Email me. I'll help you. 

 

With Love,

Michelle