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Dec 18 Office Hours - Julie (Melora's friend)

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Hi everyone, here is what I received from Melora about her friend Julie - copying each email below. See enclosed images for her art and her chart. Please note, as per Julie's request, the personal data has been cut out of the chart image.
 
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This is my friend Jules's porphyry chart and bio without her identifying info. I can answer questions as they come up, though I've known her as an adult, and don't know all her family. She also asked me in an earlier email: 
 
Does this kind of astrology have anything to say about the effect of lineage on this current life? I'll ask her what prompted that question. 
 
The bio includes some of her artwork and a clip about her work as a breath worker. There was another clip I was hoping she would include, but she chose this one. I'm not sure you'll be able to open her bio, so I'm pasting it into this email in addition to including the attachment. 
 

Basic background:

I’m a coach, breathworker, and teacher. I love to read, write, travel, hike, take photographs, paint, be with and observe animals. I’ve been married for 35 years, have two adult daughters (29 and 26), and a new granddaughter. 

 

Struggles/Wounds/Dilemmas:

• My parents divorced when I was 15 and that feels like a wound that has rippled throughout my life. I get along okay with my family of origin, but I don’t feel close to any of them.
• I have always felt like a jumble of opposites and that I have more interests and ideas than I can possibly pursue.
• In the first half of my life, I lived in a more masculine modeI didn’t think I wanted to get married or have children. The conflict between work and mothering is what forced me onto the spiritual path. There’s been a struggle to be awake to/trust my heart/trust the feminine throughout my life, and I feel as if I still have a lot of growth possibility in this area. 
• It was only a few years ago that I admitted to myself that I am a spiritual person. I get angry and afraid about the kind of world we live in, and it’s hard to reconcile with most spirituality. The faith tradition I was born into is Judaism, but I am not religious. I have worked to free myself from the insularity and victim mentality that I felt growing up. I have a harsh superego that wants events and people (including myself) to be “right.” I can feel guilty about living my life when so many people are suffering. 
• Voice and expression are gifts, and something that I’ve worked hard to allow to developGrowing up, I was branded the “smart one” and my younger sister was the “creative one.” I was very quiet/reserved as a child, and I’ve been told a couple of times that there has been some kind of karmic block on my throat chakra. I had social anxiety from a young age and was told that the thing that iswrong with me is that I am not relational enough. Again, this is something that I’ve worked hard on, and yet, I often have a lot more confidence in my task abilities than my relational abilities. 
• I am currently about halfway into my second Saturn return. What do you think is most important for me to know or do during this period? (p.s. during my first Saturn return I was pregnant with and gave birth to my first child.)

 

Art

Here are a few pieces of art that feel like expressions of the facets of my soul:

 

Communion

Watercolor on Arches coldpress, 2020

Ocean

Watercolor on Arches coldpress, 2022

Counterweight (Hope is the thing with feathers)

Watercolor on Ampersand gessoboard, 2017

 

This topic was modified 3 months ago 6 times by Ari Moshe

   
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Her date of birth is June 16, 1965, 10:01 am edt.

And here is her reply to what she is curious about re: lineage:

"I’ve been told that I’ve inherited certain powers from my paternal grandmother’s line. She is the grandparent I know least about, and I was told “It’s a secret.” Separately, I’ve also been told that the timing of my gift is important, that it couldn’t have been brought out into the open too early. This last part was written in the context of Chiron in Pisces. I am wondering if there’s any more I could know about that. Sure, if you work with my chart, feel free to answer whatever questions you can!"

And here is a video clip she sent about the kind of breathwork she does

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/dmz4hb25mvs09fpo5vvqh/clip-for-astrology.mp4?rlkey=on4r1stz9k6r1yuopv7m681g5&st=xw3g3i7m&dl=0

This post was modified 3 months ago by Melora Braver

   
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Is this our practice chart for today? I thought so but the date is throwing me off. 


   
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@lisamaryskeltongmail-com 

i think today is Alisa's chart -- a little lower down in the forum. 


   
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@mordermac-com Thanks, I see it now.

 


   
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Update: I gave pretty comprehensive feedback to Julie a week or so after the class. She said all of it resonated, she spoke about the importance of sexuality/sensuality in her life, also about her daily practices. We spoke again the next day (I had offered to talk again if she wanted), as she was feeling stirred up/teary, in touch with parts of childhood she hadn't thought about for a long time, and feeling the tensions of the mutable cross. We had some email exchanges, and I responded to a question she had about the blocks in Virgo in the 1st. There was quite a bit more, but as she will be with us for office hours on Jan 27 re: transits, we'll have an opportunity then to hear from her directly.


   
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Hi all,

Bumping this thread as Julie will be joining us live this coming Monday for office hours.


   
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