I practice evolutionary astrology, which understands the chart as a map of recurring patterns and unresolved tensions that unfold across a lifetime. Never fixed, always moving !
Evolutionary astrology is grounded in a few core ideas. It assumes that human beings incarnate across multiple lifetimes, and that the birth chart reflects the evolutionary condition of the soul at the moment of birth. From this perspective, the circumstances of a life—both material and psychological—are not random, but shaped by the soul’s intentions and by unresolved material carried forward from prior lives.
At the same time, evolutionary astrology does not treat the chart as a fixed script. We interact with our charts creatively and unpredictably. We meet their patterns, resist them, work with them, or ignore them. The question is not whether the chart influences us, but how consciously we engage with what it reflects.
Within this framework, astrologers often look closely at Pluto and the Moon’s nodal axis as key markers of evolutionary intent. These points help illuminate the deeper patterns a person is working through over time.
As an astrologer, I am particularly interested in cycles, repetition, and timing. Why do certain themes return again and again? Why do they intensify at particular moments in life? And how does a person begin to meet those experiences differently over time? Astrology, for me, is a way of orienting ourselves within those patterns.
My background is in philosophy and theology, disciplines that train you to think carefully inside uncertainty. I was taught to tolerate contradiction, to resist easy answers, and to take symbolic systems seriously without collapsing them into dogma. That training continues to shape how I read charts. I don’t flatten people into archetypes, and I don’t exaggerate what I see. My work is simply to track the patterns that are actually there.
I've studied with Britt Johnson, an evolutionary astrologer who works primarily with women and trained under Steve Forrest. Her approach to chart work—grounded, embodied, and attuned to the feminine—has deeply influenced how I practice. I've also spent years studying James Braha's work in Vedic astrology, particularly his writing on the distinctions between Western and Eastern techniques.
What I ultimately offer in a session is this: a structured way of seeing the patterns you are already living inside, and a chance to decide—more consciously—how you want to relate to them. Astrology, in this sense, is not about prediction. It is a conversation about the shape of a life as it unfolds, using a symbolic language that has been tracking human experience for thousands of years.
My role, ultimately, is simply to help illuminate those patterns so that you can engage them more consciously.
Testimonials
“Ciarra was a joy to be with during my reading. She was enthusiastic and warm during our entire time together. It made the experience truly enjoyable.”
—JL
“Ciarra combines her expertise, passion, and natural ability to connect to the divine to foster readings that are personal and expansive. My reading was made more whole by her determination to include me and my interpretations with her own skill and analysis. Her reading of my birth chart was equal parts spiritual and practical.
—HG