Ever since I was a little, I was fascinated and obsessed with spirals. My first tattoo was of a little spiral on the side of my wrist. I love energy and movement. Seasons and cycles. Growth and evolution. Nature has always been my biggest teacher. As nature ebbs and flows, sprouts and unfurls, expands and contracts, I also see this mirrored in my own life and soul journey. They say growth and evolution occur in a cyclical and spiralled nature. What I love most about astrology is that it demonstrates this very notion. The planetary cycles, the moons phases, the menstrual cycle, the ebbing and flowing of the tide, the breath, they all beat from the same heart. There is a natural rhythm, a cosmic pulse, a universal breath infused into all of life. This is the thread I choose to follow and trust.
Hello and welcome. I am an artist and counselling evolutionary astrologer. I am insatiably curious about life - I am a gemini sun, aquarius moon and aquarius rising. As a triple air, I thrive best in the realm of information, communication, language, art, interpretation and knowledge sharing.
I have always had a strong orientation toward freedom and forging my own path. At 17 I left the shores of Aotearoa, New Zealand and headed north on an ocean sailing voyage with my aunt and uncle. I couldn’t know what lay over the horizon - yet this catapulted me into a sailing and travelling adventure of a lifetime I was lucky enough to experience at such a young age. In the space of seven years, I sailed half way around the world with various sailing boats and crew - some work, mostly play - and I experienced many different landscapes, oceans, cultures, customs, perspectives and ways of being.
This experience shaped me immensely. I learnt a lot in a short space of time. I learnt about the world, not from some lecture hall, but from really being out there and in it. I learnt a lot about myself, how to grow past my edges and how best to weather the storms when they do inevitably come. I learnt how to listen to the voice of my intuition and the vital role it plays in successfully navigating a rich and mystical life.
During these adventurous and explorative years, I serendipitously found myself in the pioneering days of sailing Youtube channels. Creative storytelling, film-making and self expression felt exciting and natural to me, as did painting, photography and writing which followed closely after. I eventually started selling my art, monetising my videos and supporting myself through the global online community who were connected to me and supporting my work.
Early 2018, at the end of this 7 year chapter, I moved to Melbourne, where I discovered and fell in love with the language of evolutionary astrology. It seemed to articulate the language I felt and knew in my bones.
You know, all those years sailing, I spent countless evenings underway gazing up at the stars. Laying on the aft deck in the middle of the wide open ocean. Naturally, I had a lot of time to think about life, the universe and my place in it. I didn’t know about astrology then but it somehow makes sense to me now that the sky has become (and I guess always was) one of my biggest teachers and has (perhaps subconsciously) laid the foundation for my work with astrology now.
I am inspired and enlivened by this language, this art. My astrological work involves guiding others into deeper levels of self awareness and to reconnect and attune to the wisdom found in the natural world (solar system included!).
I have always enjoyed the unconventional and the road less travelled, and although astrology has been used by many ancient cultures for thousands of years, I believe its revival in modern culture is essential in our reclamation towards living a more connected, sacred and reverent life.
Thank you for being here.
Josje x
qualifications & training:
Apprenticeship Practitioner of Evolutionary Astrology - Forrest Centre for Evolutionary Astrology
The Complete Course for Birth Chart Interpretation - New Paradigm Astrology School
Oppression, Privilege and Spiritual Practice - short course by Embodied Philosophy Org.
Introduction to MindBody Therapy - short course by Embodied Philosophy Org.
Sailed 40,000 blue water nautical miles