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cilitates New and Full Moon Circles, and works with clients one-to-one through the mediums of astrology, healing, and tarot. Katrina’s work is to help people tune into themselves and their own cyclical nature, what Katrina refers to as co-creative responsibility. “This is premised on the idea that the more we understand ourselves, the more we can make fulfilling choices,” she explains in an email following our meeting. “Astrology helps one develop their psychospiritual awareness and gives perspective as to what we are moving through and how we can make the most of the energy available to us as reflected through cosmic cycles.” Astrologers and tarot card readers can suffer from a certain amount of prejudice. You would be forgiven for thinking astrology was a set of generic sentences assigned to a birth date at the back of tabloid newspapers or women’s magazines. The image of a mystic rubbing a crystal ball, reading tarot cards and wearing outlandish costumes is popularised and perpetuated by figures like the astrologer Mystic Meg. A lot of what’s out there lends a superficial layer to something that is quite complex. “Horoscope astrology is made for consumption in a way, it’s created for entertainment,” says Katrina. “It doesn’t even scratch the surface on what astrology is.” For Katrina, astrology is a means to achieve deep personal and spiritual growth. “Astrology is a tool for self development, spiritual development,” she explains. “It’s not necessarily that the planets make anything happen to us, but it’s that we’re interconnected. It’s a mirror.” Katrina had started having supernatural It’s not necessarily that the planets make anything happen to us, but it’s that we’re interconnected. It’s a mirror. experiences when she was young. While she was in India as part of her degree in visual anthropology these experiences started happening more intensely. While working with an Indian astrologer, she began to speak about these experiences openly for the first time. The astrologers and healers reassured her that what she was experiencing was a source of power and a sign that Katrina had a calling: “I realised if I went down that route I was going to be able to understand what my experiences were, and maybe help other people with it as well.” Old habits die hard and much of our perception of, and approach to, spirituality has been learned over decades. Katrina sees how some of our fear-laden sensibilities when it came to organised religion are playing out in new spirituality. “With the Mercury retrogrades, there’s a lot of talk about how bad things will happen to you. Underlying that is this fear-based ideology that comes from people’s religious upbringing. It’s as if something spiritual has power over your circumstances and is making bad things happen to you, whether that be a religious deity or whether that be a planetary deity.” Katrina’s work is attempting to undo those learned mindsets and transform how we consider our relationship to the planets in a bid to live fuller lives. For Katrina and her clients, astrology is not a set of generic statements or a crystal ball, it’s a way of life. katrinabrady.com 26