Author: Alison Price   –   Published: December 2024

Self-Care for Astrologers

Personal Well-being

Why self-care is Crucial

This week I want to talk about some self-care topics that relate directly to astrologers. As a practicing astrologer, you are like a conduit, navigating the emotional lives of your clients while at the same time processing their planetary energies. Your work in astrology requires you to make a deep empathetic attunement. You’re not just interpreting charts, but you are also holding space for their personal transformations, soul revelations and possible existential inquiries. 

Unlike many other professions, astrology needs you to be simultaneously a counselor, spiritual guide, psychological interpreter and energetic translator. You end up absorbing the hopes, fears, vulnerabilities and transformative potentials of your clients. This intense emotional and spiritual vibe can quickly drain your own energy reserves, possibly leading to compassion fatigue, emotional exhaustion and potential burnout if not carefully managed. Self-care isn’t just a wellness trend for astrologers, it’s an essential professional practice that protects your intuitive gifts and maintains your spiritual clarity. Self-care for astrologers makes sure that you can continue to offer meaningful, kindhearted guidance without becoming energetically overwhelmed or losing the connection to your own inner alignment.

Emotional Resilience Techniques

Boundary Setting

When you work with clients, it is important to recognize the delicate line between compassionate support and emotional absorption and this requires profound self-awareness and discernment.

Compassionate Support

As an astrologer, compassionate support means creating and holding a space where your clients can feel heard and validated and at the same time keeping an energetic boundary that prevents you from unconsciously taking on their emotional baggage.

Emotional Absorption

Emotional absorption occurs when you begin to internalize your client’s pain, hate, fears, or challenges as if they were your own. You can easily begin to experience their struggles with such intensity that you lose your objective perspective and you may become emotionally entangled. This differs from true compassion, which allows you to witness suffering with an open heart while maintaining a clear, centered energetic state.

Signs of Emotional Absorption

Signs of emotional absorption in yourself include:

• Feeling physically depleted or having a headache after a session.
• Facing persistent mood shifts days later the session which mirror your client’s emotional state.
• Carrying your customer’s unresolved emotions long after the consultation ends.
• Finding yourself ruminating on their personal challenges.

Signs of Compassionate Support

On the other hand, compassionate support involves:

• Being fully present and actively listening.
• Offering insightful guidance.
• Holding space for transformation.
• Consciously releasing the energetic connection at the end.
• Trusting that your client has the inner resources to navigate their own journey.

Energy Sovereignty

The key here is to cultivate a practice of energetic sovereignty. This is where you can be deeply empathetic without becoming emotionally enmeshed. You recognize that true healing comes from empowering your clients to access their own inner wisdom rather than you absorbing their emotional baggage. They must develop their own coping mechanism and you can’t take their pain away to add to your own load.

Emotional Processing Strategies

I have a few ideas about what you can do to protect yourself from taking on the energy of your clients. Note: Honestly it works for all toxic people and not just astrology clients, I’m thinking mother-in-law here and perhaps you know they type of person I mean.

Reset Rituals: at Home

If you meet your clients face-to-face at your home, you will need to cleanse the space after they have gone. You can create a post-consultation emotional reset ritual which could involve some simple steps like:

• Opening the window and letting in fresh air.
• Light a candle to cleanse the area.
• Use sage, palo santo, or other clearing herbs if you’re comfortable with them.
• Ring a small bell or chime to reset the room’s energy.
• You may wish to shake your hands and arms to shift any vibes from the consultation with your client off through your fingertips.
• Practice a brief grounding meditation.
• Take a few deep, intentional breaths to center yourself.
• Wash your hands with the intention of cleansing any energetic attachments.

Reset Rituals: Online

With online Zoom clients it’s a bit different and after each session:

• Always reboot your computer because this action clears the cache and closes all the open screens.
• Get up from your desk. I usually walk through to the other room and probably make myself a fresh cup of tea.

Client Notes

In both cases (in person and online), I will take the hardcopy files that I have for my client with their charts, graphic ephemeris, forecast notes and whatever I wrote and place them in a manila folder and put them away. I never leave past client’s charts out on my desk, because these pages also carry the client’s own energy.

Visualization

You can use some visualization techniques to cleanse absorbed emotional energy from your body. One idea is to imagine standing in a shower or, even better, a waterfall where the water washes away emotional residue off you down the drain or down the river. Another idea is to picture a shielding white light within in your own aura which surrounds you for psychic protection.

Emotional Temperature Check

A good way to manage emotional overload from your clients is to develop a personal emotional check-in practice. This can also be called a daily emotional temperature check with yourself where you can try to identify and acknowledge your current emotional state without judgment.

Monthly Self-astrological Review

As astrologers, when we talk about “monthly” things the Moon immediately comes to mind. The transiting Moon, in its orbit, will conjoin and oppose every item in your chart each month.

Growth: Jupiter

You can use some reflection techniques to understanding personal growth through your chart by leaning into the planet Jupiter in your birth chart and:

• See when the transiting Moon conjoined and opposed it during the month.
• Note any hard transits to Jupiter from the other planets.

Transformation: Pluto

You can also employ some techniques for transformational astrological insights into your own personal development.

• Consider your natal Pluto and the transits from the Moon during the month.
• Focus on the lunar conjunction and the opposition first.
• Finally, note any hard transits (oppositions and squares) from the other planets.

You can consider any other planets as well. This is just a guide.

Journaling for Self-care

Morning Pages: Daily Journaling

I am a huge fan of self-reflection through journaling. I enjoy morning pages which is the writing of a consciousness stream of all the thoughts buzzing in your mind that you clear out of your head first thing. You can see more on my ideas about how to do morning pages from my art blog Let’s consider how to lean into your chart for some astrologically informed journaling.

Reflection Journals: Monthly Journaling

The lunations are the New and Full Moons. Typically, there is one New and one Full Moon each month but not always. New and Full Moon suggest times for either starting something new (New Moon) and seeing what is working or not (Full Moon). Writing a reflection journal in line with the lunations is a good way to start journaling because you only have two entries to make each month. If you feel that constant journaling is too much, then start with lunations and see how you go.

Retrogrades: Quarterly Journaling

This can either be done in your main astrological journal, your journal for the year or in a small retrogrades workbook to track the main retrograde cycles and how they will impact you each year. I always add the retrogrades, along with other stuff, into my yearly astrological journal. So already I’m setting up the 2025 journal that I will use for the whole year.

Transits: Yearly Journaling

You can also monitor the transits, by planet or month, to see how they impact you. This ongoing transit information gets better the longer you do it as you become aware of which planets create more energy surges for you.

Your Choice

All of these journaling practices can be used for your own self-awareness. You do not have to do everything. Pick what will work for you.

Writing Techniques

Mercury Complex

Additionally, you could stretch yourself by leaning into your Mercury complex for some reflective writing techniques. Your Mercury complex is everything to do with Mercury within your chart, such as the sign, essential dignity, direction, house, chart position and aspects.

Archetypal Storytelling

If the myths of the planets interest you, then the archetypes can be another way of exploring each planet within your chart. Dig into the folklore of the planets as a starting point.

Creating Personal Ritual and Reset Routines

Daily Reset Practices

Here are some more ideas on resetting your life and astrology practice so you can better serve your clients without them swallowing you whole.

• Morning intention setting aligned with current astrological energy.
• Evening gratitude and release rituals.
• Seasonal personal ceremony design.

Energetic Maintenance Routines

Stepping slightly out of the pure astrological realm, there are other New Age practices that can be brought in to support your astrology practice. Some of the examples I have for you are as follows:

• Personal altar creation and maintenance.
• Crystal and sound healing integration.
• Nature journaling and connection rituals.

Perhaps not everything will appeal to you, but I do find that many astrologers are familiar with related New Age practices such as crystal healing, tuning into nature (forest bathing) and grounding. It’s up to you.

Birth Chart Self-care

Personalized Self-Care

When you have time, you can study your own birth chart to find some specific personalized, self-care needs, or practices that you may be able to bring into you life. Some ideas to start you off are:

• Understand your chart’s self-care needs (Moon and 6th house).
• Tailored wellness practices to your unique astrological makeup (1st house complex).
• A seasonal self-care regime that aligns with the transits.

Overarching

Integrating holistic self-care into your astrological practice is a great way to support youself as a professional astrologer. A commitment to your own personal wellness as a professional astrologer can be helpful. Consider your own self-care practices as a way to support your own ongoing learning and growth.

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Author Bio

Alison Price: Professional Astrologer

Alison helps you uncover your individual creativity and lead a fulfilling life using your own astrology. She shares her wisdom from the heart with a touch of humor. She offers Consultations for everyone and Coaching for Aspiring Astrologers.

If you’d like to get in touch with Alison, you can reach out to her via email at starzology@gmail.com.

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