Meet Nancy
From an early age I was exposed to the complexities of human life, and the power of the human spirit to overcome challenge, discover meaning, and be guided by non-linear perception. My childhood spent in a vibrant urban community allowed me to experience a diversity of cultural practices and witness a wide spectrum of human experience. Astrology as a healing art was introduced to me when I was 20, while being mentored by a group of working class psychics in Boston. I learned how to calculate charts (pre-computer software), and spent many years observing the relationship between a person’s astrology chart and their life. Understanding how astrology works in real peoples' lives built the foundation of my astrological practice. Isabel Hickey and Tracy Marks were my most influential early teachers in the 80s, and I later apprenticed with the kind and masterful Steven Forrest, who helped me make my knowledge and gifts useful for clients. Richard Tarnas’ brilliant work in Astrology has guided my intellectual framework, and is a continual source of inspiration for my own teaching. Trainings with Thomas Hubl in healing individual and collective trauma, and Terry Real in evolutionary relationships, have given me invaluable practitioner tools and a deeper inner resource to draw from.
My personal style is insightful, nurturing, intuitive, and full of faith in humanity.
ABOUT THE PRACTICE
It is a natural human experience to misunderstand what life asks of us, to doubt our own capacity to respond, and to spend our energy on survival and reactivity, which causes tension with our soul's desire to create and generate. My job is to support individuals and groups to respond to what life brings them, according to their full and emerging self, and to heal the past while innovating towards the future that calls them. That is my life work, I am passionate about it, and it drives my development as a practitioner; Saturn Speaks is a deep and broad resource for clients and students that has been building since 1980. As a practitioner, I use my own form of Evolutionary Astrology in an intuitive and compassionate collaboration with clients and students. Benefits for clients are increased knowledge of self and others, a catalyst for personal growth, and more effective decision making. Benefits for students and mentees are deep astrological resources that are useful and effective, support to deveop in response to their unique calling, and the magical warmth of the Saturn Speaks community.
I have continually refined my practice as a counseling astrologer and educator, making my work as useful as possible for people who are highly motivated to gain freedom from past conditioning, and transform into their fullest self.