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Somatic Astrology
Michele Sammut
8/27/20262 min read
Why Astrology Needs to be less about Information and more about Healing and Embodiment
Astrology has been a love of mine for over 30 years; however, I stopped practising it for a time because I no longer felt it was helping myself or others because it became just “information” that I was sharing without an understanding of what to do with it.
As a very mental and intellectual person myself, I began to feel that Astrology wasn’t helping me make sense of my trauma or heal. I realised it was only activating me mentally, taking me further out of my body. I was longing for something deeper, more expansive but also healing.
At that stage, I had not discovered Evolutionary Astrology by Jeffrey Wolf Green and Somatic Healing was not yet common place. So, I gave away all my astrology books, with the belief that I would never practice it again. However, my interest in astrology never completely vanished. I couldn’t deny how accurate it was and so as I worked with clients for spiritual mentoring and energy healing, I would still use their birth charts here and there.
Eventually Evolutionary Astrology (EA) crossed my path. My interest peaked to the point of obsession. The more I read and learned, the more my Soul wanted more so I decided to upgrade my Astrology skills and study EA.
And even though the level of wisdom coming from this method was so much deeper and soul aligned, I knew from my own experience that to deeply heal, the wisdom must be digested slowly but also grounded in a way that fosters real shifts. I knew from my own trauma healing that we need to work in multiple ways to heal, mentally, somatically and energetically. In this way, we start to unlock what’s makes feel stuck so that we can motivate change. We can unblock our nervous system and release blocked emotional energy.
What I have found over the years of working with Astrology is that all of those tense, challenging aspects and transits are experienced somatically and energetically, even if some aren’t feeling it or aware of it.
The reason for this has been understood by numerous renowned philosophers and mystics. They understood the cosmology that we are intrinsically embedded with. They understood and taught us that we are embedded energetically with the planetary spheres. Despite the physical bodies being “out there” in the cosmos, their energetic impact is right here overlaying our plane of existence.
We are actually nested within energetic spheres overlayed with more energetic spheres or planes similar to Russian Dolls. For me it makes complete sense then that we feel those archetypal imbalances both somatically and energetically. The energy of the planetary and the zodiac archetypes are right here interfacing with us in every way.
Therefore, when I work with clients, especially if we are working together for more than one session, I help them alchemise their archetypal blocks. I also support coming back to a felt-sense in the body while also discharging the tension from the energy system.
Further Reading:
- Planetary Sojourns, Edgar Cayce
- The Spiritual Hierarchies, Rudolf Steiner