Astrological Fields I Do Not Fuck With

Respecting the power of what we don’t fully understand 📖

One of the biggest misconceptions about astrologers is that because we study astrology, we automatically believe we should be practicing every branch of it.

Absolutely the hell not.

Astrology is enormous and is not one singular skillset. Saying “I do astrology” can mean anything from psychological natal chart work, to predictive timing, to mundane astrology, to electional, horary, astrocartography, medical astrology, financial astrology, fertility astrology, mediumship-adjacent spiritual work and about fifty other niche rabbit holes capable of making your brain leak out of your ears. Some of those branches carry significantly heavier ethical responsibility than others.

There are certain areas of astrology where if you are careless, undereducated, overly confident, projecting, fearmongering, or just flat out wrong, you can genuinely alter someone’s mental health, relationships, major life decisions, finances or even medical choices.

Which is why there are a few astrological fields I personally do not touch professionally. Not because I think they’re fake or because I think they can’t be done well, but because I respect them enough to understand the weight of getting them wrong.

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1 - Medical Astrology 🩺

This is probably the biggest one for me, but at the same time medical astrology fascinates me. I absolutely believe there are astrologers out there who are genuinely skilled at it. Early in my astrology journey, I once shared my late dad's chart in an astrology group. Someone looked at it for maybe a minute and asked me:

“Did your father happen to pass from bacterial meningitis?”

… my entire body went cold. Because yes. He did.

Not only did he pass from it, it’s also a relatively uncommon and oddly specific thing to die from. This wasn’t someone vaguely saying:

“Hmm, I see possible health issues. Maybe heart issues.”

No. They somehow specifically landed on bacterial meningitis. I still to this day do not fully understand how they arrived at that interpretation. Unfortunately the original thread is long gone and my memory is fuzzy, but I remember it involved his Leo stellium in the 10th interacting somehow with Neptune in Scorpio in the 1st house.

That is literally all I remember, so please do not ask me to recreate the math because I absolutely cannot 😭 if any medical astrologers happen to stumble upon this and can unpack it further for me, I would deeply appreciate it.

I remember sitting there staring at my screen with tears in my eyes because it was one of the first moments where I realized “Oh… some people take this branch of astrology VERY seriously.”

That moment is also part of why I personally do not practice it. Because there is a gigantic difference between me saying :

“Jupiter transiting your 5th house may correlate with fertility, creativity, children, or expansion in those areas”

and:

“I think your chart shows a serious medical condition.”

One feels like symbolic guidance while the other can potentially alter someone’s real-world medical decisions, anxiety levels or relationship with their body. That is an enormous ethical responsibility, especially because astrology should never replace actual medical care, testing, diagnostics, or evidence-based treatment.

Unfortunately the more spiritual internet spaces grow, the more I see people treating astrology as a replacement for licensed professionals instead of a supplemental symbolic framework. That terrifies me, because if there is ANY branch of astrology where you should not fuck around without extensive study, mentorship, education, research, and genuine humility it is medical astrology.

You are potentially speaking into someone’s:

• health

• fertility

• chronic illness

• disability

• pregnancy

• survival

• mortality

That’s not something I’m willing to casually freestyle because I took one astrology course and watched three TikToks about Virgo ruling digestion.

I think medical astrology can absolutely be profound in the right hands … and I also think the wrong hands can do real harm with it.

2 - Horary Astrology 📱

Then there’s horary astrology. Or as I personally call it:

“The branch of astrology that makes me feel like I suddenly forgot how to read.”

I swear I have tried to understand horary multiple times. I’ve bought books, I’ve watched videos, I’ve sat there listening to people passionately explain:

“Okay, so first you look at the ruler of the ascendant, then the ruler of the quesited, then the moon’s application, then the lot of fortune, then the lot of spirit, then the ruler of the lot…”

& somewhere around:

“the ruler of the ruler of the ruler of the lot”

my brain fully leaves my body. Because WHAT do you mean:

• Lot of Fortune

• Lot of Spirit

• Lot of Eros

• Lot of Necessity

• Lot of Basis

At some point I start feeling like I accidentally joined an astrology themed Dungeons & Dragons campaign. Yet somehow these horary people are terrifyingly accurate. I cannot explain it, I do not understand it, but I respect it deeply.

There was one horary moment that still haunts me. One time my husband somehow lost his phone inside our apartment. It had died so we couldn’t call it and we tore the place apart. After like three hours of escalating frustration I finally went into a horary group basically like:

“Where in the fuck is my husband’s phone!!!?”

Immediately people started responding with things like:

“What’s the ruler of the lost object?” “Check the ruler of the 2nd.” “What’s happening with the lot of fortune?” “Is the moon applying?” “Look where sleeping or pleasurable activities happen.”

… I was sitting there like “ … Girl I just want the phone 😭” But one person specifically said:

“Look near the bed. Somewhere hidden, wedged, or difficult to access.”

& somehow…

THERE IT WAS. Wedged underneath the bed frame in a place so annoying and inaccessible that we genuinely never would’ve thought to look there.

To this day I have absolutely no idea how that horary wizard figured it out. Or how the phone itself even got there honestly.

But whoever you are dear horary reader, I still think about you sometimes. You mysterious astrology cryptid.

3 - Astrocartography 🗺

Now this was a humbling experience. Back in 2021, my now-husband and I were deciding between a few different places to live. Both of us felt pretty called to Colorado. At the time, I was still a novice astrologer, and while everything looked good on paper, I wanted an outside opinion. So I purchased a reading.

The astrologer basically screamed “this is your astrocartography destiny, you must go there.” She even analyzed all three places we were considering and told us Colorado was absolutely it. While it wasn’t the sole decision-maker, it definitely factored in.

On paper, I can see why it seemed promising. For me, it was near my Jupiter/ASC and Venus/IC line. Both Jupiter and Venus in my natal chart are strongly placed by sign. My husband’s chart didn’t look bad either. So we thought let’s fkn go.

Unfortunately, what unfolded was anything but magical. We moved right before his Saturn return, then mine hit, and he went into an 8th house profection year, so a lot of chaos that could have happened anywhere. But still, it felt extreme. Some honorable mentions:

• He had a very close near-death experience (not exaggerating when I say if I hadn’t been home, he would not be alive).

• We went through painful family and friend fallouts (which I can see were ultimately for the best, but at the time it was brutal).

• Extreme financial highs and lows, literally overnight.

& just overall, bad energy. Even the day to day vibe was rough. My husband is the type who’ll strike up a casual, friendly chat with anyone. Once at Red Rocks in the cab to the top, he told a guy “oh, I’m not from Colorado, I'm from (home state)” when asked where we were from. The man tried to physically start an altercation inside the cab. The driver had to pull over and almost call the cops over. There were other similar interactions where we’d put out good energy, and got the absolute opposite.

We moved out of Colorado last year and I’m trying to understand where we got it wrong astrologically. So I took it to an astrocartography group and the first thing someone asked me was :

“Did the astrologer mention or check for parans? Based on what you went described, my gut tells me that you, your husband or even both of you were on a Pluto paran.”

… what the fuck is a paran? I have never heard that term. I was also then reminded that the original reader forgot to even touch on the relocated charts which had these gems:

• “Your relocated chart puts both Venus and Saturn in the 4th house and you have a night chart. Saturn in the 4th house in a night chart can make it very hard to settle down, indicate tensions / conflict in the home and in your family. Venus being there as well probably helped a lot but even still, this can indicate really good times and really bad times simultaneously.”

• “Also in regards to finances, your Colorado chart puts Saturn as the 2nd house ruler and your husband has Mars as the 2nd house ruler - interestingly enough, the malefic contrary to sect became the rulers for both you and your husband’s 2nd house which can indicate financial hardship and struggle.”

There was more. Much much more that we missed. Hence why I will never fuck with this branch of astrology.

(To end this on a more lighthearted note and to debunk a myth / stereotype I see a lot, the whole “ the Jupiter ASC line makes you fat” idea was definitely not my experience 😅 I was able to get into the best shape of my life there, postpartum nonetheless)

Bonus Section: Financial Astrology 💸

Finally as a bonus section … financial astrology.

I am fully willing to say things like:

“Jupiter transiting your 2nd house may correlate with expansion, opportunity, or financial growth.”

Because frankly in my own life, that transit was financially abundant. I’ve also absolutely noticed correlations between certain transits and:

• spending habits

• risk tolerance

• confidence

• career growth

• business expansion

• market optimism

• collective fear

I’m not saying astrology and financial psychology have zero overlap. What I am saying is that I am not about to start making aggressive global market predictions based solely on planetary positions.

Especially not with absolute certainty.

Because if you were around for the infamous TikTok astrology/crypto era, you may remember when astrologer Marin Altman very confidently proclaimed that Bitcoin was basically destined to hit 100K during some Jupiter in Pisces transit. I honestly don’t even remember whether it was Jupiter entering Pisces or leaving Pisces because the entire internet was collectively losing its mind at the time.

But I do remember the confidence.

Not:

“This could potentially correlate with bullish sentiment.”

Not:

“This is speculative, do your own research.”

No.

The energy was very much:

“Bitcoin WILL moon.”

Then the literal timeframe .. down to the DAY that she predicted … Bitcoin absolutely fucking tanked 💀and it did not actually hit 100K until years later.

Which honestly is the exact reason I personally do not fuck with financial astrology professionally. Once you start speaking with certainty about people’s money, investments, savings, retirement, debt, portfolios or financial future you are no longer just doing fun symbolic interpretation. People make real decisions based on that. If you have a large platform especially, there will be people who take your words far more seriously than you intended. That’s a huge responsibility. I have no issue with astrologers discussing:

• cycles

• collective mood

• timing symbolism

• broader economic themes

• psychological trends

• historical patterns

That’s interesting. But the second we enter:

“SELL EVERYTHING.” “BUY THIS COIN.” “THIS STOCK WILL MOON.” “YOU’RE GUARANTEED TO GET RICH DURING THIS TRANSIT.”

… I’m out.

So yeah. Jupiter through the 2nd may correlate with prosperity? Sure. Bet your life savings because Venus trined Uranus?

Absolutely the fuck not 😭

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So yeah.

Medical astrology makes me anxious.

Horary astrology makes me feel illiterate.

Astrocartography humbled me spiritually and geographically.

Financial astrology makes me want to hide people’s Coinbase apps.

Maybe one day I’ll revisit some of these branches with more study and confidence, but for now I’ll stay over here reading natal charts, talking about synastry, and writing spiritually unhinged essays about eye contact during sex llike the stars intended ❤️‍🔥😭