Fire Stories:
2026 Astrology Workshop Series

What’s stirring

2026 brings Saturn and Neptune to 0° Aries—the zodiac's big bang of beginnings.

These two planets meeting at this degree ask us to birth something new from what's dissolving.

The battering ram still pounds the gates while seedlings push through the cracks.

This is cosmic permission to be builders and mourners simultaneously.

Imagine Saturn as the hearth that gives Neptune's wild dreams a place to burn without consuming everything. Structure serving vision. Boundaries creating rather than limiting.

While this conjunction anchors our exploration, we'll also work with the full astrological weather of 2026—Uranus entering Gemini, Pluto settling into Aquarius—a rare convergence demanding we forge new myths from ancient fires.

Why now

2025 stripped us bare.

2026 arrives with the battering ram still at the gates AND new life pushing through the cracks.

Neptune, Uranus, and Saturn shift signs simultaneously—volatile energies that demand we hold impossible tensions: mourning what's dying while midwifing what's emerging.

This is the year that asks: Can you tend the seedling while the castle burns?

We need both: to witness what's falling AND feed what's kindling.

Frankenstein's tragedy wasn't creating life but abandoning it.

We're living through civilization's birth canal, and what emerges needs conscious relationship, not just good intentions.

Yes, grieve what needs grieving. But also turn toward what's reaching toward you.

This series offers tools for the builders—those ready to create even as the old world resists its end.

We'll work with myth and story as practical guides for this paradox, learning to recognize what wants tending amidst the ruins.

Together, we'll discover how tales old and new offer actual instructions for living in the both/and.

Astrology tells us what energies are moving.

Stories show us how to RELATE to them.

Four progressive Saturday workshops, each session deepening the journey.

  • First spark: Innocence as power — Exploring stories where not-knowing becomes the key to transformation. The courage required to build when you can't see the blueprint yet, and to navigate 2026’s "everything is possible but nothing is certain" energy.

  • Standing guard: Boundaries as creation — Tales of protecting what's still forming from forces that would corrupt or claim it. Learning which revelations serve and which betray. The delicate art of building in hostile conditions.

  • Burning it down: Sacred demolition — When destruction clears space for what's meant to be. Stories of productive endings and fertile ash. Channeling the collapse into conscious composting for new growth.

  • Tempering steel: Pressure into power — Narratives of transformation through trial, where intensity forges unbreakable bonds and tools. Building new agreements from old world rubble. The alchemy of creating strength from what tried to break you.

Each session weaves mythic patterns with 2026’s specific energies, teaching us to work with cosmic forces as collaborators in our becoming.

You'll leave with practices, not prescriptions—questions that open rather than premature answers that close.

Together we'll build new myths from old wisdom—finding the plot twists that serve our emergence.

What we’ll explore together

Who this is for

You sense 2026 as the year that demands both mourning AND midwifing.

You're exhausted by those selling only fear or only light when you know BOTH are true.

You're ready to relate with these cosmic forces like a curious lover, not just brace for impact.

You know stories aren't just lessons—they're living invitations from beings who want to help us imagine forward.

You seek myth and stories as doorways, not escape routes.

You're here because you believe the imaginal realm holds real guidance for liminal times, and you're ready to reach toward what's reaching toward you.

The hearth awaits

  • When: January 10, 17, 24 & 31 (Saturdays)

  • Time: 10 am-11:30 am Pacific |
    1 pm Eastern |6 pm UK |
    7 pm Central Europe

  • Format: 90-minute live sessions via Zoom

  • $195 for the complete Fire Stories Series.

All sales final - we’re committed to those who commit.

What You'll Receive:

  • Four live workshops with intimate group exploration.

  • Recordings available after series completion
    (for when life happens.)

  • Ember Journals: downloadable guides with story prompts for each session.

  • Questions to kindle between gatherings, keeping your fire tended.

Intimate group limited to preserve depth of exploration—because real transformation needs witnessing, not just watching.

Join me at the fire.

Claim Your Seat at the Hearth

Your guide

2025 took me to the cave.

In that fertile darkness, while everything I knew dissolved, Romantasy became my unexpected teacher—showing me how stories of women loving monsters are actually instruction manuals for transformation.

The grief taught me this: what we call guilty pleasures often carry the medicine we need most.

I emerged with Neptune-Gemini gifts sharpened—seeing bridges where others see chasms, finding sacred wisdom in trashy novels, knowing that birth charts and monster romance teach the same lesson: how to build while burning.

Now I guide others in decoding why certain stories magnetize during specific transits, revealing your entertainment as roadmap.

My promise: we won't just survive these threshold times.

We'll romance them like the heroines who choose the dragon—because they know destruction and creation share the same bed.

Together we'll tend both the dying and the emerging, finding light in shadow and shadow in light.

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    You can learn a great deal but also feel like you’ve just spent an hour with a good friend. And her personal warmth and engaging sense of humor are gifts she freely shares at live events.

    She makes me feel good about myself and the world,
and I look forward to experiencing whatever she does next!

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  • Inspiration & tools to create fulfillment

    I would recommend Vanessa to anyone who enjoys visiting things on a deeper and philosophical level, who also enjoys symbolism, mythology and astrology, and who enjoys working on tangents as much as they do the thing they (think) they’re working with her for.

    I am emerging from our time together with a new inner peace and quiet knowing that I have the inspiration and tools I need to create fulfillment for myself and (hopefully) others.

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  • A real departure from others in her field

    Vanessa describes the wisdom of a chart with rich, descriptive language, brimming with mythological imagery that makes her work both beautiful and relatable.

    She comes to the table with an approach that is both intellectual and poetically lyrical and which is grounded in the archetypes found in mythology, psychology, philosophy, and literature.

    Her methods have greatly demystified the journey and give me fuel for the fire of my creative dreams.

    Darcy Molloy - Healer, Channel, Personal Alchemy

  • Renewed sense of joy and purpose

    I really enjoyed the way Vanessa supported my use of creative practices to take a deeper dive into my beliefs about myself and my relationship with the world.

    Vanessa is incredibly generous with her knowledge and experience. Every interaction was meaningful and deeply personal. She has a gift for tracking the details, large and small, of a person’s life and masterfully connecting the dots.

    If you are open to and curious about the intersection of astrology, mythology, art, play, and humor in your life, this powerful coaching approach is for you.

    Marta L. - Massage Therapist

  • Tie it all together to one's personal story

    Vanessa’s archetypal lens offers a tending of the soul, a deep unlocking of one’s potential. She is a skilled astrologer who guides you with joyful curiosity and finds ways to capture the soul essence of everything.

    Vanessa’s background as a compassionate educator brings in a fun approach that is very satisfying for the desire to understand the mechanics of it all.

    Her coaching abilities provide assistance during times of transition.

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READY TO TEND YOUR OWN FIRE?

Questions about the series? Sensing this might be your story?

Reach out. We're here for those ready to turn from the mirror and face what's calling. We will reply as soon as possible.