Hi I am Sophia, the astrologer behind Solar Sylph. I’ve always been intensely fascinated by mythology and by the vivid dreams I’ve had. I discovered the power of astrology 5 years ago when I decided to start keeping a dream journal. As I was getting into depth psychology and Jung’s idea of archetypes I found how seamlessly they blended into astrology. I obsessed with finding patterns and so then became obsessed with finding the patterns that correlated to our personal astrological data. I’ve studied a bit of traditional and esoteric astrology, but ultimately as modern psychological astrology won the day for me due to the sheer volume of insight it can provide into our individual psyches. The deeper you go into your own inner world the more you realize that there is nothing that is really outside of us. The planets are physical structures, but they are also power creative forces within us—the macrocosm is reflected in the microcosm.

I like to think of astrology as fundamentally very practical and that is the way I use it personally and professionally. As a master’s student pursuing a degree in counseling I think astrology is an untapped resource for deep insight and healing. I’ve found that the parts of my chart that I resisted the most and felt like were the least ‘me’ were the parts where I needed the most love, the most healing.