Because ancient tools still hold weight when used with presence.
People often ask me: “Do you use astrology, tarot, or crystals more?” And truthfully, I don’t separate them. They’re different tools but they speak to the same thing: what’s alive in me right now, and how can I meet it with integrity?
Hellenistic astrology offers the structure. Tarot offers reflection. Crystals offer embodiment.
Here’s how I combine all three in my personal practice..
Hellenistic Astrology: The Cycle and Context
Hellenistic astrology is where I start. It gives me the timing and framework to know where I am in the arc of my life. These are the core tools I work with consistently:
🟠Annual Profections: What house/theme is activated this year, and which planet is ruling it? That planet becomes my Time Lord. I track how its transits and condition affect me.
🟠Zodiacal Releasing: This is how I track life chapters and momentum shifts. I look at Lot of Spirit for career, Lot of Eros for love, and read timing windows like peak periods, loosening of the bonds, etc.
🟠Planetary Condition: Instead of saying “Venus is transiting my 2nd house,” I’m asking: is Venus in a sign of her joy or her detriment? Is she the ruler of my activated house this year? Is she in sect? Dignified? Combust?
🟠Moon Phases: I still acknowledge New and Full Moons, but through a Hellenistic lens: what house are they activating? Are they relevant to my Time Lord? Are they making an applying aspect to a natal planet?
Hellenistic astrology grounds me with logic, timing, and clarity. It tells me what the theme is. ut it doesn’t always tell me how I feel about it.. that’s where the next layer comes in.
Tarot: The Dialogue and Emotional Truth
Once I know what house is activated, what planetary stories are unfolding, I pull tarot to ask: “What’s my relationship with this energy right now?”
For example:
⚪If it’s an 8th house profection year and my Time Lord is Mars, I know I’m working through topics of death, shared resources, power, grief.
⚪I’ll pull a card asking, “What’s being revealed to me in this Mars-ruled year?”
⚪If I get the 5 of Pentacles or Tower, that’s a deeper emotional cue I need to process loss, instability, or rebuild.
Tarot gives the language of feeling to astrology’s structural backbone. It shows me where I’m resisting, bypassing, or avoiding. And unlike astrology, which speaks in archetype, tarot speaks to the soul in the present moment.
Crystals: The Grounding and Support
Crystals come last and not as decoration, but as energetic allies to support whatever I’m working through astrologically and emotionally. Some ways I use them in Hellenistic-aligned practice:
🪐If I’m in a Saturn-ruled profection year, I work with black tourmaline, smoky quartz, or onyx to ground myself through lessons of discipline, maturity, and loss.
🪐If my Lot of Spirit is activated and releasing into a peak period, I might work with lapis lazuli or celestite to stay open to insight and responsibility.
🪐For Mars or 8th House years, I lean on bloodstone, garnet, or obsidian to help transmute anger, fear, or vulnerability around death and shadow work.
The crystal doesn’t “fix” the energy. It helps me stay with it so that I don’t dissociate, avoid, or collapse.
How It All Comes Together
Example: I’m in a 9th house profection year, ruled by Jupiter in Taurus in the 1st. I check my Zodiacal Releasing: Lot of Spirit just entered a new major period. I pull tarot and get The Hierophant: resistance to structure and faith.
I journal through my discomfort. I work with fluorite or moss agate to support my clarity and capacity to hold new paradigms.That becomes my ritual; just presence.
Final Thoughts
Hellenistic astrology helps me understand the timing of my life. Tarot helps me understand my response to it. Crystals help me move through it with embodiment.
I don’t use these tools to escape. I use them to stay. This practice isn’t about having all the answers. It’s about creating space to live with the questions; with awareness, with honesty, and with tools that help me anchor the process.