Jennifer Morrison is a native of Long Island, NY, currently residing in California and is on the road in Arizona with her rockhound partner selling Fire Agate, jewelry and crystals with their company Molten Gems, while raising their one year old daughter. Besides practicing as an astrologer, Jennifer is a lifeguard for the Jones Beach Lifeguard Corps, a accomplished guitarist, vocalist and sound engineer. Gardening is a also a big part of her life and takes her plants on the road when she has to!

I became interested in astrology at an early age as a curious pre-teen through the astrology books my eclectic Capricorn-Aquarian father had lying around the house. I found it uncanny how the signs seemed to fit the personality or even though physical appearance of people around me as learned the basics though the decades old astrology books. I even remember walking right up to a substitute teacher I had in high school asking, “were you born in Late Oct or November”? Bewildered he replied, “Yes, how did you know!?” I said, because you look like a Scorpio!

Later in my life, I would abandon astrology because I allowed others in my life and a significant early partner to convince me that it was all “in my head” and esoteric things such as astrology or tarot were just mere games, life had no mystery or mystique, just you live and then die, then nothing, the end. I don’t think I ever really felt that wholeheartedly but I definitely put my intuition and esoteric studies in the back seat for while.. and then I actually became very, very lost. It was during the dissolution of certain relationships in my life and great hardships that I rediscovered the magic of life and how synchronicity and coincidence is the very essence of what life is! The universal source that we all come from and return to speaks to us in signs, symbols and synchronicities!

I was laying on my back in my apartment during a freezing snowy Boston winter, January of 2010 recovering from ACL reconstruction surgery. My leg was slowly being moved from bent to straight by this passive range of motion machine. If my leg was to stay still the blood would get stuck there and be super painful so for two weeks, I just stayed there for prob 20 hours out of the day, even sleeping that way! I had tore my ACL completely a few months earlier, skateboarding the day after a big gig night with my band. I had partied a bit too hard and was hung over. I put my foot down to brake myself from flying into oncoming traffic going over the Charles River bridge that separates Cambridge to Boston, with a giant beautiful Harvest Moon rising at sunset that night. And Crash- my ACL was torn!

My former husband, who I had married in my early 20s while in Hawaii had left the Army after a deployment to Afghanistan and soon returned to a life in the army, short after his arrival home. Just one year in Afghanistan and civilian life was no longer a good fit for him, with a GI Bill available, he still couldn't do it. I refused to follow him back into that life even with my then limited knowledge of the corruption of war and government, intuitively I didn’t want to rely on that life supporting me.

He was then turned against me by the military and within a year, when my Saturn return would be exact, we would be beginning the process of divorce. My supposed best friend was with me when I destroyed my ACL, she got into a fight with me for being “needy” (as I was healing from a crippling painful tear and surgery) and cut her visit short.

So I was cold, miserable and the two most important people in my life had basically turned their backs on me. My parents were for long not folks I could count on and my Scorpio 4th house of home reflects that now so clearly, as Scorpio experiences rebirth through trauma, death, abandonment and loss.

It was there in that cold Boston Apartment, in between semesters healing my knee that I had a copy of Eckart Tolle’s The Power of Now and through reading that book a radical acceptance of all that was happening to me came over me. It liberated me. For as Eckhart Tolle teaches, “resistance or frustration with the present is a form of insanity”, by that definition how insane are most of us!?

So, if that wasn’t enough, my Saturn return experience was not over. There was also deaths in my in-laws family that allowed me to truly witness the heart of the family I had pre maturely married into and it was not pretty. After all the drama, knee rehab and taking on two majors at Berklee College of Music, I fell ill with Graves Disease as I was graduating. I learned that both anti biotics and glyphosate and pesticides in the food supply had led to my condition as well alol the stress I had. This was a huge awakening. With Graves Disease, it’s like living in the Edgar Allen Poe poem, “The Tell-Tale Heart” thinking “Be Still my Beating Heart” because it makes the thyroid produce excess thyroxine and that in turn can kill you via heart attack in what’s known as a thyroid storm.

Now, living through all this could lead one to say, Hey, look at what I victim I was! But now that I know I was going through my first Saturn return, which happens around 28 or 29 years of age. The Saturn transits are known as life’s Three Grand Chapters. Saturn is external authority and where we fail to be good at guiding ourselves we will relinquish that power to outside forces. Consequences from Alcohol or drug use are common for the first Saturn return. So my ACL being torn while hung over fits that bill. My marriage to a recent Army man in my early life was unwise. I looked for the family and security in him that I didn’t have in my childhood and would up being victimized again. It was only through taking care of myself and being very discretionary about my partner did I wind up in a better relationship. My Graves’ disease I suppose I am victim of pharma and Monsanto in our food supply but at least now I know and if I stay vigilant about my diet and I can avoid dis-ease. I actually was able to put Graves’ disease in remission since that time I was so intense with it back in Spring of 2011 when my Saturn return was pretty much exact To the degree.

For my second Saturn return, I will be more prepared and hopefully will have a softer return, if I am really working hard to be on my correct path, hopefully I can even reap benefits as Saturn is known as the Lord of Karma. Saturn is lessons learned. And I have learned some hard ones, such we absolutely must return to food as medicine and growing our own, to learning about herbal medicine, to the corruption of chemical companies in our food and how conventional doctors would tell me none of this and be useless to me unless I wanted to cut my thyroid out and live on their synthetic drugs for THE REST OF MY LIFE. This is the pivot point where a ill person can potentially go from victim to empowered. Because you can take control of what you eat and consume and who you surround yourself with even the amount of stress you choose to take on at some Institution Is a choice. when we choose to look at life from an empowered place, we see that much of our Saturn lessons and pain can be avoided. This was my case and I’ll never be the same person as I was before my Saturn return.

Knowing about astrological cycle, I was pregnant with my first child and now have a beautiful baby girl with a Sagittarius sun. Sagittarius, of course is my 5th house of Children. The moons nodes are places in space along the suns path that when the moon earth and sun align there are eclipses. The nodes represent the past and future path of the souls journey. For me, my future north node is in Cancer and the 12 house. So becoming a mother and astrologer at my nodal return which happens every 18 or so year’s is fitting for me and I recognize that doing these things are part of my journey..

Stay on the path, your path, astrology is a tool to inner-standing your schedule.

To know more about your astrological schedule, book an appointment for a reading with me and find out what the stars are saying about your schedule and souls journey. I work by a flat rate of $15 for a reading but you are welcome to donate more if you feel called to do so.

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