A little about me
I’m Lauren, an Evolutionary Astrologer, Somatic Artist and developing Therapeutic Practitioner.
My work is rooted in a longstanding curiosity about the patterns that shape us: the experiences we carry, the ways we learn to adapt, the parts of ourselves that become familiar, and the quieter possibilities that can begin to emerge when we understand ourselves more deeply.
I’m particularly drawn to people who have always felt slightly outside of things. Sensitive. Creative. Deeply perceptive. People who may experience themselves and the world intensely, or who have struggled to find themselves within more conventional or linear ways of living.
And I’m interested in those threshold moments when something is shifting, but hasn’t fully taken shape yet.
The longer version…
An Ancestral Thread
I was first introduced to astrology when I was around fourteen, when my French grandmother, Evelyne, showed me the birth chart she had drawn for me by hand.
Like most people encountering a birth chart for the first time, I was puzzled by it — overwhelmed by the symbols and with little idea what any of them meant.
In the corner of the attic room of my grandparents' wooden chalet was an old computer. My grandmother asked me to sit down and read the pages she had typed up, translating what she could see in my chart.
I can barely remember what was written now. What I do remember is being fascinated by how accurately she seemed to describe parts of me, and by her relationship with this strange symbolic language I didn't yet understand.
Years later, as my grandmother developed serious dementia and eventually died, something unexpected happened: her fascination with astrology seemed to find its way to me.
As my own interest deepened, I began learning more about my Italian great-grandmother and discovered that astrology ran further back through the women in my family than I had realised. Her relationship with astrology had apparently been even more developed than my grandmother's.
I found old hand-drawn birth charts she had created. Books, tarot cards and talismans were passed down to me alongside some of my grandmother's own spiritual belongings.
What had begun as something mysterious in my grandmother's attic gradually became an intense interest of my own.
Finding Evolutionary Astrology
As I began studying astrology more seriously, I discovered the work of the late Evolutionary Astrologer and medium Tom Jacobs.
I was immediately drawn to the parts of the chart he paid particular attention to: Pluto and the Lunar Nodes, alongside Chiron and Lilith — dimensions of the psyche and the soul's evolutionary journey that I hadn't heard spoken about in quite the same way before.
His work had particular resonance for the parts of us that can feel exiled, wounded, different or difficult to integrate.
It opened astrology up for me.
I remember receiving my first audio reading from Tom — what he called an EA Sound Bite — and being astonished by how much someone who knew virtually nothing about me could recognise about my history, recurring life themes and deeper story through the chart.
I had rarely felt so seen.
That experience led me to work with him several more times and to study his approach more deeply.
Tom had trained through Steven Forrest's professional astrology apprenticeship programme, but what influenced me wasn't only his astrological knowledge. It was the way he worked with people.
He never positioned himself as a spiritual guru or attempted to override my own inner authority. He could interpret and illuminate what he saw while still leaving room for the person sitting on the other side of the chart.
When I discovered, several months after it had happened, that Tom had unexpectedly died, I felt a profound sense of grief — both for the person whose work had affected me so deeply and for everything I imagined I might still have learned from him.
I remain deeply grateful for what I did receive.
The approach I now use in my own Evolutionary Astrology readings has grown from these foundations, while continuing to evolve through study, observation, practice and lived experience.
Why Evolutionary Astrology?
What continues to fascinate me about astrology is its capacity to give language and meaning to patterns that can otherwise be difficult to see.
Evolutionary Astrology takes this further.
Rather than approaching the birth chart as a fixed description of personality, it asks us to consider the developmental story contained within it.
What patterns have become deeply familiar?
What experiences may have shaped the way we meet life?
What gifts — and limitations — might exist within those familiar ways of being?
And where might life continually be inviting us to develop something new?
I don't believe the purpose of a chart is to tell us who we are.
For me, astrology is a symbolic language through which we can recognise ourselves more clearly, place our experiences within a wider story, and become more conscious of the relationship between where we have been and where we may be growing.
The person behind the practice
My way of working has inevitably been shaped by my own life.
I am an artist and writer, and my relationship with creativity, nature, the body and symbolic experience influences the way I understand people and the stories we carry.
My perspective is also deeply informed by my own experience of neurodivergence, sensitivity and sensory processing differences, and by the ongoing process of unmasking and learning to work with my own wiring, rhythms and ways of perceiving rather than continually working against them.
These experiences have made me particularly interested in what happens when we stop approaching difference as something that needs to be corrected and begin becoming curious about what it might have to teach us about the ways we are built to move through the world.