240. Self-Abandonment & the Seventh House

In this episode, Britten continues her series on self-abandonment through the houses of the birth chart, turning toward the Seventh House. She explores the Seventh House as a place where self-abandonment can happen so easily because our desire for connection, safety, and intimacy can become tangled with fear, projection, old agreements, and the need to be loved or validated. Topics She Covers: The Emergence Astrology Pathway Year One as a slow, deep curriculum for identifying when you are not in yourself and learning to anchor back into your own knowing. Gnosis as your own knowing: the thing no one can take away from you. The Seventh House as one-on-one relationships, including romantic relationships, friendships, partnerships, and the ways we find out who we are through others. Projection, intimacy, trust, boundaries, and the difference between intuition and projection in relationship. Energetic contracts and agreements, including the old relational patterns we may have agreed to when we were younger and the fear that arises when we want to update them. The deep vulnerability of intimacy and the ways we can protect ourselves from being hurt by closing our hearts, projecting fear, or refusing to listen in conflict How difficult it can be to stop self-abandoning in relationship because we cannot control how another person will respond when we grow, change, or update the terms of connection.  Through the lens of the Seventh House, she invites listeners to consider the relational agreements they may still be living inside, the fear that keeps those agreements in place, and the possibility of repair through real-time relationship, deeper self-responsibility, and learning to hold our own emergence without abandoning ourselves.   Learn More About The Emergence Astrology Pathway: The Emergence Astrology Pathway is not a traditional astrology course. It's an experience you give yourself if you long to repair, recover, renew, and remember your power. Held inside the gentle embrace of this magical language.  Here Britten teaches what she's found and developed as an astrologer who helps people tune into the most authentic call within. Most of what she offers are techniques and insights that no human teacher taught her. Doors only once a year! Early Bird tuition opens on June 21. You can learn more here and join the newsletter for more updates when doors open by clicking here.   +++   E M E R G E N C E  A S T R O L O G Y ⁠⁠https://brittenlarue.com/ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@brittenlarue Order Living Astrology Join my newsletter here Check out my new podcast CRYSTAL BALLERS on Spotify, Podbean, and Apple.   +++   Podcast art: Angela George. Podcast music: Jonathan Koe. 

In this episode, Britten continues her series on self-abandonment through the houses of the birth chart, turning toward the Sixth House. She explores the Sixth House as a place where shame often gathers around capacity, productivity, health, organization, and what it means to tend to devotion without policing. Topics She Covers: The momentum of moving through the houses as a framework for attention, immersion, and revelation. Gnosis as the wisdom, truth, insight, and knowing that no one can take away from you. The Emergence Astrology Pathway as a space for cultivating personal and collective gnosis. Self-abandonment as something we have to learn to identify, name, and refuse so we can come back into innocence and bring ourselves home. The Sixth House as a realm of bodies, care, energetic health, daily systems, administrative life, and the commitment to living in a body on planet Earth. How shame can distort our relationship to health, capacity, productivity, care, systems, and the way we tend to what needs our attention. Britten reflects on how difficult it can be to know how to care for ourselves inside systems and cultures that do not prioritize care. She names the shame many of us carry around our bodies, our capacity, our administrative lives, and the day-to-day systems that support our health and ability to function. Through the lens of the Sixth House, she invites listeners to imagine tending to these parts of life without shame as the authority: not from punishment, anti-aging, productivity, or inherited conditioning, but because we are people who turn toward life. This episode is an invitation to decondition the shame of the Sixth House and return to a more loving, clear, and present-time commitment to being here with ourselves, in this body, every day.   Learn More About The Emergence Astrology Pathway: The Emergence Astrology Pathway is designed for those who ever find themselves in a position to support another. Whether you're an established therapeutic practitioner, a leader, a parent, or simply a human being with the sincere desire to show up in your fullest integrity, the Emergence Astrology Pathway will be the remembering and the revelation that you most yearn for. It's impossible to fully fathom the riches that flow your way because you claimed this experience of yourself.  Here Britten teaches what she's found and developed as an astrologer who helps people tune into the most authentic call within. Most of what she offers are techniques and insights that no human teacher taught her. Doors only once a year! Early Bird tuition opens on June 21. You can learn more here and join the newsletter for updates when more doors open by clicking here.   +++   E M E R G E N C E  A S T R O L O G Y ⁠⁠https://brittenlarue.com/ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@brittenlarue Order Living Astrology Join my newsletter here Check out my new podcast CRYSTAL BALLERS on Spotify, Podbean, and Apple.   +++   Podcast art: Angela George. Podcast music: Jonathan Koe. 

In this episode, Britten continues her series on self-abandonment through the houses of the birth chart, turning toward the Fifth House. She explores the Fifth House as a place where energy flows into what we love, what we create, what we pour ourselves into, and what carries something of us out into the world. Topics She Covers: The Moon as the beginning of Britten's relationship with mystery, intuition, energy, and lunar cycles. The new Emergence Astrology Pathway Year One curriculum as a return to her lunar teachings, with three strands: lunar transmissions, intuition skills building, and ritual wisdom. The Fifth House as children, hobbies, romance, students, creativity, pleasure, and the generous movement of energy through and beyond us. How self-abandonment shows up when we believe our generative capacity is worthless, unproductive, selfish, or not valuable to ourselves or others. The spiritual consequences of shutting down our creative channel, denying ourselves play, or pouring all of our energy into a job, partner, friend, or relationship that demands everything from us. Britten reflects on the way the Moon first claimed her in 2017 and led her into a life organized around listening, mystery, and creative devotion. From there, she traces how her lunar teachings have evolved over time and why the reimagined Emergence Astrology Pathway is built to move slowly, gently, and deeply. Through the lens of the Fifth House, she invites listeners to notice where they may be withholding their energy, denying their right to pleasure, or believing they have nothing to give. This episode is a call to repair the shame around creativity and to remember that our energy is meant to run, move, pour into something, and be shared.   Learn More About The Emergence Astrology Pathway: The Emergence Astrology Pathway is a path through Britten's most refined, mature, and powerful curriculum. This experience is designed for those who ever find themselves in a position to support another. Whether you're an established therapeutic practitioner, a leader, a parent, or simply a human being with the sincere desire to show up in your fullest integrity, the Emergence Astrology Pathway will be the remembering and the revelation that you most yearn for. Enrollment for Britten's deepest dive is only once a year! Doors open for Early Bird tuition on June 21. You can learn more here and join the newsletter for updates when more doors open by clicking here.   +++   E M E R G E N C E  A S T R O L O G Y ⁠⁠https://brittenlarue.com/ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@brittenlarue Order Living Astrology Join my newsletter here Check out my new podcast CRYSTAL BALLERS on Spotify, Podbean, and Apple.   +++   Podcast art: Angela George. Podcast music: Jonathan Koe. 

In this episode, Britten continues her series on self-abandonment through the houses of the birth chart, turning toward the Fourth House: a realm of home, lineage, childhood context, caregivers, private life, and the places we come from. She explores the Fourth House as the context of you, encompassing the emotional, energetic, and ancestral field that shaped how you learned to take up space, come home to yourself, and understand what safety feels like. Topics She Covers: The houses as zones of terrestrial human life, where our most pleasurable and painful experiences unfold. Why Emergence Astrology begins with intuition, energy, personal gnosis, and learning to hear yourself before learning astrology. Shame as a context we often don't realize we're seeing through, and unshaming as the practice of removing those lenses. The Fourth House as the childhood home, caregivers, lineage, land, family, and the energetic quality of the place you came from. How individuation asks us to identify and surpass the core strivings of our caregivers so we can reclaim our own foundation. The Fourth House as the place where we learn to build a home within ourselves, cultivate safety, and create a private life that can truly hold us. Britten reflects on how difficult it can be to see the Fourth House clearly because it is often the very context we grew up inside. Until we begin to individuate, or until a major transit wakes this part of the chart up, the Fourth House can feel mysterious or hard to describe. Through the lens of Emergence Astrology as a path of repair, presence, and congruence, she invites listeners to consider how self-abandonment forms inside early contexts and how we can begin to untangle from inherited patterns, come back into our own house, and let the Fourth House become a frame that holds us.   Learn More About The Emergence Astrology Pathway: The Emergence Astrology Pathway is a path through Britten's most refined, mature, and powerful curriculum. This experience is designed for those who ever find themselves in a position to support another. Whether you're an established therapeutic practitioner, a leader, a parent, or simply a human being with the sincere desire to show up in your fullest integrity, the Emergence Astrology Pathway will be the remembering and the revelation that you most yearn for. Enrollment for Britten's deepest dive is only once a year! Doors open for Early Bird tuition on June 21. You can learn more here and join the newsletter for updates when more doors open by clicking here.   +++   E M E R G E N C E  A S T R O L O G Y ⁠⁠https://brittenlarue.com/ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@brittenlarue Order Living Astrology Join my newsletter here Check out my new podcast CRYSTAL BALLERS on Spotify, Podbean, and Apple.   +++   Podcast art: Angela George. Podcast music: Jonathan Koe. 

In this episode, Britten continues her series on self-abandonment through the houses of the birth chart, turning toward the Third House: a realm of language, learning, fluency, words, education, siblings, nearby community, and the ways we shape reality through what we say and hear. She explores how self-abandonment can happen through language itself: through shaming educational systems, intimidating spiritual or astrological spaces, comparison, perfectionism, and the fear that something is wrong with us if we do not learn, speak, or understand in the same way as someone else.  Britten reflects on re-recording this episode after realizing the first version carried a subtle striving to prove that she knew what she was doing. From there, she opens into a more honest exploration of self-trust, self-doubt, and the emergent changes happening inside her business ecosystem as she prepares to open the Emergence Astrology Pathway.  Along the way, she shares Caitlin Westcott's reflections on learning astrology as a symbolic language and uses them as a doorway into the Third House: how language develops through immersion, relationship, observation, practice, and lived experience.  Through the lens of Emergence Astrology as a language of repair, recovery, remembering, and renewal, she invites listeners to consider how the words we speak internally and externally create our world, and how staying with ourselves through mutation can become a liberating practice rather than another place to leave ourselves behind.   Learn More About The Emergence Astrology Pathway: The Emergence Astrology Pathway is a path through Britten's most refined, mature, and powerful curriculum. This experience is designed for those who ever find themselves in a position to support another. Whether you're an established therapeutic practitioner, a leader, a parent, or simply a human being with the sincere desire to show up in your fullest integrity, the Emergence Astrology Pathway will be the remembering and the revelation that you most yearn for. Enrollment for Britten's deepest dive is only once a year! Doors open for Early Bird tuition on June 21. You can learn more here and join the newsletter for updates when more doors open by clicking here.   +++   E M E R G E N C E  A S T R O L O G Y ⁠⁠https://brittenlarue.com/ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@brittenlarue Order Living Astrology Join my newsletter here Check out my new podcast CRYSTAL BALLERS on Spotify, Podbean, and Apple.   +++   Podcast art: Angela George. Podcast music: Jonathan Koe. 

In this episode, Britten continues her series on self-abandonment through the houses of the birth chart, turning toward the Second House: a realm of livelihood, abundance, resources, and our relationship to what sustains us.  She explores why self-abandonment can feel especially charged here, tracing the ways scarcity, inherited conditioning, and larger oppressive systems shape our beliefs about worth, provision, and what is possible. Returning to themes of innocence and unshaming, she asks listeners to consider how deeply conditioned stories about money and resources can pull us away from trusting ourselves. Britten reflects on her own relationship with financial healing, sharing how recovery, grief, and rebuilding trust in herself became part of reclaiming agency after divorce. Along the way, she explores the Second House as a place where we learn to return to our own house rather than surrender ourselves to someone else's authority or inherited ideas about safety. Through the lens of Emergence Astrology as a path of repair, remembering, renewal, and recovery, she invites listeners into a different possibility: relating to themselves as the well, trusting their own regenerativity, and slowly learning to believe that abundance can move through them rather than live somewhere outside of them.   Learn More About The Emergence Astrology Pathway: The Emergence Astrology Pathway is a path through Britten's most refined, mature, and powerful curriculum. This experience is designed for those who ever find themselves in a position to support another. Whether you're an established therapeutic practitioner, a leader, a parent, or simply a human being with the sincere desire to show up in your fullest integrity, the Emergence Astrology Pathway will be the remembering and the revelation that you most yearn for. Enrollment for Britten's deepest dive is only once a year! Doors open for Early Bird tuition on June 21. You can learn more here and join the newsletter for updates when more doors open by clicking here.   +++   E M E R G E N C E  A S T R O L O G Y ⁠⁠https://brittenlarue.com/ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@brittenlarue Order Living Astrology Join my newsletter here Check out my new podcast CRYSTAL BALLERS on Spotify, Podbean, and Apple.   +++   Podcast art: Angela George. Podcast music: Jonathan Koe. 

In this episode, Britten begins a new series exploring self-abandonment through the twelve houses of the birth chart, opening with the First House as the realm of arrival, direction, and how we enter the field of life. Returning to themes from her recent reflections on The Matriarchy is Already Here, she traces the relationship between shame, self-trust, and the ways we learn to leave ourselves behind.  Britten's Emergence Astrology sees the language as one of repair, recovery, renewal, and remembering. One that helps reveal where self-abandonment lives and what becomes possible when we choose to stay with ourselves. Britten explores the First House as the helm of the chart: the place connected to action, choice, and the way we steer the boat of our lives. She reflects on self-abandonment as a loss of trust in our own way of moving through the world and asks what it means to remain with ourselves instead. Along the way, she shares why the practice of listening with the Moon has become foundational to the reimagined Emergence Astrology Pathway, her one-to-three year program through the heart of her teachings. Rather than turning away from our own knowing, she invites listeners into a practice of attunement: listening, returning, and learning to trust themselves over time with the reckless freedom they deserve.   Learn More About The Emergence Astrology Pathway: The Emergence Astrology Pathway is a path through Britten's most refined, mature, and powerful curriculum. This experience is designed for those who ever find themselves in a position to support another. Whether you're an established therapeutic practitioner, a leader, a parent, or simply a human being with the sincere desire to show up in your fullest integrity, the Emergence Astrology Pathway will be the remembering and the revelation that you most yearn for. Enrollment for Britten's deepest dive is only once a year! Doors open for Early Bird tuition on June 21. You can learn more here and join the newsletter for updates when more doors open by clicking here.   +++   E M E R G E N C E  A S T R O L O G Y ⁠⁠https://brittenlarue.com/ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@brittenlarue Order Living Astrology Join my newsletter here Check out my new podcast CRYSTAL BALLERS on Spotify, Podbean, and Apple.   +++   Podcast art: Angela George. Podcast music: Jonathan Koe.   

In this Dark Moon download, Britten reflects on the closing edge of the lunar cycle that began on April 17 and the themes that have continued surfacing across her work, relationships, and inner life. Returning to the phrase "the matriarchy is already here," she explores the strange experience of finding language for something that was already alive in the body before it could fully be spoken. Through stories from recent conversations, client work, and her own unfolding process, she reflects on what it means to stop abandoning yourself in subtle, everyday ways, and how self-trust deepens through repeated acts of attunement over time. Throughout the episode, Britten weaves together astrology, tarot, shame, and nervous system awareness to examine self-abandonment as both a personal wound and a collective pattern. She speaks about protectiveness, collapsed edges, obedience, and the ways people lose touch with their own authority in order to stay connected, safe, or approved of. Rather than framing healing as perfection, she returns again and again to the practice of staying with yourself. Listening, responding, updating in real time, and allowing your edges to become visible.  This episode ultimately becomes an exploration of repair: how we reclaim authority, rebuild trust with ourselves, and slowly learn to belong to our own lives again.   Mentioned: Scopes Unshamed is Britten LaRue's return to monthly horoscopes—shared by Rising Sign and rooted in astrology as a support technology for time, rather than a prediction machine. Head here to tune in to the May Scopes: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-yGU0y2OIb1P0LXz58gSKdEthkzHdL6A   +++   E M E R G E N C E  A S T R O L O G Y ⁠⁠https://brittenlarue.com/ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@brittenlarue Order Living Astrology Join my newsletter here Check out my new podcast CRYSTAL BALLERS on Spotify, Podbean, and Apple.   +++   Podcast art: Angela George. Podcast music: Jonathan Koe.   

In this episode, Britten shares the living transmission behind the phrase The Matriarchy Is Already Here. She explains where it came from, how it moved through her in real time, and begins to name what it actually means in the context of her teachings. Not as a future top-down system, but as something already moving from the bottom up, human to human, cycle by cycle, through the practice of staying with ourselves, protecting children, protecting life, and refusing to abandon the future. If you want to experience where this transmission first moved through her in real time, you can watch the original Instagram reel here. Britten also shares a deeply personal story from her 30th high school reunion, an unexpected encounter that became a real-time expression of everything she's been teaching. Through this story, she shows what it looks like to update into present time, stand with younger parts of yourself, and no longer let shame, old projections, or dominator personalities define your story.  This episode is a potent reflection on repair, self-loyalty, and the alchemy of becoming someone who cannot be rattled away from yourself.   Learn More: Britten invites listeners to join her and Matt in the 5th installment of Mystics Making Money: Have You Tried Making It Weirder? in May, a four part workshop series focused on branding as a practice of clarifying and expressing what you do.  We understand branding as a ritual process of updating yourself into present time so that what you share, build, and offer is no longer coming from inherited shame, past identity, or someone else's story about you. We're interested in helping you remove the lag between who you are becoming and how you are currently showing up. Here, branding becomes the expression of that alignment, not the goal. Registration is now open and you can enroll here: https://brittenlarue.com/course/mystics-making-money/    ++++   E M E R G E N C E  A S T R O L O G Y ⁠⁠https://brittenlarue.com/ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@brittenlarue Order Living Astrology Join my newsletter here Check out my new podcast CRYSTAL BALLERS on Spotify, Podbean, and Apple. Tune in to my new monthly YouTube series: Scopes Unshamed.   +++   Podcast art: Angela George. Podcast music: Jonathan Koe.  

In this episode, Britten is joined by Matt Bull for a rich conversation on branding, messaging, repetition, and the resistances that can arise when magical, creative people try to clarify what they do in the world. Together, they introduce their upcoming Mystics Making Money workshop, Have You Tried Making It Weirder?, and explore branding not as something flattening or corporate, but as a process of becoming more coherent, more recognizable, and more deeply aligned with your own magic. Along the way, Britten reflects on her own history with branding, from early agency days to the creation of Emergence Astrology, and the ways this process has helped her articulate and anchor what is most true in her work. Topics They Cover: Britten and Matt's shared history in advertising, branding, and creative work, and how that informs this collaboration Why branding can feel resistant or confining to artists, mystics, and intuitives How repetition and consistency function as powerful tools for helping people understand and remember your work Branding as a magical practice: sigils, taglines, visual identity, messaging, and the creation of a doorway into your world Britten's personal experiences with branding, including the creation of her logo and the emergence of Emergence Astrology What participants can expect inside Have You Tried Making It Weirder?, including positioning, visual identity, messaging, and interactive exercises At the heart of this conversation is the idea that branding does not have to mean becoming less yourself. In fact, the deeper invitation is the opposite: to get clearer about your you-ness, to commit to what is actually yours, and to let that clarity support how your work moves through the world. This episode is a thoughtful and energizing entry point into a workshop designed to help people get more honest, more potent, and yes, a little weirder, in how they share what they make.   About Matt Bull: Matt Bull is a Clio and Emmy-winning advertising creative director who was once called "an advertising folk hero (of sorts)" by Adweek. Over his 30 year career he has helped brand, launch, rebrand, and grow hundreds of businesses of all sizes. The boutique creative agency he founded is entering its 13th year of helping local and global brands alike break through the oversaturated marketing space with personality-driven and occasionally even outright weird creativity. Website: https://heykickstand.com/    Learn More: Britten invites listeners to join her and Matt in the 5th installment of Mystics Making Money: Have You Tried Making It Weirder? in May, a four part workshop series focused on branding as a practice of clarifying and expressing what you do. Together, they'll work through core elements like positioning, messaging, and visual identity, with an emphasis on consistency and repetition as the way your work becomes recognizable and remembered.  The workshop includes both teaching and interactive exercises, offering a space to actually work with your material, refining how you communicate what you're offering and shaping something others can more easily see, understand, and step into. Registration opens on Friday, April 24, for a ONE DAY ONLY EARLY BIRD. You can join the newsletter to be the first to know by clicking here and learn more here.   ++++   E M E R G E N C E  A S T R O L O G Y ⁠⁠https://brittenlarue.com/ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@brittenlarue Order Living Astrology Join my newsletter here Check out my new podcast CRYSTAL BALLERS on Spotify, Podbean, and Apple.   +++   Podcast art: Angela George. Podcast music: Jonathan Koe.