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Professional Astrologer and Business Mentor
Dr. Stormie Grace (Taurus Sun, Libra Moon, Virgo Rising) is a working professional astrologer, educator, and creator known for helping people speak, read, and write the language of astrology—with a strong emphasis on actually speaking it (confidence, clarity, delivery).
She brings a grounded, no-nonsense approach to what many people romanticize: astrology as a real business—with policies, boundaries, containers, pricing, and team support.
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In this Backstage Astrology conversation, host Mayra Medina sits down with Dr. Stormie Grace. Stormie shares what people rarely say out loud: astrology is a real job, and running it requires real-world structures—policies, pricing, boundaries, and support.
Stormie opens by naming a core truth: practitioners are people first—and the digital world’s demand for instant access doesn’t erase humanity. From there, the episode dives into the behind-the-scenes of her path: burnout, rebuilding, delegating, and learning to run “Stormie Grace” not like a hobby, but like a business.
We explore how Virgo season and eclipses have shaped her identity and brand, why releasing perfection is part of becoming more authentic, and how her Libra 2nd-house story shaped her relationship with money, value, and partnership.
The conversation becomes a masterclass in sustainable visibility: doing the footwork, letting the universe do the heavy lifting—and building a legacy through teaching astrology as a living language.
Astrological highlights from the episode:
Taurus Sun (9th house) — travel, teaching, building in “in-between spaces” (airports!).
Virgo Rising (early degree) — precision, improvement, performance pressure, and learning to release perfection.
Libra stellium in the 2nd house (with Mars/Moon/Saturn + Pluto themes mentioned) — money, value, partnership, and developing a mature relationship with earning.
Mercury in Gemini (10th house) — communicator/teacher in public life; content fluency.
Business/values pillars: Grace, Service, Legacy.
Stormie describes herself as humanistic and evolutionary in orientation, with a strong emphasis on practical application:
Astrology as a language you can learn to speak (not just memorize).
Astrology as a tool for discernment + integration, especially through transits, eclipses, and identity shifts.
Deep respect for different schools/traditions—plus a strong “go find your people” community ethos.
Key milestones from Stormie’s story:
Age 7: She recognizes she “already knows” astrology while watching someone read a chart at a metaphysical fair—like remembering something ancient and familiar.
A decade in radio: A surprising career that trained her to deliver messages clearly, quickly, and professionally—without “just making noise.”
Saturn Return awakening (around age 30): A threshold moment where she realizes she must become an astrologer on YouTube and build digitally—followed by fear, grief, and then action “one step at a time.”
Early YouTube + 200 free readings: She offers free readings thinking no one is watching… and quickly learns otherwise. The practice refines her style fast.
First pricing step: A 15-minute reading for $15—an honest reflection of early money/partnership lessons.
Community + mentorship: She learns to stop absorbing fear from people who don’t understand the path and seek guidance from those who do.
Business maturity: Delegation, team members, and structures—so the business stops bleeding into marriage/family life.
Current focus: Teaching Astrological Fluency + helping creatives build sustainable businesses + building community.
Astrology as a real business (policies, boundaries, rules of engagement).
Burnout → rebuilding with structure and flow.
Virgo rising perfection vs eclipse-time authenticity.
Libra 2nd-house lessons: money, value, partnership.
Pricing, worth, and the right to be paid for skill.
Delegation, team building, and “they won’t do it right” fears.
Content creation confidence (radio training → YouTube fluency).
Finding your people: community as a pillar.
Legacy as a business and spiritual value.
Practical eclipse advice: start where control is strongest, then practice surrender.
The integration point: “I do the footwork, then let the universe do the heavy lifting.”
“I’m a real live living person who does astrology as my job.”
“I do the footwork and then I let the universe do the rest of the heavy lifting.”
“Stormie Grace is a business… I needed to run it like a business, not like a hobby.”
Mentioned in the episode:
Stormie’s upcoming book (2026, Llewellyn Publishing): The Big Book of Planetary Aspects (working title mentioned: “the aspect bible”).
Organizations referenced (certification alignment): ISAR, NCGR.
Teachers/colleagues mentioned (community references): Steven Forrest, Molly McCord, Pam Gregory, Rachel Lang, Margaret Gray, Christine Skinner, Kira Sutherland, Colin Bedell, Helena Woods.
Mayra Medina, Your Host
Mayra is a Creative Consultant for Astrologers working at the intersection of communication, branding, and archetypal astrology. Mayra believes that what truly drives visibility and impact is a compelling story, strong visuals, clear purpose, and thoughtful strategy. Learn more about what she can do for you:
What stayed with me after this conversation with Stormie is something simple, but powerful:
Astrology is sacred — and it is also a business.
For a long time, I think many of us try to keep the work “pure” by avoiding structure, policies, pricing conversations… almost as if money contaminates meaning. But Stormie showed me something different. Structure is not the opposite of magic. It’s what allows it to last.
I was deeply impacted by the way she spoke about pricing — not as a strategy, but as an inner threshold. Am I allowed to be paid for my skill? Am I willing to build containers that protect my energy? Those questions hit home.
Her Virgo rising story also touched me. The courage to let go of perfection, especially when eclipses are stripping identity layers away… that’s not easy. It’s vulnerable. But it’s honest.
And maybe that’s the real truth behind the astrology business:
It’s not about algorithms.
It’s not about being everywhere.
It’s not about being liked by everyone.
It’s about building something sustainable enough that the human behind the chart can keep showing up — with grace.
Stormie reminded me that we do the footwork… and then we let life meet us.
And that, to me, is real astrology.
I’m my a real live living person who does astrology as my job. I I don’t
respond to emails right away because I’m a person and I have a business. I’m a
person with a business. So, where do you think or where in your chart maybe? I don’t know. Do you think
this audacity comes from because certainly I would love to have more Audacity. I mean, every chart is
different, but is do you think there is like a special signature for Audacity or is just a personality trait you
developed because of your family background or your mama or something like that?
That’s a good question. That could be a whole that could be a whole talk that somebody could be audacity.
So, whoever’s going to do that talk, I can’t wait to see what it is. Um, I’m a Virgo rising. I have a Capricorn south
node and I’m a Taurus sun high in the sky. And some of that steadiness I I do
think breeds an audacity in me where I’m like I’m just doing what I’m doing. And if it’s steady, right, like if I have
some structural proof behind it, I really don’t let people give me a lot of crap about stuff. I’m like, you are in
all of these conferences. You are in all of these channels besides yours. How do
you manage story mig Grace, the YouTuber, the businesswoman, the doctor,
the mom, the partner? Uh, what’s your secret?
Oh my gosh, I wish I had a secret. Well, first I uh ran it into the ground. First, I completely burned out trying to
do too much, right? I just was too much, too many places.
I just did not do it in a way that was going to be sustainable. But that is where I was like, okay, in in terms of a
business in particular, I’ve got to get some structure around this. And what is it right? Like what is this business?
How does it function? How does it flow? What part of your own chart, let’s say, has been hardest for you to accept
and why? For a while I was not it was very painful and I was trying to force
myself to be in a way that I I don’t seem to do well trying to
deliver that. So now that we are into Virgo season and we have the eclipse season coming up and
you’re a Virgo rising, can you tell us more how these eclipses have played for
you and what are your expectations if you want to call it like that?
Yeah, sure. Well, so first thinking about the fact I have a 3°ree Virgo rising. So it’s very it’s very um early.
So you know the one of the first things I was thinking about just in general watching the fact that the nodal story
this year was going to be coming with that Virgo south node is that I was prepared for I was like there’s
something about literally how I show up in public and the way that I regard myself that needs to go. You know, I’ve
built a life and a brand and a business and a conception. Even within my own family unit, you know, all of these
places I’ve shown up, it’s been a certain way. And now something about that level of perfection, precision,
performance, any of those words needs to slide away because they’re not necessary
anymore. And then now making room to have them eclipsed. It’s like
what is one fear or limiting belief you you have to
overcome as an astrologer or or YouTuber or business person?
Just one. Yeah. Um
So, you just basically you woke up like 4 hours ago. Yeah, I usually get up between like 4:45
and 5:00 in the morning and start getting my day going and then, you know,
like I like it and I like the vibe of the day um that early in the morning, but it’s
really hard for me in the afternoon. Like I’m so grateful to live in Spain where we have siesta cuz I’m like, “Yes,
I have to go lay down. I I can’t do people right now. I need to just shut it
off. So, what do you do um to wake up? You have your coffee. Is Is it important for you to have a coffee?
Yeah. Well, I feel like I just always can have a coffee, right? Whether it’s important or not, I just feel like I
just need to have a coffee. I have a coffee for everything. I’m like, anyways, but I start my day and I
usually get up and I will meditate and then I like go to the gym and get that out of the way first
and then when come home I have if I’m traveling I have a coffee and I have coffee with my husband like we go on
FaceTime if I’m traveling and um then yeah then I do the the rest
of the day until the until noon and then I’m like I have to go have a nap
I need a break. Okay, so here we go. Backstage Astrology welcome & Stormie’s introduction
Welcome back to another Backstage Astrology episode. My name is Myra and
today I’m honored to be here with Dr. Stormmy Grace. I’m such a fan. Stormmy,
how are you today? Oh, I’m so good. I’m happy to be here. Thank you for having me.
Thank you for um sharing this with us. And usually I ask the astrologers to to present themselves. How would you like
people to know you really? I think first of all that I’m like a
person, you know, I’m my a real live living person who does astrology as my
job and my career and I’m grateful to do something that I love. But behind that is a real person with a family and
experiences and I have my own chart that’s playing out while I’m also
delivering astrology. And that’s something sometimes I think people miss especially in um today’s world where so
much is digital and we want fast response and you can just you you know what I mean? And I’m like no I I don’t
respond to emails right away because I’m a person and I have a business. I’m a
person with a business. So I think if that’s like if honestly
anything I could say to people is that like our practitioners, our doctors, our astrologers, they’re people first and to
remember that. That’s beautiful and I’m so glad you’re actually mentioning that because you’re not the first one in this series of
interviews I I’ve done with other astrologers. They they there is this message al always to remember they are
also people going through their own charts through their own processes. So, in that regard, can you share with us
what are your your big three like your sun, moon, and rising? I bet people would love to know that.
Yeah, I’m a Taurus sun in the ninth house, which is why I just love airports. I’m all like I I make so many
connections and I build things in airports. Like, I love it. I wrote a I wrote four books in an airport and I
built a school in an airport. So, very ninth house sun. I’m a Virgo rising and
I have a moon in Libra that is tucked into a stellium of Mars, moon, Saturn Libra Stellium in the 2nd House: money, value & partnerships
and Pluto in my second house. Wow. Can you elaborate more about that
Libra stellium? I bet there are some Libra people here would like to know how a real person, an astrologer especially,
navigates a Libra stellium in the second house. Oh yeah. Well, first, you know, the
thing that I noticed about it and how I was living my life was actually that my Saturn and my Pluto are retrograde. And
so, for me as an evolutionary and humanistic astrologer, I was like, okay, there’s something about how I earn money
and I allow money to flow to me and the way that I extract value in the world that um retrograde Libra placements have
done a very good job at trying to do it by themselves. They’re like, I’ll just be a lone wolf. I’ll go do it by myself.
And I’m like, I need to learn this time how to have partnership with money and
how to have partnership with the people that I’m in contact with and like form true partnership with whatever is
happening through the value of the second house. And that’s the way that it has genuinely played out for me. And now
I run around the internet teaching people about money. and I get them to say the word money and I get them to say
the word value and how to come into partnership, conscious partnership with it. So, it’s worked, you know, in that
way brilliantly for me. I’ve also made a ton of mistakes with that where I’m like, I’ll do it myself.
And that’s not been great ever. Not once. But what are like what are those
mistakes you consider to be mistakes? Because maybe for other people like us, they’re not mistakes. So what would you
consider like those mistakes where because I also know maybe I shouldn’t mention this but Virgo risings can be
very um strict with themselves. Um oh yeah I have a Virgo moon so I need to ask you
why why do why do you think you know those were like mistakes? Oh yeah sure. Well, I think they were
just mistakes honestly based on the outcome of the experience, right? Like
how it happened going through and mostly, let me just be very specific. One of them and it’s I use it in my
marketing is this idea of no, I’ll just do it myself. I’ll just figure it out myself. I’ll just go myself. Right? With
the Libra placement, there is a call to partner because I can only go so far on my own. I need to have the mirror and I
need to have the container of another entity to travel with, but it needs to be in true partnership, right? And so
every time I would say, I’ll just do it. I’ll just figure it out myself. I’ll do it. I’ll do it. I’ll do it. Oh my gosh.
Like the outcome was always an explosion. I never made more money. I never felt more valuable. I never like I
could not get to the level of genuine value. And so for me, those were just
mistakes based on the outcome. But they were not mistakes based on the fact that I learned what seems to not work for me,
right? Like and that is really important today. I can also embrace the duality of
what that air energy has to offer, which is both sides of the coin, the mistake, but also what did I learn from the
mistake. So in that way, it’s served me very well and it does make my Virgo rising happy to be learning and Virgo Season, eclipses, and releasing perfection
perfecting something, you know. Right. Right. So now that we are into Virgo season and we have the eclipse
season coming up and you’re a Virgo rising, can you tell us more how these
eclipses have played for you and what are your expectations if you want to call it like that?
Yeah, sure. Well, so first thinking about the fact I have a three°ree Virgo rising, so it’s very it’s very um early.
Oh, I have the moon there. Oh, do you? Okay, perfect. So we’re like a match. So, you know, the one of the
first things I was thinking about just in general watching the fact that the nodal story this year was going to be coming with that Virgo South node is
that I was prepared for I was like, there’s something about literally how I show up in public and the way that I
regard myself that needs to go. It needs to go. Things around my identity, these
things were going to need to go. So, in the best way that humans can be ready for that, I was making space for it. And
so this has been a year where I’ve traveled very lightly with myself and
with a lot more grace than I think I’ve ever maybe even needed to have with
myself because I was like, you know, I’ve built a life and a brand and a business and a conception. Even within
my own family unit, you know, all of these places I’ve shown up, it’s been a certain way. And now something about
that level of perfection, precision, performance, any of those words needs to
slide away because they’re not necessary anymore. So to start there thinking
about how that story was pulling those things away and then now making room to
have them eclipsed. It’s like at this point many of the things that needed to
go have gone and I can begin to rebuild with the eclipsing energy and it’s going to have to be nice and slow. But it is a Building an authentic brand & business during eclipses
lot more honest. It’s a lot more authentic as well, you know. And one of the things I can share is that in my
business in general before I was an astrologer and that’s what I did and
over the last little bit I was like actually where I have my heart is also
helping astrologers and creative entrepreneurs build their businesses right and come into the space of second
house stellium learning how to say the word money without being afraid of it and tearing those things down getting
rid of what the old story around that means. means, but it also meant I had to find a way to bridge my business and it
was a mess for a little bit. It was like I is it this is it this and as a Virgo rising that’s very
frustrating. I’m like no I just I need a plan. But you also have a Taurus sun. Sorry.
Yeah. Yeah. Go. Yeah. I do. Right. So it’s like this it’s been very grounded messy to me
fascinating to other people. Right. But so as the eclipses come now I’m like ah
the structures in the background and the story and the complete brand and the complete what am I really here to
provide at this point of the journey has come together nicely and I’m going to get to continue to watch it unfold but
it comes with eclipsing right it comes with that piece has to go a piece has to
go so that something else can live so it’s been yeah a But I’ve been prepared. That’s what I do
like about astrology is while I can’t control the outcome or know all of these things, I can say here’s what I know,
right? Do the best I can and then I let the universe do the rest of the heavy lifting. That’s it.
Amazing. Such a good advice for uh everyone or anyone who has some uh planet or something in Virgo. So this
upcoming season. So make room for the new and just, you know, let it flow because I know we don’t have control
here, I guess. Absolutely. Well, and it’s like I I always want to talk about especially
when people have like a a a sun that is above the horizon, right? A daytime sun
in Virgo or they have a Virgo rising is like this place of we really want to look good can it’s it eclipse time
that’s going to come undone and you’re going to have to say the thing that is true. you’re going to have to wear the
hairstyle that is true, you know, like whatever it is, it gets messy. And the
truth is that’s quite uncomfortable for a Virgo who wants to just kind of be nicely tightly packaged. But it’s like, Practical tip for the Pisces–Virgo eclipses
hold on. The truth of your precision and where you really find your discernment is going to actually be in the mess a
little bit. A mess. So, what is one practical tip you could
give us for this upcoming Pisces eclipse, Pisces Virgo eclipses.
Um, just I know you’re very practical, so that’s why I’m asking you. Yeah. Well, very practically to to the
to work with them. I think the most practical thing to do is to start where it’s easy, right? And it’s typically
more easy for us in the south node side because we we know it. Even if that’s
not where your nodal axis is to the south node side, we become very comfortable in some kinds of behavior.
So to start there in the Virgo area of your chart and what are these qualities where there’s been a lot of micromanaging it’s needed to be overly
perfect. There has been it has the plan has to go like this. Right? Those are
basic things which sound very cookie cutter from the internet. But most of
the time in a daily way if we look at where those questions are honestly deeply playing out in our lives we can
see the elements of over control. that have been driving us and have not
actually made that area of our lives a devotion to the service of that area of
our chart. Right? So, starting where it’s hard or where it’s easy allows us
to see where we have the room to grow to the Pisces side, which is faith and
trust. And I’ve got to believe that the universe has got me seated in its palm with perfection already laid out for me.
But I have to surrender the control to be able to let that happen. And from
there I see the sweet spot in any opposition in the middle where they
integrate which is I do the footwork and then I let the plan work itself out.
Right? This is where I say I do the footwork. I let the universe do the heavy lifting. And that’s a brilliant
practical integration because if I find out, you know, I’ve been just micromanaging my image. We’ll use my
chart, right? And it’s needed to be perfect. It’s needed to look a certain way, but I need to go to the Pisces
side, which is I need to trust a little more that if I say the thing that is darker or more scary or more creative or
whatever is not so managed, that that’s actually going to be the integration of
both of them. especially if I put a little plan around it, which has been fun. I’ve planned a lot more content Dancing & creating looser content: embracing integration
that is me dancing around. I’ve been a dancer since I was 3 years old. I’m a
tap dancer. Most people don’t know that. And so, I’ve been able to make a little plan with content that’s looser, that’s
easier, right? But I made a plan for it and then I dance in the video. And that
is a practical integration and the relief that it’s brought, right? So as
we eclipse, accept the help. Accept the help. Look at the practicals and then Stormie before becoming “Dr. Stormie Grace”
accept the help. Beautiful. Stormy, can you tell us more? Who were you before you were Dr. Stormy
Grace and Stormy Grace the astrologer? What was going on in your life before?
Oh yeah, I can. I was I was around around for all
of it, it turned out. Yeah, I was, you know, truthfully, I realized that I was
probably an astrologer when I was seven at my Saturn square and but it was not a like, oh, I’m an astrologer. I need to
get all the books and yet that was not my experience. I went to a metaphysical fair with my mother because she realized
that I was seeing spirit and seeing the world differently than the rest of my family. So, she took me there and I
watched this woman do a chart and I realized I was doing it with her. Like,
it was something I had done over and over and over again in my life. I wasn’t confused. I wasn’t anything about it.
So, that’s important for me to say because it wasn’t like I came running for astrology cuz I’m like, I have to
have this thing. I love it. I never have been afraid to be without astrology. Never. I was like, “Whatever, I’ll do
something with it eventually. It’s just in there.” And that is really important for me to say out loud because it gave
me such freedom to just live. And oh my gosh, I was like, “Oh, okay. I know I
have a knowing that I’m supposed to be a doctor, right?” So, I tried to do traditional things. I was like, “Okay,
I’ll get ready for medical school.” Listen, I don’t want to touch people’s bodily fluids. I don’t want to be doing any of that. So what I was doing like
when I was in school from the time I was little was talking. I was always talking, right? I got excessive talking
all the way through college. Like I had a college professor be like, “You just talk so much, honey. You just talk so
much.” And I never caught it. And so the talking led me into I was in about sixth
grade and they said, “We want to put you in Spanish. We want to put you in French. We want to put you right.” I
kept landing in the language spaces because they were like, “You just keep talking, so we might as well teach you
to speak.” And I loved it. I loved it. So all the way through that’s what was
happening. And I didn’t realize that was happening. I was still thinking, “Oh, I should go be, you know, a medical
doctor.” Oh my gosh. So it’s important to say that, too, because my Mercury is
in Gemini in the 10th house. Oh, right. And I was like, I should be a
medical doctor. So, you know, I mean, in short, I was out there being very delusional, which is fine, but I was doing
traditional academic education and things like that because I thought that that was the path, but I always had
language and music and movement in my life. I never picked up the anatomy of
the body book to just know it, right? And I had children and when I
started having children, I brought language in. I started teaching them sign language and learning together with them so that we could instantly begin
communication. We had Spanish in our home. My family’s German. We had right just all these things. Life was just
going on and happening and I was missing it girl. I was missing the message. And um then one day when I was really
convinced I have got to get my life together and go take this medical training, The unexpected radio career & Mercury in Gemini in action
I called into a radio show and I did answered a question. Immediately after
the show, they said, “Would you like a job? Do you want a job?” What? And it started a decade career in radio.
I had never studied for radio. I didn’t anything. Right. And so I spent 10 years in radio
before I became Stormy Grace. No way.
Yeah. Isn’t that It’s crazy. I mean, I just was around the gift of my chart and
my being and what I’ve always had to offer. And I really didn’t have any idea
about it. I thought it was just personality or something else. I couldn’t see it for what would actually
help me down the road. So would you say that you were like a
how do you say this like a communicator? It’s in your blood. Did you did you realize that you know with all these
experiences? Eventually eventually I did. I mostly honestly I’m telling you when when and I
see it with people all the time. We just bypass it. We bypass the thing that we’re doing the most easily the most
naturally. People are compl complimenting or complaining about it. you know, I got fired from the library
cuz they’re like, “Actually, people come here to like be quiet.” And I was like, “This is not for me.” Um, and so I just
was missing it. And then in radio, I when I fell into radio, I fell in love.
Like I really think that in radio, I found the love of my life because I
found a place that first of all, I got to just talk, right? I got to to just talk and it was
Yeah. For a living, basically. Yeah, for a living. These people wanted to pay me to talk and they were like, and and this is the thing. Mercury and Gemini, I
didn’t actually care what I was talking about. I’m like, give it to me. I will talk it and break it down and make it
make sense. So, they would hand me um a script that was a full page and they’re like, “We need you to make that happen
in 60 seconds. Figure it out.” That was wildly wonderful to me. To someone else
that would be stressful. I loved it. And then I got to the point in radio where
the engineers taught me we had this big wall and it’s all gadgets and lights and
plugs and I was in love. But I didn’t understand that it was my Mercury just
being so fully engaged and in love with what I was doing. Right? I had no
no idea. And I fell in love. I just fell in love there. And then I also got my
heart broken because there’s um in radio there’s specific shows and things like that and time slots and I could never
get them to give me like this one time slot and I was like I don’t understand why I’m not getting it. And I was
heartbroken heartbroken right and I didn’t realize until I became storming
grace that I should have never had those time slots because that’s not where the end of my journey was going to be. I was
in a training camp for a decade to learn to use my words in
ways that wasn’t just making noise because a lot of the times with a strong Mercury, those people are happy to just
talk to make noise, right? And I I say that as a fellow of the tribe. Um, but I got to be precise. I got to deliver what
need to be delivered. And what happened is that I became Stormy Grace and I Transition from radio to YouTube astrology
started to deliver messages online and I had been so perfectly trained in radio
that I slid right into it naturally on YouTube. I mean what a what a better training than than
that in a way. No, I mean and it’s just so funny. It’s what makes me laugh where I say, “Yeah,
you know, this journey has been well-guided even when I wasn’t paying attention or I didn’t understand, you
know, what was going on, but it got me right where I am.” And where it has led today is in my school. I focus
specifically on my my trademarked framework, which is astrl fluency. I get
you to speak, read, and write the language of astrology. Right? That’s it. I just want you to speak. I want you to
talk talk. Start talking. And it’s amazing. Yeah. And it and it is not I mean it is
not easy certainly for just to stand in the in the camera and talk like to this
little point over there. People don’t know this but I mean it’s a struggle. You you I mean personally I felt like
dumb like what am I doing talking to this little thing you know and God knows
who is on the other side if they’re going to listen or not. I it requires training and I would say a lot of like
self-confidence that I’m sure you you developed over those radio years maybe,
right? Oh, sure. Yeah. Yeah. With everything I think even if you’re naturally gifted at
whatever it is, there is a confidence that comes with it, but there’s also a little bit of like audacity that comes
with something that you’re naturally good at where I was like whatever, I’m just going to talk. So, I kind of, you
know what I mean? It was like a little bit of like delusion and audacity sometimes show up as well, but then you
get to hone it a little bit. So, Stormy, when did you first realize Saturn Return awakening: the moment Stormie knew
that astrology would play a central role in your life?
Definitely at that metaphysical fair. I knew it. I knew it. I was like, “Oh, okay.” But it’s like not time yet, you
know? And so, I didn’t worry about it. And at my Saturn return, I was 30 years
old. And I this is like I always get like really emotional talking about it because it was a an experience. I loved
this radio station that I worked at. And
between 28 and 29, right in there, something had started to shift and I couldn’t like it
wasn’t working. Something wasn’t working in this environment. And what happened to me was very Saturnian. I would always
be at work and a lot of colors and my heels and my mouth and all the things. And I started coming to this place that
I loved more than anything wearing black. And I would be wearing like these
black tennis shoes or these black slip-ons. And I wore all black for like almost a year and a half. And it was
such a struggle to get in there. got very Saturnian, you know, like things were getting heavy and I I didn’t
understand that I was getting ready to pop into my adult portion of my journey.
And I went in and it was at my Saturn return day of day on and I went through
the door and I walked through the doorway um the threshold that I walk through every day and I had an
awakening. I woke up and I was like, “Oh, you have got to be kidding me.” At that point, I had only watched one
YouTube video, right? Like, I just was not YouTube savvy. And I said, “You cannot be serious. I’m gonna be an
astrologer and I’m going to do it on YouTube and I’m going to build my business digitally.” And it was like,
and it just came right in and I was horrified and I just cried. And I just
cried because I was like, I don’t know how to do any of that. I mean, what am I doing here?
And what was great about it is that first I spent a week just crying about it because I was like because I knew I
knew it was true. I didn’t know it was true but I was so afraid and I was so doubtful and I was like I cannot do
this. What are you talking about? And so for a week I didn’t do anything with it. And every day that I didn’t take a
little bit of action it hurt. Like I genuinely hurt. My heart hurt. My being hurt. Almost like Saturn was like don’t
do that. Don’t do that. Just work. walk with me. I know you don’t know and I’ll show you, but walk. And so then I First YouTube videos and early challenges
started walking just a little bit at a time. And that was really it. I was like, “Okay, I have no idea,
but this is going to be the thing.” And how exactly every step was going to go,
I didn’t have any idea, but I did know. I was like, “Okay, I’m where I’m supposed to be.” Mostly because when I started working on stuff, Saturn didn’t
hurt so much. Mhm. So, I must confess that when I found you, I went to your
like early early early videos. I’m that kind of person. Come on. We’re talking backstage yet, but
but I I saw Stormy, you know, in like her in like her bedroom. I think it was bedroom and you just put like your I
don’t know, a camera or a phone or something and you started talking and you have some brilliant videos like from
those times is that that’s how you call it. So in that process um how did you
prepare yourself? Did you start getting like like leads for readings? Like how how how was the process of like okay I’m
going to build a channel. God knows God bless me. How like were those early years? What were the challenges you
faced or how do you feel about it? Yeah. Well the first thing that I did was I had to build it. I had to figure
out what was what? And I love that about myself is that I also have Uranus at the
IC. So I I have a little bit of like f you. That’s a part of my personality where I’m like whatever, f it. I’ll figure it out, right? And so with that
and then all of this curiosity, I was like, okay, if this is a thing, I’ve got to figure out where I’m at. And I do
have a Capricorn south node, so I like to build things, right? I do. I’m very good at it. And um so first I kept going
to watch YouTube videos to learn how to build my YouTube channel. And I would have like my little phone and then I’d
be trying to do it on my desktop. And I kept going to women who were like 30 years old and then I didn’t find a lot
of them because YouTube was not super hot then. And I would like I just kept
going to women to show me how to do it. And in the end I accidentally clicked on
this little 13-year-old boy’s video and he had his little squeaky changing voice
and for whatever reason I could hear him and I followed everything he said to do and I set up the channel and then I did
what I did best. I just turned on that damn camera and I started talking because I was like, “This I do know how to do. I know how to talk and I do know
how to refine a message, right? I know how to teach.” And so I just started doing that and then I would watch
another little 15-inute video. And then eventually when I was like, “Okay, the channel’s
here now. I’m ready to move more into the professional practice space.” Doing 200 free readings & early pricing struggles
I really thought nobody was watching YouTube. I don’t know why I thought that, but in a video I said, “And if you
want a free reading, just, you know, click down below.” I had set up a little website, a little link, and I thought
nobody was watching. And in that year, I did 200 free readings because I thought
nobody was watching. I thought nobody was going to pay attention. And let me tell you what, girl, very quickly, not
only did I turn that link off because I was like, “Oh my god.” Right? Right. I got so much practice back to
back to back to back to back and what is my style and how exactly you know all of it it all came together and then I
realized at the end of that I was like I got it it’s time to shift and I started
with a 1515 because at that time you got to remember I have this stellium in
Libra right I didn’t have an amazing relationship with money
I was lost in it a bit and not we did not have partnership formed yet. And so
I did a 15-minute reading for $15 and I did a whole bunch of those and I stayed
busy for a very long time and I made my first little living off of that which was amazing course
and um then it went from there and I could refine. But I also started hanging
out with more astrologers because what would happen for me and I
find it with most creative people is that I would tell my family who are judges, lawyers, senators, police
officers what I was doing and they would be so afraid for me. I had two children.
They were like, “Nobody’s really working online. That’s not really a thing.” I’m like, “Oh, but it’s going to be.” And um Finding support in the astrology community
they were afraid. and their fear would make me afraid and I was like hold on I need to go to
people who are doing what I’m doing. So I found other astrologers and I would ask them questions and they would guide
me a little bit and they you know and so it started to build like that for me and
then over time you know it got more specific and the um the day and the time
came where my business was built brilliantly was working was doing and
then it hit its peak plateau and I needed a mentor. I needed a coach. I need I was like I don’t need a coach in
astrology that I can continue to learn and I’m surrounded by brilliant people. I needed a business mentor
and I got one and got to tighten up how to do this thing and then let it grow
and that’s like exactly how the journey went. Also insert lots of tears. I’m a
crier. That’s a beautiful path. So, um, when
you decided that you’re going to do this thing and, you know, it started kind of like exploding and you told your friends Family and friends’ reaction to “I’m an astrologer”
or family or colleagues that you were an astrologer, what was their reaction at
first? My mom was not shocked. Listen, she’s my mom. You know, Mama Grace has not been
real surprised that any of these things because I’ve been like that since I was little. So, she was not surprised by
that. My brothers were like, “What does that But they had always called me Miss Cleo, you know, so they would laugh at
me about that. Other people were sometimes they they were like, “What does that mean?” But you know what I
never encountered that I’m grateful for is I never had anybody like put it down,
at least not to my face or anything like that, but also um I have delusion and audacity at my at my back. And I would
just tell people, “No, this is what I do.” And I was very firm in my delivery, right? I’m like, “I don’t have a
question about what I do. if you have a question about what I do, I would love to engage that conversation, but I don’t have a question about what I do. This is
my work. And so, I think that delivery as well helped people take it a bit more
seriously um in terms of what I was doing. And that’s been the response ever
since. And I know um Steven Forest is one of my teachers and one of my friends. And I just I can remember him
telling the story about being at a dinner party and saying what he did and getting all this feedback and people
being like, you know, back a magazine just very like it’s not serious. And
that I’m grateful. I’m like I’ve not had that experience. I was at a dinner party. Everybody’s talking about what they do. I said what I did and nobody
looked sideways at it at all. So that’s that’s really cool. So where
do you think or where in your chart maybe I don’t know do you think this Audacity comes from because certainly I
would love to have more Audacity I mean every chart is different but is do you think there is like a special signature
for Audacity or is just a personality trait you develop because of your family background or your mama or something Where does audacity come from in Stormie’s chart?
like that? That’s a good question. That could be a whole that could be a whole talk that
somebody have audacity. So, whoever’s going to do that talk, I can’t wait to see what it is. Um, you know, but sometimes I think
and the longer I stay in the game, honestly, the longer I stay alive is that I think in places that are easy for
me, I have Earth, I’m a Virgo rising, I have a Capricorn south node, and I’m a
Taurus sun high in the sky. And some of that steadiness I I do think breeds an
audacity in me where I’m like, I’m just doing what I’m doing. And if it’s steady, right? Like if I have some
structural proof behind it. I really don’t let people give me a lot of crap about stuff. I’m like, it’s actually
interesting you’re saying that cuz I had a conversation with my mom. I’m 43 now. And we were having a conversation about
me in my 20s and there had been a woman who I love and I respect and she’s just
got her own thing going on. And my mom was like, “Yeah, you never really let her speak a lot into your life.” And I
said, ‘Yeah, from the time that I was younger, my perspective is I love people as they are and I’m support everybody’s
little journey, but if your life doesn’t look like what I would like to experience, I don’t let you speak into
my life because I don’t have time for it, right? And that’s not out of better than less than. It’s just that you’re
not going in the direction I want to go. Why would I give you that space? So I
think in that earthiness that is something that has served me well where I’m like boots on the ground.
I need to have things coming into my ears that help me achieve the goal.
Amazing. And so it’s you know that audacity has carried carried through.
Right. So um you were mentioning that you were also in in that that journey of
opening your channel your YouTube channel and you were talking to other astrologers and then the way one of the
ways I think I met you was because you were talking to someone else in one of your videos can remember plus your
dailies but you are in all of these conferences you are in all of these Managing multiple roles and avoiding burnout
channels besides yours. How do you manage story mig Grace, the YouTuber,
the businesswoman, the doctor, the mom, the partner? Uh, what’s your secret?
Oh my gosh, I wish I had a secret. Well, first I uh ran it into the ground. First, I completely burned out trying to
do too much, right? I just was too much, too many places. I just did not do it in
a way that was going to be sustainable. But that is where I was like okay in in terms of a business in particular I’ve
got to get some structure around this and what is it right like what is this business how does it function how does it flow
and once some container some Saturn could come around it and I could pick a
flow then it became easier to manage because I realized again what I don’t
need to be doing right like I’m like I would love to do your podcast for
you know, amazing living with whatever, but I’m like, actually, what I focus on in my business, some clarity are these
things. So, I have to give myself space to really hone in on these things. And
not being all over the place gave me some energy back. And eventually that turned into needing Bringing in team members & learning to let go
to do the thing that my Virgo rising did not like was I needed to start to bring in team members. And that y’all, let me
tell you, was an event. I cried. And and and it made sense, right? And
I’m grateful. My husband is an Aries. He was like, “But you’re tired. Just let go.” And I’m like, “I don’t think that
you’re hearing my chief complaint, which is that I won’t be doing it.” And so that’s what had to happen. And
that was an experience in my chart as well to let go and realize if the process was laid out, someone else could
come in and do some portion of the back work that doesn’t need my attention. And once that could happen, then I was freed
up for some other things and could say yes to to those. And that getting my business sorted in that way gave me
energy back to do what I needed to do because my primary function as far as
I’m concerned is to be a daughter, a wife, and a mother. The rest is bonus
work. But when when I’m tired trying to live my best business life, there’s there’s
there’s not a lot of me left at the end of the day, you know? So, I just needed
to get and allow some containers to come in to allow structures and once those
structures were in place, things could flow the way that they needed to. And
that is the trick. That’s the trick. I think I think that’s a girl. I don’t know. Maybe that’s I maybe I’m gonna
find out what my secret is. I don’t know because I mean I remember this video
where you are you can buy from the gym or something and you you started you know giving the weak forecast or
something and then I think the printer started like um making some sounds. I
was cracking. I think that was the video that caught me. I was like who’s this funny person and she’s so accurate but
then you you seem like you have like done a million things before that recording that video and I’m like oh my
god because I was thinking should I become an astrologer or not? and then you know I saw you like managing all these things and okay maybe I can do it
you know like she’s handling all all of all of these things she’s laughing because the printer is sounding in the
middle of her video so you know it shouldn’t be that hard but you’re
talking about bringing team members and from previous interviews with other
astrologers I’ve heard you know it’s like seems to be like a yeah The hardest part of delegating as a Virgo Rising
how was it for you how was that process was really for you. What What was your biggest fear or challenge when you when you
thought, “Oh, I need to rank in members.” Yeah. Well, the biggest fear for me was that it’s they’re not going to do it
right. They’re not going to do it like I’m going to do it right. And and that is I think what a lot of us like run
into. I won’t speak for anybody else, but that’s what I ran into. And where I needed to have this the switch was to
honestly understand that Stormy Grace is a business. It is a business. So I
needed to run it like a business and businesses have containers and have
some businesses have teams, some businesses don’t, right? But that I was like, you know, I need to run this like
a business, not like a hobby. And that helped me
make this transition and surrender into bringing in a couple team members. And I
put myself also in other containers outside of astrology that we’re talking
more about business. And this is something that I highly recommend for people and it’s worked for me forever.
Is that sometimes when a new information is coming into me, even if I need it, even if I’m in pain and I’m like, I
don’t want to be in pain, but I’m not ready to take my claw marks out of something yet. Is I start to put myself
in the vicinity of the change that I need. Right? So, I
had been, you know, doing my doctorate degree in business and doing all these things and helping people with with
their things, but when it came to me, like it’s like my being could not fully
hear it and accept it. So, I just needed to inch in to business spaces. And then
eventually, I could tolerate more information and I could tolerate more suggestions and then I could hear what
they were saying. And they were saying, “If this is a business, you need to get out of the center of your business and
you need to have somebody doing the things that you can let them do because
you need all your energy to do what only you can.” And so it started to make more Stormie’s core values: Grace, Service, and Legacy
sense. And I was like, I cannot. And with that Mercury high in the sky, like
people have said forever, I’m just a content monster. Like I can’t create content like this, right? Like there was
a year I created so much content that I took three months off and people were like she’s living her best life. I’m like yeah it’s cuz I can just talk and
record, right? But I was like I need to be able to do that. If I’m doing 12
monthly horoscopes, if I’m doing weeklies, if I those are all the things I need to be able to do. I don’t have
time for filling the charts. I don’t have time for these other things. And so
I started to be able to bridge that gap like that and then bring in um a couple
VAS and then that turned into having a um a digital designer and you know so it
was a slow it was a slow go for me but it did happen. And I think the other
thing that was really hard and and made me convinced is that I had gone into my office and I was working on something.
And then I came to sit down to watch a movie with my husband and I felt distance. And he’s like, “You’re at
work. You were at work. You’re not here.” And that level of pain and
disconnection in my marriage was something that I wasn’t really willing to tolerate. I was like, “This is not
it.” Mhm. You know, because I think if any of us are honest, when we don’t run our
businesses like businesses, it’s going to bleed into our lives. Yeah. It’s going to and they get painful fast.
And that’s why now I’m like, come on, creative people. I’m going to show you how to make that thing a business.
Yeah. Yeah. Especially the the the values, the pillars, that container you were talking about. I think it’s so
important. And I’m so happy to to be talking about astrology and business. No, because I I I do I don’t do
something similar. I’m a designer, so I do the branding for the the the astrologers, but in the end it has like
a business part in a way because I need to understand what you’re going to sell or who you are Legacy as a central pillar in Stormie’s work
in order to make your brand in a way with your natal chart. So in that regard where you are um
building all these brands, what would you say are your main core values?
one for for Stormmy as a human and for Stormmy and her businesses. Maybe it’s all the same.
Yeah. Well, in a in a way they are all the same because I genuinely believe in
grace. I believe in grace a lot. And my spiritual teacher taught me that grace
is the slack the universe cuts us for being jerks. And I’m like, listen, I feel like she
didn’t use that word, but it’s like I feel like a lot of life needs a lot of
grace because there’s just it’s very easy to think I’m off track. I’m doing it wrong. I’m better than. I mean,
there’s a lot of the human experience that can creep up. But if there’s grace and I’m practicing that across the
board, my ability to be more effective and be of service to
whatever it is that I’m doing, I think is better. And that’s another very core
pillar in my life across the board is service. How can I be of service here? Is this of service? Is this useful?
Right? like that governs so much of what I do because I’m not really trying to
fight people or make them do things or have things. I just if I can be helpful, I want to be helpful. And if I’m not the
right container to be helpful, then I want you to go find the right container. Again, this is where a little audacity
comes in. I’m like, if I’m not for you, please leave. If I am for you, oh my god, get in here cuz I’m about to love
into your life everything that I know. You know what I mean? I’m like, I want you to succeed. So that’s a very th you Building a business with pillars: Astrology, Business, Community
know those two things just in general are really really core to me. And then
the last thing that’s personal but it has bled into my brands especially over this last year is legacy. I care so much
about legacy. I’m like first of all I think from the way that we live, we move and we have
our beings. we have the opportunity to leave something for lineages of people
um that that come before us and people have been doing it in our family lines and our cultures forever. But we can
consciously tap into legacy. What do I want to to leave here? You know, and so
that plays into absolutely everything that I do. But in a business sense, as I
was reshaping it, I was like, okay, what are the core pillars that I’m going to work with here under Stormy Grace?
Especially because Legatia Academy, my business school had come in and it was
very simple for me to see it. Then I was like, yeah, I want to teach people to
speak the language of astrology if that’s what they want. And that will come through invocation, right? So I do
weeklies, I do monthlies, I share the information and then I also give you an opportunity to learn that if that’s what
you want. If you’re a person who is creative and you want to build a creative business, then I help you do
that. and community. Those are the three pillars of Stormy Grace and that is how I build and share content is in those
spaces because I want people to see the communities that are available to them as well. Right? If you are thinking you
want to be an astrologer and you like the the Henistic Tribe, I’ve got a resource. I’ve got a link that’s going
to take you right to your people. You don’t need to waste time being over here in evolutionary. Go to your people. Let
them love in to you. day. It’ be nice to us over here who you know it’s less hellfire and brimstone over here in my
opinion. You want to do financially, you want to do this, you want to know how to go to a conference, you right and that’s
the way that the community pillar presents itself. So, but that took some time. I didn’t just like pop out here,
you know, well structured. My next my next question was a little bit like yeah because you mentioned earlier that um
you know I if you you want to stay with me stay with me but if you you’re you
don’t resonate like you’re free to go but when we’re starting as entrepreneurs or digital content creators whatever it
is we’re always like oh my god pick me pick me pick me and you know and and for
you is that something that it’s in your DNA or you have to develop this like
okay understand that I don’t need to be liked by everyone and that if you are
the right person and I’m the right person for you, it will be great, but I’m not going to beg you kind of thing.
I don’t know if I’m explaining myself. Yeah. No, no, no. I think I I think I understand. In the beginning, I needed
to start. And I tell people, start, just start. Just start. Just start. Listen, I
was out here. Oh my god. I had this one video where I have this like lipstick on and I don’t know. I was trying different
moisturizer. I was so shiny. I was like, it just I looked like a a Thanksgiving turkey. Like, it was not good. But I I
just started, you know, I just made the damn video. So, I tell people, start. Just start. So, you can even start to
find your legs underneath you. You don’t need the team. You don’t need anything. Turn your phone on. Feel stupid if
that’s what it is for you, but God, just start. And from there, where I think
that a piece of the legacy I and others get to leave now is that for creative people, whether it’s astrology, it’s
tarot, it’s you’re a language teacher, you’re a digital designer, we’re offering the business mentorship more
quickly. Whereas before it was like you can come learn the craft of astrology. Everybody in their sister had an
astrology school, right? But where’s the business portion? So now more containers
I think are being made to come and like learn a little bit about the business so
you can figure out who you are and who you don’t see. Do you know what I mean? And even in
terms of free content whether it’s you want to learn the business of astrology
with other astrologers or you just want to go listen to somebody’s business stuff. Everybody is teaching the exact same thing. Um it’s just the way they’re
going to deliver it. But I think that this is new, right? It’s different. We we haven’t had this as loudly pronounced
in terms of something that can make your astrology and you better at what you do.
So I think in that way and it does some of it is it develops over time. But I do
a lot of personal development work like you know how they laugh at those people who go to the gym at like 5:00 in the
morning and they’re like those are the money mindset people. That’s me. Like I’m in the gym. I’m in
the gym with the money mindset people because I’m like I gotta be growing around here. It’s not just about money,
right? But I have a Libra stellium. I have to be in right relationship with
myself and the value that I carry into the world to carry it into business. So it comes and the other way I think
that it comes is serving people who you don’t want to serve, right? Like do it wrong. Do it.
Go do it. see how much you don’t like that and it’s a good way to figure
allow yourself to naturally come into the space where it’s like oh I don’t actually do this
right yeah if you don’t try or yeah makes sense
oh sorry go ahead sinry you said it back in the day back in the day friends
I was doing sinistry I was going down that road right and had done sinistry classes and there was a point where
beautiful Margaret Gray who runs the relationship academy. I was doing some work with her and you know what? I was
sitting inside of a sinistry reading with this couple and they were lovely
people, right? And the astrology was fantastic. The session was good. The session was very good. They were very
happy. I was very happy with the astrology that I delivered. But I was doing their follow-up email and getting
everything packaged for them. And I had some thoughts that let me know I was not
a sinistry teacher. I was like, I’m not a sinistry astrologer. I I would rather
not do this every day of my life. I would rather not offer this. And that was allowed me to take sinistry out of
my offerings. And instead, what it opened was my community pillar. And I said, you know what? I’m not going to be
offering this anymore, but oh my gosh, listen. Rachel Lang, Margaret Gray, my colleagues offer this and I want you to
have the best, you know, so it made a way and it allowed me to see what I
focus on. And that is a pillar I hope everybody gets on board with
because by finding what you do, you make space to let other people just
do what they do. Beautiful. Beautiful. Thank you for that. So um talking a little bit more
about your life as an astrologer and your chart if you want to share a little bit. What part of your own chart let’s Hardest part of Stormie’s chart to accept (Mercury–Jupiter quincunx)
say has been hardest for you to accept and why?
Well I can tell you one and unfortunately unfortunately
I mean it’s run into I’ve run into it several times. So I have my Mercury and Gemini in the 10th, but I have Jupiter
and Scorpio in the 3rd. And so I have a queen comes. Uhhuh.
And I had to learn to work with that because I would want
to be out being very mercurial and sharing information and talking and being my little social happy self,
right? But then I’m much deeper. I’m a much deeper person. like I think quite
deeply and I sit in my spirit when I’m with myself and others and I share information, right? And I would try to
get them to happen at the same time and they and all my life, not just in
astrology, but all my life, right? And it’s they’re not they’re quunky, right?
They they don’t quite understand each other, but both sides are correct. And
so a way that I learned to work with it in astrology is I was like, h I can just let my Mercury be my Mercury. And so I
share a lot of content. It’s very general unless I’m looking at your chart and we’re doing something where I’m
specifically talking about a chart. And I let it be wonderful and vast and
general and I just get to be a chatter box and say things that are useful. And
in that I create the invitation for if you want something that is less general,
more specific to you and deeper to come with me in a session or in a workshop. And that’s the way that I have learned
to work that Quinc Kunks together. And it stopped me because I would hear
people like I love Molly McCord and I love Pam Gregory, right? And they’re just like deep. I just feel like they’re
just so deep and they’re just out there being deep. And I’m like, I want to be deep. And I’m like, listen, maybe I’m
not meant to be deep until you come in closer with me. And that’s okay. And
that too in my everyday life have I’ve allowed that to
happen as well. So it’s like, yeah, I’m social and then when you want to know
more or we want to talk about something specific, we’re going to go have a coffee and then you get to know this
other place. And today I’m really okay with that. But for a while I was not. It was very painful and I was trying to
force myself to be in a way that I I don’t seem to do well trying to
deliver that. Yeah. Maybe because um you mentioned I think it’s in the third house. It’s more
like you know it’s it’s it’s underneath the chart and so we get to see that
Stormy in the dayto-day if you are Stormy’s neighbor maybe or you know something like that. That’s when we
probably get to see that that thing. But I I’m so happy you mentioned this because sometimes we believe we are all
our chart. Like we need to portray to the public every single little thing or
planet in the chart. But if it’s in the, you know, in the third or fourth house, well, maybe not, you know, maybe you’re
going to you’re going to do it differently or your clients are going to get that side of you in a different side of your business and we don’t need to be
everything in the public eye. No. What do you think about that? Yeah. No, that’s exactly it. That is
100%, you know, what I’ve experienced and that that’s okay. But before, you
know, before understanding that, of course, I made the mistake of trying to
do it the way I thought that I should do it. And I learned and it like hurt my
energy. It made me tired. It made me very doubtful about it. It made me think I’m not supposed to be doing this. And
all of that, you know, led me to what? what do I do? How do I do what I do? And
now today, I really embrace that piece of me. And I love that today my clients
see that too. They’re like, “Oh, I saw and you were talking about this and what I learned in our session is that for me,
this is happening here.” And right, they can share and mirror back the experience to me now. And I’m like, that’s what I
do because unless I have somebody’s chart. Mhm.
I or anybody else online, what I realize is like we’re all delivering general.
It’s all general, right? Like even if it’s accurate, it comes out well. It’s
general and that’s okay. But before, oh my gosh, you know, but
it’s like sometimes like just the the young the curtains lift and you’re like, did anybody else know this? Right.
Right. That’s amazing. So, um, what is one
fear or limiting belief you you have to overcome as an astrologer or or YouTuber
or business person? Just one. Yeah. Um, Limiting beliefs: Am I valuable? Pricing & money blocks
I I do think for me and what I see in other people are are two things. one
that what I have to say matters or is valuable because it’s very easy to look out and see that there’s a lot of
astrologers or if you go to conference or you’re in this world that you’re surrounded by brilliance and you’re
surrounded by people who are like walking um calendars and dates and cycle
knowowers and that can be really intimidating. So it’s like well what do I have to say to offer you know so it’s
like realizing what you do having clarity around what you do that can be a
very limiting space that you got to come to the other side of and the other limiting belief is pricing when we talk
about and this is where I fill in this gap like brilliantly now I love that I get to do this but it’s that I’m allowed
to be paid for my skill right and this again most of the time when I run into
this with people there’s very uncomfortable. It’s a very uncomfortable conversation because there are all of these ideas whether they come from your
society, your home life, wherever they come from. These are some root level ideas of being allowed to be paid for
the skill and the work that you do. Yes. And so this can be I think it’s not
only massive in terms of an internal shift that needs to happen, but I think it’s massive in terms of building a
business because if you do not build a business that has a correct pricing structure, you will have a a business
that’s not a business, it’s going to fail. So those are two biggies. And
along the way, there are several other little pebbles that you get to walk through. Misunderstandings about Stormie as a public astrologer
What do you think people misunderstand about you uh as a public figure in
astrology? If there is anything you think they misunderstand about you, maybe not.
Yeah. No, I think that’s very very good question. Um
I think in my experience, one of the things that people definitely
misunderstand is that I run a business, right? I’m like, this is a business. I
run a business and I think that what my experience has been is people will be like, I can’t believe you’re charging
for that or I can’t believe this. And I’m like, no, no, no. I’m not personally hanging out on the internet. I’m I don’t
need the validation. I’m good to go. I’m running a business. And in a business,
there are boundaries in the container and there’s clarity about it. And so I think often that can be a thing that
people run into until they understand you know because I also when it comes to
it I’m not cocky about it like I don’t like that I don’t think that is
necessary but I am clear with people. I’m like no if you are not showing up
for your sessions I have policies in place for that and here’s our rules for engagement. you know, when people come
and they want to work with me, I say, “Before you’re gonna book with me, check out my my policies pages and make sure
that those rules of engagement are good for you. And if they are not, I’m not the right person.” And that’s okay, too,
right? And so, I think that sometimes people can get that that misconception. And the other thing is that sometimes I
think that people um think that I’m just going to be like all
serious all the time, right? and I’m here to like give predictions that will change the hearts and minds of the
entire planet. And I’m like, I’m not. I’m not. I’m I’m here to teach people to speak the language of astrology. I’m
here to be accurate in my astrological technique, right? I’m here to connect you to community and I’m here to help
you build your own business if that’s something that you want to do because that’s what my business does,
you know? So, it’s like those are the things that I tend to run into with people.
Wow. This is so um I think yeah anyone who who’s thinking on building an
Australia business or any type of business in the digital kind of like world should listen to this
conversation. But that’s just my opinion. But lastly, what advice would you give to your younger self at the Advice Stormie would give her younger self
moment you first decided to to study astrology and like become an astrologer?
I think just I don’t know if I would give myself advice per se because I did need to do
everything I did to learn to build the skills around it. But I would just tell me it’s going to be fine. It’s going to
be so much more wild than you think. Like
it’s going to be good. Just hang out. It’s going to be good. You know, I think that that’s what I I would say to my
younger self because the rest I don’t know. I just wouldn’t change it. I needed every bit of it.
Oh, no. Thank you for for sharing that with us. Storm. It has been such a pleasure this hour with you sharing, you
know, your your personal story as an astrologer, as a person, human, as a business person as well. Tell us what
are you up to this um second half of 2025? What what are you are you Stormie’s current work
teaching? Are you still doing readings? What are you up to? Yeah, D all of the above. I still I am
still teaching and we’re continuing to build GAFA which is my astrology school. It’s the Grace Astrological Fluency
Academy. And we focus again on helping you speak, read, and write the language of astrology with the emphasis on
speaking because I talk a lot. And so we are continuing to build that school, but
we actually took a step back in our building to realign with ESAR and with NCGR because we want each of our courses
to make it so that by the time you get to the end, not only can you get certified in the method of astrlency,
but you can also go and test to be certified as an astrologer to show and demonstrate that you have the skills of
the technique of astrology. So we’re working with um Astrobal right now from
ESAR to get every single course in alignment with being able to take that
test. So that is an undergoing a process. And currently I am seeing clients for sure. I’m seeing less
clients and really focusing on giving a lot of quality to my current clients. But people can book and we’re getting
ready for 2026. Every year I work with a team of astrologers and we all break
down the year based on our particular specialty. So this year I’m getting to work with
Christine Skinner who is fantastic in financial astrology. So she’s going to be walking every sign through the
financial aspects for the year. Right. I know Kira Sutherland’s coming in with medical. Tiffany Harlot comes in with
spiritual development. Colin Bedell is coming with relationships this year. and Helena Woods jumped on with us this year
and she’s going to handle travel. So, we are busy putting the 2026
together and those will be coming out just in October and then we are, you know, we’re always
like a year ahead in what’s going on and um so we’ll be doing that and I’ll be
finalizing my book that’s coming out in 2026 as well with Luwellyn Publishing.
So it’s a couple things are going What’s your book about?
Absolutely. It’s called the big book of planetary aspects. And so I spent two years going through every single natal
combination in a chart. I’m giving you a sentence and a breakdown not based on
chat GPT based on real client experience how you can start to speak it. The point
is to start speaking the aspect. And then I went all through the transit to
natal aspects as well. So it is a big old book like a an aspect bible maybe
it is the aspect bible for sure and I just love it so much because I’m like
this was sitting down and know and pouring in what I know about these aspects. It’s easy to go to ch GPT
today. we’re in the digital world, but I’m like, that’s not going to give you the substance and the nuance and it’s not going to get you to speak or wanting
to speak. So, that is what is happening. It sounds like it is a lot and it is, but there
are teams and people in place to help deliver the astrology so people are getting a good astrological experience.
That’s pretty cool. So, I’m going to leave Storm’s um details below in the description of the video if you want to
check out her website or obviously her social media, her academy, everything will be in the description below if you
want to explore more about Storm’s um upcoming plans and upcoming programs.
And Stormmy, once again, thank you so much for being here. I truly hope to have you back. I always I mean, there’s
like a good 20 questions waiting for you for the next time, but you know, I don’t
want to take much of your time. I appreciate your energy and you know, thank you for being here again.
Absolutely. Thanks for having me. Thank you guys for watching and see you in the next episode.
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