I love, love, loved working with Celestyna. What started out as a kind of playful/indulgent form of self care turned into a supportive journey towards self awareness, self growth, and self acceptance.
Celestyna is a wonderful guide to wade inward through heavy things in a safe, structured, objective, fun, and sometimes humorous way. I love how she calls things straight and can call your awareness to things in a way that feels caring and healing. I felt instantly seen and validated in a productive way that went beyond me venting and her reflecting.
We did four sessions and I feel like we scratched the surface? I could talk to her forever! I simultaneously began seeing a therapist that I subsequently dropped, because I found my time with Celestyna significantly more insightful and productive. I felt as though we cut through shite that would have taken months in therapy in her first look at my chart.
I'm so thankful that she records her sessions as this is a treasure trove that I am eager to have on repeat to unpack all the gems as I work through what we talked about. She really goes above and beyond supplementing our calls in email updates.
I loved her insights about transits and other changes that made the chart really come to life dynamically interwoven and in communication with me rather than just a static snapshot of the sky at birth. This helped me to feel like self growth can bring out more joy/peace but still tempered by humility and awareness of what's beyond our control.
Her synergy readings with my husband and I were also on point and gave me tons to think about (one thing specifically I had never thought of was him feeling responsible for his mother’s pain/healing--which gives me so much more empathy than I had with the previous pattern of him blaming his dad and me feeling like he's always playing victim/martyr--something I still need to think about and unpack--and seems humorous since I'm so preoccupied with my own mother's pain/healing).
I found “what's mine, what's yours, what's ours?” thinking incredibly useful regarding relationships. I feel I need to sit with all we explored for some time, but I am already chomping at the bit to work with her again focusing on my kiddos charts.
It sounds a bit dramatic but I feel like this is a kind of life altering experience as she really helped me to think through/untangle myself from my past/traumas, private/public spaces/demands/careers, and my relationships to family, work, and self.
I can't think of any way in which working with Celestyna won't be helpful to anyone! If you're thinking about it, do it!
-S.R.