A consultation with me is a descent, an intentional lowering into the deep story beneath your everyday life. We follow the threads of archetypal astrology, depth psychological insight, and mythic patterning to illuminate your personal journey. You come with what is true for you: the loss that undid you, the grief that won't lift, the rage you cannot explain, the longing you have no words for, the dreams that keep returning, the sense that something is dying and you do not yet know what is being born. I come with the maps.

Archetypal Astrology

We begin with your natal chart, your story written in the sky at the moment you arrived in the world. Here we read the deep structures of your psyche: your emotional patterning, your instinctual responses, your soul's particular geometry, and the desires that live beneath the surface of your conscious life.

Then we turn to your transits, the planetary movements currently in relationship to your natal positions. These illuminate the seasons you are moving through: which archetypal forces are active, what kind of descent is being asked of you, and what this period of your life is trying to initiate. A Pluto transit conjunct your Moon looks different from a Neptune transit over your Sun. Each planet speaks its own language. I help you learn to hear it.

Depth Psychology

We enter the territory of the unconscious: the shadow, the instincts, the buried emotions, the rejected parts of the self. We treat rage, grief, numbness, overwhelm, jealousy, and depression as messengers to be received. We hold the tension between the "good mother" you were taught to be and the whole mother you are becoming.

We explore what your dreams are saying. What your symptoms might be communicating. Where your vitality is caught in inherited stories or collective expectations. And how the disowned aspects of the maternal psyche — the fierce, instinctual, limit-setting dark mother — might be seeking integration rather than suppression.

Mythology as Medicine

Your life is already mythic. The question is which myth is moving through you, and whether you can see it.

We explore which goddess or archetypal force is most active in your current season: Is this an Inanna descent, a stripping of identity at each gate? A Demeter search, a grief that has reshaped the world around you? A Kali severing, fierce and compassionate, cutting away what has become overidentified?

We look at your maternal lineage: its wounds, its gifts, its silences, its severances, and the hidden wisdom it has been carrying for you. We trace where you are in your own Heroine's Journey, the arc of descent and return that myths across cultures have always known to be at the center of a woman's becoming.

Who This Is For

You may be in the early years of motherhood, finding that the reality you are living bears little resemblance to the one you expected. You may be navigating loss, a child who has grown away from you, a version of motherhood that has ended, a grief the world does not have language for. You may be moving through a Pluto transit, a Saturn return, a period of identity dissolution that has left you stripped of the certainties you once held. You may simply know, somewhere in your body, that what you are experiencing is a passage to be moved through.

If the language of descent and return, of shadow and integration, of myth and psyche speaks to you, we may be well-suited to work together.

What a Consultation Includes

Each session is 90 minutes and is held via video call. We can work as a single deep-dive consultation or as an ongoing series for those who feel called to a longer container of work.

Sessions draw from all three streams — archetypal astrology, depth psychology, and mythology — woven together in response to what you are living. No two consultations are alike.

Your natal chart is required for the astrological dimension of our work. If you do not know your birth time, we can work with what is available to us.

An Invitation

To reach out, email me at melissa@mythicmothers.com

Tell me where you are. What you are moving through. What brought you here. I read every message personally, and I will respond to you with care.

The descent is not the end of your story. It is the passage through which you find out who you are.