Astrology has been a blessing and a major part of my life.
If you're a soul-seeker looking for illumination on your path, you're in the right place.
We arrive from the heavens...A place of unconditional love, where we're all ONE of the whole.
Arriving in a human body is a jolt, for sure.
The more responsible and attuned our caregivers are to our unique essence, the more fully we can stay connected to who we are.
When our childhood environment mirrors and reflects our true identity, we become strong and resilient.
Then, down here in Earth school, we have individual lessons to master.
How we do this depends on many things, the most important being our childhood home environment.
When we struggle with our kids, the first place to look is inside ourselves.
When we pay attention, our kids show us where to look to heal and grow.
Astrology shows us how. 
Because the natal chart is the soul's curriculum, it is easier to feel at home in our bodies
and feel loved, safe, seen, and secure when we follow this blueprint.
Things feel easier for everyone,
including you, Mama, because you know that our kids are our teachers.
They chose us. Before we talk about parenting our kids,
we need to talk about parenting ourselves.
How do we do that?
When we use the ancient knowledge
of the sky, earth, and our natal chart, we have our unique soul curriculum as a guide.
Only when we know who we innately are can we support our kids in the same way.
"When you don't follow your nature,
there is a hold in the universe where you were supposed to be."- Dane Rudhyar, Astrologer
Parenting astrologyA divine and unique prescription for each child.
A guidebook and roadmap of how to best nurture ourselves and our kids
Connection — to my kid, my higher self, and connection to the Divine.
Nervous system-friendly and cosmically informed
- what it is
Parenting astrology combines two key things:
Natal Charts —
When both you and your kids are born, there's a unique map of the sky, a natal chart.
We pay close attention to the moon because our nervous systems develop during the moon years (from birth through age seven).
Nervous Systems —
You and your child
have unique bodies
and your own lived experiences.
My Path to Becoming a Parenting Astrologer
In 2005, I was a natural parenting educator,
a stay-at-home mom to my three-year-old son,
and expecting my second baby.
I did everything “right” - prenatal yoga, eating organic food,
and even having an unmedicated, natural birth.
It was a beautiful, uneventful pregnancy.
Within an hour of my daughter, Eva, being born,
something didn’t feel right.
She wouldn’t stop crying, and she couldn’t nurse.
I wasn’t able to soothe her for days, weeks, months.
Then came the feeding tube and pumping breast milk around the clock.
Our lives were turned upside down — we didn’t know what hit us.
Endless doctor visits, evaluations, therapies, and theories about what may be going on with her.
This was NOT part of my plan.
Eva is now a young adult and received her medical diagnosis at age five: cerebral palsy.
For the first part of Eva’s life,
my goal was to fix and heal her.I desperately wanted our circumstances to be different.
I wanted life to be easier for all of us.Eva’s unique needs consumed our family.
Other families were traveling and having fun vacations.
We were traveling too, visiting doctors and therapists and attending conferences.
My mom moved in with us for a short time. After some time, having it was no longer a practical or long-term solution, so we got full-time, live-in help.
We were still drowning.
We went into debt.
My marriage was struggling.
My son was becoming self-sufficient, not by choice but out of necessity.
“No, I’m fine. Really, I’m fine.”With the help of my coach, I worked through my feelings of trauma, grief, self-judgment, and jealousy toward other moms who had an easier, simpler life.
I longed for that ease and simplicity.
I felt isolated and alone.
Even though I had an amazingly supportive community of friends,
they just didn’t “get” my life.
I deeply wanted to connect with other moms who I could just sit with
and feel like they understood.
If you asked me how I was doing through all this, I’d say,
“I’m fine. Really, I’m fine.”
And I wanted so badly to believe it.
I wanted to be fine.
Maybe if I wrote in my gratitude journal more often, studied the Law of Attraction, or took up meditation, my life would be better.
Maybe if I prayed for a miracle I'd get one.Eva’s situation didn’t change, but our living situation did -
and it turned out to be a miracle.
In 2011, we moved from New Jersey to Pennsylvania so she could attend a Waldorf school for children with special needs — the only one in the United States.
My intuition told me this would be life-changing for her, and it was.
Within months of her starting first grade, I found myself among many other open-minded parents experiencing a similar journey.
The best part — Eva was thriving.
It felt like coming home.One afternoon, over a delicious homemade organic lunch with a small group of parents at the school’s kitchen, someone suggested that I have an astrologer read Eva’s natal chart.
I knew some basic astrology. I knew I was a Capricorn, my son was a Virgo, and Eva was a Pisces, but what more was there to know?
Secretly, at that lunch, I thought,
"Isn’t that stuff a little out there?” and …
"How can an astrology reading really help us?"
I was skeptical, but I knew I’d take them up on it.
Something was urging me to book an astrology reading.
At the time, I thought I’d said yes because it was something I hadn’t tried yet (and I tried almost everything), but when I look back...
I know that was my higher self speaking to me, my soul urging me to move forward and explore this so I could get back on my own soul path, support Eva on hers,
and eventually support other parents.
The astrology reading I had for Eva was a pivotal moment in both our lives and the lives of all my children.
In that reading, I started to feel something I had rarely felt since my parenting journey began — peace.
I felt peace.I could feel my body softening, but my mind was racing.
Everything I learned in that session described Eva to a T.
How did this astrologer know all of this?
My head was spinning.
Note: An astrological natal chart is essentially a soul’s blueprint of the life they intend to live in this lifetime.
That was when I ferociously dove
into my study of astrology.
I wanted to understand more about the cosmos and how they influence our personalities and emotions, how they can point to our gifts and challenges,
how they can point you in the direction of your destiny, and so much more.
A soul's blueprint for this lifetime.
The astrologer could describe Eva’s character in detail by looking at where the planets were when she was born.
Suddenly, it occurred to me …
She’s living the life she’s intended to live.Nothing is wrong with her, and she doesn’t need fixing.
As her mom, all I need to do is support her on her path. Her natal chart gave me the insight and practical tools to do just that.These thoughts led me to study astrology passionately, welcome the birth of my third child, and ultimately led me to create Luminary Parenting
and show you the same tools I learned.
She's living the life her soul intended to live.As I learned more about my chart, I was able to get back on my soul’s path.
Yes, we parents have one too!
And as I started to find my way back to myself, I began to trust, speak, and LIVE my truth.
I began to heal from the chaos and trauma.
After that astrology reading, everything suddenly made sense.
It was going to be okay.
I got my miracle after all.If you had told me when Eva was a baby that she’d be a young adult and wouldn’t be fully verbal, unable to run, jump,
and likely to fall into a crying, screaming puddle on the floor in under a second, and I’d be at peace with all of this …
I would never have believed it.
Being at peace with it is a miracle. 
I used to see my daughter as a child who needed to be fixed, healed, and different.
Many years later,I see her as a courageous soul doing her work in the world with rigor, passion, and zest.
I only use the words “cerebral palsy” now when I need someone to understand her “situation” quickly.
Sure, she has a boatload of challenges that I can’t even begin to understand what it’s like to live with.
But on some level, I know she’s living the life her soul intended to live…
and by having access to her natal chart, I know how I can best support her in the changing phases of her development and the ebb and flow of her daily life
as she walks her sacred, holy path.I know, on some level, her angels also led me to that first astrologer many years ago.
The peace that Eva feels knowing her mom understands her deeply and no longer needs her to be any different than she is, is the best gift I could ever give her.
My unconditional support, surrender, and acceptance.It’s my passion and life’s work to help other parents find their way home to themselves, while, at the same time, being the parent your child needs.
One that deeply understands them and sees them as a highly evolved soul desiring an experience that may be different and still divinely blessed and perfect.
For me, the trauma of Eva's early years still lived in my body. My nervous system was in fight or flight mode for a long time, and it took going back in time to reparent myself to heal my body and mind.
Now I get to help other parents reparent themselves
so that they can heal and
be the parent their child needs them to be.
I believe…The cosmos can point the way
In a natural, holistic approach to health
We are all one and connected to all living things
In living in accordance with the rhythmic flow and cycles of the moon, Mother Earth, and the celestial bodies
In the power of our thought, conscious and unconscious — they both have power
Unconditional love is our birthright, but sometimes, as humans, we get lost along the way
Unique human expression is beautiful — whatever that looks like
God and Goddess are in everything we see around us
Ecstatic dance as a spiritual practice
You can’t pour from an empty cup
Plants are our medicine
As women, pleasure is our teacher
In daily indulgences — like kombucha and dark chocolate
It takes a village. Community is vital
In prayer, miracles, angels, and fairies
On a soul level, things are always working out, regardless of how they appear
In being your rock, your shoulder, your no-BS soul sister
In deep conversations
In being raw and real and being unafraid of the truth
We’re not broken and neither are our kids
We need to challenge the status quo on a regular basis
In your children
In you
Our children can be our biggest teachers.Here I am with my 3 spiritual gurus, Alek, Eva & Gracie :)
Tara Vogel
Parenting Astrologer
Credentials & Professional Experience:
Founder of The Luminary Community
Certified Astrologer
Certified Professional Coach (CPC)
Astrology Teacher
Trained in the Internal Family Systems (IFS) theory of psychotherapy
Trained in the Polyvagal Theory of the nervous system
BS in Elementary Education
MS in Educational Leadership
4 years as a parent educator with La Leche League
Herbal Apprenticeship 2007
23 years of on-the-job training in Motherhood
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