If my life were a book, it contains lots of chapters, each unique & varied, yet I couldn’t quite connect the dots or get the story to make sense. In this way, astrology provided a framework for me to understand my multitudes and trust the timing of my story.
I was born in a time of war, displaced for much of my early life until my family & I fled Vietnam by boat. We were in a refugee camp together, then sponsored to the United States. It took me many, long years to realize that the parts of myself that I was ashamed of, kept hidden & small, were actually my superpowers. The first time I saw an astrologer (the late and brilliant Jeff Jawer) he looked at my chart, looked at me, and said, You’re surprisingly optimistic for someone so long suffering. I felt in that moment deeply seen.
In the first half of my life, I have travelled all seven continents—most notably eight science support deployments to Antarctica and roam-schooled my kids on islands and archipelagos where we surfed with sea turtles. In some ways, my experience of being without a home has made me belong to the world at large.