Astrological Light Work Series (1)

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Prologue: The WHY of Shadowwork

What is Shadowwork?

Shadow work is the shedding of what no longer serves you—staring it in the face, acknowledging it, and having the courage to see your role in it, accept it, and feel your way through.

It’s the ultimate in taking 100% responsibility for yourself.
It’s the courage to dive deep, see the story you told yourself, and how it made you unhappy.
It’s about crashing the narrative that, through years of accumulated momentum, gained so much power over you—overflowing into all areas of your life.

Shadow work isn’t often considered “fun.”
But oh—how you feel on the other side of it? That is.

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Shadow Work = Light Work

So, to all of you out there—children of the cosmos—I say this:
Shadow work is light work.
It’s not to be feared.
You don’t become another person all of a sudden.

You do become the most balanced version of yourself.
You do increase your self-love.
You do call your scattered, disowned pieces back home to you.

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Two Sides of the Same Coin

Shadow is just the low road of your journey, and Light is the high road.
Alchemically, they both serve you.
I love to work with both modalities.
I call them reframing and granting grace to yourself, dissolving and breathing oxygen.
Both go hand in hand—evolving our humanity until the dawn breaks, and we see it, feel it: they are one; as we are one, and are both.

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Pure

And in abstraction, they are both pure energy.

If you want to know who you really are, this blog series is a gateway.
A gateway to inner work. To shadow awareness. To an energetic homecoming.
Do you long for this?

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Your Birthchart as Living Code

The astrological language is the vessel we use—not the destination.
I write to remember, not to convince.
To mirror, not to guide. 🌘

We start with the birth chart—but we don’t end there.
The chart is simply the energetic map imprinted at the moment of your first breath:
a living code, both blueprint and invitation for this lifetime, best compared with your DNA.

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The Use of the Elements

The elements—fire, earth, air, and water—led by the aether—form the foundational language of this series, because they are also the most basic parts of your chart.
They represent the first layer of life’s fragmentation, and because of this, also its most direct path to (re)integration.
They live in you already, as archetypal patterns, sensations, rhythms.
You don’t need to understand them—only to feel where they show up and how.

Energetic Storytelling

Through this series, I combine astrology with elemental parts-work and shadow practice.
I fill it in with energetic storytelling.

Each post begins with an energetic prologue, followed by a personal reflection rooted in my own chart, and ends with a soft yet honest closing: one of gratitude, perspective, and integration.

This threefold rhythm—introduction, expression, reflection—is the structure that holds the series.

As an open invitation, I’ll link it to another page where you’ll find the precise instructions on how to perform the energetic exercise yourself.

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Remember You

The stories you’ll read are raw and poetic, whispered from one fragment of being to another.
Sometimes I write to an energy (a planet, an element, a season).
Sometimes I write from it—like channeling that specific frequency.
But always, I write through it—allowing the conversation to move between parts of self that once stood isolated, now seeking reunion.

Because this isn’t about becoming someone new.
It’s about remembering someone ancient: you.
The version of you that was never broken, now scattered.
Disowned. Forgotten. Named ‘too much’ or ‘not enough’.

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Come Home

Shadow work is the act of saying:
I see you. I hear you. You belong.
Let me say that again, loud and clear: YOU BELONG!

Because once you own your black, your light flows clearer.
Feel free to take up your pen and perform these exercises yourself.
See what happens?

Let’s begin the homecoming.

Welcome home.

Now go beyond,
∞ Tini ∞

Interested to know more about Parts-work, the Elements, and Schadow & Lightwork?

Also read: WHY Astrology is Made for Energetic Work! (2)

These titles are some of my favorites; they added to my inspiration to bring this series.