BIO

Pallas K. Augustine

Pallas writes and teaches about the Earth, the Sky, and humans’ place of connection between the worlds.

Their grounded, relational approach to astrology, ancestral healing, and the astromagical arts offers curiosity, connection, and courage to a wary, disconnected, and fearful time.

Pallas' work guides those cultivating profound trust and rootedness in the shared reality of being alive and embodied at this pivotal point in history toward deepened connection with our non-human and non-living kin, as well as to each other.

PALLAS’ APPROACH

“The work of healing is the work of relating."

"Reconnection to each other, to the Earth, to the Sky, and all creatures in between, visible and invisible, is cultural and relational repair.

Living astrologically offers ways to recover and re-enliven our magical, spiritual, and ancestral practices.

The living cycles of the Earth and Sky connect us more deeply to the present moment, to our personal and collective histories, and to the possibility of more just worlds.

Astrology and ancestral healing are not ends in themselves or only for the sake of our own wellness, as we are embedded in networks more complex and profound than we can ever know.

Our reconnection toward relationship, to the earth, to the sky, to the ancestors, to the spirits, and to each other, to support real systemic changes toward justice and repair, to the celebration of cultural differences against all supremacy is the point."

“The Earth and Sky are magic and so are you."

Pallas is the author of The IC: An Astrology of Coming Home, a Kickstarter 'Project We Love' funded in under an hour and currently in print production.

Alongside Rain Mason Olbert, Pallas is co-founder of Idola Stellarum, creating devotional and educational resources and community for the practice of relational astrological magic.

Pallas is a Practitioner-in-Training with Ancestral Medicine.

Pallas has spoken for NORWAC (Northwest Astrological Conference), ISAR (International Society for Astrological Research), Portland School of Astrology, Fresh Voices in Astrology, and Ancestral Medicine.

They have been involved in the international astrological community since 2016 and are on the Advisory Committee of the Association for Young Astrologers.

“Relational astrology is about connection, conversation, and care."

"I offer a relational approach to “Western” astrology, using both modern and traditional astrological techniques especially Hellenistic, Medieval, with a psychological and archetypal foundation.

I practice magic, cultivate embodiment, revere my ancestors, pray to the planets, believe conversation is sacred, and read tarot and a lot of books.

I hold a focus in my practice on healing, power, trauma, and relationships.

So-called "western” astrology is itself a colonial imposition on the skies, its history one of assimilation, theft, and devaluing of traditional knowledge. A queer astrology, a relational astrology, wrangles with its own history, recognizes its complicity, holds space for discomfort, and necessitates humility."

“You don’t have to be queer to receive a reading, but your reading will still be queer."

ABOUT PALLAS K. AUGUSTINE

(The Hebridean Way, Isle of Barra, summer 2019)

Who I am is who and where I come from.

I live in gratitude to the ancestors, my ancestors of body and vocation, as well as of the winds I breathe and lands on which I tread.

I was born on the flatlands of Manitoba, lands of Anishinaabeg, Cree, Oji-Cree, Assiniboine, Dakota, and Dene Peoples, the homeland of the Métis Nation.

I am the beloved descendant of teachers, farmers, bakers, weavers, musicians, gardeners, housekeepers, herbalists, Catholics, animists, the many unnamed and unknown who walk alongside me.

My ancestors before me came through Saskatchewan, Minnesota, Epekwitk—colonially known as Prince Edward Island, stewarded by the Mi'kmaq then, now, and before—from across the Atlantic, the Hebrides of Scotland as early as 1790, southwestern and central Ireland, the Julian Alps of Slovenia, the river flatlands of inner Slovenia and Croatia, and the Bukovina region of Romania and Ukraine as recently as 1930.

HISTORY

I’ve been studying stars and stories, cycles and secrets, since I was a child.

My mother and father, both teachers, artists, and people of the land, raised me to respect the inherent dignity of all people, animals, and places, as their ancestors taught them. My childhood home, that they built with their own hands just before I was born, is filled with books, art, culture, tools, craft from around the world.

My father talks to the birds. My mother feeds us from her garden. I learn so much from them both, like the importance of listening, to be confident in my voice, to care for the vulnerable, to face the truth, to balance my criticism with creativity, to value history and others' stories, to be curious and brave and strange and loving and kind.

And they always encourage me to write.

(Pallas about ten years old, as a dryad)

Growing up under the big skies of the Western prairies, a family friend first read my astrological chart as a child.

Already obsessed with faeries, ghosts, angels, the Earth and all her spirits, to be told I wasn’t imagining things when I linked my amateur astronomy with my mythology books was life altering.

Rural Canada in the 90s is not the place for cutting edge astrology, but I found some Dane Rudhyar, Linda Goodman, and Aleister Crowley in the family bookshelves and used bookstores. My first forays into occultism happened in these searches, as well.

Not long after, I found Astrodienst and Skyscript online, and started reading for my friends. I worked to decode any horoscope I could get my hands on, devoured Rob Brezsny's weekly Free Will Astrology column anytime we went to the city.

In the mess of alienation and madness that was my youth, I found solace and comfort in astrology, mysticism, and magic, alongside a similarly ad hoc education in anarchism, gay liberation, environmental history, and Indigenous thought.

I left the prairies to attend university out east in the belly of the Canadian beast. I earnestly began in Philosophy and Environmental Science, but eventually ditched the philosophy bros for the literary theory girlies, and moved from climate science into environmental history.

My shift away from hard science and Western intellectualism and return to the poetics and politics of the Land mirrored a failure to fit in with the more secular materialist culture I was surrounded by. Even at my most disconnected, I was still reading folks' astrology charts at parties and secretly consulting friends when they asked.

In my honours year as Neptune entered Pisces, I hit a point of no return and began to see my first professional astrologer, Julia Wawrzyniak-Beyer, in Toronto, ON to fill in the gaps in my self-education.

My own ancestor reverence practice began during my Saturn return in 2013, the same year astrological magic arrived as a consistent practice for me, a copy of the Picatrix coming into my possession and my relationships with the planets taking on the animistic, relational, devotional quality they maintain today.

My professional consultation practice began in late 2015, first in local queer and arts communities, and then across the US and Canada as I spent 2017-20 transient, developing deep relationships with many friends and colleagues and working with hundreds of humans ages 18 to 78 in person across the continent.

A pilgrimage to the UK and Europe to study the astrology of ancestral healing and transpersonal astrology in summer 2019 solidified my direct connection with the spirits of the dead, both my own and others, and I have since maintained a personal mediumship practice, as well as developing skills in various ancestral divination modalities.

Primarily an in-person astrologer and teacher until 2019, I transitioned to an entirely online practice, grateful to reach even more people around the world as a globally oriented ethic has always held my practice and my politics.

I currently shelter in the rich soil and humid elevation of a fertile river valley between the Berkshires and the Taconics in the Appalachians of Western Massachusetts, land of the Stockbridge-Munsee Mohican Nation.

I met, fell in love with, got engaged to, and filed an immigration application to marry my now-spouse—the brilliant mage-psychotherapist—Rain Mason Olbert in 2020. (That's us the first week we met in person.) We got married in 2022, and adopted our darling rescue pup Vepser in 2023.

We launched Idola Stellarum in March 2023 with our first collection of astromagical talismanic jewelry. We have since released numerous quarterly collections.

We opened our Inner Sanctum membership in June 2023, a secure container with trustworthy astrological magic resources to help folks cultivate relationships—corporeal and otherwise—and refine ritual practices to gain more confidence, connection, and capacity for real magic.

While I’ve been fortunate to study with some brilliant minds and read many good books, I owe the best of my practice to my clients and students. I am the astrologer and practitioner I am because of how they have challenged and supported me.

I am also and always immensely grateful to my best friends and family, including Diana Rose Harper (who wrote my bio!), West Ardere, Gray Crawford, Ariana Felix, Gabriel Rosas, Hugh Tran, Ursula Rising, Drew Levanti, and my spouse Rain Mason Olbert, each a fellow astrologer who has bettered my craft and my life through their wisdom, integrity, and care.

(West, me, Ari, Diana, and Gabe are pictured here at Rain and I's wedding.)

After a significant break from public work between immigration and the publication of 'The IC: An Astrology of Coming Home,' I am happy to be returning to teaching and speaking engagements as of summer 2024.

To read more about my education and training, keep scrolling.

To find more about where I have spoken, taught, and been published, please visit Media & Appearances.

EDUCATION

My Bachelor’s degree is in Literature and Environment, with a focus on the psychology, theory, and poetics of place, space, and landscape.

My Master’s degree specializes in feminist psychoanalytic theory, with a focus on trauma, affect, and neuroculture.

I have a Certificate in Teaching Excellence from Trent University with specialization in Equity and Wellbeing.

I am certified in Mental Health First Aid, Grief Literacy Training, and have training in crisis intervention and survivor support.

I participated in the Genesis Healing Institute’s Liberation Academy for White Practitioners, focusing on racial justice and cultural somatic healing.

I am currently in the Ancestral Lineage Healing Practitioner Training with Ancestral Medicine.

TRAINING

Select workshops & courses:

These lists are provided to show my lineage and education in the astrological/magical/spiritual industries and traditions and should not be taken as personal recommendations of specific teachers or schools. Also note I do not offer all of my divination, spirit, or healing skills in a professional capacity. I list numerous private skills here to demonstrate my commitment to continuing education as a diviner, astrologer, and consultant.

Dr. Michael Sweeney, Medical Qigong Studies, Red Thread Institute, Carbondale, CO (2023 - ongoing)

Ancestral Medicine Practitioner Network, Ancestral Lineage Healing Practitioner Training (November 2021 - present)

Austin Coppock - Renaissance Remedies: The Celestial Medicine of Marsilio Ficino, NORWAC 2024 Pre-Conference, Seattle, WA

Ivy Bromius, M.A.G.I.C Goals, CircleThrice (Winter 2024)

Pea the Feary, Creation Experiment (Autumn 2023)

Nicola Smuts-Allsop & Dr. Jenn Zahrt, Fertility Astrology Intensive, CAELi (Summer 2023)

Matthew Venus, Throwing the Bones, Spiritus Arcanum (2023)

Bent Sorensen, Read like the Devil: Playing Cards, Aradia Academy (2023)

Camelia Elias, Necromancy & Cartomancy, Aradia Academy (2022)

Jason Miller, Sorcery of Hekate (2022)

Animistic Witchcraft, The Winding Way Community, Althaea Sebastiani, (2021)

Genesis Healing Institute, Liberation Academy for White Practitioners (February - October 2021)

Being Here, Human - Grief Literary Certification Levels 1-3 (2021)

Jason Holley - Constellations of Meaning: Encountering the Mysteries Together in Astrological Consultation (NORWAC 2021)

Dr. Daniel Foor, Ancestral Medicine - Animist Psychology (Autumn 2020)

Bernadette Brady, Astro Logos - Medieval Tools (Autumn 2020)

Kevin Yee-Chan, Intuitive Arts - Ayurveda & the Five Elements (Summer 2020)

Dr. Daniel Foor, Ancestral Medicine - Foundations of Ritual (Winter 2020)

Mark Jones - Within You, Without You: the Astrology and Psychology of Relationships (NORWAC 2020)

Kelly Surtees - The Predictive Pot of Gold: Combining Transits and Progressions (NORWAC 2020)

The Anti-Violence Project - Supporting A Survivor (January 2020, Victoria BC)

Kevin Yee-Chan, Qigong for Health and Healing (2019-20, Victoria BC)

Jason Holley, Astrology University - Psychologizing Sect Series (November 2019)

Gordon White, Rune Soup - Ancestors & The Dead, Magical Geography, Saints (Autumn 2019)

Melanie Reinhart, Lynn Bell, Jane Ridder-Patrick, Darby Costello - The Astrology of Ancestral Healing, Faculty of Astrological Studies Summer School (August 2019, Oxford, UK)

Mark Jones, Keith Hackwood - The Leading Edge Masterclass, Pluto School (July 2019, Wales, UK)

Melanie Reinhart, Astrology University - Transits of Chiron: The Healing Journey Series (January 2019)

Althaea Sebastiani, Intro to Spirit Work, (Summer 2019)

Shawn Nygaard - Saturn and Jupiter: The Old Man and the Eternal Youth (November 2018, Washington State Astrological Association, Seattle, WA)

Caroline Casey - Astro*Trickster Training Council (NORWAC 2018, Seattle, WA)

BUSINESS TRAINING

Being an independent practitioner and small business is hard but from the outside (when it’s working) it can look effortless.

In aiming for transparency and to support other solo professionals seeking support, I’m sharing the business training I’ve done that have brought my practice to where it is today:

  • Captolia Eaton’s Digital Witch University since September 2021, on sustainable business development, archetypal brand marketing, and launch strategy.

  • Pea the Feary’s intensive programs on business energetics and time management since 2023.

  • Jeanna Kadlec’s Showing Up To The Work containers and the Astrology For Writers Discord, a place of comradery, commisseration, and encouragement to those living the creative life since 2024.

  • Patty Ryan Lee’s The Fiery Well and Coworking Coven since October 2021, on tech systems and website development.

  • Sarah Chappell’s now-retired Holistic Business Academy and Membership Accelerator from August 2020 to 2023, on business boundaries and mindset, communications, and membership development.

  • Monica Cadena’s Digital Allyship Intensive in January 2021, on responsible social media content and community management.

  • Diana Rose Harper’s 2020 beta run of Work Your Angles: Astro-Aesthetics Mini-Consult on authentic content creation.

  • Kelly Surtees’ 2018 Dinner and Drinks on Professional Development with the Association for Young Astrologers, on pricing and booking systems.

  • Endless conversation, commiseration, and peer support with colleagues and other independently practicing friends, from the multiple industries I’ve worked within.