Laura Tadd shares her journey from a traditional corporate career to becoming an intuitive astrologer and coach, helping women align their lives with purpose, timing, and self-trust.
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If you’ve ever felt like you’re checking all the “right” boxes, but still feel unfulfilled, this episode will resonate deeply. Laura Tadd shares how she moved from a structured corporate path into a more intuitive, purpose-driven life and business rooted in astrology and personal alignment.
In this conversation, Laura opens up about learning to trust her inner voice, navigating uncertainty during major life pivots, and how astrology became a powerful tool for understanding timing, energy, and decision-making. She also breaks down how women can reconnect with their intuition, step out of societal expectations, and create a life that actually feels aligned.
This episode is a powerful reminder that your path doesn’t have to look conventional to be meaningful, and that clarity often comes when you start listening inward instead of outward.
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Laura Tadd is an intuitive astrologer and coach who helps women use astrology as a tool for self-discovery, alignment, and intentional living. Through her work, she empowers clients to trust themselves, understand their timing, and design lives rooted in purpose.
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Toby Myles: Hey, Laura, welcome to the podcast.
Laura Tadd: Hi. Thanks so much for having me on.
Toby Myles: I'm excited for this conversation. I usually kick things off by sharing how we know each other, and you and I met in a, um, speed networking
Laura Tadd: mm-hmm. Yeah.
Toby Myles: Group, um, several months ago. And, um, I just was fascinated by, um, the work that you do because it's not.
Every day that, yeah, right. Like you know this. Yeah. I'm sure people have told you this before, but it was just fascinating to me. I'm, which is one of the reasons why I have this podcast because I am so curious about, um, all the different ways in which we can like. Serve people and
Laura Tadd: mm-hmm.
Toby Myles: Have a business and a career and all those things.
And so when we met, I was like, wow, this is, I need to know more about this. And so then we hopped on a call a couple weeks ago and I, and I just really felt like this would be a really great conversation to have on the podcast. So I appreciate you being here, um, and being open to this conversation. So I would love for you to take us back to a moment in time, or maybe it's more than one moment where you feel like really.
Kind of put you on the path that you're on right now.
Laura Tadd: Um, so I had to sort of secure this route educationally wise. Um, I now have a doctorate, but getting there, you know, took three undergrads before I landed on where, where I finally got a degree. And so I got my undergraduate degree at Antioch in Santa Barbara, California.
And while I was there, one of my professors, she and her. Wife ran a women's group, um, to just, you know, like support group, women's group. It was a psychology professor and they used astrology to help frame what was going on in the lives of the women in the group. And I was raised by hippies, so astrology was always kind of around.
Mm-hmm. Um, just sort of the nature of being a gen Xer raised by hippies that just. Was my world, but it never in the deep dive that I experienced it in my mid twenties. And there was just, I described it as sort of like, like the acting bug. I just sort of got get bit by the bug when I started looking at life through an astrological lens to understand myself and the people in my life, um, and was able to.
I find a lot of healing in it as well. Mm-hmm. And just once you sort of get bit by the, a bug in that way, it's sort of, you just dive in and it can be briefly even like all consuming. 'cause it sort of, you start seeing it everywhere.
Toby Myles: Yeah.
Laura Tadd: I think about it sort of like when you think about buying a new car and suddenly everybody's driving it.
Right,
Toby Myles: right. That one car that you're thinking about. Yep. Exactly.
Laura Tadd: Exactly. Um, so then sort of started seeing the whole world. Through that lens.
Toby Myles: Mm-hmm.
Laura Tadd: Um, was really sort of how it, how it began.
Toby Myles: Yeah.
Laura Tadd: Um,
Toby Myles: and so then, so, um, and I guess like you said, you raised by hippies, so for your parents it wasn't anything.
Out the ordinary. They didn't try to say, oh no, you need to be a doctor or a lawyer.
Laura Tadd: No. Yeah, they
Toby Myles: so talk
Laura Tadd: They were, yeah, they were enc They weren't discouraging about it, for sure.
Toby Myles: Yeah. Yeah. So talk about then, um, you know, the, the, the education that you got, um, and how that either taught you. More about what you wanted to do and maybe even more so, more about what you didn't want to do in life.
Sure.
Laura Tadd: Yeah. So with undergrad then I was studying psychology and um, after I had finished, I just got a more broad sort of liberal studies undergrad degree. Mm-hmm. Um, and then I was working as a massage therapist and sort of not quite sure if I wanted to go the clinical psych route, had tried a program dropped out.
'cause it just felt. I don't know, it just felt so much about just labeling people as having problems as opposed to actually healing.
Toby Myles: Yeah.
Laura Tadd: And so I had dropped out of a graduate program, an MFT program, so marriage and family therapy. Mm-hmm. Um, and was, yeah, so looking at then combining either astrology or body work with psychology, so more somatic psychology.
Toby Myles: Mm-hmm.
Laura Tadd: Um, and was in that inquiry. When a couple things happened, so I, um, when, when I lived in Santa Barbara, there was a ante temple that's there that's a sect of Hinduism, and it's just a space where you can go up and meditate, sort of. They do hold different talks and teachings there, but. 12 hours a day, seven to seven, seven days a week, you can just like walk in and meditate if you want to.
Toby Myles: Mm-hmm.
Laura Tadd: Um, and so I went in and meditated as to whether or not I should pursue academically more, um, somatic psychology, which is dealing with the body Right. And helping us process stuff that we hold in the body mm-hmm. Versus pursuing astrology.
Toby Myles: Mm-hmm.
Laura Tadd: And it felt very clear as soon as I. Sort of really sat in that, that it was like, I do body work and I'm fried.
I am emotionally and physically depleted. Mm-hmm. As much as I find it to be very helpful and healing to people for my system, it wasn't, I was like, I don't wanna have a career and a life that just feels exhausting. Yeah. It doesn't feel rewarding. And when I work with astrology, I, I feel high is the only way.
It's like, well. Given those, do I want my life to feel like I'm high or do I wanna feel exhausted?
Toby Myles: That's easy choice. Yeah.
Laura Tadd: Um, and so then started looking at more of the work that's been done on astrology through a psychological lens.
Toby Myles: Mm-hmm.
Laura Tadd: And was finding work that had already been researched on about.
Applying family systems theory and psychology through an astrological lens.
Toby Myles: Mm-hmm.
Laura Tadd: And seeing how working in that way and you doing multi-generational healing through an astrological lens.
Toby Myles: Mm-hmm.
Laura Tadd: And the more I studied it, the more fascinated I became by it. And because I had been raised by hippies and by parents that are meditation teachers, um, I'd seen how hard it was for them to be taken seriously outside of.
The Woo world,
Toby Myles: right.
Laura Tadd: Um, and felt that if I really wanted to pursue this path and have a more alternative approach to healing and counseling, that I needed to have some letters after my name. Mm-hmm. Um, and so I found a graduate program, um, that allowed me to pursue it in that way and with this idea of, okay, that helps me get my foot in the door.
In other places that might, I observed my parents taking decades to be recognized simply because they lacked the societal credentials regardless of how gifted they were.
Toby Myles: Yeah.
Laura Tadd: Um, and so that became sort of the pursuit for a while of, of getting a master's and then eventually a doctorate, um, in human science, which is an interdisciplinary social science degree.
So pulling from psychology and sociology and philosophy and interweaving all of that. Done. Still through astrological lens.
Toby Myles: Mm-hmm.
Laura Tadd: Ultimately, and so, oh
Toby Myles: my gosh. It's like you created something.
Laura Tadd: Yeah.
Toby Myles: I mean, it does, like, who, it's not like with the experience you already brought to that next level of your education.
Um, and then you got the, you know, the degrees, the letters behind your name, um, and you create this whole thing that like. It's not like, it's not like somebody you know, necessarily growing up would say, oh, that's exactly what I wanna do. Like you created it.
Laura Tadd: Yeah. Right. No, it's not. I know. I mean, 30 years ago I was a poli sci major.
Mm-hmm. I was gonna go into environmental law. That was the plan 30 years ago, and that's not the path I ended up taking. Mm-hmm. Um, and. And I, I'm happy with the path that I ended up taking. Yeah. It, it doesn't mean that those aren't still interests of mine, but in terms of career wise, that work that feels emotionally, physically, spiritually, intellectually fulfilling.
Toby Myles: Mm-hmm.
Laura Tadd: Um, that, and that's. That's the goal to me.
Toby Myles: Yeah, of course. Right, right. As it should be. Right? Like, I can't tell you how many times I've had guests on the show, um, that talk about, you know, that idea that, well, I, I did the thing I was supposed to do. I. That my parents thought I should do, or the, that society, you know, that makes sense to society, the law degree, the medical degree, like those sorts of things.
But then I went and did the thing that I really was meant to do that I really felt like was in alignment, you know, with my purpose. And, um, sometimes it makes me sad that. Takes some of us so long to find Yeah. That thing.
Laura Tadd: Yeah. I, I, I think, I mean, astrologically, there's sort of a timing of that, of sort of early forties midlife crisis time.
Mm-hmm. That happens for all of us. That is a time of stepping into authenticity and if we've been really sort of inauthentic for the first two decades of our adult life, that's where the midlife crisis. Often comes in of like, oh my God, when did this become my reality? This isn't the life I wanted to live.
Um, and we can make 180 degree changes in our lives to become more aligned with our authentic self.
Toby Myles: Yeah. And which, which then makes me wonder, like, okay, so it, it takes that long, right? But does it have to take that long? Like do we have to go through those early. Steps, struggles at, uh, misalignment in order to get into alignment?
Laura Tadd: I don't think we have to. I think it's a different for everybody. You know, some people it depends on what is your support system going in and, and parenting and how you were ra you know, that how much of I was fortunate to have the support mm-hmm. Of parents who. We're, you know, that it's about you feeling fulfilled with your work, not about the paycheck.
Right. I was fortunate to be raised with that perspective of I'd rather live small from a financial perspective and feel personally fulfilled.
Toby Myles: Sure.
Laura Tadd: Um, and not everybody gets that. Yeah. That story. Um,
Toby Myles: yeah.
Laura Tadd: And so for some people, and it can be multi-generational, right? Of just. It's about being financially solvent and that's what matters.
And happiness isn't the priority. Mm-hmm. Um, and so it can take longer to undo that.
Toby Myles: Mm-hmm.
Laura Tadd: Particularly if it's multi-generational, right? Mm-hmm. That there's so many people, parents, grandparents, great-grandparents who that, when that's the narrative, and sometimes there's situations where like, there just aren't the freedoms to pursue what we want.
Toby Myles: Sure. Yeah.
Laura Tadd: That we're saddled with a fewer option, you know? Events in life that make it much, much more difficult.
Toby Myles: Right.
Laura Tadd: To pursue passions as opposed to practicalities.
Toby Myles: Right, right. And you know, we can get into this, um, cycle of, um. Accumulating more stuff.
Laura Tadd: Yeah,
Toby Myles: buying more things. Having families, you know, needing obli, you know, obligations, cars, whatever, mortgage, all the things.
Laura Tadd: Yeah.
Toby Myles: To, so we get to the point where we feel like we don't have a choice to actually make any other. Choices. Right? Right. Yeah. Like we're locked into all these re responsibilities to other people and financially and things like that. And so I wonder, is that a very American thing? Like I, obviously I'm American, I'm patriotic.
Yeah. I love my country. Right. But, um, I have lived other places. Um, I lived in Israel for a while, and so I'm just wondering like, is that, um. Have you found in your experience that that is kind of like an American problem, like in other cultures? Is it, yeah. Is that less of a thing?
Laura Tadd: I do think, I think it's becoming more of a global thing.
Toby Myles: Yeah.
Laura Tadd: I think that, but there is, in my, I've got a lot of family in Europe and the extent of the materialism that I see in this country. Is less prevalent in a lot of Europe. Um, or just like you don't need as many things or the amount of options. I remember years ago, one of my siblings who grew up in Ireland was looking at colleges in the States, and he was staying with me, so I was taking him around to colleges and he had sprained his wrists.
So we went to CVS to get a brace for his wrist and at like 18, 17 or 18. His mind was blown by the number of options he had for a wrist brace.
Toby Myles: Yeah.
Laura Tadd: Because he's used to having like, okay. Size options, maybe two different brands.
Toby Myles: Mm-hmm.
Laura Tadd: Five brands and four, six different sizes. Like he, he couldn't quite comprehend the amount of options.
Yeah. The number of things. And so that I do feel, from what I've seen, appears to be very American.
Toby Myles: Yeah.
Laura Tadd: Um. And that can be part of that materialism as opposed to like, okay, you have a couple choices and you have what you need.
Toby Myles: Mm-hmm.
Laura Tadd: And that can have you feel satisfied.
Toby Myles: Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah. It's funny because when you were, when you were talking about that, uh, it reminds me of like, it many times.
Um, I'm looking for something and I go, you know, to online and I can compare all these things and I can easily waste like an hour or more just comparing, looking at the five star reviews and what this person saying, what that person say, you know? And you're essentially comparing 10 different things that are incrementally different.
Like really. Like you said, one or two choices would be fine and I would just pick from one or two if that was what I had, and I'm sure it would be fine. Yeah. For whatever it was. Right. So, um, that's super interesting. I hadn't really thought about that. Also, in addition to all the other materialistic things Right.
You know, that go along with our lifestyle here. Um, you know, the American dream is having the house and the car and the. Job and the, you know, all the things. Yeah. And I'm not knocking that, trust me, you know, I'm, you know, I live in a nice house and I have a car that's paid off and, you know, we have a motor home and we have like, we have our toys too.
But, um, I have often wondered like, what would it be like if I just. I sold everything and lived in my rv.
Laura Tadd: Yeah. Yeah. There's something that can be really lovely about simplicity. Mm-hmm. In that way. I was just in Nicaragua for about 10 days. I helped run a retreat there. Um, at least annually I've got a friend who has a retreat center there, and I remember the first time I went four years ago now, and this sense of like, oh, I don't need that much.
Toby Myles: Yeah.
Laura Tadd: Right. And then I was like watching life on Facebook and people posting about, and all these things and things that they were wanting or selling and you know. Mm-hmm. I was going, huh. So I have food and I have a bed and I have a kitchen. Mm-hmm. And I'm working, and
Toby Myles: yeah,
Laura Tadd: people, I'm like, what do, uh, what more do I need?
It's like, yeah. In a lovely, I'm like, I can fall asleep to the ocean. Like one more. I'm good.
Toby Myles: Yeah, yeah, yeah. I guess like. Is it, you know, accumulating it and then having the opportunity to see it like really simplified, stripped down to realize like, yeah, I have all these things, but do these things really make me happy,
Laura Tadd: right?
Yeah. And there are things where I was like, I probably, it's like I've moved around the country a bunch and it was like this stuff I've taken with me between like Vermont and California and Seattle, and now Georgia. I'm like. It's like, well, I have my books. My books I've had
Toby Myles: Yeah.
Laura Tadd: Forever. And those would feel really hard to give up.
Toby Myles: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
Laura Tadd: And take up a lot of space. Yeah. But yeah, I think that there's something to simplicity that then what you are able to spend your time and attention on too. Yeah. When there's less square footage to clean, you've got more time in your day.
Toby Myles: Exactly. Exactly. So I wanted to circle back to, um, just the idea of you feeling like, um, you needed to have the degree
Laura Tadd: Sure.
Toby Myles: To, um, it to, for people to take it seriously. Right?
Laura Tadd: Yeah.
Toby Myles: And, um, and I could definitely see that like I, um. I did something in a previous career for similar reasons. I went and got certified as a project manager, even though I was already a project manager, but my degree was in graphic design. But I was a project manager in a marketing firm.
Mm-hmm. And I felt like, oh, if I have this project management certification, it's gonna help me in this career, even though I'm already doing the job. Right. And so I went and spent. Many hours, um, and money to get that certification and then to keep up that certification because, you know, it's never just like, here's your certification right now, you have to like, maintain it.
And so, um, can you just talk about that a little bit? Your, your, your thoughts about doing that and how do you feel like what you actually, um, like yes, you got the letters, but you, you did like a whole. You know?
Laura Tadd: Yeah.
Toby Myles: Degree. Yeah. And how, how does that, um, material that you learned and, and um, you know, that fed into the practice that you
Laura Tadd: Sure
Toby Myles: you have now?
Laura Tadd: Yeah, I mean I think there's multiple levels, right? So there's the practical like skillset. Mm-hmm. And at least the school I went to, um, I went to Saybrook University that was founded by Carl Rogers and Rollo May, so very existential transpersonal psychology. Mm-hmm. Um, there weren't tests, so everything was writing.
Mm-hmm. So it taught me to write, 'cause I was having to write. Hundreds and hundreds and pages to graduate. Mm-hmm. Um, and so that's part of then getting the work out there is like I learned, if anything I've had to learn, unlearn how to write academically. 'cause that doesn't work for the masters.
Toby Myles: Yeah.
Laura Tadd: Um, but um, so that was a piece of it.
I think two for me. Um, I'm dyslexic and so, um, there was a piece of getting those letters after my name in terms of my own confidence. Mm-hmm. In the world where even though my parents were very supportive around my being dyslexic and didn't see dyslexia as a reflection of intelligence,
Toby Myles: right,
Laura Tadd: was not the message I got from society.
Yeah. It was not the message I got in school for my, when I was young and at least. Um, and so being able to. There. Part of it was this drive to sort of prove the teachers who told me I wasn't good enough. Wrong.
Toby Myles: Yeah.
Laura Tadd: Um, and so there was a piece of that, that was the driving was a driving force.
Toby Myles: Sure.
Laura Tadd: As well.
Yeah.
Toby Myles: Yeah.
Laura Tadd: Um, and so to build my own confidence, which still sometimes would creep in of like, I. Got my doctorate and there'd be times she was like, oh, well maybe they just like wanted me out of the school and they let me graduate. Right. Which, like, if I am honest, if I'm like one of my, like members on my thesis teaches at Harvard, she's not letting me slide.
Like
Toby Myles: Right.
Laura Tadd: She know her. She's not gonna just be like, oh, we want her to graduate. Let's just get her to go.
Toby Myles: Mm-hmm.
Laura Tadd: But the traumatized 8-year-old, that still lives within me. Has that voice sometimes.
Toby Myles: Mm-hmm.
Laura Tadd: Um, and so it was really valuable to go through that process just in terms of self-development, even more than sort of the book knowledge that I got.
Toby Myles: Yeah.
Laura Tadd: That almost feels secondary to how, and I, I mean, it's a long time to get a doctorate. I basically was in grad school for my thirties. Mm-hmm. Um, and so the self-development that came about that and then how that is then able to be applied when I work. With clients in terms of knowing the challenge, like how to persevere in the midst of difficulty.
Mm-hmm. The more sort of lived experience you have with that, the more I think authentic you're able to be when you sit with people, um, and 'cause they, it's not just sympathy, it's empathy. You're able to, I'm able to empathize in a way that I wouldn't necessarily be able to. Without challenges that I've been through in life.
Toby Myles: Sure. Yeah.
Laura Tadd: Yeah. And, and then the piece of, yeah, getting my foot in the door. In places mm-hmm. Without having to spend years building a name for myself.
Toby Myles: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
Laura Tadd: That I was able to get published in an astrology magazine pretty quickly because they liked for them, they liked Oh, that adds credibility for them.
Yeah, of course. A PhD after my name.
Toby Myles: Yeah.
Laura Tadd: Um, and um, yeah, and just then who. Is more open to what I have to say that maybe really questions the validity of astrology. Yeah. That they see it as something, nothing more than sort of the back of Cosmo. Mm-hmm. Um, and there must be like, well there must be like you, you did all this.
You have a degree that you're able to apply to it. Um, and. Yeah. And again, just sort of the building the confidence for myself and yes, some of the skill sets in terms of counseling skills and all of that, that
Toby Myles: mm-hmm.
Laura Tadd: That are valuable when you're sitting with anybody and helping them hold space and helping them process stuff.
Toby Myles: Yeah.
Laura Tadd: But I think a big part of it was just self-confidence too.
Toby Myles: Yeah. Yeah, for sure. So, um, I would think, and maybe I'm wrong, but I would think that, um, oftentimes people don't understand how. The work that you do can help them, right? Sure. And so, so that's probably like the first part of the conversation is, is educating people.
And I know that you have your own podcast and I know you're a guest, um, on, uh, talk Cosmos podcast, right? Yeah. Um, and so what is that like, um, like if you can sort of paint a picture of like a common kind of like, um, scenario where you meet somebody and, and they don't really understand. The work that you do, like, what does that conversation broadly sound like without, you know, you don't have to talk about any clients or anything like that.
Yeah. Can you kind of like paint that picture for me?
Laura Tadd: Well, so often people are coming in with little to no knowledge. Like they might know that their, their sun sign, they might know that they're. And Aries since we just moved into Aries season mm-hmm. With this spring equinox. Um, and a little bit about what that means, but beyond that, they don't have any idea.
Toby Myles: Yeah.
Laura Tadd: And the reality is, and it's in Western astrology, so the type I practice as opposed to like Vedic is what's practiced in India and they're all calculated a little differently. Um, is it every celestial object in the sky was in some was somewhere. And represents archetypally different parts of the self.
Mm-hmm. So when I work with somebody, I'll talk about how astrology can help them understand themselves.
Toby Myles: Mm-hmm.
Laura Tadd: And also, um, so understand themselves and I find that it sometimes like gives per people permission to be flawed 'cause we mm-hmm. Know areas where we think we should be better or doing better or, yeah.
Succeed in a different way or respond in a different way. And that that shows up in the chart and I, it helps mitigate the self shame and self blame that we are all also susceptible to. Mm-hmm. Where that tape of like I coulda should have woulda and it shows up in the chart saying like, this is a hard for you and that's okay.
We all have things in life that are harder for us.
Toby Myles: Yeah.
Laura Tadd: And this is yours and. Welcome to be inhuman,
Toby Myles: right.
Laura Tadd: Um, and giving people that grace I, whether it's in person or virtually, I watch people drop and exhale and sort of just sit more calmly in their body, just giving them that space to be imperfect.
Toby Myles: Yeah.
Laura Tadd: Um, and so there can be the more broad looking at it there where things were when they were born in their personal astrology and helping them understand themselves. With some objectivity from my perspective, you know that. And also if there's things going on currently that are really challenging or opportunities.
Looking at how that's playing out astrologically so they can reframe the difficulty and that it's not just hard for the sake of being hard.
Toby Myles: Mm-hmm.
Laura Tadd: That where is the lesson where, how can it be understood as an opportunity to grow and evolve?
Toby Myles: Mm-hmm.
Laura Tadd: As opposed to just have to power through.
Toby Myles: Yeah. Yeah.
Just like, oh, well that's just who I am, so, oh, well.
Laura Tadd: Yeah.
Toby Myles: Right. Yeah.
Laura Tadd: And when things are particularly challenging, giving them a timeline. For that. Um, or if they're just coming out of something really difficult.
Toby Myles: Mm-hmm.
Laura Tadd: Often it's an astrological alignment that is really unusual or very rare, like every several decades or once a lifetime.
Toby Myles: Mm-hmm.
Laura Tadd: And so to be able to be like, yeah, you've are on the back end of this event that like won't ever happen again.
Toby Myles: Hmm.
Laura Tadd: Can be so relieving to people of like, okay, yeah, there's some integration. It's not quite done maybe, but that like it's never happening again this lifetime.
Toby Myles: Yeah.
Laura Tadd: Doesn't mean there aren't hard things, but like that type of hard.
You're done with. Yeah. You've survived it. Good on you. Right. Like you had that perseverance, you, you, you got through it.
Toby Myles: Mm-hmm.
Laura Tadd: And now there's the healing and the integration, maybe that's left.
Toby Myles: Mm-hmm.
Laura Tadd: And that too ends up being just so powerfully releasing for people to know that Okay. Right. I, I got through the other side, or I'm almost there.
And when you're in the midst of incredible difficulty to be told, like, okay, like give it two months. When you're in it and it feels like it will be forever. Mm-hmm. You're like, oh, I can do two months. Mm-hmm. I can't do 20 years, I can do two
Toby Myles: months. Yeah. Yeah. Or even just the not knowing, right? Yeah. Like you're in the middle of something.
You'd like to think it's gonna get better, but you don't really know. It just feels like it is going to go on forever and ever and ever.
Laura Tadd: Yeah. And so being able to give a timeline and being able to help reframe things
Toby Myles: mm-hmm.
Laura Tadd: For people, um. Is just, it's so healing, I think. Yeah. And help, whether it's their own life or I work with couples and families, so understanding the interpersonal dynamics
Toby Myles: mm-hmm.
Laura Tadd: Of why your kid pushes your button in the way that they do. And what's the growth in that? 'cause kids are our teachers and we're theirs.
Toby Myles: Mm-hmm.
Laura Tadd: And, um, and so being able to, you know, I find it really helpful for parents to work in that way and Yeah. And for adults to understand their parents too. Right. We have, no matter how old we get, we, you know, I was like, you think you're enlightened, then you go home for a weekend and you're 50, right?
Yeah. And so to understand that. Parent child dynamic, regardless of how old the members of the family are.
Toby Myles: Mm-hmm.
Laura Tadd: Um, that, that can really be helpful in healing
Toby Myles: as well. Yeah. Yeah, because I think that, um, and my, my parents are both gone now. Um, and I had a great childhood. No complaints there, but I can definitely see ways in which, um.
I have had to overcome certain things as an adult that I think my parents, you know, just because of who they were and how they grew up, um, just, you know, left me with unintentionally. Um, and, um. But you know, I think I see the opposite too, where people cannot seem to move on from like the trauma of childhood.
And I'm not talking about like serious major abuse of, you know, right. Stories like that. Obviously that's like a category unto itself. But I mean, I think just general things, you know, um, that, that maybe if as adults we had more understanding, we would. We would be able to forgive, but we would ourselves also be able to just say, no, that's like, that's what it was.
They did the best. I did the best. But I don't have to be tied to that story.
Laura Tadd: Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I tied to that story or just like it's can be a level of acceptance.
Toby Myles: Mm-hmm.
Laura Tadd: Right. Of like that is just the dynamic. It is. Right. And for just trying to square peg, round hole, something. Just ends up really stressful.
Toby Myles: Yeah.
Laura Tadd: Right. And so being able to say like, okay, that's the dynamic, and how does it feel to just accept that that's the dynamic as opposed to trying to force it to be something that it isn't. Yeah. Or you know, if you don't have the opportunity to process something with the parent who's transitioned, right?
Mm-hmm. It's like, okay. Whereas you can still heal even if you can't have the conversation with that.
Toby Myles: Mm-hmm.
Laura Tadd: Parent.
Toby Myles: Yeah.
Laura Tadd: And so astrology helps give a perspective, and I don't look at astrology as causal. Mm-hmm. It's correlational.
Toby Myles: Mm-hmm.
Laura Tadd: Um, it's not that your astrology is causing you to have a challenging relationship with mom.
It's saying like, oh, there's a dynamic here where like a mother figure is, there's an innate challenge when it comes to getting your needs met. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. It's not causing it, it's just sort of, I even linguistically so astrology. The etymological root of astrology is the language or story of the stars.
Toby Myles: Okay.
Laura Tadd: Um, logos language or speech story and astro star. Okay. Um, and so I look at astrology as, it's the story. It's the sky is telling a story mm-hmm. Of what's happening on earth.
Toby Myles: Hmm.
Laura Tadd: Oh my
Toby Myles: gosh. I love that. I love that.
Laura Tadd: So as astrologers, I'm, I'm interpreting the story, I'm putting it into language that is understandable to the non astrologically fluent.
Um, and, and so it's sort of, okay, here's the story. How do we wanna live into the story? And we do have some free will. I don't think everything is. Feta complete. Mm-hmm. Um, that there is a mixture of fate and free will. Mm-hmm. Um, the analogy I used in my dissertation is the Choose your Own Adventure books that were sort of like young adult books.
Yeah. In the, they're probably still around but seventies and eighties. Um, where, you know, you're reading the book and you're like, you want Tom to open the door? Turn to page 52. You want him to. And turn around and not open the door. And turn to page 75. You're right, you had some autonomy in terms of the direction of the narrative.
Toby Myles: Mm-hmm.
Laura Tadd: But you had a finite number of options.
Toby Myles: Mm mm-hmm. Yeah.
Laura Tadd: And so that's sort of how I see astrology in terms of that balance of fate and free will.
Toby Myles: Yeah. Yeah.
Laura Tadd: Is we have some autonomy, some choice in part like how we respond.
Toby Myles: Mm-hmm.
Laura Tadd: That here's the astrology, here's the story. How are you gonna respond to the events that occur?
Yeah. Yeah. And that changes the direction of the narrative a little bit. Yeah. Um, but that there's still you Yeah. There's still some stuff that's faded and there's still some choice.
Toby Myles: Yeah. Interesting. Oh, so interesting. So, um. Well, you're talking about, um, like, um, like the moment you're born. Yeah. Like the, the, the, the what is there, is there the moment that you're born, right?
Yeah. And I know about, and. People can't see because we're on, um, podcast, but I'm holding up my fingers like a teeny tiny little like pinch. Um, I know this much tiny little bit about human design and so what you're describing sounds similar to that. And so I would love if you could just kind of like talk about that a little bit because I don't, and I don't mean to offend anybody, but I know human design has really gotten a lot of popularity.
Laura Tadd: Yeah.
Toby Myles: In recent years, um, and I had somebody, um, who's, you know, very well versed in it, explain to me what it is, and, um, tell me who, what mm-hmm. What I am based on my, where I was born in the day Yeah. And the time and all that. So can you talk a little bit about that and how it's. Either similar to or different from astrology?
Laura Tadd: Sure. I mean, I don't know much about human design mm-hmm.
Toby Myles: But
Laura Tadd: it pulls from astrology.
Toby Myles: Okay.
Laura Tadd: Astrology is much, much, much older. Yeah. Um, astrology, as we know it is about 3000 years old.
Toby Myles: Mm-hmm.
Laura Tadd: Human design is a couple decades.
Toby Myles: Yeah.
Laura Tadd: So, um, it, human design pulls from various different. Um, atory and tools. So it uses the ing, which is from China.
Mm-hmm. It uses numerology, it's using astrology.
Toby Myles: Mm-hmm.
Laura Tadd: Um, and it's blending things, um, together and coming up with more, with fewer. Labeling, like fewer terms. Right. Okay. I mean, human design is different, but like the, like the Myers-Briggs, right? Mm-hmm. You only have. A handful of op Right. Four, four things that can be mixed up in different ways.
Toby Myles: Right.
Laura Tadd: So human design is, is narrower in that sense. Mm-hmm. Like Myers-Briggs. Mm-hmm. In terms of the number of options.
Toby Myles: Mm-hmm.
Laura Tadd: Um, and whereas astrology is looking at time, date, and so you used time, date, and place
Toby Myles: Right.
Laura Tadd: In human design. So time of birth, date of birth and location on the planet.
Toby Myles: Right.
Laura Tadd: Um, and, but there are, astrology is more complicated in a lot of ways.
Toby Myles: Mm-hmm.
Laura Tadd: Um, because you're oso, so you're looking at where everything was in the sky. Mm-hmm. Um, the sign that it was in, was it above the horizon? Below the horizon, just risen about to set all of that. Comes into play. Yeah. As well as the mathematical angles that they are making, the planets and the sky are making to each other.
Toby Myles: Wow.
Laura Tadd: So the, the nature of the conversation that the planets are having with each other or mm-hmm. I was working with a friend's. Teenager, um, a few months ago, and he's a musician. And so explaining to him that the analogy I'm now using is like the quality of a chord. Is it a harmonious chord or a disharmonious chord?
Toby Myles: Mm-hmm.
Laura Tadd: Um, in terms of the type of conversation that the planets are having. And so that all influences or that all is reflected in how in somebody's astrology
Toby Myles: Yeah.
Laura Tadd: And then in addition to looking at where everything was when we were born, I can compare where things are currently. Mm-hmm. Or where they were 10 years ago.
Toby Myles: Mm-hmm.
Laura Tadd: In terms of, look, understanding the past events that have happened.
Toby Myles: Yeah.
Laura Tadd: Um, or two people's charts. Yeah. And so that's where it was like, oh, something why your, how your kid pushes your button or why you push theirs. Mm-hmm. Or with couples.
Toby Myles: Mm-hmm.
Laura Tadd: Um, and so there's more overlap. In terms of how the people re people interrelate that you have with astrology as well.
Toby Myles: Mm-hmm.
Laura Tadd: As opposed to sort of these terms in human design and how those terms might relate. Yeah. But it's much more specific in astrology in terms of the nature of how you communicate versus your husband and like getting into the nuance of things.
Toby Myles: Yeah.
Laura Tadd: Um, and I think part of why perhaps human design has a lot of popularity is that simplicity is easier for people to get their head
Toby Myles: up.
Yeah. Yeah, that's what I was gonna say. It seems like a, a more simplified, more user friendly, for lack of better term, but where, uh, you know, astrology is maybe like the OG of human design. Like, it, it's really, yeah. You know, it, human design couldn't exist without astrology first existing, right?
Laura Tadd: Yeah,
Toby Myles: yeah, yeah.
Laura Tadd: Um. Yeah. And as we get to know more about the cosmos, there's more that's added, right? Mm-hmm. Because in antiquity, we didn't know past Saturn. We only knew what we could see with a naked eye.
Toby Myles: Mm-hmm.
Laura Tadd: And then with the invention of the telescope, we get Uranus and Neptune and Pluto. Mm-hmm. Which is. Still used in astrology, even if the astronomers have demoted it to a more fun.
Um, and, um, then there's thousands of asteroids that you can bring in that all have meaning. Mm-hmm. Um, and so yeah, it's a, it's just much more complex and nuanced. Yeah. So there can be a lot of value, I think, in something like human design.
Toby Myles: Mm-hmm.
Laura Tadd: But, um, maybe part of why I did go to grad, like I like. All the data, I like all the, the nuance and the specificity.
Toby Myles: Yeah.
Laura Tadd: Um, and that it, the little things that sometimes, oh, that little piece of information now it clicks. Now that makes sense. Yeah. Where the more generalized, I mean similar to like a horoscope in Sure. In a magazine versus your full chart.
Toby Myles: Yeah.
Laura Tadd: Um, is gonna have more resonance.
Toby Myles: Yeah.
Laura Tadd: People.
Toby Myles: Yeah. I, I just remember, um, you know, when I first became aware of human design and, um, I was at a retreat and, and this one woman was, you know, we did mine and it changed a little bit later because I had the time of birth wrong.
But it didn't change that much. It was still, I'm a manifested generator, uhhuh, which to me is just fascinating because the more I read about it, the more I was like, that is like totally me. Yeah. And the idea that it is because of. Things that were outta my control, having nothing to do with anything other than, you know, yeah.
When I was born. It's just fascinating to me.
Laura Tadd: Yeah, absolutely. I mean, the more, I've been doing this for over two decades now, and I still get blown away by it.
Toby Myles: Mm-hmm.
Laura Tadd: Um, and. Really part of what I find just internally, always fascinat is like so looking at families Yeah. And the patterns that show up in families.
Toby Myles: Mm-hmm.
Laura Tadd: And I just worked with some clients, a, a woman beginning in early January and. Like she's got three kids and all of their charts had these over. I was like there and there. I was like, I asked her, I was like, without your name, can I use you as a case study for talks? Because mm-hmm. The amount of overlap in their family were like, this things would be the sons that her.
Her male child's moon was where the son was when she was born and her daughter's moon was where Her son, her child. Male child's birth. Like she her, so like she's a Taurus. Her son's, the moon wasn't Taurus when her son was born. Mm-hmm. Her daughter. He has the moon in Gemini and her daughters in Gemini.
It was like, just all of this overlap. Yeah. Over, over and over and over again. Um, that speaks to this larger story then of the family.
Toby Myles: Mm-hmm.
Laura Tadd: Um, and so you see that often of patterns in families. Mm. Mm-hmm. Um, and then sometimes you get the black sheep and you get the outlier. Um, and so then as a parent, right, if you know that of like, oh three of us in this family, four of us in the family are all overlapped and we all.
Really similar. Yeah. And then we have this other like. How are where, where did you come from? Right, right. A member of the family.
Toby Myles: Right.
Laura Tadd: And how to embrace them and see that they're actually maybe bringing something in for the group dynamic of the family that's missing. Yeah. As opposed to ostracizing the black sheep.
But seeing. The gift of the black sheep.
Toby Myles: Yeah. Oh my gosh. That's so good. I feel like that's a book right there. I think that's, that's the book that you're gonna write. It's about the black sheep. It's not their fault.
Laura Tadd: No. Yeah.
Toby Myles: Um, so, so for people listening who, um, you know, would maybe wanna know, like, um. How you might be able to help them.
Right?
Laura Tadd: Yeah.
Toby Myles: Um, you know, I think that the people listening will have a whole range of experience with what you do from like, not at all familiar to maybe ver to middle of the road to very familiar. Mm-hmm. Everything in between. But, you know, someone listening who, I don't know, maybe they want more understanding.
Maybe there's something they're struggling with. Like, what does that look like? And, and how would you. Like begin a conversation to know, is it, is there some way that you can sort of help them move forward or just provide some understanding?
Laura Tadd: Yeah. Well, so people that are wanting curious to know about themselves and wanting to do some work in healing are, yeah, that I'm not.
I don't use astrology in a strictly predictive atory way. I'm not gonna say like people that want to be partnered, I can see Okay. The type of people that they're attracted to.
Toby Myles: Mm-hmm.
Laura Tadd: And the personalities that work really well for them. Mm-hmm. And so seeking that sort of thing, but I can't be like, well, on the 15th of January.
Toby Myles: Yep. That's
Laura Tadd: not how it
Toby Myles: works. No crystal ball or anything like that.
Laura Tadd: Um, but people that want. To do some self-work, some self-exploration. Mm-hmm. Understand things about themselves and the people in their lives
Toby Myles: mm-hmm.
Laura Tadd: Um, in a way that helps them to, that wanna do some healing. Yeah. Is really, um, and are open to.
Growth or open to like, sometimes maybe it feels a little uncomfortable. 'cause gun growth is, is not always fun. Yeah. Um, there's physical growing pains and there's emotional, psychological growing pains. Mm-hmm. But, um. That people that want insight and, and growth, I think is really, that's sort of the demographic that I love working with is like that.
It just feels rewarding for everybody.
Toby Myles: Yeah.
Laura Tadd: Um, they get insight and they're like, oh, right, okay. That's what that was about. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah.
Laura Tadd: Um, and that they don't need to know a ton about themselves. Mm-hmm. Um, it is always a dialogue. I don't just talk at people.
Toby Myles: Mm-hmm.
Laura Tadd: Um, the more I know about a client while we're working together, the more specific I can be.
Toby Myles: Mm-hmm.
Laura Tadd: Um, and for example, years ago I was working with a woman and she was, she's a nurse and she was debating on specialty.
Toby Myles: Mm-hmm.
Laura Tadd: And because I knew she was a nurse and because I knew she was the only person present when her father transitioned, there was a part of her chart where I could say, did have you thought about hospice?
Which might not have been necessarily how that would've. Manifested, but I knew these two facts about her and so I could get really specific of mm-hmm. How part of her chart might, she might really benefit in connecting with that part of herself based on these facts about her.
Toby Myles: Yeah.
Laura Tadd: So it's always a dialogue so that I can be.
Specific in my support as opposed to the generalizing of like the newspaper horoscopes.
Toby Myles: Yeah.
Laura Tadd: That can be interesting. And you're sort like, oh yeah, that sounds like me.
Toby Myles: Yeah.
Laura Tadd: But. Um, isn't necessarily as, as specific or as supportive as it is as possible. Yeah. Um, and so I really, depending on the amount of information people are coming in with about their astrology does change the nature of the reading because
Toby Myles: mm-hmm.
Laura Tadd: Sometimes people just like they, if they have some knowledge, then it is a different conversation than if they're coming in knowing like, oh, I know I'm a Taurus, and that's about it.
Toby Myles: Yeah. It's funny that you mentioned the horoscope because um, you know, I've often thought like, uh, I don't know, like I could read mine and I don't, I'm not like religious about it, you know, but if I see something pop up online or whatever, I'll read it.
I'm an Aries speaking of Aries and, um. So I'll read it, but then I'll, and then I'm curious, I'm like, well, I'm gonna read one of these other ones. Like, oh yeah, that sounds like me too. So I'm always a little skeptical, you know about Yeah. Well because that they're too broad.
Laura Tadd: Yeah. Well, and they are. I've written for tarot.com before.
Toby Myles: Yeah.
Laura Tadd: And they are that broad. And I did it once for a little while. Um, 'cause I knew their former. Writer and he was trying to extract himself. So he was bringing in guest writers. Mm-hmm. So he could slowly separate himself.
Toby Myles: Yeah.
Laura Tadd: Um, 'cause it's a lot of work for the amount that you have to write. Um, but part of why other signs can resonate is that we can have every sign falls somewhere within your astrology.
Mm-hmm. It's just what part of your life? Is it playing out most?
Toby Myles: Yeah.
Laura Tadd: And then every planet, every celestial object was somewhere within the zodiac.
Toby Myles: Yeah.
Laura Tadd: And so you can be in Aries and have something in Libra, right? Mm-hmm. And so both could feel resonant simply 'cause that does exist somewhere in your chart.
Toby Myles: Mm-hmm.
Laura Tadd: And there may be something that's there. Yeah. And so it, but it's a different, every body in the sky is different archetypes of the self.
Toby Myles: Yeah,
Laura Tadd: so the sun is our core identity, but you could, if you were born on a full moon as an Aries, the moon would be in Libra. And so then how you emotionally engage with the world is Libra as opposed to the Aries.
Toby Myles: Mm-hmm.
Laura Tadd: And so there, there are opposite signs. Mm-hmm. Aries is. I am and Libra is we
Toby Myles: Mm.
Laura Tadd: Very opposite archetypes that could exist within the self.
Toby Myles: Yeah.
Laura Tadd: Um, and so that's why just reading the newspaper horoscopes don't tend to land as, as true in terms of, 'cause we can have things in multiple signs.
Toby Myles: Yeah.
It's, I, I just, I'm, you know, I'm somebody that's just curious and so fascinating. It's fascinating to me. Um, you know, the whole, um. Uh, mercury going retrograde, which just finished, which, yes, I became, you know, very aware of back when I was, um, working in marketing, um, because it seemed like, um, every time that it happened, you know.
Technology that was glitchy. Um, transportation, we used to, I, we used to, I used to do direct mail and we would have these mail trucks that would ship like millions of pieces of mail between different postal facilities and inevitably during that time period. The truck would like break down and be stuck on the side of the road, but like, like all the things that you read about and after a while you're like, yeah, this is actually really a thing.
And
Laura Tadd: yeah.
Toby Myles: Um, my husband who, um, and he, my husband religiously listens to my podcast, so I know he will hear this. Um, he will agree with this, so I'm not saying anything not true, but he's, he, I, I think it was just like this year, this most recent. Mercury that he was like, yeah, I actually believe it. 'cause he had a few things that happened.
So it took him many, many years of us being together for him to finally say, you know, I think you're onto something. I was like, it's not me. I didn't make it up.
Laura Tadd: Yeah, no, it was a particularly, um, potent one was my experience as well.
Toby Myles: Yeah.
Laura Tadd: Um, yeah, I definitely had some funky stuff with this last Mercuria retrograde that we just Yeah.
Just came out of it on the. 20th, just a couple hours after the Equinox.
Toby Myles: Yeah.
Laura Tadd: Um, and yeah. And so it, again, like it, I, it's not causal. Mercury going retrograde doesn't cause technology to break down.
Toby Myles: Mm-hmm.
Laura Tadd: Um, didn't cause. Microsoft to try to charge me for Office 360 15 times. Um, but it's saying like this is a period in time when miscommunication is more likely, yeah.
When technology is more likely to be problematic. Um. And then how to work with it. Because the gift, particularly with Mercury retrograde, is it's um, a time of review of rethinking, of re communicating. I think of a retrograde is just put the prefix re in front of whatever the archetype is. Mm-hmm. Mercury was the god of communication.
Mm-hmm. And mythology, he's Hermes in Greek myth. So we rethink, we recommunicate. Hmm.
Toby Myles: Interesting.
Laura Tadd: When we creates retrograde. Um, and so Awesome. Time to edit hard time to launch ideas.
Toby Myles: Yes, exactly. You're not supposed to sign big contracts. Yeah, like a bunch of things. Uh, there's a woman, um, in our community, my her story authority community, um, where I, I work with women to, you know, excavate their stories and, and.
Learn how to communicate them to build their own authority. And, um, there's a, uh, one of our members is a, um, yoga instructor and a, um, level five reiki master. I mean, she's been doing this for many, many years. And so I asked her in the group, I'm like, please tell us how to, you know, what to do. How can we make the most of this time period so that, you know, we're, we're not, you know.
Subject to a lot of crazy things. And, and she said like, you can actually think of it as like a positive, like you were saying, you know, it can be a time to, to reflect and, you know, to just make some decisions, but not like big decisions, right? Yeah. So, yeah. Um, and so I, I, I loved that reframe, you know? I was like, okay, this is gonna be good.
I'm not gonna like, you know, be a annoyed and frantic and crazy the whole time.
Laura Tadd: Right? Yeah. And so, and just being aware. That it's happening, can, just knowing that it's going, sometimes it's an ease, right? Mm-hmm. And it was like I was just leading a retreat in Nicaragua and getting there was a little frantic.
Mm-hmm. Because Mer, in part, mercury being retrograde, I had. My flight was at six 30 in the morning and had pre-booked Uber and they didn't show up.
Toby Myles: Of course. Of course they didn't.
Laura Tadd: And it was 3 45 in the morning and I had to figure out how I was getting to the airport.
Toby Myles: Right. Not many options. At 3 45 in the morning.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, um. Before we kind of like wrap things up, I want, because we talked about Mercury and I wanna ask you about something else. Sure. Um, just to get your kind of like insight so I can understand it. Like, um, towards the end of last year I was reading a lot about, um, the year of the snake
Laura Tadd: uhhuh
Toby Myles: and the shedding, and then moving into the year of the.
Fire horse.
Laura Tadd: Yes.
Toby Myles: Um, I think I have that correct. Yeah. And it's fascinating to me having gone through, um, kind of like a pivot last year and really coming to realize certain things about myself that, um, things that I can let go of and mm-hmm. And really things that I wanna step into. Th these things I was already feeling.
And then I started reading about it and so I'm like, oh wow, this is super cool. Like this timing seems really kind of like. A coincidence. Right. But may maybe it's actually not a coincidence.
Laura Tadd: No. In the astrology world, you know, we say you can't make this bleep up.
Um, yeah, it, it, yeah. I mean I don't, that's the Chinese astrology, so that's all very different. Mm-hmm. Um, and in the Chinese system, it's a 60 year cycle 'cause they have 12 signs and five elements.
Toby Myles: Mm-hmm.
Laura Tadd: Um, so. 12 times five. Right. So it's a 60 year cycle.
Toby Myles: Yeah.
Laura Tadd: But there is that transition that happens, um, in the, with the Chinese system too.
So it's like, yeah, now fire horse, well, you just think about where horses are of this powerful animal that's moving forward and being so proactive, and then you blend that with the element of fire, which has some of that energy
Toby Myles: mm-hmm.
Laura Tadd: Too, that's very movement oriented.
Toby Myles: Mm-hmm.
Laura Tadd: And so yeah, that shift and that we've done a lot of the change, done a lot of the transition with the snake shedding its skin.
Yeah. Okay. Now it's time to be proactive.
Toby Myles: Yeah.
Laura Tadd: Um, which in some ways this, the snake shedding its skin is There's a passivity Yeah. To that. Yeah. You don't have with, with a horse. Right, right.
Toby Myles: Um,
Laura Tadd: just thinking about it from an archetypal perspective
Toby Myles: mm-hmm.
Laura Tadd: And Yeah. And so then there's, and there's events that from a western astrology perspective, that were really powerful that lined up similarly to the timing of transitioning into the fire horse
Toby Myles: Hmm.
Laura Tadd: As well.
Toby Myles: Mm-hmm.
Laura Tadd: Of us, of being proactive in a new way.
Toby Myles: Mm-hmm.
Laura Tadd: Um, and how are, how do we want to move forward?
Toby Myles: Yeah.
Laura Tadd: Yeah. When we're being called to and having some. And there's a piece of that too, at least from like what was happened in the Western system. But I think with the horse as well of that agency, how are we owning that personal power?
Toby Myles: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Not, not being passive about it. Yeah.
Laura Tadd: Yeah. Yeah.
Toby Myles: So good. I, I feel like maybe we're just gonna have to have a part two Sure. Of this conversation. 'cause I keep thinking of more questions. But I wanna respect your time and, um, uh, before we kind of wrap things up, I would love for you to, um.
Let our audience know where they can find you online. You, I mentioned the, um, podcast that you're a guest host on, that you have been for quite a while, but you have your own podcast too. Yeah. Um, Mythic Sky Story Time. And so, and you're on social media, so where is the best place for people to find you and connect with you?
Laura Tadd: So probably through my website, so mythicsky.com. Okay. Um, and yeah, and then, so the podcast, I've got. It's just me at the moment. All the episodes I've done are just me on the podcast, on my podcast where I just, I finally recorded the last one about a month ago, but most of last year, I did a series on going through every single sign of the Zodiac.
Mm-hmm. Um, and looking at it from an archetypal perspective. From a psychosocial development perspective, um, a myth about it, and then a medi guided meditation so you can develop your own relationship with a sign. I
Toby Myles: love that.
Laura Tadd: Yeah, I think that that's what really helps you get a sign. I mean, I always, when people are saying that they're studying astrology and what do I recommend?
I'm like, do the chart to the people you know. That will have you understand it because no amount of like memorizing adjectives about what Aries means is gonna help you understand it as opposed to seeing how that's embodied as an archetype
Toby Myles: in
Laura Tadd: context. Right. In in context. As a person who goes like, oh, I can read that Taurus is stubborn and loyal and mm-hmm.
Okay, but who do I know that's TAUs? Oh, that's how I see that playing out with them. Um, and so that's the really developing your own relationship with the sign is the best way to get it in your bones.
Toby Myles: Mm-hmm.
Laura Tadd: Um, so yeah, so that's Mythic Sky Story time and my website, Mythic Sky Okay. Is probably the best way to get in touch.
Toby Myles: Awesome. Perfect. Oh my gosh, so good. This is so good. Um. Thank you so much Laura. I, I, as these episodes go, I am never sure where the conversation is gonna go. Um, but this has been fascinating for me and I know our listeners are going to love it and I appreciate you, um, coming on the show.
Laura Tadd: Yeah, thanks for having me.
It's been great.