When I was young, all I wanted to know was why people did what they did. Why they believed what they believed, why they thought what they thought. Sometimes it looked like wanting to understand everything, but really just everything to do with people. Finding the symbolic language that is astrology, I was pretty excited to learn that, on a case-by-case basis, I could. These days I use that language to help people understand themselves better and on deeper levels.
When I began studying astrology, I kept coming across the assumption that we don't have control over out lives. The idea that we might use it to learn how to take responsibility for ourselves, the circumstances of our lives and our behavior seemed glaringly absent. I saw astrology as a marvelous tool to help put the sometimes unseen aspects of people's lives in perspective in order to help them, so I was unable to agree with most of what I was reading. No matter what I was reading, no matter how much I wanted to tear my hair out, I focused on the thought, Each of us has choice - in every moment.
Through an astrologer in his apprenticeship program, I encountered the work of Steven Forrest, one of the developers of the evolutionary astrology paradigm. I read his books and felt at home, knowing immediately it was the approach I would be excited about using and sharing with others. In 2004 I entered Steven's apprenticeship program, and I currently hold a Level I certificate from him.
With a psychic opening that seemed to demand I pay attention to my already-strong intuition, I sought and received training to learn the skills to work with Spirit Guides and symbolic sight (seeing a thing and the cause of it simultaneously). This lead to learning to read and diagnose issues with and within chakras, and see the energetic causes that inform conditions and diseases within the body. As a medium, I also work with disembodied spirits, whether helping you in your reading or helping them resolve any unfinished earthly business that might be keeping them here and, ultimately, assisting them to cross over. I have the Reiki II attunement, as well. The story of that opening is chronicled in my new book Seeing Through Spiritual Eyes: A Memoir Of Intuitive Awakening, available here.
I've been channeling some Ascended Masters about what's happening on Earth at present and what we need to do to prepare for the end of the Mayan Calendar, usually called 2012. As a result of what I've been shown about the need to clear our mental, physical and emotional bodies of stuff that no longer serves us and debris, my work has become focused on release. If you're willing, I can guide you to release attitudes, beliefs, emotions, thoughts, energies and other knots that don't belong to you or are no longer serving you. If you're on Earth right now, you've signed up to experience the at-times intense culmination of the process the Mayan Long Count Calendar was created to track: The evolution of consciousness. I'm available to support you in and stir you to progress along that journey as you remember more about your true Spiritual nature and head in the direction of greater and deeper self-acceptance and self-love.
My writing on astrological topics has appeared in Dell Horoscope Magazine, Aspects Magazine and InnerChange Magazine. My books Seeing Through Spiritual Eyes: A Memoir Of Intuitive Awakening, Living Myth: Exploring Archetypal Journeys, The Soul's Journey I: Astrology, Reincarnation, and Karma with a Medium and Channel and Saturn Returns: Thinking Astrologically are now available via my store.
My current interests include
• integrating the messages in the body with the messages in the chart to support healing and wholeness (including how astrological symbols & archetypes and the chakras interface)
• reframing and raising the levels of dialogue on the archetypes of Lucifer (asteroid 1930) and Lilith (via the true Black Moon & the asteroid 1181)
• introducing to astrology the asteroid Arjunsuri (20300), the archetype of our evolving relationship with conscience
• exploring archetypes as processes, and our lives as mythic journeys, so we may learn to view the map of the path(s) we're on
I hold a bachelor's degree in philosophy from The College of Wooster. I'm also a writer of satire, absurd fiction and poetry, at times a musician, and at other times a crafty linocut artist.
What people are saying:
Coaching:
You are answering all the questions I have had all my life.
S., Larchmont, NY
I could go on and on about how much this counseling has helped me in such a short period of time. Tom indicated a way to rise above the polarities I encounter everyday... Before coaching with Tom, I feared certain aspects of my internal world were quite flat and only extended as far as I could "see". His chart analysis, blended with intuitive insights, helped me to muster the courage and joy to move toward those unexplored horizons of my inner being.
Tom showed me a way to move from seeing my perceptions and circumstances as black and white, this or that. He even showed me a way to go beyond the shades of gray that fall in-between. Tom helped me to shine my own internal light on what is above and below, and all around. It's like realizing you're a three-dimensional being who thought they were living in a two-dimensional flatland.
S., Cedar Hill, TX
Individual Sessions:
One session with you was more useful than nine months of therapy.
T., Los Angeles, CA
You are the most inspirational astrologer. Because of your work I actually understand what my north node is asking, and it seems I may go beyond just hearing the call... Thank you!
M., San Diego, CA
Tom, this last reading was so very, very helpful!!! It brought sooo much joy into my space, as if a big chunk of myself returned to me. It totally validated and clarified my present inner process. I feel very humbled, don't know how to thank you.
D., Tenerife, Spain
Many thanks for the interesting reading. It was quite unique. I have spent a lot of time studying my own chart, and I have never sufficiently appreciated the role of Chiron.... I found your reading sophisticated and useful. Your focus on the meaning of Chiron as maternal rejection was exactly what was on my mind this weekend before we spoke. It was synchronistic.
J., Newton, MA
Excellent! I feel a new sense of peace and ease with this new clarity that I didn't have before the session with Tom. I'm realizing that meeting with Tom helps save me loads of time.
J., Tucson, AZ
Tom Jacobs combines his many areas of expertise to give a very informative, helpful and fun reading. I came in feeling confused, distressed and unfocused and left with a much clearer sense of who I am and what I want and need to do. He gave me some suggestions for easy things to do to help on my journey. I am a very experienced "readee" and I highly recommend Tom.
B., Tucson, AZ
My experience with Tom Jacobs as an astrologer has been like a warm conversation with a caring friend....I get the feeling he never comes to astrology with a scripted statement, but responds in the living moment with intuitive, gentle and instructive guidance that I am free to take or leave, while sharing what he’s studied deeply as well as anything recently unearthed and discovered. Having that kind of warmth, freedom and support from any person is a gift, and Tom has it.
A., Los Angeles, CA
Tom gives you powerful tools to practice every day to create a difference in your life. He's the teacher I go to when I’m stuck.
J., Los Angeles, CA
