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JENNIFER FREED, PH.D.
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How Celebrity Astrologer Jennifer Freed Turned Astrology Into a Novel
Dr. Jennifer Freed interveiwed by Lisa Stardust for TODAY, June 2, 2025
Can astrology inspire a fiction novel? For celebrity astrologer Jen Freed, the answer is yes.
When writing her first novel, “Beyond Aquarius,” published in February, Freed tells TODAY.com she used her career as both a therapist and astrologer to inform the distinctive storyline.
The book incorporates astrology using an innovative approach, where each chapter is inspired by a specific astrological transit or terminology. (As an astrologer myself, I can say it's a rarity to find astrology woven into the fictional storyline in this way.)
In the book, Cam and Jules, two total opposites, meet at a yoga retreat and don't immediately connect as friends. However, as the story evolves, the two end up staying in touch until unexpected events summon them back into each other’s lives again.
Actor Jane Lynch, one of Freed’s clients, described the book as “star-crossed lovers but with astrological lessons and a magical conclusion” in a review Freed shared with TODAY.com.
Do You Have a “Sacred Crew”? Why Psychological Astrologer Jennifer Freed Says We'll Need Each Other More than Ever in 2023
Dr. Jennifer Freed for Maria Shriver's Sunday Paper, December 10, 2022
In 2023, we will all be called to be more active participants in the healing of this country and this planet. Divisiveness and despair have given rise to massive anxiety, despair, hate, and deep divides in our union. For the well-being of all life, we need to join in a unified purpose of stewardship for all existence, human and non-human. For each of us to be more effective in delivering our specific talents, gifts, and energy towards this purpose, we will all need to be surrounded by a sacred crew.
Our sacred crew is more than just the folks we count on and the ideas about closeness that we cherish. A sacred crew involves another layer: clarity about the spoken and unspoken agreements between us. What do we mean when we say we are connected? What does it mean to be close? What does support look like? It has become crystal clear in this sped-up
and ever-complex world that many of us have different and unspoken narratives around these questions.
What People Who Age Beautifully Have in Common
Dr. Jennifer Freed for goop, July 13, 2022
If we are among the lucky, aging is inevitable. Any consideration of its alternative—early death—helps us recognize how completely the current debate about “anti-aging” or “pro-aging” misses the essential point.
No matter how much we do to appear youthful or feel younger, age will embrace us and death will come. This was just as difficult for me to sit with as it may be for you, until I realized what truly matters: vitality.
Vitality is an energy of engagement, gratitude, and aliveness. It is a blended sweet spot of pleasure, purpose, and meaning.
Without luscious, plump pleasure, our lives are parched and arid. Without a sense of contribution and purpose, our lives feel flat and untethered. Without a rubric of meaning, our lives can feel empty and prone to hopelessness and despair.
When we are chock-full of pleasure, fulfilled by our efforts and contributions and saturated in a daily sense of meaning, we experience a thrumming, receptive sensitivity: a kind of soul fitness.
When It’s Time to Leave Your Relationship
Sometimes, the most honest and courageous act is to accept that a romance has run its course.
Dr. Jennifer Freed for JenniferFreed.com, September 23, 2025
The end of a relationship is rarely clean or easy. Most of us are conditioned to keep trying, to keep hoping that things will improve if only we apply enough effort. Love, after all, is supposed to conquer all.
Yet there are moments when the deeper act of love is not to stay, but to let go. The poet Lord Byron once wrote, “Fare thee well! and if for ever, still for ever, fare thee well.” Sometimes, the most honest and courageous act is to accept that a romance has run its course.
Below are five clear signs that it may be time to step away from your relationship.
1. You have tried couples counseling for at least a year and nothing feels better.
Therapy is often the first refuge when a relationship falters. A skilled counselor can guide partners into new patterns of communication, repair ruptures, and uncover old wounds that are sabotaging connection. But if, after a year or more of consistent counseling, you still feel trapped in the same cycle of disappointment, resentment, or alienation, it may be a sign that the partnership cannot evolve. Staying becomes a repetition, not a renewal. To echo Emily Dickinson: “Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell.” The act of parting may be the only way to release both souls into the possibility of peace.
2. You have made your most important personal health improvements and filled your own life with positivity, and you still cannot stand your partner.
Relationships often sour when one or both partners are not taking care of themselves. Stress, untreated trauma, poor habits, or neglect of body and spirit can seep into the shared space and corrode intimacy. That is why it is crucial to do your own work first—therapy, exercise, self-reflection, nourishing friendships, and creative expression. If, after doing all this, you still recoil at the thought of sharing your days with your partner, the problem likely lies in the relationship itself rather than in your own unresolved issues. You may have simply grown in a different direction. The poet Christina Rossetti captured this with piercing clarity: “Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.”
3. Lying or addiction has continued to be a problem without any real repair or recovery.
Trust is the soil in which love grows. Without it, the relationship becomes barren. If your partner persists in dishonesty, or if addiction keeps repeating its devastating cycle without any genuine effort at recovery, you are standing on sinking ground. Compassion does not mean collusion. You can love someone and still refuse to let their behavior dismantle your well-being.
As William Blake observed, “It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.” Repeated betrayal turns intimacy into an injury that will not heal. At some point, the kindest choice is to refuse to be harmed further.
4. Violence in any form is part of the relationship.
This point requires no nuance: if violence is present, verbal, emotional, physical, or sexual, it is time to leave. No amount of rationalizing, apologizing, or promising can justify staying in harm’s way. Love is not measured by endurance of cruelty.
In the words of Maya Angelou: “When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.” Leaving is not a failure. It is a declaration of self-worth and a refusal to let your spirit be diminished.
5. You are truly happier alone and have had plenty of time to realize that.
Sometimes the truth dawns slowly. You simply feel lighter, freer, more yourself when you are alone than when you are with your partner. This is not a rash impulse but a steady realization that companionship has become a burden rather than a blessing. Elizabeth Barrett Browning once wrote, “I never gave a lock of hair away to a man, but he must pledge his soul to cherish it.” When your soul feels cherished by your solitude more than by your togetherness, you are being called to honor that clarity.
Leaving a relationship is not about blame. It is about truth. It is about recognizing that your life is too precious to spend in constant diminishment, fear, or emptiness. The end of one chapter is the invitation to another. As Tennyson put it, “‘Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.”
Sometimes the truest act of love is letting go so that both of you can step into a future where tenderness and joy are still possible.
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