About this episode
When betrayal shatters your reality, your brain wants answers: Why did this happen? Why me? What am I supposed to do now?
This episode offers a grounded, empowering lens—astrology as an energetic language—to help you understand patterns, rebuild self-trust, and move forward without giving your power away.
Lora sits down with professional astrologer Vanya Banks (AstroBloom) for a refreshingly real conversation about what astrology actually is (and what it’s not). Together they explore how birth charts can illuminate subconscious patterns, attachment dynamics, nervous system needs, and “soul lessons”—especially in the wake of infidelity or betrayal. You’ll hear practical ways to use astrology for self-awareness, healing, ritual, and relationship insight, plus a grounded take on Mercury retrograde that replaces fear with clarity.
Top 3 Takeaways
Astrology isn’t fate—it’s insight. It reveals influences, patterns, and possibilities so you can make conscious choices (not excuses).
Your Moon sign is a powerful healing tool. It can show how you seek safety, what soothes your nervous system, and where boundaries and self-nurturing matter most—especially after betrayal.
Retrogrades are review seasons, not doom seasons. Mercury retrograde is an invitation to reassess communication and alignment—without handing your power over to “pop astrology.”
Favorite Quote
“Astrology brings the unconscious to the surface—so you can choose consciously instead of calling it fate.”
About Vanja Banks
Vanja Banks is an Astrologer, Soul Alchemist, and Embodiment Guide who supports women in awakening their soul remembrance, body wisdom, and cosmic magic through the portals of astrology, Tantra, and alchemy.
After walking through profound personal losses - including the ending of a 14-year marriage and the dissolution of a life she’d built - Vanja was initiated by grief. What began as heartbreak became a sacred descent into self-remembering.
Through astrology’s archetypal language and the somatic rituals of Tantra - the sacred art of presence & embodiment - she found a roadmap back to wholeness, learning that grief is not something to “get over,” but a living current that reshapes us into more awake, tender, and embodied versions of ourselves.
Today, she guides others through this same alchemy - transforming grief into growth, loss into liberation, and emotion into embodied wisdom.
Website: Astrology Readings | Ritual Tools | Astrobloom
Instagram: @astrobloom.ca
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