Hey! I'm Makena.

I’m a consulting astrologer living in the Gold Coast AU with my honeys - my incredible fiancé and our sweet doggo Douglas. I love water, sunlight, learning, dancing, playing with plants, traveling, music, time in nature, deep & meaningful chats, anything crafty, being silly.. and so much more. I’m drawn to things that make me feel centered and connected, or like I’m a kid again. Or both ;) I believe that aligning ourselves with nature’s cycles is the bread and butter to feeling happy, healthy and fulfilled in mind, body, spirit, heart and soul.

Life can be freakin tough. As we all know. Astrology has literally been my lifeline at times. It has helped me to not only understand and accept myself more, but it’s also helped guide me towards living a life that’s aligned with who I am. At the darkest times astrology has helped me feel that sublime connection we all have to Spirit, and trust that life’s happening for us, not to us. (Love that one ;). It’s my mission to help you feel more empowered and confident within yourself, and deeply inspired by the life that you’re living. Through the beautiful language of astrology I hope to help you find more meaning and purpose in your everyday.

I’m originally from Portland, OR and have been fascinated by all things mystical and magical for as long as I can remember. When I was really young my friends and I would copy the witchy rituals we saw in movies and intuitively add our own flair. We’d make magic potions, design our own ceremonies, go searching for fairies, and use the Ouija board (a divinatory tool I don’t recommend without proper training - my experience with it was admittedly quite reckless, because I didn’t know what I didn’t know!). Point is, these are the kinds of things I was drawn to as a kid, before the societal conditioning had any hold on me.

I’ve known that “I’m a pisces” since I was little and always resonated with the associated personality traits. But it was a while still before I got bit by the astro bug - my search for meaning guided me through a number of different faith systems. It was a full circle actually - from Christianity (which I wasn’t born into but chose for myself around the age of 8), to science and natural law, then quantum mechanics, which ultimately led me towards seeing the Universe as an intelligent being. I explored many different religious and philosophical belief systems and had an ah-ha moment when I realized that the Universe I currently prayed to was the same being I prayed to - “God” - when I was a kid. Around that time I finally entered my birth info into cafe astrology - which was the first time I discovered there was so much more to astrology than just our sun sign!! - and I was bewildered that the moment I was born could say so much about me.

My entire life I struggled along the mainstream path that most of us were ushered onto. I struggled in school for as long as I can remember - always in the “below average” group of just about every subject. This did a number on my self-esteem. I felt I wasn’t as smart or capable as everyone else. When I found astrology I felt so validated. Seeing the symbols in my chart helped me to understand that I am intelligent despite what that system told me. And that my brain just works differently than the type of brain that school tends to glorify. I learn different to the way that teachers are taught to teach (in the states anyway. LOL what a concept).

I also struggled with chronic lyme disease for most of my remembered life. Which didn’t help the whole learning thing. Or the whole doing thing for that matter. In a society that does, in many ways, equate our value to what we produce, well I definitely wasn’t producing much! Which was another reason why I felt like I’d never find my place in this world. The lyme is a whole story on its own, and one for another time. But I was diagnosed just after my 22nd birthday, and because the years leading up to the diagnosis were so immensely challenging, the only solace I found was my spirituality. It was during those years that I really cultivated my own unique relationship with the Divine. Which of course in hindsight I’m super grateful for!

The diagnosis was a huge gift at that time because I finally had answers and could start the healing process. (Shout out to my amazing naturopath who literally saved my life.) But it took about a decade of on and off treatment before I finally felt free of the symptoms. And there were so many times over those years where I felt completely hopeless, disheartened, and disenchanted with life. During one of these harder times, astrology resurfaced in my life yet again. I signed up for a new moon ceremony which left me feeling empowered and inspired. I then got an astrology reading which was super on point, and left me wanting to know more - to learn this sacred language for myself. So I took advantage of the free resources the internet was teeming with, read any astro book I could get my hands on, bought webinars and classes, and subscribed to a beautiful online community that opened up my astro world.

My world was even further changed when a friend and fellow astro-nerd introduced me to traditional astrology. It showed me that astrology was not only a powerful psychological healing tool, but that it also reflected the concrete events of my entire life! I could see the lyme, and the switching schools, and the tumultuous relationship, and the traveling overseas, and the new friend group, and literally everything in my life I could see in the symbolism. And as my obsession with astrology grew, so did my faith.

Astrology is based on the hermetic principle “As above, so below / as within, so without / as the universe, so the soul.” The truth that there is no separation between us and “out there” - that the Universe is an alive, intelligent being, and that every single thing within it, every single happening - all of it - is meaningful and connected. Astrology helped me understand this on a deeper level - it helped me feel it. And it provided a way to communicate with that universal aspect of myself. I wanted to fill all my time with this conversation, and I knew I wanted to help others experience this magic too.

So I finally decided to study formally and have since completed years 1 and 2 at Nightlight Astrology. I launched my astro biz and started seeing clients in June of 2022. I continue to learn from the modern greats through courses, classes, webinars and books, as well as from the ancient greats through the classical literature we have available to us today. Astrology is really a lifelong study and I will ALWAYS be a student of the stars. This forever learning helps me to refine my craft so that I can better serve my clients and it’s a bonus that it simultaneously fills up my happy cup!

If you’re in a darker phase of life, feeling stuck or uninspired, not sure which direction you’re headed, or simply curious about yourself - astrology can bring the clarity you’re yearning for. It can help us to look at ourselves honestly, showing us our strengths and gifts and passions as well as our weaknesses, blind spots, or unconscious patterns that might be holding us back. Understanding ourselves on this level can help us figure out how to work with these things consciously - how to make our weaknesses our strengths, or how to use our gifts in a way that serves us best. It’s my job to translate these symbols, to help you consciously tap into what your soul already knows.

I hope to help you see and own the things that make you your unique self, and to help you orient yourself within the context of your life. I hope to help you ignite the fire within your heart so that you can move through this life in a way that feels good and authentic to you. I aim to help you feel in some way closer to the magic of the Universe, the magic of yourself. Sometimes all we need is for someone to hold a microphone up to the voice inside us that’s been whispering to us all along.

THANKS FOR BEING HERE!!

Love, Mak <3