Hi, I’m Lauren — welcome to Mug & Moon! 🌚

I grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan as an only child, with two very social, extroverted Gemini parents. From early on, I was surrounded by people — and fascinated by the way they communicate, the emotional undercurrents that shape them, and the inherited patterns that seem to echo through families.

I earned my BA in Social Science and Writing, then moved to San Francisco in my twenties to attend cosmetology school. Working as a hairdresser in a big city became an unexpected apprenticeship in human psychology. My chair was a space where people opened up about anxiety, relationships, stress, loneliness, family wounds, and the inner narratives that shaped them. I listened. I asked questions. I got curious. And I wanted to understand the deeper layers beneath what people said out loud.

In 2017, I went through a significant psychological and emotional turning point when Pluto transited my Natal Moon. That season shook me awake. It surfaced old wounds, magnified my internal world, and cracked open the parts of me that needed tending. During that time, astrology became a lifeline — a frame that brought meaning, compassion, and language to a period that weighed heavy on me with depression and anxiety. Astrology was the turning point that helped me face my unhealthy attachments to misaligned relationships and substances.

I began studying obsessively, reading charts for anyone who would let me. I dove into teachings from astrologers like Steven Forrest, Jessica Lanyadoo, Robert Hand, and Austin Coppock — pulling from each what felt grounded, wise, human, and psychologically aware. Although I call myself self-taught, Astrology grew into a serious discipline for me: years of research, emotional observation, and pattern recognition.

When I became pregnant with my son in 2020, my work with Astrology deepened again. I explored my parents’ charts, studied family dynamics, and became aware of how childhood imprints continue shaping us into adulthood. I learned how astrology reveals emotional and mood tendencies, coping mechanisms, attachment wounds, and the inner framework we build our identity from — especially when mental health struggles are involved.

My own lived experience with depression taught me that Astrology is not just a tool for prediction — it’s a compassionate compass of the soul. A way of understanding the psyche:
our defenses, sensitivities, fears, longings, and the cycles that pull us into growth.

That realization ultimately shaped Mug & Moon.

I now read charts through a mental health lens — gently exploring emotional patterns, developmental wounds, family conditioning, nervous system tendencies, attachment styles, and phases of psychological transformation. My goal isn’t to diagnose or label, as I am not a therapist, but to help people gain clarity, language, validation, and insight into their inner world.

Sessions with me feel like a soft, reflective conversation over coffee — curious rather than clinical, intuitive yet grounded, empathetic and slow. We explore your chart as a mirror: what shaped you, what continues to weigh on you, where you are healing, and what parts of you are asking to be cared for. My sessions include follow-up meetings, because I don’t use Astrology and a one-and-done service, but as a medicinal, therapeutic tool.

If you’re someone who:

• feels deeply

• wrestles with anxiety and fear, or depressive cycles

• notices the patterns in your relationships

• carries emotional weight from childhood

• seeks compassion for your own inner complexity

• or desires to understand your parents, your children, your wounds, or your story from a different angle

you’ll feel safe here.❤️‍🩹

I’m glad you found me. Whenever you’re ready — I’d love to sit with you, mug in hand, and explore your chart as a language for the heart.