Hi, I'm Hannah

For most of my life I lived and made decisions based almost entirely on what I thought would make the people around me happy and comfortable. I longed for approval and acceptance, and behaved in the ways that I knew would be most likely to grant me that.

I based my life on the religion that those around me approved of, around the academic achievements that impressed them, and around the skills they thought were useful. All the while struggling with what I now recognize as severe mental illness, undoubtedly the result of having completely given away my power.

Even through all of that, there was the core part of me that wanted to be authentic. I remember thinking to myself as a young teenager that if I was going to be a part of this religion that I wanted to do it completely. I was not a fan of doing things half way.

It was that core part of me that eventually made me realize that all the ways I had been living were not authentic because they were not truly me.

At the age of around 19 I stumbled upon something that would open the floodgates of change in my life. I took the Meyers Briggs personality test and felt a sense of relief I had never experienced before.

This website was telling me that I had a different way of looking at things and that it was ok for me to be different from those around me. I didn't have to try to be more like them to be accepted. My personality that most of them time felt flawed, was actually just a part of who I am.

Fast forward a few years and my obsession with understanding my own personality had only grown. I became known among my friends as the person to ask if you forgot your Meyers Briggs letters or Enneagram number because I remembered them all. I read as much as I could about those systems as well as Astrology, which was scarier to interact with because of the stigma around it in my religious community. But I just couldn't stay away.


During all this I built a photography business in order to channel my need for entrepreneurship. It never got to the point of being financially stable, so I was also working part time or full time jobs. After a job in the Fashion Industry and a heart wrenching breakup left me in pieces, I realized a few things.

1. No one was going to save me.
2. I had been through what I thought were the worst things that could happen to me, and I was ok.

After that I became extremely motivated to dive fully into my entrepreneurship journey. The photography business eventually turned into what you see today, The Astrological Photographer.

I realized that I needed to make this thing that came so easily and joyfully to me my job. Anything else I did felt heavy and frustrating. So I eventually decided to face one of my greatest fears and "come out" as an astrologer. It was terrifying, but also freeing. And since then my life has changed. Up until that point I didn't know it was possible to spend most of your time doing something you love. I had trusted my intuition and followed the pull of my heart, and it worked.

So that is what I'm here to do. I want others to experience this freedom too. I spent over a decade searching for it, and my hope is that I can make it a shorter process for you.

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