Jyotish: Light, Consciousness & the Psyche
I understand Jyotish—the study of light—as a study of consciousness and the psyche: an enquiry into who we are, the patterns that shape our experience and our connection to a greater cosmic meaning.
For me, the birth chart is the DNA of our soul. This metaphor expresses how its intricate symbolic relationships hold a pattern of potentials, tensions, affinities and possibilities for growth. As we learn to read this language, we can begin to recognise how our individual story participates in the larger rhythms of life.
The planets, signs and nakshatras give form to different aspects of human experience. Their relationships can illuminate our desires, emotional needs, inner conflicts and ways of seeking meaning. The planetary periods add a dimension of time, inviting us to explore when and how these themes emerge and develop through successive chapters of our lives.
A reading brings this symbolic map into dialogue with your lived experience. Why does a particular pattern keep returning? What lies beneath a familiar longing or struggle? Which capacities are asking to be developed? How might this phase of life contribute to your deeper unfolding?
My intention is to help you understand your chart in a way that deepens self-awareness and supports conscious participation in your life. Through reflection, counselling and personal practice, its symbolism becomes something you can explore, question and work with—connecting spiritual understanding with the realities of everyday experience.
My approach
I read your chart in dialogue with your life. The same planetary configuration can find expression in different ways, and your experiences, circumstances and questions are essential to understanding how its themes are unfolding for you.
My approach draws on Vedic tradition, mythology and a deep psychological understanding.
The myths and symbols of the planets and nakshatras can give an astonishing depth to your enquiry, as they speak the hidden language of the soul. A story may help you recognise an inner conflict or encounter a familiar experience from a new perspective.
Alongside interpretation, we consider how you can work with what you discover. Traditional practices such as mantra and meditation or karmic action may be helpful, as may Ayurvedic self-care, reflective writing or embodied and creative therapy methods. These are chosen according to your needs and interests.
My intention is to support a growing relationship with your own understanding: to help you recognise the patterns you carry, develop your resources and make choices with greater awareness of both your inner life and the circumstances around you through a growing sense of self esteem.
Questions We Can Explore
You may come with a particular concern, a decision you are considering or a wish to understand yourself more deeply. Your questions guide the focus of our consultation.
• Self-understanding: What needs, motivations and inner tensions shape my experience? Which strengths have I overlooked or found difficult to express?
• Relationships: What do I seek in closeness, and what patterns keep returning? How do my needs interact with those of a partner?
• Vocation and dharma: Where do my abilities, values and sense of purpose meet? What kind of contribution feels meaningful to me?
• Life phases and timing: Which themes are emphasised in my current planetary period? How might I respond to its challenges and possibilities?
• Recurring difficulties: What attachments, fears or habitual responses may be involved? Where is there room for a more conscious choice?
• Spiritual practice: What supports my relationship with myself and a wider sense of meaning? How can that understanding become part of daily life?
Together, we identify the questions that matter most to you and give them the time and attention they deserve.
Ways We Can Work Together
Your chart can be explored through a live Zoom consultation, a personal recorded reading or a written report. Zoom sessions can be recorded with your agreement, allowing you to revisit our conversation.
We can explore your chart broadly or focus on a particular question, relationship pattern or life phase. For a more experiential approach, I also offer creative processes and personalised guided meditations inspired by your chart’s symbolism.
Together, we agree on the format, focus and fee before beginning.
Personal Readings
AI STATEMENT: I strongly believe in the importance of human intuition. While I use astrology software and, where helpful, AI tools to support calculations, research and preparation or for editing written material – every interpretation I create is developed, reviewed and written by me personally, drawing on my own astrological knowledge, counselling experience and personal engagement with your questions.
Comprehensive Jyotish Reading
Focused Recorded Reading
Follow Up Reading
Creative Chart exploration
Personalised Chart Meditation
€200
A live Zoom consultation of approx. 90 min, exploring the central themes of your chart, your current planetary period and your questions in depth. The session can be recorded if you wish so you can revisit it whenever you need to listen to it again.
€120
A personal recording exploring one particular question or area of life, explained to you in approx. 45 min – 1 hour on average. Delivered within one to two weeks at the latest, it is designed for you to listen to and revisit in your own time whenever you need to.
€140
For clients who have already had a comprehensive reading. We may explore new questions, developments, a changing life phase or the year ahead or look at deeper and subtler levels of your chart. These readings usually last for about 60 min.
€160 Explore a meaningful theme in your birth chart through writing, imagery, art, meditation or movement. The session includes focused chart preparation and time to reflect on what emerges and how it relates to your life. No artistic experience is needed (approx.90 min)
€120
A bespoke guided audio meditation inspired by your birth chart, focussed around what needs to be healed or connected to.
You receive a personal audio recording of approximately 20–30 minutes to return to in your own time.
Vedic Counselling
For those who wish to work more deeply over time, your birth chart provides a foundation for ongoing sessions combining psychological counselling, creative therapy methods and Ayurvedic guidance.
Together, we explore deeper issues, process difficult experiences and discover resources that support renewed balance. Conversation, writing, imagery and movement help connect understanding with emotional experience and everyday life.
Please contact me to discuss the frequency, structure and fee.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
In order to be able to prepare any of my offerings for you I will need the following in writing (use the form below or write an email to info@sandrahayes.eu):
- Your full name, birth date, birth time and birth place (if you don’t know your birth time please let me know, some things are still possible to accurately see in your chart but others are not).
- A summary of your question or theme you want to explore. Vedic Astrology is very complex. This allows me to look into deeper levels rather than spreading the focus out into too many areas.