The Story Behind Star Witch Astrology ♉︎ Rachael Mikailah

Welcome to all those new folk joining me here, I would like to share some of the backstory behind Star Witch Astrology.

Star Witch Astrology is a journey through folk witchcraft, transpersonal astrology, spiritual emergence and the sacred remembering of returning home to oneself.

Born Planetary Day of Mercury ☿ 

Hour of the Moon ☽

North Node ♓︎

I have always been a mystic, poet, and dreamer; dancing beneath the stars and having conversations with the fae folk & spirits of nature is part of my bloodline as a hereditary Folk Witch. 

My greatest gifts were gathered through years of travel across distant lands, studying Western folk witchcraft, transpersonal healing, ritual arts, and oracular divination traditions rooted in the old ways. It was in my late twenties through a profound but painful descent into the underworld, that I discovered transpersonal astrology as a potent tool for psychological healing, spiritual emergence and deep soul remembrance.

Through vivid dreams and magical synchronicities, I was guided toward wise women healers, cunning folk, and Indigenous elders whose teachings rekindled a sense of purpose within my weary soul. Their guidance opened the way for profound visions, intuitive insight, and sacred practices that I now share through soul-oriented astrology sessions, transpersonal counselling and ritual mentorship.

Now as a menopausal, traditional witch I offer my services through astrology, folk witchcraft, mythology, ancestral healing, dream work, and transpersonal practices. These sessions are designed to support those navigating life transitions and the call toward deeper meaning.

Professional Credentials:

• Diploma in Astrology - completed with Babula Clement, Aust (2011)

• Adv. Diploma Transpersonal Counselling - IKON Institute, Aust (2016)

• Current Undergraduate BA Cultural Anthropology/ Sociology – LTU (2024 - 2027)

I have continued my professional development in spiritual crisis & emergence, transpersonal dream work, astro-herbalism, somatic training and trauma-informed practices.

☽ A DEEPER VIEW INTO MY LIFE ☾

I spend part of the year living on a sacred mountain in Australia, walking the ancient rainforest whilst continuing academic studies in cultural anthropology, traditional witchcraft and ethnobotany. I still travel back to my ancestral homeland of England and blend the mystical arts with the lore of the land, which adds symbolic inheritance and identity to my place of belonging.

Also, some of you have known me previously as Mikailah, and you may be wondering about the personal name change. In the truest essence of celestial timings, I returned to my birth name Rachael during the Aries Solar Eclipse of April 2024. This eclipse occurred at the exact degree of my Aries 19 deg Ascendent. This was a profound homecoming and soul retrieval that marked a sacred threshold within my life and sacred work.

☽ WHERE TO FIND ME ☾

You can journey deeper into my services through my website, where I offer soul-oriented astrology & mentoring sessions, ritual arts, and writings devoted to folk witchcraft, spiritual emergence, and transpersonal healing.

I also appear as a guest astrologer on the monthly video blog Star Notes, exploring the celestial currents through the podcast of Hannah Forest “Old Ways for the New Age” and I share astrological insights each month, as a guest writer for the online journal of Loco Love.

So all you beautiful, cunning folk who arrive here at Star Witch Astrology, I am grateful that you allowed me to spend a brief time in your world today. I invite you to journey far down into the roots of your star chart, so that together we may reach toward the celestial branches above.

Much love from the deep, wild woods....

Rachael (formerly Mikailah)

Instagram: @starwitchastrology 

Podcast: For Magickal Folk  

Substack: Star Witch Astrology