Jessica Irene is an astrologer & diviner.
Jessica Irene is a Washington, D.C.-based astrologer providing consultations that are representative of her formal education and training by Adam Elenbaas of Nightlight Astrology School, as well as Medieval Islamicate techniques, horary, and other traditional methods popularized in the Hellenistic time period. Her divination services are heavily influenced by Phenomenology, Existentialism, Modern Art, Eroticism, Transgression, Iamblichus, other antique Neoplatonic and Hermetic wisdom & mystery traditions, and Ficino. In 2020, Jessica was a writer-contributor to the CHANI astrology app. She has given presentations for Nightlight Astrology School, the Association for Astrological Networking (AFAN), the Association for Young Astrologers (AYA), and the Organization for Professional Astrology (OPA).
Astrology is at the center her spiritual devotion to beingness as divine intimacy.
If you’re here, you might of have heard of her as “the astrologer’s astrologer.” Most of Jessica’s clients are repeat customers, with testimonials which praise her attention to detail, comprehensiveness, mastery of advanced techniques, capacity to provide hope while validating times of hardship, care, intention, and surprising to some, sense of humor!
Her work stands on the following principles of her craft:
Dedication to fully contextualizing the present in both short-term and long-term cycles of deeply individualized fate patterns
Clarity with conviction AND curiosity
Technical Competence
Ethical Sincerity
Gratitude
Jessica is Capricorn Rising with Saturn at the helm; Cancer Moon, Virgo Sun, Venus, & Mercury; Leo Jupiter-Ketu, and her rejoicing, bonified, malefic out-of-sect Mars in Gemini rules her Lot of Fortune, Spirit, and Midheaven. Alphard was the heliacal rising star at her time of birth.
Jessica Irene was raised in Central Illinois and St. Louis metro-east regions, on the occupied and colonized lands of the Kiikaapoi (Kickapoo), Wazhazhe Maⁿzhaⁿ (Osage), Myaamia, Očeti Šakówiŋ, oθaakiiwaki‧hina‧ki (Sauk) & Meškwahki·aša·hina (Fox), and Peoria nations. She works as a full time librarian, currently living in the nation’s capitol, the colonized lands of the Piscataway and Nacotchtank (Anacostan) nations. (You can visit https://nativegov.org/news/beyond-land-acknowledgment-guide/ to find ways to go further toward the support of Indigenous futures). Her land ancestors include these peoples, Catholic clergy, African American activists, railworkers, glassworkers, and many working-class Jewish, Italian, and Irish descendants, and many others. Her ancestors of practice include practitioners, scholars, and translators of ancient and traditional astrological knowledge, astral magic, librarians, archivists, and information stewards. Her ancestors of blood are primarily first, second, and third generation Americans and their ancestors of Southern England, the Low Countries of Belgium and the Netherlands, Scottish highlands, Germanic Europe, and Denmark, generally having immigrated to the Northeast and Appalachian regions of the US in the 1800s as farmers, shipmakers, and other trade laborers.
Outside of astrology, she deadlifts a lot, enjoys performing arts, goes for long walks and loves the Sun.