Trust Psyche Podcast | Archetypal Astrology & Depth Psychology Jessica DiRuzza

In episode 41, Jessica DiRuzza, MFT and Travis DiRuzza, PhD share the origin story of Trust Psyche, which began in 2013--celebrating 10 years! and then move into dialogue about how to read a birth chart, inspired by the upcoming masterclass. Commemorating 40+ episodes of the Trust Psyche podcast!

Astrology meets Parenthood! Matthew Stelzner and Jessica DiRuzza go deep while keeping it light about how the practice of astrology comes together with being a parent. They explore how cosmology guides how we raise our children, how our child’s birth chart and synastry support this magical journey, and how the Mysteries of the Moon manifest with each of the other planets. Matthew and Jessica have been friends and colleagues for 15 years, first in San Francisco, California and now in the Caribbean, with Matthew and his family in Santa Marta, Colombia and Jessica and her family in Siesta Key, Florida.
Matthew Stelzner is a professional intuitive guide and teacher, devoted husband and father, currently living in Santa Marta, Colombia. He has practiced astrology and tarot for nearly 30 years. Matthew also worked for 20 years as a professional facilitator and trainer of Holotropic Breathwork. As a group leader for workshops and trainings offering that method, he held space for people doing powerful work in expanded states of consciousness.
His combined experiences in these two main areas of work, along with his training in counseling psychology, have lead to a unique approach to working with clients that is about trusting the healing force within each client to guide the process. He has an MA degree in Philosophy and Transpersonal Psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies. He has a YouTube channel www.youtube.com/c/MatthewStelznerStelz where he regularly publishes content on the joy of astrology, and you can also find him on Instagram @tarot_and_lola To find out more about Matthew’s work, see his blog, and get information about his intuitive readings, visit his website at matthewstelzner.com
Jessica DiRuzza, MFT is a depth psychotherapist, astrologer, and teacher, as well as a wife and badass mother. For over 15 years, she has worked lovingly and collaboratively with individuals, couples, and groups on their embodied transformative journeys. Jessica received her Master’s in Counseling Psychology with an emphasis in Depth Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute, where she wrote her thesis on shame and the reclamation of the feminine voice. Jessica did her bachelor’s at California Institute of Integral Studies where she studied and taught archetypal astrology and transpersonal psychology.
You can find Jessica and her body of work at trustpsyche.com, on her YouTube channel, and @trust.psyche on IG. The Trust Psyche School of Astrology and Depth Psychology offers a full astrological curriculum, from beginner to professional, with a community of students from over 25 countries.
Jessica offers sessions online with people from around the world and from all walks of life. She welcomes people of all ages, ethnicities, genders, and sexual preferences. You may contact her at Jessica@trustpsyche.com.

The World Transits, where the planets are at any given moment in time, represent the Soul of the World, the Anima Mundi. Jessica shares her visionary understanding of how humanity can collectively wake up to and co-create with the world transits in their everyday lives. The human species shares psyche, and every single individual is uniquely experiencing and expressing the archetypal energies seen in the world transits. We as humans share much more than we have realized up until this point in history. 

Jessica invites Travis onto the podcast to discuss epigenetics in astrology. What patterns of behavior and personality do we inherit from our parents and receive through modeling? How are these patterns reflected astrologically in the birth charts involved? What choice do we have to participate and inflect these patterns differently? Jessica and Travis dive into these questions and more in Stream 38.

Coming out as an astrologer, whether professionally or just for the love of it, requires a vulnerable and often daunting sharing process for the vast majority of us. I believe this is something that needs to be discussed in community, by coming out and sharing our unique stories with one another. This episode is part of the Coming Out Salon, where Jessica DiRuzza, MFT opens a dialogue about her own coming out process and what she has seen from others over the past  15 years. We are stronger together and have much more in common than we realize. Let’s begin to have this dialogue more.

In episode 36, Jessica shares her astrological and psychological revelations during this Mercury-Uranus conjunction. Mercury-Uranus is the combination of the messenger and awakening. Themes of freedom, change, choice, and becoming conscious are all explored in these 40 minutes.