About Me

Lilly Falconer is an archetypal astrologer, integral intersectional feminist, writer, activist, artist, budding regenerative herbalist, experienced facilitator, and graduate of the Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness program at CIIS. Recently, she put her Virgo Mercury and Midheaven to work serving as a core organizer of the eleventh Turtle Island Bioregional Congress which took place in the Cascadia Bioregion or Northwest Oregon in September 2026.

Lilly is the founder and host of the Cosmobiography Podcast which explores the meaningful connections between biography, memoir, and the living cosmos. Before cosmobiography, her primary astrological research centered on the planetary archetype of Pluto within the modern Western astrological tradition, as well as archetypal astrological correlations in music, film/television, and literature. Lilly has been closely mentored by Richard Tarnas since roughly 2015 and practices astrology from the standpoint of Tarnas’ archetypal astrological framework.

Raised at the intersection of Wappo, Southern Pomo, and Coast Miwok lands, she lives with her dog, Buzz (an Aries Golden Retriever) in Sonoma Valley, California. You can find her on Instagram @lillyfalconerastrologer

Archetypal Astrology & My Reading Style

Astrology is the ancient study of meaning layered within the inner-spaces of one’s lifetime, fate, fortune, and psychology and the outer-spaces of histories, cultures, and the cosmos. There are many different types of astrology around the world, and the one I practice is held broadly within the modern western psychological lineage. More specifically, archetypal astrology comes through the work of Richard Tarnas (with credit due to Stanislav Grof, James Hillman, C.G. Jung, and others) and focuses primarily on the angular and archetypal relationships between the planets at the moment of birth within the context of multivalent cycles and rhythms of planetary transits to the natal chart, as well as outer-planet alignments known as world transits, which we experience as rhythmic themes throughout history, the arts, science, politics, and in our personal lives.

By studying our unique placement within the vast network of meaning-laden space that constitutes the archetypal cosmos we are able to gain a deeper understanding of our internal psychological landscape and feel reflected, affirmed, and lovingly held by a cosmic matrix of meaning. This ultimately loving matrix sometimes pushes us toward more mature versions of ourselves in painful ways. An astrology reading can be a cathartic experience of having difficulty and struggle reflected, affirmed, and held in compassionate space while also lending us language to speak about it in constructive ways and with a transit timeline. Thus, the Saturn Return becomes not just a few grueling years of maturity-testing endurance but an opportunity to meet our own growth, maturity, and emerging elder-self with dignity, integrity, ritual, and patience.

In my readings I try to facilitate integration by attuning to and affirming my clients’ lived-experiences. I want you to know that you are not weak for feeling tired, or bad for feeling crummy, or out-there for feeling dreamy, excited, erratic, or whatever you’re feeling. You are exactly on your path, perhaps right in line with a difficult Pluto or Saturn transit, a dreamy, inspiring, dissolving Neptune transit, or an exhilarating, routine-disturbing Uranus transit. I find that astrology can be deeply reparative by clarifying rather than bypassing our present or past experiences and patterns.

If requested I will present some ideas to how a client might make some slight adjustments, like implementing a small change or a new routine in their lives in order to be more in line with the beneficial aspect of whatever planetary archetypes they might be struggling to integrate or to live in good relationship with. This might be something like looking at a series of dates in the past in order to track and understand larger life patterns correlating to the specific rhythms of their outer-planet transits, or it might be a suggestion to find time to play, create, connect to their personal spiritual path or tradition, keep a dream journal, consider elder-hood, try a sit-spot practice and/or some deep nature connection or something along these lines. Sometimes clients choose to come back for more readings, usually about once per year. I love getting updates about how folks choose to integrate this material so if you feel inspired after the reading, please let me know!

FAQ about Archetypal Astrology

Q: What is an archetype?

A: This is a surprisingly difficult question to answer! The word archetype has its own lineage going back to Plato, skipping forward to Carl Jung in the early 20th century, and then re-visioned by James Hillman in the 1960’s and 70’s. I use the word archetype to describe a vessel of essential qualitative meaning with multivalent and inexhaustible expressions. In the words of Jung, “The archetypes are the imperishable elements of the unconscious, but they change their shape continually.” For example, the Saturn archetype can be described with the keywords: boundaries, maturity, stability, time, solid, elder, endings, containment, limits, harvest, the senex, law, etc. None of these keywords is able to describe the complete fullness of the Saturnian archetype, but may gesture quite effectively and meaningfully toward it in deep and helpful ways.

Q: Do you use the zodiac or houses? Which ones?

A: I use the western tropical zodiac and the whole sign house system. Though I use these systems I still refer mainly to the positions of the planets during consultations. I will refer to house or sign placement only when I feel it adds something important and accessible to myself or my clients. This is partly because of my training within the lineage of archetypal astrology and partly because the angular positions of the planets and the multi-valence of the archetypes that they represent often contain plenty of material to discuss already.

Q: What is your opinion of sidereal astrology/Vedic astrology/Mayan astrology/Hellenistic/other lineage?

A: I love them! I have landed in the lineage I’m in because of my own choices, my own fate, and my own love for the depth with which it speaks to me. This does not make me feel competitive in any way toward any other lineages – I will need many lifetimes to study them all.

Q: Can you tell me what I ate for breakfast based on my chart?

A: I think you know the answer to that already.

Q: Can you tell me whether or not I should marry this person/take or quit this job/buy this house/have another kid based on my chart?

A: I can help you to understand the rhythms and waves of potential archetypal patterns available to you at this time. These waves can be creative, disruptive, blissful, chaotic, despairing, and many other things. The type of astrology I practice is, as Richard Tarnas has said, archetypally predictive rather than concretely predictive; therefore I will not give direct life advice in a yes/no format since those are not the techniques that I have trained in. If you have a clear yes/no question that you absolutely need a yes/no answer for I suggest you look for a skilled horary astrologer or someone well-versed in the traditional Vedic or Hellenistic lineages and willing to take on questions like those. I can make some recommendations if you’d like.

Do you have another question? Email me and I’ll add it to the list.

To learn more about archetypal astrology check out my resources page, or contact me to schedule a consultation.

Resources on Archetypal Cosmology & Astrology

• Cosmos and Psyche, the website of Dr. Richard Tarnas, author of Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View, and The Passion of the Western Mind: Understanding the Ideas that have Shaped our World View, as well as co-founder of the Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness program at CIIS.

• The Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness graduate program at the California Institute of Integral Studies where Becca Tarnas serves as core faculty teaching Archetypal Cosmology to Masters and Doctoral students.

• Archai: the Journal of Archetypal Cosmology is a fantastic resource for scholarly articles on the unique subject of archetypal cosmology. Archai is available in both print and Kindle formats.

• Grof Legacy Training: In May 2020 Stanislav Grof and his wife Brigitte Grof launched their new International Grof® Legacy Training authorizing qualified teachers worldwide representing the Grof® work and legacy. Grof® Legacy Training is based on Stanislav Grof’s research into psychedelic therapy, holotropic breathwork, transpersonal psychology, and spiritual emergencies. His work has been published in two comprehensive volumes “The Way of the Psychonaut: Encyclopedia for Inner Journeys,” television courses, lectures, interviews, and many books.

• There is a too seldom considered link between the Tarnas lineage of archetypal astrology and the lineage of Stanislav Grof, MD, PhD, and his life’s work of research into non-ordinary states of consciousness. In his new two-volume book, The Way of the Psychonaut: Encyclopedia for Inner Journeys, Stan Grof asked Richard Tarnas to compose an epilogue detailing the origins of this astrological lineage in line with the research into non-ordinary states at Esalen in the 1970’s. The Way of the Psychonaut is well-worth reading on its own but I also highly recommend Rick Tarnas’ epilogue particularly for those interested in the link between archetypal astrology and its usefulness with therapies involving non-ordinary states of consciousness.

• Archetypal Explorer is a fantastic resource for learning more about the transformative practice of tracking your own, and the world’s, planetary transits.

 

 

 

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