Los Angeles based.

Jamaica born and raised.

Cancer Sun ☀️  Pisces Moon 🌙  Sagittarius Rising 🏹

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At the age of 17 in the year 2012, I experienced the most impactful romantic relationship I have ever had to date. I came face-to-face with Love for the first time and began a profound transformation which I would later come to know as my spiritual awakening.​​​​​

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But to really understand that story, I have to go even further back. Stick with me for a second. I promise it'll be worth it.

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As a Jupiter ruled child, I was intensely spiritual from birth. In fact, at the age of 2, my first spiritual gift became known to me; I could see an outline of various colors surrounding all living beings. I also felt aware of a telepathic connection amongst all living things. By 5, I began exploring the dream world and portaling to other realities. At 8, I connected to the spirit world: ghosts, ancestors, angels, and a variety of other unseen entities. By 11, I had unlocked and accessed many variations of my past lives, and began to write them into stories.

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I say all that to say, despite the depth I had already experienced, being intimately intertwined into the spiritual world, when I felt what I believe to be Unconditional Love building inside of me, it was the greatest, most profound thing I had ever felt. I've spent every day of my life since dedicated to making Love the center of everything I do.

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The breakup at 17 was my lowest point in life to date, but also the turning point that made me who I am today. At that stage of life, I did not have the right density to hold and nurture such a high frequency for a long period of time. So when I was thrust from that Higher Absolute Self back to the Lower Ego Self, I became hungry to learn how to recreate those circumstances to invite that Love back into my life permanently.

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Because I no longer had access to the person that was a part of my awakening, I felt I needed to find a way to simulate his personality in order to study the connection that brought me to Love. Enter stage left: astrology.

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Now, because of my unique spiritually filled childhood, I never quite felt that I fit in, but with my mother's playful and light interest into her own zodiac sign, astrology was something I was introduced to fairly young and a tool that I had felt had something to it because it helped to explain why I was so different from my family and loved ones. Even still, because I was also raised in a strong Christian household, many of my spiritual interests, including astrology, were avoided for fear that I was engaging in "The Dark Arts".

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I didn't really ever speak publicly about my spiritual gifts and experiences until my late 20's, but by 17, I was confident enough in my own private practices to finally truly dive into astrology, and see if it could be a gateway for me to understand Love. I started with my own sun sign of Cancer, and my romantic interest's sun sign of Scorpio, and read all I could that was available on the internet. Hundreds of firsthand accounts from Tumblr and Yahoo Answers convinced me that there was some ancient knowledge hidden in astrology, but after finding and learning my own birth chart, being seen for who I authentically am for the first time cemented for me that astrology was the language of the Universe. In seeing the intricacy of my blueprint, I began to feel that Love brew inside me again. This was when I realized that astrology was this gateway to Truth, and Truth was the gateway to Love.

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I became taken with Relationship Astrology, with many people submitting questions to me on Yahoo Answers to explain the synastry between them and their partner. However, the longer I stayed in the field of astrology, the more I understood that the synastry read was only as good as your natal chart read, that you had to know the depths of who a person was first before understanding how they would connect with another. But then, even in one's own chart, all I could see was relationship; between planets, and signs, and houses. Astrology was all relationship because life was all about relationship, with Self, with others, and with Love.

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As within, so without

As above, so below

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Once I blew past the fear of studying astrology, it was infinitely easier to explore other spiritual tools and modalities. I learned and studied tarot and numerology under Lindsay Mack, and did more individual study about Sufism and their philosophy of Love with the public content and teachings provided by Maryam Hasnaa. My deeper shadow work and learnings of spellwork and magic was under Imani Cohen and my love of soundbaths and experience with powerful meditations were with Zina Star Mahadevi. Though most of my astrology knowledge was self-taught, in the more recent years, as I decided to make a living as an astrologer, I refined my craft through the online teachings of Chris Brennan, who hosts The Astrology Podcast, and AliceSparklyKat, from alicesparklykat.com.

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I've used all the knowledge I've gathered over the years to form my own understanding, philosophy, and translation of astrology, and I share my findings primarily through my YouTube channel, @theimaniamanda, which at this time, solely focuses on Relationship Astrology. As I advance to become a full-time astrologer, I aim to facilitate more discussions about this craft, and of course, continue to provide you all with transformative readings that bring you closer to yourself, to others, and to Love.

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Read more about my Astrology Philosophy here.