Hi there! My name is Mari Leigh Scholes and I’m an….well….do I even need to say it??? Sure why not—ASTROLGER!!!
I have always been somewhat familiar with my birth chart and had a vague understanding of it’s placements and what not in my young adult life. But it wasn’t until the last few months of the COVID-19 global pandemic that I started to dig deeper into my birth chart and astrology in general.
You see—in 2022 I was laid off from what I thought was my dream job. I worked as an educational puppeteer for elementary school students for the majority of my 20s until the world shut down and changed everything. To make a long story short: my colleauges’ and I’s daily work as live performers were turned into a pre-filmed collection of videos made available for anyone with access to a computer and we were sent on our not so merry little way.
I could foresee this coming for a while but I still didn’t know what I would do after being let go of what I THOUGHT was my life purpose. Since the tender age of 10, I had always been performing, especially onstage. With puppeteering, I got to get paid for my passion of performing AS WELL AS make a positive impact on my community.
In the months leading up to my last day on the job, I stared looking into a branch of astrology called synastry (the astrology of relationships) to help better understand the dynamics of my relationships with others. This led to an increased interest in of astrology holistically, so like the air dominant person I am I started to do more research, watched YouTube videos, read books, scoured several blogs to try to uncover the mysteries of the cosmos and how they affect our human nature.
Also during this time, I started a YouTube channel called, Inevitably_Mari Leigh where I talk about movies, books, TV shows and join in on other conversations that are going around (if I can keep up with them). I realized without the puppets to soothe the inner theatre kid in me that I was going insane in the membrane! Interestingly enough, I have my Chiron (the asteroid of the wounded healer) in the sign of Leo taking up residence in my 10th house of public life and visibility. In hindsight, this YouTube channel has helped me heal my biggest childhood wounds by confronting my fear of being seen and releasing the painfully shy, but creative and silly child in me that did not get heard or recognized earlier in life.
It wasn’t till I started sharing what I had learned about astrology with others and cultivated this new sense of confidence from being highly visible on a platfrom like Youtube that I decided I could add value in the world by sharing my astrological knowledge with others who want to learn about themselves using astrology and how they can show up as their best selves in the world! I truly do believe that astrology has the power to change your perspective on yourself, your loved ones, and the world as a whole when you take the time to learn about about it and apply it to the real time experiences of your own life.
Whether you are a beginner or a seasoned student of astrology you are so welcome to this SAFE space to learn and grow with the ancient wisdom of the cosmic language that is astrology.
-Mari Leigh