Sue Hillyard is a trained professional astrologer, Astrological Counseling Seminars certified, who has been learning and practicing astrology for more than forty years. She is an editor, an artist, a Reiki Master, a 200-hour Yoga Alliance certified Yoga Teacher and is also certified in a technique of Past Life Regression, as taught by Woolger Training International. Sue’s astrological influences are eclectic and the style of her readings reflects a synthesis of traditional, psychological and evolutionary astrology.

“Yoga entered my life the same time astrology did – after reading Jess Stern’s Yoga, Youth and Reincarnation, back in the college days. Throughout my life, both of these major passions have taken me on some interesting paths that have always led me back to myself. They are both like old friends who I can pick back up with, just like no time has passed, no matter how long it’s been.

Fast forward to a time when my life was changing and I needed to get back into yoga . . . I dropped into The Yoga Studio behind Cantwell’s market in Santa Barbara, and that’s when Sue Anne and Jim came into my life.

While taking yoga classes there, Sue Anne introduced me to Yoga Therapy and it helped to further the process of opening to my internal guidance. When she suggested that I enroll in the Let It Go Teacher Training, my Virgo insecurity had me thinking I didn’t have enough experience, I surely wasn’t good enough. However, overcoming those insecurities and participating in the teacher training was one of the best things I’ve ever done for myself – and probably one of the more challenging – it totally changed my life!

Sue Anne and Jim’s caring and inclusive teaching style was just what I needed to guide me further on the path. And I’ve discovered, en route, there are many parallels to Yoga Therapy and the Past Life Regression technique I would later learn (that also incorporated elements of Evolutionary Astrology – as taught by Jeffrey Wolfe Green – another eventual major influence).

Somehow, I believe that all of life’s experiences ultimately tie together when living one’s soul’s purpose! My evolution has been a sort of upward spiral, in that I always come back to the important elements of my life (friends, passions, processes, etc.) but not necessarily in the same form or at the same level, as we all evolve along the way and then come back together when the time is right. I feel very fortunate to have discovered both yoga and astrology fairly early on my path – and am eternally grateful that they’re both still a large part of it, and to Sue Anne and Jim for escorting me along the way!!”

Contact Sue: sue@uranianinfluence.com and please check out the Evolutionary Astrology YouTube channel where she has some previous videos and will post one on October 20th on the coming eclipse season with Mars retrograde (spoiler alert: powerful solar eclipse on the day of this year’s US Election 😊)