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JENNIFER FREED, PH.D.
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How Celebrity Astrologer Jennifer Freed Turned Astrology Into a Novel
Dr. Jennifer Freed interviewed by Lisa Stardust for TODAY, June 2, 2025
Can astrology inspire a fiction novel? For celebrity astrologer Jen Freed, the answer is yes.
When writing her first novel, “Beyond Aquarius,” published in February, Freed tells TODAY.com she used her career as both a therapist and astrologer to inform the distinctive storyline.
The book incorporates astrology using an innovative approach, where each chapter is inspired by a specific astrological transit or terminology. (As an astrologer myself, I can say it's a rarity to find astrology woven into the fictional storyline in this way.)
In the book, Cam and Jules, two total opposites, meet at a yoga retreat and don't immediately connect as friends. However, as the story evolves, the two end up staying in touch until unexpected events summon them back into each other’s lives again.
Actor Jane Lynch, one of Freed’s clients, described the book as “star-crossed lovers but with astrological lessons and a magical conclusion” in a review Freed shared with TODAY.com.
What People Who Age Beautifully Have in Common
Dr. Jennifer Freed for goop, July 13, 2022
If we are among the lucky, aging is inevitable. Any consideration of its alternative—early death—helps us recognize how completely the current debate about “anti-aging” or “pro-aging” misses the essential point.
No matter how much we do to appear youthful or feel younger, age will embrace us and death will come. This was just as difficult for me to sit with as it may be for you, until I realized what truly matters: vitality.
Vitality is an energy of engagement, gratitude, and aliveness. It is a blended sweet spot of pleasure, purpose, and meaning.
Without luscious, plump pleasure, our lives are parched and arid. Without a sense of contribution and purpose, our lives feel flat and untethered. Without a rubric of meaning, our lives can feel empty and prone to hopelessness and despair.
When we are chock-full of pleasure, fulfilled by our efforts and contributions and saturated in a daily sense of meaning, we experience a thrumming, receptive sensitivity: a kind of soul fitness.
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