A course for uncovering how capitalism co-opted astrology—and how to take it back.
I’m Sam, AKA The Financial Witch.
Welcome to my corner of the internet. I'm a fat, white, queer, cis femme, a wife, a mother, a sister, an anti-capitalist witch & astrologer, currently residing in the Pacific Northwest. I created The Financial Witch as a way to connect with other entrepreneurial and neurodivergent witches and teach them how to alchemize their financial shame into empowerment through astrology.
I was raised by a single teen mom with a dad who was intermittently present due to addiction, so I was by no means born into a position of financial privilege. I experienced housing instability throughout my twenties as a result of the snowball effects of poverty, did sex work in one capacity or another for seven years, and even spent five years in an MLM, trying to become a "self-made millionaire," fully immersed in toxic girlboss culture.
What I'm trying to get at here is: I have experienced the depths of financial shame in my life, and blamed myself for years that I was unable to "figure money out." When I created The Financial Witch, I was determined to help people who felt like I once did about money create a healthier relationship to their finances and transform their shame through a radical, animist, and anti-capitalist approach to astrology. In the first two years of my business, I was privileged to sit down with over 100 people to discuss their relationship to money over their birth charts, and I have taught workshops on financial literacy and financial shame.
Eventually, my goals for TFW shifted, because the more I consulted with folks over their natal charts and their most intimate feelings about money, the more I realized that capitalism was to blame.
Now, it is my mission to bring together witches, neurodivergent folks, and entrepreneurs who feel called to anti-capitalism and want to not only learn more about it, but configure their lives in such a way that aligns with anti-capitalist values. I do this mainly through writing on my blog, sharing conversations with other anti-capitalist visionaries on my podcast, and various other projects.
My course, Anti-Capitalist Astrology, is available now.