Parts & Charts is back. Season two opens where all good things do: at the threshold.
KP developed a guided meeting script for Venus — stripped of the usual keywords, no “love,” no “relationship,” just: who is she, inside you, right now? Then she recorded it, lay down, listened, and went in.
Her Venus showed up at the Taj Mahal, in a grotto full of candlelight and the thrum of water, wrapping ropes around a jungle tree to pull it back from the river’s edge. She was muscular. Stoic. A steward. Her face was a lion — black-maned, nearly mythological. She was less concerned with KP than with keeping plastic out of sacred places. When KP asked how she could be beautiful like her, Venus didn’t say wear mascara. She said: you act too sweet. You’re not sweet. Stop that.
Chelsea’s Venus arrived in the Sierras — alpine meadow, open sky, nobody around. Regal and warrior-goddess and a little sassy, loaded with paintbrushes and flowers, dressed too formally for the landscape and completely at home in it anyway. She started looking like a beautifully rendered illustration. Then, as they deepened into just being together, she became a mirror. She looked like Chelsea. And when Chelsea noticed, Venus said: of course I look like you.
“You act too sweet. You’re not sweet. Stop acting sweet. And I was like — damn. That’s real.”
— KP Kaszubowski
This episode is about what happens when you stop using astrology as a mirror that confirms what you already think you know, and start using it as a door into actual contact. KP has Venus in Scorpio. She would have predicted a reptile. She got a black lion with environmental grievances and zero interest in flattery. Chelsea has Venus in Gemini. She would have predicted a library, a chatty friend, two of everything. She got an alpine meadow and a goddess who looked her in the eye.
Neither of them showed up the way the keywords said they would. That’s kind of the whole point.
Also in this episode
Chelsea finished IFS Level 3 training in DC and just submitted her certification requirements
KP’s grandfather died in January; she was there, it was a good death, and she’s grateful for that in the specific, unsentimental way she’s grateful for things
Why relationship-building with an inner figure requires the same patience as play therapy — you don’t ask the kid hard questions for six months, you just show up and let them do whatever they want
The difference between a hypnosis track and a guided meditation, and why KP won’t be releasing the planet scripts as standalone audio until the ethical container feels solid
Whether psychedelics and alcohol both work by relaxing protective parts — and what it means that Neptune rules both
What’s coming in Season 2: Arts, Parts & Charts experientials led by Chelsea; Astral 201 with Chelsea and Ashley as audience surrogates starting with the Moon; guests who are both therapists and astrologers; and more live inquiry like this
KP’s Venus is a black lion who protects the jungle from humans and finds bleach offensive. Chelsea’s Venus gave her art supplies and looked her in the eye. They used the same script, entered the same door, and landed in completely different rooms — which is not a problem with the method. It’s the method working.
The chart doesn’t tell you who you are. It introduces you to someone who already knows.
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Upcoming events
Chart Roulette
[Apr 18, 2026 12:00 PM CT · Virtual via Zoom]
Bring your chart. KP reads it live. The wheel decides who goes first — which is another way of saying: the planets decide. Fast, candid, and probably illuminating in ways you didn’t expect.
Work with us
KP Kaszubowski
Hellenistic astrologer · Jungian parts work educator · poet
KP offers Hellenistic chart readings that treat the birth chart as a map of the psyche’s inner figures — not a verdict, a conversation starter. She’s also currently accepting a small number of practice clients for her Astro Parts Method sessions: guided meetings with your planets as parts, using active imagination. Interest form open now.
Chelsea Owens
Licensed therapist · IFS Level 3 certified
Chelsea works with individuals using Internal Family Systems therapy — the same framework she brings to Parts & Charts. Her sessions are warm, rigorous, and grounded in genuine clinical training. Now accepting new clients.
Credits:
Music “Vape Juice Dave’s Bistro” composed by Scott Cary (Wild Western Avenue) for the feature film RINGOLEVIO (2020) directed by KP Kaszubowski - performed by Scott Cary, Max Wikoff, Else Albeck Gasparka, and Sarah Luther
The cover image is a collage by Chelsea Owens.
