The Phoenix ACT

Astrology, Coaching, Theater

The Phoenix is a mythical bird that spontaneously combusts and is reborn from its ashes. I chose this symbol of perpetual renewal as it represents my life experience.

I’ve been burned and reborn from the ashes countless times in my life and I found in astrology an anchor to ground me in my resilience. The Phoenix represents resilience, the destruction of what isn’t serving us, and the opening of a new path, a fresh view, and renewed hope.

The Phoenix Creator

My name is Ariane.

I am an anthropologist, astrologer, life coach, peer counselor, and an expert on the Theater of the Oppressed methodology.

I have studied astrology for the past twenty years, and I started The Phoenix ACT in 2023 when I was rising from the ashes for the nth time. I studied my charts – natal, progressed, solar returns, lunar returns, transits, and other planetary returns – searching for clues and directions to take at a time in my life when adversity was at its highest point.

I looked into my natal promise, what my chart says about me, what type of person I am, and how I approach life, work, friends, family, and home. I searched for clues about my psychological makeup, searching for where my strengths lie; what my weaknesses are, and how to navigate between the two. I traveled on my birthdays to have a promising solar return.

I became adept at reading astrological charts, and I can decode the symbols and patterns in any chart. I can unveil the archetypes and

Coaching is a subset of teaching. I’ve been through hell and back. Hades/Pluto has touched and transformed me deeply with the assistance of Uranus, the god of sudden and unpredictable revolutions. My life experience with hardships, failures, successes, experiments, and wonder gives me a solid foundation to counsel. In my previous incarnation, I was a college professor, a university lecturer, and an adjunct instructor. I had students from all walks of life and often counseled them on their academic trajectory, life course, and personal matters. In addition, I am a certified peer counselor, studied psychology, and learned coaching techniques.

I grew up in São Paulo, Brazil, raised in the theater. My father was a professional actor and director, and my Sunday afternoons were often spent bored to tears watching my father rehearse his with troup a play or another. That is when I first met Augusto Boal, the creator of Theater of the Oppressed. My childhood and adolescence were heavily influenced by art and the political outlook of my country during the 1960s and 1970s making metaphors, theater, political art, music, and literature central to my academic roots. In 1997, while attending the undergraduate program in anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles, I came across a theater group from the Domestic Worker Association that produced the play Super Domestica. It was pure Theater of the Oppressed. In 2000 I began my graduate program in anthropology at the University of California, Irvine focusing on theater, culture, and politics. That is when I trained heavily on Theater of the Oppressed, and now I focus on an offshoot of this methodology, the transformational non-scripted Rainbow of Desire, or theater therapy

The Phoenix ACT represents rebirth, rising from the ashes, the metaphor for deep transformations, overcoming crises, and new beginnings.

My goal is to you to a new level, to the freshness of life, to the newness of being.

Each ending signals a new beginning.

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