Today we’d like to introduce you to Kate Wood.
Hi Kate, can you start by introducing yourself? We’d love to learn more about how you got to where you are today?
My path to astrology was a calling that developed through my innate connection to art and mathematics. I studied fine art with a focus on drawing and painting that represent mathematical theory and natural patterns, and I’ve taught art at the college and secondary level for years, currently at St. Mark’s School of Texas. The search for underlying patterns and the way repetition creates cycles captivated me within my art practice and ultimately deepened my interest in astrology. Astrology provided a lens to view cycles within cycles and structure underneath the chaos.
I started taking astrology seriously as a student before I took it seriously as a practice. I’ve studied with Nightlight Astrology, Astrology Hub, and Rise and Thrive, and that ongoing education has shaped how I read charts: rigorously, but with a lot of care for the human sitting across from me.
Becoming a mother of two accelerated something. Each birth was its own kind of transformation. I became a different person crossing a one-way threshold with the arrival of each child. Living that kind of death and rebirth changes how you hold space for other people going through their own. I know what it’s like to be inside a moment that doesn’t make sense yet, and astrology is one of the best reframing tools I know.
Would you say it’s been a smooth road, and if not what are some of the biggest challenges you’ve faced along the way?
The road has had its seasons. My years of adjunct teaching were genuinely hard, moving between multiple colleges simultaneously, uncertain from semester to semester, and constantly stretched thin. Finding a full-time position at St. Mark’s changed the texture of my life in ways I couldn’t have predicted. Stability created space, and space allowed everything else to grow.
The deeper struggle has been learning to trust a non-linear path: art, mathematics, astrology, teaching, and motherhood. From the outside, these can look like separate threads, and there were years when I wondered if they would ever cohere. They do now, but that clarity came slowly and not without doubt.
Motherhood brought its own undoing. Crossing that one-way threshold twice, becoming a different person each time, is not something you can prepare for. The work of integrating who you were with who you are becoming is ongoing. Astrology has been one of the most useful maps I have found for that kind of terrain, which is part of why I believe in it so deeply as a tool for others.
If anything, the difficult seasons are what make me a better reader. I am not offering astrology from a place of having it all figured out. I am offering it as someone who has learned to find meaning in the pattern, even when the pattern is hard.
Alright, so let’s switch gears a bit and talk business. What should we know?
My astrology practice is kate108, and the name itself carries meaning. 108 is one of the most sacred numbers across mathematical and spiritual traditions. It appears in the geometry of circles, in Vedic cosmology, and in the number of beads on a mala.
I specialize in natal chart readings and transits, helping people understand not just what is happening in their lives but why it might be happening and what it could be asking of them. My background in mathematics and visual art shapes how I read a chart. I am looking for patterns, relationships, and structure. I am also sitting with a person, so I bring as much care as rigor.
What sets me apart is that I come to astrology through a genuinely unusual door. Most practitioners arrive through intuition or spirituality first. I arrived through pattern recognition, through years of making art that investigates mathematical theory and natural cycles. That means I can speak to the architecture of a chart in a way that feels grounded, even to skeptics, while still honoring the depth and mystery of what astrology is.
I am most proud that clients leave readings feeling oriented. Not told what to do, but able to see their own life from a wider vantage point. That reframe is the whole offering.
You can find me and book a reading at www.kate108.com.
Are there any apps, books, podcasts, blogs or other resources you think our readers should check out?
My reading life pulls in a few different directions, which probably says something about me. On the literary side, I love anything by David Sedaris, and I recently read Unbound: A Woman’s Guide to Power, which I’d recommend to anyone in a season of reclaiming themselves. Shadow Cell by Andrew Bustamante scratched a completely different itch. I appreciate writing that is smart and doesn’t talk down to you, whatever the genre.
For podcasts, I keep returning to 99% Invisible and House Therapy. I am drawn to how things are made and why they are designed the way they are, which connects back to the pattern obsession more than it might seem.
For astrology specifically, my resource list runs deep. Demetra George and Rick Levine are foundational for me. Adam Ellenbaas and Nightlight Astrology shaped a lot of my serious study. The Astrology Podcast with Chris Brennan and Austin Coppock is essential listening, and I have a real appreciation for the World Astrology Report with Dan Waites and SJ Anderson. On the book side, T. Susan Chang’s tarot work and Judith Hill’s body of writing are both on my shelves and well-worn.
One name I want to mention specifically is Ray Merriman, whose work on financial astrology has genuinely captured my imagination. I currently offer natal chart readings, but offering financial astrology readings is very much on my horizon. The intersection of market cycles and planetary cycles is exactly the kind of pattern conversation I find irresistible.
Pricing:
- Natal Chart Reading · 60 min · $150
- The Year Ahead · 90 min · $195
- Long Game Outlook · 90 min · $250
- All sessions take place over Zoom and include a recording. Book at www.kate108.com.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.kate108.com
- Instagram: katecolinwood
