Katie Bentle

About Me

I am Katie. I was born in Texas, but came up and out to Seattle to be my true self. I discovered more than superficial things about myself, and became fascinated with deeper aspects of religion and spirituality. From that, an interest and later practice, in Hellenistic astrology soon emerged, as well as with an interest in all forms of divination and many spiritual/esoteric matters.

I strive to be thoughtful, analytic, and let my intuition guide my life while staying sensitive to the information the world and my senses bring to me. I'm always trying to learn and overcome old limits. I'm always trying to be better so that I can share better.

I've found a lot of growth comes from taking leaps of faith. I'm always striving to understand as much as possible, but judging and expecting nothing. Being ready for anything, but ready to love and accept anything too. I try to bring that outlook to my practice so I truly hope I can help anybody seeking clarity or understanding by sharing this process with them, and I'm excited to as well!

Sessions

• 30 minute Big Three Reading

  30m 30 minute Big Three Reading $25

  $25

• 90 minute Full Reading

  90m 90 minute Full Reading $80

  $80

Q&A with Katie Bentle

1. 1. Tell us a bit about you and your practice.

   I am a 36 y/o transfeminine astrologer. I'm a geeky little nerd from Texas who came up to washington and became immersed in astrology and other spiritual matters, and came out of it with a love of astrology and giving readings.

   I love the way it lets me connect to and understand people better. I love the way it helps people unpack and reflect on their life, their projects, their relationships. I love being a facilitator of this kind of understanding, and I get to be so nerdy about it! I feel myself in my practice, and I take pride and joy in taking others along for the process.

2. 2. What moment or realization made astrology and/or tarot “click” for you in a real, lived way?

   Gosh! The clicks I can track are when I realized there might be something to astrology and that I should learn it. That was at the outset.

   Early in my study was this eclipse in Scorpio, and I was still getting my bearings and didn't understand things well, but my teacher said something to the effect of, "scorpio eclipses can reveal hidden things" and, under the moonlight of that lunar eclipse, a large exploratory well/trash pit's cover collapsed, revealing a huge hole that ran about 30 feet down. We found this thing right as the eclipse peaked, and when we finally got a ladder down there and looked at it, there were all kinds of little trinkets and glass bottles and trash from the early 20th century (the house was built around 1910).

   It was shocking. The cover wasn't even known to us. It was just a piece of wood that finally rotted and collapsed, but it was covered in dirt and grass. It's possible i walked over it many times before it finally broke. That was when astrology became very, very real to me.

3. 3. What’s something most people misunderstand about astrology and/or tarot that you’re always gently correcting?

   The tendency to assume that popular astrology, the sort you see in sun-sign horoscopes "Libras this week may feel gassy and troubled with indecision", is the depth of astrology in its totality, instead of a poor and pernicious simplification of a venerable art. I am always gentle about it, and use it a way to sort of motion somebody in one of my readings towards a deeper understanding of what my practice is.

4. 4. Tell us your thoughts on the astrology of 2026 and how it’s likely showing up in people’s everyday lives right now.

   We've experienced three outer planets changing signs. Saturn+Neptune conjunction that will last *way too long* in the sign of aries is surely going to brew religious and political conflict, and we're already seeing that with a rise in wars and increasingly religious rhetoric with regards to war and struggles. The rise of confinement, genocide, and wars globally signal this.

   Uranus moved into gemini as well, a place of intellect and learning meeting the brilliance and unique insight and rebellious spirit of Uranus has been accelerating the pace of the rise of certain kinds of computer technologies and the displacement of the workforce as capital attempts to cut human labor out of the picture as much as possible, is trine a newly ingressed Pluto in Aquarius, which might lead to its collapse, or its rapid growth.

   The skies are rather intense right now. Outer planet ingresses are always felt globally, they are never small shifts, and in just a few months we've had four, three this year! it's going to be really intense and difficult for most people underneath a certain level of economic security and privilege

5. 5. What’s a recurring life theme you see in your readings right now (love, career pivots, endings, rebirth, boundaries), and how do you help people work with it instead of resisting it?

   Struggles with employment are a big one. I try to indicate where relief and solutions may be found, and i try to encourage an accepting but open and active attitude that allows for adaptability. I want people to get through their challenges, and right now everyone is facing some severe challenges.

6. 6. When someone comes to you feeling stuck, what part of the chart do you look at first and why? If you do tarot or another practice, tell us about your process for this.

   I often check the nodes and the angles of the client's chart. I look at how their life is sort of constructed. Somebody with a life built around their fourth house means they are stuck because of their home or family life, so we dive deeper and look into that as needed. The same goes for other transits of signs/houses/etc.

7. 7. When someone is trying to understand their love life more deeply, where do you guide them to look first? What parts of the chart, energy, or inner patterns tend to reveal the most?

   I will focus on the first, fifth, 7th, and 11th, and 12th houses first and see what the relationship is between them, their rulers, etc., and extrapolate or move on based on what I see. These are key places for how we relate to others, and I often find that both the good and the bad will relate to these houses as regards social matters. i also use lots and zodiacal releasing to try and hone in on the energies in play.

8. 8. When someone is trying to understand their career life or work/ purpose more deeply, where do you guide them to look first? What parts of the chart, energy, or inner patterns tend to reveal the most?

   the third, the sixth, the 9th, 10th, and 11th all have direct or indirect relationships to these topics, and they are where i go to first. The 10th is telling of career trajectories, the sixth is of base employment. the others are supporting information.

9. 9. What’s one small but meaningful practice or reflection you’d recommend people try based on their natal chart or reading?

   Be at peace with what is coming to you. I can help people peak inside themselves and prime themselves for where life is taking them, but I always try to caution a relaxing of any control impulse - we have some agency, but most of it isn't up to us. In fact, most of it isn't.

   My teacher throws around "amor fati" a lot, "love your fate", and it's a phrase i don't really like on an emotional level, but it demands a fairly essential outlook if you study astrology - you must somehow find peace in what must happen if you are going to interrogate what you are and what tomorrow brings.

10. 10. What are your favorite decks + resources that you think people should know about?

    The Astrology Podcast youtube channel is bar none the most informative and helpful free resource on astrology. The quality of the astrology on display, the way it's talked about, and the general approach of its host, Chris Brennan, is something anybody trying to understand astrology should be consuming.

Offerings

• ASTROLOGY