ABOUT ME AND MY WORK WITH CLIENTS:
Hey there, welcome to my website. My name is Amalia Scott Jančič. I’m a genderqueer, multiracial, 2nd generation American born to two first generation immigrants, one a black Jamaican, the other a white Slovenian. I grew up in Oxford, Mississippi and find home in New Orleans, LA. Because my life experience has me straddling multiple worlds, cultures, and diasporas, in all my work I strive to generate healing spaces for beings who have struggled to find belonging, whether that be in their bodies, their relationships, their families, their communities, or in the culture at large.

I’ve been working with clients for 8+ years as an Astrologer and Tarot reader. I am ongoingly in love with the ways this practice provides opportunities to explore the stories that alternately hide in and express themselves through our embodiment. Often these stories have been waiting to get told, owned, and transformed for more than just one lifetime, so I position myself to midwife these stories, and support clients in generating the practices that help them embody these transformed and transforming stories. The work is deeply relational, and meeting each person where they are is my joy. I stay grounded in it through play and laughter.

I trained formally and am certified as an Evolutionary Astrologer. I have also attended trainings in trauma-informed yoga instruction, somatic therapy techniques, and the treatment of trauma in therapeutic settings. In our work together, I draw from all of these techniques to help you develop a more intimate relationship with yourself, your history, and your environment so that you can build and employ tools for self and collective liberation.

ABOUT MY PUBLIC-FACING WORK:
I publish written and video-recorded Astrology reports online. You can find them on Instagram @thehareinthemoon or under the ‘DAILY ASTRO’ page on this website. I have also co-created a podcast with my colleague Jonah Emerson-Bell: that project started in June 2019 and ran until February 2021. You can find those podcast episodes under the “The Stallion and the Hare: A Podcast” link on this website or by searching for The Stallion and the Hare on any podcast app.

MY EDUCATIONS:
I grew up biracial in Oxford, MS, which was its own education on the daily ways that racism, bigotry, and white supremacy uphold the western empire.
I got my Bachelor’s degree from Columbia University in New York City, where I studied Art History and American Literature.
I’m a certified Astrologer through the Forrest Astrology Apprenticeship Program.
I’ve worked in bookstores, museums, and have co-operated community library, art, education, and occult spaces in Brooklyn, NY, Oakland, CA, and Grass Valley, CA.
I underwent a 200-hour trauma-informed yoga teacher training through the Niroga Institute in Oakland, CA, though I did not go on to complete certification as a yoga teacher.
I am currently earning a Master in the Science of Counseling at Loyola University in New Orleans.
My most consistently useful knowledge comes from the courses I have taken with Prentis Hemphill and The Embodiment Institute.

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WHY THE HARE AND THE MOON?
I love that the hare shows face in many folkloric traditions and is usually associated magic, witchcraft, alchemy as well as a sensitive attunement to its environment. My work is largely informed by mythology, storytelling, folklore, and the alchemy of narratives. Like I imagine the hare doing, I am listening for what stories populate any given environment. I try to make these stories palpable and workable for my clients by exploring mythology in sessions, because I believe that through mythological and folkloric narratives, we gain access to the mythic dimensions of our lives: symbolic meaning, synchronicity, and an aligned sense of purpose.

In readings with me, you’ll learn about the archetypal and narrative conditions of your personality, and work to tease out the threads of your personal narrative. These sessions are an opportunity to reflect clearly on your values, your visions, your most authentic responses to life, and to develop strategies for healing that are unique to you.

 
HARE IN THE MOON // FOLKLORE:
In Chinese folklore, the Hare in the Moon was given a place on the moon by the Buddha after jumping into a fire to feed a starving man. Thereafter, the hare in the moon would live eternally under an acacia tree as the companion of the moon goddess, grinding sacred herbs in a mortar and pestle, cooking up the elixir of life.

British folklore holds that the hare was both the companion messenger of witches, as well as the preferred animal a witch would transform into for protection. A witch disguised as a hare could only be killed with a solid silver bullet.

The hare is also associated with the messenger god Hermes, who rules communication, timely information, and guides the dead through the underworld. One fable claims that Hermes cast the hare into the sky as the constellation Lepus just out of reach of Orion, taunting the hunter by sending him after an animal that couldn't be caught.

In the Western Siberian Urgic mythology, Kaltes is a goddess who often manifests as a hare. She takes the shape of the hare because the hare is understood to be the intermediary between the moon and the people who worship the moon. Ultimately Kaltes is a fertility goddess called on for support by people in labor. She empowers the beginnings of life, and the crossings of major thresholds.