Writer · Astrologer · Llewellyn Author
Patterns are easier to change
once you can see them.
I write about self-understanding, relationships, and what your patterns are actually trying to tell you — using astrology as a tool, not a crystal ball.
About
Direct, warm, and allergic to guru-in-an-ashram woo.
The short version
- Author Charting Love with Astrology (Llewellyn, 2026)
- Credential Kepler College certificate & STA certificate in astrology
- Background Sociology & psychology
- Also 30+ years in the beauty industry
- Also Acutonics practitioner & teacher
- Show Co-host of Sky Notes
I grew up being told I was too much of this and not enough of that — and a lot of it didn’t match how I felt on the inside. At 15, a friend hauled a giant astrology text into school, and we spent our free time hand-calculating our charts. I didn’t understand much, but what I did understand put things in perspective. It showed me where the inconsistencies were — what I actually was, and what I wasn’t.
Then I had a professional reading for my 21st birthday, and I was floored. She could see me — all of it — from a computer-generated circle full of symbols. That was it. I was hooked.
That’s the work I do now: astrology as a tool for self-understanding and pattern recognition. Less about fortune-telling, more about seeing how you’re built, why you keep ending up in the same situations, and what you can do about it. I do forward-looking work too, like timing and the year ahead, but always in service of understanding, not just prediction.
My writing is for people who are smart, a little tired of being told to “just trust the process,” and want something they can actually use. I’m straightforward and I use humor. I’ll show you what your chart is really saying, including the parts that take some work, and where the possibility lives in it.
The Book
Charting Love with Astrology
From Venus and Mars to the houses and timing techniques — a complete guide to understanding your entire relationship story.
A beginner-friendly system for reading love and relationships in your birth chart. It walks you through Venus, Mars, the relationship houses, where to find love, and how to time it — and ends with a step-by-step process for reading your own chart.
It’s built for people who want to understand their own patterns in love, not chase a soulmate prediction. Published by Llewellyn, February 2026.
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Everything you need to book or feature Tracy — bios at three lengths, headshots, book assets, talking points, and suggested questions. Grab what fits your format.
One-line bio ~15 words
Tracy Quinlan is a writer, astrologer, and Llewellyn author of Charting Love with Astrology.
Short bio ~50 words
Tracy Quinlan is a writer and astrologer, and the author of Charting Love with Astrology (Llewellyn, 2026). With certificates from Kepler College and the STA, and a background in sociology and psychology, she uses astrology as a practical tool for self-understanding and pattern recognition — not prediction. She co-hosts the Sky Notes show.
Long bio ~180 words
Tracy Quinlan is a writer, astrologer, and author of Charting Love with Astrology (Llewellyn, February 2026), a beginner-friendly guide to reading love and relationships in the birth chart. She holds certificates in astrology from Kepler College and the STA (School of Traditional Astrology), and brings a background in sociology and psychology to her work, which focuses on the self-discovery side of astrology — using the chart to spot life patterns and understand relationships, rather than to predict the future. Her 30-plus years in the beauty industry inform how she reads Venus: aesthetics, attraction, and what people are really drawn to.
Tracy is also an Acutonics practitioner and teacher, a course and digital-product creator, and the co-host of Sky Notes, a conversational astrology show. Her writing appears on her blog, on Medium, in Aspire Magazine, and in Wellbeing Magazine (print), and she contributes horoscopes to the Llewellyn calendar. Known for a direct, warm, and humor-forward style, she’s built her reputation on being the astrologer who won’t talk over your head or hide behind mysticism. She writes for people at transition points who want practical self-understanding they can actually use. She is based in Edmonton, Alberta.
Interview Topics & Talking Points
- Using your birth chart to spot the patterns you keep repeating
- Astrology for self-discovery vs. astrology for prediction
- What the houses reveal about how — and where — you find love
- Venus and Mars: your love language and your desire, decoded
- Why your Sun sign is usually the least interesting thing about you
- Starting over in midlife: what your chart says about transitions
- How a teenager hand-calculating charts ends up writing a book on astrology
Suggested Interview Questions
- What does astrology actually do that self-help doesn’t?
- How can a chart show someone their relationship patterns?
- What’s the difference between the Venus and Mars in our charts?
- You say you’re not “woo” — what do you mean by that?
- Where do people get astrology most wrong?
- If someone knows nothing about their chart, where do they start?
- What surprised you most while writing the book?
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