About Marga
A Life Shaped by Listening
For more than twenty years, Marga has been listening to the subtle stories held in people’s lives, in the Earth itself, and in the movement of the planets. Her work is rooted in a kincentric worldview where everything exists in relationship, and where transformation, though often tender or disruptive, is understood as a natural expression of our belonging to a living world.
She lives with her partner in Miami, a landscape shaped by rising waters and rapid ecological change. This place continues to teach her about impermanence, resilience, and the practices that help us meet reality with courage and care. Her response to these times is to accompany individuals and communities as they navigate grief, transition, and uncertain futures, offering presence, ritual, and steady orientation in moments when the old story no longer holds.
Marga Laube is an astrologer, writer, and Buddhist eco-chaplain whose work accompanies individuals and communities through seasons of transition. She offers a relational, earth-centered approach that brings clarity, companionship, and meaning to the thresholds of change.
Born to a German father and a South Indian mother, Marga grew up in a devout Catholic immigrant family in Pittsburgh. Her early spiritual formation unfolded through the Kashmir Shaivite tradition, which led her on pilgrimage in India and eventually into two years on staff at a Hindu monastery. During these years she apprenticed to her Jyotish teacher, James Kelleher, and became certified in Vedic Astrology as both a practitioner and teacher through the Council of Vedic Astrology. She spent more than a decade sitting week-long silent meditation retreats with nondual teacher Adyashanti, and since 2020 she has studied within the Buddhist tradition while also participating in the Episcopal Church. These lineages continue to shape how she listens, interprets, and tends to the human experience.
Before stepping fully into this work, Marga spent years as a media professional at National Geographic Magazine and CNET, a chapter that deepened her devotion to language, myth, and the craft of storytelling. She holds a degree in English and has long approached narrative as a way of illuminating both inner life and collective experience. Her book, Agents of Evolution: An Astrological Guide for Transformative Times, explores these themes and invites readers into a deeper conversation with change.
How I Accompany People
A RELATIONAL, EARTH-CENTERED APPROACH TO CHANGE
My work begins with listening, not only to the person in front of me but to the wider field that shapes their experience, the stories carried in the body, in the land, and in the collective moment we are living through. I offer presence, orientation, and steady companionship as people move through transition, grief, uncertainty, or thresholds where the old way of being no longer fits.
I draw from ritual, contemplative practice, intuitive inquiry, and decades of work with planetary symbolism to help people make meaning in times of change. My approach is relational and kincentric, rooted in the understanding that we are shaped by the living world and in ongoing conversation with it.
Whether I am supporting an individual or a community, the work is quiet, spacious, and attuned, holding both the tenderness of what is dissolving and the possibility of what is emerging.
Philosophies That Guide My Work
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I understand our lives as woven into a larger field — ecological, relational, ancestral. The living world is not a backdrop but an active participant in the stories we carry and the changes we meet. My work invites people into a deeper conversation with this wider field, where connection and orientation naturally arise.
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Periods of transition often bring uncertainty, grief, or a sense of disorientation. Rather than pathologizing these moments, I see them as thresholds — openings where something new is asking to be recognized. I accompany people as they move through these liminal spaces, helping them meet change with clarity and steadiness.
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Much of my work is about helping people locate themselves — emotionally, spiritually, relationally, and ecologically. Orientation creates the conditions for insight and movement. Together, we make space to understand what is shifting and how to walk with it in a grounded, truthful way.
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Ritual, contemplative practice, and embodied listening have long been ways humans make sense of the world. I draw on these traditions to support meaning-making in times of complexity or transition. This work is relational, spacious, and attuned to what is emerging in the moment.
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I do not offer answers or solutions. Instead, I accompany people as they reconnect with their own inner wisdom and capacity. The work honors agency, intuition, and the deep knowing that lives within each person and each community.
What Shapes My Practice
BUDDHIST ECO-CHAPLAINCY & ECODHARMA
As a Buddhist eco-chaplain trained through the Sati Center, Marga supports individuals and communities navigating ecological grief, sudden transition, and collective uncertainty. Her work includes grief tending, ritual, and presence-based practices that help people meet climate-related thresholds with courage and care.
ANIMIST, KINCENTRIC ASTROLOGY
For more than twenty years, Marga has offered counseling astrology rooted in a kincentric, animist worldview. She translates the movements of the planets and the stories of the Earth into guidance that supports renewal, orientation, and transformative change for individuals and communities.
RITUAL, GRIEF WORK & COMMUNITY PRACTICE
I find steadiness in relationship, in community, and in tending to the small things that restore imagination and courage. These moments keep me grounded in what matters most. My work includes grief tending and ritual practices that help people meet loss with presence and care. These practices invite a softening toward what has been difficult and a renewed capacity to move toward what is emerging.
WRITING, MYTH & STORY AS WAYFINDING
With an early foundation in literature and years working in the editorial world, Marga draws on myth, language, and narrative as tools for meaning-making. Her book, Agents of Evolution: An Astrological Guide for Transformative Times, and her ongoing reflections invite readers into deeper relationship with change and the living world.
An Invitation To Go Deeper
There are liminal seasons in our lives when the ground shifts beneath us, and the way forward has not yet revealed itself. My work grows from the belief that we do not meet these thresholds alone, and that the wider living world can offer orientation when we learn to listen.
If you feel drawn to explore these themes further, I share reflections, stories, and teachings through my Substack. I also offer seasonal notes and updates through a quiet newsletter, along with occasional projects that invite deeper inquiry and practice.