Anthony Rella

Anthony Rella I am a psychotherapist and writer in Seattle, Washington.

"What I think is that these martial energies that permeate our lives are the raw material that we must hone so that they...
04/02/2026

"What I think is that these martial energies that permeate our lives are the raw material that we must hone so that they can become that “higher” Mars. The disciplined Mars, bringing its efficacy and power to serve your wisest self. Chaotic Mars is not intrinsically evil, not something to eradicate—rather it is something to befriend and discipline."

https://open.substack.com/pub/anthonyrella/p/chaotic-tendencies-are-raw-materials

03/31/2026

The American Counseling Association (ACA) is profoundly disappointed in today's ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court overturning Colorado's ban on conversion therapy. Despite the ruling, the evidence remains clear: conversion therapy is harmful, discredited, and unsupported by science, and its risks to client well-being are well documented. ACA, SAIGE and other leading mental health organizations remain committed to ethical, evidence-based, and affirming care, and will continue to oppose practices that violate these standards of care.

Learn more: https://bit.ly/4bUJdbE

Next Tuesday, at anthonyrella.substack.com, I will be hosting a live guided meditation to help us pause, check inside, r...
03/26/2026

Next Tuesday, at anthonyrella.substack.com, I will be hosting a live guided meditation to help us pause, check inside, reconnect with our own vital energy, and then return to the work of life.

I believe that this kind of practice helps us to be fully alive and present, bringing all of ourselves into a world that really needs us to be here. This is not about bypassing, avoiding, or tuning out—but about helping us better participate in life.

I'll be doing a 15-20 minute practice at 12:30pm Pacific time. Mark your calendars and please join.

"We’re in a forest saturated with fog, barely able to see the few steps in front of us. You could try to decide what is ...
03/25/2026

"We’re in a forest saturated with fog, barely able to see the few steps in front of us. You could try to decide what is correct and force your way through, but if the terrain of the forest is clouded and unfamiliar, there’s a lot of roots to trip over, animals to disturb, and abrupt cliffs that could lead to a fall. Even if you have a book that tells you what’s supposed to happen next, that book can’t tell you of the forest you’re in right now, in this moment. At best, it helps you to see how others found their way through similar forests, and you can use its inspiration to decide the next few steps."

https://anthonyrella.substack.com/p/amidst-fog-our-only-guide-the-steps

Drawn to deep spiritual and personal work, you know the answer you seek lies within you. Yet all of us benefit from bein...
03/24/2026

Drawn to deep spiritual and personal work, you know the answer you seek lies within you. Yet all of us benefit from being witnessed, heard, and encouraged by another. Sometimes hearing the insights of another is what allows us to discover our own truth.

As a magical practitioner for two decades, and a therapist for thirteen years, I am excited to create space in my practice for those seeking short-term consultation on their spiritual and personal journeys. I provide deep witnessing, listening to the social, emotional, energetic, and psychic dimensions of your experience, and guidance informed by work with astrology and tarot as well as the hard-won practical insights of therapy.

My rate is $225 per hour, adjusted to charge for the actual time that we spend together. Because this is not mental health therapy, I can work with folks anywhere.

If you are interested, please email me at counseling@anthonyrella.com and we can discuss what you are looking for and schedule a time. You can learn more about me at anthonyrella.com.

03/13/2026

There’s an observation I keep having but feel unable to put into a piece of writing that is useful, about how conflicting groups use the same underlying psychological defenses and rhetorical strategies against each other.

The statements made from these strategies are not objectively measurable in any sense, and are not of themselves persuasive unless you’re already predisposed to be sympathetic to one side or adversarial toward the other.

There’s a whole bunch of examples that come to mind that feel like they’d be so incendiary that it would be hard to talk about them. But I’m thinking about how members of Iran’s government implied the anti-government protestors were paid actors and terrorists, and members of the US government condemned those words while simultaneously referring to anti-ICE protestors as paid actors and terrorists.

Where I notice it building in the US online social media circus is the way left-wing and right-wing memes increasingly depict the other side as wanting nothing more than their side’s destruction and imprisonment, which means their side needs to be aggressive and pre-empt that. It feels like a symptom of a collective choice to reject collaboration and civil debate and instead move increasingly toward war.

And, of course, depending on what camp you’re in, you’re more likely to see the other side’s calls for your destruction and say, “See? They’re evil!” And to ignore or minimize your own side’s calls for destruction.

When I get to this point of writing these thoughts out, I imagine the people who will come after me because their camp is clearly in the right, and also how can you truly measure what is right or just without planting your foot somewhere? And if we step way back and look at this, is it too removed to be useful to anyone?

I guess I don’t really know. To me it all seems like a memetic war that feeds real-life violence. And perhaps when war comes all one can do is choose one’s side.

So then I delete whatever I’ve written and try to focus on what is within my power.

03/12/2026

In the AI economy, human connection is a premium service.

03/05/2026

In a couple weeks I'll be talking about working with the energy of Mars, and here's an intro lecture to talk about why and how.

"The doubt within me cannot fully relax and let go because that other thing inside me, the part that really wants cool e...
02/24/2026

"The doubt within me cannot fully relax and let go because that other thing inside me, the part that really wants cool experiences, needs someone to mind it. In spite of my most guarded personality, I’ve had moments of being taken advantage of or just confused because parts of me really take these practices too seriously. Sometimes they override my doubt because they want to believe another person knows better than me, or they want to ignore common sense safety because they want to believe magic is so powerful."

https://open.substack.com/pub/anthonyrella/p/banish-doubt-and-eagerness

"When we witness horrors that are beyond the bounds of human morality and propriety, we may need these other-than-human ...
02/19/2026

"When we witness horrors that are beyond the bounds of human morality and propriety, we may need these other-than-human symbols so we can start to name what is happening. But these horrors do not need to be explained by occult rituals or secret conspiracies. It is simply that having so much power and money makes people more and more sociopathic."

https://anthonyrella.substack.com/p/the-shaking-of-heaven

02/04/2026

Her fingers glisten like diamonds, plucking
berries from snarls of thorn and branch,
nestling each in the bowl of apron
that she may bear their sweetness home.

Her starlit body draws the wanderers,
scattered by chaotic night,
establishing each in their own orbit
around that flame whose name is hers.

Her lap enthrones the infant god, falcon
made real from possibility,
the bowl formed by her arms nurtures him whole,
her song foretells battles to come.

"Which finally leads me to the notion that calmness is not the enemy. Calmness within the body—or the nervous system, if...
01/26/2026

"Which finally leads me to the notion that calmness is not the enemy. Calmness within the body—or the nervous system, if you prefer—is not the same as pretending everything is okay. Indeed, pretending tends to make us more anxious, irritable, and brittle over time. True calmness comes with complete acceptance of the situation as it is. Acceptance does not mean, “I am okay with everything that’s happening.” Acceptance is more like, “There is real danger, but if I don’t face it, we won’t ever get through it.” Or, “The world is on fire, but I’m going to show up so that my kids know they are loved.”

Acceptance acknowledges the conditions on the ground. Affirmation is the choice we make within those conditions—what we want to move toward. None of this requires denial of our emotions, but it does invite us to temper their intensity to allow calmness and clarity to steer. "

https://open.substack.com/pub/anthonyrella/p/calmness-is-not-the-enemy

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