Bridging Astrology, Coaching and Personal growth
Astrology: Your Cosmic Map for Life
Astrology is an incredible tool to use alongside coaching. It can help illuminate what might be holding you back and how you can move forward. Struggling in relationships? Feeling stuck in your career? Wondering why things feel “off”? Astrology can help us map these questions and work toward solutions especially when we can’t figure them out on our own. Your birth chart is like a personal map and it goes far beyond your sun sign. While your sun sign might explain some parts of your personality, it’s only one tiny piece of the puzzle. Your chart includes all the planets, their positions and how they interact, forming the blueprint of who you are.
If astrology gives us the map, coaching helps us figure out how to navigate it. Astrology might highlight a fear of being vulnerable, while coaching provides practical tools to address this—whether that’s ways of improving communication, setting boundaries or finding fresh ideas to connect with others— It’s a beautiful marriage of two complementary practices. For example, if relationships never seem to work out, we might start traditionally—exploring patterns from childhood or recurring dynamics in your choices of partners. Then we can take it further by looking at your birth chart. This unique snapshot of the moment you were born can reveal struggles you might not even realize, like challenging aspects to Venus for instance. These insights often shed light on why certain cycles repeat and how to break free of them.
Astrology also extends to the physical world through Astrocartography, which maps the planetary influences in your chart onto the globe. This technique shows how different locations carry specific energies for you. For example, you might feel confident and empowered near your Sun line in Paris, experience heightened romance and creativity along your Venus line in Singapore or face challenges and growth near your Saturn line in London.
Have you ever felt inexplicably drawn to a place—or found that a city just didn’t vibe with you? Astrocartography often has the answer. It’s particularly useful for relocation decisions, planning travel or even understanding why certain places have played a significant role in your life. Let’s say your Jupiter line runs through a city. That place might bring abundance, optimism and expansion. Meanwhile, a Mars line might inspire ambition and action but could also feel intense or overwhelming. These insights can be incredibly helpful for making practical decisions about where to focus your energy. There’s another dimension when we add Paran lines, which make the locational experience more nuanced. For example, I’m currently living on my Pluto line, which has been both challenging and isolating. However, it’s also a powerful place for making significant changes and reevaluating relationships—exactly what I’m experiencing right now. My Mercury Paran lines cross Pluto here, which enhance my clarity of thought, so while I may not be communicating with others as much in person, I’m channeling that energy into writing. If you’ve ever felt unsettled in a particular place, understanding these influences might be the motivation you need to make a move or at the very least, use them to your advantage.
Astrology isn’t about fate—it’s about possibilities. Paired with coaching, it’s like having a cosmic roadmap and a co-pilot to help you navigate it. Whether you’re figuring out love, career or where to call home, astrology brings clarity and coaching turns that clarity into action. Together, they help you connect the dots and move forward with confidence and purpose.
Finding your own path
How to Unblock Yourself and Embrace Real Change
I used to devour self-help books, eagerly searching for that one magical insight that would finally unlock the secret to understanding myself. Each book was filled with profound stories of transformation, but despite all the knowledge I gleaned, authentic change eluded me. Conceptually I understood why I made certain choices, yet I still found myself repeating the same patterns—choosing emotionally unavailable men, people-pleasing, struggling with career decisions, and turning to junk food when life felt overwhelming. I was stuck, no matter how much I read.
What I came to realize was that true change doesn’t come from following someone else’s path to freedom. It comes from pivotal moments in our own unique experiences—moments that push us beyond our comfort zones, forcing us to confront what’s really holding us back.
My journey towards self-discovery began with a series of critical junctures. The catalyst was a heated exchange with my now ex-husband, who angrily accused me of being superficial. His words triggered a spiral of intense self-doubt and anxiety, feelings that had previously been foreign to me. Suddenly, I questioned everything—from the food I ate and the products I used, to obsessing over every instance I could find in the world where people and animals were suffering. I went from barely thinking about these things to overanalyzing every detail, feeling overwhelmed by the weight of it all.
I stopped eating meat, refused to buy anything that came in plastic and to the horror of my husband, stopped eating at the restaurants we used to frequent. None of these reactions would have surfaced if they weren’t rooted within me. Superficial had been a coping strategy and there was nothing superficial about my newfound anxieties. My husband just happened to push the right button, and this was a critical starting point in my life.
The first breakthrough was finding the right therapist who guided me toward real inner progress. This wasn’t just any therapist; she was actually a life coach who offered the kind of support I’d never experienced before. Her approach helped me dig deep into my own psyche, uncovering the root causes of my struggles and eventually guided me through one of the darkest and most and challenging periods of my life. Her support was so profound that I enrolled in the same spiritual psychology program she had completed, which was one of the most important things I ever gave myself.
Another early breakthrough came during a solo trip I’d never planned to take. I’d always admired other women who had the courage to travel alone as solo travel had always been my greatest fear. I had arranged to travel to Iceland with a friend, but when she canceled at the last minute, I faced that choice: stay home or go alone. I’d always let others’ decisions dictate my life, but this time for some reason, I felt ready to push past my fear and go.
Upon arriving in Iceland alone, the first challenge for myself was to drive the 180 mile, Golden Circle. I was so wound up as I left Reykjavik in my car rental, feeling terrified and anxious. But as the landscape shifted around me, revealing a stark and unparalleled beauty, something inside me began to change. The raw, untamed scenery jolted me out of my self-pity and fear—challenging, unfamiliar, but ultimately transformative. That trip became one of the most rewarding, adventure-filled experiences of my life, teaching me that true growth always lies beyond our comfort zones.
Through these few early experiences, I learned that while self-help books, affirmations and positive thinking have their place, they aren’t enough on their own. Real change requires us to confront and reshape the underlying beliefs that keep us stuck. For me, it was action in real-time that helped me bypass my thinking, connect me to my core fears and let some of them go. It’s not about putting a happy mask on our problems; it’s about digging deep, facing our fears, and embracing the discomfort that comes with growth.
If you’re feeling stuck, I encourage you to seek out those defining moments in your own life—the ones that challenge you to step outside your comfort zone, take action and face what’s really holding you back. What are you most afraid of? What do you admire in others but can’t seem to do for yourself? It’s in these moments when we push through that true unblocking happens, leading to genuine, lasting transformation.