I did not start out as an astrologer. I trained as a life skills coach with the YWCA, and I spent years working as a career coach for high school students preparing for university. I helped young people figure out what they wanted to do with their lives. I guided them through assessments like the MBTI and helped them map their skills to potential career paths. I believed in the work. I still do. But something was missing.
When I eventually moved into my own practice, using astrology to help clients understand their purpose and potential, I started to see the same pattern again and again. People would come to me with a clear calling, a deep creative gift, and a burning desire to make their art their life. They would have powerful charts, packed with creative potential. But they were struggling. They were broke. They were burned out. They were questioning whether they should give up.
I did not know how to help them with the traditional methods I was taught. I had the coaching skills, the career assessments, and the astrological tools, but none of them seemed to bridge the gap between purpose and income. I could help someone identify their calling, but I could not show them how to turn that calling into a sustainable living. I could tell them what they were meant to do, but I could not trace where the money was meant to come from. I felt like I was giving them half a map.
It was frustrating enough that I stepped away from coaching and astrology for a while. I needed space from the feeling of offering incomplete answers. When I returned to the work nearly a decade later, I viewed it with a new set of eyes. I was no longer trying to fit my clients into a system I had been taught. I was simply observing. I studied the charts of people I knew, people who had succeeded and people who had struggled. I looked for patterns. I tracked their income sources, their career paths, and their turning points. And that is when I noticed something.
The cases who were thriving financially were not always following the career path their charts suggested. The ones who were struggling were not lacking in talent or ambition. They were simply applying their gifts to the wrong channel. The money was flowing somewhere else, and they were not following it. That is when I realized that the money trail was separate from the career trail. And that is when I began to develop the method I use now. Not a theory. Not a tradition. An observation. A pattern I could trace. A circuit I could map. And that is what I offer now. Not guesses. Not generic advice. A trail. A way to see where the money actually lives in your chart, and how to let it come to you.
This is when I realized the problem. Most career astrology focuses on the tenth house. It looks at what you are meant to do, what you are meant to be known for, and how you are meant to build your public reputation. But it does not always show you where the money comes from. For many creatives, the career and the money are in different places. The career is in the tenth. The money is in the eleventh, the second, or the fifth. And if you do not trace the trail, you will keep working hard in the wrong direction.
For a creative, money is not optional. It is not a luxury. It is the fuel that allows you to continue making your art. The starving artist model is not a virtue. It is a trap. It is a narrative that keeps talented people from accessing the resources they need to fulfill their creative destiny. You cannot make art if you cannot pay your rent. You cannot write your book if you are working three jobs to survive. You cannot record your album if you cannot afford studio time. Money is not materialism. It is oxygen. It is what allows you to keep going.
There is a strange attitude that the public has toward artists who desire financial success. If you are a creative, you are expected to suffer for your art. You are expected to be poor, to be struggling, to be sacrificing. If you admit that you want to make money from your work, you are accused of selling out. If you build a successful business around your art, you are called materialistic. If you charge what you are worth, you are called greedy. It is as if the only way to be a “real” artist is to be broke. But that is not true. That is a lie that keeps artists trapped.
Fame and money are necessary to drive an artist’s career. Fame gives you visibility. It gives you a platform. It gives you an audience. But fame without money is useless. You can be famous and still be broke. You can be widely recognized and still struggle to pay your bills. Visibility without income is not success. It is a trap. Talent without money does not allow an artist to live with dignity. It does not allow you to create without fear. It does not allow you to take risks, to experiment, to grow. It keeps you small. It keeps you dependent. It keeps you from becoming who you are meant to be.
This is why I focus on helping creatives align with their money path. Not because I am obsessed with wealth, but because I know that money is the difference between surviving and thriving. Money is the difference between giving up and continuing. Money is the difference between a hobby and a career. I want creatives to have access to the resources they need to fulfill their creative destiny. I want them to stop apologizing for wanting to be paid. I want them to stop believing that poverty is a sign of authenticity.
Your art is not meant to be a side project. It is not meant to be a sacrifice. It is meant to be your life’s work. And your life’s work deserves to be funded. That is what I am here to help you see. Not just your talent, but your trail. Not just your calling, but your circuit. Not just what you are meant to do, but how you are meant to be paid. That is the piece that is almost always missing. That is the piece I am here to offer…
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