Astrology for the Visionary Process
A Mythopoetic Guide for Business Builders, Creative Entrepreneurs, Change Agents, and Futurewriting Technologists
Astrology for the Visionary Process invokes not only the fortune and development of the business or the project itself, but also the person(s) behind it. Astrology for the Visionary Process speaks to the soul-level developmental arcs required of all persons and projects and what is required for each person (and their Internal System of Archetypes) to grow, mature, and express their innate potential and essence in the world.
Working with Planets as an Internal Family System
Astrology as a Developmental Psychology
Astrology for Visionary Process vs. Business Astrology
Why Astrology Belongs in Your Business Strategy
Despite popular belief, astrology is not a system for telling ourselves or each other who we are at the personality level. It’s not a sorting hat. It’s not a diagnostic chart for half-baked, layman pathologizing. And it’s certainly not a personality test.
It is, rather, a system for working with the primordial archetypes of fortune and misfortune, expansion and contraction, maturity and immaturity. It is a system for working with archetypes that live in the collective unconscious and are mirrored by the movements of the planetary bodies and the stars.
Because the truth is, the planets are not “out there” directing us, the human species. They are in us—internalized, storied, woven into our collective psychospiritual tapestry. Their movements inspire a felt sense of change and calibration. And because humans are physiologically and symbolically linked to these shifts, we are always interpreting them, always acting them out whether we’re aware of it or not.
This is why astrology is so useful to the visionary process. Because we are all already playing out the archetypes unconsciously.
The moment we become conscious of the archetypal play, we also become co-creators. We can course-correct. We can build with intention. We can craft, imagine, build, and create. We become participants in the song of Gaia, the Soul of the Earth, the Anima Mundi. We become co-creators of our age. And honestly? That’s just really fun to consider.
Beyond the fun, bringing astrology into your creative and entrepreneurial work is also just deeply wise. It’s an adaptive way to work with change, the transits, and the experience of having a larger soul intelligence that is daily willingly shaped by the limits of an individuated, singular, human perspective.
Working With the Planets as an Internal Family System
In my practice, I relate to the planets as an internal family system. Internal Family Systems (IFS) is a therapeutic healing modality founded by Richard Schwartz, a family therapist and academic. He developed the model in the 1990s after observing that his clients described themselves using the language of parts with conflicting internal dynamics, according to the IFS Institute.
I was introduced to IFS through the Integrative Somatic Parts Work certification program with Fran Booth at Embody Lab and through Ana Kinkela, a 15-year trauma therapist and somatic educator for business women and female entrepreneurs with whom I trained as a somatic practitioner (4 months of training and practicums, 18 months of supervised client coaching with monthly meetings for process refinement).
Through training underneath Ana’s supervision and coaching close to 60 entrepreneurial women in her integrative nervous system healing programs over the course of 18 months, I developed a nuanced perspective of Integrative Parts Work within a coaching context that made me curious about working with the modality through Astrological Archetypes.
Later, I was introduced to Laurence Hillman—son of the father of Archetypal Psychology, James Hillman—and his research work on the Polypoetic Psyche through his 2022 course at Meridian University. This body of work further confirmed the value of relating to astrological archetypes as “parts” of the somatic psyche, each with its own voice, impulse, and developmental capacity.
When working with Astrology for the Visionary Process as a guide for bringing soul-level visions to life, we see the planetary archetypes through this “Internal Family System” or “Parts Work” lens. Seeing it this way allows us to access the archetypes non-abstractly, allowing us to consider that each planetary archetype is a living, animate frequency with a voice, life force, and archetypal characteristics that play out in the unfolding of your creative will and psyche.
→ Here is a breakdown of how each planet may shows up developmentally in the natal chart.
The Sun → The Healthy Ego’s Will, the Expression of Essence, Self-Concept, and Creative Potential
Healthy Expression: Confident self-expression, clear self-concept, developed persona, creative visibility, a grounded sense of purpose and vitality.
Unhealthy Expression: Inflated self-importance, performative validation-seeking, domination of space; or hiding, creative shame, and avoidance of any kind of visibility altogether.
Mature Expression: Anchored personal authority, vision clarity, ability to self-present without controlling the other’s perception of self (people pleasing, chronic masking or performance.) Soul embodiment and expression.
Young Expression: Unsure of its right to exist, earn, share, or create. Fluctuates between shrinking and overcompensating. Asks: “Am I allowed to share, express, or shine in my authentic nature? And if so, where?” Needs guidance and support to mature into more refined expressions.
The Sun is the expression of the full range of your ego—the healthy ego which has creative will, healthy ambition, and lifeforce, and the underdeveloped ego which is always fighting for attention, worthiness and approval or struggles to feel the permission to bring their vision to life.
The Moon → Intuitive Capacity, Attunement and Receptivity, Resourced Sensitivity to Change, Subtle and Somatic Systems
Healthy Expression: Deeply intuitive, attuned, receptive. Able to listen inwardly and respond with care. Regulates emotions through ritual practice, nurturing self-trust, and cultivating an animate connection to cyclical time and change. Nourishes others without depletion.
Unhealthy Expression: Overwhelmed by emotional stimuli. Hyper-attuned to others at the cost of self. Prone to anxious reactivity, emotional co-dependence, or mood-based paralysis. Negotiates safety through control or withdrawal / collapse.
Mature Expression: Resourced sensitivity. Knows the wisdom of attuning to the cycles, tides, and rest. Provides an attuned presence with clear, cellular boundaries that gently protect the internal world while maintaining availability to life in the external world.
Young Expression: Fears abandonment or rupture. Reads emotional weather from self and others as a personal threat. Unsure how to tend to themselves. Over-merges with the emotional needs of others in search of security or belonging. Or, distances coldly. Needs guidance and support to mature into more refined expressions.
Mercury → Communication, Intelligence, Curiosity, Patternmaking, and Critical Thinking
Healthy Expression: Clear communication, agile thinking, curiosity, and capacity for nuanced self-expression. Has a whole relationship with their own intelligence and intellectual capacity. Ability to think critically, individuate and form their own ideas.
Unhealthy Expression: Overthinking, manipulation through words, spinning stories to avoid truth, bypassing feeling states with intellectualism. Shutting down the mind and capacity to think critically. Outsourcing thinking to others (AI, Partner, Authority Systems).
Mature Expression: Able to speak and listen from presence. Knows when to question, when to name, and when to remain silent. Able to think for themselves and form strong ideas and opinions that honor their essence (their true inner story) that others might oppose.
Young Expression: Over-explains or under-communicates. Uses intellect to protect the heart. Fears being misunderstood. Longs to be acknowledged and celebrated for what they are learning. Seeks healthy reassurance and learning environments. Needs guidance and support to mature into more refined expressions.
Venus → Capacity for Desire, Values Development, Creative Will through Artmaking, Resource Development, and the Expression of Passion
Healthy Expression: Clear communication, agile thinking, curiosity, and capacity for nuanced self-expression. Has a whole relationship with their own intelligence and intellectual capacity. Ability to think critically, individuate and form their own ideas.
Unhealthy Expression: Overthinking, manipulation through words, spinning stories to avoid truth, bypassing feeling states with intellectualism. Shutting down the mind and capacity to think critically. Outsourcing thinking to others (AI, Partner, Authority Systems).
Mature Expression: Able to speak and listen from presence. Knows when to question, when to name, and when to remain silent. Able to think for themselves and form strong ideas and opinions that honor their essence (their true inner story) that others might oppose.
Young Expression: Over-explains or under-communicates. Uses intellect to protect the heart. Fears being misunderstood. Longs to be acknowledged and celebrated for what they are learning. Seeks healthy reassurance and learning environments. Needs guidance and support to mature into more refined expressions.
Mars → Capacity for Healthy Upregulation and Instinctual Response, Strong Creative Courage, and Self-Leadership
Healthy Expression: Mars is the capacity for healthy upregulation and how we channel activated energy into focused direction, decisive action, and protective boundaries, when necessary. This is the part of us that defends what feels sacred to us, leads with clarity, and honors the cellular boundary of the individuated self without needing to dominate or control others. It’s strong creative courage in motion that allows you to be individuated in your perspective without being inundated by the fear of being abandoned or cancelled.
Unhealthy Expression: Rabid, uncontained energy. Lashing out, impulsivity, misdirected rage and blame, or chronic frustration without self-accountability and self-reflection. Either suppresses anger entirely (leading to stagnation or burnout) or expresses it destructively, with very little spectrum in between. May try to dominate or control instead of lead. Equates domination and intensity with power.
Mature Expression: Moves with discernment and precision. Understands how to work with conflict productively as a regenerative creative tension rather than as an effort to control others. Can lead self and others through challenges without abandoning their body and internal guidance system. Able to healthily upregulate their emotions with discernment in response to instinctual, survival-oriented demands.
Young Expression: Fears their own power. May collapse under pressure to survive or react explosively when triggered. Confuses reactivity with bravery or responsibility. Seeks external validation through acts of force or intensity. Needs guidance and support to mature into more refined expressions.
Saturn → Healthy Relationship to Structure, Ego Maturity, Patience, the Capacity to Grow things Toward Fruition, Relationship with Time and Seasonality
Healthy Expression: A healthy Saturn aspect looks like being in active devotion to the development of an external body of work, a corporate body (multiple people working together toward an aim), or a field of practice. It looks like discernment and the capacity to bring a vision into form. It helps you work with the natural constraints of time, vitality / decay, and seasonality as containers for growth. This is the part of you that honors your word, sets sustainable pace, and understands the longer game.
Unhealthy Expression: Rigid control. Perfectionism. Fear of failure or success. Over-identifying with productivity. May avoid responsibility altogether, or become over-burdened by duty. Distrusts spaciousness and rest. Or, distrusts structure, containment, policies, boundaries, useful cultural codes and norms, and systems.
Mature Expression: Stewards vision with care and patience. Knows how to delay gratification in service of allowing a vision to ripen. Is able to be accountable to self, others, and sometimes a higher power or corporate body (multiple people working together toward an aim). Is able to move toward legacy work without feeling an internal collapse.
Young Expression: Fears being seen as lazy or unworthy. Associates structure with oppression rather than liberation. Associates power with domination. Swings between avoidance and overworking. Doesn't yet trust or know how to regard time boundaries and systems. Needs guidance and support to mature into more refined expressions.
Jupiter → Visionary Capacity, Integral Consciousness, Ability to Multiply Different Kinds of Wealth and Fortune in Ethical Ways
Healthy Expression: Jupiter expands what it touches—consciousness, resources, opportunity. In its healthy form, it is the part of you that dreams big while staying rooted in ethics, relationship, and reciprocity. It sees potential everywhere and trusts in divine timing. It multiplies wealth—not just materially, but spiritually and communally.
Unhealthy Expression: Overextension, self-righteousness, spiritual bypassing. Can chase growth for its own sake, ignoring consequences. May inflate its own wisdom or worth without doing the inner work to back it up. Excess becomes escapism.
Mature Expression: Uses expansion to uplift others. Grounds vision in values (think Venus aspects). Shares wisdom without posturing. Understands that true wealth circulates. Measures success by what resonates with the soul self, not scale for scale’s sake.
Young Expression: Thinks more is always better. Falls in love with possibility but fears commitment. Seeks shortcuts to abundance. Struggles to discern between rooted growth opportunities and overreach. i.e. — Equating going viral with “success” even through the viral moment created no revenue. Needs guidance and support to mature into more refined expressions.
Uranus → Self-Liberator, Ability to Evolve, the Courage to Surrender to Life-Affirming Pivots and Change
Healthy Expression: A healthy Uranus aspect is the part of us that refuses to betray our own truth. It is our liberatory capacity and a willingness to choose what is right at all costs. It’s your capacity to evolve—not chaotically, but consciously. To break cycles, create new paradigms, and do what’s right, even when it’s inconvenient.
Unhealthy Expression: Disrupts for the sake of disruption. Confuses rebellion with freedom. Ghosts responsibility. Breaks bonds instead of patterns. May be addicted to intensity, change, or collapse as a way to avoid intimacy or accountability.
Mature Expression: Moves in right timing. Knows when to stay and when to rupture. Stands for freedom that includes others, not just the self. Channels revolution into design. Chooses life over loyalty to old systems. Changes because the soul said yes.
Young Expression: Reacts instead of responds. Fears entrapment. Mistakes opposition for authenticity. Thinks freedom is separation. Longs for change but doesn’t yet know what to anchor it to. Needs guidance and support to mature into more refined expressions.
Neptune → Soul Craft, Healthy Dreamtime and Psyche-World, Relationship to the Mystery and the Prophetic Nature, and Strongly Developed Spiritual Gifts
Healthy Expression: With a healthy Neptune aspect, we are able to weave dreams, intuition, and spiritual knowing into the everyday life. Neptune governs our relationship to the unseen, to the symbolic, and to the prophetic imagination. When expressed cleanly, Neptune deepens your connection to Source, matures and refines your visionary capacity, and allows the psyche to rest and receive. It reveals truths that can't be proven but must be felt.
Unhealthy Expression: Dissociation, fantasy addiction, spiritual bypassing, limerance. Becoming lost in the fog or seduced by illusions. Escapes through mysticism instead of grounding it. Prone to savior complexes, martyrdom, or confusion between instinctual responses and intuition.
Mature Expression: Dreams with clarity and discernment. Balances spiritual gifts with psychological maturity. Channels mystery into form without claiming ownership of it. Respects the boundary between vision and delusion. Knows when to listen, and when to dissolve.
Young Expression: Romanticizes the unseen. Mistakes emotional overwhelm for intuitive signals. Leaks energy in every direction. Longs for love and connection with the divine but may fall for projection, fantasy, or false gurus along the way. Needs guidance and support to mature into more refined expressions.
Pluto → Transformation, Death / Rebirth, and the Retrieval of True, Primordial Power
Healthy Expression: Pluto governs the deep processes of transformation—what must die so that something more true can live. It is the force that strips away illusion, power games, and inherited shame to reveal your core essence. Pluto asks for nothing less than your full becoming. Pluto aspects remind us that Power is something we channel from Source.
Unhealthy Expression: Manipulation, control, obsession, or compulsive destruction. Addiction to intensity. Uses positions of power to punish or protect themselves from vulnerability. Attracts intensity without desiring integration (i.e. — always fighting, never resolving). May unconsciously recreate trauma to stay in the underworld. Victim consciousness.
Mature Expression: Has faced the underworld and returned with medicine. Holds power with reverence. Does not seek control, but clarity. Is willing to lose false identities and masks in order to live in soul-aligned truth. Knows when to let go, when to die, when to rise up again.
Young Expression: Fears annihilation and clings to what no longer fits. Confuses survival with thriving aliveness. Feels threatened by vulnerability and drawn to shadow content without understanding it (i.e.—obsessions with dark material and art). Longs for transformation but resists surrender. Or, sometimes addicting to intensity without surrendering to the full transformational process that intensity is initiating. Needs guidance and support to mature into more refined expressions.
Each planet has a tone. A lesson. A medicine. A mischief. They form a living constellation of forces inside you, all influencing your way of building, breaking, and becoming.
Astrology for the Visionary Process vs. Business Astrology
The reason why I don’t reduce this lens of Astrology for the Visionary Process down to just “Business Astrology” is because this way of working with the Astrological Archetypes applies to all who are working with the creative process or are applying astrology to their endeavors—whether they are in the pre-ideational stages of development or are seasoned in their efforts.
Astrology for the Visionary Process invokes not only the fortune and development of the business or the project itself, but also the person(s) behind it. Astrology for the Visionary Process speaks to the soul-level developmental arcs required of all persons and projects and what is required for each person (and their Internal System of Archetypes) to grow, mature, and express their innate potential and essence in the world.
Astrology as Developmental Psychology
When we integrate astrology into the visionary process, we aren’t just watching the stars. We are participating in our own evolution. Each major transit, especially to angles or outer planet placements, can be understood as a threshold in your developmental journey.
Saturn returns and squares = rites of maturity and responsibility
Jupiter returns = reinvestment in your growth or worldview
Nodal reversals and returns = shifts in karmic storyline or life direction
Uranus oppositions = the midlife wake-up call (to authenticity or to chaos)
Pluto transits = underworld initiation and power retrieval
These aren’t just events. They’re design upgrades for your business, your voice, your creative rhythm, your soul’s participation in culture.
Why It Belongs in Your Business Strategy
To build with astrology doesn’t mean you outsource your decision-making to the cosmos. It means you understand the terrain you're walking through. You don’t try to force a birthing process in the season of pruning. You don’t demand clarity when Neptune is fogging your lens—you drop into your dreams instead. You don’t panic when Pluto strips you down—you realize you’re being composted.
Working astrologically gives you context. It gives you right-timing. It lets you befriend the season you’re in, rather than fight it.
