craft the life you were *actually* born for

LEVERAGE THE POWER OF PLACE WITH LOCATIONAL ASTROLOGY

I believe we all carry an inner knowing. A quiet thread that continues to tug at us when something no longer fits. Most of us have spent our entire lives denying this part of ourselves. It's amazing how life unfolds when we start to choose to know.

Some periods of life ask us to let go of who we've been so we can become who we're here to be. I’m fascinated by the transitions, reinventions and identity shifts that shape us. I'm less interested in who you've been and more interested in who is trying to emerge.

Place matters. The environments we live in influence far more than we realise. Certain places nourish us, challenge us, awaken us or call us forward. Place is never just a backdrop to our lives. It informs how we relate to our world.

I've come to know what I've call "stuck" is simply a sign that I've outgrown the life, environment or identity I've been living within. Now I explore leaning into the courage to let die what is not true and express what was always there.

"the privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are"

~ CARL JUNG

rituals I can't live without ...

~ pots of tea ~

Mostly herbal blends of my own concoction but it is hard to pass a good black tea with a greedy dollop of honey. I'm even known to take my own loose tea blends out with me.

~ living by candlelight ~

And preferably beeswax. Rarely is a "big light" put on in my house. I firmly believe that everyone looks better by candlelight, even if you are home alone!

~ self crafted skincare ~

I adore making my own face & body oils. Castor with jojoba infused with frankincense & myrrh resins is pure magick. And honey as a face wash is also delicious!

~ nature walks ~

Being out in the elements, absorbing light, talking with trees, grounding on earth is so nourishing. Especially out with Oscar and being unplugged from external devices.

a little backstory

For as long as I can remember, I've been drawn to movement.

I've lived in many places, changed direction just about as frequently as the seasons and rarely stayed in one home for more than a couple of years. Looking back, I can see a pattern of reinvention woven throughout my life ~ new locations, new chapters, new versions of myself.

For years, I was completely blind to the directionless nature I was living being pulled from place to place, chapter to chapter, character to character. Oblivious and numb to things I couldn't bring myself to feel.

Then I began to feel. A nondescript sense that there was something more available to me and the smell of untapped possibility. For the past 10 years I have been travelling down all sorts of pathways searching for "me". And I am not going to tell you what I was searching for was inside me all along ...

What has supported me the most is coming to understand the ways in which I innately operate but have denied through false beliefs, domestication, trauma and fear. Now, I am unfolding out into more and more of myself. Coming home to who I have always been but have suppressed.

This understanding has come to me through many different modalities and pathways ~ numerology, enneagram, human design, archetypes, intuition training, the occasional online quiz. Some have offered me more insight than others.

I first learned to read my natal chart and dabbled with timing more than twenty years ago. However back then I didn't have the tools to create structures that worked for me. I was also not living in a particularly supportive environment. And I let that part of me be buried.

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Then in early 2025 a locational astrology reading opened a door. I started to recognise parts of me that I had denied. I started to lean into different ideas and experiences. I started to experiment with life. And it has not been an easy ride. It has been one of the hardest transformations I've made ... perhaps in part because I am consciously choosing something scary to my ego ... perhaps in part because I am living on my Pluto AC line ~ a line of deep, personal transformation ~ and it is not taking no for an answer.

Today, I am using this awareness to experiment with my life. I'm exploring the relationship between astrology, place, identity and reinvention through study, experimentation and lived experience. More than anything, I'm interested in the moments when we realise we're no longer who we once were ... and begin listening for who we're becoming.

What would life look like if we created environments that truly aligned with our true nature?

This work is still unfolding, as am I. I would love to share this journey with you.

Elissa xx