On this website you will find a simple practice designed to help you review and change twelve different areas of your life, one at the time, over the course of one year. Each month another area comes into focus. Which part that is, depends on the sign that was rising on the eastern horizon as you came into this world.
The practice is described in more detail here. Its structure is inspired by the way the sun and the moon travel, from our perspective at least, through the sky. You can read more about this inspiration here.
This website is called ‘My Rising Sign’ because it began as a very personal project. At the start of 2022, just after midnight, I found myself looking up at the stars, remembering these words: we are stars wrapped in skin, the light you have been seeking, has always been within.
How, I wondered, could I possibly connect to this light? Where to even start? Although I might have seemed to be doing fine if not really well on the outside, inside I was struggling and I had been for quite some time.
But something shifted that night. As the fireworks chased away the old and welcomed the new, the question ‘where to start connecting to the light?’ became less daunting. It felt like a challenge. As if a journey was about to begin.
And it did. I found a place to start: my rising sign. It pointed towards the twelve areas of life mentioned above. Which I then decided to explore one by one. And so, the astrological house system offered the first part of the structure for this practice. Following it, however, does not require any understanding of astrology or even believe in it. Personally, I am drawn to astrology as an ancient wisdom tradition and enjoy learning more about it. I love that it has been studied for thousands of years and that it speaks so much about our psyche.
The second and much more practical influence for this practice, is coaching. As a qualified coach, I support individuals and teams in processes of change and transformation. Elemental questions on such journeys are: Where are you now? Where would you like to be? What are the steps to get there? How and when will you take them? What support do you need along the way?
Those are all questions you will find me asking throughout this practice. And you will see me asking these questions to the person I initially designed this practice for: myself. Each month a new area of my life comes into focus. All my answers can be found here in my blog.
You will also see me using various tools as I follow the practice. These too can be found in the blog. In time I shall gather the different types of support I find myself calling upon, such as journalling, intention setting, meditation and working with accountability partners, on a separate page.
Sharing my answers here, where at some point you might read them too, gives me an extra incentive to keep showing up. So thank you. I hope my writing serves you and that it will inspire and support those of you seeking to invite more light into their lives.
My rising sign 