“If allowed to, all that lives will grow into what it has the potential to become.  In Greek philosophy, entelechy refers to the force that guides any organism toward this growth.  Call it an animating vitality, biological forces activating DNA, or the layers of the soul - however you slice it, this card reminds you that cycles of growth are built into your living being… Consider yourself a work in progress.  You are becoming exactly what you have the potential to be.  This card reminds you that you can adapt, collaborate, and respond creatively to your circumstances - and that there is an energy within you that will find its way through, no matter where you are planted.  Entelechy encourages confidence and patience.  This isn’t the time to push hard to become a version of yourself that you’ll reach with time.  Reach, but reach gently.  You are on the right path toward being, having, or doing what’s absolutely necessary for you.  You may need to be patient-but keep going!”
— `the Wild Chorus Oracle Deck by Abacus Corvus
 

MY OFFERING

Work is not just our jobs.  Our work has many names that tie us to a greater purpose for being on this earth at this moment in time. 

This offering is a deep reflection into our work lives, our purpose, and the gifts  we have to offer the world.  This is a process to move folks from frustration or uncertainty to feeling motivated and reconnected to self.  Deep reflection often leads to a process of transformation as we identify our natural tendencies, deepest desires, and persistent challenges. It can often feel like a healing process even though focusing on our work lives may not seem like it centers healing. After these readings, you can expect to identify your gifts, experience more self acceptance, understand the blocks that keep you from growth, and set goals toward what feels most purposeful in your work life. 

You can think of this as a deep and long conversation that takes part over the course of about 5 weeks.  This is different from a single natal reading where I might do a lot of the talking and sharing information.  These readings are a space for you to reflect, do some storytelling, and have a non-judgemental sounding board and guide.  I use astrological symbolism to hold up a mirror that reveals with great clarity, your strengths, your highest potentials, your blocks, the contributions you are here to make, and of course, your earning power.

This offering is grounded in what is known as vocational astrology which is a branch of astrology that has been documented in ancient texts and practiced in many cultures since ancient times. Astrologers dedicated themselves to deciphering what the different planetary combinations of an individual’s birth moment could tell us about vocation, work, and purpose.

THE PROCESS

This process consists of 3 sessions where I ask a lot of questions to guide the conversation and offer prompts for reflection between our sessions. We could be talking about a specific aspect of your job that you are struggling with, or why you may be feeling torn between multiple interests.  We could also talk about your creative process and passion projects.  We could talk about your central life purpose, or creative blocks. We could talk about many of these things or just focus on one, depending on your unique situation. Throughout this process I will invite you to do journaling and storytelling. 

Below is a general outline of the topics we will cover in each session.  The sessions are never as linear as they are presented below, but you can expect that we will get through most of these topics in an organic way. 

INVESTMENT

This offering costs $111 per session or $333 altogether. You are able to pay this all upfront or use a payment plan which is detailed below in the FAQs. I ask that you book all 3 sessions at once spaced about 2 weeks apart. Since this is a new offering I am offering it at a deep discount until Spring Equinox 2025, at which point the price will increase.


SESSION 1 Central Questions:  In this session we explore the context of your work life including the current moment and how your past impacts the present.  We also set up your Sun Sign Matrix which is an astrological tool we use to analyze your highest potential for work in this moment and in the future. 

  • Review Vocational Biography: (which you complete prior to Session 1)

  • General Temperament: we’ll look at the Sun, Moon, Rising, Elements and Modalities

  • Sun Sign and Aspects:  throughout our sessions we’ll use a Sun Matrix, which is a tool to help identify primary elements that are needed for successful work scenarios.

  • Mars: which indicates how you like to get things done


SESSION 2 CHALLENGES  In this session we identify your major challenges as well as other vocational indicators in your chart.  

  • Identifying and Exploring: major challenges and remediations for those primary blocks

  • Vocational Indicators: we will look at different planetary combinations that can point to areas of greatest success in the chart. This gives us more information about other energies that can be focused on.  


SESSION 3 INTEGRATION  In this session we will integrate everything we’ve talked about, set goals, and do a writing exercise to synthesize parts of your chart that are important. I will also give an outline of the current planetary activations that will help guide the next few months. 

  • MC AC Sun Exercise: helps capture your unique offering in your own words using some astrological language

  • Setting Goals: an opportunity to clearly state goals you are moving toward.  These can be very practical, emotional and spiritual, short term and/or long term goals. 

  • Staying Resourced: we’ll look at the 2 houseH, Moon and Venus to support those goals

  • Identifying Important Transits: - pinpoint the planetary activity that can help guide the timing of your work

GETTING STARTED

Please read the FAQ’s and testimonials for more detailed information and fill out this interest form if you would like to take the next step.  I will respond to you via email with a private scheduling link if this is a good fit. 

FAQ

  • This offering is for you if you are needing some kind of change in your work life.  Work life can be defined pretty widely depending on your unique circumstances! This could be a good fit if you are trying to get out of a rut at work, looking to change careers, overcoming a specific challenge at work, or clarifying the kind of position you’d like to have.  This could also be for you if you identify primarily as a creative person pursuing multiple passions and trying to weave your gifts together in a more cohesive manner.  Overall, there is a high focus on cultivating alignment with your work, getting guidance from your highest aspirations, and leaning into the process of overcoming old and persistent challenges at work.

  • This is open to people who are dabblers to advanced students of astrology. I would say you need to be a fan of astrology either way, and have some experience of it guiding you. You are a dabbler if you  sometimes listen to or read astrological guidance, it helps you and you’re interested in learning more.  If you have been studying for a while, this is gonna be an exciting way to look at your chart and deepen your astrological understanding around vocational matters in particular. If your skepticism is pretty loud or you’ve never had the experience of encountering astrological information that has helped you understand yourself better, this may not be for you. 

  • Yes!This includes about 30 minutes of writing a Vocational Biography you will send me before our first session, and about 30 minutes of written reflection before sessions 2 and 3. I will be giving you prompts and charts as a way to help guide your reflection process. Additionally, having some emotional and mental capacity to be in the investigation of your primary questions around work is important.  Insights and inspiration will come if you are generally present for your own process outside of our meeting time.  The investigation into the topic of work often brings up some of our core wounds, so you should have some capacity to be present to this emotional process in order to overcome challenges and reach toward your dreams!

  • Please schedule all three readings at once in about 2 weeks increments. The whole process should take about 4 weeks. When you chose your first appointment time makes sure to click “Select and add another time” or “Select and make recurring” from the drop down menu. You will be able to schedule all three readings in this way.

  • You are able to pay the full amount for all three sessions when booking, or pay a $37 deposit per session which will come to $111 total for all 3 sessions when booking. The rest of the amount due will be charged to the card on file 30 days after your first session. You are also able to pay the rest of the amount any time before the 30 day limit. The price of this offering will increase after Spring Equinox 2025.

  • Judith Hill, Faye Blake, and Kelly Surtees have primarily informed the astrological techniques I use for analyzing vocation in the birth chart. . For more info on other teachers, lineages and other influences go to my about page. 

TESTIMONIALS

  • This process has changed my life. Before working with Giselle, I felt classically Gemini scattered with many ideas for creative projects, and regular disappointment in myself for losing interest and not being able to see them through. I had a vague sense that a number of the things I was working on were not quite hitting the mark in terms of my own excitement about them, their impact, or how alive and authentic I felt in the work. I had this underlying feeling of not being fulfilled, despite my relative freedom to design my own work life.

    The Sun Sign Matrix blew my mind. It put my well-learned astrological understanding of myself to work to help reveal all of the aspects of me that need to be online and engaged for me to feel motivated, passionate, and successful. It was so deep. I now have a checklist that I go through when thinking of taking on something new, and I can instantly see where alignment is and where it isn’t. I have a crystal clear understanding of the qualities a project must have for me to feel fulfilled and energized while working on it, and how I need to show up for it to reach people and be received.

    For about six weeks I was fully immersed in curiosity, noticings, and revelations about why certain jobs, roles, and projects didn’t work for me in the past, and how to design new projects that are tailored to all aspects of me. If you need a change in your work or creative life -- DO THIS. Giselle is the perfect guide -- she’s wise, compassionate, deep, patient, thoughtful, and creative. Her assignments had me investigating everything from my birth chart to childhood experiences to resources in ways that were new and surprising to me. Literally everything we did felt juicy and full and brought insights. At the end of the six weeks, I felt fully confident in myself and my ability to live a life marked by authentic, purposeful, and well-resourced work. This was without a doubt the most powerful, impactful, and rich astrology or self-discovery offering I have ever experienced. 

    -Isissa

  • Giselle’s vocational reading was so helpful for me! They are my favorite go-to astrologer for all sorts of astrology things. They have such a soft way of teaching and presenting information, and are willing to meet you in the depths of what you bring up. I am a birthworker, and it felt grounding to have this work be validated in my chart by Giselle. (I have my Sun-Moon-Chiron in Virgo in the 12th house; Cancer midheaven; Saturn in Pisces in the 6th house, Libra rising). Utilizing the different planets and the ways that they play off of each other was so helpful to visualize. During our second reading we talked a lot about the 2nd house, how to make money / get resourced, which brought up a lot around security / stability / financial history for me, and it was so helpful to understand my relationship with money through an astrological lens, and I felt very safe and held by Giselle through what that brought up for me as I worked through a lot of the deep fears around security (generational and personal) for myself. Anyways! That was awesome. 10/10 would recommend to a friend (and I have). Giselle is my fave local astrologer-farmer-devotee of the planets/plants, and I think about these readings often. 

    — Jin

  • When I first started Giselle's Vocational Astrology Reading Package I was in a huge work transition. I was feeling a bit scattered and unsure of what direction to go in. I went in expecting Giselle to tell me what my next job would be, but what I received was so much more. I gained a new understanding of what a vocation is in a spiritual sense. I now have a better understanding (and acceptance) of what my spirit needs to be fulfilled. I see where my strengths and weaknesses lie, which has completely leveled up how I show up for myself and in my work partnerships. I left Giselle's readings with a clear vision for my career path and a deeper love for myself and what I have to offer the world.

    — Gabriela 

  • Vocational Astrology with Giselle has been one of the most gratifying, encouraging, and clarifying exercises I have ever done. Across three sessions, I not only came away with a more compassionate view of myself, I learned new ways to cultivate my ambition and direct my drive. The reading never felt fatalistic or inevitable. We talked through how I like to work, how I am able to express my strengths and tendencies, where I feel frustrated and unfulfilled, and how to support my work life. None of this was proscriptive about what type of work I “should" be doing. And yet, I got a clear sense of purpose and motivation for the particular work I do. 

    In such a capital-saturated society and moment, I find it can be hard to identify our purpose and also resist the tendency to auto-commodification. How do we build a sense of value detached from productivity imperatives and external markers of success?  Giselle’s approach to vocation was holistic. It built from what I feel drawn to do with my energy and attention, rather than how I have acquired money, responsibility, or resources in my life. With synthesized readings of aspects in my chart, Giselle could describe several areas of my life where I was already expressing or acting in alignment with my purpose. This expanded my view of myself. I came away with a clearer understanding of how to nourish myself in order to have energy to use in my work; or where to direct my healing so I could more clearly hear my own voice and follow my instincts. As often as we equate the value of our work with capitalist profit, we may also minimize the strengths we already have, prone as we can be to imposter syndrome and low self esteem. Giselle presented a read on the gifts, strengths, and points of emphasis in my chart that really combatted my self-doubt. More importantly, the reading demonstrated that validating my gifts is an important element of self acceptance. 

    Giselle’s style is thorough, informative, gentle, and responsive. Where I was unfamiliar with the significance of certain signs, aspects, or astro facts, Giselle explained them clearly. Even for elements I thought I knew well already (like my sun and rising signs), the descriptions Giselle used were fresh and opened me up to seeing the familiar in a new way. I like the mix of readings, explanation, reflection, questions, and writing exercises. Having so many ways in to understand my vocational planets and their particular signature was very helpful. I felt like I got a lot of resources out of these sessions!

    -Christine