Why Dharma Constellations?

The name Dharma Constellations grew out of two important threads in my own journey: yoga and astrology.

Yoga was one of my first doorways into embodiment. It invited me to move beyond simply thinking about myself and begin experiencing myself more fully—through the body, the breath, presence and awareness. Along that journey, I encountered Stephen Cope’s The Great Work of Your Life: A Guide for the Journey to Your True Calling, a book inspired by the teachings of the Bhagavad Gita and the concept of dharma.

One idea from that work has stayed with me: find out who you are and do it on purpose.

That speaks deeply to how I understand dharma. To me, dharma is not about becoming someone else. It is about discovering more fully who you already are, understanding what you have come here to experience and express, and learning how to live that with greater consciousness and intention.

Astrology became one of the most powerful ways I found to do that.

My birth chart helped me understand myself in a way that nothing else quite had. It gave language and form to energies I had experienced throughout my life. Traits or patterns I might once have questioned, judged or tried to change began to make sense when I could see them reflected in my chart.

There was something freeing in that.

Instead of asking, How do I get rid of this part of myself?, astrology invited me to ask different questions:

What is this energy? How does it want to be expressed? What does it look like when I live it unconsciously—and what becomes possible when I work with it consciously? How can I lean into the highest expression of what is already here?

As an evolutionary astrologer, I also see the birth chart as something more than a description of personality. I work from the belief that there is intention within it—that, on some level, we participate in choosing the chart we arrive with and the evolutionary journey it describes.

The North Node is particularly meaningful to me in this work. It points toward growth: the unfamiliar territory we are invited to move toward and the qualities we are learning to embody. It is not necessarily the easiest road, but it can offer profound clues about purpose and the direction in which our lives are asking us to evolve.

And then there are the constellations.

The word came naturally through astrology, but over time it came to mean something larger to me. A constellation is made of individual points that, when seen in relationship to one another, reveal a pattern.

I think our lives are much the same.

Astrology, tarot, Reiki, embodiment, relationships, challenges, gifts, choices and lived experiences can all become points in a much larger constellation. Sometimes we are standing so close to one particular point that we cannot yet see the pattern. But when we begin connecting the pieces, something becomes visible.

We begin to recognize ourselves.

Dharma Constellations is about discovering those patterns—and allowing them to illuminate the path that is uniquely ours to live.