How Archetypal Astrology Helped My Client Leave a Misaligned Career
She came to me exhausted. Not physically, and not in the typical way people talk about burnout online.
She wasn’t just tired of her job or overwhelmed by carrying the weight for her colleagues.
It was a deeper exhaustion. Emotional. Spiritual. It was Alignment burnout.
The kind that comes from knowing you’re living a life that looks successful on paper, but feels completely wrong in your body. You’re checking the boxes but every decision feels like self-abandonment, which wrecks havoc on your nervous system.
She was a top leader in her field. Highly respected. Highly compensated. The kind of woman people looked up to and said, “She made it.”
And yet, the more she climbed the ladder and the more “success” she accumulated, the more misaligned she felt.
There had been a moment before we started our work together—an incident she witnessed in her career—that pulled back the curtain and showed her exactly how out-of-alignment her environment was. That moment planted a seed.
She eventually left and accepted a new opportunity with a team she believed shared her values.
It felt hopeful, like maybe she’d finally found a place where she could work in full integrity.
But a few years in, the truth surfaced: decisions were being made behind her back.
Not small decisions—big ones.
Ones that affected livelihoods, power dynamics, and the health of the workplace.
She wasn’t just disappointed. She was heartbroken.
Because at this point in her life, she had a clear internal non-negotiable:
“I’m done participating in unhealthy work environments like this. I’m done living out of integrity with my values and deeper desires.”
And this time, she listened to that truth instead of rationalizing it away.
Her desire was clear:
She wanted to help build healthy, connected, integrity-first work cultures—so people didn’t have to experience what she had endured her entire career.
But clarity doesn’t always equal confidence or immediate action.
She needed support to leave the familiar, trust her intuition, and step into a life she wasn’t raised or trained to believe she could have.
That’s the work we did together.
Here’s Exactly How We Rebuilt Her Self-Trust and Got Her Back Into Alignment in 4 steps:
Inside our 8-month coaching container, we used a mix of archetypal astrology and practical personal development tools to build a foundation she could confidently leap from.
1. Archetypal Astrology as a Framework for Action
I read her natal chart, not to predict her future, but to reflect her natural strengths, leadership archetypes, and deeper purpose.
It gave her language for the truth she already knew, and permission to start showing up differently.
She wasn’t meant to stay quiet when things felt off.
She was meant to change them.
Every week during our sessions, we’d unpack a new placement and look to the area of her chart that supported whatever she was working on. Internal dialogue not being supportive? Look to her Moon sign. Scared to step into a new way of being and acting? Let’s work with her Rising sign. And so on…
2. Belief Work + Storywork
I helped her dismantled the “good girl conditioning” that told her:
Don’t rock the boat
Don’t speak up
Be grateful
Stay loyal, no matter what
Don’t take risks
She began rewriting the story of who she was allowed to become.
We did this by recognizing which stories were running the show, and which ones were actually true (not many). Then we rewrote those stories and created custom visualization exercises and mantras around them to rewire her brain for expansive Self-belief.
3. Boundaries, Needs, and Self-Care
She learned to differentiate between:
What she wanted
What she needed
What she would no longer tolerate
How to communicate clearly, compassionately, and confidently
And for the first time, she honored those distinctions.
What we did: created a solid plan of action for standing up for herself, speaking her truth, and setting boundaries to protect her needs and priorities. We also uncovered how to compromise, create deeper connection, and communicate more honestly and effectively to build bridges instead of putting up walls in her relationships as she embarked on this newfound expansion of herself. It’s common for people to “blow up” their life to get to the next stage, I help my clients transition with grace and humility.
4. Listening to Her Intuition
This was the hardest part.
She was trained—professionally and culturally—to trust external factors over her own intuitive nudges. She believed intuition was hard to trust because it wasn’t logical.
But intuition IS logical.
It’s clear.
It’s honest.
There is a stored databank of all of your experiences inside your subconscious, and your intuition is the ability to sift through it with ease and at lightning speed to make confident decisions based on what you knnow deep down.
She just had to re-learn how to access it. I call this re-calibration. You already know how to listen to your intuition, you just need to practice using it again.
Her intuition told her: “It’s time to go.”
And for the first time, she didn’t talk herself out of it.
Within our 8 months together, she made the decision that once felt impossible:
She left the work that had been draining her.
She walked away from a stable, prestigious career.
She chose herself, and we made a plan for her to pivot powerfully.
And then she built something extraordinary.
Today, she runs a successful business.
She’s doing the work she once desperately wished someone would do for her.
She’s living her values day to day, which in turn, helps her live in better alignment.
She’s creating a meaningful impact, one work environment at a time.
She’s modeling self-trust for every woman who’s been told to be quiet and stay small.
And most importantly:
She now trusts herself to create the kind of life she actually wants—
not the one she was conditioned to settle for and tolerate.
If you see yourself in any part of her journey, the misalignment, the intuition you ignore (or forget how to listen to), the desire for something more meaningful,
I want you to know this:
You don’t have to stay in environments that shrink you.
Or choose between security and fulfillment.
And you definitely don’t need permission to want a different or better life.
You are absolutely capable of pivoting powerfully into something that feels like you. You just have to decide to take the first step, that’s always the hardest part.
xo Courtney
Are You Ready for Your Own Pivot?
I help women who are ambitious, intuitive, and done with misalignment:
reconnect with their values
redefine their priorities
recalibrate to their intuition
rebuild self-trust
clarify their purpose
and step into the life they know they deserve
If you’re craving your own transformation, get started by:
👉 Buying an Astro-Archetype Reading to uncover how your Sun, Moon, Rising, Midheaven, Chiron, & North Node placements can be your roadmap for gaining clarity, reconnecting to your intuition, and building a new life on your own terms.
To work with me 1:1, submit an application
You deserve a life that feels aligned, expansive, and true to you.
And you don’t have to take the leap alone.
