THE CORE ALIGNMENT
You’re not lost. You’re realigning.
Whole sign astrology · The North Carolina Triangle
I spent my life trying to prevent fires. Then I realized I am the fire.
Understand yourself and the people you were born to love. It’s all written in the construction plan you were born with.
Your natal birth chart is built from three pieces of data: your birth date, your birth city and the exact minute you were born. Not the hour. The minute. A few minutes can change your rising sign, and in whole sign astrology your rising sign sets every house in your chart.
I gave 18 years to a family business, inside a fire sprinkler bubble that was never protecting my fire. When I finally learned to read my chart, it led me to Sri Lanka, where every full moon is a holiday, and showed me how big the world really is. Now I’m building a community of women in the North Carolina Triangle who learn to read their own, together.
And I’m taking women like me to the island, with local Lion and Lioness guides who love their home and want to share it. Those connections came from a Sri Lankan man I met here at home in North Carolina. He has been my best friend and my brother ever since.
Don’t know your birth minute? Look for your long-form birth certificate. I found mine at the courthouse.
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TONIGHT’S SKY ·
THE SEVEN PLANETS ·
The seven planets the ancients could see with their own eyes. Rx means a planet looks like it is moving backward from Earth. This updates every time you visit.
Life is not a straight line. It’s a spiral.
Bridging worlds
I bridge worlds.
North Carolina and Sri Lanka. Fire and air. The ancient sky and the modern one.
I want to give women the confidence to choose themselves and cross oceans.
Pluto spent sixteen years in Capricorn, and we spent them building systems and managing databases. Pluto is in Aquarius now. It’s time to go see the world.
The collective shift
Pluto is the slowest of the outer planets. It moves so slowly that it marks whole generations, not single lives. When it changes signs, we all feel it together.
From 2008 to 2024, Pluto moved through Capricorn, the sign of structure, companies and climbing the ladder. We built the systems, chased the titles and put our jobs before everything.
Now Pluto is in Aquarius until 2044. Aquarius is the Water Bearer, pouring water out for everyone, not just the few at the top. It looks like water, with its two waves and its jug, but it’s an air sign. What it really pours out is ideas and connection. It’s the sign of community, friendship and the group. In the old tradition, Aquarius belongs to Saturn: the rules we build together, and the people we build them with.
This is the shift. Less climbing alone. More gathering together.
Back to the basics.
Back to each other.
Back to nature.
Back to understanding the symbolic language of astrology.
Why I left
I spent eighteen years trying to be a fire sprinkler man.
I went to work in my family’s fire protection business straight out of college, the first in my family to earn a degree. I started in purchasing with a pen and paper. Over the years it shifted to a digital database, where I had to prove everything I bought. I also did outside sales, managed projects and kept our vendors and customers happy.
The business grew, and the men on top took all the money.
But I was born female, and it was never my world. It was just my family.
And I’m a Sagittarius, not a Capricorn. I wasn’t built to sit in a database proving every receipt. AI can do that better now.
AI took the robot work. It gave me back the time to do the human work.
AI isn’t magic, and it isn’t here to take our work. It’s a tool. It does the work we paid way too much for, for way too long: the consultants, the software, the courses that promised a business in a box. I built this website, my brand and my business plan with it, for the price of a subscription.
But it still needs a person. It got my moon photo wrong, my logo wrong and my own story wrong more than once, and I caught it every time. AI changed the way I work. It didn’t change who does the thinking.
And AI can’t guide you through Sri Lanka. It can’t pour your tea, sit with you under a full moon, or introduce you to the family who says “we don’t leave family.” That part takes people.
In 2025 I walked away. My natal birth chart is the construction plan I was born with, and when I finally learned to read it, it led me to a little island in the Indian Ocean.
The Core Alignment exists because I know I’m not the only woman who has spent years being told she’s too much when she’s simply in the wrong room.
I was born with a triangle of fire in my chart, and I grew up in the North Carolina Triangle. Eighteen years in the American fire protection industry only burned me to ashes. Fire needs air to spread. Sri Lanka was my air.
Sometimes you have to leave the fire to discover the world is a whole lot bigger than the life you were told to live.
Sri Lanka · No filters
My 2026 Sri Lanka journey
An astrological journey through the island.
Every natal birth chart holds all four elements. Sri Lanka makes you feel each one as you move through the island.
In person · The Tuesday nearest every full moon
Join the Poya Moon Social Club
of the North Carolina Triangle
In Sri Lanka, the whole country stops for the full moon. I’m bringing that home. Astrology makes more sense in a room full of women than alone on an app, and community shouldn’t cost a thing. We meet in person, never on a screen.
First gathering
Tuesday, November 24 · Downtown Clayton
Astrology basics
Learn to read your own construction plan.
The basics of Hellenistic astrology, kept simple: planets, signs and whole sign houses, and how I read my own chart. Free, and yours to keep coming back to.
The Cosmic Diary
Our life right now, written as it happens.
Blogging like it’s 2007: two women in our forties, after the American job and after motherhood stopped needing every free hour. Together and separate, written as it happens.
Astrology tea parties
Give us your numbers. We bring the tea.
Gather six friends at your home. We bring the tea and a real written astrology report, printed, for every guest, and we all read the sky together. $44 per guest.