Your chart describes what your life is trying to do.
Evolutionary astrology · Human Design · coaching
You’ve probably been put in a box before.
Most systems that promise to explain you work by grouping. Sixteen types, nine numbers, five strengths, twelve signs. You read your description, recognise maybe sixty percent of it, and file it away. Accurate enough. Hard to do anything with.
That’s the trade those systems make. To say something about a lot of people, they have to stop short of saying much about anyone.
Your chart is built the other way round. It’s a specific configuration of a specific moment, and there’s no group to belong to. Read properly, it describes what this life appears to be for, what it keeps asking of you, and the inventive, well-defended ways you avoid answering.
That last part is where I come in.
Martina Mezzetti
Panama
“It’s confronting sometimes, and it always feels safe”
It feels like talking to someone close about things that actually matter. She gives language to something I couldn’t explain myself — and then I think: oh, that’s it. It’s confronting sometimes, and it always feels safe. Even over Zoom, from the other side of the world, the connection is there.
Ted Maros
Consultant, Trainer, Coach
“It is my compass now”
I got a much deeper insight into myself than rational models ever gave me. It became a compass: what to keep doing, what to stop doing, and which new course to chart.
How I ended up here.
When I was a little girl I would gaze at the moon and stars, wondering what my place was in all of this. Why am I here. What am I supposed to do with my life.
I never really stopped asking. I studied psychology and spent twenty-five years inside companies — ASML, Philips, Atos — doing leadership development and coaching, and building acceleration programmes for the people those organisations had decided were exceptional.
I sat with hundreds of them at the point where their work and their life stopped agreeing with each other. And underneath every one of those conversations, the same two questions kept surfacing. Who am I, actually. And what is this life for.
I could see the pattern for years before I could name it. Astrology gave me the language for what I had already been watching. I trained in psychological astrology first, then did the full three-year apprenticeship with Steven Forrest and qualified at Master Practitioner level. Human Design came later — I went in sceptical and it took me apart anyway. I’m a certified analyst and a BG5 business consultant.
Borrow my eyes.
I don’t carry the thoughts that live in your head about who you think you are. I see what’s in the chart, and I see the person in front of me.
No client has ever left a session saying it was all new. Most of it they already knew — they’d felt it for years without having the words for it.
What’s new is the arrangement. Talents that looked unrelated turn out to be one thing. Something they’d written off as a quirk turns out to be the hinge the rest swings on. Seen together, the pieces do something that none of them does alone.
And that’s when they stop hedging about it.
Following My North Star
Most people have something they’d do if things were different. Not a secret — just the thing you keep almost deciding. And there’s always a reason to wait: the money, the timing, the mortgage, what people will think, the fact that you’re already rather good at what you do.
I waited for years. Then I left a career I was good at and didn’t want, and started reading charts instead.
Five years later, on my fiftieth birthday, my husband Florus and I went back to Lake Como, where I’d been studying when I made that decision. We went to honour it. Florus is a filmmaker, and he made it into a tribute.
It’s a film about doing it anyway.
“My teacher Steve once said to me: one day you will have to forget about me, forget about all your teachers, and become you, Patty. And that is exactly what I did.”
Eighteen minutes.
If you genuinely want to know what it takes to make a decision that changes your life, this is it.
People tend to write to me afterwards. Sometimes about the film. More often about a decision of their own they’ve been circling for years.
Lida Dimitriou
Erasmus University Rotterdam
“Insights that touched my heart and led to practical results”
I’ve worked with various coaches over the years, and Patty’s approach is genuinely different. Her insights touched my heart and led to practical results in a way I hadn’t experienced before. Caring, clear, practical, optimistic.
Astrid Reijnen
Director a.i. Doejemee Foundation
“Clear direction and focus”
I can now interpret what I always felt deep inside but never had words for. I stopped sabotaging myself, and that gave me a lot of peace. Patty put it into words, and it felt so right — I knew it was already there.
Marjolein Verleun
“It didn’t change me. It helped me see myself again”
This wasn’t coaching. It was coming home to myself. It didn’t change me — it helped me see myself again. And that may be the greatest gift I could have given myself.
Work with me
Four ways in, depending on how far you want to go.
The Core — two hours online, five people at most. Your astrological Sun and your Human Design Sun, side by side. €167
The Thread and the Horizon — two sessions, two weeks apart, with questions and my written response in between. Where you come from, and what the coming year is asking. €795
The Long Arc — five sessions over a season, with Human Design coming in and me alongside you throughout. €2,195
The Invitation — four nights in my valley in Burgundy, with nothing else asking anything of you. €2,450
Letters from the valley
What the planets are doing, and what that looks like in an actual life
These aren’t forecasts. Once a month I take what’s genuinely moving overhead — the transits, the eclipses, the slow heavy ones — and put it where it belongs: in a life with work and doubts and decisions in it. Usually mine first, because that’s the only one I can report on honestly.
Some months that arrives as clarity. Some months I’m writing from the middle of it.
If that’s your kind of company, come along.
Twice a year I do a live session on the year ahead, with a written journal to work in. Subscribers hear about it first.
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