Have you ever felt guided by a sign? A call from the universe, an overwhelming gut reaction, a whisper in your ear? 

Maybe you woke up one day with a craving to try a new hobby. Or perhaps you once felt pulled by a stranger from across the room, and they became one of your closest friends. Maybe you made an unplanned visit with a doctor, only to find that something needed your immediate medical attention. 

These moments, where we are led by serendipity and reap its sweet sweet effects, can be magical and sublime. But they’re all just coincidences, right?! Despite being enchanted by your luck, your rock-solid sensibility tells you to brush it off and get back to work. When all is said and done, you feel a bit silly for even indulging such impulses. 

In no time, you’re pulled back into the grind, because you know that’s the safe route. Because as women we are expected—and driven—to have it all. Fantastic health, thriving relationships, career clarity, remarkable talent, and an almost intangible combination of grace and grit. And there’s no time for indulging random whims. 

So you commit to following all the rules, doing all the right things to stay on the path to success. And yeah, it’s freaking overwhelming at times (ok, most of the time). Because when work, responsibilities, and other real-world things creep into every moment of your day, you feel like you always have to take every call because that’s the only way to get ahead and stay on top of it. 

You go to bed feeling blessed and stressed: grateful to have so many wonderful opportunities and things going on in your life, but also on the brink of total burn-out. It’s taking a toll on your health, and through bouts of sleepless nights and stress-eating, you ask yourself where you went wrong. 

The truth? Somewhere along the way, you put up a wall against your emotions and spirituality, thinking that both were distractions to your ambitions.

And the scary part is, you don’t even remember making that choice consciously. Drive just forced you to believe the only way to keep it together, to keep rising in your career, and to effectively prove yourself, meant keeping a happy, smiling, strong façade. You feared that your emotions and spirituality would lead you astray. In doing so you shutdown your intuition and capacity to feel guided.

This is where we get trapped. While we are so freaking lucky to be living in the 21st century, in a time of massive healthcare innovation and evolution, we have come to believe that everything has a cure—clear, logical, right-in-your-face answer. That there is a single end goal to health, a completion, a peak health state to reach and maintain forever—if only you had the right cocktail of healthcare practices. 

Stop with the “feelings.” Listen to the prescription. That’s the ticket. 

We have it all wrong. When we repress our intuition and suppress our emotions in the body, our symptoms and disease amplify. Our physical health is a reflection of what is occurring internally. 

It’s time to start working with our health on a more emotional, intuitive, and spiritual level. This is how we build resilience and a better mind-body connection—finally a way of achieving thriving, sustainable health. 

And believe it or not, the science of astrology actually holds the keys to understanding all of this.

More than just predicting lofty romantic dreams, the stars provide an avenue through which you can learn more about your unique elemental and cosmic makeup. Because when we open ourselves up to understanding the big-picture patterns that influence us—the cosmos, the moon, the cycles of nature and our own bodies—we can leverage them for conscious action, growth, success, and overall well-being.

We can finally make sense of the chaos of life, build the resiliency to manage ebbs and flows, and discover what makes us tick and what makes us come alive. We start to understand the seeming coincidences of our life as part of a bigger cosmic plan. And, we do so without denying any aspect of our intelligence or our wisdom. Please note: it’s not flakey to use your intuition. It’s genius. 

And when we apply ancient wisdom and modern science together, an even more powerful dimension of integrative health is born.