the short maybe not that helpful answer - your soul IS your chart. the whole thing. because a truly holistic system is holographic. so each component of the chart contains each other part. also, in a truly holistic soul-tending cosmology - the soul IS the body. there’s no separation. so the whole chart is the whole body, too. of course in classical shamanic healing it’s important to distinguish between parts of the soul that leave (soul loss) and say smaller inner schisms that can be integrated with a simple basic clearing, which we might. just consider energy vs soul force energy, and like a broken bone or something like that. but at essence it’s all soul. and it’s all body. and it’s all your whole being trying to love know and transform its self on the path of living and giving your gifts to the planet in all the myriad forms they can take aka your soul’s purpose.
more nuanced answer - potentially one of my astrology trade secrets - there are specific ways to triangulate expressions of your purpose from your chart. they won’t give you a road map to follow blindly (and you probably want to take anyone that says their form of divination is the exact road map for you living your purpose exactly as they lay it out with copious salt) but they can get you into deeper relationship with the energy and help you feel where you’re already living these aspects of gift (or blocking them and suffering for it).
briefly they are:
jupiter - the big giver, a place to feel where you’ve been given soo much that to not share it would be a massive waste. for me, my jupiter is in pisces in the 2nd house. groovy placement, showing how my relationship with spirit, my faith and my innate experience of the metaphysical nature of things are all gifts that i basically just give away freely all the time with everything i do because they come so naturally to me. tricky in the 2nd house - the challenge being to ground my faith in practical, consistent, earthly devotion, literally tending my finances as an act of faith in myself. but because it trines my moon one thing i’ve learned is that if i’m really really deeply honest to my needs, while also staying in right relationship with my compassion and empathy for others and making conscious acts of generosity and sacrifice, the money will flow. in. and out. ok i said briefly and obviously i lied! lol
chiron - the “wounded healer” - we’re all pretty confused about healer as an energy in this culture because we’re all pretty confused about health. chiron, an asteroid who makes slow, irregular moves through the zodiac, shows where we’re born with a generational mark or imperative to feel something at a depth that others can’t or won’t, which often shows up as a wound because our parents were also feeling it too (kind of like how we’re all feeling this chiron transit through aries as an existential question of whether humans should even exist) in their own ways, often reacting badly to it, potentially harming others (especially our vulnerable children, who by nature trigger our own un-healed childhood stuff). chiron also shows why birth tending is so vital, because the original wound is birth - we literally separate from the oneness to incarnate and won’t truly feel reunion (even working with the most potent altered states or psychedelics) until after death. it’s like the belly button - when we don’t tend the umbilical severing well, it can cause infection, disfigurement or worse. when we don’t tend the spirit-energy-soul experience of birth, we accumulate wounds (multidimensionally, as soul touches all dimensions) which gradually accrete more crap as life tries to help us heal them with the tools we have in the moment which are often crude or nonexistent. we may attract others with the same wounds and mire each other in codependency i.e. my chiron in gemini in the 5th, so i definitely have a long history of dancing in tangled dynamics with artists and weirdos who felt similarly growing up that the world wasn’t safe for our gifts so we had to warp, weaponize or repress them, had to long for the perfect tribe to belong with but every time we found community of similar seekers we end up in complex patterns of trickstery scapegoating or self abandonment… but the magic lies in actually plunging into these places and letting them show us how to shed the layers of wound through true healing and transformational work. chiron wants to help us craft medicine from the poison of our pasts. depending on the placement this won’t look as bountiful or social facing as jupiter but they are in relationship (see also: the source greco-roman myths from which their contemporary names originate). chiron for me is the place where something deeply personal, about which we likely have a profound sensitivity, will want to express as a gift, a sharing of the riches we’ve hard-won through our personal healing and growth - maybe with that checker at the grocery store who is soo painfully genderqueer but valiantly living their truth even at obvious social cost, and me complimenting their nails (or just smiling and seeing them) that day makes all the difference. because my chiron is placed in the 5th it does come out in large part through my art - my first and unpublished second books are both hard won from hurt and medicinal in ways i could never really anticipate or expect. shit, people still talk to me about the twitter tirades i went on during my family vacation in 2011. that was one of my darkest times ever but it was apparently a boon and a balm and a window into many readers experience of their own difference in relationship to their parents. chiron often feels tender and super vulnerable (and often does track directly with early traumatic experiences which can potentially be treated as markers for soul loss) but it is an essential dissonance in diagnosing the unique symphonic frequency our gifts want and need us to transmit.
i’ll say more about other placements i love to explore in relationship to the whole gift / purpose exploration, but for now take a peek at these two:
settle into a quiet embodied space
scope out your chart — where are chiron and jupiter placed?
you can totally read up on what the internet has to say relative to these placements in a particular sign and house or aspect, but also open up to what the great god and the genderqueer man-beast might have to teach you and no one else — listen, meditate, sketch, sculpt, free-write or paint. ask them questions. see how they respond. interpret the answers relative to what you already know and see about the way your gifts express. see how they refine your understanding and active expressing of your gifts.
and let me know how it works!
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with deep gratitude for you and your mellifluous gifts and all the forms they take,
alexis
PS - i literally have less than $200 in my bank account while i’m writing this. yesterday i signed prelims on a six-figure loan for a project i can’t reveal publicly yet. and i’m sitting on a completely finished manuscript i haven’t had time to shop! and i’ve never felt more accomplished as a teacher or word worker or person or partner in my life! lol there really couldn’t be a more obvious jupiter squaring chiron moment and we didn’t even mention saturn harshing their vibe placed in sag in the 11th - i spent most of yesterday doing volunteer work for my non-local spiritual community’s business. in a society where some people are rich, some people will always be broke. but at the level of element, archetype, nature and earth, everything flows, including gift. finding the discipline and devotion and teachers and community and healing forms and practices i need to support me in living these gifts has taken a lot of work, courage, frankly insanity and beautiful ignorance (because if i had really known what life had in store for me i might not have said yes to any of it!), but the closer i get to loving and embodying these energies as they are, the more i feel myself in the flow of gift, both terrestrial and cosmic. my life is beautiful, my needs are more than met, my foundations are strong even as they continue to shift, and i have a strong feeling, supported by regular feedback by my cherished students, clients and intimates, that me doing my thing, more and more truthfully to my growing understanding of my true self, is good for others, good for life. divination is a mighty part of how i stay oriented on this path which is why i constantly circle back to sharing it. there is no guarantee of wealth, safety or comfort (and how fucking boring would life be if that were actually the case?!) but joy, excitement, deep feeling, precious risk and the satisfaction of years of hard work invested in something you deeply care about? to me that’s all worth it. <3