Why Virgo Guides?
Virgo Guides brings together ancient and modern technologies to help humans answer questions they’ve been asking for millenia: Who am I? Where am I going? What is my life’s purpose?
Using natal charts, Virgo Guides comes at these questions from what may feel like a unique and “woo” angle to the modern high school student and counselor. Though it’s becoming more mainstream, astrology was the common lens civilizations used to explore the future in the ancient world.
Astrology often gets a bad rap as a pseudoscience (for centuries it was indeed considered an actual science synonymous with astronomy), but I consider it an art that provides rich language for storytelling of the self – the kind of personal storytelling at the heart of any college application.
Regardless of your personal feelings about astrology, Virgo Guides can be a useful tool for you. The easy-to-digest student-focused readings are a rich reflection tool, inviting students and counselors toward deeper conversations and reflections around identity, goals, and college fit.
Virgo Guides does this by pulling each student’s natal chart, based on birthdate, birth location and time of birth (if available) and using AI to interpret that chart. These interpretations are rich, precise, and nuanced because they pull directly from a book I’ve written about college counseling and astrology. My professional expertise is in college counseling, and I am a serious student of astrology. The output is an expert summary of individual strengths, pitfalls, and recommendations.
The Virgo Guides natal chart reading can help start the conversation. At the end of the day, it’s up to counselors to decide what meaning they make from it. Who is any student really? Only they themselves can know that and tell us. Virgo Guides merely helps us open the door.
As a counselor, Virgo Guides helps me keep each individual student at the center of every meeting. When I pull a chart report before a 1:1 and spend a minute reading it, I have higher quality meetings with students. They help me center the student in mind and heart. They help keep me curious and open, eager to connect and make connections. They help me tap into the mysterious human experience that transcends any admissions scattergram.
I think there are so many ways Virgo Guides can inform our day-to-day work. I invite counselors to tap into the magic of the college process today. Generate a reading and see what happens next!
Hayley