How Heart's Compass Works

Heart's Compass, your daily star map. Each morning it reads the sky, the Earth's day and the Sun's mood, and brings them home to your heart. It's a map of the stars, and you're the star on it. It never tells you where to go or what will happen. It shows you where you stand today, so you can meet the day with a clear heart.

From the stars, through the heart, into the day.

How Each Reading Is Built

Cosmos Day: the day's sky in plain words. We use classical astrology, the Sun, Moon and planets moving through the twelve signs, and we read each sign together with its partner, two faces in one place, a pairing from our own work. You won't find astrology terms in the reading, only what the sky can mean for your day.

Earth Day: the day in the traditional Maya count, the 260-day calendar and the 365-day year, kept by the Maya for well over two thousand years. We use the traditional count (the GMT correlation), not the modern Dreamspell version. You'll meet each day through its meaning, like the Reed or the Jaguar.

The Bridge: how the sky and the Earth's day speak to each other, and the day's one practice.

Sky Watch: the Sun's mood, from NOAA's space weather forecast. A calm Sun or a stormy one can leave people settled or restless. It's a mood to notice, never a prediction.

Own Your Heart, where you stand today: here the reading turns inward. We read the body through the seven chakras as pairs, two ends of one stick, with the heart where they meet. Each day speaks to one pair, then brings you back to your heart. Then Anma speaks, and a short body cue brings you home to your body.

A question, a kindness and one line: a question that grows out of where you stand, one small kindness to give, and one line to carry through your day.

Anma Speaks

Every Heart's Compass carries a second voice. Anma is the Mother Dragon, the heart of our 64-card oracle deck, written by James with art by Tammy.

Each morning, once the day's reading is written, we bring its question to Anma. The deck is shuffled at random and nine cards are drawn, a full oracle reading. We don't lay the cards out for you. We listen to the whole reading and give you what Anma says, in a few lines, inside Own Your Heart, right where you stop to see where you stand.

Anma is fierce and gentle at once. She won't flatter you, and she won't scold you. Some days she agrees with the reading. Some days she says what it left out. Like the rest of Heart's Compass, her words are a mirror to hold up to your own heart, never a prediction. What they mean is yours to say.

Our Promise

We pull fresh data every morning. We never force an alignment, and we never tell you what a sign means for you. If the reading moves you in a healthy direction, it has done its job.