Charting Your Course: Creating Your Itinerary
- Regyna Curtis
- Mar 23
- 6 min read
Updated: Nov 16
Charting Your Course is so much more than just creating and following your Personal Seasons Calendar. It is a system designed to support you right where you are in each moment as you navigate the ever-changing environments within and around you.
As you apply it, you:
Become more adept at coping with uncertainty and change
Develop patience in your unique process and timing
Build trust and momentum in a way that ebbs and flows with you
Understand what you need to cope with challenges and enjoy your journey
Learn to recognize and prepare for the shifts in internal and external cycles
Create devotional practices that support you in your life and work
Better understand cycles of transformation, creating predictability amongst uncertainty
Celebrate change as progress
Become a change maker just by being fully YOU
Whether you currently feel like you are forcing or being forced forward or are flowing forward as you bring your vision into being, the Charting Your Course system can support you in creating a more easeful and enjoyable journey. To get started, create your Personal Seasons Calendar. This is your personal itinerary for the journey of your Annual Cycle of Development and the first touchstone to add to your success kit.
Step 1: Gather Your Birth Details
Before you can begin creating your Personal Seasons Calendar, you'll need to collect a few essential details that act as the foundation for your chart. Think of this as gathering the coordinates for your internal compass.
Here’s what you’ll need:
Your full name
City, state, and country of birth
Date of birth (formatted as MM/DD/YYYY)
Exact time of birth (hour, minute, and AM/PM)
These specifics allow the Charting Your Course system to help you understand the unique timing and rhythm of your Annual Cycle of Development.
Step 2: Generate Your Natal Chart
Now that you’ve gathered your birth details, it’s time to create your natal chart. This is the only step in the Charting Your Course system that requires astrology, and don’t worry, you don’t need to understand all the symbols or terminology. We’re simply using the chart to access a few key details that will help personalize your calendar. Basically, astrology uses a really helpful calculation tool that we leverage to create your Personal Seasons Calendar, so you don't have to get a master's degree in math before getting started.
To access this tool, visit astro-charts.com. You’ll need to:
Create a free account
Enter your birth information
Generate your chart
Once the chart appears, you’ll see a wheel filled with lines, symbols, and placements; it may look complex, but we’re only interested in one specific detail at the bottom. Be sure to save your chart so you can access it again. Once saved, go to your dashboard, open your chart, and then scroll all the way to the bottom to locate the information we’ll use next. If you are nerdy about astrology like me, you can take a deep dive into the nuances and interconnected wisdom later. But for now, I encourage you to stay focused on the task at hand. From one rabbit hole chaser to another... I see you. 👀🥰
Step 3: Calculate Your Seasonal Shifts
With your natal chart in hand, you're now ready to create your Personal Seasons Calendar, the heart of the Charting Your Course system. This calendar reflects the unique rhythm of your inner seasons and reveals when you naturally shift into Spring (emergence), Summer (expansion), Autumn (examination), and Winter (embodiment) each year.
To do this, you'll use Plotting Your Course Calculator:
Here’s how it works:
Look at the House Table from your astro-charts.com dashboard.
For each house (1 through 12), note the degree and sign it starts in.
Enter those into the calculator using the dropdown menu for the sign and the number field for degrees.
As you enter your data, the calculator will generate seasonal transition dates each year; your personal mile markers for when your energy shifts. These dates are the foundation of your Personal Seasons Calendar. This is important because it helps you more quickly identify when you may need different types of support and when to leverage or focus your energy along your journey to act more proactively rather than reactively.
Once you’ve plotted your course, you’ll see your full annual cycle laid out. Now it's time to start exploring what these dates actually mean and how to start working with them in your life and business.
Step 4: Getting To Know Your Personal Seasons
Now that your seasonal dates are calculated, it’s time to give them meaning by transferring them into your Personal Seasons Calendar. While the natal chart labels each section using astrology’s house system, the Plotting Your Course calculator helps you translate that into something much simpler and more intuitive: early, mid, and late phases of Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter.
Transfer these dates to your Personal Seasons Calendar:
Look at the dates you generated from the calculator.
Transfer them into the corresponding spaces in your calendar (download below) under each seasonal sojourn: early, mid, and late.
Use the color-coded key to keep track of your current season:🌱 Green = Spring🌊 Blue = Summer🍂 Orange = Autumn❄️ Gray = Winter
Once you’ve copied your dates, locate where you are right now in your personal cycle by finding today’s date in relation to your seasonal transitions. Are you just entering a new phase or about to complete one? Are you right in the magnificently messy middle?
Understanding where you are helps you work with your energy, takes out the guesswork, limits self-judgement, and enhances what's already working. This is where things get pretty magical. Once you understand when your energy shifts, you can start using this to inform, support, and bring more ease into your daily life and work.
Step 5: Take Aligned Action with Your Seasonal Energy
Congratulations! You’ve just created your Personal Seasons Calendar. This is your energetic itinerary for the year, a guide that honors your unique rhythms and helps you move through life with greater ease, clarity, and purpose.
Along with your sojourn themes, you’ll find a set of questions to help you define your desires as your energy shifts focus throughout each seasonal phase. These aren’t just one-time prompts; they’re invitations to return to again and again throughout your current sojourn and season. In fact, you can use them any time to support you in moving through a process. This is something we teach inside the Soul Wisdom Leaders Lounge community in various events and group experiences.
For example, if you’re in mid Autumn, a helpful question to explore is: “Where do I notice a shift in satisfaction?”
You can use these questions for journaling, meditation, or reflection, especially when you're feeling stuck or uncertain. They serve as gentle anchors, reconnecting you with the wisdom of your current season.
Get to know the big picture of your seasonal focus and understand your seasonal checkpoints so you can challenge your mind, support your embodiment, and amplify your growth every step of the way... one small step at a time.
You’re now equipped to chart your course, not just through tasks and goal setting, but in rhythm with your own timing, intuition, and inner truth. And this is only the beginning.
Step 6: Take the Next Step — The Journey of Becoming You
Now that you've created your Personal Seasons Calendar and begun exploring the wisdom within it, you may be wondering how to deepen this work and truly integrate it into your life and business. That’s exactly what The Journey of Becoming You is designed to support.
This is a 2-hour Soul Strategy Session where you'll work directly with the calendar you just created. Together, we’ll explore the season you’re currently in and apply tools from the Charting Your Course system to help you make aligned decisions, tap into your unique timing, and move forward with clarity and confidence.
✨ Already a member of the Soul Wisdom Leaders Lounge or part of a MINGLE! Learning Collaborative community? This session is included in your membership.
🌱 New to the community? You're invited to explore the Soul Wisdom Leaders Lounge with a 2-week trial membership—you can join the session and hang out with us to see what it’s all about.
Use the purple button below to find upcoming events or to explore a trial membership. If you have any questions or want to connect before diving in, feel free to reach out. It’s truly been a joy guiding you through this process.
You're not just charting a course, you’re living life and creating success on your terms.
Already a Mingle! member in one of our partner communities and are excited to bring your itinerary to life? Current Mingle! members can access all of the tools and support available in the Soul Wisdom Leaders Lounge with a Trove membership.
Step into The Trove! This curated collection of tools is designed to support you as a solo traveler navigating the seasons and changing terrain of your entrepreneurial journey.
Inside, you’ll find the very same resources we use in group experiences and 1:1 mentorship, but without the tour guide. Think of it as a sacred stash of wisdom left behind by those who’ve walked the path before you—picture dog-eared pages of cherished guidebooks with circled landmarks and notes scribbled in the margins—treasures offered from one traveler to another.
Whether you’re not quite ready for a group experience or simply want to get started right away and go at your own pace, The Trove is here to help you chart your course!
