Birth Chart Alchemy
Shadow work meets astrology
A guided journey through the six placements that hold the extraordinary parts of you that were taught to stay hidden.
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Some of the most potent material in you, the raw desire, the depth, the power, the hunger, got quieter because it stood out. It didn’t always fit what was approved or safe, so it learned to stay in the dark. The loops you keep meeting are often what happens when that material is still operating from exile or autopilot.
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This guide takes you into six placements in your birth chart: Moon, Chiron, Saturn, South Node, Black Moon Lilith, and Pluto. Together they show you where those parts live and how they’ve been shaping your choices. You learn to meet them with more awareness instead of shame or suppression, so the same material can become wisdom, power, and desire you actually get to use.
The SIX PLACEMENTS YOU CAME HERE TO GROW THROUGH
There are certain placements in your birth chart that can reveal the patterns you return to again and again. Birth Chart Alchemy focuses on six placements that speak directly to this deeper patterning: the places where old beliefs, protective roles, and hidden parts of yourself can quietly shape your choices.
These placements can show you where greater self-awareness has the power to change how you move through your life.
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Moon — the emotional reactions and needs that run the show beneath the surface, shaping how you love and protect yourself before you've even had a conscious thought.
Chiron — where you learned love had conditions, and the quiet cost of spending years proving your worth.
Saturn — where self-doubt and impossibly high standards have been setting the pace of your life.
South Node — the comfort zone that pulls you back on autopilot, even when it stopped bringing you alive.
Black Moon Lilith — the raw, powerful parts of you, your desire, your anger, your hunger, that you exiled somewhere along the way to stay accepted.
Pluto — where your depth and power have been creating reactions in others, and how you learned to make yourself smaller in response.
Seeing It Is What Changes It
You can spend years sensing a pattern without being able to name it, watching the same thing return without fully understanding why.
Birth Chart Alchemy shows you where the extraordinary parts of you have been operating from exile or autopilot. Once you can see that clearly, you have more choice in how you meet them. The same desire, depth, and power that once stayed hidden or ran the loop can start to become wisdom and strength you actually use.
The pattern may still appear. The way you respond to it no longer has to.
How You'll Explore Your Birth Chart
The conversations happen inside a private Project you create once in ChatGPT or Claude. The Welcome Guide walks you through the setup. After that, the materials stay there. You can open the Project whenever you want to explore a placement or return during a new chapter. You don’t need any astrology background, and you can do the entire experience with a free ChatGPT account.
A Glimpse Inside the Experience
Take a look at an example of the kind of conversation you can have inside your personalized Birth Chart Alchemy Project. This sample explores just one of the nine guided questions available for a single placement in your birth chart.
WHAT'S INCLUDEd
Everything you need to explore all six placements at depth, plus a bonus guide that takes you into three of the houses where your shadow runs deepest.
1. Start Here Welcome Guide
An 11-page step-by-step guide that walks you through pulling up your birth chart, collecting the placement information you need, and creating your Birth Chart Alchemy Project in ChatGPT or Claude.
2. Birth Chart Alchemy Project Materials
Three files designed to teach AI how to guide your conversations through my approach:
Interpretation Framework
Placement and House Lenses
Project Instructions
You will add these materials to your Project once, creating a private space you can return to whenever you want to explore your chart.
3. Guided Conversation Workbook
A 15-page workbook with nine carefully designed questions for each of the six shadow placements. The questions guide you through Recognition, Formation, and Reclamation, helping you identify repeating loops, understand how they developed, and explore more conscious ways of responding.
The workbook also includes a final Bird’s-Eye View prompt that brings your placement discoveries together into a larger picture.
4. Bonus 4th, 8th & 12th House Guidebook
A 9-page bonus guide with five guided questions for each house exploring three houses in your birth chart:
The 4th House: your roots, emotional foundation, and early inheritance
The 8th House: intimacy, trust, control, receiving, and transformation
The 12th House: unconscious patterns, surrender, endings, and what lives outside immediate awareness
5. Optional Quick-Access GPT
You will also receive access to my private Birth Chart Alchemy GPT for quick questions about your placements and houses. It is already programmed with my framework and lenses, so there are no files to upload.
HOW IT'S DELIVERED:
Your guides arrive straight to your inbox as an instant download, yours to keep forever.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Nothing at all. The guides do the teaching. You pull up your chart, share your placements, and the materials handle the rest. People with zero background have the same deep experience as people who've studied for years.
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You’ll create a private Project in ChatGPT or Claude and add the included interpretation framework, placement and house lenses, and project instructions. These materials teach AI how to guide your conversations through my approach. The Welcome Guide walks you through the complete setup, step by step.
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No. This works with the free version of ChatGPT. The Welcome Guide walks you through setting it up in a few minutes.
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Birth Chart Alchemy takes you through six placements, all viewed through the lens of shadow work, the hidden, buried, and disowned parts of you, and the power waiting inside them.
If you want your whole chart, there are two ways to go.
The Full Birth Chart Guide is the same self-guided process you're working in here, opened up to your entire chart. It takes you through all sixteen placements, so instead of one lens you come away understanding your full wiring, and at the end it brings everything you've uncovered together into one big-picture view of who you are.
A birth chart reading with me is the surrendered one. You sit back while I do the heavy lifting, bringing what I see intuitively and years of training to your chart, and we sit together with what it means for where you are right now.
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These patterns can return throughout your life, often through completely different circumstances. What changes is your relationship to them. As you understand your patterns more deeply, you can recognize them sooner and make more conscious choices about how you want to respond.
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It is a separate GPT already programmed with my Birth Chart Alchemy framework and lenses. You can use it for quick questions without setting up a Project or uploading any files. Your complete guided experience happens inside your Project, so access to this optional GPT is not required.
Your Light & Your Shadow
I created Birth Chart Alchemy and The Expansion Blueprint as two halves of one journey.
Birth Chart Alchemy helps you recognize the extraordinary parts of you that were taught to stay hidden, see how they’ve been shaping your choices, and meet them with more awareness so that material can become wisdom, power, and desire you actually use.
The Expansion Blueprint helps you see where you’re built to expand and how to weave your gifts more intentionally into your work, visibility, relationships, and creative direction.
Together, they give you a clearer map for both the potent material that was kept quieter and the strengths you’re ready to express more fully, so you can move through life with more of your authentic nature available to you.
GROWTH IS A SPIRAL…
These patterns may return throughout your life, through new relationships, new circumstances, and new versions of yourself. Each time, you have the opportunity to meet them with a deeper understanding of who you are and what is being activated within you.
That is the alchemy. The pattern may be familiar. The way you meet it can change.
Ready to begin?
Your Guide, Nichole West
My Saturn return pulled my whole life apart at once. My relationship, my business, the path I thought I was on. Astrology is what brought me home to myself. It gave me a depth of self-knowledge that changed the direction of my life and showed me how to live in a way that actually fit how I'm wired.
Birth Chart Alchemy is the offering I wish I'd had back then. The one that would have helped me see the patterns I was living inside, understand where they came from, and recognize where I had more choice in how I responded to them.
If you want to take this work further, the Full Birth Chart Guide gives you a self-guided way to explore your whole chart beyond these six placements. For a completely personalized interpretation of your whole chart, you can also work with me through a Soul Path Reading.