The world is a lot right now. The old systems that told us what was true, what was safe, and where to go are flickering. Propaganda, fake news, noise, and constant disruption make it genuinely hard to know which way is up.
I've been asking my clients and friends what they need most support with and the answer keeps coming back the same: finding direction.
What I've learned is that what we need isn't a better map. Maps can be wrong, can easily be manipulated. What we need is an internal method of orientation - something we can feel in our body, return to through the seasons, and trust when everything outside of us is asking for our attention.
That's what your heart is. And that's what this course is for.
The heart has always known the way.
For thousands of years, across cultures and traditions, the heart was understood as a center of intelligence, a living compass that orients us toward what is true and toward what is ours.
In Human Design, the G Center holds eight gates that map directly onto the eight holy days of the Celtic Wheel of the Year. Gates of identity, love, direction, and self.
And layered beneath that mapping is something older: Inanna's descent through seven gates into the underworld, surrendering at each threshold until she arrives at the eighth station as nothing but her truest self. Whole, unarmored, and real.
The seven chakras trace the same journey. Each one is an energetic gate, each one asking something specific of us, until we reach the eighth point - the full integration of all of them.
Four systems. One compass.
The 8 seasonal thresholds of the year, the 8 gates of the Heart (G) Center , Inanna's descent through the gates of the underworld, and the chakra centers of the body all point at the same thing:
Becoming your true self is a cyclical process.
Most systems give you a map. A map tells you who you are, where you fit, or what type you are. And maps are useful… until the territory changes.
What Your Heart is a Compass offers is different. It's not a map- it's a method of orientation. It’s a way of learning to feel where you are in the cycle, what the season is asking of you, and how to attune to the direction your own heart already knows.
This is a place to learn to listen from the inside out, and to become a co-creator with the cycles that are already holding you.
The Sacred Heart Within You
Your Heart is a Compass is a 5-week group experience that explores the heart as a vessel of descent and re-emergence. You will learn creative and somatic practices for each season to help you center on self-love and soul-aligned purpose in your life.
Each week, we will dive into 2 energies of the Heart Chakra (The G-Center in Human Design) through the ancient myth of Inanna’s Descent, building a library of practices you can return to throughout the year.
While many human design courses tries to explain who you are, this course will show you where you are and how to attune to the larger cycles of nature through a hybrid of talks, embodiment exercises and creative practices.
Who is this course for?
Your Heart is a Compass is for creative visionaries and folks in transition who feel the ground shifting beneath their feet and want embodied support for navigating what is changing.
It is for those drawn to human design, astrology, and the wheel of the year less as prediction, and more as a living language that can be å in your body and practiced over time.
It is for anyone who is called to pay more attention to the awareness and intelligence of your heart, and have a deep desire to fortify the heart muscle as a consistent guide in your journey ahead.
What you'll have after five weeks together
A felt sense of where you are in the seasonal cycle at any given moment, and what it's asking of you.
A personal practice for attuning to each of the eight holy days through your body, your breath, and your creative life.
An understanding of the eight G Center gates as living energies you can work with through the year.
The myth of Inanna's descent as a map of your own cycles of release and renewal.
And a method of self-orientation you can return to for the rest of your life, not just when things are good, but especially when the ground is shifting.
I’m your host, Alison Dale
I’m an artist, astro-somatic guide, and disciple of cycles.
My core approach is facilitating embodied and creative practices to help people attune with the seasons & larger spirals of time - drawing from ancestral systems like Astrology, the I’ching, and the Wheel of the Year.
The transformation I offer is helping people find self-understanding, compassion, acceptance, and soul-aligned purpose in these pivotal times we’re living through.
I hold certifications as a Trauma-Informed Breathwork Facilitator from Integrative Breath and Sword & Lotus Breathwork, and am a Functional Breathing Coach through YogaBody and Oxygen Advantage.
I have studied and practiced traditional astrology, modern/evolutionary astrology, and the I’Ching for over 15 years. I found Human Design and the Gene Keys 7 years ago and am deep in the experiment with these brilliant systems.
I have a gentle, compassionate approach and believe that conscious embodiment, creativity, and divination practices are powerful ways to connect with ourselves, our ancestors, and the cycles that hold us.
