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April 17, 2025 26 mins

This is the one you’ve been waiting for.

In the final episode of this special podcast series, Michelle unpacks the fourth and final astrology pattern from the free guidebook: one of the most misunderstood (and powerful): The System Disruptor.

Known in astrological circles as the “Alien Pattern,” this energetic configuration explains why you’ve always felt different. Misunderstood. Like you’re walking around with a truth others can’t see.

If you’ve ever felt like you don’t belong, not because you’re broken, but because you see the world through an entirely different lens, this episode will hit you straight in the soul.

You’ll discover:

  • What an “alien pattern” actually is, and how to know if you have one
  • Why life feels so hard before 30 with this pattern (and what shifts after)
  • The hidden leadership gifts of each outer planet in this pattern
  • How to stop shrinking around people who can’t hold your energy
  • Why your presence alone activates transformation. And how to hold that power without collapse

You don’t need to be more relatable. You need to understand the architecture of your difference. And how to lead from it.

Listen now and reclaim the part of you that always felt like it was “too much." Because it was never too much. It was just ahead of its time.


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Part 2 of this 3 part series to learn about Patterns 2 & 3 → https://www.buzzsprout.com/2298639/episodes/16958225 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome to the third and final episode in
the series where I cover thefour astrology patterns in the
free guidebook Discover yourLeadership Advantage as a
Sensitive Visionary.
Today we're covering patternnumber four, which is the fourth
and final pattern in theguidebook.
This one is a big pattern andeven if you don't have this
pattern, I know you're going toresonate with a lot of what I

(00:22):
talk about when it comes to thispattern, the system disruptor,
especially if you are a highlysensitive, gifted or
neurodivergent and you've alwaysfelt like you don't quite fit
in.
After I cover the details ofthis fourth and final pattern,
then I'll discuss how to takeall of this, put it together and
how to move forward with thisbrand new knowledge that you've

(00:46):
acquired through these patterns.
If you haven't already grabbedthe guidebook, you can access it
through the link in the shownotes.
I highly recommend that you do.
I hope you enjoy today'sepisode.
Now the final pattern in theguidebook is the cosmic
trailblazer, and this is thealien patterns that I was

(01:08):
alluding to at the beginning ofthis podcast episode.
So, alien patterns I have twoof them.
Both my sun and my moon areconjunct Pluto, which gives me
an alien pattern.
So what are alien patterns?
Alien patterns, as I mentioned,were introduced by Edwin
Steinbrecher in the 70s and theyhappen when one of the outer

(01:28):
planets, so the outer planets,are Saturn, uranus, neptune or
Pluto, when one of those outerplanets forms a close
conjunction with either the sun,moon or your rising sign.
There are other positions,however.
They are more minor and I'm notgoing to get into them for ease
of trying to be as simple aspossible.
These particular three are theones that I see most commonly

(01:52):
with my clients is when one ofthese outer planets is close
conjunction with sun, moon orrising sign.
So if it's within 15 degrees orless of the sun, within 12
degrees or less of the moon, or10 degrees or less of the rising
sign or ascendant, these wouldconstitute alien patterns.

(02:14):
And again, the reason whythey're called alien patterns is
because you feel so differentthan the people around you.
It's like the sense ofalienation.
It's like you feel like youdon't belong or you're seeing
life or seeing the world througha lens that other people don't.
You think differently, you seedifferently, you respond
differently, and the reason forthat is because these outer

(02:36):
planets, they have such a stronginfluence on your identity and
your emotions being so close toyour sun or your moon and your
ascendant is how other peoplesee you.
So if you've got this alienpattern on your ascendant, then
you've got this strong impact ofthese outer planets on how
other people see you and how yousee yourself and how you see

(03:00):
your surroundings and how yousee life.
And this is the thing and theseare the things that I learned
working with DK during those sixmonths when I learned all about
alien patterns.
Alien patterns, especially earlyin life, can feel hard.
You don't feel like you belong,you feel like you're different,
you don't fit in.

(03:20):
You don't seem to think orrespond or see things the same
way as the people around you andyou're like why?
Why am I so different?
Oftentimes you just want to fitin and you just don't.
It doesn't matter what you do.
Ask me how.
I know what was explained to meis the first part of your life,

(03:42):
especially the first 30 years oflife.
You're likely not going to beable to access the powers that
are associated with thisparticular pattern.
It's just going to feel hard.
It's not usually until you're30 or 40, sometimes even 50,
when you will actually start toaccess the gifts and the powers
and the strengths that come withthese alien patterns and I

(04:06):
would agree, from my own journeyI can see how some of the
strengths of my Pluto alienpatterns did start coming out
maybe in my mid to late twenties, especially when I was in
naturopathic college.
It helped me to start to tunein.
However, I didn't understand awhole lot about myself and what

(04:28):
was going on about me, and so Iwas started to understand some
of the powers of this pattern.
However, I was still stuck in alot of the struggle of this
pattern, and it wasn't until my40s that I could really
understand what's actually goingon here.
So, alien patterns it dependswhich of the planets that you

(04:52):
have that are conjunct your sun,moon or ascendant.
Each one has a different themeor energy.
Pluto, the energy and theme, isall about transformation, going
down into the deep underworldand breaking everything apart to
put it back together at ahigher level.
I won't go into too much detailabout these here.
Maybe I'll do a whole otherepisode about alien patterns,

(05:15):
because there's a lot ofinformation to transmit about
each one of these planets andthe energy and the themes that
are associated with them.
Neptune in general, the energyof that is there's a lot of
creativity.
So somebody with a Neptunealien pattern is probably going
to be highly creative and it'sreally important for you to use

(05:37):
that power as your advantage tocreate things.
You probably have some sort ofartistic ability of some sort.
Uranus is all about being arevolutionary, breaking out of
old ways that don't work.
You can't follow rules thatdon't make sense, even if that's

(05:58):
what society says you need tobe doing.
You just can't.
You're here to lead new ways InSaturn.
Saturn is all about rules andresponsibility, focus,
commitment and manifestation.
If you have a Saturn alienpattern, whatever you put your

(06:19):
focus and commitment to, youwill be able to manifest.
These points are important foryou to understand for yourself
so that you can harness thepower of these patterns first
from within and know that thesepatterns are all about creating
something innovative, new change, transformation in some way,
but in different flavorsdepending on which planet is

(06:42):
involved.
I can't speak for Saturn, uranusand Neptune.
I do have clients, quite a fewclients, who have these patterns
.
My personal experience is withPluto right.
My sun and moon are conjunctPluto and I know that that is
all about the depth of innertransformation and moving up to

(07:04):
a higher level and it'simportant to own that for
yourself first.
If you have Pluto, if you haveone of the others is to own the
theme of that particular planetfor yourself first and then know
that the energy of that planetthat's why you feel so different
from other people is because ofthe influence of the energy of

(07:27):
the theme of that planet, that'swhy you feel so different from
other people, is because of theinfluence of the energy of the
theme of that planet impacts howyou operate, how you think, who
you are, how you appear andknow that you will naturally,
just by your mere presence,impact the people around you
with the energy of the theme ofthat planet.
That's part of your alienpattern.
Your sun, involved in the alienpattern, is going to be the

(07:49):
most powerful.
You just being you is going toimpact other people.
If your moon is involved.
You being in the presence ofother people is going to impact
them according to the themes ofyour planet in the alien pattern
.
And when I say impact otherpeople, it's going to impact
them in terms of creatingtransformation and evolution,

(08:10):
breaking through old paradigms,innovation, creativity, solving
problems, manifesting things,coming apart to come back
together stronger, at a higherlevel, an ability to lead others
through evolution, personallyand collectively.
And if you've got an alienpattern, you've got this deep

(08:31):
sense of purpose that's tied tocreating change, to pioneer new
solutions.
So you can kind of see it kindof has a flavor of like all the
patterns that I've mentioned inthis one pattern.
So if you've got pattern numberfour, you've got an alien
pattern.
It's like you've got like alittle bit of everything from
all the patterns that I'vementioned in this one pattern.
So if you've got pattern numberfour, you've got an alien
pattern.
It's like you've got like alittle bit of everything from
all the other patterns in theguidebook.
So if you've got an alienpattern, you probably resonated

(08:54):
with a lot of what the otherpatterns were talking about, and
that's okay, right, I'm onlygiving you just a little tiny
piece of something that's a lotbigger, but I kind of wanted to
make this as accessible andbite-sized as I could, and I
already know it's long enough.
So here's the thing there arechallenges that are associated
with this pattern, just likethere's challenges associated

(09:16):
with the other patterns.
First of all, that feelingalienated or misunderstood,
especially in your younger years, in your early life.
That can get better over time,especially as you get older and
especially as you do the work tounderstand yourself, to
recalibrate your neurobiology,to calibrate yourself to a

(09:38):
higher level of thriving.
Then feeling alienated andmisunderstood is no longer going
to be a thing that derails youlike it would have earlier in
your life.
And another thing that canhappen here is this powerful
pattern can trigger other people, especially those who are not
ready for change.
Just like in pattern number onewith Pluto that's aspecting

(09:59):
your sun or your moon.
The same thing will happen herewith any of these alien
patterns.
If you are around somebody whodoesn't want to look at
themselves, who isn't ready forchange, who isn't aligned with
authenticity and transparency,who's suppressing things,
avoiding things, not beingauthentic, then you just being

(10:20):
you is going to trigger them,because they don't want to look
at the truth, they don't want tolook at themselves, they don't
want to change.
It's scary, it's hard right.
This is human nature andsometimes, if you're not wired
like we are with these patternsthat have this deep, innate
drive for depth andtransformation and evolution and

(10:42):
growth and purpose, and you'renot wired that way, sometimes
they're never going to want tobe doing these things, and so
it's really important to honorthat.
Everybody's a different path,everyone is at a different place
in their path and this is alsopart of that acceptance right.
Going back to the Four NobleTruths, the way to relieve
suffering is to accept what isas is and let go of trying to

(11:05):
control desire, expect it to beany different than it is right
now, including other people.
Not everybody is going to beready for this change.
However, if you've got thispattern, know that those people
are going to be triggered by youand it can create intense
reactions, to the point wherepeople can get violently opposed

(11:27):
, intense anger.
It's unfortunate, it can bechallenging.
However, when you understandwhat's actually going on, it can
be helpful.
And when you recalibrate yourunconscious mind so you're no
longer operating in survival andno longer filtering for threat,
then it's going to impact youand your nervous system and your

(11:47):
unconscious mind muchdifferently.
You're going to be able to stayin your power and not shrink
and succumb to all the copingmechanisms that you have in the
past and survival mode to try toprotect yourself.
Right, playing small, masking,hiding, trying to placate other
people, please other people inorder to try to avoid them from

(12:09):
having these huge reactions andwhen you recalibrate yourself
and understand what's going on.
It can also help you in termsof how you actually react to
those people who are reacting.
It can impact how you holdyourself when people are
projecting onto you and whenthey're projecting their

(12:30):
triggered reactions onto you.
So that's also another reasonwhy it's so important,
especially if you have an alienpattern, to understand all of
this about yourself and makesure that you're not operating
from survival mode, because itjust makes everything worse.
There's a lot more in the guideabout all of these.

(12:50):
For pattern number four, some ofthe tips that are mentioned
here making sure that you anchoryourself, you ground your
energy within yourself andwithin your vision and your
purpose, especially when otherpeople resist or misunderstand,
like I've just mentioned.
And the more that you canoperate from this vantage
success mode, where you areleveraging the advantages of

(13:13):
your neurobiology and no longeroperating from survival mode,
the more you're going to be ableto do all of this and the more
you're going to be able to honoryour uniqueness and see your
difference as a strength andlean into that Instead of likely
.
You've had this historicalsurvival coping behavior of

(13:33):
trying to be somebody else ormask yourself or hide yourself
or try to change who you are tofit in, and that only drained
your power.
You know that that didn't help.
It only made you feel worse.
It only made you feel moreoverwhelmed and more confused.
And when you can do all of thisrecalibration and understand the

(13:55):
strength of this power, thenyou can honor the fact that your
difference is the thing that weneed.
Your difference is what allowsyou to be the leader that's
going to help create themeaningful difference and change
that you know deep withinyourself that you're here to be
the leader that's going to helpcreate the meaningful difference
and change that you know deepwithin yourself that you're here
to be doing and to accept thatpart of this difference is the

(14:15):
fact that you can inspire deep,transformational growth in other
people just by being you, justby your presence alone, and
understanding that some peoplearen't going to want that, and
creating standards andboundaries around what you't
going to want that, and creatingstandards and boundaries around
what you're going to do inthose situations and how you're
going to respond in thosesituations.
And the more you're operatingfrom that thriving mode, the

(14:37):
more you're going to be able tohold that command and authority
and lead that situation in a waythat's optimal for everybody,
and the more you can understandthe power of this particular
pattern.
Especially, it's reallyimportant for you to understand
that sometimes the way youcommunicate isn't the way that
other people understand.

(14:58):
You know you've got innovative,forward-thinking,
unconventional ideas to sharethat are important solutions
that help people change and healand grow and help society
evolve and improve brokensystems.
And if you've got this pattern,it can be helpful for you to
understand that you might needto find ways to communicate

(15:21):
those ideas that oftentimes seemso out in the left field for
those people.
And this is where widening andstrengthening your vantage point
so that you can understandwhere other people are coming
from and you can understand howother people are operating and
seeing and perceiving things.
And the more that you can dothat and the wider your vantage

(15:44):
point, the easier you're goingto be able to lead others,
especially those who don't fullyunderstand you and especially
those who are vantage resistant,and that's going to help you,
especially when those people arebeing triggered by your
presence the wider your vantagepoint that is one piece of the

(16:06):
puzzle that's going to help yoube able to better manage how
they're showing up and it'sgoing to better help you
understand what's theirs andwhat's yours so that you don't
project your stuff onto them.
And I mean that is a piece thatI mentioned in pattern number
three, and that's especiallyimportant for pattern number
three If you've got Chiron andAspect to your sun, moon or

(16:28):
north node.
However, this is also reallyimportant for you for any of the
patterns and in general, and ifyou've got pattern number four.
There's a lot going on withalien patterns and it's really
important for you to be able toown that and do the work to
integrate your shadows, becauseif you have an alien pattern,
you've probably historically hada lot of unintegrated shadows

(16:52):
and if you're in my world,you've probably already started
to integrate those shadows.
However, it's always importantto keep your eye out and to
continue that journey, becauseit's never ending and the more
you do, the more you grow andevolve and lead and heal and
make that impactful differencethat you know that you're here

(17:13):
to make.
Because with all of these fourpatterns, there is this deep
inner drive to be following apurpose, to be following a
mission, to be doing somethingthat's meaningful and important.
You can't not.
If you ignore it, it hurts.
And if you know, you know thatin a nutshell, is the four top

(17:37):
common patterns that I tend tosee in my clients over and over
and over again.
That don't tend to be commonpatterns in the general
population and I've spent manyhours looking at astrology
charts of my clients, of randompeople that I know that would
not fit the general patterns ofthe clients that show up in my

(18:00):
world the ambitious, highlysensitive, gifted neurodivergent
people who know that they'rehere to be making a difference,
who know that they want tocontinue to grow and evolve
because it's something that'sjust within you you can't not
who are successful and who wantto continue to have more success

(18:21):
and more recognition, moreimpact, more influence, in a way
that's aligned with theirvalues, with their authenticity,
in a way that's aligned withtheir purpose.
Right, it's not about theydon't just want to make money
for the sake of making money.
It's just not enough.
It feels empty, they feelrestless and all four of these

(18:41):
patterns would have thistendency within them.
And again, I'm going to spendsome time at some point seeing
if there's any association withthese patterns and the
neurobiological wiring that'sunique to highly sensitive,
gifted neurodivergent people,because there are
neurobiological differences,gifted neurodivergent people.

(19:04):
Because there areneurobiological differences and
astrology is all about patternsand when you know what you're
looking for, it can be prettydarn accurate.
I think that's enough for today.
I hope that this episode washelpful for you to maybe better
understand these patterns,especially if you went through
the guidebook.
I've given you another layer ofinsight about what I meant

(19:26):
about the details of each ofthese patterns.
So, again, if you haven'taccessed the guidebook, if
you're in Q1 of 2025, right now,it's free to access.
You can use the link in theshow notes to download and
access the guidebook.
And if you go over it andyou're like, wow, this is me, I

(19:46):
want to know more, I want to godeeper, because if you've got
these patterns, you want to godeeper, I do have a couple of
options available where you canhave me assess your astrology
chart and give you a morepersonalized view and a deeper
level to all of this.
And, of course, there are otherpatterns that I did not include

(20:10):
in this guidebook, that Icommonly see both in your
astrology chart and your humandesign chart, and I would take
all of those into considerationwhen I do an assessment for you.
And so those options you'regoing to see a couple of them in
the guidebook.
If you want to learn more, Ihave a video audit option based

(20:31):
on your astrology chart and adeeper level, about these
patterns and any other patternsthat I'm noticing, what they
mean, what that means for youand what that means in
accordance to your particulargoals and vision for yourself,
your success and your leadership.
Because I'll get you to fillout a quick questionnaire and I

(20:52):
will ask you about your goalsand if you have a burning
question that you would want tohave answered, and I would take
all that into consideration whenI'm giving you a video audit.
So I will video record metalking, showing you all the
points on your charts andexplaining, like I'm doing now,

(21:12):
in a more personalized way andgiving you verbal guidance and
suggestions that you can takeforward in order to find that
answer to the burning questionthat you have and in order for
you to advance in your goalsthat you have for your
leadership, your purpose, yourvision, your mission, your
impact, your influence, all thethings.

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And also, if you are looking towork with me one-on-one and
recalibrate your unconsciousmind, like I was talking about
in the last episode, where weclear out all of that survival
conditioning and all the filtersthat are filtering for threat
and survival and rejection, andrecalibrate all of that, clear

(21:58):
it all out and then start tocalibrate your unconscious mind
towards vantage success mode,where you start to calibrate
yourself to flow, where yourneurobiology starts to take
advantage of the fact that whenyou recalibrate it to success
mode, to thriving, it willenable you to thrive more and

(22:21):
more and more.
And so, if you want that, knowthat my one-on-one options,
particularly my Vantage SuccessActivation Intensive, includes a
video audit of your astrologyand human design charts before
we get together for yourone-on-one sessions and that
helps you to gain a level ofunderstanding and knowledge and

(22:45):
depth before we meet one-on-one,so that our one-on-one session
will be even more powerful, sothat we can go even more deeply
into it and make our timetogether the most effective and
powerful as possible.
If you would like me to assessyour charts, both your astrology
chart and your human designchart, from the lens of these

(23:07):
unique patterns that you mighthave as a sensitive, gifted,
neurodivergent leader, you wantto better understand these for
yourself, especially as theyrelate to your goals, your
leadership goals, your successgoals, your purpose, your
mission, your vision, thedirection that you're going with
your life and your leadershipgoals, your success goals, your
purpose, your mission, yourvision, the direction that
you're going with your life andyour work.
You can either have a videoaudit or you can work with me

(23:29):
one-on-one in a Vantage SuccessActivation Breakthrough
Intensive and you will get avideo audit as part of the
bigger program that will clearout the survival conditioning
and recalibrate your unconsciousmind so that you are operating
in success mode.
You can find the details forall of those options in the show

(23:49):
notes and if you have anyquestions about any of those
things, there is information onhow you can contact me.
I'm happy to answer yourquestions and if you have any of
these patterns that I've talkedabout today that are in the
guidebook, there's somereflection questions in the
guidebook that you can go overthat can help you to leverage

(24:09):
the strengths and gifts of thesepatterns.
And if this landed for you andthis was insightful for you I'd
love to know how it landed foryou.
You can tag me or contact me onsocial media.
The information is in the shownotes.
I would love to know how thisall landed for you.
You can tag me or contact me onsocial media.
The information is in the shownotes.
I would love to know how thisall landed for you.
Thank you for being here and Ilook forward to speaking to you

(24:30):
in the next episode.
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