The System Disruptor: The Pattern That Explains Why You’ve Always Felt Different, and What To Do With It (Pattern 4 of 4 from the Astrology Guidebook)

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.

Grab the free astrology guidebook here → https://michelledowker.thrivecart.com/astrology-guidebook/

Want to listen to the whole series? 

Start with Part 1 of this 3-part series to learn about Pattern 1 → https://www.buzzsprout.com/2298639/episodes/16916907 

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

Chapters

• 0:00 Introduction to Pattern Four: System Disruptor
• 4:43 Alien Patterns Explained in Astrology
• 7:51 Different Types of Alien Patterns
• 10:59 Challenges of Having an Alien Pattern
• 16:34 Leveraging Your Unique Differences as Strengths
• 20:55 Resources and Personal Chart Assessment Options
• 25:57 Final Thoughts and Call to Action

Transcript

Speaker 1: 1:05

Hello and welcome to the third and final episode in the series where I cover the four astrology patterns in the free guidebook Discover your Leadership Advantage as a Sensitive Visionary. Today we're covering pattern number four, which is the fourth and final pattern in the guidebook. This one is a big pattern and even if you don't have this pattern, I know you're going to resonate with a lot of what I talk about when it comes to this pattern, the system disruptor, especially if you are a highly sensitive, gifted or neurodivergent and you've always felt like you don't quite fit in. After I cover the details of this fourth and final pattern, then I'll discuss how to take all of this, put it together and how to move forward with this brand new knowledge that you've acquired through these patterns. If you haven't already grabbed the guidebook, you can access it through the link in the show notes. I highly recommend that you do. I hope you enjoy today's episode.

Speaker 1: 2:06

Now the final pattern in the guidebook is the cosmic trailblazer, and this is the alien patterns that I was alluding to at the beginning of this podcast episode. So, alien patterns I have two of them. Both my sun and my moon are conjunct 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 they happen when one of the outer planets, so the outer planets, are Saturn, uranus, neptune or Pluto, when one of those outer planets 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 not going to get into them for ease of trying to be as simple as possible. These particular three are the ones that I see most commonly with my clients is when one of these outer planets is close conjunction with sun, moon or rising sign. So if it's within 15 degrees or less of the sun, within 12 degrees or less of the moon, or 10 degrees or less of the rising sign or ascendant, these would constitute alien patterns.

Speaker 1: 3:20

And again, the reason why they're called alien patterns is because you feel so different than the people around you. It's like the sense of alienation. It's like you feel like you don't belong or you're seeing life or seeing the world through a lens that other people don't. You think differently, you see differently, you respond differently, and the reason for that is because these outer planets, they have such a strong influence on your identity and your emotions being so close to your sun or your moon and your ascendant is how other people see you. So if you've got this alien pattern on your ascendant, then you've got this strong impact of these outer planets on how other people see you and how you see yourself and how you see your surroundings and how you see life. And this is the thing and these are the things that I learned working with DK during those six months when I learned all about alien patterns.

Speaker 1: 4:17

Alien patterns, especially early in life, can feel hard. You don't feel like you belong, you feel like you're different, you don't fit in. You don't seem to think or respond or see things the same way as the people around you and you're like why? Why am I so different? Oftentimes you just want to fit in and you just don't. It doesn't matter what you do. Ask me how.

Speaker 1: 4:43

I know what was explained to me is the first part of your life, especially the first 30 years of life. You're likely not going to be able to access the powers that are associated with this particular pattern. It's just going to feel hard. It's not usually until you're 30 or 40, sometimes even 50, when you will actually start to access the gifts and the powers and the strengths that come with these alien patterns and I would agree, from my own journey I can see how some of the strengths of my Pluto alien patterns did start coming out maybe in my mid to late twenties, especially when I was in naturopathic college. It helped me to start to tune in. However, I didn't understand a whole lot about myself and what was going on about me, and so I was started to understand some of the powers of this pattern. However, I was still stuck in a lot of the struggle of this pattern, and it wasn't until my 40s that I could really understand what's actually going on here.

Speaker 1: 5:53

So, alien patterns it depends which of the planets that you have that are conjunct your sun, moon or ascendant. Each one has a different theme or energy. Pluto, the energy and theme, is all about transformation, going down into the deep underworld and breaking everything apart to put it back together at a higher level. I won't go into too much detail about these here. Maybe I'll do a whole other episode about alien patterns, because there's a lot of information to transmit about each one of these planets and the energy and the themes that are associated with them. Neptune in general, the energy of that is there's a lot of creativity. So somebody with a Neptune alien pattern is probably going to be highly creative and it's really important for you to use that power as your advantage to create things. You probably have some sort of artistic ability of some sort.

Speaker 1: 6:52

Uranus is all about being a revolutionary, breaking out of old ways that don't work. You can't follow rules that don't make sense, even if that's what society says you need to be doing. You just can't. You're here to lead new ways In Saturn. Saturn is all about rules and responsibility, focus, commitment and manifestation. If you have a Saturn alien pattern, whatever you put your focus and commitment to, you will be able to manifest. These points are important for you to understand for yourself so that you can harness the power of these patterns first from within and know that these patterns are all about creating something innovative, new change, transformation in some way, but in different flavors depending on which planet is involved.

Speaker 1: 7:48

I can't speak for Saturn, uranus and Neptune. I do have clients, quite a few clients, who have these patterns. My personal experience is with Pluto right. My sun and moon are conjunct Pluto and I know that that is all about the depth of inner transformation and moving up to a higher level and it's important to own that for yourself first. If you have Pluto, if you have one of the others is to own the theme of that particular planet for yourself first and then know that the energy of that planet that's why you feel so different from other people is because of the influence of the energy of the theme of that planet, that's why you feel so different from other people, is because of the influence of the energy of the theme of that planet impacts how you operate, how you think, who you are, how you appear and know that you will naturally, just by your mere presence, impact the people around you with the energy of the theme of that planet. That's part of your alien pattern. Your sun, involved in the alien pattern, is going to be the most powerful. You just being you is going to impact other people. If your moon is involved. You being in the presence of other people is going to impact them according to the themes of your planet in the alien pattern. And when I say impact other people, it's going to impact them in terms of creating transformation and evolution, breaking through old paradigms, innovation, creativity, solving problems, manifesting things, coming apart to come back together stronger, at a higher level, an ability to lead others through evolution, personally and collectively.

Speaker 1: 9:33

And if you've got an alien pattern, you've got this deep sense of purpose that's tied to creating change, to pioneer new solutions. So you can kind of see it kind of has a flavor of like all the patterns that I've mentioned in this one pattern. So if you've got pattern number four, you've got an alien pattern. It's like you've got like a little bit of everything from all the patterns that I've mentioned in this one pattern. So if you've got pattern number four, you've got an alien pattern. It's like you've got like a little bit of everything from all the other patterns in the guidebook. So if you've got an alien pattern, you probably resonated with a lot of what the other patterns were talking about, and that's okay, right, I'm only giving you just a little tiny piece of something that's a lot bigger, but I kind of wanted to make this as accessible and bite-sized as I could, and I already know it's long enough.

Speaker 1: 10:15

So here's the thing there are challenges that are associated with this pattern, just like there's challenges associated with the other patterns. First of all, that feeling alienated 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 to understand yourself, to recalibrate your neurobiology, to calibrate yourself to a higher level of thriving. Then feeling alienated and misunderstood is no longer going to be a thing that derails you like it would have earlier in your life. And another thing that can happen here is this powerful pattern can trigger other people, especially those who are not ready for change. Just like in pattern number one with Pluto that's aspecting your sun or your moon. The same thing will happen here with any of these alien patterns.

Speaker 1: 11:15

If you are around somebody who doesn't want to look at themselves, who isn't ready for change, who isn't aligned with authenticity and transparency, who's suppressing things, avoiding things, not being authentic, then you just being you is going to trigger them, because they don't want to look at the truth, they don't want to look at themselves, they don't want to change. It's scary, it's hard right. This is human nature and sometimes, if you're not wired like we are with these patterns that have this deep, innate drive for depth and transformation and evolution and growth and purpose, and you're not wired that way, sometimes they're never going to want to be doing these things, and so it's really important to honor that. Everybody's a different path, everyone is at a different place in their path and this is also part of that acceptance right. Going back to the Four Noble Truths, the way to relieve suffering is to accept what is as is and let go of trying to control desire, expect it to be any different than it is right now, including other people. Not everybody is going to be ready for this change.

Speaker 1: 12:20

However, if you've got this pattern, know that those people are going to be triggered by you and it can create intense reactions, to the point where people can get violently opposed, intense anger. It's unfortunate, it can be challenging. However, when you understand what's actually going on, it can be helpful. And when you recalibrate your unconscious mind so you're no longer operating in survival and no longer filtering for threat, then it's going to impact you and your nervous system and your unconscious mind much differently. You're going to be able to stay in your power and not shrink and succumb to all the coping mechanisms that you have in the past and survival mode to try to protect yourself.

Speaker 1: 13:07

Right, playing small, masking, hiding, trying to placate other people, please other people in order to try to avoid them from having these huge reactions and when you recalibrate yourself and understand what's going on. It can also help you in terms of how you actually react to those people who are reacting. It can impact how you hold yourself when people are projecting onto you and when they're projecting their triggered reactions onto you. So that's also another reason why it's so important, especially if you have an alien pattern, to understand all of this about yourself and make sure that you're not operating from survival mode, because it just makes everything worse. There's a lot more in the guide about all of these.

Speaker 1: 13:56

For pattern number four, some of the tips that are mentioned here making sure that you anchor yourself, you ground your energy within yourself and within your vision and your purpose, especially when other people resist or misunderstand, like I've just mentioned. And the more that you can operate from this vantage success mode, where you are leveraging the advantages of your neurobiology and no longer operating from survival mode, the more you're going to be able to do all of this and the more you're going to be able to honor your uniqueness and see your difference as a strength and lean into that Instead of likely. You've had this historical survival coping behavior of trying to be somebody else or mask yourself or hide yourself or try to change who you are to fit 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 more overwhelmed and more confused.

Speaker 1: 14:56

And when you can do all of this recalibration and understand the strength of this power, then you can honor the fact that your difference is the thing that we need. Your difference is what allows you to be the leader that's going to help create the meaningful difference and change that you know deep within yourself that you're here to be the leader that's going to help create the meaningful difference and change that you know deep within yourself that you're here to be doing and to accept that part of this difference is the fact that you can inspire deep, transformational growth in other people just by being you, just by your presence alone, and understanding that some people aren't going to want that, and creating standards and boundaries around what you't going to want that, and creating standards and boundaries around what you're going to do in those situations and how you're going to respond in those situations. And the more you're operating from that thriving mode, the more you're going to be able to hold that command and authority and lead that situation in a way that's optimal for everybody, and the more you can understand the power of this particular pattern. Especially, it's really important for you to understand that sometimes the way you communicate isn't the way that other people understand. You know you've got innovative, forward-thinking, unconventional ideas to share that are important solutions that help people change and heal and grow and help society evolve and improve broken systems. And if you've got this pattern, it can be helpful for you to understand that you might need to find ways to communicate those ideas that oftentimes seem so out in the left field for those people. And this is where widening and strengthening your vantage point so that you can understand where other people are coming from and you can understand how other people are operating and seeing and perceiving things. And the more that you can do that and the wider your vantage point, the easier you're going to be able to lead others, especially those who don't fully understand you and especially those who are vantage resistant, and that's going to help you, especially when those people are being triggered by your presence the wider your vantage point that is one piece of the puzzle that's going to help you be able to better manage how they're showing up and it's going to better help you understand what's theirs and what's yours so that you don't project your stuff onto them. And I mean that is a piece that I mentioned in pattern number three, and that's especially important for pattern number three If you've got Chiron and Aspect to your sun, moon or north node. However, this is also really important for you for any of the patterns and in general, and if you've got pattern number four.

Speaker 1: 17:42

There's a lot going on with alien patterns and it's really important for you to be able to own that and do the work to integrate your shadows, because if you have an alien pattern, you've probably historically had a lot of unintegrated shadows and if you're in my world, you've probably already started to integrate those shadows. However, it's always important to keep your eye out and to continue that journey, because it's never ending and the more you do, the more you grow and evolve and lead and heal and make that impactful difference that you know that you're here to make. Because with all of these four patterns, there is this deep inner drive to be following a purpose, to be following a mission, to be doing something that's meaningful and important. You can't not. If you ignore it, it hurts. And if you know, you know that in a nutshell, is the four top common patterns that I tend to see in my clients over and over and over again. That don't tend to be common patterns in the general population and I've spent many hours looking at astrology charts of my clients, of random people that I know that would not fit the general patterns of the clients that show up in my world the ambitious, highly sensitive, gifted neurodivergent people who know that they're here to be making a difference, who know that they want to continue to grow and evolve because it's something that's just within you you can't not who are successful and who want to continue to have more success and more recognition, more impact, more influence, in a way that's aligned with their values, with their authenticity, in a way that's aligned with their purpose. Right, it's not about they don't just want to make money for the sake of making money. It's just not enough. It feels empty, they feel restless and all four of these patterns would have this tendency within them. And again, I'm going to spend some time at some point seeing if there's any association with these patterns and the neurobiological wiring that's unique to highly sensitive, gifted neurodivergent people, because there are neurobiological differences, gifted neurodivergent people. Because there are neurobiological differences and astrology is all about patterns and when you know what you're looking for, it can be pretty darn accurate. I think that's enough for today.

Speaker 1: 20:18

I hope that this episode was helpful for you to maybe better understand these patterns, especially if you went through the guidebook. I've given you another layer of insight about what I meant about the details of each of these patterns. So, again, if you haven't accessed the guidebook, if you're in Q1 of 2025, right now, it's free to access. You can use the link in the show notes to download and access the guidebook. And if you go over it and you're like, wow, this is me, I want to know more, I want to go deeper, because if you've got these patterns, you want to go deeper, I do have a couple of options available where you can have me assess your astrology chart and give you a more personalized view and a deeper level to all of this. And, of course, there are other patterns that I did not include in this guidebook, that I commonly see both in your astrology chart and your human design chart, and I would take all of those into consideration when I do an assessment for you. And so those options you're going to see a couple of them in the guidebook.

Speaker 1: 21:31

If you want to learn more, I have a video audit option based on your astrology chart and a deeper level, about these patterns and any other patterns that I'm noticing, what they mean, what that means for you and what that means in accordance to your particular goals and vision for yourself, your success and your leadership. Because I'll get you to fill out a quick questionnaire and I will ask you about your goals and if you have a burning question that you would want to have answered, and I would take all that into consideration when I'm giving you a video audit. So I will video record me talking, showing you all the points on your charts and explaining, like I'm doing now, in a more personalized way and giving you verbal guidance and suggestions that you can take forward in order to find that answer to the burning question that you have and in order for you to advance in your goals that you have for your leadership, your purpose, your vision, your mission, your impact, your influence, all the things. And also, if you are looking to work with me one-on-one and recalibrate your unconscious mind, like I was talking about in the last episode, where we clear out all of that survival conditioning and all the filters that are filtering for threat and survival and rejection, and recalibrate all of that, clear it all out and then start to calibrate your unconscious mind towards vantage success mode, where you start to calibrate yourself to flow, where your neurobiology starts to take advantage of the fact that when you recalibrate it to success mode, to thriving, it will enable you to thrive more and more and more. And so, if you want that, know that my one-on-one options, particularly my Vantage Success Activation Intensive, includes a video audit of your astrology and human design charts before we get together for your one-on-one sessions and that helps you to gain a level of understanding and knowledge and depth before we meet one-on-one, so that our one-on-one session will be even more powerful, so that we can go even more deeply into it and make our time together the most effective and powerful as possible.

Speaker 1: 24:05

If you would like me to assess your charts, both your astrology chart and your human design chart, from the lens of these unique patterns that you might have as a sensitive, gifted, neurodivergent leader, you want to better understand these for yourself, especially as they relate to your goals, your leadership goals, your success goals, your purpose, your mission, your vision, the direction that you're going with your life and your leadership goals, your success goals, your purpose, your mission, your vision, the direction that you're going with your life and your work. You can either have a video audit or you can work with me one-on-one in a Vantage Success Activation Breakthrough Intensive and you will get a video audit as part of the bigger program that will clear out the survival conditioning and recalibrate your unconscious mind so that you are operating in success mode. You can find the details for all of those options in the show notes and if you have any questions about any of those things, there is information on how you can contact me. I'm happy to answer your questions and if you have any of these patterns that I've talked about today that are in the guidebook, there's some reflection questions in the guidebook that you can go over that can help you to leverage the strengths and gifts of these patterns.

Speaker 1: 25:17

And if this landed for you and this was insightful for you I'd love to know how it landed for you. You can tag me or contact me on social media. The information is in the show notes. I would love to know how this all landed for you. You can tag me or contact me on social media. The information is in the show notes. I would love to know how this all landed for you. Thank you for being here and I look forward to speaking to you in the next episode.