
Inner Purpose Podcast
Discover how to authentically express your gifts through a deep, purposeful life & work that makes a meaningful impact as driven, sensitive visionary
Inner Purpose Podcast
Finding Your Purpose During Global Transformation
This episode came through unexpectedly while I was walking on my property. What was meant to be a quick reel turned into a 30-minute download straight from the heart. With so much intensity and transformation in the air, I couldn’t ignore the call to speak about what's really going on, especially for those of us who are Outer Planet People.
In this episode, I unpack why everything feels so heightened right now, how the rare shifts of Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto are activating deep transformation across the collective, and why Outer Planet People—the deep feelers, the trailblazers, the ones who’ve always felt different—are being called to lead. If you’ve ever felt out of place, misunderstood, or like you’re here to guide others in a way that defies logic and convention, this one’s for you.
What You'll Learn:
- What defines an outer planet person and how to know if you are one
- Why your lifelong sense of alienation has a cosmic explanation
- How the current planetary shifts are impacting the collective, and you personally
- The responsibility and gift of holding the “tension of opposites”
- The Outer Planet People's role in the collective awakening
- Why discernment is key to working with the right clients (and the cost of ignoring it)
- The sacred process of inner alignment as the new paradigm of leadership
- How your frequency becomes the tuning fork that activates others into transformation
- How Michelle’s unique Soul Purpose Lab, Evolution Lab, and Legacy Lab support outer planet practitioners in building aligned, sustainable, and satisfying work
If you've felt like you're here to do things differently—on a deeper level and for a very specific kind of person—this is your confirmation. You’re not alone. You’re not too much. You’re exactly who the world needs right now.
If this episode resonated, share it with someone who’s on a similar path. And if you’re ready to step into your next level, reach out—I’d love to connect and see if we’re aligned to work together.
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Disclaimer:
This podcast is for informational & inspirational purposes only. Nothing shared is intended as medical, psychological, or personalized advice, and should not be used as a substitute for professional support.
Hello and welcome back. I'm so glad you're here. So today's episode was actually recorded on a whim. I was going on a walk on my property and I pulled out my cell phone thinking that I was going to be recording a quick little reel. There's so much going on in the world right now, so much change, so many emotions are running high, so many people are transforming, and so many big things are happening. And I wanted to speak on that. And once I started talking, I ended up talking for 30 minutes. Needless to say, I could no longer use this as a reel. So I thought that I would instead put this here on my podcast for you. Because there's a lot of nuggets of wisdom that I think that you might find interesting and benefit from. Especially if you are an outer planet person. What is an outer planet person? You're gonna learn all about that. And if you want to confirm for yourself, you can grab the Chart Your Power toolkit and guidebook in the show notes, and you can find out if you are an outer planet person too. So I hope that you enjoy these insights. They come straight from the heart, and I hope the background noise of the crickets provides some ambience for you. I hope you enjoy. Now there's many different reasons for that, many different explanations for that. One that's standing out for me right now comes down to what's going on with the planets, where they're moving where they are currently, because planets do affect us. Think about the moon and its impact on the movement of water, for example, and how it changes the tides, as one of many examples that science is starting to show actually impacts us. So there are three other planets: Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto. And all three have moved into new signs within the last 10 months. All of them are at one degree of their new sign that they have moved into. The last time Pluto moved into Aquarius was in the 1700s when the U.S. Constitution was written after Civil War. The last time Neptune moved into the sign that it's in now was around the War of 1812. And the last time that Uranus moved into the sign that it's just moved into recently was in 1941, when the US joined the war to make it a world war. If you can't tell, that's significant, especially with all three of them moving all at the same time. There is a lot of energy being moved. It's significant. It's significant enough if one of these planets moves. Never mind all three at the same time. Now, why am I bringing this up? So, first of all, these outer planets, there's themes with all the planets. Themes that we're here to move through. They're kind of like veils. Veils that we're here to move through in terms of like distortion and programming and the way we see things, as we grow and learn, we move through the different veils. Because in Hermeticism, there's a theory that says that when you incarnate into this world, you have to come down from source, which they call the noose, through all the different planetary veils to get to Earth, to get to who you are, to get to where you are, to get to where your soul is implanted in your body, and you are here in this lifetime. And our whole journey of our lifetime is to then ascend through the planetary veils one by one until we can get closer and closer and closer back to the noose, back to source, back to where we came from. Basically, move through all the themes of all the different planets in the order that we came down in the reverse order. Now, in Hermeticism, they only knew about seven planets. They called them the classical planets or lower octave planets because they didn't have the technology yet to be able to see or perceive the three outer planets. So back then, Saturn was the outermost planet, and that was the most difficult of the journeys, the most difficult of the lessons to learn. It's a heavy planet, it's dense, there's a lot there to work through. And since then, we've been able to perceive these outer three planets, and since their discovery, even their discovery and our ability to perceive them shifts something in terms of collective consciousness. That's a whole other story. And we're here to move through those outer planet veils as well. Now, here's the thing is the outer planet veils, they don't, they're hard to touch, they're hard to understand and wrap your head around because they don't affect us personally. They affect us as a collective, as a generation, because they move so slowly, unless you're an outer planet person. So what's an outer planet person? If you have an astrology chart where one or more of the outer planets are touching or in a very close conjunction or in a hard angle to one of your personal luminaries or angles. So sun, moon, rising sign, mid-heaven are the ones that I see most commonly in my clients. It's not super common to have these placements. However, my clients, pretty much every single one of them, has at least one of these outer planet placements. We're called outer planet people because of these placements. Because the veils and the lessons and the themes from these outer planets affect us personally, whereas with the rest of the rest of the other people, they they don't impact them personally. And because of that, and because of the heaviness and the thickness of these veils, they are big lessons, big perspectives, huge things that we think differently than others, we see things differently than others, we feel differently than others. And that's why some of these configurations are called alien constructs. Not because we're aliens, not because we came from UFOs, but because we don't feel like we fit in, that we feel like we've been alienated. We feel like an alien because we feel so different, right from the get-go, and this is why. And it can feel hard, especially when you're younger and people don't understand and you don't understand, right? You feel like people don't understand you, you don't understand how other people think because you don't think that way. And especially when you're growing up in your younger years, there's this need to fit in, right? And when you don't, it can feel harrowing, it can feel difficult, and it can feel like what's wrong with me, and why can't I just be like everyone else? Well, you're not supposed to. And the people in my world have already done the inner work to recognize that, and to recognize that their difference and their sensitivity and their depth and their intensity and all the things that make them outer planet people, they're not things to fix, you know. They've come to this realization, and they've come to this realization that what makes them different are likely their strengths, are the things that they're here to lead with. Now, here's the thing right now, with these outer planets moving in an unprecedented way, that means that the rest of the people who don't have these outer planets on personal points are now being impacted by the lessons and themes of these outer planets, and they're harsh, they're heavy, they're thick, and that's why so many people are having a hard time with it. And it's waking some people up, and it's causing some people to dig in their heels, it's causing some people to be in distress, it's causing some people to revolt against each other, right? That's a whole other topic as it comes to the tension of opposites. Now, this is the thing. Those of us who are outer planet people already have this experience with the themes and the energy of these outer planets. We've lived with it our entire lives. Even if we haven't been cognizant of it, it's always been there. And because of that, we are further ahead than the people who don't have these placements in their astrology chart. We are here to lead them. We are here to guide them. We are here to show them the way through this because it's all happening right now for us. We are in a fourth turning. Things are changing. We are in a collapse phase. Things that are not helpful to us are breaking apart so that we can build to something at a higher level, at a higher level of consciousness. Because Young said that that is the way that we're going to be able to move through these problems of humanity. We can't solve them. We need to get to a higher level of consciousness in order to move past them, to grow beyond them. And those of us who are the outer planet people, this is our time. This is your time. You're here to be leading and guiding yourself first, always, self-leadership first, always. Right? And that involves being able to hold the tension of opposites, integrating your shadows. And it's not a one and done, it's a constant journey of constantly learning how to integrate your shadows and hold the tension of all these opposing polarizing forces because the people who haven't done this yet are projecting it onto each other into the world because it's so hard to hold. It's not an easy process for anybody. And it is so much easier to deflect that stuff, to project it instead of take stop and take a look and hold on to that tension long enough that it creates a transcendental third, an elevated level of consciousness, a different perspective, a different mindset, a different attitude that changes everything, that makes the initial conflict mute point. And the only way to do that is to hold that tension long enough for that transcendental third to be created, right? And that's you know the concepts of alchemy, right? Back to Hermeticism. Right? In order to be able to create that, you have to sit in the fire of it. You have to be the crucible that's strong enough to hold all the stuff that needs to happen in order to alchemize that. And if you're listening to this, you are one of those people. If you are following me, you are one of those people because these are the people I work with. These are the people that I've been doing my own work and continue to do my own work because it's ongoing. I've done my own inner work and continue to, and it's become clear to me with my own inner understanding that this is who I'm here for now in my own purpose journey is to help those who are outer planet people to step into their own leadership, to step into their own next level as a guide for the collective, not by helping everybody, but by actually truly discerning who specifically you are here for. Because you have a very specific way of doing things, you have a very specific approach, and you know this already, right? You're not here for everybody. And you know, I've taught I've spoken about the fact that when you're trying to be for everybody, you know, the the the surface piece of that is, well, then you're here for no one. However, when you are when you are built like this, the people who are you are here for, they will activate, they will transform, right? It's kind of like you're a tuning fork, and somebody who is at the same note and frequency of tuning fork, they come in your presence, they will activate when your tuning fork is activated, when it's tuned to the right frequency that's aligned with who you are and how you are built. And it's kind of like you are, if you understand homeopathy, right? My naturopathic and homeopathic friends out there, it's the similar. You are the similar, right? Your presence alone will activate the person for which their frequency needs activation from your specific tuning fork. And if you are trying to work with somebody who is not that person, then more than likely, A, you're not gonna see as much results as you expect or want or see from your ideal clients, which is gonna frustrate you. It's gonna frustrate them. You know that there's so much more that could be had when you're working with the right fit person, or they might even aggravate, right? They can get triggered, especially if they're not looking for what you have to offer, right? Because you act like a mirror and you are mirroring back to them their unconscious mind of the things that they need to see in order to transform, in order to activate, in order to raise their level of consciousness. And if that's not what they're looking for, if they don't want that flavor of mirror, if they don't want to see themselves in that light, they're not gonna be so happy. And so this is why it's so important, especially if you are a practitioner, a clinician, a healer, a coach who is built this way to discern who you are actually here for. So, A, that you, the people that show up are the right fit clients and they are going to skyrocket in your presence beyond what your professional skills alone can deliver, right? This is beyond that. Professional skills are important, right? You need to know the technic, like the technical details of your profession. And this is the thing that goes further than that. I've seen it over and over again. And this is the thing I've seen in my own work, right? Beyond anything that I was able to facilitate as a clinical and naturopathic doctor, what I do now and how I do it, and because I have discerned my frequency, how I operate, how I'm designed, and who I'm designed to be activating, who I'm designed to be guiding and leading. And then I discerned that and got specific on it and focused on that. Not by trying to figure out what I think they need to hear me to say in my messaging. I have been learning that the key here is getting clear on you first, because it doesn't matter what you you say in your messaging. If you haven't gotten clear on you, it's gonna fall flat. It's like your radio station isn't tuned and it's all fuzzy and staticky. They're not gonna hear it clearly, they're not gonna be magnetized to it, versus when you tune into yourself first and get clear on that first, then it's like you become an antenna that pulls people in. And this is the thing, right? The clients that I have now, right, over and over and over again, it took years for me to figure this out, right? They're highly sensitive people. Most of them are INFJs, which are like INFJ females, especially, are like 0.5% of the population. Now, why is it that like almost 90% of my clients are female INFJs? Outer planet people are not a common, not common in the general population. Why is it that every single one of my clients are outer planet people? It's because of this work that I've done for myself, and now I help my clients figure that out for themselves because their ideal clients are not exactly like mine. However, they're built for a specific type of ideal client just like I'm built for a specific type of ideal client. And when you connect, that's when the magic happens. And it's not only a nice to have these days, it's actually your responsibility. What do I mean by that? You know that you're here to make an impact, a meaningful impact for the greater good. You know that about yourself. And you've probably already figured out that making that bigger impact isn't just about helping as many people as you can, right? You've probably already learned that lesson. I know I learned the hard way when I was a naturopathic doctor, taking everybody, right? Colds, back pain, digestion, cancer, like autoimmunity, all the things. They saw my sign, they walk in the clinic, I take them on. And you know, that works. And when you're designed like this and you've been going through your own inner growth and evolution journey, you get to a point where that's no longer, that's not your journey anymore. You've moved past that because you've grown. And when you grow, the person who used to be a right fit is likely not gonna be a right fit anymore. And working with the general population, with anyone and everyone, is not going to work for you anymore, and it's not gonna work for them anymore. What's gonna work is getting clear on who are you now? Now that you've grown and evolved, where are you now? Who are you? How are you built? How are you designed? And work with your design instead of against it. Because when you work against your design, that's the thing that will squash your frequency, and your radio station will go radiostatic more quickly than anything. And what do I mean by that? Working against yourself. So much of society, business advice, professional advice says you've got to operate your business this way, you've got to have this many clients, you've got to have your clinic like this, your schedule like this, you've got to, you know, do your sessions like this. Like these are examples, right? Do your marketing like this, talk about things like this. Especially if you know intuitively, like there's something about that that's not working. And so many people I hear over and over again, but why can't I just make it work? I don't enjoy it, but I force myself to do it. Or there's something about this that I don't like, but this is the way I have to do it. This is the way I should do it, right? Or why can't I just be like everybody else? Why can't I just do it like everybody else? Because you're not supposed to. And the more you force yourself to do it like everybody else, the more you're squashing your radio station frequency. And that's doing all of us a disservice because you are here to guide a very specific type of person in a very specific type of way to wake up, to be able to raise their level of consciousness so that one by one we can raise the consciousness of the collective so that we can move through this shit and out the other side, so that we can get through ever all this stuff that's going on. And the outer planets right now are telling us this is time. We can't ignore this any longer, and this is the paradigm shift to start with your inner alignment first, to get to know who you are and operate from that, not what groupthink tells you that you need to be doing, because that's the thing that's crumbling, that's the thing that's not working anymore. And the reason why you felt so freaking different your whole life is because now you're supposed to step into the leadership that shows people that that's actually not the way it works. So, life is going bananas right now. You can feel it, everyone can feel it, and some people are freaking out, getting upset, it's feeling disorienting, and some people are waking up. You can see more and more people are waking up because of what's going on right now, and that's supposed to be happening, and you are at the forefront of this, you've already woken up to so much. You're here to lead and guide people to get through this because you already know all of this stuff that people are just starting to realize now. So you've got this, you already knew deep down, even if you didn't have words for it, what's really going on, and the things that I'm explaining here, you already knew. And in my work, you know, I figured out some things. I'm it's like I'm a step ahead of my outer planet practitioners who are figuring this out. So I figured out some things and put words to them. So now you have the words for it, and you're like, oh, this is what my clients tell me all the time. They're like, I already knew this, but now it makes sense. Everything makes sense now. And sometimes you've already known it, but you didn't give yourself permission because that's not the way other people do it, because no one else has ever spoken about this. And this is why so many of my clients they tell me things and they're like, I'm telling you this, and I've never told anybody because nobody understands, and I know you're gonna get this, or you're one of the few people who understand. So I need to tell somebody. I'm gonna tell you because I know you get it. I do get it. And my job right now, and I was actually informed by an astrologer about my specific outer planet placements and alien constructs that actually my specific ones, I'm actually designed to be a guide for other outer planet people that are like a step behind me to show them the ropes and show them the way forward. So I've had to commit to my own inner work to actually step into this role because you know it's not easy. This inner work stuff, right? And you also know the liberation on the other side with every every level of the spiral, right? Because the shit keeps coming back to a new level and a new level every time you up-level, right? It doesn't stop at okay, I've awakened, so now I can just sit back and relax. Yeah, I made that mistake a number of years ago. Surprise! That's not the way it works. So now my job is to work with outer planet practitioners, the ones who are highly sensitive, the ones who are deep thinkers, the ones who know that they are different and that they are here to do it differently. And they know that they've already moved past being the general practitioner, and they know that they are here to be working with a very specific type of person in a very specific type of way, and they know there is a next step to their journey of what they're doing with their life's work, because they know that they're here to making to make an impact. They know that they're here to do meaningful work that's not only sat successful but satisfying. And I help them see that next step clearly. I help them understand exactly who they're here for now, especially since they've grown and evolved. I help them understand how to read their own inner knowing to a level deeper than they've ever had before, because you have the answers within you. And I help you see and understand and translate it and trust it. And I help you figure out how to wield the gifts that come with being an outer planet person, because there are huge gifts that can feel confusing if you don't know how to work with them. And when you do know how to work with them and you use them with the right fit person who they are meant for, that's when magic happens that seems to defy all logic. So if you're picking up what I'm putting down, reach out. We'll chat to see if we're aligned. I always want to make sure that the people that I'm working with resonate, that we are a right fit because that is when the magic happens. Right? I act like a tuning fork that helps to activate you so that you can then go off and be the tuning fork that activates the people that you're meant to be activating. That's the way it works. So I have a few different ways to work with me. If that interests you, I have the soul purpose lab, and this is where we get crystal clear on who you are designed to work with and how, what you're here to actually be leading now. What's the next step in your evolution of your work? And what is that next step? That's the soul purpose lab. The evolution lab is okay, so now you've gotten clear. Is there anything holding you back from it? Right? Are there any fears? Are there any, you know, limiting beliefs? Is there any survival reflexes, right? Like old people-pleasing behaviors, old things that are like preventing you from actually saying what you know you want to say. We clear those from the unconscious mind and we upgrade your inner operating system and set your whole system up, your nervous system, your unconscious mind, your whole inner operating system to increase your capacity to hold what's on the other side of your next level. Because with more success, with more light, with more greatness, with more all the things that you know you're stepping into, comes the opposite side of the coin. More shadow, more darkness, more challenge. And all of those things are the things for you to integrate, and those are the things that create the friction for you to step into your greatness. And all of that will happen with much more flow if you can expand your capacity. And so we do that in Evolution Lab, and then we spend some time getting clear on now that you've done that, now let's talk about the next steps and move you through them into the next phase of your work. And then there's legacy lab. That's the nine-month journey that includes everything that I've mentioned. And then we take the time to move through actually establishing that next level body of work that becomes your legacy, that you're known for in your industry, that you create that impactful change that you know that you're here for. I help you create that in a way that will continue to evolve as you evolve, because when you're an outer planet person, you can't just stay in the same place. It's it's like it doesn't work for you. And what I had to realize for myself and my own work is you need to set this body of work up so that it continues to evolve as you do, because the person, you know, a year, two years, five years from now, the entry point of that person is not going to be the same entry point as they are now. It will evolve as you do, it will grow and expand as you do, right? The people who are entering my world now are not at the same level they were a year ago, five years ago, ten years ago. And I've come to realize that that's actually necessary. So we get clear on that. We set up your work that way so that it does continue to evolve. And we work through all the ups and downs as life life as you establish all of this and continue to grow your capacity and continue to upgrade your operating system as you continue to evolve so that you could be operating from your highest potential and fullest potential on the other side. And this is what lights me up. It energizes me and it makes me, it's, you know, it's I've come to this realization that working with the right fit person, it's not draining at all. It's energizing, it's inspirational, and it also helps me continue to grow and evolve. So I ended up going in a completely different direction, and I feel like this is an important message. If you're listening to this, I hope that this was insightful in some way. And reach out whether or not you want to explore any of these labs, or if you want to let me know how this landed for you. I would love, I love to hear how other people are taking this in for themselves.