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Introducing Celestial Landscapes

For years my work has lived in two separate places. On one side the charts, the readings, the quiet unpacking of a person's placements and what they mean for the life they are living. On the other side the painting, the landscapes I return to again and again, the light on a loch, the mist over a mountain, the particular gold of a Scottish evening. I have always loved both, but I never quite saw how to bring them together until now.

Celestial Landscapes is a new offering that does exactly that. Each piece is an original painting built directly from your natal chart, so the finished landscape is not simply inspired by you in a general sense, it is drawn from the actual structure of your sky at the moment you were born.

The way this works is quite simple in principle even though the process behind it is not. Every planet in your chart carries an element, fire, water, earth, or air, and that element becomes colour. A chart rich in water might lean toward aqua and deep teal, a chart carrying more fire might move toward red and burnished orange, earth toward sand and warm ochre, air toward pale blue and silver grey. Alongside this, the house each planet sits in decides where it lives on the canvas, since the wheel of your chart maps naturally onto a landscape the same way it maps onto a life. Your rising sign and first house become the foreground, close and immediate. Your Midheaven and tenth house rise to the very top of the piece, the widest and most visible point. Everything in between finds its place according to the same logic, so a placement that shapes your inner world sits low and close, while a placement that shapes how you are seen by others rises toward the light.

What this means practically is that no two Celestial Landscapes will ever be the same, because no two charts are the same. A person with their Moon high in the sky of their chart might find that same Moon rendered as a luminous presence over open water in their painting. A person with a cluster of planets on their ascendant might find their piece grounded in rich, textured foreground, mist, stone, or turned earth, depending on what those planets are. The painting becomes a way of holding your chart that lives on a wall rather than in a folder, something you can return to and sit with the way you might sit with a reading, except this one you can look at every day.

I will be offering these as bespoke commissions, each one requiring your birth details in the same way a full natal reading would, since accuracy matters here just as much as it does in any chart work I do. From there I calculate your chart properly, work out the elemental and house based structure of your piece, and paint it by hand.

If this speaks to you, I would love to hear from you. There is something quite moving about seeing your own sky handed back to you as something you can hold, and I cannot wait to start creating these for the people who feel drawn to them.

With love, Libby

The Westend Medium