What if your birth chart gave you permission to become more of who you already know you are?

Leslie sits down with intuitive astrologer Danielle Rosado for a conversation about astrology, identity, visibility, grief, business, and what happens when life pulls you into a season where you barely recognize yourself.

Danielle shares how understanding her own chart, including her Leo Rising, helped her stop dimming herself and embrace the fact that she was meant to take up space. But that confidence was tested when a major breakup, changing friendships, and multiple personal transitions sent her into what she describes as a years-long grief portal.

At the same time, her business was growing.

Which creates a pretty complicated situation when your work requires you to be visible online and personally you would very much like to crawl into a cave and become a civilian.

In this episode, Leslie and Danielle talk about:

• How astrology can help you better understand your identity
• Danielle’s experience moving through heartbreak, grief, and an “ego death”
• What happens when your personal life and business growth are moving in completely different directions
• Giving yourself permission to slow down during major transitions
• Why difficult seasons aren’t necessarily signs that something has gone wrong
• Using your birth chart to understand the bigger picture of what’s happening in your life
• How astrology can support business decisions, launches, goals, and planning
• Why collective astrology advice doesn’t apply to everyone in the same way
• The problem with relying on AI to interpret something as nuanced as your birth chart
• Why two people experiencing the exact same astrological transit may have completely different experiences
• Letting go of the pressure to constantly create momentum
• Reconnecting with yourself after a season where you’ve felt disconnected, hidden, or unsure of who you are
• Building a healthier relationship with astrology without fear-mongering every time a planet goes retrograde

Danielle’s approach to astrology is deeply personal. Instead of using it to predict doom or tell people what they should be doing, she helps clients understand their own chart, current season, and unique life path so they can make more intentional decisions.

Because maybe you aren’t behind.

Maybe you’re in a transition.

And maybe the thing you keep trying to force needs a minute.

Connect with Danielle

Learn more about Danielle, book a birth chart reading, or explore her seasonal and quarterly astrology readings at daniellerosado.com.

You can also find her on Instagram at alignedwithdanielle

Welcome to the bfd show, hosted by leslie jefferson.

Welcome to bfd.

It's me, Leslie Jesperson, your host, and we are at Anchor Rock Club today at a very special location with some incredible guests.

First, I wanna introduce to you Danielle Rosado.

Welcome to the show.

Thank you for having me.

And I wanna dive right in because I am obsessed with the work that you do, and I think once everybody else knows what it is, they will also be obsessed.

But we gotta, like, dive deep.

Are you cool with diving deep?

Yes.

Let's do it.

First of all, the premise of the show is called BFD for Big Fucking Deal.

And so I wanna ask you what makes you a big F. That's why I was like, you won't need interview prep.

Like.

Yes.

Okay.

So first things first.

My big fucking deal is in my birth chart.

So let's just start there.

As an intuitive astrologer, I recognize that I really shine when I understood my Leo Rising.

I know you're a Leo, right?

Yes.

So just the premise of being a Leo is being in the spotlight, being a performer, really just being, like, a big energy in the room.

Like, I carry myself very well when I enter the room, you notice.

So I do think that me understanding my birth chart really, like, extracted like, I am a big fucking deal.

This is actually my life purpose.

This is a part of me.

I'm not supposed to dim down my light.

So not being too extra, like, there's no such thing.

So I think once I understood that about myself, I brought it out more and more.

And then when it came to my business and everything that I offer, I mean, I change people's lives throughout astrology.

So I think that's a big fucking deal.

Yeah, it is.

And I love that you say this, because I had my birth time wrong for a while, and it just never made sense to me.

What was originally.

So I was originally a Sagittarius Rising, and I was like, okay, now, I didn't know too much about astrology at this point.

Point.

But when my mom, for my birthday.

One year, made like, a Facebook post.

At this time, I became a mom.

And I was like, oh, wow, bitch.

I did not know that that was my birth time.

And I redid it and I was a Scorpio Rising.

And I was like, that makes sense.

So different.

But I love that you said, like, it gives you permission to be what you know, that you felt.

Yes.

Because I have a Leo Stellium, Leo, Sun, Mercury and Mars.

So it's a lot.

But it's not about me.

Today.

So, yes, I.

We're gonna get into your business, but I want to go right into.

Has there been a point in your life where you did dim down and where you were?

Maybe something happened, Whatever made you feel that you couldn't be a big fucking deal?

Oh, yeah.

I mean, honestly, I'm transitioning back into my big fucking deal energy right now.

So I'm celebrating that because for the last, I want to say, three years, I have been in such a grief portal because I was going through a breakup with someone who I honestly just felt like that was my person.

And that really just, of course, it brings you into like an inward healing journey.

So I didn't want to be seen while I was healing through heartbreak.

But I was in the middle of such a huge expansion in my business at the time.

So it was a very interesting contrast when I was really doing well in my business and my business is so focused online and having to show up and be visible, but then having such insecurities and going through such an in depth process.

So that was a catalyst because I had to move out of living with him.

I also had to just kind of refine my grounding of where do I want to be, what am I doing with my life?

I think like relationships in general, whether they're romantic, if they're friendships, business partnerships, yeah, these were all big things that I was transitioning out of.

I was outgrowing certain friendships.

There were a lot of things that I needed to, to really go within to find like, who am I and why are these relationships in my life changing?

And so for the last few years, I did go through a huge ego death in a lot of ways.

And then I had that bleed into my business.

I wasn't wanting to show up online anymore.

I just wanted to be a normal person, which is kind of an lol, you know, because I'm not normal.

And I think that was such a breakthrough for me.

Normal is bullshit.

Normal is a lie.

I was like, why am I acting like I'm just a regular person?

I have a big purpose in this world and I need to make sure that I'm not losing sight of why I'm here.

And so, yeah, this year has really just brought me back to myself and it helped me remember who I am.

And it's just like hallelujah.

Because I really, like lost myself for a little bit, but I'm happy to be back.

Well, I think that.

So definitely.

I always say not to brag, but I've had two rock bottoms in my life.

Not to like, as classically, I have to like outdo everybody.

But I also think that like in the.

It might really suck while we're in it, but those ego deaths, those periods of time where we are offline are important.

Like they do serve a purpose.

And it's literally written in the stars.

You know that you're going to go through these things when you work with your clients.

Clients, how do you navigate with that with them?

I. I can imagine having someone like you on their team or just like as a support system can be really helpful when you're like, what the nothing is working.

I don't want to do this.

I like what is happening.

Yeah, that is definitely the biggest part of my job that I would say is the hardest.

But I do think that's why people, people come to me because they feel that I am not just that light that can remind them that this is only temporary.

Remember that, right?

Like these types of seasons that we go through, these cycles that we have, they do have a transition point.

They're not forever.

And so I always remind my clients of what's the light at the end of the tunnel.

However, when we are in that messy middle, when we're in the void, when we are really in, we're just in transition, right.

We're going through a total death to rebirth process.

And I always remind my clients how to first of all, give yourself plenty of grace.

Right.

Because it's not always going to be constant, like just motion and momentum and like confidence and you know, life lives, life happens.

And I think looking at your birth chart, especially as a business owner, we remember that there's so much more to life than just your career and your business and like what's going on.

Like if you're a mother, if you are someone who's just like going through your own identity shifts in whatever ways that that looks like.

For me, it was relationships.

For others, it might be their body image.

It might be just things that they're needing to learn how to take better care of themselves and really just feel like good in their bodies and feel good about themselves.

And like these are the types of things that I help my clients with to see on like a bigger holistic point of view that it's not just, oh, I'm not posting enough or oh, my content didn't do well.

It's like, that's not what we're working with here.

We're working with such deeper parts of who you are and your life story.

And so even though it may feel like shit is hitting the fan, nothing is going right.

I always try to give them practical tools and like ways that they can really work with their chart that's in alignment with what the season is asking of them so that they can give permission to slow down.

Really just like not try to force themselves into anything.

And I feel like the moment that they do, even if they're fighting me, even if their ego is like, I don't want to do that.

I promise it shifts so much quicker because they are not working against themselves.

Yeah, yeah.

It's really like treading water or trying to swim upstream.

I mean, I just, I went through it.

I feel like for the first half of this year I was like, this is wild that nothing is working.

I haven't changed anything.

And that's when you really have to sit with like, yes, strategy is important, business coaching is important.

And I resist even like mindset coaching.

I'm like, I know how to navigate my mindset.

And what would you say to the people who are like, well, I can just chatgpt my birth chart or whatever.

I know, I know.

But it's important to talk about because we think that, you know, with AI and everything that we, we can just DIY it.

But there's so much more to having a human who understands.

Like when you're working with someone, say.

Like on a long, like a 6.

Month or 12 month or however you work with them.

Yes.

What does that look like?

So, first things first, ChatGPT is not 100% accurate, so there's that.

You just have to start there.

I have, trust me, tried to train my chatgpt as an astrologer.

Of course I want this to work for me, make my life easier, please.

But I constantly have to check it and remind it like, nope, that's not right.

Nope.

I don't know where you just got that from.

So it's honestly just like made up information and it's confusing.

So let's not rely on the robots to tell us who we are.

Even if it tells you give me your birth time, it's not correct.

So let's start there.

Okay, number one.

Number one.

Number two, similar to what you were just asking me about, when it comes to certain times that maybe you are trying to run your business or trying to launch something, trying to plan your life, trying to set goals and really implement certain things in your life, move the needle forward.

When it comes to like let's say a six month journey with me, I'm helping them understand the bigger picture of what, what is to come.

It's not just how are we working with this week, this month, right?

But it's like, let's plan ahead so that you don't get into those places where you're trying to do something during a certain month.

And it's like, oh, honey, there's all these planets that are retrograding around that time.

Now, let's not get that confused either, because some people do very well during retrograde seasons, et cetera, depending on their chart.

And this is why it's so important that we're not just seeing things from, oh, Mercury retrograde and freaking out and taking collective guidance or collective advice as if it's meant to be for everyone.

Everyone has their own unique chart.

So I work with about six different women privately right now, and I can promise you, even though the astrology for everyone is the same, they are all going through very different transitions and changes and have different goals.

And I'm helping them personalize what their life path is really showing them right now and how to work with it.

So it's really curated for each person.

But yes, it's very much about making sure that they're making intentional decisions and they're feeling really embodied with their unique energy.

Amen.

Amen.

I mean, the reason I people would people said to me, why did you pick this date and this week to host this event when there's another one going on?

First of all, nobody is me.

Second of all, nobody creates the experience that I do.

But also, if I'm asking people to step into the spotlight to own everything, I'm going to call in the energy of the planets to help me out a little bit.

So, Danielle Rosado, thank you so much.

How can people find you?

How can they connect with you?

So my website is danielerosado.com and I'm aligned with Danielle on Instagram, Instagram Danielle Rosado on Facebook, definitely.

I invite you to get a consultation if you've never had a full birth chart reading or even if you have.

I do readings for the season, I do readings for the quarter.

I definitely recommend just having a deeper relationship with your chart in a way that is here for you and it's not here to fear Monger or make you fear the planets in any way.

This is meant to build a conscious, healthy relationship with yourself and your world.

Amazing.

Thank you for being here.

Thank you.

Thank you for watching BFD and we will see you next time.