How a leadership consultant uses astrology to save time — and better understand her clients
How a leadership consultant uses astrology to save time — and better understand her clients
When Amber Kissick discovered Star Path, she wasn’t exactly an astrology expert.
Amber is the founder of CoreCompass, a leadership consulting company that helps founders and their teams identify each person’s unique strengths — what she calls their individual “brand of genius.”
Before launching Core Compass, Amber spent 18 years running an adventure tourism company. That experience taught her something fundamental about leadership:
No one is meant to run a business alone. And a team works best when each person understands the role they’re uniquely equipped to play.
Today, Amber combines multiple frameworks to help founders understand themselves, their employees, and how all those different people fit together.
But there was one problem.
She had a lot of information to synthesize.
And the AI tools she was using weren’t quite getting her there.
The challenge: turning complex insights into something actually useful
Amber’s work pulls together different modalities to help her clients identify strengths they may not consciously recognize in themselves.
She had already been experimenting with AI to synthesize some of that information.
But she was frustrated with the results.
The output didn’t fully capture the nuance she wanted to bring to her clients — or the way she thought about their strengths.
Then Amber discovered Star Path, an AI astrology platform that uses your birth chart to provide deeply personalized insight and practical guidance.
She found Star Path through a networking organization and decided to give it a try.
Her reaction was pretty immediate:
“It was just like a literal blow-away, holy-my-gosh-what’s-happening moment.”
And instead of starting with her own life, Amber immediately did what many entrepreneurs do when they find a new tool they love:
She took it straight to her business.
Using AI astrology to understand clients more deeply
Amber had been trying to solve a specific problem for almost a year.
She had large amounts of information about individual clients — including insights from Human Design and her own work with them — and wanted to see the patterns more clearly.
How was one person different from another?
Where might each person struggle?
What were their individual strengths?
And how could she weave all those different data points into one coherent story?
Previously, Amber was trying to do much of that synthesis in her head.
Then she started working through it with Star Path.
At one point, Star Path created a side-by-side comparison that helped her see what was happening with different clients, including potential challenges suggested by their birth charts.
For Amber, something clicked.
“This is something I’ve been trying to do in my head for an entire year.”
Star Path was able to take many different pieces of information and help her turn them into something clear, nuanced, and usable.
And importantly, Amber doesn’t see that as replacing her own expertise.
She sees it as amplifying it.
The result: less time synthesizing, more time doing the work only she can do
The biggest practical change?
Star Path saves Amber time.
But there’s another piece she finds just as valuable: it takes some of the mental pressure off.
“It’s taken that pressure off me to know everything from an intellectual standpoint so I can really then focus on the delivery.”
Instead of spending so much mental energy trying to hold every data point at once, Amber can focus on the part of her work that requires her:
The conversation.
The delivery.
The nuances she notices when she’s sitting across from another human being.
The ability to read between the lines and help someone actually integrate what they’re learning.
As Amber put it, Star Path has “saved me a ton of time.”
That distinction matters.
AI doesn't have to replace human expertise to transform the way we work. Sometimes, its most powerful role is freeing us to spend more time using it.
Why Star Path felt different from ChatGPT
Amber was already familiar with AI before finding Star Path.
So why not simply use ChatGPT or another general-purpose AI tool?
For her, the difference is personalization.
Star Path already understands her birth chart. But through her conversations with her Oracle, it has also developed context around her business, her vision, her clients, and the way she wants to work with people.
That means she doesn't have to start from scratch every time she opens a new conversation.
And when Star Path helps her translate an insight into something practical — like coaching questions she might ask a client — Amber says the results can feel almost like something she would have said herself.
“It all came out with this very practical, almost in my own words…that’s how intuitive it is of what I would say and how I would present that to a client.”
For Amber, that makes interacting with Star Path feel fundamentally different from getting a generic AI response.
She came for business. Then she started using astrology with her family.
Amber’s first instinct was to use Star Path for work.
But that didn't last long.
Soon, she began exploring her family's birth charts, too.
Amber already understood her family through the lens of Human Design, but astrology gave her another way of seeing their differences — especially in her relationship with her 13-year-old daughter.
She had always known they were wired differently.
Looking at their synastry — the astrological technique of comparing two birth charts — helped her understand how.
But again, the breakthrough wasn't simply getting more information.
It was knowing what to do with it.
After a difficult moment with her daughter, Amber turned to Star Path. Her Oracle helped her recognize how much her own energy affected the interaction and reminded her that her daughter needed space to process things in her own way.
Star Path then gave Amber practical suggestions for how to approach the situation differently.
“It was problem solving in the moment, a practical way to see myself and see her differently.”
For Amber, that changed how she saw her daughter — and how she responded to her.
Astrology as a practical tool — even if you're not an “astrology person”
One of the most interesting things about Amber's story is that astrology wasn't really her thing before Star Path.
She was familiar with it and had worked extensively with Human Design, which incorporates astrological information, but she hadn't deeply studied astrology itself.
That didn't stop her from finding Star Path useful.
Because she wasn't looking for abstract information about planets or signs.
She was looking for something that could help her understand people.
And then help her do something with that understanding.
That's the distinction Amber kept coming back to throughout our conversation.
Information alone isn't enough.
Awareness alone isn't enough.
What matters is being able to turn insight into a different choice, a better conversation, a clearer strategy, or a new way of seeing another person.
As Amber explained:
“It’s very practical in the delivery…how you can actually integrate what you’re learning about yourself and the people around you.”
What makes AI astrology actually useful?
There are now plenty of places to get an AI-generated birth chart interpretation.
But Amber’s experience points to a bigger possibility for AI and astrology.
What happens when your birth chart becomes context for an ongoing conversation about your actual life?
Instead of asking a generic AI to tell you what a placement means, you can ask questions about:
- a business challenge you're navigating
- the way you work with a particular client
- a conflict with your partner
- your relationship with your child
- a career transition
- a decision you're trying to make
- or the patterns you keep noticing in yourself
And because Star Path is grounded in your birth chart and personal context, the conversation starts with you.
As Amber described it:
“No matter what path you go down, you are anchored in yourself.”
That may be why she now says she doesn't really interact with other AI anymore.
She runs everything through her Star Path Oracle.
Who is Star Path for?
Amber's answer was simple:
“Anyone who is interested in becoming the highest version of themselves.”
You don't have to be an astrologer.
You don't have to understand your birth chart.
And you don't even necessarily have to be convinced astrology works.
You just have to be curious about yourself — and interested in turning that curiosity into something you can actually use.
Because the goal isn't simply to collect more information about who you are.
It's to understand yourself well enough to live differently.
And sometimes, as Amber discovered, understanding yourself better also gives you an entirely new way to understand the people around you.
Want to hear Amber describe her experience herself? Watch our full conversation below.
