Ecotone Academy

The Maps

Maps for unknown territory.

For a long, hard season, and for the capable people who walk into one anyway. Three books, each written for you alone.

Begin with My Genius Map · $197
An open field guide of pressed leaves and mountain sketches, resting on a mossy stone beside a brass compass

The Maps are three personal books written for you alone: the Genius Map, the Treasure Map and the Kindred Map. Every path begins with the Threshold Test and your Genius Map. The other two build on it, and anyone who comes to hold all three receives a fourth book, The Legend.

Three maps, one life

“People find it hard to balance work with family, family with self, because it might not be a question of balance.”

David Whyte, The Three Marriages

Whyte writes about work, self and the people we love as three marriages, each one talking to the other two. The Maps follow his lead. Your Genius Map reads who you are becoming, your Treasure Map the work that fits you, and your Kindred Map who you belong to. Read together, they tend to explain each other.

  • A pale green luna moth newly out of its cocoon among birches at duskSelf

    The Genius Map

    the spirit you came in with

    Who you are becoming. Your Threshold Test and your birth chart, read together in about 100 pages: your gifts, your parts, your chapters and the months ahead.

  • A beaver tending its dam at sunset while the pond fills with life around itWork

    The Treasure Map

    your gifts, your work, and what it gives back

    The work that fits you. Where your gifts are wanted, how money and giving move for you, who pays you, and the chapter your working life is in.

  • Roots and golden fungal threads running between the trees of an old forestOther

    The Kindred Map

    the people, places and creatures you belong to

    Who you belong to. How you relate, in love, friendship, work and the wider living world, for you alone or with up to two people you choose.

  • Two mountain rivers meeting and braiding into oneA gift with all three

    The Legend

    where your three maps meet

    A fourth book, a gift for anyone who comes to hold all three maps. Where the maps agree, where they pull against each other, and the one thread that runs through them all.

What a map looks like

Five pages from a Genius Map: the book at a glance, a part opener, the life chapters, the coming year month by month, and the reader’s own questions read in the sky
A few pages from my own Genius Map, The Golden Key. Every map shares its look: your chart drawn from your own data, plain words, and a question to test each finding.

How it works

  1. 01

    Take the Threshold Test

    30 to 45 minutes, saved as you go. Your personal map opens the moment you finish.

  2. 02

    Receive your Genius Map

    Shape your book in about 30 minutes, and your Genius Map arrives within seven days.

  3. 03

    Your next map opens

    If you chose a pair or the Atlas, your next intake opens the day your Genius Map arrives, and I’ll email you the link. Each map arrives within a week of your answers.

  4. 04

    The Legend

    When your third map arrives, The Legend follows: where the three meet.

Ways to begin

Each is one contribution, with no subscription. Every one includes:

  • The Threshold Test and your personal map
  • Three programs for 60 days: Space Craft, Astro 101 and the Self-Care Kit
  • 60 days in the Threshold space on the Ecosystem
  • The Common Knowledge library: four courses and a podcast archive, free for every member and open long after your 60 days

Already hold a Genius Map, or a Threshold Book? Your link to add a map is waiting in the Threshold space on the Ecosystem, and you pay only the difference.

Contributions are membership dues in Ecotone Academy, a private membership association. Read the Membership Agreement

Questions people ask

Where do I start?

With the Threshold Test and your Genius Map. Every other map builds on it: your chart, your test and your own words. So the Genius Map always comes first, and it’s the only map sold on its own.

What does each one cost?

The Genius Map is $197. A pair, the Genius Map with the Treasure or Kindred Map, is $347. The Atlas, all three with The Legend as a gift, is $497, or three monthly payments. Each is one contribution, with no subscription.

I already have my Genius Map (or my Threshold Book). Can I add a map?

Yes. Readers who received a Threshold Book already hold their Genius Map. Your link to add a map is in the Threshold space on the Ecosystem and in your book’s email, and you pay only the difference.

How long does it take?

Your Genius Map arrives within seven days of shaping it, and each map after it within a week of your answers. If you choose the Atlas, expect the whole set within a month, and often sooner.

Who is the Kindred Map for?

Anyone who wants to understand how they relate. Read it for yourself alone, or include up to two people you choose. Each of them answers on their own private form, and everyone in the map gets a copy.

Are these predictions?

No. Astrology here is a mirror for reflection, never a forecast. Every finding is a hypothesis with a question to test it, and the months ahead are read like weather, never promised.

Is this therapy?

No. The Maps are spiritual guidance and self-inquiry, built on trauma-informed principles from Internal Family Systems. They can sit beside therapy or coaching and do not replace them. If you are in crisis, call or text 988 in Canada and the US, or your local emergency number.

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