By Eve Bell

I’m Eve.

A mum of two teenagers, a lifelong reader, a collector of notebooks and someone who has always been curious.

For fifteen years, I ran a reusable nappy business that diverted over fifteen million disposable nappies from landfill. I started it when my children were small, wanting to stay close to them while building something meaningful. Building that business, and the community around it, taught me how systems grow, why culture matters and how small, well-designed choices can have a lasting impact. As my children are grow into their own lives, I feel ready to grow something again.

Writing has always been how I make sense of the world. Not books (at least not yet), but observations and small stories. It’s how I explore questions in my mind about culture, nature and how we live. This space is an extension of that habit – a place to gather ideas and notice patterns. I share them in the hope that something here might spark something in you too.

Alongside this, another thread has been weaving its way through my life. During lockdown, while running a fast-growing business, homeschooling two children and trying to contain an overly adventurous spaniel, I needed to learn something completely new that gave me a new way of thinking.

I came across birth charts through an author I love and began by mapping my own. Doing it left me covered in goosebumps. It was like looking at my life through a new lens. It described my patterns, strengths and tensions with a clarity I hadn’t found before. Being logical by nature, I had to test it. So I mapped my children’s charts next. Their charts changed how I understood them and eased my worries during lockdown. It has helped me nurture their passions and trust who they are becoming.

I began making charts for friends, then friends of friends. It became clear that this work is about orientation rather than belief or prediction. When people see themselves clearly, I see their body language changes. There’s a sense of being seen and understood.

I’ve always been an upstream thinker. In business, I learned to look at systems rather than symptoms. I learned to design for sustainability rather than quick fixes. That way of thinking now shapes how I work with charts. I call this approach Stars+Soil. Grounding astrology in real life and working with what’s already there.

The principles are simple. Understand the landscape first. Respect natural limits. Grow only what the conditions can support. Like permaculture, the aim isn’t endless growth, but contribution. By using what you already have, where it’s actually needed.

I make maps from the stars — the way they were positioned at the moment you were born. Like the “You Are Here” arrows on a map, they show you where you are, so you can choose where to go next.