People ask how someone trained in sustainable development ends up reading charts. The honest answer is that I never switched fields.
I went into it because of a simple rule: some risks don't announce themselves before they matter. A fishery gets pushed past a point nobody marked in advance, and the catch never comes back. A species disappears, and the consequence surfaces somewhere else, much later, disguised as an unrelated problem. You don't get proof before you need to act. That's the precautionary principle.
But everything I was trained to use runs at the scale of nations, economies, ecosystems. Indicators, targets, thresholds, all built to read what an entire system is leaning toward. None of it was built to answer the question I actually needed answered on any given day. This decision, in front of me, right now: is it going to cost me more than it gives back?
I'd started reading charts around the same time I was studying sustainability. Two things I assumed had nothing to do with each other. At some point I realised they weren't separate skills. Both are the same operation: read a configuration, find the direction already built into it. A resource system has that direction. So does a chart. So does a single decision sitting in front of one person.
The difference is that a chart works in the abstract. Twelve houses, twelve signs, ten planets. None of it is tied to a particular situation, which is exactly why it can be read into any of them. Over a hundred possible placements before you start combining them, and most of a reading is holding pieces that each carry too many meanings at once. Then one placement clicks into the right meaning, the whole thing resolves into a single coherent story, and the direction it's leaning is suddenly obvious. It's the moment a code box opens.
So I started Meteor Insight, to do that reading at the scale I needed it. Some days that's one question: what does saying yes to this actually cost me. Over a longer stretch it's a different one: am I working with my own situation right now, or against it.
Neither answer is hidden somewhere else. Both are already sitting in the shape of things, and decoding them is the whole job.