How Astrology and Numerology Drive Personal Growth – An Interview with Verena & Tom of Soul Symbol
Updated: Mar 19
Most people have experienced a reading, a guidance session, or a moment of clarity that felt essential. A few weeks later, it's gone. Not because it wasn't true. Because insight without an anchor doesn't stick. Verena Franzetti and Tom Goguet (Atmos) built Soul Symbol to solve exactly that. Verena brings over a decade of self-directed study in astrology, sharpened by targeted training and ten years of professional practice in graphic design and visual identity. That combination gives her something specific: the ability to sense when a symbol has found its right form. Tom's work is rooted in sacred geometry and numerology, developed over more than ten years of self-taught practice. His starting point was a simple observation: people were consistently drawn to certain works almost despite themselves, and their numerology matched the numbers at the core of the composition.
Verena Franzetti and Tom Goguet, Creators of Soul Symbol
What makes astrology and numerology together a more powerful tool for personal transformation, and how does their combination produce insights that neither discipline can provide on its own?
Astrology is vast, poetic, layered. It gives a broad portrait of who you are, what you're going through, and the energies at play in your life.
Numerology goes straight to the point. It targets what's at work right now, what needs to be put into action.
The two don't speak to the same parts of the brain. And when a number's symbol resonates with a planetary aspect, something gets confirmed on both sides at once. That's where it becomes powerful.
And then there's the fact that we're two people. Two human beings, each rooted in their own language, listening and responding to each other in real time during the session. It's not a division of tasks. It's a cohabitation of knowledge that produces a third perspective, one that neither of us would have reached alone.
What is the key reason why most guidance sessions lose their impact over time, and how does Soul Symbol approach the challenge of integration differently?
Words are volatile. Memory holds onto fragments and misses the rest. And a session can genuinely shake things up. It opens things, sometimes a lot at once, and you leave alone with all of it. Without something to anchor to, that opening can quickly become confusion. The symbol asks nothing of you. It's there, on a wall, in your daily field of vision. It doesn't speak to the intellect. It reaches something deeper, where words don't have access. It's background work, almost passive. A compass. Something that brings you back to yourself when daily life pulls you away.
The quarterly calls complete that. Because integration isn't an event. It's a process. Coming back together several times over the year allows us to go deeper where it's needed, at the pace of what has shifted in between.
How does the creation of a Soul Symbol, starting from an astrological chart, go beyond just art to provide deep symbolic integration, and what sets it apart from other symbolic representations?
The source of inspiration is the person themselves. Not a personal style or aesthetic. Their session, their energies, what emerged from their astrological and numerological chart. We don't invent anything. We translate, we channel.
The numbers that surface during the session become geometric forms. Something happens there, a resonance that goes beyond the rational. We noticed this long before Soul Symbol existed. We're a bridge between a person and an artwork. And when we create, we connect to the person's intention. We infuse the symbol with the reason it exists. What it will do for them doesn't entirely depend on us.
What does working as a duo, one rooted in astrology, the other in numerology, bring to a session that a single practitioner couldn't provide?
Verena is fully connected to body language during a session. She picks up on how the person receives information, where it lands, where they pull back. Tom holds the numerical precision, observes, builds on what emerges. While one of us is fully in the exchange, the other holds the thread.
Two subjective perspectives are better than one. They nuance each other. The person doesn't receive a single voice as absolute truth. They receive two points of view that converge. It's more grounding. And paradoxically, more freeing.
Soul Symbol isn't only for individuals. Can you tell us about the duo session, who it's for, and what a shared symbol brings to a relationship that two separate readings never could?
Between two people, there's always a third entity. Not one person, not the other, but what exists between them. That's what a duo session works with, and that's what the shared symbol comes to represent. It can be a romantic couple, but just as well a creative partnership, a friendship, a sibling bond, or a parent and child. Any relationship where two people want to understand what they're actually building together.
A synastry brings two charts together and reveals the dynamics at play, what flows naturally, what creates friction, what each person needs and how the other is or isn't able to meet that. Things that have been living in daily habits and patterns that nobody had ever named out loud. We've seen people genuinely surprised, not about themselves, but about what they trigger in each other.
And then there's the numerology layer. Two people in the same relationship can be in completely different places in terms of what they need to accomplish that year. That matters. It reframes a lot of what can look like conflict.
The symbol brings it all into one object. Something that belongs to the relationship, not to either person individually. A shared reference point to return to in moments of doubt or tension, when it's easy to lose sight of what the connection is actually built on. It works the same way as an individual Soul Symbol, quietly, in the background. Except this time, it's a mirror for two.
What do clients most often express after receiving their Soul Symbol, and what does that tell you about what people are really looking for in this kind of experience?
What comes up most is a sense of being legitimate in who they are, including what falls outside the norm, what might look like a weakness. Feeling seen. Feeling reassured.
Hearing from someone else what they already knew somewhere inside themselves, but couldn't quite integrate alone.
And then there's something subtler. The symbol also carries the questions asked during the session, not just the answers. Because we're not always ready to receive an answer when it comes. The questions keep working. Long after.
Unlike most things that require your effort to work, Soul Symbol works even when you're not thinking about it. That, ultimately, is the whole idea.
If you're curious to know more or simply want to see if this resonates for you, you'll find all the details on our website. A free discovery call is available for those who want to talk before deciding anything.
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