We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Dom & Mishell. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Dom & Mishell below.
Alright, Dom & Mishell thanks for taking the time to share your stories and insights with us today. How did you come up with the idea for your business?
So I suppose this all started when I (Dom), like many people, downloaded tiktok and created an account in 2020 to help cut the boredom of quarantine. Originally my account was called @bodylanguagebasics and I created it with the intention of making videos about body language and psychology. Unfortunately my account just wasn’t doing very well so I decided to switch it up and post a video about astrocartography. Astrocartography, which essentially overlays an individual’s astrological chart over a map to show their most and least harmonious places on the planet, is something I had been studying for years and I thought it might be an interesting topic to share with my followers. To my complete surprise, the video went viral and got over a million views. I found myself inundated with DMs and requests for me to read people’s charts. Because it was something I was interested in and liked doing, I began giving free readings by email for many of these individuals in my spare time.
Fast forward a bit to when Mishell and I met, through tiktok actually. I eventually ended up moving down to Arizona to be with Mishell, and I was working for a tech company at the time so I had to wait a few months for my transfer to go through. It ended up taking a lot longer than we expected, so I was kind of at a loss in terms of what to do for income. I had done over 100 free astrocartography readings for tiktok users at this point, and I had this list of names and usernames along with birth details for people that wanted a reading. Mishell started helping me a bit with it and one day she was like, so why aren’t you charging for this? And I guess it had never really occurred to me that this was something I could make money doing. As I had seen with that first viral video, there was a huge demand for astrocartography because nobody was really doing it a few years ago. It was essentially a niche that I accidentally stumbled into that turned out to be something people really wanted and needed. So we set pricing and started taking clients by setting up a linktree and spreading the word through tiktok videos and livestreams. We started out with insanely low prices because we didn’t really know what we were doing or what general market pricing was for this type of service. In hindsight we probably should have done more research, but really we just jumped in headfirst and made adjustments as we went. It was a HUGE learning curve to be honest, and starting a business is definitely no cake walk. Like when we first started we took calls on FaceTime and didn’t even record them for clients – and I would hold the phone up to the laptop screen so they could see the map because screen sharing wasn’t a thing on iPhone at the time. And that’s just crazy to us now because we record every private call on Zoom for clients to have a copy of and the map is shown on a screen share during the call to make it super easy for them to see and understand. It also took us a while to realize that a booking system would be really beneficial for us – we were booking through email, text, and DMs at first – and we went through several different softwares to find the one that worked the best for us. It was just a lot of trial and error for us to get to where we really started to feel like we had everything pretty well-honed and running super smoothly.
Great, appreciate you sharing that with us. Before we ask you to share more of your insights, can you take a moment to introduce yourself and how you got to where you are today to our readers.
Cosmic Vibrations is an astrocartography consulting company run by married couple Dom & Mishell. We offer readings to help individuals, couples, and families find their most harmonious places to live and travel. With over 10 years of experience running astrocartography charts, Dom has a repertoire and knowledge-base that can only come from over 4,000 readings. Their natural intuition and psychic gifts allow them to discern information from a chart that is not readily apparent to the average user, enabling them to provide invaluable insight to their clients. Mishell runs the back end of things, handling client communications, website maintenance, and schedule management to support Dom’s skill set and enhance the client experience. We have traveled to and lived upon many different planetary lines ourselves which gives us unique insight and direct familiarity with many of their energies. Cosmic Vibrations has been featured in an article by NYLON magazine as well as on several prominent podcasts.
Astrocartography is an amazing resource, and it’s a sort of “life hack” to be able to see ahead of time what to expect when moving or traveling to a specific place. In addition to the traditional natal-based astrocartography chart, we also use a tool called local space that can tell you down to the street where the best area of a city is for you to live and work. We’ve done everything from helping people plan their yearly vacations, to helping young people choose a college, to selecting the best retirement area for individuals and couples. It takes a lot of the guesswork and stress out of these decisions when you can get a pretty good idea of what you’re going to feel and experience before you even get there! It’s also a great resource for families and couples because it allows us to compare and contrast charts to see where everyone is going to fit together and work the best in tandem so that there’s more fluidity and less strife in personal and familial relationships. We’ve had amazing success with our readings and so many people come back to us saying that they took our advice and everything is going so well in their new location. It’s wonderful to continue to see this information help so many people!
One of the things that truly sets Cosmic Vibrations apart from other astrocartography readers is the types of services we offer. We offer not only readings for individuals and couples, which is pretty standard, but we also do family readings for anywhere from 3-6 people at a time. It’s quite a challenging thing to balance the number of charts required for these readings, and we are really proud of the success we’ve had with our client families. We also offer some combination readings, one where we combine an astrocartography and natal chart reading, and another where we combine partner synastry with astrocartography. These are unique experiences for our clients and we’ve been super pleased with the response from those who have received them!
We’d love to hear the story of how you built up your social media audience?
Honestly it was kind of just luck to start out with – but I (Dom) was living on my Jupiter line at the time, which does lend a propensity for notoriety and good luck. So we would probably say live on Jupiter on your main chart or on Local Space if you can. You can also source things from your success lines like Jupiter, Venus, and Sun in terms of the connections you’re making, the products you’re buying, and the media you’re consuming. We do have a great digital product on our website called Astrocartography Basics to help you learn to read your own chart and find your best lines, so if you’re looking to use astrocartography to give your social media a boost, that’s a great place to start!
Outside of using astrocartography, we would probably say try to post consistently about topics and things you’re passionate about. We haven’t solved the algorithm puzzle quite yet, but we do feel that our videos do better when I’m speaking on a topic I’m super passionate about. It just brings up the energy of the video if I’m really excited about what I’m sharing. Another tip is to try to be consistent in posting and going live. I won’t lie this one has been a struggle for me because I get in my head about whether the video will be received well or not at times. So I’d definitely say try to just enjoy the process if possible even if not all of your videos are doing well. Try to be authentic and talk to people in the comments because you never know who you’re helping by answering a question, or even simply saying hi! And be grateful to the followers you do have. I remember thinking 1,000 was a lot, and then 20,000 was so many – but now we’re almost at 200,000 followers on TikTok which is wild! I have to remind myself sometimes that it’s not about the follow count – it’s about how many lives we’re changing and making an impact on, how many people we can give hope and validation to, how many people can learn from our content and improve their lives even in the smallest of ways.
I would say the bottom line is just do it from the heart and don’t obsess on it and the rest will follow. People just want to be able to relate to you so I think that’s what matters above all.
What’s been the best source of new clients for you?
We bring in a ton of clients through our educational and entertaining TikTok channel – we are constantly gaining new followers and receiving inquiries about our services from viewers. But we have also started to receive a ton of clients from referrals. And that’s really just been so fun to see because every time we get another referral, it just reinforces to us how much we are helping people and how pleased they are with the quality of service we give them! It’s just really validating and makes us feel like we are in fact doing what we were meant to do.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://cosmicvibrations.info/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cosmicvibrations111
- Other: TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@cosmic_vibrationsDirect booking website: https://cosmicvibrations.as.me/schedule/5ed86aac/
Image Credits
All images are either taken by us, designed by us, or purchased for commercial use by our business. Also: the picture of our cat Theo is included because he is quite well-known and recognized among our followers. We have also done some “catstrocartography” videos where he “narrates.”