Coco Santos, Financial Astrologer
- Conscious Collective
- Apr 24, 2024
- 5 min read
Updated: Feb 10
Coco Santos Financial Astrologer, is a strategic advisor and spiritual teacher whose work integrates traditional astrological principles with modern financial wisdom and effective business strategy. With a professional background spanning marketing, public relations, and business development across multiple industries, Coco brings a rare synthesis of mundane expertise and esoteric practice to both the financial and spiritual markets.
Coco's Work as a Financial Astrologer
Coco Santos is based in the Philippines and serves a global clientele, not just as a financial astrologer and spiritual practitioner, but as the Founder and Spiritual Director of Collective Philippines. Coco’s practice represents an evolution of astrology beyond personal insight into a comprehensive system for financial discernment, professional alignment, and conscious wealth creation. Drawing from classical astrological traditions such as the Tetrabiblos by Ptolemy and Christian Astrology by William Lilly, Coco’s consultations and teaching style are rooted in proven tradition while remaining deeply relevant to contemporary economic and social realities.
Coco’s practice in financial astrology combines a mastery of Electional Astrology, Horary Astrology, and Locational Astrology (or Astrocartography) to analyze and align strategic decision-making for business, career development, and financial planning. This technical foundation in astrological technique is further refined through Coco’s extensive experience in corporate and entrepreneurial ventures, allowing for a highly analytical and results-oriented approach to business astrology.
Coco's Spiritual Journey into Astrology
The turning point in Coco’s professional career that led to his spiritual journey was a period of financial failure and experiencing bankruptcy at a relatively young age. This experience catalyzed a departure from conventional models of success and initiated a deeper inquiry into purpose, alignment, and destiny. Through this process, astrology emerged not as an abstract belief system, but as a navigational tool capable of addressing the non-mundane variables that traditional financial models often fail to account for; including personal circumstances, relationship dynamics and psychological patterns.
Coco’s early days as an astrologer began like any typical practitioner with natal charts and love readings, eventually blending his professional experience while expanding into financial and career-focused consultations. During the pandemic, an unprecedented influx of individuals seeking clarity and direction transformed Coco’s private practice into a full-time vocation and mission. Coco Santos, Financial Astrologer was born with Coco's launch of @DearCoco.Live, hosting live astrology readings through a cartoon cat persona. The initial response laid the groundwork for a rapidly growing spiritual practice.
After years of fully dedicating himself to his craft, Coco’s practice evolved to serve professionals, entrepreneurs, and organizations navigating periods of stagnation, transition or uncertainty. Through his work, seekers rapidly find renewed career clarity, creative solutions to financial distress, strategic breakthroughs in business development, and a restored sense of purpose. Despite his commercial success, Coco's spiritual journey takes him beyond his private counseling and corporate consultations. His most enduring legacy remains to be the mentorship of his students in the Seeker’s Circle; many whom have grown to become successful practitioners and influencers within the spiritual space and eventually long-term collaborators and business partners in various ventures moving forward.
Coco and the Seeker's Circle
Coco founded the Seeker’s Circle in 2019 with the intention to engage with seekers at a deeper level and to share his personal take on the practice. He established his own astrology curriculum, the Seeker's System, his personal take on astrological study and created a structured learning environment for students seeking formal instruction in astrology and spiritual development. The success of this newfound passion ultimately led to the formation of The Collective in 2020 and Collective Community in 2022, which has evolved into what is now known as Collective Philippines. Coco continues to serve as the spiritual mentor of their organization, guiding its vision as it evolves into an international hub for authentic spiritual service, education, and collaboration.
“The Seeker’s Circle is guided by the idea: "Astra inclinant, sed non obligant" The stars incline us, they do not bind us.” Coco says, emphasizing a vision of astrology that honors both cosmic awareness and human self-expression. In this framework, astrology is not a tool of fatalism but a map of potential, revealing the energetic currents of the cosmos without dictating the course of one's destiny. “It’s a hidden language that describes divine timing and celestial tendency, not conditional absolutes.”
At the heart of this approach lies a principle of cosmic determinism; the idea that celestial forces participate in shaping the conditions of earthly life, but do so within a spectrum of probability rather than inevitability. The stars may describe the field in which our stories unfold, but they do not write the script. Instead, they offer a divine context, a cosmic architecture, within which the soul engages with, in order to author its own destiny. Astrology becomes a bridge between fate and free will; which Coco then guides seekers through, towards insight, action, achievement and fulfillment for the future.
Coco's Guiding Principles
At the core of Coco’s philosophy is the belief that financial well-being and spiritual fulfillment are not opposing pursuits, but complementary dimensions of a balanced life. His ongoing work in his field reframes wealth as a conscious practice rooted in mindfulness and in intentional alignment rather than excess or material obsession. Through the lens of astrology and the stars, money, ambition, and enterprise are understood as integral components of the human experience when approached conscientiously and ethically.
Rooted in this philosophical balance, Coco’s practice champions discernment, humility, and socially conscious decision-making. Astrology, in this view, is not predictive in a rigid sense but a co-creative dialogue between the seeker and the cosmos, where wisdom arises from both reflection and reception.
Coco's Vision for the Collective
Looking towards the future, Coco envisions an emergent spiritual culture shaped by collective awareness, grounded metaphysical literacy and radical inclusivity; in which spiritual practice is no longer isolated, abstract, or detached from lived social realities. Central to this vision is the cultivation of a Conscious Collective: a network of practitioners, thought leaders, and seekers who are not only spiritually attuned, but ethically anchored and socially engaged.
This Conscious Collective is grounded in the belief that spiritual maturity must express itself beyond awareness and discernment but through service and stewardship. Ancient wisdom and esoteric traditions are honored and respected, but not romanticized. Instead, they are integrated with a modern sense of social awareness, civic responsibility, and practical servant leadership. The result is a generation of spiritually literate individuals capable of navigating the complexity of the evolving socio-cultural landscape; bridging inner work with outer impact and personal transformation with collective well-being.
The Collective Mission
Through Collective Philippines and the continued expansion of the Seeker’s Circle, Coco seeks to foster an ecosystem where spiritual insight is translated into meaningful action. Within this framework, practitioners are encouraged to understand themselves not merely as individual seekers of enlightenment, but as participants in an interdependent field of consciousness; responsible for how wisdom, influence, and spiritual power are applied in society and the world today.
In this vision, spirituality becomes a shared language of purpose rather than an escape
from reality: a unifying force that aligns consciousness, community, and action in service of a more coherent, ethical, and awakened society.
“This is the task: to walk with the stars. Not in submission to them, but in reverent dialogue. To live with clarity, humility, and purpose as co-authors in a universe that is both meaningful and mysteriously alive.”
- Coco Santos, Financial Astrologer 2020
