Lived Experiment
ARC is informed by Max and Drew’s lived Experience, not only the Systems they have studied.
The People Behind Astral Roots
Two lives shaped by the question of where—and how—to belong.
ARC did not begin as an abstract theory. It emerged from migration, rupture, sacred study, fieldwork, ecological practice and the repeated discovery that Environment can amplify a Life or quietly diffuse it.
Co-Founder · 1 AJPU
Drew Ashley
Geo-Cosmic Consultant · Strategic Mystic · Pathfinder
Drew is a world-traveller, interdisciplinary anthropologist, musician and media producer whose work bridges structure and vision. A near-fatal accident interrupted the life he knew and initiated a long journey through yoga ashrams, indigenous communities, meditation and more than twenty-five years of sacred sciences.
Years spent living abroad revealed a repeating pattern: the same person could meet radically different opportunities, relationships and states of mind in different environments. Astrocartography gave technical language to what experience had already been teaching him. Today, Drew brings strategic clarity, cosmic timing and location sequencing to ARC’s work.
“Our multi-layered approach turns Relocation from a fantasy into a strategy.”
Co-Founder · 7 AAJ
Maxwell Benzie
Geo-Cosmic Consultant · Ethnobotanist · Earth Steward
Max is an explorer, field anthropologist, ethnobotanist, translator and ecological practitioner. His search for meaning led from a childhood marked by profound loss into nomadic life, medicinal plant wisdom, self-reliant communities and the psychospiritual landscapes of worldwide indigenous traditions.
Since integrating the Mayan Count of Days—the Tzolk’in—into daily practice, Max has worked to bring celestial systems back into conversation with land, food, healing and lived human relationship. He brings bioregional awareness, historical depth, academic rigour and the practical intelligence of someone who has built from the Earth with his own hands, cultivated medicinal plants and learned directly from Location as a form of cosmic intelligence.
“By seeing the Whole You through multiple lenses, we gain insight into the places and themes that help unveil your Personal Legend.”
Shared Ground
Rigour without Reductionism. Mystery without Evasion.
Multiple Lenses
No single Idea, Symbol or Cosmology is being asked to carry the entire Truth of a Person.
Human Agency
A Map can clarify a field of Possibility. The client remains the Author of their Destiny.
The Living Earth
Climate, Culture, Ecology, Community and Practical Reality perspectives reside within every geographical recommendation.
The First Threshold
Discover the Pathway that best describes your Present Life.
Begin with the Initial Orientation. Your answers reveal which channel may serve you best.