By Dr Neha Sharma
The Birth Chart as a Neuro-Somatic Map, a new book by Dr Neha Sharma, presents an interdisciplinary framework that brings neuroscience, trauma-informed awareness, and Vedic symbolic language into careful and non-deterministic dialogue.
Developed as part of the Neosomatics initiative, the book reframes the birth chart not as a predictive or causal instrument, but as a reflective symbolic map. It proposes an analogical approach in which the chart functions similarly to established psychological models—offering structured language for recognising recurring patterns in nervous system regulation, sensitivity, effort, withdrawal, and meaning-making.
Modern neuroscience has demonstrated that human experience is shaped at the level of the nervous system before it is consciously articulated. Breath shifts, posture adjusts, attention narrows or expands—often outside awareness. While research continues to deepen our understanding of these processes, individuals frequently lack frameworks that support real-time recognition of their own adaptive patterns.
This book suggests that what is often missing is not information, but orientation.
Importantly, The Birth Chart as a Neuro-Somatic Map is explicitly non-causal. It does not assert that planetary positions influence brain or body function. Instead, the birth chart is approached symbolically—much like personality or attachment frameworks in psychology—offering language for patterns without reducing experience to diagnosis, fate, or fixed identity.
Written from a trauma-informed perspective, the text emphasises adaptation rather than pathology. Patterns such as hypervigilance, emotional numbing, over-control, or exhaustion are explored as intelligent responses shaped by context and lived history. The work encourages a gentler, more humane approach to self-understanding grounded in nervous system awareness.
The book explores:
- The limits of cognitive insight in creating physiological regulation
- The role of symbolic mapping in supporting embodied awareness
- The birth chart as a mirror for pattern recognition rather than an identity script
- Regulation as a collaborative and relational process
- Reflective pauses designed to support orientation and somatic clarity
The Birth Chart as a Neuro-Somatic Map does not offer diagnoses, medical treatment, or prescriptive therapeutic techniques. It is not a substitute for professional care. Rather, it provides a reflective framework for integrative self-understanding that honours scientific inquiry, lived experience, and symbolic meaning without collapsing one into another.
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About The Author
Dr Neha Sharma is a biomedical research scientist and interdisciplinary scholar working at the intersection of integrative health, consciousness studies, and civilisational knowledge systems. Her work focuses on developing context-aware frameworks that bridge scientific research and culturally rooted models of understanding.
