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Astrology for September 2023
This month we see Venus turning direct on Sep 4 and Jupiter moving retrograde from Sep 5. Then from Sep 16 Mercury also turns direct and the usual pace of life resumes. Jupiter retrograde gives us a period of the year when desire is more consciously suppressed to...
The Astrology for August 2023
The planetary delineations described below are for the location of Melbourne, Australia and so you will need correct this for your location when reading these blogs. Also keep in mind that my days begin from midnight and not dawn. The month begins with a strong...
Astrology for July 2023
This month starts with Neptune moving retrograde followed by Venus and Chiron later in the month. It begins a time of when we are more able to comprehend realities beyond our own as the boundaries between the conscious and unconscious begin to dissolve. If Neptune...
Astrology for June 2023
As the month opens, the Sun has been travelling through the constellation of Gemini for ten days and so coming to the fruition of the Full Moon shortly thereafter. The journey through Gemini marks the solar month where you are focused upon your relationships in your...
Astrology for May 2023
May commences in the midst of the early eclipse cycle of this year. The Total Solar Eclipse, the incoming cosmic energy, came on April 20, just prior to Mercury turning retrograde, and the Penumbral Lunar Eclipse, the outgoing cosmic energy, occurs on May 5. The...
Mercury retrograde in April-May 2023
The first period of Mercury retrograde for 2023 occurs in the sign of Taurus and commences on April 21 at 6:35 PM AEST and finishes on May 15 at 1:17 PM AEST. Taurus governs security, finances, possessions and all things of beauty in your life. Everything that entices...
Astrology for April 2023
This month began with Mars in Cancer trine to Saturn in Pisces with the theme of how to hold, support and protect others during this next saturnine phase of the two and a half years before Saturn then moves into Aries. There is a patience and willingness to do...
Astrology for March 2023
The Full Moon for the Solar Pisces month is on 7 or 8 March depending upon where you are in the world. It marks the heightening of this last Solar month of the zodiac year culminating in sacrifice and surrender. It marks a time when personal fulfilment is supported...
Astrology and Tissue Salts
There are few but a couple of strong associations between homeopathy and astrology. One which is the same for any form of medicine is of the timing of treatment and the preparation of medicines or remedies. This involves much in depth understanding of both astrology...
Astrology for February 2023
I am putting this up a week into the month of February, delayed by the constraints of a busy time for the beginning of this new year. So from January 22 we had the beginning of the month of Aquarius. A social time as well as a month for realigning with our ideals and...
Astrology for September 2023
This month we see Venus turning direct on Sep 4 and Jupiter moving retrograde from Sep 5. Then from Sep 16 Mercury also turns direct and the usual pace of life resumes. Jupiter retrograde gives us a period of the year when desire is more consciously suppressed to...
The Astrology for August 2023
The planetary delineations described below are for the location of Melbourne, Australia and so you will need correct this for your location when reading these blogs. Also keep in mind that my days begin from midnight and not dawn. The month begins with a strong...
Astrology for July 2023
This month starts with Neptune moving retrograde followed by Venus and Chiron later in the month. It begins a time of when we are more able to comprehend realities beyond our own as the boundaries between the conscious and unconscious begin to dissolve. If Neptune...
Astrology for June 2023
As the month opens, the Sun has been travelling through the constellation of Gemini for ten days and so coming to the fruition of the Full Moon shortly thereafter. The journey through Gemini marks the solar month where you are focused upon your relationships in your...
Astrology for May 2023
May commences in the midst of the early eclipse cycle of this year. The Total Solar Eclipse, the incoming cosmic energy, came on April 20, just prior to Mercury turning retrograde, and the Penumbral Lunar Eclipse, the outgoing cosmic energy, occurs on May 5. The...
Mercury retrograde in April-May 2023
The first period of Mercury retrograde for 2023 occurs in the sign of Taurus and commences on April 21 at 6:35 PM AEST and finishes on May 15 at 1:17 PM AEST. Taurus governs security, finances, possessions and all things of beauty in your life. Everything that entices...
Astrology for April 2023
This month began with Mars in Cancer trine to Saturn in Pisces with the theme of how to hold, support and protect others during this next saturnine phase of the two and a half years before Saturn then moves into Aries. There is a patience and willingness to do...
Astrology for March 2023
The Full Moon for the Solar Pisces month is on 7 or 8 March depending upon where you are in the world. It marks the heightening of this last Solar month of the zodiac year culminating in sacrifice and surrender. It marks a time when personal fulfilment is supported...
Astrology and Tissue Salts
There are few but a couple of strong associations between homeopathy and astrology. One which is the same for any form of medicine is of the timing of treatment and the preparation of medicines or remedies. This involves much in depth understanding of both astrology...
Astrology for February 2023
I am putting this up a week into the month of February, delayed by the constraints of a busy time for the beginning of this new year. So from January 22 we had the beginning of the month of Aquarius. A social time as well as a month for realigning with our ideals and...
Astrology for the week of 7 -14 January
We have been into our next period of Mercury retrograde for just over a week now. This one is the first in the earth series which we will be having this year and commencing in Capricorn. It raises the question ‘what are the tangible results of directing my energies in...
Astrology for December 2022
With the Sun transiting through Sagittarius this month, the opportunities arise here to explore more broadly. To develop your way of being in the world through doing things differently. This will broaden your beliefs but the complete reverse can also be true as this...
Astrology for November 2022
So towards the end of last month we had the partial Solar Eclipse in Scorpio which raised old problems stemming from mid May 2022 with the previous Lunar Eclipse and so it is now seeking closure. Those most impacted by this have their birthdays over the mid degrees of...
Astrology for October 2022
Mercury moves direct from October 3, making this the time for action. No more reflecting and planning but striking out with your revised understandings to direct you. Making the changes you can and knowing what it is you need to let be as you cannot influence it, is...
Astrology for September 2022
The test of service summarises the transit of the Sun through Virgo. This is the sign where we begin to critically analyse our personal impact on others. It is a result of this we then reorientate and start to look outside of our personal worlds and consider others....
Astrology for August 2022
This month calls for a personal revolution with Uranus featuring strongly and backed up by the transits of the other planets. It begins with a restless searching energy as Mars conjuncts Uranus over the North Node in Taurus. The new cycle of the annular unfolding of...
Astrology for June 2022
This month life springs into action with Mercury turning direct from June 3. Amongst many things, it sees active debate around the public mandates and other health directives. The battle lines are drawn by truth between what is conspiracy versus government propaganda...
Astrology for May 2022
The month begins with the partial solar eclipse, visible over the southern portion of South America and the southern Pacific sea as well as parts of Antartica. This starts the first eclipse cycle for 2022, followed by the second cycle in November 2022. The following...
Astrology for April 2022
April begins with a unique patterning and symmetry in the heavens. All the planets and luminaries, Sun and Moon, form a tight bundle of about 104 degrees, a wide biseptile which is approximately 103 degrees. This angle is a part of the 7 series in numerology and...
Astrology for March 2022
This month your strength of faith is tested, to put it succinctly. The Sun transiting Pisces crosses the planetary giants, Jupiter and Neptune. This year began with Jupiter finally arriving in Pisces and with the Sun drawing near, the themes of these two become more...
Astrology for February 2022
The start of this month brings a tightening of the wedge or bundle configuration contained by Mars and Venus with Uranus within a 120 degree segment of the sky. This speaks to resourcefully concentrating upon a limited area of life, bound between Capricorn and Taurus,...
Astrology for January 2022
The new year begins in an internalised manner with Venus and Mercury conjuncting Pluto bringing also peculiar contacts with others as well as strong creative urges. The New Moon in Capricorn highlights the theme of examining your role within the broader social context...
Astrology for December 2021
The beginning of December sees Neptune go direct. In its annular journey it has been retrograde since the end of June and sensitivities and the urge for self change has been brewing. So now there awakens an anticipation that something will happen but as is the case...
Astrology for November 2021
While we have come out of the Mercury retrograde period of last month and are now busily getting things done with life shifting quickly, November will continue the theme of introspection with its penchant for self examination. It marks an annual turning point with our...
Astrology for October 2021
Feelings intensify this month as four planets slow their pace in retrograde motion before turning direct. Mercury only recently turned retrograde, at the end of last month, and won’t turn direct again for three weeks. In the sign of Libra, this indicates difficult...
Astrology for September 2021
The month gets off to a flying start with Mars opposite Neptune from 2 to 4 September. Saturn also adds its influence into this mix bringing instability, inferiority and misdirected energy. This evokes either fear and victimization or courage and determination. You...
Astrology for August 2021
August looks to be a fairly low key month in many regards which you are no doubt relieved to hear. The beginning of this month you will experience loneliness and isolation but only temporarily for a day or two. Then New Moon in Leo will be on August 9 and bring with...
Traniting Neptune through the Houses Part 4
Neptune in the tenth house begins with it first crossing the MC or midheaven. This brings a period of great confusion as to what it is you want to be doing with your life. Where you are heading. You may be disappointed by having had your expectations dashed. Allow for...
Transiting Neptune through the Houses Part 3
With Neptune transiting the seventh house, the crisis and change occurs through close relationships. If you meet someone new during this period, you will idealize them only to then have to deal with the disappointment of this partner being a flawed human being when...
Transiting Neptune through the houses Part 2
Neptune in the fourth house can affect us very profoundly as it signifies our connection to the rest of life with feelings of belonging being thrown into confusion. Crossing the cusp, the IC, provides a time for an inward focus, a re evaluation of your innermost needs...
Transiting Neptune through the houses
If you have had you natal astrology chart constructed then you will be able to reflect upon the challenges and aspirations you are currently encountering. Here is a brief outline of some of the key aspects to this transit. I acknowledge Howard Sasportas’ book ‘The...
Neptune In Pisces Part 3
The following cycle unfolded this vision through the Enlightenment and the establishment of the Royal Society towards the end of the seventeenth century. It signified science gaining broader social acceptance with notions of nothing being true unless one established...
Neptune In Pisces Part 2
The cycles of Neptune correlate well with major changes and reforms in the areas of medicine and our philosophical context within nature. That is, our relationship with the rest of nature. A retrospective look over the last eight hundred years or so, the beginnings of...
Neptune in Pisces
Neptune first entered Pisces in April 2011 before briefly returning to Aquarius between Aug 2011 and February 2012 when it finally remained in Pisces for this current period. That is, until January 2026 when it will move into Aries to begin a new cycle. So what is the...
Astrology for July 2021
Go slowly from the beginning of this month as there is a potential for accidents in this early part. The current pattern of instability and uncertainty about what will happen next continues to bubble below the surface. The tendency for resentment to build takes on a...
Astrology for June 2021
A prominent aspect this month is Saturn in Aquarius novile to Neptune in Pisces. Novile is forty degrees and the number of testing. It also represents the nine series with forty being the division of the circle by nine. So it is a testing through it representing the...
Astrology for May 2021
In some ways it is a month of quiet repose, beginning with Pluto moving retrograde once again, as it does for five months each year. Survival fears, feelings of powerlessness and death of the ego are the themes which arise during this period. At the beginning though,...
Astrology for April 2021
The issues in your life continue to evolve as your orientation to the struggles you experience change as well. Underlying concerns show themselves more clearly as you change tact, navigating new ways to achieve your goals. And whenever these are sabotaged, you may...
Astrology for March 2021
Continuing on from the Mercury retrograde phase in February, for all of March and the first nine days of April, these constitute the promethean phase of the Mercury cycle. The ideas fostered between the 11th and the 21st of February, now begin to take flight, are...
Astrology for February 2021
The grand conjunction we witnessed last year symbolised the lack of perspective in overcoming the existent power structures. Or the inability to act in a way different from the established vision of our society. Creating a tension for changes to our outmoded ways of...
Astrology for January 2021
The Aquarian theme is highlighted strongly this month with the dynamics of the elite and powerful versus the needs of the people being a central theme. In particular we have the inauguration of Biden on the 20th. Uranus finally turns direct from the retrograde motion...
Astrology for December 2020
In the concluding month to the great conjunction in Capricorn, both Jupiter and Saturn move into Aquarius on the 17th and the 20th, thus completing this highly stressful transit. The themes within society begin to shift from those concerned with duty and the...
Astrology for November 2020
This month begins with the full Moon in Taurus right over Uranus bringing with it surprises or upsets as well as maybe finding it hard to settle that day or you just won’t sleep so well. Not having your needs met can be upsetting but it also provides an opportunity to...
Astrology for October 2020
Once again this month begins with a full moon and this time in Aries, highlighting the general feisty vibe we are witnessing around the world with deep resentment and disenchantment. On the 4th of this month Pluto turns direct from retrograde, having been so since...
Astrology For September 2020
As we approach six months in lockdown in many societies across the world, there is a sense of resignation, of things never returning to the way they were as well as a lot of suppressed anger and rebellion. All the outer planets, apart from Mars, are now retrograde for...
Astrology For August 2020
This month begins abruptly with the full Moon in Aquarius square to Uranus in Taurus, particularly impacting all the Fixed signs. There still remains of course the ever present loose conjunction of Jupiter, Saturn and Pluto which continues to wreak havoc with the...
Astrology For Babies
Delineating horoscopes for babies can alleviate many months or years of trying to work out what is going on for your child. Most particularly when they are pre verbal and so cannot tell you what is distressing them and how to best redirect them. It is a skill parents...
Astrology For July 2020
This year and particularly the past few months has seen the dominating influence of the conjunction of Jupiter, Saturn and Pluto in Capricorn, beginning with the retrograde motions of Saturn and Jupiter. Now in July, Saturn has moved apart, leaving Jupiter and Pluto...