Living with the Stars

  As promised, we'll take a look at the chart of the Lunar Eclipse on the 14th March 2025 and what story the sky was offering at that point in time. Lunar eclipses are said to bring closures, revelations, and transformative shifts. This particular eclipse in Virgo encourages the letting go of perfectionism and outdated systems that no longer serve you. It’s a moment to declutter both mentally and physically, creating space for sustainable growth and harmony. The Virgo-Pisces axis, activated during this eclipse, highlights the need to balance practicality (Virgo) with intuition and spirituality (Pisces). That's the gist of it. But wait, there's more.  One of the first things one notices about this lunar eclipse is that many of the planets seem to be on one side of the chart, and indeed they are splayed between Pisces and Aries. If you think of it as a bus, with the front wheels and the back wheels, it looks like (with the exception of the Moon) Mars the warrior is leading, p...

  The Full Moon on the 18th September 2024 is also a lunar eclipse, and occurs in the mystical sign of Pisces, bringing with it a wave of emotional and spiritual transformation. By virtue of it being a lunar eclipse, the emphasis is on the emotional nature of our being and the astrological understanding is that it is an internal process. Having said that, all change first occurs within and then occurs outward. So let's have a look at this Full Moon chart and what it may mean.  Tomorrow's celestial event promises to be a powerful time for personal growth and healing as it activates Pisces' intuitive and dreamy energies. We must keep this in mind as there are a few aspects which, upon reading this blog post, may leave you breathless. Here's why. If we look at the chart, the first thing we might notice is the position of the Moon at 25 degrees of the spiritual water sign of the fish. Neptune, the planet associated with idealism and delusion is right up there with the Moon ...

  As we approach the spring equinox, we come to the last New Moon of the zodiacal year - the Pisces New Moon at 20 degrees, which will grace our skies at 10:00 this morning.  Pisces is the sign associated with the two fish swimming in opposite directions, signifying the quality of this sign. It is a water sign and also a mutable sign. What does this mean?  The zodiac signs are not only classified as being water, air, fire and earth signs (the four elements) but also distinguished by the qualities - cardinal, fixed and mutable. Thus, any of the zodiac signs will embody the permutations of these two classes; Capricorn, for example, is an earth sign with a cardinal quality. Earth signs are practical. Cardinal signs 'initiate' things, fixed signs maintain the status quo, whilst mutable signs are flexible and go with the flow. Thus, Capricorn natives are practical with initiating ideas. In the case of Pisces, the notion of two fish swimming in opposite directions is very apt a...

This is a busy, busy month, and given the movements of some slow moving planets, it's hardly surprising. That, plus a Full Moon tomorrow, has astrologers all over the world busy tapping away at their keyboards describing the sky narrative that is unfolding. First and foremost is tomorrow's Full Moon in Virgo, which will be exact at 13:40 local time. Full Moons are all about things coming to fruition, so ask yourself what intentions you set for yourself 14 days ago at the New Moon. Virgo moons are all about getting our things in order, sorting the wheat from the chaff. It also relates to our state of health and how our bodies function on a daily basis.  The real star of the show tomorrow is Saturn, the planet to do with authority, putting in the hard work and organisation. The circled planet in the diagram on the right shows its position at the very end of Aquarius. Tomorrow, it will enter the sign of Pisces. Saturn typically takes about 29 years to orbit the Sun, so it spends t...

  What a week this has been! Anyone who has been watching the news will have remarked that the United Kingdom have had a changing of the guard, as it were. Not only did a new Prime Minister take office, but the very monarch whose hand they kissed passed away, making way for a new monarch to ascend to the throne. Think about it... the UK got a new PM and monarch within a matter of a few days. There is so much information to  look this week; astrologers who are into this kind of thing will have caste charts for Liz Truss and compared it to the chart of the United Kingdom (yes, countries do have birth charts), as well as looked at King Charles' birth chart and so many other charts that come to mind - including that of Elizabeth I. 😮 To avoid being technical, below find, in point form, some of the patterns that the astrology offers us:  1. Elizabeth the First was born on the 7th September 1533; Elizabeth the Second died on the 8th September 2022. The connections between thes...

  At precisely 18:34 this evening, 2nd March 2022, the Sun and Moon will align in the sky in what is called the 'New Moon', and occurs at 12 degrees of Pisces. Pisces is the sign of the fish in the sky and is associated with water. Interestingly, in the days of Jesus Christ, the sign of the two fish swimming in opposite directions was associated with the Christians - but back to this New Moon.  There is so much more going on in today's New Moon chart. First of all, you will notice that Mars, the planet associated with the warrior, occupies the same degree of Pluto the Transformer. Mars is also at its exaltation degree of 27 degrees Capricorn - a position which empowers it enormously. Mars in Capricorn is focused, determined, driven by hard cold facts. Pluto is in the final degrees of Capricorn, the house of business and finance. Having these two together in the sky at Mars' exaltation degree is pretty explosive. Just look at what is going on in the news - an invasion an...

  Full moons always arouse tales of superstition, witchery and the supernatural. Human behaviour has forever been associated with the waxing and waning of the moon. The word ‘lunacy’ is derived from the myth that the moon is responsible for odd behaviour. Wolves howl at full moons, witches fly – this is all stuff that has been thrown at us. Even Shakespeare refers to the moon, when in “Othello”, the maid Emilia tells Othello, “It is the very error of the moon/She comes more near the earth than she was wont/And makes men mad.” There is nothing witchy about this full moon, however. In astrological terms, this full moon occurs in Pisces at 28 degrees, that is, close to the end of Pisces (you might know that each zodiac sign is assigned 30 degrees). This is actually quite an auspicious Full Moon because it is very close to the degree at which ancients considered the planet Venus to be exalted, that is, in a particularly special and ‘good’ degree. Pisces is all about foregoing th...