It’s not your lizard brain – it’s the culture
I’m sick of hearing about the lizard brain. You know the drill: the seat of our fear. Blah blah. It’s like the ‘sabre tooth tiger’ meme – if I hear yet another personal-development coach talking about…
Notes from the Field
Potent forces align for change
January 12, 2020. We can think of this particular juncture of astrological time as ‘cosmic acupuncture’. We’re experiencing particular ‘nodal point’ activations in a systemic treatment that has been taking place for the last year and…
Scorpio & the universal law of threefold return
Recently, I came across an old astrological diagram that applied the term ‘retribution’ to Scorpio. We’ve heard about Scorpio’s ‘sting in the tail’. Retribution is a stinging term – very Biblical in its implications. Scorpios get…
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Earth magic: the message within the opal
Lately I’ve been immersed in the extraordinary beauty of opals. No other stone can deliver quite the character that opals can. Don’t get me wrong – I love many gemstones, but I believe that when we’re…
The natural wisdom of Libra: finding balance in motion
September’s equinox signals the Sun’s ingress into Libra. And, as the Sun crosses the equator, day and night are exactly the same length. Ancient people were much more in tune with seasons, so it’s no coincidence…
The infinite dance of dynamic equilibrium
Balance. Now there’s a thing to contemplate. We keep talking about a need for more balance in our lives as we feel flung this way and that by demands, obligations, the unexpected and the unplanned. Underneath…
Venus rising
The lunar eclipse of July 17th (7.38am AEST at 25º Capricorn) highlights Venus, in Cancer and close to the Sun. Since Venus invites us to open to the joys in our life, and to choose…
This eclipse season is asking you to hone in on where you belong.
The solar eclipse of the 3rd July (AEST) brings us officially into the 2019 ‘Eclipse Season’ (a biannual event – but these aren’t always a total eclipse like this one). Not visible to us in Australia,…
On seeking balance and finding the way through
Twice a year we are reminded, by the wisdom of the natural world, about cultivating the art of balance. As the sun hovers on the equator ready to favour either the northern or the southern hemisphere,…
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How to spend less time fixing yourself & more time being perfect
(Or: how jewellery, astrology & bodyfulness fit together) I’ve finally faced the fact that I’m the kind of person who can’t just do one thing, because I end up being bored witless. The reason…
Read this next time you’re longing to feel beautiful
Are you beautiful? Do you find that a provocative question? Perhaps it hits a nerve that has you listing the ways that you’re not, yet, beautiful. Or perhaps you shy back due to modesty… We don’t…
Stop hoping for that “One Defining Moment”
“If it would only take one word, perhaps one wise phrase to make us change, heaven would be easy to reach, here on earth.”** How often have we heard the story that every transformational book, every…