Here in southeast Queensland spring is around the corner – not that we really get a spring as such. While we don’t have frosts so don’t get the blossoms and the bulb flowers that herald the coming of spring elsewhere, I can feel it in…
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Mercury Retrograde August 2023
In our lives, we are so busy multi-tasking, juggling devices and schedules that we forget to notice the details. We miss things. For me, Mercury retrograde has always been that time when we’re reminded that a little back-tracking, a little revision, a …
There’s Someone I Forgot To Be
The other day I set out to write about the Leo New Moon and ended up writing about football. While the themes were the same – getting over imposter syndrome to roar (or shine) – it wasn’t the new moon post I wanted to write. Besides, …
Leo New Moon – Hear Me Roar
New Moon 23 Leo August 16, 2023, 7.39pm AEST Last Saturday night the Australian women’s football (soccer) team – the Matildas – made history in beating France in an epic game that stretched into 3 hours and involved the longest penalt…
Pisces New Moon
New Moon 20 March 2019 1 Pisces 22’ “One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.” – Friedrich Nietzsche As I do each month at the New Moon I revisit my journal from previous years. This time 5 years a…
Aquarius New Moon
I don’t know a lot about Chinese astrology, but I do know that this is the year of the Rabbit, or the Water Rabbit to be precise. I’ve also read a lot that I like about the year of the Rabbit. Things like hope and longevity, and the colours azure…
Aquarius New Moon
I don’t know a lot about Chinese astrology, but I do know that this is the year of the Rabbit, or the Water Rabbit to be precise. I’ve also read a lot that I like about the year of the Rabbit. Things like hope and longevity, and the colours azure…
Cancer Full Moon – January 2023
While we didn’t have any time off work over the festive period – after all, we had five weeks away on holidays last year – we’ve had house guests on and off since the week before Christmas. We live in a tourist area so have also had plenty of people fr…
New Moon, New You
As the Sun moves through each sign of the zodiac in the space of a year, there will be a New Moon in that sign. Just as the Sun touches all of the “houses” for one month each year, bringing attention to that part of life, so too there is the opportunity of a new […]
Capricorn New Moon
I haven’t written astrology for so long that it no longer feels like “I’m back, baby!” than I’m starting over. And while I’ve been contemplating a fresh start on the blog for a while now, it seems appropriate to make that fresh start at the Capricorn New Moon. I’m not sure why I stopped writing […]