To mark this Fest, I thought I’d put together a list of ten quality in-depth posts, events and interviews by leading astrologers and organisations, compiled over the last few weeks as excitement and anticipation builds re what this new 14 year Jupiter/ Uranus cycle may bring. Immerse yourselves – and when you surface, feel free to leave comments on your impressions and personal experiences of any dimension of this exciting, challenging, disturbing and liberating planetary conjunction as it continues with its ancient symbolic task of seeing no limits – challenging old frontiers and re ..read more

We really had a good time at The Yoga Extension in Glasgow on 10th February 2024: I offered an open Questions and Answers session on Astrology – taking enquirers way beyond the popular Sun Signs – and was really impressed with the range and depth of the questions as well as with attendees open-minded attitudes. The Big Why? I told those present that I had had the typical astro-dismissers attitude ie willingness to rubbish a subject with a 6000 year old pedigree from a standpoint of little or no actual knowledge – until I encountered an astrologer in a launderette (in Bath, England, of all pla ..read more

Total solar eclipses really get people going: the internet is currently awash with opinion and prediction as well as stunning images from the recent eclipse. This ranges from the pragmatism of pointing out that (as with all astro-events), the potential for shadow and light co-exists, to outright doom-mongering. This 19 Aries solar eclipse – which was exact at 18.21 GMT on 8th April 2024 – is no exception. Given its line up with the North Node, Chiron and Eris all in Aries at a time in the world which no-one could describe as peaceful and harmonious, one can understand why. However, we have be ..read more

Excitement is now building as we approach a major symbolic event in the astrological calendar: the most exciting, disruptive, dynamic planetary conjunction of the whole pantheon: the meeting of Jupiter and Uranus. As we advance towards the conjunction on 21st April 2024, Jupiter/Uranus is now preparing to settle into a new 14-year cycle, continuing with its ancient symbolic task of seeing no limits as it challenges old frontiers and reveals startling new vistas of experience and discovery.  As a human community, we are beginning a new voyage into the Unknown. Comfort and securit ..read more

As we advance towards the conjunction in April 2024, Jupiter/Uranus is now settling into a new 14-year cycle, following on the ones I researched in 1997/8 and 2010/11, continuing with its ancient symbolic task of seeing no limits as it challenges old frontiers and reveals startling new vistas of experience and discovery. As a human community, we have begun a new voyage into the Unknown. Comfort and security are never key features of such voyages…. My colleague Victor Olliver, well-known astrologer, editor of the UK’s world-renowned The Astrological Jour ..read more

I wrote this to celebrate my love of astrology, 10 years ago. Still feel just the same… (i) “Six thousand years ago, when the human mind was still half asleep, Chaldean priests were standing on their watchtowers, scanning the stars.” ( from The Sleepwalkers by Arthur Koestler ) Scanning the Stars I love knowing that the rational, mythical, symbolic and empirical art of astrology has been around for at least six thousand years. Our increasing contemporary awareness of the interconnectedness of all things was well known in antiquity: the ancient maxim “As above, so below” still applies. Astrolog ..read more

My fascination with the Moon’s Nodes goes back a long way: to birth with the North Node exactly conjunct a 29 Taurus MC (ninth house side). This fated me to the dedicated pursuit of vocational life, centred on teaching and big picture pursuits, most notably astrology which I began to teach on the approach to the second Nodal Return in my mid thirties and which has continued in one form or another ever since.  So – for those of you who are coming fresh to this important dimension of astrological symbolism, what ARE the Moon’s Nodes? Work your way through what’s on offer here, and you will ..read more

Helene’s question: How does it work when you do a birth chart for twins? Or two babies born the same minute at the same hospital?  Can two people have the same horoscope!? My Answer: During many years of teaching astrology classes, I found that the above questions came up very frequently. It is important at this point to emphasise to readers who are familiar only with Sun Signs that to get ‘beyond the Sun Signs’ requires an individual’s horoscope to be drawn up for the date, place AND time of birth. Human beings are complex and contradict ..read more

….and who knows what the answer will be! Astrologers are always being asked questions. By clients. By students. By interviewers for various media outlets. By open-minded members of the public. By closed-minded-members of the public. By one’s friends and family. The list is endless, the questions multifarious, the answers? Well, that depends. If you want to ask ME any questions, do drop by The Yoga Extension, First Floor, 5 Newton Terrace Ln, Glasgow G3 7PB, from 13.00 to 14.15 pm on Saturday 10th February 2024 where I am hosting a Talking About Astrology session for the redoubtable Franc ..read more

Some lively recent feedback from Rob G 01/24: ‘…Have been reading your books. HOLY Cow! You been reading my mail? Not to get too deep into it (unless you want to) but both your books, “The Moon’s Nodes” and “Jupiter Meets Uranus” touch on pretty much the major turning points in my life! From discovering astrology in 1979 (Uranus over my south node) and getting back into theater right after then, to 1997 (Jupiter/Uranus right on my Moon) and the end of a major relationship and beginning of a lot of independent art work, going full tilt at the time… into modern pagan living…Now, April ..read more