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Blog Post 24 July 2018 Yes, folks, it’s that time again!! And for many of you I am sure you are already feeling the effects of the shadow phase of this Retrograde period?  The official Mercury Retrograde period begins on 27 July and finishes on 18 August (NZ time) but...

Blog Post – 10 July 2018 On 13 July 2018 (NZ time), we have the first of three very powerful eclipses.  This first eclipse will be a Solar Eclipse in Cancer.  This means that the New Moon – in Cancer, will move between the Sun – also in Cancer, and the earth.  In...

Blog Post -  3 July 2018 On 4 July, Chiron the wounded healer, turns Retrograde in Aries adding to the intensity of Jupiter, Saturn, Pluto, Mars, Neptune and the North Node all already in Retrograde motion. Chiron moving into Retrograde is really the icing on the cake...

Blog Update 27 June 2018 Thursday’s Full Moon in Capricorn will conjunct Saturn in Capricorn meaning that the full effect of both of these planetary energies will be felt at this time.  The Moon rules our emotional bodies and inner worlds, whereas Saturn rules our...

Blog Post 20 June 2018 On 27 June Mars the planet of drive, war, determination, anger and passion will move into Retrograde motion in Aquarius.  Mars will begin his Retrograde cycle in Aquarius which will spark within us all an undeniable need to release suddenly and...

Blog Post 15 June 2018 On 19 June, the planet of illusion, deception, imagination and spirituality moves into Retrograde motion in Pisces.  Neptune has been sitting at home in Pisces since 2011 and will not be leaving this sign until 2025.  So, not only are we all...

Blog Post 6 June 2018 TAKING BACK YOUR POWER AND HONOURING YOUR INNER REBEL Blog Post 6 June 2018 What a past few weeks it has been?!  This has been a time of great activity in the cosmos and therefore on the earth plane as well.  The move of Mars into Aquarius and...

BLOG POST - 11 May 2018 On 16 May the most significant planetary shift of 2018 takes place. For the first time in 84 years the planet of sudden and unexpected change, Uranus, will move into Taurus.  Uranus has been in Aries since February 2010 bringing disruption and...

Blog Post - 3 May 2018 How are you all?  If you are feeling overwhelmed, despondent, angry, ashamed, full of regret or just downright bogged down by your life right now, then you are right on track! This combination of Pluto the transformer, Saturn the taskmaster and...

BLOG POST 24 April 2018 We now have three of the biggest planetary powers of the cosmos in Retrograde motion.  Pluto has now joined both Jupiter and Saturn on the internal journey making now the time for some intense learning and transformation. The biggest challenge...

17 April 2018 The planet Chiron is not particularly well known, but from an Esoteric Astrology perspective, it has huge significance for the soul’s journey and what the soul is here to learn about healing.  Chiron is known as the “wounded healer” and where he sits in...

Blog Post 12 April 2018 On Monday we are out of Mercury Retrograde and it is time for us to put into practise all that we have re-assessed, re-learned and re-discovered about ourselves and our lives over the last three weeks.  This Mercury Retrograde has been and...

Blog Post - 27 March 2018 There has been much written by many on the power of “forgiveness”.  For many of us it can be a long, emotional and difficult road to get to this state of awareness.  We know that we will feel so much better, and that we can move ahead with...

BLOG UPDATE - 19 March 2018 On 24 March, Mercury - the planet of communication, joins the North Node and Jupiter in Retrograde motion.  Mercury will be in Aries when he turns which could feel a bit like someone just pulled the handbrake on when you thought it was full...

6 March 2018 As we enter March we enter into the start of “fire season”.  Astrologically we are now moving into the final days of the 2017 zodiac year, with a new year starting when the Sun moves into Aries on 21 March.  Although we are not quite there yet, the energy...

27  February 2018 The Sun has now moved into the dreamy, creative and highly spiritual energy of Pisces, where he meets up with Venus, Mercury, Chiron, Neptune and Juno.  This makes for a powerful line-up of planets all of which will be influencing us with their...

13 February 2018 On February 15/16 we have a Partial Solar Eclipse in Aquarius.  As this is a partial eclipse the energy is not as intense as when it is a full eclipse, nevertheless the effect will be there and the energies can be made use of by us all. This Eclipse...

31 January 2018 Here we are at the end of the first month of 2018 – a month that started with a Super Full Moon and now is finishing with an even more powerful one. Eclipses represents endings and beginnings and they occur twice per year in pairs – lunar and solar. ...

2018 – AND SO IT BEGINS…. 23 January 2018  Welcome to a new year and a new beginning, and welcome to 2018 the Year of the Sacred Relationship.  This is a year when we are being asked to assess and evaluate our relationships with others and whether they support and...

HAPPY NEW YEAR – 2018 THE YEAR OF THE SACRED RELATIONSHIP 31 December 2017 2018 starts with a beautiful Full Moon in the caring and compassionate sign of Cancer.  This Full Moon showers the earth plane with the energy of love, understanding, intuition and empathy and...

SATURN INTO CAPRICORN – REWARD THROUGH EFFORT 15 December 2017 In just 6 days’ time, Saturn our mighty teacher and disciplinarian, will shift out of Sagittarius where he has spent the last three years, and into Capricorn where he will remain until December 2020....

Star-Wise Blog 22 November 2017   The planet of illusion, creativity, imagination, deception and spirituality is now in stationery motion getting ready to turn Direct in Pisces.  For the last approximately 5-6 months this powerful outer planet has been in...

STAR-WISE UPDATE 17  November 2017 On Sunday 19 November we have a New Moon in Scorpio.  New Moons represent new beginnings so they are the perfect time in any month to put out your intentions and goals for the coming month.  Sometimes New Moons are supported by other...

STAR-WISE BLOG POST 28 October 2017 We are currently in a time of massive energy shifts, downloads, changes and endings, and many people are reeling from what life is presenting to them.  2017 is a Number 1 Year in a 9 Year Cycle. Therefore, this year has been all...

10 October 2017 For the past 14 months the planet of growth and expansion, Jupiter, has been transiting through the astrological sign of Libra.  This transit has encouraged us all to look at and learn how to best balance out our lives in every way.  Although the...

21 September 2017 The planet Pluto is one of the most powerful planets in our Solar System when it comes to personal and global change.  He is the planet of transformation and his job is to teach us to master the very depths of ourselves as well as all that we do, so...

12 September 2017 It is said that the energies created by the annual Eclipses stretch out and affect us for up to 6 months after the actual event - and I feel that due to the power and intensity of last month’s Solar Eclipse in particular, that this energy is going to...

6 September 2017 Mercury the planet of communication and mischief is now in Direct motion and we can all breathe a sigh of relief that what we choose to move forward with, can go through without disruption.  If you have spent your time during his Retrograde period...

23 August 2017 So how is everyone feeling as we immerse ourselves in the Eclipse energy?  For myself it has brought an even greater awareness of the importance of our own self-care and own true self – Leo energy.  And the opposing yet extremely relevant energy of...

18 August 2017 We are just a few days away from the Solar Eclipse in Leo and can’t you feel the energy building?  The combination of the build-up of this energy and the current Mercury Retrograde are tricky to navigate to say the least.  Eclipses spur us forward and...

3 August 2017 The planetary activity we will experience this month is nothing short of life-changing!  And I cannot emphasise enough the need to go with whatever is being presented to you… no matter how different and scary it may feel…. Uranus the planet of sudden and...

  I would like to take this opportunity to talk to you about Energy.  We are all made up of energy.  Every word we say, every thought we have and every action we take contains energy, and energy must flow.  Therefore attached to every energy is motion.  When you...

“Emotional detachment” is our ultimate goal on the earth plane as Spirits having a human experience. When I say this to people, many feel that this means that they won’t feel any emotions at all, or, that they have to live in a state of permanently giving in too...

On 9 July 2017 we have a Full Moon in Capricorn which will move across the planet of transformation Pluto, who has been transiting through this energy since 2008. As Capricorn energy rules our ambition and need for trust and faith, and the Moon rules our emotions,...

As an Esoteric Astrologer, Saturn has always seemed to me to be the most important player in our Astrological Charts and in the heavens above.  This is because he is our Teacher and our Disciplinarian.  He is not the friendly “I’ll give you straight A’s because you...