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Image: Leonora Carrington, the Star tarot card, 1955

Venus in Aquarius, Conjunct Pluto: Eros and the Will to Power.

January 21, 2026 No Comments

My point is that the cosmic feminine principle known throughout millennia as the goddess is today as likely to be subjected to deep fake counterfeit as anything else. Having already been somewhat demoted to goddess of romantic love, pleasure and material value in many modern astrological interpretations, it is wise to remember that Venus is a far more formidable essence of the feminine principle. It is clear, at least on the surface of today’s society, that eros is undeveloped and repressed.

Capricorn New Moon: The Ecstasy and Passion of Spirit in Matter.

January 18, 2026 No Comments

As Venus begins to leave the underworld she will meet Pluto two days later in an almost exact conjunction. In Sumerian mythology, when Ishtar (Sumerian Inanna) leaves the underworld, she must fulfil a strict law requiring that no one leave the realm of the dead without providing a substitute. Symbolically speaking this speaks to the eternal process of death and rebirth. On a psychological level, once we have retrieved and won back unconscious material from our personal unconscious and the collective unconscious, the processes of transformation, death and rebirth continue Ad infinitum.

2026: A New Vision (and “Gnostic Woman” offerings).

January 16, 2026 No Comments

At the centre of this enquiry sits the question of whether the individuation process is different for men and women. While the destination may be the same, the journey to get there, I believe, is different. As I dig deeper into this work, I realise that the female psyche has not been fully charted, and that Jung, that great mystic and mediator of the unconscious, for all his extraordinary insights had a somewhat problematic relationship with the feminine. As Jung himself acknowledged, “one understands nothing psychological unless one has experienced it oneself”.

The Red Thread of Feminine Becoming

January 13, 2026 No Comments

For women, in becoming conscious of not only their personal unconscious but the collective unconscious, recognising the ways in which female energy has been used, often beneath the veil, is necessary. As we enter 2026, a year that many are predicting is a time when uncomfortable truths will emerge, I suspect much of what has been hidden or obscured about the feminine psyche will be unveiled. It is however for women to claim and chart and own their own experiences.

In the reddening, we are called to be in service to something greater than ourselves, the difference is that once we are individuated, we are fully aware of how and to what or whom we are in service to.

Black & Gold: Menopause as Initiation.

January 9, 2026 No Comments

By consciously engaging the processes of alchemy and overlaying them onto the process of menopause, there is a natural affinity which places the transformative experience at the centre. What is becoming clear is that while menopause is undoubtedly a time of change, inner change does not necessarily happen unless the Prima Materia, that is the undifferentiated, chaotic, unconscious and raw material of our psyche is known and worked with, at least to some extent.

Inner Alchemy: The Citrinitas (the yellowing).

December 16, 2025 1 Comment

Yellow is the Threshold Between Shadow and Clarity~ As we journey through our Alchemy of Menopause workshops, we arrive at the citrinitas stage in the alchemical process. This feels

A Blue Light On The Dark Continent: Feminism, Freud, Greer & Bonnie Blue:

December 15, 2025 2 Comments

Whoever Bonnie Blue is, she was not created in a vacuum, she is an expression of the collective unconscious which like it or not we are being asked to face.

Like for Like: The Things of our Soul~

December 5, 2025 No Comments

What comes with us, and what stays in the previous chapters of our lives. How do we want to move forward in our lives? Who do we want to be? These are among some of the questions we are exploring.

December Supermoon in Dualistic Gemini: A Tale of Two Snakes

December 4, 2025 1 Comment

“A Tale of Two Snakes” by Karen Mullen Smith This supermoon in Gemini highlights the opposing forces within us personally and in the

Ophiuchus: The Serpent’s Wisdom.

November 29, 2025 No Comments

Ophiuchus is sometimes known as the 13th sign of the zodiac, and although tropical astrologers often dispute this, there is no doubt that the right foot of the serpent bearer does in fact touch the ecliptic.
Being the 13th sign amplifies Ophiuchus’ association with the occult, the secret, and the invisible… perhaps there are those who would like to keep the secret to themselves.

Venus in Aquarius, Conjunct Pluto: Eros and the Will to Power.

Capricorn New Moon: The Ecstasy and Passion of Spirit in Matter.

2026: A New Vision (and “Gnostic Woman” offerings).

The Red Thread of Feminine Becoming

Black & Gold: Menopause as Initiation.

Inner Alchemy: The Citrinitas (the yellowing).

A Blue Light On The Dark Continent: Feminism, Freud, Greer & Bonnie Blue:

Like for Like: The Things of our Soul~

December Supermoon in Dualistic Gemini: A Tale of Two Snakes

Ophiuchus: The Serpent’s Wisdom.

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