The end of a manic month.  Too tired to think, uploading in about twelve hours.  Meantime go here for some debate, here and here to see the next level of communication - translation anybody?  And here as a gentle reminder of how it started, only thirty years ago...

Within the next 24 hours, Mars in the heavens will oppose Uranus and then conjunct Saturn.  Both of these astronomical events occur on average about every 22 months, so for them to be on the same day is extremely rare - the only other time I've found in the last two hundred years is early May 1965, and that sub generation of individuals born at that time are really unusual.  Traditionally, these aspects symbolise accidents, anger and direct assertive and even confrontational action.  And later today, the Moon gets involved, opposing Mars and Saturn and conjuncting Uranus.  So I suppose that if any day really symbolises the ongoing pattern, today and tomorrow is it.  I read with interest that tomorrow represents an end to one of the Mayan schedules.  Of course astrology is an imprecise science/art, but seeing as where we collectively are right now is the peak point of astrological intensity there's nothing to lose and everything to gain by being as strong in yourself as you possibly can, by walking your talk and answering only to your own conscience and by simply being the best you can be.  Another nine days and I'll dare to start breathing again........

Ice cold, so cold, it's like skating on the top of the world, it's like that moment of pure bliss/pain when the acupuncture needle hits exactly the right point...  There's some type of fision, or fusion going on.  We're in that peak time where anything can (and probably will!) happen.  We are in the time of peak change that the whole of the last few decades has built to.  I feel as if my soul is exposed, and increasingly I'm becoming aware of how important aspirations for the future are.  The genetic time bombs are activating, both in the fields and in our backbrains.  It's like new programming, scary because of the novelty but exhilarating also.  I feel more effective and alive than I've ever felt in my life.  No going back now - and my intuitions and my sixth sense and my seventh sense are on fire.  It's the right time.

In the eye of the storm......   Mars and Saturn a degree away from each other with only the Equinox point seperating them, Venus catching up fast on the inside.  Two days time the Moon opposes Mars/Saturn and conjuncts Jupiter/Uranus, in nine days time it's the Grand Cross, in thirteen days time it's the new Moon on the '99 eclipse point, by the 22nd the pressure is nexual and from then on - pathways will open out.  And I feel totally out of control, as though I'm hurtling on a surfboard down some type of water chute towards this rapidly growing light in the near distance and I can't affect the speed or course of my movement, but if I can stand upright I can subtly affect the angle of the rudder and as a result give me a slight edge as I approach that light...  I find myself walking more upright, realising that everyone in my life is sort of OK, I'm OK - ish, and that I've done most if not everything I ever wanted, and thus every day is a bonus.  I remember in the old Castaneda books about how the realisation that every moment could be your ...

Full Moon in Aquarius about six hours ago, and whilst in the north we didn't see that much of it, the effects were notable.  I said on Friday that it was a good full Moon for taking chances, so let's hope my journey to London yesterday for breakfast proves successful.  More on that later.  But as of today, we're in the final run to the big line up of next week, with Mars already within range of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Pluto.  I guess the rhetoric will intensify over this coming week, opinions and positions will become more entrenched and the conflict between rigidity and flexibility will intensify.  Time to get real, everything over the last three or four years is now condensing into one peak experience that really could change everything, and whilst i would not disagree with the majority of astrologers who are predicting trouble, disaster etc, I find myself, after years of trepidation, feeling surprisingly good about it, a kind of 'whatever, bring it on, at least we're at end game'.  As I've said before only a few days ago, the effects of this time will last until the last Saturn/Pluto square in four weeks time and ...

Since start 2008 and Pluto's entry into Capricorn many people have been through traumatic times best described as intense and extreme.  Now, as Saturn squares Pluto for the final time all the boils are ready to burst, all the poison is emerging and all the fear is being eliminated, either willingly or kicking and screaming.  Saturn is exactly opposite Uranus, close to Jupiter exactly squaring Pluto.  And tomorrow's full Moon makes wonderful aspect to most of these planets, making tomorrow and the next few days our last window of opportunity to get it right before Mars gets incisive in very early August.  Great radio show yesterday, best so far, had John Wasdsworth on the show with me, as good an astrologer as I am.  He pointed out that we no longer need the critical mass needed to make the hundreth monkey effect happen, that with the web and the Jupiter/Uranus conjunction a small group of individuals can have a world wide effect overnight.  And as one of the techies said after the show, 'give me a bunch of astrological techno shamans above a bunch of priests any day'.

One of the most common themes I find when doing readings for people, outside of home and career, is that of relationships.  Chart comparison (synastry) is ten percent of my work, and the idea of finding ones' 'soul partner' is something I often find, it's as though people feel incomplete without that perfect twin.  And this never, ever happens.  I end up saying to people that the perfect partner is alive and on planet, but that they're ninety eight years old, blind and living in a cave in the Himalyas.  You're never going to meet them.  The desire for perfection in other is often an external manifestation of the desire for perfection within oneself, something that's clearly impossible.  98% is good enough, if you had 100% you'd have wings on your back and wouldn't need to be on planet.  Look not for perfection (that's so boring), look instead for people who are truly and constantly doing their best, knowing that they're never going to be good enough but that they're always getting better.  To quote Liz Greene; 'It is the effort, not the goal that is required of us.  It is the attempt, not the result, that invites the future'.

Saturn in Libra.  Lots of questions and worries about this - seriously, it's good for the vast majority of us in the long term.  Reflecting on people's worries so I projected Saturn forward in my chart and saw that in six months time he'll stand still for eight weeks exactly square my Sun.  And my immediate gut reaction was one of deep and raw delight, a kind of 'Yes! Bring it on!' attitude where I just know that it's going to be bxxxxy hard work with no short cuts over a long period of time but a challenge that is to be welcomed because - if you do it the hard way, not only do you only have to do it once, you get it right first time AND you become a master at what you do and how you manage your life.  Saturn in Libra is about as friendly as he ever gets, the challenges that he brings in your own personal charts should be welcomed and embraced, knowing that by taking them on and succeeding you're putting in place roots and foundations for the long term and consolidating things from the past that have passed the test of ...

The stories from recent blog contributions leave me stunned - they make me grateful for who I am and what I've got.  The soberness of situations and the sombreness of the times can collectively bring us down big time, as perhaps symbolised by Saturn's movement into Libra in a couple of hours' time.  When your back's against the wall you die or you come out fighting with nothing to lose.  Look where the end of Virgo is in your charts and practice eliminativeness and efficiency there, and do so with a smile on your face.  No wish for flippancy but just to keep things in perspective...  UPDATE Saturn in Libra.  Best place in the sky for it (honestly), it brings co-operation instead of competition, balance instead of extreme and issues of equality to the fore.  All of this will come to pass once Saturn has finished square to Pluto in early September.  Trust me, I'm an astrologer. UPDATE OVER

Smiling is infectious, you catch it like the flu: when someone smiled at me today I started smiling too.

I walked around the corner and someone saw me grin: when he smiled I realised I had passed it on to him.

Mars is within five degrees of Saturn, and officially conjunct, with Venus galloping up on the inside to join them.  The sense of wonder and awe has been replaced by an across the board feeling of trepidation, or at least that's what I'm picking up from more than the majority of you.  My hope is that if enough people consciously feel the angst and do something about it in their own personal lives (like not losing the plot, or doing something they'll later regret) then this will alleviate the more unconscious global fear.  But Mars conjunct Saturn does produce an enhanced capacity for both anger and violence, as well as incisiveness and bravery, and bearing in mind the angles to the other planets in the sky, I feel that this is a time of worry and concern.  At the thin end of the wedge there is no room for platitudes - the best advice I can give is to be effective and concise, keep everything clear, clean, black/white, yes/no, and don't let your buttons get pushed.  It isn't always going to be like this, we're heading into end game for so many people and one way or another within twelve ...

48 hours time, Saturn moves into Libra and all you Virgo's can finally breathe a sigh of relief...  Every time I look at the current postion of the planets I try and come up with ever more profound ways of describing what's going on in human terms, but to be honest I'm about out of cliches.  Suffice to say that I've been waiting twenty years for this next three weeks, and now we're on the brink of the strongest configuration in my lifetime, I feel strangely cold and neutral.  I think that the much predicted shift in global consciousness is happening right now, but because we're right in the middle of it we can't see outside of what's happening.  But my friends the circlemakers seem to have a different perspective, this year's formations are the most stunning yet and point to not only an acceleration of intensity but clearly also to preparation for entering a more than three dimensional way of being.  Time to engage brain in ways that we haven't done for about 12,500 years, time to find the temporal node within ourselves.  The next dimension is what we call time, and I expect many people's experiences of time ...

Met a couple of contributors to the blog today, really nice to put faces to names.  I'm in the wilds outside Durham, really nice to hear owls.  Just watched a house cat see off a fox, swallows are flying, I can see stars, all things that being a city kid I find so fulfilling.  Did twelve readings and a talk, proper lecture tomorrow before the train home.  And Mars is on my ascendant, i just realised today (call myself an astrologer!), so I'm glad I'm blatting all over the country and putting out lots of energy because otherwise I'd probably be getting angry.  Constantly these days I'm talking about the acceleration of evolution and the movement into empathy and other more than three dimensional ways of being, so it's a real pleasure so see this, the third in a series of encouraging us to see things differently

In brief, because I'm running out the door to jump on a train for six hours to the other end of the country...  Today is important.  I know that the hippies are warming up for yet another 'convergence' weekend, but for once they may have got it right.  The Sun, Mercury, the royal star Regulus, Venus, Mars, Saturn and the Moon are all going to line up today in a straight line across the heavens, eeriely predicted by this crop circle of a few days ago...  And just for a laugh, go here.  I post this once a year, it reminds us of where we are in space and time!  UPDATE 17.30  Sat in a practice room in the Northern Integrated Health Practice in the village of Sacriston, just outside Durham, and I am positively bewitched by the landscape and the vibe.  Sunday morning I will go to the Cathedral, one of the original Gothics, and see what I see, feel what I feel.  Sat on a ...

Just bought a second hand book on aerial archaeology, written in the late 1960's, containing lots of aerial photographs of ancient land patterns not visible from the surface.   And surprise surprise, most of these patterns bear striking resemblance to current crop circle formations.  Increasingly, I'm being drawn to the idea of some comparatively recent disaster in our history about 12,500 years ago, which wiped out our collective memory and any trace of conscious symbiosis with landscape and topography.  Just within the last thirty years the crop circles have returned, (I've published a number of times proof of them being common in the 1500's in England), and the increasing complexity and depth of their import and mathematical formulae is pushing us to new levels of understanding the crossover between science and what we loosely define as magic.  And they are just one example of the acceleration of evolution that we're currently at the peak of, which brings me nicely to today's astrology.  Moon still in mid Virgo, and as the day evolves so it gets closer and closer to Mars, suggesting that today will become increasingly feisty and provocative for many of us.  With Mars hitting a lot of things in ...

After two weeks of relative distractions, i find myself coming back to the central theme of what the xxxx is happening on planet Earth at this time, and how the off planet stuff (astrology) is describing it.  Well, it's 14.15, i just got a surge of energy and to my pleasure have just seen that the Moon moved into Virgo about twenty minutes ago.  So with the Moon, Venus, Mars and Saturn all in Virgo for the next sixty hours, expect highly charged and hugely significant endings.  This will be the last conjunction of the Moon and Saturn in Virgo for nearly thirty years, so don't be scared to take affirmative choices now.  Increasingly, the coming two weeks are going to make choices unavoidable, although I've been advising most that action is best left until mid August, that now is the time for decision only.  The hinges are oiled, the squeaks have gone - doors are finally beginning to shut in a way that brings permanence.  Time to release old Virgoan/Piscean guilt patterns, and time to adapt.

I started my site nine years ago to support myself and partner and to bring astrology more into the world because it's my passion.  The blog happened incidentally, and it's grown exponentially to the point where it's becoming unwieldy.  I publish everything, including all criticisms, except the profane and truly abusive.  I decide what is abusive and profane, it's my site, I'll say what I like and answer to my own conscience.  And the unexpected and delightfully confiming support I get from ninety percent of you - you keep me going.  But some of the criticism really hurts.  I've had two comments from 'mental health professionals' about my recent blogs, one which I've published and the other one not, because of its profanity and containment of legal threats to myself.   What have I learnt from this?  Never to take mental health indoctrination seriously (joke).  I have  no shame, and no guilt.  I write from my heart.  If you don't like it, clear off and don't darken my door again.  And on a different subject, a poster from yesterday showed maturity and wisdom beyond my capacity when commenting on previous examples of states banning personal weapons, leading to the development ...

Sixteen hours until the eclipse of the Sun in Cancer, and I'm trying to tie up loose ends here.  I apologise for appearing demeaning with my comments about 'mad dogs', but what else do you call someone who beats their partner and child, shoots people for fun and takes so many steroids that he's out of control?  A couple of versions I've heard is that some of his last words were 'I want my dad', something he never really had, and to my mind that's the greatest tragedy of all.  The disfunctionality of family is seemingly inevitable in this concentrated world we live in, and today's ecllipse in family and parent orientated Cancer symbolises that.  And one final comment on this particular story - bottom line is that if we as a society didn't make guns, then people wouldn't get shot.  As long as we manufacture weapons, there will always be fear and war.

And - today's eclipse marks the end of a long period of planetary preparation.  With both Venus and Mars now in Virgo, catching up with Saturn, the astrological line up to end all line ups is now in the final stages of alignment, coming to peak ...

Spent all day yesterday in a large marquee on a field near the coast in Somerset, giving lots of readings to people at Secret World.  Came home last night, feeling good about myself and life in general.  Put the news on, just to catch up with the world's events, to find that the 'mad dog' who's been on the run in the north east of England was cornered by police.  As I watched I heard eyewitnesses stating that he was holding a shotgun to his neck.  Six hours later he killed himself.  The morbidity of the drama was compulsive, I found myself angry with myself for buying into it but at the same time had to make a conscious decision to turn the news off, despite wanting to watch the drama unfold.  Ok, he was a mad dog.  But the police and particularly the media coverage of the event only serves to instill further fear into our lives, creating even more boundaries betwen people and adding to the aura of distrust that seems to have permeated society in the last twenty years.  Symptomatic of the times I suppose, but the eclipses that we are in the middle of are no ...

I see people having a hard time when Saturn and Pluto hammer them, and sometimes I se people have good times when Jupiter brings an element of fortune.  Swings and roundabouts, there is no sure fire way of gauranteeing success.  And I'm reminded of the proverb 'Be careful what you wish for, lest it come true'.   Three days until the solar eclipse, it's far too early in the morning for me to be awake let alone blogging, I'm away at Secret World today, but one thing that sems to be getting stronger and stronger is the notion of parents.  Dying, returning from the distance, interfering or helping.  I suspect that the eclipse (in Cancer, sign of home and family) is bringing a lot of endings and new beginnings, particularly to things that happened many years or even decades ago.  And - go here and here for latest formations in Germany, here for the north of England, and here to learn how to square the circle.

Wherever you are in the world, have a look to the west about an hour after sunset tonight and for the next two or three days.  You should see something quite spectacular, with Venus in the sky conjoining with Regulus, the brightest star in Leo and one of the four ancient royal stars of the Persians, at 29 degres of Leo.  Regulus is the royal star in terms of kingship, sometimes called Cor Leonis, the Lionheart.  Venus with Regulus in theory should bring a degree of opportunity and flambouyance, although the older text books speak of dissapointment and military failures.  But at the very least it will bring an interesting light show into the heavens, and I suspect the circlemakers will bring even more sybology of this conjunction into the fields.  Watch this space?

Over recent weeks there's been a significant number of people contributing born at the end of Piscesand  Virgo, all saying approximately the same, that life has suddenly changed.  This is because people born from the 17th to the 22nd of both March and September (and to a lesser extent, also December and June) are getting absolutely hammered and transformed by a combination of Saturn, Jupiter and Uranus.  And that this 'shape shifting' has escalated since the middle of May, and continues to do so at this time and for the short to medium term future.  But Saturn is in the last degree of Virgo as I speak, leaving it completely alone in two weeks time, at which point the emphasis switches away from late Pisces and Virgo and moves into very early Aries and Libra.  What with eclipses, Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus changing sign, Grand Crosses and other astrological phenomena all compounding and concentrating into a brief period of time that we are approaching the end of, it is mad out there.  These are not normal times.  But the idea of hiding under the blanket until the troubles have gone away in the hope that things will return to as ...

The big thing about 1993 was the Uranus/Neptune conjunction, occuring every 173 years.  For many, 1993 was a time of sudden, unpredictable and disruptive change mixed with a degree of confusion, deception and quicksand.  And this coming Sunday's eclipse falls exactly opposite where that conjunction was, so if you got hammered in 1993 and there's residue, this coming weekend is a great time to drag out those skeletons, give them a good dusting/kicking, and then put them back never to re-emerge.  Still - the pressure and challenge of those times gave birth to the internet amongst other things, something unplanned and uncontrolled.  And a big thank you to the honest burghers of Bath.  Last night I anticipated about twenty people coming to the lecture I gave, instead there were more than double that number, it was standing room only.  I will quite happily go anywhere in the world and lecture on both classical and contemporary astrology, as well as give lots of readings - as long as I make some money out of it.  Email me for details.  And today?  Lots of planets in earth and fire, a few in water, little if anything in air - a combination of ...

Today is a hotchpotch.....  Many thanks for the birthday greetings, too many to reply to and modesty (!?) forbids me from publishing them.  Astrology?  Every so often, even when the gear ratio is screaming and the knots can't get tighter, there are periods of relative calm.  Now is such a time - for the last few days, now and for another few days the Sun in the sky is sextiling Mars, at least until the eclipse on the 11th.  Sticking my neck out a bit here, but in the short term all should be well, although the closer we get to Sunday's solar eclipse the more I'll probably be linking it to the year 1993 and the dramtic changes in individuals lives of that year.  If you got hit in '93, this eclipse will sort things once and for all.  Crop circles?  It's getting busier, expecially abroad.   Big CGI fake in the USA, more on the Croatia formation, the Dutch story gets better and weirder (I've followed the stories of this kid for a couple of years, and a number of people whom I have the greatest respect for have authenticated his stuff), a couple of good ...

Great radio show yesterday, totally unplanned, all the plans went out of the window about half an hour before I started so it was a wing and a prayer - consequently it turned into the best show for many a long time!  Catch the replays if you can...  And today's my birthday so excuse me if there's nothing too sombre here.  More later, bottle of mead permitting......

I can't see outside of the moment, I'm so caught up in what's going on in the heavens and the ways in which others are being affected by it that it feels as though I'm being consumed by the waves of energy around.  In mid August I'm going to lie in a field for ten days to recharge, but for now there's no place I'd rather be than in the thick of it, knowing that I'm seeing history made in a way that my ancestors have waited for thousands of years for.  We're entering the month that I believe will change the course of human history, that everything that's been building since August 1999 is aimed at, and that will bring the end of capitalism as we've known it so far.  This is the nexus point of transformation, from here we either enter the matrix/cyborg/big brother world or we go down the route of empathy, elevated consciousness and community concern.  Politicians, bankers, priests have all had their day, ...