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Total Lunar Eclipse in Libra

On April 4th, we have a very powerful Lunar Eclipse in Libra. At 14 degrees, it is triggering the square between Uranus and Pluto which is going to bring restlessness and profound change.

Any course of action you set now will be in effect until the next eclipse season starting in September. I expect to see some huge events happening in the world during August, September and October.

 

Eclipses come in pairs. We had the Total Solar Eclipse on March 20th in Pisces, and now we have the Total Lunar Eclipse on April 4th in Libra.

These eclipses have brought an intense mix of energies.  Uranus rules aviation, and on March 24th we had the tragic ‘accident’ in the Alps that killed everyone on board. With Pluto square to Uranus, this suggests secrets and suppression of information. Doesn’t it seem surprising that according to the French prosecution that: ‘All of the body parts from the 150 victims, who died in the Germanwings flight in the French Alps, have been now been identified?’  

We’re going to see more and more suppression of information. Start questioning everything you see, hear or read. We’ll have to look below the surface to find out the real facts. 

The Pluto Uranus square is activating the forces of good and evil. More polarity will show up around the world and within your own lives.  

For example, my Twitter account was hacked and hundreds of disgusting hard pornography was being tweeted and retweeted by people I didn’t know.
A big thank you to many of my followers who let me know and who gave me helpful tips to stop this dark energy. After changing my password numerous times, blocking and reporting the harrassment to Twitter, it finally stopped.

I’ve also had people stealing my videos on YouTube. Posting them on their own channel as though they had created them.     

This is a great time to let go of an old habit. You might want to give up smoking, alcohol, sugar, collecting stuff that you never use…

Once you have let go of something, you leave space in your life for something new to appear. When you have weeded your garden, you’ve got some lovely fresh soil to plant new seeds. That is what this time is all about.  

 

Where does it fall in your chart?

For me, it’s in my 4th house of home and security. I have moved country, I lost a whole lot of stuff and I arrived in the UK in just the clothes I was standing up in. It’s been quite an adventure starting all over again. 

Maybe it’s falling in your 1st house. This is a time to let go of the old you and to create a ‘new you.’ 

Maybe it’s happening in your 5th house. If you’ve been procrastinating about starting that new business, this is the perfect time to get going.

These eclipses give you a wonderful opportunity to think about where in your life you can release some baggage and bring in something brand new that excites you.   

On April 8th, lucky Jupiter goes direct bringing in new opportunities and possibilities. Projects that have been stuck can begin to move forward more easily.

These eclipses signal BIG CHANGES. As there are no eclipses in Fixed signs until February 2017, this means that we have to get used to things changing constantly, probably more than we would like them to. It’s a feeling like you have all your house in order before you go away on a short vacation and when you come back someone has moved all the furniture and you don’t know where anything is!

I don’t know about you, but I like to establish a good team of people around me. Having just moved to the UK, I found a lovely hairdresser who washed my hair so thoroughly and did a great job with the colour, and I was about to schedule another appointment with her, when she told me she was moving to another part of the UK.
I found a great dental hygienist and when I asked for an appointment in 6 months time, she told me she was 4 months pregnant and would be leaving just before then!
Nothing is stable!! These are just small examples, but I am seeing this need for change, for learning how to be flexible and how to enjoy the changes.

Love is in the air with the Libra energy of this Lunar eclipse. In my practice, I am seeing more and more relationship charts that show great compatibility. Recently I told a Capricorn client that she would be very suited to another Capricorn. ‘Oh no,’ she said, ‘all the Capricorn men I’ve met are soooo boring.’ …Three weeks later she met a Capricorn man with a lot of Scorpio planets who she says:  ‘is not in the least bit boring!!’

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Total Lunar Eclipse in Libra April 2015
Total Lunar Eclipse in Libra April 2015

Wishing you a very Happy, Loving, Total Lunar Eclipse in Libra,

Total Solar Eclipse in Pisces March 20th 2015

On March 20th, the New Moon Total Solar Eclipse at 29 degrees Pisces marks the end of an era and the beginning of a new one. Endings at this time are usually permanent with no going back.

Allow the old to pass away so that you can start fresh, because just 13 hours later, the Sun goes into Aries and the Spring Equinox begins.

 

Pisces rules compassion and caring for others: putting yourself into another person’s shoes.  

 

Another burning learning from the break-up of the relationship has shown me that it is important not to depend on one person for most of your love, attention and care. I trusted this person with my heart and soul and I because I put so much effort and focus into the relationship, I had not cultivated any other really deep relationships over the years.

In retrospect, this is a fatal error. At the time of the separation, I felt I had no one else I could talk to.  

In the end, I am extremely grateful for an organisation that by its very name is Piscean: the Samaritans.

One night, on the very darkest of days, I spoke to the most wonderful man, Stuart, who simply listened and who helped me to find peace. 

 

His love, his compassion and his caring came through loud and clear and from that night onward began the start of my healing process.  

 

ANOTHER BURNING LEARNING from the relationship break up: know when it’s time to let go. Know when something is past its sell-by date. Don’t let something fester until it becomes so huge that you have to cut someone dead.  

And now, as I try to close up all the entanglements I still have with this person: financial, business, personal…….I know it’s important to let it go. Not to hold on. Not to try to have a different result. To know that we each need to be free.   

 

ANOTHER GREAT PERSPECTIVE shared by one of you: the 3D relationship is over, but the soul connection is always there. That is so very soothing. As well as a nice hot relaxing bath!  

 

Pisces is all about surrender. When I think of Pisces, I think of BEING. Not doing, but being.   

 

During this Total Eclipse in Pisces, allow yourself to be, to relax, to kick back and to accept your life exactly as it is. And know that just a few hours later, you can start taking action.

 

With the Lunar Eclipse on April 4th, the course of action you set now will be in effect until the next eclipse season in September. I expect to see some profound changes in the world during August, September and October.

 

Where does it fall in your chart?  

For me, it’s in my 10th house of career. I am starting out on a new direction which is to be more public, bringing astrology out in a very personal way to you. Some of you have already asked me for specific dates because you plan to fly into London from different parts of the world. For those of you who are unable to travel, I’ll be offering webinars so that you too can tune in from overseas. 

 

Thank you to so many of you for your outpouring of love and concern. Many of you shared your own stories and experiences, I’ve been offered healing sessions, massages, you’ve sent healing thoughts, energies, prayers, inspirational stories and quotes, music, and even a few jokes which definitely cheered me up.  

 

 

Within a few days I started to feel much better and I am sure that all your ehugs and positive energies made a huge difference.   

 

March Astrology

On March 16th, we have the final 7th exact square between Uranus and Pluto. Many of you will be breathing a huge sigh of relief now that this difficult aspect is beginning to recede. Don’t drop your guard completely as it will still be in effect for up to another three years, but its impact is  waning.

What have you learned? Uranus wants you to wake up and to claim your individuality. No one in this world is like you. Your astrology chart shows your unique fingerprint, your gifts, talents, challenges and opportunities. Wherever this Pluto Uranus square falls in your chart, shows the life areas where you need to break out, be willing to change and to reinvent yourself.

     

For me, as a Cardinal Sign, it’s been hitting my relationships, I’ve moved country four times, and I’ve had a few health wobbles thrown into the mix.

The biggest shock came just a few weeks ago when a 20 year old deep relationship came to a sudden end.  
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
Did someone ever finish with you by email or by text?

After cringing about hearing it happen to so many other people, that’s exactly what happened to me.  

 

Someone with whom I had a 20 year relationship, without warning, sent me an email ending our connection.

 

After spending a week reeling in shock, I decided to sit down and analyze what happened to see if there were any gems of wisdom I could glean from it.

 

This is a relationship that I had put my heart and my soul into. This is someone for whom I would have laid my life down. This is someone that I had always held in the highest esteem and I wanted only the best for. I never anticipated that there could be anything at all we couldn’t discuss and get through. How wrong I was.  

 

Looking back on the relationship, I’m trying to see whether there are any lessons can be learned from this painful experience. Two come to mind immediately:

 

This is a person who, over the years, I had seen cut other relationships dead. Even their very best friend of many decades was cut dead. So I had seen this behaviour, but I chose to ignore it and to trust (in my ignorance and illusion), that it would never happen to me. We even had the discussion several times and I was assured that we would always stay loving and connected this lifetime. 

 
I also made the egregious mistake of mixing business and personal. If you have a business relationship with someone, generally, it is best to keep it that way and not

to introduce a personal element into the relationship. The minute you do that, you make yourself vulnerable to different expectations that may be used against you in the future. It takes longer to heal because although the personal side of the relationship may be over, you may still have to deal with the business side which can go on for months or even years and every time you have contact with that person, the old wounds open up again.

Two huge lessons. 

If someone gossips about other people, you can be sure that eventually they will gossip about you. If you see vengeful behaviour in a person, make no mistake that that behaviour might be directed at you one day. If someone has been repeatedly unfaithful in the past, don’t delude yourself into thinking that they will be forever loyal to you. 

  

Now that a little time has elapsed, I am able to look back on the relationship and I am extremely grateful for the many wonderful times that we had and for the love that we shared. I gained so much and I learned a great deal.

 

What could I have done differently?

I truly don’t know. I have asked myself that question so many times and whilst I know I’m certainly not perfect, I do think I deserved the courtesy of a phone call rather than an email.   

 

But sometimes in life, there are no warnings. Sometimes there are no signs, or if there are, we choose not to see them.

But I can truly say, that with this relationship,  I gave it my all so there are no regrets.  

 

 

The eclipse season is upon us. On March 20th there is a Super New Moon Solar Eclipse at the last degree of Pisces.  

 

It’s a time of tying up loose ends, allowing old things to pass away so that you can start fresh. Just 13 hours later, the Sun goes into Aries and the Spring Equinox begins (autumn in the southern hemisphere). This energy helps you to make changes and to move forward with anything that has been stuck for a while.    

 

Sometimes our greatest upheavals are our greatest gifts. I am determined to turn these various challenges into opportunities. Over the weeks and months ahead, I’ll keep sharing my insights and personal experiences with you.   

 

 

Now that I am in the UK, I am really looking forward to meeting many of you in person at my forthcoming astrology seminars and workshops.

 

 

Thanking you all for your care and your concern, 

I appreciate each and every one of you,  

 

With love from ‘Good Olde England’,

 

Barbara

Aquarius New Moon – My Surprise

Aquarius bring surprises, often BIG surprises.

I don’t know about you, but I’ve had nothing but surprises lately.

Here’s one that might make you chuckle:
 
One evening I was lying in bed quietly reading when I felt something crawling on my arm and something else up my thigh. I pulled the bedsheets back quickly but saw nothing. A few minutes later, another sensation of crawling down my leg and at the back of my neck.
Still nothing to see. Then out of the corner of my eye I could see a whole army of ants marching across my sheets and into my bed! Yikes! I threw everything off me and jumped up only to find ants crawling around the bed, under the bed, in the mattress……….ugh!

First I tried a couple of natural remedies: soap, lemon and vinegar, baby powder, to no avail.
I needed to get some professional exterminators out.

My landlord has been so good to me and I really didn’t want to disturb him so I decided to find an exterminating company myself.

I went through the Greek Yellow Pages and found a number that looked promising. After speaking with Takis, he said they would be out to me within a half hour. I was delighted with myself thinking I had solved the problem so easily.

A half hour later, two men arrived at the house. One with a notepad and pen in his hand and another carrying an extremely heavy piece of machinery which he was attempting to bring into the house.
He kept asking me urgently: Pote to provlema?  Where is the problem?
I was a bit flummoxed because I didn’t think an infestation of ants was such an urgent issue, but I said to him that it was outside my bedroom where the ants are coming in.
He kept asking me, nothing inside the house? No, I said the ants are coming into the house from the garden outside.
Then he said to me, where is your bathroom?

I showed him and he checked out the washbasin. The water wasn’t going down very quickly and he said:
aha, edo inai to provlema!

I thought it was amazing that someone who was here to kill the ants was checking out my bathroom. I was a bit surprised about it, but since there had been a colony of ants in there when I first moved in, I thought that as a professional, maybe he knew something I didn’t as to how they might be getting in.

He removed the hose underneath the sink and showed me that it had snapped and would need to be replaced.
He kept saying, yes, that’s your problem!

At this point I still couldn’t understand what was going to happen with the ants.

Eventually, in desperation, because they spoke hardly any English, I had to call my lovely landlord.

Spyros, always wonderful spoke to these men and he couldn’t really understand what was happening. I told him about the ants and he was confused about the hose from the sink.

Finally, I realised that I hadn’t called out an exterminating company at all.
I had called out a drain cleaning company!!
They came out thinking it was an emergency and thought my drains were blocked!

I laughed about it for hours thinking about how the New Moon in Aquarius AND Mercury retrograde had brought the unexpected. I called out an exterminator who happened to be a drain cleaner who found a problem I didn’t know I had!!

So it all turned out well in the end with these guys coming back the next day replacing the hose and spraying the ants.

What unexpected event might happen in your life??
How can you see a situation from a completely new perspective??
What can you do differently?
It’s a zero degrees giving you a blank slate to create something completely new!
It’s a unique opportunity to make a fresh start, to clear the deck and to bring excitement and inspiration into your life.

World Predictions 2015 – 2016

The peak of the Cardinal Climax is coming to an close. It has been an extremely difficult time for many people who lost their jobs, their homes, their businesses. Many went through divorces and separations while others endured natural disasters. It has been a very harsh time.

We’ve seen governments get stronger while the voice of the people has grown louder with riots, demonstrations, strikes and widespread unrest.

We are now entering a transitional period where some of this harshness can dissolve and our earth, our bodies and our souls can regenerate towards a new consciousness, a new era.

It will probably take another 5 years for this to complete until the Capricorn Climax in 2020 when Jupiter, Saturn and Pluto are all in Capricorn. This is the point at which serious structures can be implemented. In the meantime, we have choices to make – personally and globally, that can transform our world for the better and make us proud to call ourselves human beings.

MUTABLE ENERGIES – THE WINDS OF CHANGE
With several planets in mutable signs, 2015 is a year when THINGS CAN BEGIN TO CHANGE, especially things that have been stuck for a very long time.

It’s also going to mean more uncertainty. We will have to learn how to improvise and how to become more creative and innovative.

Venus and Mars are in alignment many times during this year which means that there will be opportunities for consensus. Venus softens the effect of Mars and wants to bring peace.

There will be the opportunity for opposing factions to come together, for more compassion and tolerance in our world.

With the USA’s progressed Sun in Pisces, gradually joining transiting Neptune over the next 3 years, this could mark a significant change in the psyche of America. Instead of being a military superpower, it can become a diplomatic, peace-initiating country setting a powerful example of unity to the rest of the world.

We’ve been living under a Cardinal influence for the last seven years. The Cardinal signs have a vertical vibration, ordering from the top down,

We are moving into Mutable energy which moves laterally, reaching out from side to side.

Flexibility will be vital for survival. Can you be like a tree that is grounded with roots in the ground, but whose leaves and branches sway effortlessly in the wind?

JUPITER IN VIRGO
With Jupiter in Virgo in its detriment from August, material expansion and prosperity can be limited. If you have this placement in your natal chart, you can probably make something out of nothing.

It’s very important to think and plan ahead now. Many will continue to have tight finances. Millions will be unemployed and we will be forced to find more meaning in our lives beyond money and earthly riches. A new drive towards selflessness and spirituality will begin to gather speed. Leaders devoted to helping the sick and the poor will emerge.

Young people with a huge purpose will appear on the world stage. For example, at just 17, Malala Yousafzai is the youngest ever Nobel Peace Prize winner as a result of her heroic activism for every child’s right to receive an education.

Because Virgo rules health, and especially natural healing, we will find cures for diseases that have been with us for eons. We’ll discover that we don’t need all the artificial things we have been living with. We can have increased life expectancy and health for many hundreds of years.

Listed are the areas that will likely experience growth during this transit from August 2015 until September 2017:

Healthy eating, raw foods, pure foods, healthy living, healthy thinking
Energy medicine, nutrition, preventative health and wellness
Rejuvenation techniques, plastic surgery and anything involving anti-aging.
Perfection of health techniques e.g. micro surgery, nano-surgery, non-invasive surgeries, robotics, stem cell transplantation, digital health delivery
Cancer immunotherapy
Disaster and survival preparedness
3D printing – e.g. print a house in a day
Software developers, mobile apps, sensors, translation and language services
Micro grid conversion – national grids to micro grids
Digital forensics: retrieving information from devices and networks, tracking down cyber criminals
Home delivery
Animals, especially pet care and cyber pets
Battery longevity increased
Nanotechnology
Robotics for cleaning
The cleaning industry: cleaning water, cleaning energy, cleaning cells,
Bacteria, infection and our understanding of germs and contagion
Water harvesting i.e. houses that generate their own water supply extracting water from air. Steel pipes being replaced with air pipes

SATURN IN SAGITTARIUS
With Saturn in Sagittarius, there will be greater freedom around your place of work as well as finding your true vocation. Many people will relocate to a wonderful climate where it’s inexpensive to live and work on the internet. Jupiter in Virgo will encourage living with much less but enjoying a more natural and nourishing lifestyle.

For more detail about Saturn in Sagittarius, refer to my article:
https://yourastrologysigns.com/saturn-in-sagittarius-special-report-2014-2017/

SPACE
Increased knowledge, more exploration, moving away from earth to try to find solutions outside ourselves for our planet

VIRUSES, MENTAL HEALTH
With the square from Saturn to Neptune, we could see the spread of contagious diseases. Neptune doesn’t respect boundaries and in difficult aspect to Saturn, outbreaks could be difficult to contain. Airports may be shut down, people may be afraid to leave the house to go to work or to go and buy anything. Chances are cases of Ebola continue to rise.

We can turn this around by focusing on being grateful and appreciating what we do have in our lives and not allowing ourselves to be sucked into irrational fears, phobias or anxieties, many of which are triggered by the mainstream media.

WEATHER
Extremes of weather are likely: very hot, very cold, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, blizzards, tornadoes and especially water-related weather events such as droughts, wildfires, tsunamis, flooding, another large iceberg falling into the sea.

STOCK MARKETS
Although they are looking over-inflated and due for imminent correction, but they can continue to grow this year especially while Jupiter is in Leo until August. Once Jupiter changes signs and becomes inconjunct with Saturn in Sagittarius, this could indicate sharp drops.

GOLD AND SILVER
Greater fluctuations – towards the end of the year more significant rises as people see that the economy is still worsening. According to Ray Merriman, Financial Astrologer, if the price goes above $1350 the trend will be upwards. If it doesn’t reach $1350, be prepared for a downward movement. Expect more deceit, lies, debts, defaults, denials, delusions, manipulations

In all areas, worldwide manipulation will continue: stock markets, foreign exchange, interest rates, commodities, real estate and of course gold.

Banks will continue to be unaccountable: recently five big banks were fined billions regarding foreign exchange rigging, but still no one takes responsibility and they still don’t want to be regulated.

In the long run, gold will go up. Don’t lose faith and if you have gold, don’t be tempted to sell.

PREPARE: Stock up on food, bottled water, dried goods, sanitisers, first-aid kits, medicines, warm clothes, backup power source. Even if there is no emergency, it’s good idea to do this now because prices are likely to increase this year.

Take full responsibility for your health and learn as much as you can about it. Study healing, herbs, nutrition and train your mind so that you can keep yourself healthy during these times of transition. Your health will truly be your wealth in every sense of the word.

Jupiter in Virgo extends to the health of our Mother Earth. She too has gone through tremendous birthing pains with us during this Cardinal Climax. This will be an opportunity to find other ways of finding clean energy without fracking and damaging our planet. Virgo is an ingenious sign and we can use this energy to use advances in science and nanotechnology to provide us with the power that we need.

Focus on connecting with like-minded people and work with the power of prayer. We are going to witness many miracles the more we work together. Things can change in a heartbeat that used to take decades to accomplish.

I’m going to close with some of the words of a famous Libran who had Venus in Virgo, John Lennon, who wrote:
So this is Christmas
What have you done?
Another year over
And a new one just begun..

And so this is Christmas
I hope you have fun
The near and the dear ones
The old and the young.

A very Merry Christmas
And a happy New Year
Let’s hope it’s a good one
Without any fear…..

His motto was: THINK PEACE, ACT PEACE, SPREAD PEACE

Let’s hope that the world is now ready for his message.

Wishing you all a Happy, Healthy, Loving and Peaceful New Year.

Saturn in Sagittarius – Special Report – 2014-2017

Saturn rules structure and restriction, while Sagittarius is ruled by Jupiter which is all about freedom and expansion. These two opposite energies are coming together bringing you the opportunity to turn your dreams into reality.

When Saturn enters a new sign, there is a change of focus. During its transit of Scorpio for the past three years, we have seen scandals, fraud, dishonesty, cover-ups. With the NSA, we’ve seen Big Brother extending its reach globally, debt escalation and the manipulation of all markets reaching an unprecedented level. On a personal level many of us have been dealing with intense fears, anxieties and phobias, depression, obsessions, addictions and learning how to release unhealthy dependencies.

In Sagittarius, Saturn will restructure our attitude towards religion, faith and meaning in our lives. Expect to see more religious conflicts and the oppression of organised religions. There will however, be an opportunity for religions to see their interconnectedness rather than their separateness. It’s really time for us to see that we are one big world family and to put away our differences and to find what we have in common. The major religions are saying pretty much the same thing but doing it in slightly different ways. This is the perfect time for a healing to start to take place, especially in the Middle East where tensions are so high right now.

People will be seeking more meaning in everything. It won’t be enough to go to work, to earn money and to do a job that you hate. There will be the search for meaningful work rather than just seeking financial reward. We are already seeing this trend with many younger people aware of social responsibility and wanting to work for non-profit organisations or places where they feel they are making a valuable contribution. The driver is no longer more and more accumulation of wealth.

Education is going to go through a major restructuring. Some universities will be forced to close their doors, especially those who are resistant to change. Others will have to restructure their fees, their curricula, how they deliver courses and the content of those courses. Online education will go through huge changes and we may well see a decline in the necessity of having a college education. Niche markets for education will spring up. For example, an academy that shows you how to effectively crowd-fund your project, a college that teaches pet breeding and grooming.

We’ll see scientific breakthroughs, especially in the field of medicine and physics. Our understanding of quantum will become clearer and new laws of physics will be found. This could be as life-changing as the discovery of the telephone or of electricity. The time is ripe for a discovery of great magnitude.

As we move out of 3D and into more dimensions, we will be able to have a greater understanding of consciousness. There is a strong possibility that science will find evidence of consciousness in the human body. Now, when someone dies, many scientists say that is just the end, others say that the soul is freed and goes to another dimension, but there is no proof of what happens. During this transit, scientists may well find some evidence that will change our views about life and death and the veil between the two.

Sagittarius rules travel and transportation and we may see new innovative ways of travel, for example, cars that run on air and forms of free energy becoming available. There could be great strides forward in battery capabilities that could make electric powered vehicles more attractive.

Space travel will become more accepted as already there is a planned mission to Mars and it wouldn’t be surprising if we find actual proof of ET’s or aliens during this transit. Evidence of life on other planets may be discovered as well as much more information about our galaxy, the universe, the cosmos.

During the early stages of this transit will be a square to Neptune in Pisces. This involves the smashing of old ideals and illusions dropping away. We’ll be looking at our beliefs and will have an opportunity to restructure our beliefs. What is true? What is a lie? Mind power will become more prevalent and its connection to healing and bringing balance to the body will be discovered.

Financially, this could be a roller-coaster, especially towards the latter part of this transit. Saturn in the last degrees of Sagittarius has indicated past stock market crashes: October 1929, October 1987, and the next one may be in October 2017!

Are you in your Saturn return? If you are aged between 28 and 31 or between 58 and 61, you are in your Saturn return. This is usually a time of restructuring your life when you leave behind the things that are longer serving you and have not been making you happy, and you give yourself the opportunity to create a much happier life. Saturn makes you work for it, but if you are willing to put the work in, the rewards are great.