"Thank you so much for the beautiful reading. I have listened to the recording a number of times, and each time I do, I hear something different, or something else drops a level in my understanding. I was so inspired by your knowledge and clarity that I have signed up to study with you on your philosophy course.” - Fiona C
Guru means dispeller of darkness, and the yoga tradition makes clear that every aspirant on the spiritual path needs a guru. It does not specify, however, what form that guru should take. The Holy Mountain of Arunachala, a form of Lord Shiva, was guru to the great saint, Sri Ramana Maharshi. In Sanskrit, Jupiter is Read More…
Irish clients bring me extra challenge! Not always, of course—and the charm, warmth and spiritual sincerity more than compensates. But the fact is, lots of you dear Irish (particularly of a certain age) haven’t a clue about your birth time. And despite your best detective work, nothing comes clear. Your birth time doesn’t exist in Read More…
A few days ago, I received an email from Easy Jet announcing they were back in the air. Good news, from so many points of view. Yet the declaration hit me wrong, triggering a wave of sadness that stayed with me for hours. “Where will you fly to first? the headline enticed, implying a line Read More…
Fairy Tales suggest that true love lasts forever, but they never show us how. Once the Prince kisses Sleeping Beauty or finds the beautiful maiden whose tiny foot fits the glass slipper, wedding bells ring out over the kingdom and the story is over—with the assumption that “happily ever after” depends solely upon the right Read More…
Just as the cycles of Sun and Moon organise time into repeating patterns, so do certain other cosmic cycles—most of them little understood and hardly recognised—create recurring patterns that qualify time and shape destiny. The slow-moving planets (Jupiter, Saturn and the Nodes) mark phases of experience of long duration. For insight into the signposts of Read More…
The dreaded conjunction of Saturn and Ketu is upon us, with profound Implications for those who understand how to harness these difficult energies for spiritual growth. But for others and the world in general, expect the tension of this conjunction to erupt into all sorts of material unpleasantness— frustration, despair, retaliation, strife and violence. Read More…
Fairy Tales suggest that true love lasts forever, but they never show us how. Once the Prince kisses Sleeping Beauty or finds the beautiful maiden whose tiny foot fits the glass slipper, wedding bells ring out over the kingdom and the story is over—with the assumption that “happily ever after” depends solely upon the right Read More…
When love means pain, it’s time to step outside the dysfunction and ask yourself some big questions. What have you learned? Can you envision your “impossible dream”? Love, in the broadest understanding of the word, means a resonance that joins. In its ultimate expression, love binds the cosmos into One. Its essence is harmony, the Read More…
In life, change is the only constant. “All compounded things are impermanent” taught the Buddha, naming change the first mark of existence. Yet sometimes life can feel like a broken record, stuck into a groove that keeps playing over and over and over again. I’ve been there before. Have you? Settled into a cosy routine, you Read More…
“A little knowledge is a dangerous thing,” my Jyotish mentor warned me. Just like in the parable of the blind man and the elephant, you can’t know the whole from touching only a tiny part. When I first discovered Vedic Astrology, I knew I’d found a subject to challenge me for the rest of my Read More…
