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Useful astrological counselling articles

Astrological counselling is a reflective, conversational approach that uses astrology as a framework for self-understanding.

It is typically used for insight, life transitions and decision-making support rather than clinical treatment.

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Dark of the Moon Sagittarius Solar Eclipse December 14th

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Dark of the Moon—Sagittarius Solar Eclipse—December 14th.   Never before have we had such an awareness of what we are doing to the planet, and never before have we had the power to do something about that. The future of…

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Moon Shadow - Full Moon Eclipse in Gemini - November 30th

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    Tonight, the shadow of our Earth sweeps across the face of the Moon in Gemini. Imagine how our ancestors would have observed the Moon growing darker, redder, or paling into blue, depending on the amount of dust in…

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Watermark - Scorpio New Moon - November 14th/15th

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  Healing begins where the wound was made—Alice Walker   “Endings seem to lie in wait” wrote mystic and poet, John O’Donohue who died so suddenly as he slept in the January of 2008.   The Moon is wrapped in…

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The Last Stand - Pluto/Jupiter Conjunction - November 2020

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  America is not nearly done. We’re only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows what colour we will be? It is all something that, may our descendants—if they survive that long—will see—Alice Walker.   The…

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Stand Strong - Taurus Full Moon - October 31st

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  Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars - J.R.R. Tolkien.   Tonight’s Samhain Moon stands strong in the steady, stable sign of Taurus, but she’s twitchy as she brushes up against disruptive Uranus. We may have felt the…

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The Fall - Sun in Scorpio - October 23rd - November 21st

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So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings―J.R.R. Tolkien Darkness comes early in October. Shoals of fluttering leaves twist and turn like golden minnows and delicate spiderwebs spangled with diamonds of dew shimmer in the hedgerows. Autumn’s…

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A Question of Balance - New Moon in Libra - October 16th

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  Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as birds' wings—Rumi   Today, the New Moon (24 °Libra) makes a fraught opposition to Mars Rx in hot-headed Aries. She makes…

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In Truth - Mercury Retrograde - October 14th

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  “What time has ever been a simple time for those who are living it?” asks author Elizabeth Gilbert…and yet, as news rushes through the tendrils of technology, flooding our nervous systems, squatting for days and weeks in our divided…

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The Invitation - Full Moon in Aries - October 1st

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The Harvest Moon tonight casts her light on a world of division and exile, a world where the harvest of this year is lean. At this pivotal moment in our human story, the Sun and the Moon oppose each other,…

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Small Great Things - Sun in Libra - September 22nd - October 23rd

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  But you know, you go on, right? Because what other choice have you got―Jodi Picoult   As the Sun moves into the sign of Libra at this turning of the seasons our “surge capacity”—as psychologist Ann Masten calls our…

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Patience - New Moon Virgo - September 17th

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  Amidst a bright blooming of burnished leaves here in the north, and an exuberant flourish of spring flowers in the south, Jupiter changed direction yesterday, a turning point in our own lives; a celestial turning point at this time…