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Writer, teacher, mentor, astrologer. Author. Columnist for UK's Astrological Journal and Stellar. Published on Astrodienst. Former contributor to USA's The Mountain Astrologer and Dell Horoscope. “You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.” (Jung)
The Astrological World of Jung’s ‘Liber Novus’ by Dr Liz Greene: my review…
I had to let go of trying too hard to understand the material presented by Dr Liz Greene in "The Astrological World of Jung's 'Liber Novus' " from a purely rational perspective, and allow myself at least partly to be drawn…
20 questions and a selfie: A day in the life of 12th house astrologer Anne Whitaker... anne-whitaker.com/2026/02/06/2...
06.02.2026 19:30 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
20 questions and a selfie: A day in the life of 12th house astrologer Anne Whitaker…
I am feeling very very 12th house-y at present – most apt for the very very end of the current Saturn Neptune cycle which began in 1989 with the people-power assisted collapse of the Berlin Wall and major…
Navigating Twelfth House Phases: Insights for 2026
The twelfth house is the final and most mystical sector of the zodiac wheel, traditionally associated with Pisces and the planet Neptune. The "phases" (transits and progressions) through this house are typically times of inner work and transition,…
Can Astrologers Predict the Future? Should they? A Deep Dive…
The question of whether it is possible to foretell the future is one which has preoccupied humans ever since we evolved into self-conscious beings and began to conceptualise past, present, and future — now thought to be around 80,000…
Some local colour today…
26.12.2025 16:39 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
What is my job as an astrologer?
"...Every so often, someone asks me what I think my job as an astrologer is. It’s a good question – it makes me ‘return to base’, as it were, and set out the basics again, both for the questioner – and for my own benefit."
These are autumn pictures of the Portland Japanese Garden, taken in autumn 2009.
These are autumn pictures of the Portland Japanese Garden, taken in autumn 2009.
These are autumn pictures of the Portland Japanese Garden, taken in autumn 2009.
These are autumn pictures of the Portland Japanese Garden, taken in autumn 2009.
These are autumn pictures of the Portland Japanese Garden, taken in autumn 2009.
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#PortlandJapaneseGarden
In honour of Hallowe’en: even sceptics see ghosts…
In honour of Hallowe'en 2025, here are just two of those occasions in which my fundamentally rational, sceptical self was challenged to consider the existence of levels of 'reality' outwith the normal spectrum – experiences which send the…
Navigating Saturn and Neptune 2025/6: Dear Diary, Part 2…
"...We are in a unique time now: not only humanity, but the whole of Mother Earth and all her creatures great and small are suffering the pain and turbulence of increasing chaos as the old order loses its grip. But without Neptune to…
It's windy! Don't quite know how those roses hang on...
06.10.2025 17:46 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Navigating Saturn and Neptune: Dear Diary, Part 1…
"...The constant dance between form and formlessness, being and non-being, order and chaos, occurs in all epochs and at all levels...Astrology has its own language for this struggle, speaking through the polarity of Saturn and Neptune. .."
A world turned upside down:some thoughts on planetary ingresses and conjunctions…
We are currently entering a world turned upside down – the evidence from wars raging in the bigger picture, to storm tossed personal lives of those who are plugged into the current planetary shifts, is everywhere...
Reflecting on Chiron as his Aries journey continues…
What does Chiron mean to you? Have you experienced his symbolic energy as healing? Wounding? As the ‘inconvenient benefic’, kicking open doors to places you’d never have thought to go? Or have you simply not given him much thought?
Neptune, poetry, and August’s melancholy…
I have always loved August, that month where a particular coolness in the morning air on stepping out, a papery rustle tingeing the wind blowing through the trees, intimates that Summer is losing its hold upon the year, that Autumn is ascending…
Some thoughts on…Twelfth House phases. We’re in one now!
Currently, we are being tossed around worldwide in yet another Twelfth House phase: that of the Saturn/Neptune cycle which began in Capricorn in early November 1989, accompanying the tearing down of the Berlin Wall and the fall of Communism.…
The UK's own Astrological Journal...really looking forward to my copy!
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13.08.2025 16:19 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Some thoughts on…the power of Fate…
I’ve never forgotten Dr Liz Greene, in one of her seminars at the Centre for Psychological Astrology during the 1990s, making a remark to the effect that it is truly astounding the lengths to which the Fates seem to be prepared to go to arrange life-changing…
Understanding Astrology for Twins: Do They Have the Same Horoscope? anne-whitaker.com/2025/07/27/u...
27.07.2025 13:42 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Lunar Reflections podcast: a new astro-kid on the block!
It's been my pleasure recently to drop in and have a listen to a most enjoyable, accessible, thoughtful and informative new podcast, Lunar Reflections with Heliodora and Tarah...
Synchronicity strikes again…a Saturn in Aries lunar tale
I've been an astrologer now for decades. But the synchronicities invariably revealed through its symbols between the microcosm of our tiny lives and the vast planetary macrocosm of which we are part, never ceases to make me feel humbled…
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Bracing wisdom from Rumi...
08.07.2025 19:41 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Uranus, Neptune and Pluto: they’ve all crossed my 1C – and I’ve survived !…
I often get asked about the effect of the transits of the ‘Big Heavies’ ie Uranus, Neptune and Pluto, over the IC or root/origin point of the horoscope. Here is my story of life-changing experiences occurring when the Big…
