Adventure One was locating the roadmap and tripping over my shadow along the way. Adventure Two was diving into the roadmap and hitting rock bottom along with the thought "I have no roots." "What is wrong with me?" Adventure three was agreeing with myself to retract the blame, stay curious and heart centered and go hang out in that place of separation and pain. There I discovered that I have amazing, gorgeous, wonderful, fabulous roots that are utterly mine. Along the way I realized that my feeling of being not quite connected to my birth familial line, and being differenty connected to my family of nurture line has given me a tremendous gift. Intergenerational trauma has never landed. It passed me by because I neither recognized nor accepted it. And in the same way, it never quite recognized or landed on me. Well blow me. What a fabulous gift. I accept, wholeheartedly. Then, when I looked at what my roots actually are, they are the absolute blueprint of me. How many of us can say that? (Er, actually all of us, if we think about it and ditch a few limiting thoughts). It is like, I got to start out with a clean slate, and bloody built my own roots, ground up/down. Which we can all do. I, personally accessed this heightened state through the training here (by Louisa) on how to disarm a word- "When a name no longer triggers you." This has allowed me to develop a place where I access altered consciousness, connect with my sub/superconscious, divine and familial lineages .. and do the Thing. Whatever that thing is. Like owning my very real roots, so I can change my life. While in that place together we (subconscious, superconscious, angelic and familial teams) constructed a sigil. (a message to the universe/ myself/ my sub and super consciousnesses) that went three dimensional and turned into mountains, water sources and falls, trees, a whole rooted world of me complete with the starry, starry heavens and all their players. It read "My Wonderful, Fabulous Roots."

To all my wonderful group from last night, I listened and got into the soothing water of Hampstead Ponds. It was so refreshing and life affirming and I wanted to extend thanks 🙏 because without that little push of loving advice from Manuela it wouldn’t have happened. ❤️♥️❤️♥️

I was introduced to Sigil making by Mark Vnicent, author of The sigil Secret in a series of live online trainings over on the Order of the Phoenix (which is actually a tarot based platform.) It was from this platform that I first met and fell in love with Louisa who was teaching eclipses... Sigil making is a branch of chaos magic. It is simply a way of communicating with the deeply buried subconscious parts of ourselves that participate in our daily lives from the deep shadows of backstage… From its hidden niches, the subconscious can trap us on modes of behavior learned as survival mechanisms in early life. I think of sigils as little pieces of visual DNA crafted by me, that communicate a new operation protocol to my subconscious. Who then does it's best to alert me when I am loosing the plot, and redirect me as per the new protocols. In his book The Sigi Secret, Mark Vincent explains how it all works. There are preparatory exercises designed to bring clarity and confidence to the process. All of this is also explained on Mark’s website. These are cool to do. Even highly amusing. But if you want to go straight to the process of communicating with the subconscious “team”. Then start out with your statement. AS an Example-- 1.  “I have got this.” or 2. “I am perfect. I have got this.” Compress this statement by removing all vowels and doubled consonants. 1. VGTHS… easy peasy 2. MPRFCTVGHS.. No less easy peasy after a few runs through.  The next stage is to assemble these letters into a singular visual plot/ story/ symbol.. I do this inside a circle. How you do this is up to you. I use capital letters. Not a given. I connect up the letters platforming one onto another. Letters can flip, rotate, be capitalised or not and even do ballet or sing on a good day. They are your letters. You make the rules. When the sigil is complete you will notice some letter parts, that represent where the letter began, or where the line finished…(that have not just linked and morphed into other letters). For these beginning lines, add a small circle at the end of line to signify (unattached) line beginning. And for the ending line of a letter- (that have not just linked and morphed into other letters)-- finish these with a small vertical tail to signify a dynamic of line ending.

🔎 Find it 🧩 Identify it 💭 Interpret it 👀 Notice it 💬 Share it We can get stuck in our charts and definitely in our thinking, but I always think it's helpful to see where the current positions of planets are pulling us, and MERCURY going into Virgo is a big one - MERCURY IS EXALTED here!! (thats a good thing) So what are you focussing on now and how is Mercury's position affecting your moods?

Welcome to 5 Minute Astrology — learning to actually USE your birth chart, five minutes at a time. 🌱BRAND NEW TO ASTROLOGY? If you're new, start with the 'Getting Started' Course in the Classroom. I've created a series of short videos to give you everything you need to join in — how to create your chart, find your planets, signs and houses, understand aspects, rulers and transits, and use the resources. You don't need to know it all before you begin. Just get yourself oriented and then come and join us. ✨READY TO GO? Head to the '5 Minute Astrology Daily Question', in the Classroom. This is our normal rhythm. Each short episode gives you one simple thing to find, explore or experiment with in your own chart. Watch the day's 5MA, spend five minutes with your chart, and then come back to the community and tell us what you noticed. No exams. No trying to memorise astrology. Five minutes. Your chart. Your life. Let's see what we notice. 🌟