Over the next few hours, you're going to notice a few things changing around here. Feel Good Astrology is becoming '5 Minute Astrology'. Don't worry — I'm not disappearing, and neither is the 'Feel Good' approach to astrology. In fact, this is something I've been quietly working towards for a long time. I'm creating a much easier way for us to learn astrology by actually using it — five minutes at a time. Today you'll see: ✨ New branding appearing around the community ✨ A new START HERE — Get Ready area ✨ A printable 5MA Quick Map to keep beside your birth chart ✨ A collection of tiny videos showing you how to find your way around your chart ✨ And the beginnings of our new 5 Minute Astrology Living Classroom You absolutely do NOT need to know astrology to join in. If you're completely new, I'll show you where to start. If you already know astrology, you can jump straight in. And then from Monday, we begin properly. Our first week is MERCURY — and rather than simply learning about Mercury, we're going to follow what's actually happening in the sky and use it to investigate our own charts, minds and lives. So if things look as though they're moving around for the next few hours… they are. 😂 I'm putting up the sign and opening the doors. Welcome to 5 Minute Astrology. Let's see what we notice. 💗

Channel your inner Mary Poppins - stay frosty but professional! Friday 21st August brings Venus into opposition with Saturn, an aspect that can test our sense of worth, belonging and even our ability to receive the goodness coming towards us. A compliment might not land, affection could meet a wall, money may feel tighter, or a small interaction could suddenly leave us wondering whether we're good enough — but Friday's astrology asks us not to turn a passing feeling into evidence of our failure. Instead, this is an opportunity to notice what changes our emotional state, strengthen our boundaries and remember the difference between scarcity and discernment. With supportive Moon aspects to Jupiter, Saturn and Venus throughout the day, there is plenty here to help us stay steady, gracious and connected to what we genuinely value. Perhaps Friday's question is simply this: do you value yourself enough to take yourself seriously?

The North Node has now moved into Aquarius, beginning an 18-month journey that shifts our attention towards community, technology, systems, belonging and our collective future. In this episode, I explain what the North and South Nodes actually are, why they always work as a polarity, and what we're being asked to learn as the North Node moves through Aquarius and the South Node through Leo. We also look back at previous North Node in Aquarius cycles—from the beginnings of European cooperation and the rise of environmental movements to the fall of the Berlin Wall, the World Wide Web, social media and the financial crash—to see the remarkable themes that repeat. At the heart of this cycle lies a tension between the individual and the collective: Leo's distortion says "I'm special," while Aquarius' distortion says "our group is morally superior." With Jupiter meeting the South Node and Pluto eventually meeting the North Node, questions around power, belief, technology, authority and who gets to shape the future could become increasingly important. Perhaps the medicine of this entire cycle is learning how to create communities that honour individuals, and individuals who meaningfully contribute to their communities. Part 2 is coming tomorrow - with the All 12 sign forecasts!!! PPS - I will respond to messages real soon. It's been bonkers.

We're heading into 12th House week, with two sessions tomorrow at the usual times and another two on Thursday. I can't wait to see you and catch up — it feels like AGES since we were in class together! And rather beautifully, as we arrive at the 12th House — the place of endings, release, transition and the space before a new beginning — we're actually living it here too. One of the things I love about teaching the houses this way is that we don't just learn them. We begin to notice how we're moving through them in our own lives. And this week, our community is having a little 12th House moment of its own. Because I have a second piece of news. Starting next week, I'm adding something new here. It's actually a project that's been sitting on the back burner for more years than I care to remember. So much so that I already have the urls for them for 3_ years! It's come into view and faded away again several times, but over the last few days I suddenly realised that I finally have everything in place to move forwards with it. I'm not revealing the name just yet because I'm getting the new style and everything else ready, but I wanted you to know first that I'll shortly be renaming this Skool community from Feel Good Astrology to something new. I also want to reassure you that Feel Good Astrology isn't disappearing — and neither is what we already do here. My forecasts will continue. Our classes and deeper teaching will continue. And everything I teach will remain very much rooted in my Feel Good Astrology principles. What's changing is that I'm adding another layer of learning and teaching, and I want the name of our Skool community to reflect that more clearly. I'm so passionate about teaching astrology. I want more people to realise that astrology is something they can learn — without it feeling enormous, complicated or like they need years of study before they can begin to understand their own chart. So rather than changing what we do, I'm creating a much clearer doorway into it.

I've got some exciting things on the boil here.......the Venus/Jupiter sextile that I speak about, and the preceding Venus/Jupiter conjunction on June 9th is bringing about some great outcomes......will reveal all soon..... However - here are the notes about Monday's forecast for you. Can't wait to be back properly. I've enjoyed my break from client work/teaching - and feeling refreshed and raring to go again!!!! Monday brings three major planetary aspects, beginning with Mars square Neptune, which can leave our usual energy feeling depleted, confused or harder to direct — making this a day to protect our energy and find more creative or soulful ways to take action. Mercury trine Saturn follows with exactly the kind of mental architecture we need, helping us organise our thoughts, create a plan and build something with real structure. Then Venus sextile Jupiter brings an upward lift, potentially showing us the first significant development from something we hoped for, imagined or began around the Venus–Jupiter conjunction in June. As the Moon moves into Scorpio and trines the North Node, we can take these changes inward and recognise that something really is moving forwards. Just watch for a late-day wobble as the Moon opposes Chiron: if the opportunity suddenly feels bigger than you expected, don't mistake “this is going to ask more of me” for “I'm not enough to do it.”