Yoga gives us the tools for our journey, Astrology gives us the map.

10 years ago I was not the yoga type. I was a fast paced business person, I worked hard and I worked out hard. No time for ‘rolling around on a yoga mat’.

Since then, a lot has changed. I now own yoga studios, lead yoga teacher trainings, and speak on yoga and wellbeing as a corporate wellness consultant - it all feels very full circle!

Yet still, until recently there were elements of well-being and spirituality that felt too much for me - astrology was one of them.

I liked the top line idea of astrology but I didn’t ‘get it’ fully. I have noticed what tends to happen to me is as soon as I judge anything, I get served it, usually in the same month! I know we shouldn’t judge, but I’ve studied enough on psychology to know as humans it’s totally natural to judge, what’s more important is honesty and self-enquiry, which is what I practice and why I share these stories.

I never understood when people said they fell pregnant by accident, then I got pregnant on the coil. I harshly judged a family member for reckless business decisions which sank their company, to find myself speaking to an insolvency agency during covid (I traded through and we are out the other side, but still, it humbled me). You may find, judge someone for antidepressants, you may well need them, divorce, affairs, illness, anything! You just do not know until you’ve been there. Turns out this is all part of my journey. 

Maybe I judged astrology in a way. Like yoga once did, Astrology just felt too ‘wafty’ for me. Until, Lenny said something which I couldn't deny or unhear, luckily my mum was in the room or I would question its truth now. I stroked his birthmark on his head, and said I was sad his strawberry was fading, and at only 3 years old, having never spoken about death, clear as a bell he asked ‘mummy will I die?’ and with my mum and I looking at each other shocked and concerned I ask ‘no why do you think that?’ and he went on to describe losing me in Spain (he has never been to Spain) and a man hitting him on the head and he died and froze and then came back in my tummy with his arms and legs and found me again. It almost feels too personal to share, there was a lot more detail which I have left out, and I have wrestled with sharing any of it, but it’s the only way I can explain and hopefully help others believe in the power of astrology, I don’t think anything else would have convinced me to look into it. When I googled past lives one of the first things that came up was birthmarks as a sign of a previous death. I had not even made the connection between the birthmark and his story until reading that, I will let you explore those stories yourself, both terrifying and fascinating. Either way, nothing can feel more truthful than your own child speaking so clearly about something that is so far beyond his age group's understanding or communication skills. It was probably the only thing that would have made me seriously look into Astrology.

Luckily, I have some incredible teachers in my studio, one of whom is an astrology expert and so I reached out to Becky Clissett, since then so much has changed. I understand myself and others on another level. I now can’t deny that we all have a path and that our purpose in this lifetime is to grow. I judge so much less now, understanding that we all have a very different way to grow in this lifetime. Perhaps if we were very privileged in a past life then this lifetime we may need to learn how to graft, or if we had a hard past life maybe our growth is in doing less and resting in this lifetime. We aren’t workaholics or lazy, we are on our path. I can hear how contrite that sounds, but the truth is that your birth chart has it all mapped out. Your South Node shows you where you have been and your North Node where you are working towards. And whatever planet and house they are in gives the information you need to know about where you are going. That’s grossly oversimplified, but true. 

For example, my South Node (past life) shows a ‘wounded healer’, I was forced to nurture, maybe look after someone else’s child, sometimes with a disability. To close a karmic cycle (to make peace with the past, to be able to fulfil our duty in this lifetime) we are sent challenges in this lifetime to trigger a previous wound. And now I have a step daughter, who (as gorgeous as she is) requires me to love another person's child. Having Lenny unexpectedly, when I was focussing on my career is another example of that. My purpose in this lifetime is ‘transformation through compassion’. In order to transform I need to find deep compassion, and I can see how I am served those lessons instantly to learn that. My duty in this lifetime is actually to focus on self, which I find incredibly hard. But, if I keep that in mind it helps guide my decisions. Otherwise I would continue to put others first and not evolve how I am meant to in this lifetime.

For a long time, I hid behind the studio. I wanted to help people, but I didn’t want to be seen. And then I had children and they come first no matter what. And so my lesson now is also to focus on me, to stop hiding, to be seen. This website is a big part of that journey for me. To no longer hide. My chart shows that I am here to help others through communication. And that is why I share, I feel pulled to do so, and I listen to that. 

Yoga teaches us how to regulate our mood, our mental health, our physical health, to keep us mentally and physically well enough in this lifetime to do the work that we are here to do. Life is so hard, without the tools of yoga, I’m not sure how it would be possible for anyone to get as far as their purpose, they would just be stuck in daily struggle. And then, Astrology shows us the map of what our purpose truly is, it answers the question ‘why does life feel hard, what am I here to do?’. Yoga gives us the tools to help us on our journey, Astrology gives us the map as to what that journey is.