Author Archive | Margaret Koolman

Each bird must grow its own wings in the nest, and practise before it can fly.  .       If you are feeling the importance of this time, you may find my thoughts mirror your own.  Each one of us is important: how we feel, how we live, what we radiate into life. Each […]

Be flexible and light, listen and be ready to change yourself where you can.  Gemini – a breath of fresh air .       Gemini is about the movement of air, the breath, the words that flow through it, stirring the air with movement of our lungs, our bodies, the space between us, between […]

Holding on pushes reality away and you cannot change and grow. Accept what clearly is, and what needs to go will fall away from you.  _________________________________________________________ .       The astrological approach lifts us away from direct emotional contact, in order to reveal a clearer view.  You know how a snarled-up computer often resolves […]

Be connected with all life, from deep within your own being. _________________________________________________________ Aries Equinox – a new balance of Light and Dark .       This year, the Equinox on 20 March is focused on living the positive face of Aries (Sun and Chiron at the beginning of Aries square the Moon’s Nodes from Capricorn […]

It’s not really about me versus the others because, in a broader view, I am one of the ‘others’. _________________________________________________________ Clearing the decks before this New Moon .       I don’t know about you, but I’m feeling really good about endeavouring to clear the past, for me that is my backlog piles of paper. […]

All of us are expressing love, or a call for love, in one way or another. Some ways we may not understand, but we can still let love flow.  A new beginning this year .       So here we are, the other side of that key point in January where we may have […]

Stay with yourself kindly through turbulence. Life is continuous, good – and now.  Between a rock and a hard place .       The difficulty is between wanting things to remain the same as we are used to (Saturn) while feeling the unstoppable power of inevitable change or death (Pluto). Pulling these two immense […]

Opinions limit your view, whereas loving detachment allows inclusivity, and all ideas in the stew-pot creates transformative solutions. There is always another way to see anything and anybody!  .       During the weeks running up to this New Moon, our ways of relating have been severely tested. But the balance is being held […]

We need to let go of deep emotional conditioning if we don’t want old attitudes to continue creating our experience.   _________________________________________________________ This Scorpio New Moon chart is very striking for two aspects: Sun/Moon in Scorpio is exactly opposite Uranus in Taurus; and Mars in Libra is exactly square Saturn in Capricorn and quincunx Neptune. […]

Let go of wanting to know – outcomes come out when they are ready.  Libra – Venus energy expressed in relationship .       Twenty-five years ago, I took myself on a meditative journey to explore all the planet. This is what I wrote when I reached Venus, who rules Libra and Taurus. We […]