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Hello everyone,
I bought my first astrology book at 13 and remember my boyfriend throwing it down the hallway about year later as I couldn’t get my head out of it. I still have this book, it is sellotaped to the hilt and sits in an unpacked box in the store room (sorry Linda Goodman.) I was not thwarted by this attention grabbing attempt to sabotage my studies and continued to voraciously ingest any astrology book I could get my hands on. It was a family joke that my sisters and myself used to call Julia and Derek Parker of ‘Parker’s Astrology’ fame our real parents (sorry mum and dad too).
I remember two pivotal moments in my search for knowledge. The first was overhearing a conversation about an astrology class, where the teacher had given the students a chart of the Hiroshima bombing and reading a section on geometry in Elizabeth Haich’s ‘Initiation’. Both instances left me thinking. Why doesn’t everyone else know about this?
In my mid 20’s I went to live in Australia with my brother, who promptly left me on my own to go to New Zealand, so that he could apply for a work visa. I spent a very sad and lonely year sleeping on the floor, pretending I was interested in customer service and learning how to read tarot.
A few years later I went for an interview for a P.E. teacher position in a school in Battersea, London. The headmaster asked me the question, “ What do you think about healing on a large scale?’ My mind was whirring, but some banal crud fell out of my mouth, and I ended up without the job. Yet another instance that left me thinking.
Many years later and many books later, nothing fascinates me more than the possibility that life can be somewhat understood looking forwards as well as backwards, that people’s innate dispositions, passions and inner struggles can be identified (to some degree) and that this can allow us all to move forward with ourselves and our interactions with others and make the best of what nature has handed us.
I believe that astrology and tarot are a potent combination and a ‘golden ticket’ that allows us an insight into ourselves, our relationships and a glimpse into incoming energies. I also believe it is time to heal ourselves, rather than look outward for inner fulfilment. If my husband can guess people’s sun signs and his favourite book is, ‘How to Pass your M.O.T’. There’s got to be something in it!