Mindful living & spiritual wellbeing

How to beat hay fever with herbal remedies

Bless you! It’s that time of year again peeps, the season of sneezing, itchy eyes and runny noses. For those of us who suffer with hay fever, late March time marks the entrance of tree pollen season, followed by grass pollen from the end of spring until summer time, and weed pollen from autumn time….

4 alternative ways to analyse personality

“Why am I as I am? To understand that of any person, his whole life, from birth must be reviewed. All of our experiences fuse into our personality. Everything that ever happened to us is an ingredient.” ― Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm The dawning of a new year brings a fresh opportunity to…

You are what you wear 👕 Do you care?

Do you know which common fabric is made from coal, air, water and petroleum? Well, quite possibly the sweater you’re wearing, if it’s made from polyester. How does that make you feel? My earliest memory of giving fabric more than a passing thought was the rash and irritating itch which accompanied my accidental wear of…

Getting started with Moon magick 🌙

Since ancient times, the Lunar Goddess has reigned as the feminine force of the Moon. The Moon’s divine energy is a great force which we draw power and strength from during rituals and lunar magick plays an important role for us as we honour the Goddesses, utilising each lunar phase within our spell workings and…

The dark side of Neptune

The great American astrologer, Carl Payne Tobey, discovered that Neptune afflictions, including heavy Pisces or heavy 6th house planets in the astrological natal chart were highly prevalent in pathological cases. In fact, he found out significant increase of afflicted Mars and Pluto along with Neptune afflictions in the charts of convicted criminals. In the 21st…

Natural no-nos: Hidden enemies on your bathroom shelf

Are there hidden enemies on your bathroom shelf? Many years ago now, I embarked on a new adventure of exploration; a journey into the world of natural and organic products. My aim was to detox myself of harsh chemicals lurking in many household products and cosmetics. Some, such as Sodium Laureth Sulfate (SLES) I was…

M.E./CFS: The silent illness

In my experience of helping people with M.E, I have found that this illness is silent. Most people are not heard. They’re not heard by their doctors, most of the medical profession and friends and family. Inside, the person is silently screaming; looking for some sort of relief and although the hospitals go through the…

Can cats and dogs benefit from a raw food diet?

Raw feeding for your pet means raw meat, bones, vegetables and fruit. Better known as the BARF diet, an acronym for Bones and Raw Food or Biologically Appropriate Raw Food. BARF is based on a diet your dog or cat’s ancestors would have eaten in the wild. Dogs were domesticated over some 14,000 years ago…

5 benefits of choosing a natural perfume

From time immemorial perfumes have been all natural botanical formulae. Chanel No 5 was the first mass-marketed perfume to utilize synthetics on a large commercial scale The first perfume house to use synthetics was a French house called Houbigant after Coumarin was isolated from Tonka Beans in 1868. Some reasons for synthetic compounds to be…

Asteroid Karma through the 12 signs

The natal chart of Asteroid Karma (discovered Oct 13 1953) has two powerful relationships involving occult asteroids. The first is Asteroid Siva conjuncting Asteroid Anubis. A meeting of ancient Egyptian and ancient Indian spiritual principles of death and soul journeying for rebirth. The second is Asteroid Sumeria conjuncting asteroid DNA in 0.5 deg Virgo. Indicating…