Firstly, what does a pivot week mean? It means a profound or paradigm shift. This week is a shift from thinking to feeling. A ‘getting out of our head time’ and really moving into a more feminine time. A very watery time of flow and emotion.

The Sun and Jupiter join together today to begin a whole new year of creativity and then they both move into the sign of Cancer. The Sun tomorrow and Jupiter late on the 25th – I am always referencing mountain time. Cancer is THE sign of feeling, of nurturing, of the mother and from the 25th we will have four planets in this sign until Venus moves into Leo on the 28th. The Sun, Mercury (which is going retrograde on the 26th) will be there for quite some time. Too much astrology? I apologize. This just means a real period of moving into our feelings.

I am seeing it already. There was a thread on a friends facebook profile yesterday talking about how their emotions are all over the place. There were many comments agreeing. It’s also very apt that I am starting to create my “Desire Map” – a Danielle LaPorte program – in which I write about how I desire to FEEL rather than setting goals.

Add to this a little more astrology. First the Sun and then Jupiter will be creating aspects with Saturn and Neptune in the other water signs, Scorpio and Pisces. That’s a whole lot of water, emotion, spiritual creativity and a real time to go with the flow. Also remember that emotion is beautiful. It doesn’t have to be misery. The Sun and Jupiter will bring optimism.

Many would have started to feel this shift from Friday so tell us in the comments below how you are FEELING? Are you feeling creative, nurturing, inspired? Tell us if you are feeling the shift and your feeling words.

Fear has been described as many things and many acronyms are bandied about the internet. ‘False Evidence Appearing Real’, ‘Forget Everything and Run’ and ‘Face Everything and Rise’ are just three that jump to mind.

These are simplistic in my opinion. Some fears are healthy. If you are walking alone and night and you hear someone following you and they stop when you stop and run when you run, then it’s a healthy reaction to be fearful. If someone comes at you with a knife fear is also a healthy reaction. It’s what happens to you when you are fearful that is more important. If fear paralyzes you then you are unable to deal with a situation. I was once trailed by a car with four guys in when I was a teen. I felt fear but instead of panicking I walked up the driveway to a random house and rang the doorbell. The car drove off and I waited until I was sure they were gone before walking the rest of the way home. I didn’t let it paralyze me or let it rule my life, however. I did continue to walk home. We lived in a generally safe area, it was before cell phones and I was too young to drive. No way was I going to let this stop me living my life.

It’s the deeper soul fears that are more insidious. The fear of our shadow that leads to the fear of not being liked. To feeling that no one will like us if the figure out what we are really like inside. The fear of not being enough. The fear of not being lovable. I have always seemed fearless in many ways. I have moved countries alone. I have stepped into situations that many would not. But on a soul level I have lived with many fears.

As an example using astrology, I have Capricorn rising. This rising sign is seen as dependable and highly capable from the moment they are born. The shadow of this is that those with this rising sign often have a deep rooted fear that they are actually not as capable as people believe them to be. They have a fear of being ‘found out’. As a result they often fight against this image of themselves that they themselves portray. For those of you that have known me through my talk of being shy, this rising sign often feels, and comes across as, shy and reserved, because of the fear.

The truth of the matter is that they actually ARE very dependable and capable and once they accept this fully they grow up and really own the dependable and capable side of themselves. When I fully understood this through astrology I learned to love this part of me and these fears began to dissolve. I ‘feel’ less shy. I have or am learning to love this part of me that often felt like a restriction or something that repressed my core. Once I made friends with what for me felt like my shadow I actually learned to love it and felt more complete.

My point is that many fears can be overcome or lessened through a full understanding of what makes us tick. Once we learn to love every part of ourselves, to see what we believed to be our shadow as a part of our shiny self, then we can become whole. I am reminded of the famous Marianne Williamson quote:

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”

My own take on this is that we must learn to love our light AND our darkness. To make friends with our shine AND our shadow, in order to become truly fearless and to live our souls intention. Once we no longer fear our shadow it becaomes part of our light and we can truly shine.

Are there any parts of you that you repress or dislike that would be best brought to light? What soul fears do you have repressed or tucked away that you would like to make friends with? Have you already experienced this and have something to share that could help others? Tell us in the comments below!

I am a soul astrologer, coach, community builder, writer and lover of life. Join my Fabulous and Fearless Community on Facebook, like my Fabulous and Fearless page and contact me at louise@louiseedington.com if you would like to know how to work with me. I love you <3.

There are many reasons for this astrologically but I don’t want to blind you with the science. If you want to know what has been happening there’s enough out there on the internet. I think you must have had your head under a rock to have avoided all the talk of the shift.

What I will talk about today is the energy now and how that MAY help your transformation. We are in one of the most fortunate periods astrologically that we have seen for some time. This week we have Grand trines forming in water – a very ‘lucky’ configuration. This is building to what’s called a Star Of David at the end of July but I’ll write more on that as the time gets closer. The very names of these configurations just feel good though don’t they? And that’s because they are.

This week we have two Grand Trines exacting. One was on the third and one will be on the seventh. Both include Saturn and Neptune and the first included Mercury and next it’s Venus. We will have the Moon, Sun, Mars and Jupiter to come as they all enter the sign of Cancer. What does this mean? It means increased creativity and sensitivity. There will be a lot of emotion around. I just cried at my daughters awards assembly. Or rather I cried more than usual.  Your intuition will be enhanced and you will feel a pull to meditate more or whatever it is that makes your spiritual boat float – oh how very watery of me to say so. Water signs will generally be most affected ,or those with a lot of planets in water signs, but everyone will be affected to a degree. And it’s only going to get stronger. But I shall write more on that later.

To top it off we have a New moon in Gemini on Saturday which officially ends the very intense eclipse season that we have been through since April 25^th. New moons are always wonderful times for new beginnings and setting intentions.

To cut a long story short, as my aim is to make my blog accessible to non astrologers, this is a time of forward movement. This is the start of a time where your dreams could come into fruition if you get clear on your desires this week and don’t get stuck in watery, swimming against the tide energy. You still need to do the work. . How apt that I am working on my Desire Map – a Danielle Laporte program.

One last mention. Neptune is stationing retrograde this week and  this will review dreams and desires that have been forming since the end of last year.

So get dreaming! What do you really desire. How do you want to move forward in your life and business? How are you going to tap into this FABULOUS energy?

I am a soul astrologer, coach, community builder, writer and lover of life. Join my Fabulous and Fearless Community on Facebook, like my Fabulous and Fearless page and contact me at louise@louiseedington.com if you would like to book a soul reading with me. I love you <3. Also look out for an AMAZING New Moon announcement on Saturday. I’ll announce it on my page and to my list and in my group on Monday. Please subscribe if you don’t want to miss!

I have lost count of the times I have been told that I should write. I have crushed every dream. My dream has also been crushed by others. I met a fairly well known writer once and told her I wanted to write. She asked if I had the urge to get up at 5 every morning and write. When I said no she told me I am not a writer. That one held me back for many more years.

I still, however, have a vision of people with my book by their bedside. I see them reading it before they go to sleep at night or first thing in the morning. I see it inspiring them to do great things or to travel and see fabulous places.

Thanks to astrology and the wisdom of age I understand myself more fully nowadays and I know what works for me to get me to actually do things. I have set up some strategies to help me actually write. Not that I still don’t allow things to get in the way of that. But I AM writing. In fact I have about five projects on the go. And I am blogging more regularly again.

More and more in recent years I have been feeling the pull to write. I have vast life experience to write about. I have traveled and visited amazing places. I have lived in many different places and countries. I have completely changed my life in many ways. I feel that I have a lot to often write about and a lot to teach people through my writing. I do not plan to write fiction. I am a teacher.

These are the strategies I am using to help me to write

• I now go to a writers group that a friend and I started. For weeks it has been just the two of us but we are now three.
• I try to schedule time to write at least five days a week. I say try because, yes, I do fall off the wagon now and again and let ‘stuff’ get in the way.
• I think about writing much of the time. I think about it almost as much as I do astrology. That’s a lot.
• I find inspiration everywhere. Since I committed to writing I find it in things I read, things people say, things I see. I am tuning in.
• I meditate. I cannot say enough about this one. When I ‘forget’ to meditate for a few days my mind is not as clear and I cannot write.

I find writing is like a muscle, The more I write the more I actually want to write and the more ideas and inspiration comes. I have probably four books started or outlined outlined and I have been invited to write a chapter of another book.

On that note, I would like your help. One of my book ideas is tentatively titled How to Become Fabulous and Fearless and I would like to interview women and men who have had a big life changes and have gone through big transformations and have come out on the other side. I would like people who would consider themselves now fabulous and fearless or on the path to being fabulous and fearless. If this is you, I would love to interview you about your journey and quote or feature you in my book.

If you would be interested in doing a short interview with me about your personal transformation and if you would be willing to help me to have your name published in my book when it eventually gets published please leave me a comment in the comments below and will arrange a time where we can get together to talk.

Do you have any lifelong unrealized dreams? Or do you want to write a book? How are you taking steps to bring that dream into realization? Tell us in the comments below!

We all know by now about the horrific tornado in Moore, OK and something got me thinking about trust, acceptance and gratitude in the face of disaster.

As an astrologer I was not surprised by something like this happening right in the middle of Eclipse season and right on the third of seven Uranus/Pluto squares. Eclipse energy is intense at the best of times but this series of three that ends with the Full Moon Lunar Eclipse in Sagittarius on Friday has felt more intense than usual. Also Uranus is the planet of shocking sudden events and Pluto unearths things. How much clearer could this point to a whole swath of a town being ripped up from the ground.

I don’t only want to talk about astrology today, however. I would like to talk about a video that went viral today. And that is this video of a woman, a Tornado Survivor finding her dog during a TV Interview.

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Finding the dog was a beautiful story, of course, and it brought tears of joy to my eyes. It wasn’t that that struck me though. It was the womans sweet soul and demeanor. There was no drama, no ‘why me’, no ‘I’m in shock’. There was complete acceptance that, as she said, ‘this is life’ and that she ‘knew exactly what had happened’. You got a real sense that this woman will deal with this tragedy and get on with her life. Her most notable comment was ‘I’m okay‘.

I LOVE this woman. Others might be crying about how they have lost everything but not this woman. She gave us a shining example that we are not okay because of our circumstances but that we are okay because of how we react to our circumstances. This woman displayed a level of trust and acceptance that I am in complete awe of. She was also grateful.

I am not a religious person, but I do tend to trust that all is, and will be, okay, or rather that I am okay. This doesn’t mean I don’t feel sadness, that I don’t shed tears when ‘stuff’ happens. I would not be surprised if this woman shed a few tears once the initial adrenalin wore off. But she is okay. When my Dad died at the age of 62 a friend asked how I was so okay. All I could think was, ‘this is part of life’. I was very sad of course, I cried in private, but I didn’t fall apart because I was okay. A boy I know, who was headed towards the Olympics as a skier, lost his leg in a skiing accident just over a year ago. He is okay because he chose to be and within months was back on his prosthetic leg learning to snowboard because skiing at that level is no longer an option. He is okay.

And so are you. Trust and have faith that you will be okay and you will be.

How do you react to your circumstances? If you have had nothing awful happen to you how do you ‘think’ you would react? Tell us in the comments below.

I am a soul astrologer, community builder, writer and lover of life. Join my Fabulous and Fearless Community on Facebook, like my Fabulous and Fearless page and contact me at louise@louiseedington.com if you would like to book a soul reading with me. I love you <3

So, how do you know if you are Fabulous and Fearless? What exactly does it mean? It can mean many things depending on YOU.

It depends on what you want out of life. It depends on your core beliefs. First of all you MUST get clear on this.  But there are some core traits of being Fabulous and Fearless.

1. You are willing to look at all of you – warts and all. We all have a dark side and most of spend much of our life stuffing that dark side away as far as we can and not looking at it. But what happens when you stuff things down? They often explode when you are least expecting it! Once you become aware and accepting of your dark side that’s when the real change can begin. After all you can’t change what you don’t know and it’s harder to change that which you don’t recognize and accept. Being willing to look at yourself in a completely non judgemental and objective way is very Fabulous and Fearless.
2. You face fears head on. Being Fearless does not mean having no fear. It means not letting that fear rule your life! I went through a phase where I thought I had to become an adrenalin junkie to face my fears. I learned to ski at 49 and did my first zip line at 50. But then I stopped. I have no DESIRE to bungie jump or jump out of an aeroplane. I have healed much of my fear of heights by doing the other things. Where I MOST need to be fearless is more of an internal thing. Getting over my fear of not being enough, my fear of not being liked etc. You get the picture? Please don’t think bungie jumping is the only way to be fearless! Though if you choose to, that’s good too! To my mind it is a greater feat to face the deep soul fears.
3. You boldly put yourself out there and celebrate you! Okay, this kind of combines one and two but is so important. Dress in a way that makes you feel fabulous, say what makes you feel fabulous (without being hurtful of course). Show your passion for life and your core beliefs. Stop hiding and shrinking like a little mouse. Some people will fade away and that’s okay. More will be attracted by your realness.
4. You do whatever it takes to bring out your Fabulous and Fearless self. Read inspirational books, get therapy, get an astrology reading and mentoring (hehe), take up meditation or running or whatever makes you feel better. The more good we surround ourself with and put into your minds the more Fabulous and Fearless you will be! This includes surrounding yourself with Fabulous and Fearless people. If you want to find some in a ready made community join my group on Facebook. We are fabulously spam free and supportive! Click here to join us
5. You put yourself first. Sounds selfish? Well no, actually, it isn’t. Yes, it’s good to serve and help others but if you don’t take care of yourself first then you are LESS able to help others. Get good sleep, eat well, get massages, get exercise. Don’t run yourself ragged doing for others. It really is not productive and it certainly isn’t Fabulous and Fearless!

These are five ways to know if you are or are on your way to being Fabulous and Fearless. Tell us in the comments how you are doing .

I am a soul astrologer, community builder, writer and lover of life. Join my Fabulous and Fearless Community on Facebook, like my Fabulous and Fearless page and contact me at louise@louiseedington.com if you would like to book a soul reading with me. I love you <3

•  I learned more about the power of gratitude. Even when we first got the news by phone on vacation I felt immediate gratitude for the fact that I could trust the people in my neighborhood with my garage door code and trust them to just go into our house and deal with what needed dealing with immediately until we could get home. I had – and have – great gratitude for for the guy that works for the local water company who oversaw everything and looked after our property until we returned home.
• I also took an astrological lesson from our flood as it happened almost exactly around the time of a Scorpio full moon eclipse. Scorpio is a water sign and also represents that which is underneath, the taboo, the below (ie our basement). I found it really interesting that itl happened on a water full moon when watery power is very much stronger. So I was able to file this in my little file of examples for my future astrological lessons.
•  Thirdly, I learned that I still get stressed over these things if I am not very clear and assertive. Dealing with the contractors and insurance companies got quite complicated for a while until I reached a snapping point, almost, and said “no more”. This is not our fault, not our water pipes. This is all on the water companies insurance so I told our main contractor to deal with everything, to get clear quotes and to oversee the other contractors. I learned to be more assertive and firm and to be very clear about what I want doing and what is acceptable to me.
• Lastly, certainly not least, I learned to surrender my attempts to control the situation and to trust the people I am delegating to. Though that is really hard sometimes as they are working below me and it’s so tempting to keep going down to see how it’s going!

This really was a big deal as a lot of work needs doing and it affected things in so many ways. It’s also meant that I have struggled to get my work done as well during this period which is why I have to say  ”no you deal with it and just come to me with a solution”. It’s a life experience, however, and it’s always good to take away some lessons and make some lemonade from every experience.

So, tell me have there been any experiences in your life where you have made lemonade from lemons? Tell us in the comments below.

But shouldn’t life be fun? I’m not saying we don’t need to earn money, of course we do. But for many of us what we love to do, our bliss, is put down by others as not a ‘real job’ and we lose sight of our bliss. Of course for some the structure of a job and career is exactly what suits them but not all of us.

For over twenty years I thought of astrology as a hobby. As a child I said I wanted to write books. I have always loved to travel. I have always been a great listener and often ended up in the bathrooms at clubs comforting some poor girl who was having a breakdown over something or other. People have always said I inspired them. So how come I spent my life saying ‘I have never known what I want to be’. How come I worked a series of uninspiring jobs? Until now.

My answer is that it’s part of my souls evolutionary path. I do have a big BUT though. And that is but what if I had really understood my own chart. I spent so much time looking at other peoples charts more than my own. All my bliss is in my natal chart. I have so much 8th house/Pluto/Scorpio in my chart that shows that I am a natural therapist, a healer, a witch even. My moon placing shows that I love the mental joy of creativity and Mercury in my 11th house shows that I want to tell the world. Therefore I am a writer and teacher. I have four planets in Sagittarius and am born to travel and live in different places. I also have three personal planets in the 11th house which means that I am meant to create communities. And by the way I have one of the funnest groups on Facebook. You should join us – click here! I also have an unusually large number of mutable planets which means I love change and variety.

I regret nothing in my life, however. It has all brought me to this place. My Social Media work led me to understand that what I most love about it is my ability to create communities and inspire others. My series of jobs all taught me different lessons. Nothing was a waste. But wouldn’t it be cool if I had understood these things about myself earlier? If I had never thought there was something wrong with me for never being able to settle to one thing?

Now I accept that ALL these things are my bliss. And I now choose to follow that bliss. I realize that I am in a privileged position in that my husbands job supports the life we have built so I have time to explore my bliss. But I truly believe that I am ready to follow my bliss no matter what.

I ask you though. What if you could truly understand yourself at a deep level? Wouldn’t it be cooler than words if you could truly know what your bliss is and follow that? A deep soul reading can help you to find your bliss and open the doors that are meant for YOU.

I am a soul astrologer, community builder, writer and lover of life. Join my Fabulous and Fearless Community on Facebook, like my Fabulous and Fearless page and contact me at louise@louiseedington.com if you would like to book a soul reading with me. I love you <3

The South Node energy is something that we are born with. When we look into a New Born babies eyes we see glimpses of it. You see a more angry look or a peaceful, passive happy look. I remember my eldest being described as an old soul. This is the energy of the South Node.

This is the oldest energy in each of us. It represents the past at an unconscious level. It’s energy that we come into this life with through a long lineage, past lives or soul energy, however you choose to describe it. Astrologer Stephen Forrest describes it as “the single most telling placement of a persons evolutionary past”.

The South Node contains well honed abilities, talents and gift. Both positive and negative. Ingrained habits. These tend to be compulsive tendencies and old survival strategies. Contains all the things our soul has learned through it’s evolutionary journey. These are innate and instinctive qualities not qualities that we are aware of until later in life. They are qualities that we have lived so deeply that we are ready to loosen its hold on us.

As an example. I have my South Node in Aries in the Second house. This is extreme ‘do it alone’ energy. It conveys a wildness and an untamed energy. Quick to anger. The type of anger that just pops out. A sense of proving myself to myself and not needing others in my life. A sense of fighting for my own self worth.

This is warrior energy and I find it interesting that my name means Warrior Maiden and at my mid life I worked closely with someone with Warrior energy and as I evolved and started to become aware of these qualities I had to leave that person because of that energy. This means that I was starting to loosen the grip that the South Node has on me and feel the pull of my souls evolutionary intent. warrior energy.

This is perfectly timed as the first half of our lives are usually spent effortlessly reproducing our south node qualities. There are always exceptions of course and they show in individual charts. However, as we move into the second half of life if we are aware and evolving we do start to feel the pull of the North Node though many do live and die being run by their unconscious patterns. However if we follow the evolutionary track and grow and become aware. If we are on a spiritual or psychological track then we begin to become aware and objective about this soul habit. This Can be achieved not only through astrology but astrology does explain it well 

We start to become aware, to accept that this is an instinctual part of the self and loosen the ego identification with it. And then we move really to the opposite. Briefly my North node pull is to allow or even consciously pursue deeply intimate relationships with a few people, in a spiritual and emotional sense. To have deep friendships. Something I have never really had. I have always had many friends and found it easy to move on. This is just my soul habit . Thankfully I am evolving as my soul is intended. Astrology has helped me with this tremendously.

Without knowing where your Nodes are placed what would you guess is your soul habit? What things do you think your soul is here to learn?

If you would like a deep soul reading please contact me for details at louise@louiseedington.com

Louise Edington is an International Soul Astrologer who loves to help people evolve and to feel a sense of wholeness and awareness deeply and quickly. Louise offers readings alone (mp3 recordings) or readings with follow up counseling.

Libra is the sign of balance, justice, relationships, art and social justice. It is no coincidence that scales are the symbol for many of the High Courts. In its shadow Libra can also have a tendency to seek peace at any price (to itself), be indecisive and have difficulty saying no. The greatest of balancing acts, and one that Libra teaches us, is the balancing act between self and others

Libra is an air sign and air signs have an agile mind and are good communicators who can emphasize the intellect above all else. Often an appearance of sweetness and that of a light breeze but with the power of a gale force wind behind it. It’s all about movement and Libras evolutionary path is to develop the self through encounters with others and, thereby learning to balance the need for peace with the talent for challenging unjust situations rather than erring on one side or the other.

The Full Moon is always an opposition to the Sun and the Sun is currently in Aries which is Warrior energy. Direct, energizing and pioneering. In the shadow it can be aggressive, volatile and reactionary. Now Libra full moon is ALWAYS opposite the Aries sun but what makes this Full Moon so powerful is that Mars, the ruling planet of Aries, is also in opposition. Mars is the God of war and adds to the yang energy of Aries. Additionally Uranus, unpredicatibily, revolution and uniqueness and Venus, the ruling planet of Libra, are also in opposition.

How UNBELIEVABLY perfect timing for the Supreme Court of The USA to be hearing proposals to to overturn Proposition 8 and DOMA. This is a time for leaving behind old paradigms of partnerships and I cannot say enough about the revolutionary (Uranus) quality of the energy. Or the fact that Mars and Venus, the male and female planets are both heavily tied into this. Or that it’s a time for balancing. The warrior energy indicates a fight for justice and for equality. This is a huge opportunity for the Supreme Court to make this change and for a huge step forward in human rights. Of course, as an opposition, this will not be without a huge amount of opposition from those that oppose any change. Very powerful.

On a personal level if you are spiritually aware and letting go of old structures in your life then you can use the energy to step into your new unique self. A time of inner revolution that mirrors the outer revolution.

This is a real time of opening up to being more open, free and whole than ever before. A time of real balance and, yes, equality.