Reintegrating the Divine Feminine, Upgrading our Myths & Renaming our Planets

The Roman Empire is Over!

We need to rename our planets. For the divine feminine to truly shift, we need to rename them and evolve our myths. We are still living under the Roman Empire. The names of the planets Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn are all named after Roman deities, while Uranus and Neptune are named after Greek gods. And the feminine goddess asteroids… Juno, Vesta and Ceres are Roman, while the asteroid Pallas is Greek – an epithet of Athena.

We need to reintegrate the divine Feminine, upgrading our myths and renaming our Planets!

The goddesses in Greek myths were slightly better than Roman myths. In the Roman version of the myth, as told by Ovid, Medusa was a beautiful mortal woman and a priestess of Minerva (the Roman equivalent of Athena). When Neptune (Poseidon) raped her in Minerva’s temple, the goddess punished Medusa, not Neptune. She turned her hair into snakes. This story of Medusa being punished by Athena does not appear in early Greek sources and is not part of original Greek mythology. In the earliest Greek accounts, Medusa is one of three Gorgon sisters, born monstrous and yet a protector of the Virgin goddesses. There is no mention of her being beautiful, a priestess, or being transformed by Athena. To me the evolution (or rather devolution) of the myth simply reflects a continuing and deeper descent of the goddess. Add in rape and victim shaming, and the destruction of the feminine during the Roman Empire is almost complete.

This isn’t just Athena/Minerva, but all of the goddesses. We’ve been in a long cycle of descent – dark age – or as the Vedic tradition calls it, Kala Yuga. Before that, the goddess was empowered. Over time, she devolved; The Greek goddess was divided, the Roman goddess divided and conquered, and the Roman Catholic Virgin, divided, conquered, no longer a goddess and parts of her completely invisible.

There are many myths tell us this would happen. One of my favourites, Amaterasu, is about the Japanese Sun god. She symbolizes light, order, and stability. Her brother, Susanoo, a storm god (Mars), started to act badly and disrespected Amaterasu. Hurt by his actions, Amaterasu hid inside a cave, throwing the world into darkness. To get Amaterasu back out, the gods hatch a plan. They threw a party to create interest and they put a mirror up so that she would see herself and come out of the cave. When she did, they sealed the cave door so that she could not go back in! This story is often told to depict the seasons of the year, but it is also an indication of what happens during the great year. In the descent, we face a time when the goddess is disrespected and hidden.

Three very deep and transformational themes emerged during the February eclipse that hit my ascendant and Sun…. all of them touch a disjointed and broken goddess within. My experience was both deeply personal and transpersonal… It may be for the simple fact that the eclipse and my ascendant are in Aquarius, the sign of humanity. These experiences have led me to the conclusion that I/we must evolve the myths and reclaim and re-integrate the divine feminine archetype… as above so below. As within, so without!

My experiences:

The first had to do with Sati
The second with Athena and Medusa
The third with Albion

Before I go any further, I want to reinforce something. The work that we do on ourselves evolves our planet. Sharing the work that we do on ourselves helps others to make connections and is part of the work. It’s not self-indulgent. It’s important. share, share share….

Here is my share:

Sati

The first theme, having to do with Sati, brought me back to a past life love and a curse I had placed on myself. I vowed to never marry again. I made this vow as I met my death (in my past life) as ultimate devotion and wifely duty to my deceased husband. It was a practice that was justified by the myth of Sati, who immolated herself in protest of her father’s disrespect toward her husband, Shiva. This was her choosing, though, and the goddess was never widowed. In fact, it was Shiva who was widowed in the original tale. Sati is a similar tale to Amaterasu in that when Sati dies, Shiva’s (the Mars character’s) dance causes distruction across the world – So does Susanoo actions during Amaterasu’s time in the cave. In the Hindu tale, Sati’s body is divided up into 51 pieces and she is honours in 51 locations dedicated to different parts of her body.

Now, we may be more familar with the number 72 being spoken about in relation to precession – the number of years it takes for the equinox to precess a degree. But in arc sec (a different form of measurement), it is 51.

The practice of Sati, lost it’s connection to the divine goddess and became a forced practice during our descent. At the heart of it was a society that had completely devalued women and didn’t want to care for a widow. For me, it was a past life expereince that set up karma in my life (and natal placements) that required me to never sacrifice myself again. To avoid too much astrospeak, the placements are in the footnotes1. It manifested in the reemergence of a past life love, who was the husband I had had committed Sati for. Sati became only associated with the practice… A word that became yukky… But through my recent expereince, I reconnected with a Sati who is primordial and powerful.

Sati reicarnated to be rejoined with Shiva… she came back as Shakti! Or course she did… that is the cycle of precession. But let us not forget about the fullness and power of her first incarnation as Sati!

The Virgin

The second theme had to do with the same past love, but focused on the vow part of the story – to never marry. It brought in themes of the Virgin goddess2. Athena was not born of a woman; instead, she was born out of the head of Zeus. To hold boundaries and be respected, she needed to align with the patriarchy and become a Virgin. Athena was not the only Virgin; the others were Diana/Artemis and Vesta/Hestia. Virginity allowed them to maintain autonomy and resistance to patriarchal control and so-called masculine qualities… but at a cost. Alone – unmarried and celibate.

A woman’s power is her power to create… even more powerful when she can also destroy. With the Virgin goddess she lost her power to love and create.

Now I mentioned before that I have Athena and Minivra conjunct my descendant, and Pallas conjunct my Ascendant. The archetype is who I am and who I am in relationships (or non-relationships). I’ve not been married, I have no children, and my sex life is ascetic (if you care to know). When the eclipse hit my ascendant/descendent and Uranus, sitting on the fixed star Algol associated with Medusa, square it, it was Minevera, not Medusa, who took my hair (Yes, I had a serious hair accident). Worse… the asteroid Medusa was conjunct her lover (or rapist) Neptune in my solar return… it mattered not to Minerva if Medusa was loved or raped, Minerva punished. So when a past life love showed up in my life… she made me pay.

It was something split off and divided within me! The broken goddess within.

Out of this came the realization that the Virgin (Pallas/Athena/Minerva) is in deep need of healing – within me and within society.

Athena’s older Egyptian counterpart, Neith, was creatress; she had no parentage. She was the consort of two men, and she had children, one of them RA (the Sun). Like Athena, she weaved, like Athena she was a warrior goddess. She was compared by the Greeks to Neith, but as Greek and Roman times came about, she was stripped of her sexuality, her cosmic creativity and her primordial status. Athena’s divorce from her sexuality and cosmic creativity occurred from a descent into the masculine mind…While Athena was syncretized with Neith, the Virgin Diana was syncretized with the Egyptian Satis, also called Sati. She was the goddess of the Nile river, with her name meaning she who pours (from jars) and she who shoots (from arrows). In fact, Neith and Satis were the same goddess; Neith was the goddess of Lower Egypt, and Satis was the same goddess who ruled Upper Egypt. Neith and Satis embodied the warrior, strategy, firey aspects of goddess, and were love, sexuality, and creativity.

Interesting to note that Neith and Satis were both partnered with Khnum, who, on his potters wheel, created humanity3. Neith’s temple in Sais bore the inscription: “I am all that has been, and is, and shall be. No mortal has yet been able to lift the veil that covers Me.” This sounds so close to the patriarchal God of the Bible, “I am that I am”.

Interesting to also note that the Virgin did not exist prior to Greece and Rome.

Albion

I mentioned a third theme. The third theme was Albion. The Asteroid Albion is conjunct my ascendant. If you have read my posts in the past, you will have become familiar with William Blake’s tale and prophecy of Albion. Albion was a giant who was fully integrated Masculine and Feminine – but fell and divided. In William Blake’s mythology, Jerusalem is the emanation of Albion representing his feminine counterpart, the divine city, and the embodiment of liberty, forgiveness, and spiritual wholeness. In the fall, this became separate. The prophecy involved a reintegration of all parts of Albion in order to become whole again.

Albion is also the name for Great Britain.

I came to Britain last summer and bought a campervan. I had planned to travel and teach astrology, but in a strange eclipse-on-my-ascendent-and-sun turn of events, I ended up with a flat in Oxford. Due to unforeseen circumstances, I had to cancel the first and will likely need to cancel the second Astrology in the Wild – Dark Sky camping experiences. Nothing in my astrology spelled out financial trouble, yet I expereince a sucking on my finances into what can only be described as a black hole. But eclipses are fated, karmic and life changing… in fact, when I started to do the “right” things… the things I guess my guides needed me to do… There was all the money in the world. Doing the wrong things left me stranded, broke and forced to find my way to the right things.

To Oxford…. The navel of England! The navel of Albion! “Permanantly”. Did I mention I have the asteroid Albion exactly conjunct my ascendent?

What is so significant about the middle of Albion? In the old Mabinogion Welsh tales, the red and the white dragon were wreaking havoc across the land. In the myth, the for to return the land to balance, the king needed to find the center of England and subdue them in a large pot of honey mead. That center was measured to be Oxford.

Dragons have many meanings, but in my world, they are mostly related to the energy ley lines in the earth. As it were, those ley line maps are laid out in a book called The Ancient Paths: Discovering the Lost Map of Celtic Europe by Robb Graham. In it, Graham lays out that Oxford was not just the cosmic centre, aligned to the solstices, but also the economic centre from the time of the Gauls.

If this were not true, a portrait of Queen Elizabeth I, standing on a map of England with Oxford between her feet, would not exist. If it were not true, perhapse Oxford would not be the first 15 minute city.

Now the Romans wiped out the Gauls completely. Records of their knowledge of the stars and their ley lines remain only in the war records of Ceaser in Commentarii de Bello Gallico (Commentaries on the Gallic War) and in the alignment of stone.

About the portrait: The famous painting of Queen Elizabeth I standing on a map with Oxford between her feet is said to be an apology painting. It’s Queen Elizabeth I showing her forgiveness for Sir Henry Lee, who had been living with his lover Anne Vavasour. However, the painting is powerful and cosmic.

But let’s not forget that Queen Elizabeth l was the Virgin Queen.

In the painting called The Ditchley portrait, Elizabeth, wears an armillary sphere earing; An armillary sphere consisting of rings, centered on Earth or the Sun, that represent lines of celestial longitude and latitude and other astronomically important features, such as the ecliptic. This earring is said to signify her divine power. In the background are storm clouds and thunder on one side and the sun on the other. The Latin inscriptions on the painting read:

She gives and does not expect (this is written on the sunny side of the portrait)

She can but does not take revenge (this is written in the thunder clouds)

In giving back she increases (this is written on the land)

But she is a woman, and for her to have that much power… she needed to be a Virgin. Elizabeth wears a white dress covered in pearls, which is said to represent her virginal purity. Elizabeth doesn’t hold a sceptre; she holds dainty gloves, a feminine-approved symbol of her power. The image of the Virgin Queen maintained the patriarchy. Yet the painting points to a hiding fullness of feminine power.

Cosmically and astrologically, the light is associated with the Sun and thunder with Mars. In the Tychos model, these two are in overlapping orbits – binary stars.

The Ditchly was painted circa 1592 and the cosmic power of the Sun and Mars can’t be avoided. I’m always looking for hints that the Tychos was known in older days – it was in 1588 that Tycho released his model in De Mundi Aetherei Recentioribus Phaenomenis. Copernicus released his book De revolutionibus orbium coelestium in 1543. The model of the solar system was a hot topic, one which was both discussed and avoided. Discussed as it was obviously associated with divine power and was avoided to avoid heresy with the Church. There is also a sonnet in the painting. The Sonnet in the painting reads:

The power comprises the sun and thunder, which are “correspondencie” with the power and grace on earth. How Hermetic!

If where she stands is a nod to the old Welsh Celtic tale – it speaks of the two dragons subdued in Honey Mead – Honey mead the product of bees were linked to many of the goddesses. Maybe the oldest was Neith – Neith’s temple in Sais was known as the “House of the Bee,” and she was often depicted wearing a crown or holding symbols linked to the insect, embodying wisdom, war, and fertility.

Perhaps it is at the centre of Albion, the centre of England, the place where the two dragons were subdued, that healing can occur. The red and white dragon, the red and white rose (the tudor rose), the divided masculine and feminine of the cosmos and of Blakes’s Albion are joined.

Perhaps Albion is where I find my integration…. And were I start a petition to rename the planets… taking down the Roman Empire once and for all! Where the Myth are evolved to bring the goddess back to her full power!

Asteroids in this article are:

881 Athene
93 Minerva
2 Pallas
1122 Neith
9438 Sati
15760 Albion

Cut and paste into Astro.com to find your placements: 881,93,1122,9438,15760

02/04/202610/14/2026

Beneath Totality: An Eclipse Lived, Not Feared

Should you watch eclipses? Should you fear them?

In 2024, the great North American eclipse crossed directly over my Moon.

For those who live with the sky, that isn’t a minor thing. The Moon carries instinct, memory, the body’s knowing — the part of us that remembers before language. When I realized the path of totality would pass straight through her place in my chart, I felt the familiar fork in the road eclipses bring.

Do I stay inside, curtains drawn, honouring the old warnings? Or do I step beneath it — and let the sky meet me fully?

I chose to step outside.

I’ve learned over time that astrology doesn’t truly live in theory. It lives in encounter.

I’ve travelled for solar returns, followed angles across continents, tested how place reshapes fate. So this eclipse felt like the next listening. I went to Niagara Falls, staying with a friend, sharing the days with another astrologer, preparing carefully.

The ancients were not wrong to caution us.

Eclipses are not decorative events. They interrupt. They dissolve familiar light. They invite something older to surface.

Preparation, I’ve found, is what turns fear into reverence.

On the day itself, the sky began to change quietly — not dramatically at first, but unmistakably. My Moon rules my fifth house: children, creativity, wonder. As the light thinned, my friend’s four-year-old son asked me to read his favourite book.

The Whale’s Song.

I felt the pause land in my body.

The eclipse was unfolding in Cetus — the Whale — in Aries. The story tells of a whale who sings magical songs in exchange for gifts. The adults dismiss it. The child does not. She leaves offerings anyway. And eventually, the whale sings.

It’s a story about devotion without proof. About trusting what hasn’t yet revealed itself.

As the sky darkened, he listened with total presence. No fear. No story-making. Just instinct and wonder, intact. In that moment, it became clear to me: this is eclipse wisdom. Not analysis — remembrance.

Eclipses braid Sun and Moon. Ego and instinct. Conscious light steps aside so the deeper voice can speak. This is why they’ve always been both feared and revered. Each one arrives differently. None are random.

Today, we know how to protect our eyes and bodies. But eclipses don’t only work on the physical plane. Emotional, energetic, and ritual preparation matter just as much.

On February 17, 2026, another eclipse arrives — this time in Aquarius, brushing my ascendant. It won’t bring full darkness where I stand. But totality, over the coming years, will travel across places long considered thresholds: Luxor, Mecca, Ibiza, Bilbao.

You can avoid eclipses. Or you can meet them — slowly, consciously, with the land beneath your feet.

Because when darkness comes prepared for, it doesn’t take from us. It returns us to something we already know.

Under the dark skies of Montsec, Spain, in August 2026, we’ll gather along the path of totality — not to spectacle-chase, but to witness. The eclipse. The Perseid meteors. A rare planetary gathering. The sky, teaching directly.

If you feel the pause in your chest as you read this — if something in you leans forward rather than away — then you already understand the question eclipses ask.

01/12/202610/14/2026

I Changed the Way I Connect With Astrology

Years ago, during COVID, when everyone was stuck inside baking bread and doing puzzles, I decided to paint. I downloaded Stellarium, a software program that shows you the sky, entered my date of birth, and painted what the sky looked like at the exact moment I was born.

I have a stellium in the 7th house. The planets lined up in the evening sky just as the Sun was setting, all within the constellation of the Priestess — Virgo. Venus was bright, so I placed a glittery stud next to her. Mars was hidden behind the Sun, in the underworld, so I bought garnet sand (a Mars-related crystal) and used it in the sand on the beach, reflecting both the Sun and Mars.

Something surprising happened. I deeply connected with my chart in a way I never had before.

A conversation starter…. I’m not saying it was a good painting!

Around the same time, Jupiter and Saturn were moving into conjunction, and I became fascinated with what the configurations I saw in my astrology software actually looked like in the real night sky. It started a practice. I began paying attention to the sky itself.

At one point, I waited with excitement for my Venus return. I watched the sky leading up to and for days afterwards, completely captivated by her presence. While doing this, I noticed something curious: when Venus and Spica were at the same degree in the chart, they appeared miles apart in the sky.

I happened to mention this to another astrologer who, as part of his school, takes people out under the night sky. He explained why. I had an “aha” moment.

To truly connect with a chart, we cannot simply look at it on a computer. We must go outside, stand beneath the night sky, and connect.

From then on, wherever I travelled, I made a point of connecting with the stars. In Spain, while camping all night in a mountain cave, nicknamed the Eye of the Dragon, I heard loud animal noises and possibly even saw a UFO — yet I felt calm and protected. As we had ascended the mountain at sunset, I looked up and saw Venus at her brightest, just before she entered her retrograde phase. Later, the Moon appeared on the opposite side of the sky, cozied up to Jupiter. It felt like a clear sign: the planets were on our side.

Then something else happened — something I consider a very big sign.

On September 9, 2025, I bought a camper van. My intention was to visit stone circles and dark-sky spaces, and to learn more about astrology, the land, and its astronomical alignments.

When I cast the chart for the moment I became the owner of the van, I noticed something remarkable: the rising sign was the same as mine and was exactly conjunct my Midheaven. The Midheaven is your highest point — what you’re known for, often connected to career and purpose.

For the ascendant of my camper van to be conjunct my Midheaven suggested a significant relationship — one tied directly to my life’s work.

I couldn’t collect the van right away. I left a sizable deposit and returned a couple of weeks later to pick it up early in the morning. But payment issues with the bank card reader meant I had to search for cash — no easy task in the UK. After visiting two banks and several hours of problem-solving, I finally returned, paid, and received the keys.

The moment the transaction was completed and ownership transferred, I cast another chart.

To my amazement, it had the exact same rising sign — to the degree.

What was the universe trying to tell me?

Both the camper van’s ascendant and my Midheaven sit in the middle of Sagittarius — the sign of teaching, adventure, travel, learning, spirituality, philosophy, and higher wisdom. I also have the asteroid Urania in my chart, named after the Greek Muse of Astronomy (and astrology — the two were inseparable in ancient times).

With the van’s ascendant sitting on my Midheaven, it felt as though this vehicle had entered my life to help me fulfill my highest purpose: to teach, to travel, and to share higher knowledge through astronomy and astrology.

A few days later, I headed to an International Dark Sky location in Wales with a friend. We camped under a dark moon, the best time for sky-watching, as there is no moonlight to obscure the stars. Dark Sky locations actively reduce light pollution, offering pristine views of the heavens.

Because it was also a New Moon, we consciously connected with its energy. Signs appeared everywhere — in the trees, in the directions we took, even in the songs that played. Each one seemed to reflect the lessons of that New Moon. It was magical.

That’s when it occurred to me: I should take people out onto the land and under the dark sky to experience this too — to learn astrology not just symbolically, but directly, through the sky itself and in relationship with the land.

And so, that is what I plan to do.

I want to help you remember this way of seeing the sky. Where are the planets? Which constellations do they occupy? How do we locate their relationship to us — their degrees? What did the sky look like when you were born? And how does experiencing it firsthand deepen your connection to astrology?

In ancient times, birth charts weren’t calculated with apps or software. They were observed. Priests, skywatchers, and star keepers stood beneath the night sky and read the heavens directly.

I want to invite you back into that original relationship — away from screens, away from digital interference, and back into the wild sky.

And it’s more than that. How did our ancestors come to understand the energy of Venus, or any planet? By observing where they were placed and noticing what unfolded around them — in nature, in relationships, in signs and synchronicities.

The Wild Sky Mystery School

I’ve created six opportunities for you to join me, camping under the night sky in sacred locations across the UK, France, and Spain. Spain will be a particularly special and extended experience, taking place during the totality of a Solar Eclipse, the Perseid meteor showers, and a powerful planetary lineup.