Today Sunday 13th August 2023, 12:15pm, Venus is Cazimi or ‘in the heart of the sun’ at her zenith and her pentagram star point! Love, relationships, desires and feelings are re-birthed.

Today Venus transforms from Evening Star to Morning Star after being transformed from her direct union with the Sun (known as Inferior Conjunction in astrology) at 20 degrees of Leo.

This Sun and Venus embrace marks the half way point to the 40-day Venue retrograde and is actually the start of a whole new 584-day or 19-month Venus cycle. 

Venus is reborn in heart-expanding Leo, the regal lion of the zodiac infusing the next cycle with fiery passion, promise, creativity, and heart-led action! Venus is not juts a physical body in our skies but is also a part of you, this energy is within you (man or woman)… represented by your desires, your passions, your feelings, and what you love. Its going to be one powerful cycle having just looked at the chart, with Black Moon Lilith (BML) the wild untamed feminine close at 24 degrees Leo and the Moon (our inner world of habitual emotional reactions) out of bounds, meaning the moon not playing be her usual rules! 

Today is not only the end of the last 19month Venus in Capricorn Cycle but also the closing of a bigger 8-year cycle that began in 2015! So what ever happened back then… is now shifting, transforming, possibly ending or re-birthing. 

Even though Venus is still retrograde (ends on 2nd Sept) and often considered to be weakened during this time, today the Venusian themes of pleasure, love, connection, beauty, and justice will be amplified!

If you would like to consciously connect to your Venus within and receive potent energy to assist you on your next 19month Venus in Leo journey back into the heart, consider joining me online this evening at 8pm where I will be connecting with the divine and Lion headed Goddess Sekhmet where we will be re-birthing the heart to reclaim our sovereign feminine power and authority! It costs £8.88 and the link to book your place can be found in the comments below.

Sparkly love Emma xxx

My Journey with Fire Goddess Sekhmet! 
Do you want to Journey with her too? - Sunday 13th August 8pm 

Back in July 2020 I was called to begin working with the energy of Egyptian Goddess Sekhmet (pronounced Sec-met) and asked my friend who lived in Egypt to bring me home a statue of her (thanks Gemma). Well, she did and on the 8th of August 2020 (what’s known to some as the 8:8 Lions Gate Portal) I was gifted the Sekhmet statue.

Sekhmet is the warrior lion-headed solar goddess in the Egyptian pantheon, daughter of the Sun God Ra, also known as ‘She Who Is Powerfu’, so represents strength and leadership. However, just as all energies have a dual nature, Sekhmet is no different… she is not only the patron of physicians and healers but also the goddess of war, chaos, plague, and the searing mid-day sun called Nesert – or the flame. In this aspect, she is the courageous, warrior, feminine energy, fierce protector, and defender of the principles of Ma’at (justice and balance). Some say that Sekhmet is the original astrological sign of Leo and if you were born between July 29 - August 11 or from October 30 - November 7, you are under Sekhmet in Egyptian Astrology.

Well that night two years ago, Sekhmet showed herself to me in the flames of the fire I was tending to and I managed to capture it on camera (see in post). Since she made such a miraculous appearance and was coming through to me so strongly that night I decided to check my birth chart only to find transit asteroid Sekhmet at exactly 0 degrees of Leo (conjunct with my Natal Jupiter who represents the higher mind). I just bloody love how astrology further confirms and validates my insights, inner knowing, and mysticism.

Anyway, the fire goddess has come forth yet again, this time the day Venus went retrograde at 28 degrees of Leo (on Sunday 23 July 2023). Venus retrogrades only occur every 18 months when the goddess of love herself retraces her steps, traveling back over degrees of the zodiac she has already been… why this time is synonymous with the possibility of hearing from your ex either physically in person or in dream time! Sparks can reignite and reconciliation can occur, however, its deeper purpose is to find closure and to heal from old wounds that may still be hindering how you react and behave in current relationships. Therefore, over the following 6 weeks (or 40 days and 40 nights – a sacred number in many cultures) we get to redo, reevaluate, and rebirth the way we do love and relationships, if and how we value ourselves, and our beliefs around money and finances. Therefore, Venus in Leo is even more potent because Leo represents the heart, who we really are, and how we creatively express that unique self… our individuality and authenticity. So this Venus retrograde is all about our relationship with ourselves! 

Of course, all relationships act like mirrors and we learn so much about ourselves through our interactions with others… who we think and believe we are, our levels of self-love and self-worth ultimately influence what people we draw to us and how they treat us! 

Sekhmet is therefore coming forward to offer me strength and courage on my vision quest back into my heart… she also wants to help you too and for me to be her channel. 

After checking my birth chart today, again my knowing is confirmed because transit asteroid Sekhmet will exactly conjunct my North Node tomorrow! The North Node in your birth chart represents your destiny and guiding light!
So Sekhmet, I am listening and I am willing for you to be my guiding light through this Venus Retrograde! 

In her honour I would also like to offer you the chance to work with her also during this period, therefore, I am going to hold a guided 30-minute journey/meditation/activation with Sekhmet on Sunday 13th of August at 8pm (UK time) on Zoom, cost £8.88.

On Sunday 13th August firstly transit Sekhmet crosses my ascendant (an important point in a birth chart) and secondly and most importantly, Venus meets with the Sun (Inferior Conjunction) signifying the start of a new Venus Cycle where the goddess (that also means the goddess within you) is reborn with a Leo overtone. 
Venus cycles repeat every 8 years in the same area of the sky (minus 1 degree) so only occur in the sign of Aries, Gemini, Leo, Scorpio, and Capricorn over a hundred-year period. Therefore, the last Leo cycle to take place was in 2015, before that 2007, 8 years prior, and so on so similar themes can repeat from these times. 

So Sekhmet… the ancient and feminine Leo goddess wants to play a part in this renewal at a time when the divine feminine energy is like never before making a comeback and helping to bring balance to an overly yang world! 

If you are interested to take part please comment on this post and I will organise the event and add a payment option to my website. I look forward to hearing from you!

Sparkly love Emma xxx

On Tuesday the 6^th of June 2023, Goddess of Love Venus moved into Leo… the sign of the heart. 

Venus usually spends about a month in each sign but due to an upcoming Venus Retrograde, we are being given four months to journey into and reawaken our hearts!

This theme of self-love which is being introduced now, will also become the overall theme and flavour during the next 19-month Venus Cycle which begins when the Goddess herself merges with our Sun (the heart of our solar system) on the 13^th of August!  

But what does that all mean I hear you ask…

Venus rules our feelings, so our likes, dislikes, and what we love, hence why her domain includes relationships and our passions in general! Leo rules our physical heart and solar plexus chakra, so also represents passionate and romantic love but also love for ourselves. Leo energy is where the initial spark of Aries energy transforms into flames… I think you can see where this is going!!

So with Venus in Leo, expect sparks to fly and passionate exchanges and interactions in your relationships with others to occur. Venus in Leo also asks us to love ourselves… not in an egotistical and big-headed way, but in a way that honours the unique individual that each of us are, our self-expression, and creativity. If anyone knows a Leo… you’ll know that they love to be the centre of attention (here’s looking at you Maria with your high kicks) but they are also extremely generous at heart. Leo energy represented by the Lion is also brave, courageous, self-assured, but if not careful can also be a little too prideful. Now this may sound like all fun and games, but there is something much deeper unfolding that we will all need to explore.

Venus retrograde… a time synonymous with relationship difficulties, challenges, break-downs, and break-ups and old flames reappearing, starts on July 23 at 28 degrees of Leo and will spend 6 weeks backtracking to 12 degrees, ending on September 3rd 2023. This is a time of re-doing, re-defining, re-establishing, re-considering, and in some cases re-connecting in all things love and relationships. So if there are any hidden resentments or issues in your romantic partnerships… they are about to be unearthed. If there are any self-sabotaging beliefs of lack concerning your personal power, your self-confidence, your self-esteem, and your self-belief… they are about to be unearthed! 

I don’t like to see retrogrades as a negative thing that happens to us, but rather as the universe giving us another chance to correct some things and a chance to master issues we have not yet been able to learn. Venus will reach 12 degrees of Leo - her shadow zone on Monday 19^th of June so start taking notice of what themes arise between then and July 23^rd when Venus stations retrograde. This is your heads-up about what bigger revelations will unfold during her retrograde and the next larger 19 month Venus cycle.

Venus also represents our more feminine energy and interestingly Mars, who represents our more masculine energy… so our drive, will and how we take action, is also currently in Leo until Tuesday 11^th July. Black Moon Lilith (BML) is also in Leo!! 

BML isn’t a physical object but the mathematical point along the Moon's orbit which its farthest from Earth and represents the shadow feminine… the accumulation of emotions and feelings that have been repressed in our subconscious and psyches, from all the ways in which the feminine has been exploited, suppressed, abused, betrayed, and subjugated throughout history. Think of rage, anger, shame, resentment, and bitterness…  that is a lot of potential power hidden deep within us all that may want to emerge.

BML will be activated, firstly when Mars meets with her on the 21^st of June, then will be activated again on the 28^th of June when Venus meets with her. On the 24^th of June, BML will actually be sandwiched between Mars (our masculine) and Venus (our feminine)! 

Hmmm… this will manifest for everyone differently but I do suggest marking those dates in your diary and if you get pulled into any conflict, particularly with your partner, significant other or in relationships of any kind… remember you are simply playing out these dynamic energies. Try to see the bigger picture of what any arising emotions triggered by others, want to teach you.  

After all, each of us regardless of biological sex, sexual orientation, or gender identity, have these energies within. We all have the energies and drives of Venus, Mars and BML within. But we tend to project any shadow parts of these energies onto others. In other words, we need other people to reflect back to us the parts of ourselves that we are yet to integrate, accept, and love.

Also remember that if you were biologically born a female, you agreed when you incarnated to help transmute and shift the collective unconscious feminine energy programmes, just as biological males chose to help transmute the unconscious masculine energy programmes that humanity has created. They are the stories that have played out for centuries… examples could include that men are lazy and women are bossy, that emotional men are weak and women are too emotional, that men can’t multitask, that women don’t have their needs met by men etc. a kind of victim and abuser, or shame and blame dynamic. 

However, our job as awakening and enlightened beings is to go beyond these old distorted stories and patterns of polarity and to merge our own inner masculine and inner feminine (our Yin/Yang) so that we can achieve an inner union and sacred marriage of polarity. That is oneness, that is ultimate inner power and what we all seek, even if we don’t consciously know it.

So I suggest using this Venus in Leo journey, to dive deeper into your own heart, from there you can cultivate more self-compassion and self-love… then only when we fully love and accept ourselves exactly as we are, can we truly and unconditionally love another. Which then manifests as more healthy, harmonious and balanced relationships. 

Sparkly love Emma xxx

Welcome to the month of June and what better way to start the mid-year month than with an auspicious and extremely beneficial aspect taking place… Jolly Jupiter conjunct the Lunar North Node!

This is a once in twelve-year meeting and it's happening in the sign of Taurus! 

Jupiter = expansion, abundance, luck, and growth

Lunar North Node = our destiny, our north star, our opportunity to adjust our karma

Taurus = material resources and possessions (so money, security, and stability) plus our values

So in short, we have a wonderful opportunity to create and manifest prosperity and abundance through taking risks, stepping out of our comfort zones, and thinking big! The universe has our back… it’s time, and luck is on our side!!!

The Lunar Nodes are not planets but mathematical points where the Moon’s path crosses the ecliptic (the Sun’s path through the sky)… they are very karmic points in astrology and how eclipses (which are sometimes fated events) take place. The North Node (where we are trying to reach) however, is always directly opposite the South Node (that which we have outdone and outworn). So to truly step into the North Node energy there is always some balancing needed. Often our South Node energy (what we have mastered in past lives) comes so easy to us so there is a tendency to fall back and retreat there, or we come to rely on that aspect of ourselves too much and it becomes a hindrance to our growth. When we stay in our South Node energy, we get stuck and our soul doesn’t evolve, we repeat lessons over and over. The North Node shows us what we came here to master in this lifetime, so of course, it would involve things we find uncomfortable, or we feel awkward doing. It involves being brave, walking unchartered territory, facing your fears, and doing it anyway! 

So collectively we are being asked to release old stuck beliefs and patterns of behaviours which we have not only brought with us from previous lives but those that have been imprinted on us via our parents and those we have connected to via the collective underworld (Scorpio themes where the transit South Node currently is). This will then springboard us towards our North Node and destiny, where we can walk our path towards our life’s purpose. 

So to make the most of this aspect ask yourself the following:

1. What beliefs do I hold about money which are not my own?
2. What is blocking me from achieving the life of my dreams?
3. What do I value most? Money, possessions, relationships, health, wealth, status etc.
4. What value do I bring to the world?
5. Do I value myself? My time, gifts, abilities, what I achieve in work, what I share with others?
6. Do I make money from what I value in life?
7. What old beliefs prevent me from believing in myself?
8. Do I feel worthy of abundance?
9. How can I become more methodical and consistent in my approach to achieving?

If you have a Taurus Sun, Moon or Ascendant, or planets at 3 degrees of Taurus, Scorpio, Aquarius of Leo this will be extra powerful for you!

This auspicious aspect is happening right on my Sun so I am very excited to see what that brings for me personally!

Also, as a side note your personal nodes will depend on your unique Natal Birth Chart which depends on your time and place of birth! If you would like a reading… give me a shout!

Sparkly love Emma xxx

Yesterday Pluto moved into Aquarius and this is a big deal because Pluto is a generational planet that takes 248 years to orbit the sun and so spends between 12-20 years in one sign. So the last time Pluto was in Aquarius was between 1778 – 1798. 

Pluto is all about death, rebirth and transformation, so since 2008 when Pluto moved into Capricorn, we have been seeing a dismantling of hierarchical systems. Pluto is also our primordial power, so reveals a ‘shadow’ to whatever it touches. Hence we have been seeing the financial systems crash, large institutions and corporations being exposed for any abuse of power or any dark and dodgy dealings they have been involved with. 

So with Pluto’s move into Aquarius… we are going to see a transformation of our consciousness as we step into the future! Aquarian energy is revolutionary, originality, eccentricity, community-orientated, and humanitarian. So over the next 20 years when Pluto travels through Aquarius, we will eventually see a transfer of power from a ‘top-down’ hierarchy to new ‘bottom-up’ systems. In other words, the power will return to us ‘the people’… the masses and the majority of the population not the rich, wealthy, and powerful few. Since Aquarius is ruled by Uranus, it also represents technology and futuristic ideas… so we are going to see a huge quantum leap with all things AI (artificial intelligence), space travel, and perhaps new and pioneering medical treatments. However, remember that Pluto will also expose the Aquarius shadow… the dark side of the internet and social media, the taboo associations with being a more AI society.  

Pluto now at 0 degrees of Aquarius, is also the point of the great mutation which took place on the 21^st of December 2020, when transiting Saturn and transit Jupiter aligned in the sky to look like one large star! Their meeting in Aquarius started a whole new 200-year air era, leaving the earth era behind. Aquarius is an air sign, not a water element as many people think. So we can safely say that with Pluto's move into Aquarius too, we have left the great Piscean age and entered the age of Aquarius. 

However, as I’ve written about previously, Pluto will only be in Aquarius for the next three and a half months until 11^th June 2023 due to Pluto’s retrograde. So we are getting a taste of this new energy and any baby born during this time will be the first human beings on this planet to embody this new wave of generational energy. 

To see which Pluto generation you belong to, you look at what sign it was in when you were born. Below are the rough dates, but bear in mind, due to Pluto's retrograde there will be periods within those time frames where Pluto travels back into the previous sign.   

Pluto in Capricorn if born between 2008 - 2023

Pluto in Sagittarius if born between 1995 - 2008

Pluto in Scorpio if born between 1983 - 1995

Pluto in Libra if born between 1971 - 1984

Pluto in Virgo if born between 1957 - 1972

Pluto in Leo if born between 1914 – 1939

However, as I have predicted in my book ‘Mastering Your Crown’ and as I have shared previously, we are not done with Pluto in Capricorn yet. Pluto will make some incredibly powerful and intense retrogrades over the critical 29^th degree of Capricorn over the next year but by the end of November 2024 Pluto will have moved into Aquarius forever… well at least in our lifetimes.  

Sparkly love Emma

Astrology is the study of the influence of stars and planets on human lives, but if however, you’ve read your stars or horoscopes in a magazine and have disregarded the whole idea, I don’t blame you. That—what’s known as Sun sign astrology—is like looking at one tiny grain of sand on a vast stretch of beach. Although very important, it is only a minute part of a much larger, complex and intricate study of how the planets weave a magical dance—or what Pythagoras called ‘the harmony of the spheres’. 

When you were born all the planets and other celestial bodies were in different parts of the sky and in different zodiac signs which are reflected in your Natal Birth Chart. This chart is a snapshot of the sky at the exact moment you came into being, like a life map and blueprint of your spiritual DNA which holds the key to your unique personality and life purpose. It highlights all your deepest passions, nuances, desires, inner conflicts, confusions and dilemmas. 

Most people know what their Sun sign is—that’s the horoscope you would read in the paper. People state ‘I’m a Gemini’, for instance, but what they are actually saying is, ‘The Sun, our star, the centre of our solar system which makes all life on earth possible was in the sign of Gemini when I was born.’ The Sun represents your identity, your star quality, your essence and vitality. It plays a significant factor in your fundamental personality, which further creates your conscious self and ego structures.

The Moon however reflects your inner world of feelings, your emotional reality, along with your subconscious habitual behaviours, patterns and reactions. Your moon energy is what you do once home and alone, how you self-soothe and comfort yourself, the part of your personality that perhaps only close family or friends get to see. Knowing your moon sign alone can help unlock your inner world since it rules how you process emotions. Maybe you get frustrated because you find it difficult to tap into your emotions, so perhaps your moon is in Capricorn or Aquarius? Or maybe like me, you cry at TV adverts—the Moon was in a water sign at the time of my birth.

However, there are another seven traditional planets that represent a different part of you and your psyche/personality somewhere in the sky in one of the twelve signs of the zodiac and are not necessarily in the same sign as your sun or moon. Your birth chart not only shows what zodiac signs all these planets fell in at the time of your birth, but it also further splits them into different areas or what’s known as ‘Houses’ in astrology. These represent different areas of life such as the self, family, communication, career, relationships, etc.

Now your birth chart does not change, but as the planets in the sky, in real-time (known as transit planets) continually move around the zodiac, they activate or trigger different aspects of your natal birth chart. This helps you to know what type of energy is available to you in each passing moment and what lessons you may be facing, not to be restricted by the information but to assist you in making wiser choices. People watch the weather forecast, right?! If it shows heavy rain for the morning, you might choose to leave your gardening for the brighter afternoon. You can’t stop the rain, that’s the nature of life, but you can plan your day better. Knowing what cosmic weather or planetary energy is at play, to me, is no different really. However, what I found most rewarding was what I uncovered from understanding my own natal birth chart. All my deepest nuances, needs, desires, inner conflicts, confusions and dilemmas were not some fault or malfunction but could be explained by the energies that were present at the time of my birth. As such, I came to fully accept myself exactly as I am. By accepting myself, I became more tolerant, patient and less judgemental of others, accepting them exactly as they are too.

I feel I was divinely guided to study astrology because it really helped me through my biggest challenge of all, my ‘Dark Night of the Soul’ and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in 2016. Having astrological insight didn’t stop my trauma and experiences however, but did give me an understanding where I could logically see and conceptualise what I was so deeply feeling and experiencing. It also helped me to accept the impermanence of all things, which during difficult times is a relief, to know that nothing stays the same. ‘This too shall pass!’ a fitting Persian adage written by the ancient Sufi poets. You see, astrology when used correctly is like a road map for your life, and for me, forewarned is forearmed. 

So in summary then astrology shows trends and possibilities and what is available energetically within (our natal birth chart) and also around us (transit astrology). Of course, what you do with those possibilities and how you navigate your life through the decisions you make is totally up to you. We will always have free will and can work with the universe in a symbiotic way, but it is a choice that only you can make.

If you are interested to learn more, please consider following my Facebook page or Instagram page where I regularly post astrology updates and cosmic insights. Just type my handle ‘egmasteringme’ in the search bar then like and follow. If you are interested in having a reading please check out my website for further details www.emmagholamhossein.com.