Heliodora

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♑︎↑ ♏︎☽ ♈︎☉ heliodora.co.uk Practitioner of ancient and modern astrology. Diploma student @ MISPA. Reiki master, student of tarot, philosophy and psychology. Archaeologist. Lover of luminaries. Married with 2 cats, Scotland.

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Heliodora@heliodora· 2d

For comedian Jon Harvey, who plays Count Binface, I only have his month of birth: May 1980. Late May would give him a Gemini Sun, which Uranus would be transiting. May 21st would give him a Leo Moon, thus being impacted by the eclipse also. But unfortunately this is just idle speculation. 😂

Heliodora@heliodora· 2d

Farage had a comfortable majority and still polls at ~70% locally, although if Binface wins a projected 20% this could still be embarrassing for him. He is having an interesting time: a solar eclipse taking place in his 12th House; Saturn on his Sun; Neptune on his Mars; and Uranus on his MC.

Virgo rising chart of Nigel Farage, with Pluto exactly on his Ascendant and Uranus also widely conjunct in the first Whole Sign House. Sun, Mars and Jupiter are in Aries, the 8th WSH. Moon is in the late degrees of Sagittarius. Saturn and Chiron in 7th House Pisces. Neptune is in the Scorpio 3rd House trining Chiron, while Black Moon Lilith is conjunct the IC in Sagittarius. His North Node is in Cancer.

The transiting Sun, Jupiter, Mercury and Moon are in his Leo 12th House as the Eclipse is building. Saturn is conjunct his Sun, Neptune on his Mars, Mars approaching his NN, and Uranus is applying by retrograde for a second hit to his MC in Gemini.

Heliodora@heliodora· 2d

Loving the proximity of tomorrow's solar eclipse to the Clacton by-election, where far right candidate and incumbent Nigel Farage is facing down satirical character Count Binface, along with 32 others. The eclipse, one day before the by-election, will be 90+% visible in the UK.

Map of eclipse path over Europe and North America, showing the path of 100% passing over East Greenland, West Iceland and Spain, with the 90% visibility band encompassing the UK, France and much of Europe

Satirical candidate Count Binface in 2024, from his Wikipedia entry - a man with a bin-helmet and black space uniform and cloak

Heliodora@heliodora· 10d

I love this passage, from the introduction of Kastrup's Decoding Jung’s Metaphysics - and it resonates powerfully with the fact that birth charts still appear to function, sometimes long after death

As we shall soon find out, for Jung life and world are something very different from what our present mainstream metaphysics - materialism - posits. The conclusions his lifelong studies point to the continuation of psychic life beyond bodily death, a much more intimate and direct relationship between matter and psyche than most would dare magine today, and a living universe pregnant with symbolic meaning. For him life is, quite literally, a kind of dream, and interpretable as such.

Heliodora@heliodora· 21d

OK I got curious - wasn't ready for how dark these are, and thought Taurus Venus would be nicer somehow! But I'll be honest, I really like the deep grey of my rising sign.

Colour chart for astrological placements. Aries Sun is signal flame - a bright orange-red. Scorpio moon is plum depth - indeed a plum colour. Capricorn rising is tailored graphite - a deep grey. Taurus Venus is rose clay - a grey-pink.

Heliodora@heliodora· 26d

Uranus △ Pluto has been in orb for years but today enters a 2-year period of 5 exact hits. From Andre Barbault: When Pluto with its Thanatos-like powers is aligned with the promethean powers of Uranus there has to be the kind of progress that brings us the ultimate in technological achievements

Uranus trine Pluto illustration on the left, and, on the right, a table listing the dates and degrees this aspect goes exact. These are 18th July 2026 at 4°29 of Gemini and Aquarius respectively; 29th November 2026 at 3°31 of Gemini and Aquarius; 15th June 2027 at 6°52 of Gemini and Aquarius; 13th January 2028 at 4°29 of Gemini and Aquarius; and 10th May 2028 at 8°49 of Gemini and Aquarius

Heliodora@heliodora· Jun 21

Happy summer solstice ☀️♋️ Despite the square the Sun will make to Neptune, exaltation ruler Jupiter is still in Cancer for another 9 days to support the cosy summer vibes ✨️ There's also a nice mutal reception between the Moon and Mercury on the ingress 🌙☿ #astrology #astrosphere #solstice

Bright sun with rays against a blue sky with the words 'happy solstice' above

Heliodora@heliodora· Apr 1

It's my birthday, so I thought I'd share my Solar Return (yesterday). I have probably been a bit quiet this past year - I sure will not miss last year's Rx Mercury in Pisces conjunct Saturn and Rx Venus!! I also wanted to share the cover of some stunning alchemical cards my wife gave me. 🥰

Solar Return chart showing Leo rising, rules by 9th house Aries Sun. The Sun is at 10° so is conjunct Saturn and Neptune in Decan I Aries. Chiron is at 28 Aries and Uranus at 28° Taurus. Pluto is at 5 Aquarius in the 7th house. The Moon is at 22° Virgo in the 2nd Whole Sign House. Mars and Mercury are in Pisces, the 8th Whole Sign House. Venus is almost exactly on the Midheaven at 1° Taurus and Jupiter is in Cancer, the 12th WSH.

Alchemical style drawing of a barefoot, long haired woman with a crown (left), interacting with a dragon made of fire emerging from a cauldron (right). The scene is outdoors and there is fire beneath the cauldron and foliage in the foreground.

Heliodora@heliodora· Mar 31

The Friend went on to command a lot of influence, preaching a progressive message (for the time) in Quaker communities and beyond. Today happens to be both their Lunar and Jupiter returns - AND their Progressed Moon is also almost exactly conjunct the Natal and transiting Moon. All ~26-27° Virgo.

Heliodora@heliodora· Mar 31

I found out today, because of Trans Day of Visibility, of the fascinating life of the Public Universal Friend. The Friend (as they were often simply known) had a mystical Near Death Experience, after which they adopted the new name and rejected all gender, including he/she pronouns.

Birth chart of the Public Universal Friend, born 29th November 1752 in Rhode Island. The Sun, Pluto, Chiron, Mercury and Saturn are in Sagittarius. Mars is in Scorpio conjunct the North Node, Uranus is in Aquarius, Venus in Capricorn. The Moon is in Virgo, exactly conjunct the transiting Moon when I cast the chart. Jupiter is in Cancer, conjunct transiting Jupiter.

Heliodora@heliodora· Mar 22

Friend I unexpectedly met on my walk today. I think she's as happy for the return of Aries season as I am 🐎🤍♈️

Small white horse in a green field, seen over an old looking gate. The hedge around the field and other vegetation looks scrubby. In the background is some water and behind this is some hilly land

Similar but close up image of the same horse

Heliodora@heliodora· Feb 19

Here's a piece of related sports trivia that my partner sent me when I showed her this meme. This is sung to the tune of the song Guantanamera, I'm told

Question in a game show: when in Italy, football fans from what country sing "deep fry yer pizzas, we're gonna deep fry yer pizzas" [Scotland highlighted, Northern Ireland and Wales being the other options]

Heliodora@heliodora· Feb 7

I love this passage from James Hollis so I put it in a frame. It's not technically poetry but it feels that way to me... currently having transits to both my 4H (Saturn and Neptune heading for 3 ♈︎ personal planets) and another outer heading for my IC... Sharing in case it resonates with you too ✨️

Text in a frame, white on purple background, reads:
"Going home” means paying attention to,
respecting, the witness of these clues.
It asks that we risk taking them seriously.
It means tracking the clues
to see where they wish to take us,
which will not necessarily be where we wish to go.
Going home means coming back to ourselves
after so much estrangement.
So long have we been strangers in this world,
and so long strangers to ourselves.
How scary, how inviting, how necessary it is
to come home at last.

from What Matters Most: Living a More Considered Life by James Hollis

Heliodora@heliodora· Feb 1

Happy Imbolc / St Brigid's Day ☀️🌱✨️ I'm certainly happy to see the light slowly returning.

Picture of some germinating leaves emerging from the ground under some sun, with the words HAPPY IMBOLC

Heliodora@heliodora· Jan 31

I would honestly have read this as satirical in many other contexts, but surely it would be too spiteful to give an author a one-star review for that purpose. Crazy to think that there could be real people who actually carry this vision of world order in their heads, even now.

Book cover: Descent to the Goddess: A Way of Initiation for Women by Sylvia Brinton Perera
Image is a Venus figurine, a carved feminine figure with possibly a mesopotamian looking aesthetic and greatly exaggerated hips

1-star amazon review by someone calling themselves Ben Ollis, titles 'hmmm'. Dated 15th Nov 2022.
Reads: 'A woman's place is under the authority of a good man. It goes God > Man > Woman > Children. This is the natural order and what is always restored back into alignment after any brief periods of imbalance'

Heliodora@heliodora· Jan 29

Reading a lot of James Hollis books atm, and finding it difficult not to have a date of birth for him. My hunch is maybe Jupiter in Pisces from 1938...? something about his emphasis on meaning suggests a dignified Jupiter but would love to see his chart

“The transient vacuities of our cultural icons — success, peace, happiness, and distraction — pale before the question of whether or not one experiences this life as meaningful.”

Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life

Heliodora@heliodora· Jan 4

Another beautiful and intense Scottish moonrise, this one in Leo opposite Pluto

Full Moon rising above a hilly horizon, in front of which lies a settlement and a body of water

Full Moon having risen above a hilly horizon, in front of which lies a settlement and a body of water. The moonlight is reflected in the water

Heliodora@heliodora· Jan 3

More Moon-Jupiter

Portrait image of the Moon and Jupiter, framed by a sandstone house and fir tree

Heliodora@heliodora· Jan 3

Moonrise over the river Clyde

A bright yellow full moon has risen above a green hill. At the foot of the hills is a settlement and in front of that a body of water. It's cloudy and the sky and water are pinky purple.

A bright yellow full moon sits just above a green hill. At the foot of the hills is a settlement and in front of that a body of water. The sky is dusty pink with grey clouds

Heliodora@heliodora· Jan 2

Beautiful walk tonight with the waxing Moon and Jupiter 🦀🌕 Happy new year all ✨️✨️

The moon (above) and Jupiter (to the left of) a converted church building. There are streetlit trees and foliage in the foreground on either side.

Heliodora@heliodora· Nov 2

This water grand trine and Pisces Moon weekend was a perfect one to teach reiki for the first time. It feels like I crossed a threshold when the Moon moved into Aries at the end! I hope the watery vibes are treating everyone else well too ✨️🌙 #reiki #astrology #holy-fire #lunar

Heliodora@heliodora· Sep 24

Travelling north in Scotland over the Equinox, I'm seeing an increasingly rich tapestry of colours. And have been fortunate to have the Sun with me to bring it out! This is called a lochan (a small loch or lake) and it's located along the West Highland Way.

A small body of water reflects the mountains, white clouds and blue sky; surrounded by a landscape of yellows, oranges, greens and browns. There are some fir or spruce trees to the right behind it and mountains in the distance

Heliodora@heliodora· Sep 23

Sun in the 11th House, 0° Libra, West Highland Scotland

The Sun high in a blue sky, with some lens flare. There are fluffy white clouds and in the distance grey-green mountains. The foreground is green and wooded, with the beginning of Autumn browning.

Heliodora@heliodora· Sep 22

Dragon and elf - encountered yesterday at a craft fayre in Highland Scotland

A man with elf ears sitting on a bronze dragon with red eyes which is breathing fire. The setting is a green field in cloudy sunshine and there is a large tree in the background to the right.

Heliodora@heliodora· Sep 15

Sun in the 12th house, west Scotland

The sun has just risen above the eastern horizon in a Scottish landscape. A body of water and some trees can be seen in the middle of the picture, with a green field in the foreground.

Heliodora@heliodora· Sep 14

Enjoying the green while I still can 🌳🌿

Heliodora@heliodora· Aug 26

It feels autumnal already in Scotland this week, especially after travelling back from SE England - but today the sun was just lovely

The sun shines from behind clouds and casts rays, illuminating a sloped green hill. In the middle distance are some trees. To the bottom left is some water and behind this some more land.

Heliodora@heliodora· Aug 16

He sets out on this voyage in March 1717. I don't have the exact date so have used the 1st. In any case, it was a process more than an event, between making his decision, commissioning the ship, hiring its 70-man (rather contemptuous) crew, its launch and beginning piracy activity. 3/7

Stede Bonnet's chart again with transits for 1st March around the outside. Sun and Mercury are transiting Pisces, and would have first opposed natal Moon-Mercury and then crossed natal Neptune. He is having his Saturn return in Libra as well as his nodal reversal. Pluto has also recently transited his Moon-Mercury conjunction.

Heliodora@heliodora· Aug 16

Stede Bonnet, known as the 'gentleman pirate', famously had an entire library built into the pirate ship he commissioned as part of his epic mid-life crisis in 1717. I don't have a birth time, but 12pm gives him a partile Moon-Mercury conjunction in Virgo, opposed by Neptune in Pisces. 1/7

Untimed birth chart of Stede Bonnet, 29th July 1688, Bridgetown Barbados. He has a partile Moon-Mercury conjunction at 4° Virgo (orb of 4°). It's opposed by a 5° orb by Neptune in Pisces. He has Sun and Mars in Leo, a Venus-Pluto conjunction in Cancer, Uranus-Chiron in Taurus, Saturn in Libra and Jupiter in Capricorn. The North Node is in Aries.

Text reads: Bonnet had inherited the family plantation in Barbados and received a liberal education. He was, then, in the words of his trial judge, "generally esteemed a Man of Letters" (Cordingly, 18) and firmly set up as a gentleman. Bonnet seems to have suffered a midlife crisis when he decided his respectable life had no value and he wanted adventure.

Heliodora@heliodora· Aug 14

I'd never seen this speech before - it's very powerful. Seeing how viral it had gone overnight, I took a quick look at his chart - the Sun is right on his MC and the Venus-Jupiter conjunction on his North Node