Conversations with the Gods

01/05/2026

Beltane Blessings 🌷 and it’s a Full (Flower) Moon

"…….There is a notable energy shift now, and the lighter warmer days and flourishing nature, bring more passion and vitality with them. With the Sun and the warmth, we want to be outside, we don’t want to be restrained inside by the cold dark wintry days, but to run, swim, play. As Beltane embraces the joining of feminine and masculine energy, the God has grown and matured into manhood, and the Goddess has grown into a young woman, both ready to explore their early adulthood and step from childhood and enter into the sacred marriage.

The God is dressed in green and covered in leaves, representing the wildness of nature, and the Goddess in her maiden form, is ready to move towards the mother aspect, and as such the two unite. The Goddess will become pregnant and will prepare for the birth of the God later in the year which will enable the continuity of life and representing the abundance of the future harvest. This was known as the Greenwood marriage, where the Horned God (horns representing fertility, and a symbol across many cultures and beliefs) and the Goddess would be re-enacted by members of the community, and it was traditional to stay up all night long and greet the dawn…….

…..people danced around the maypole and handfasting’s took place under the moon if she showed herself and were celebrated until the dawn brought the new day. This practice was banned in the 1600’s. The Puritans found the ‘promiscuity’ and morality outrageous, they tried to ban the Greenwood marriage, but probably just succeeded in retreating them into secrecy. They also made the Maypole illegal"……want to know more? Except from The Sun, The Seasons, & The Soul ©️W. Abbot - The painting is Flower Full Moon from my Full Moon Altar cards - link in the comments

01/05/2026

For some reason I’ve resisted sharing this. Actually I know the reason. If I acknowledge it’s happening then it means it’s real and I’ll have to do it, and that is extremely nerve wracking!

I’ve always been shy. I say that and wonder if it’s still true. Perhaps I was always shy is a better way to frame it. For most of my years giving a talk would have been my absolute worst nightmare and I’d have done anything I could to avoid it. At university I managed to get out of every single presentation I had to do as part of my Psychology degree, looking back I can’t imagine how I managed that. It was simply something I couldn’t do.

If you’re curious as to the astrology of this it’s in a few places in my chart. Mercury burnt out heading into The Sun, Moon and Mars hidden away in the 8th house, a retrograde Saturn far from home in Cancer in my 10th house and opposite The Sun, buried beneath in the private place of the 4th house. Being shy is my natural state of being. Overcoming that was always going to take time and effort.

And yet, here I am, on the day of the Full Moon in Scorpio, falling in my 2nd house of what I have and what I value, as The Sun lands exactly on my hidden natal Moon and squares my natal Venus, preparing to talk. I’m being put in the spotlight whether I like it or not. And a part of me must like the idea of it because I actually volunteered for this one!

You’ll find me at The Conservative Club in Sidmouth tomorrow, talking at 10.15 (the early slot so I get it out of the way before I have time to get too nervous!), about the 6th house and how to work with it. It’s a health and wellbeing day so the 6th house, home to our every day, our routines, and how our health and wellbeing is impacted by how well that house works for us, and by the nature of the sign in the house, seemed like the obvious choice. If you’re interested, and local, come along and have a listen. There’s loads of other great talks throughout the day and plenty of practitioners offering all kinds of support.

Eeek!

And happy Full Moon! This one is intense!

Sidmouth Conservative Club

25/04/2026

This is an excellent article and well worth a proper read. To quote:

Uranus at its highest expression is radical authenticity. It’s who we are behind the masks, behind the roles we play, behind the identities we’ve inherited or constructed to keep ourselves safe.

At its best, Uranus in Gemini’s goal is to free us from the outdated concepts and inherited scripts that define how we make sense of the world, how we express ourselves, and what we believe we’re allowed to say and be.

On April 26th, 2026, Uranus enters Gemini. Uranus only changes signs every 7 years, so this is BIG. The internet is already full of predictions: AI will take over everything, communication will be revolutionized, and

25/04/2026

I woke up yesterday morning feeling amazing. Like I’d been shown the whole story of my Uranus through Ta**us transit and could see clearly how I’d reached an ending within it. But by yesterday evening the part of me that wants to fit in, and conform, and be accepted, was freaking out. Big time. I’m Libra Rising. Being this weird and sharing it with the world is totally out of my comfort zone!

Today is the final day of Uranus in Ta**us in our lifetimes (unless of course Uranus in Gemini transforms our longevity by turning us all into robots). And today, in the same final moments, Pluto squares The Sun. The Lord of The Underworld in a tense aspect with the God of Illumination. That’s not an easy conversation on its own.

I was thrilled at the thought of a sunny weekend and had plans to get out in the sun, maybe take myself away for a little adventure, to embrace the magic. But I’ve woken with a banging head. What feels like a hangover despite not having drunk anything (and in the throes of my freak out last night I did consider it). My exciting plans for the day will need an adjustment.

Uranus’ ultimate aim is freedom. The freedom to be you fully, without constraint. To live a life that’s yours and not shaped or dictated by what anyone else thinks or believes is right for you. From the horses mouth (I ended up hearing His wisdom clear as day on my evening dog walk): we are all weird in our own unique ways. And shame is a human construct.

I soothed myself last night with a big bowl of homemade apple and rhubarb crumble and cream and the wisdom of Kung Fu Panda. Today, I’ll work out what my body and mind needs and provide it.

I’m just sharing in case anyone else is feeling it to provide some reassurance. This is big momentous astrology but it is fast. Uranus will move into Gemini this evening (early hours in the uk) and The Sun and Pluto will be through Their serious convo in a couple of days. Today is the most intense as it builds. Things will feel fresh and new when Uranus is in Gemini and surprising change will come quick.

So hold on for now. Breathe. Get out in the garden and sit in the sun.

To quote Master Shifu: Find your inner peace. It’s always there.

22/04/2026

We’ve been building towards a crescendo this month, and now we are in the final days. Uranus, God of freedom and awakening, rebirth and breakthroughs, experimentation and rebellion, innovation and originality, individuation and independence [The Archetypal Universe - Renn Butler], has been blazing a trail through Ta**us since May 2018. Uranus leaves Ta**us in the early hours of the 26th of April (UK time) and moves into Gemini, not to return for 84 years. This is the final act of a story which has been playing out on the world’s stage and in our own life stories.

Uranus excites and inspires us to change in ways that bring us closer to our authentic nature. Deep down we yearn to move beyond our perceived limits, beyond our programmed patterns, beyond the stories we keep repeating, beyond the fear that keeps us feeling safe and stopping us from being who we are. Uranus pushes us to be free to write our own stories, to express our true essence. Uranus wakes us up.

And in Ta**us, Venus’ earthly palace, The Garden, this expresses through how free we feel in our bodies, in our present moments. How beautiful we feel. How rich we feel. How valued we feel, for being exactly who we are. We’re all weird and wonderful in our own unique way, and Uranus in Ta**us arrived to remind us of that and to celebrate it.

Depending on where Ta**us sits in your chart, this force will have been revolutionising a specific area of your life.

For example, I am Libra Rising so Uranus has brought revolution to my 8th house. The house of intimacy and shared possessions, of other people’s money, of death and transformation. And when I look back to who I was before 2018, before astrology entered my life, before I understood who I was and how I squashed myself to fit in, before I knew what I wanted from life and was brave enough to demand it, His trail blazing is clear. I have died, and been reborn over and over during the last 8 years. The transformation has been absolute.

Now the 8th house is intense as houses go. And your story may not be as dramatic as mine sounds. But Uranus is never gentle. Your personal change will be equally profound.

What has been your personal revolution since 2018? It’s worth taking a moment to reflect before Uranus turns the page and starts a new chapter.

I wrote more on this in this month’s forecast if you fancy more of a read:

https://www.conversationswiththegods.com/story/uranus-in-taurus-the-end-of-a-story

And if you’d like a reading to explore your own Uranus story - where He’s been and where He’s heading next - you know where to find me. ✨

What's the story? What shows up for you and the world in the next few weeks marks an ending and a new beginning.

21/04/2026

“It’s starting to feel a lot like Ta**us…”

After yesterday’s niggly start, today feels very different. With Mercury through Saturn’s cold and stark reminder of everything I don’t have in my life, a bleak perspective of the limits I feel imposed upon me in my day to day: the full time job that keeps me inside and tied to a desk, the too quiet house, the list of chores that nag, today I’m feeling grateful for everything I have. The secure job that allows me to keep my little house by the seaside, the fact that my kids are off expanding and learning to be independent, even the list of things to do feels more like a purpose for my day than something dragging me down. I feel good. Positive about the future. Certain I can settle back into the quiet and enjoy it rather than feel isolated by it.

This is Ta**us season.

I sat outside in the early morning sunshine for a few minutes under a blue sky with just a scattering of cushiony white clouds. The fresh breeze fluttering the new bright green leaves of my pear tree. The Sun glinting off the bedroom window. I watched a pair of seagulls dance together in the sky and it reminded me of Jonathan Livingston Seagull and the wisdom of that book.

A little google when I came inside unearthed this quote, “Don’t believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation…”. Which seems entirely fitting for where I was yesterday. Today I am reminded to come back to the present moment, and to enjoy it for what it is. For everything that it is.

I picked some lemon balm and mint from the garden, and now it’s steeping. I’ll have spring tea. These are the moments Venus loves us to curate, and savour. The body is holy. Being in it fully is sacred. Feeling good is a gift afforded to us all.

“…Look with your understanding. Find out what you already know and you will see the way to fly.”

“You have the freedom to be yourself, your true self, here and now, and nothing can stand in your way”.

Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Mercury is now through the meeting with Saturn and Mars, free to speed through the rest of Aries and join The Sun in Ta**us in May. Things should feel lighter.

Venus is still in Ta**us, now joined by The Sun, for a few more days. For more on how She feels when She’s at home and what Ta**us has to offer, have a read of this:

https://www.conversationswiththegods.com/story/venus-in-taurus-love-that-touches-the-earth

20/04/2026

20/04/2026

I thought I was going to write your standard welcome to Ta**us season post. Get down with nature. Ground in the new beginning Aries season initiated. With Mars behind us it’s time to be more Venus. Embrace simple pleasures. Be in your body. Be present. Yadda yadda yadda.

But I’m not feeling it. Not today anyway. While The Sun is now in Venus’ earthly domain, and spring is springing (I took this photo of a gloriously abundant magnolia tree on my evening dog walk yesterday), the energy in Aries is still intense. And today Mercury, God of mind, of thought, our rational self, is in a tight conversation with Saturn, God of melancholy, and Mercury isn’t vibing with the Taurean joy.

Today there’s a nag. Something’s off. And with The Moon in Gemini, I’m being asked to label it, to put it into words.

After the heaviness of the last few months, the tension of the world at large, and more personally I’ve felt quite lonely with my kids away at university, I think I was hoping spring would arrive and things would feel different. But a quick glance through Instagram and I’m faced with more insanity by those with way more power than they deserve, and on a personal front I’m still sat here alone faced with a day sat at a desk, and only the promise of another Netflix show this evening to distract me from my inner reflection.

I know there are things I could do. I write about them all the time. But today it feels like too much effort. Why can’t things be easy and feel good just because?

There’s not really an answer, and I know that. The answer is that the feelings you have are just the feelings you have and the wisest thing to do is to allow them to be, and to trust they will pass through.

The joy of Ta**us season will arrive to be embodied. But Mercury and Saturn have something to say first.

And perhaps that is another gift delivered by Venus through The Sun in Ta**us. We have an opportunity to see what isn’t working, what doesn’t fill us up with joy, and what stops us from just enjoying our present moment fully. If we can see it, we can change it. Even if the will to do so isn’t there right now, seeing it is still a good first step.

20/04/2026

An interesting ponder for Monday morning. Can you feel the Moon’s change in signs? She moves every 2-3 days so it’s a fun way to check in with yourself and The Gods and to grow your feeling nature.