Anne Whitaker
@annewhitaker.bsky.social
Writer, teacher, mentor, astrologer. Author. Columnist for UK's Astrological Journal and Stellar. Published on Astrodienst. Former contributor to USA's The Mountain Astrologer and Dell Horoscope.
“You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.” (Jung)
“You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.” (Jung)
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These are autumn pictures of the Portland Japanese Garden, taken in autumn 2009.
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November 1, 2025 at 10:13 PM
These are autumn pictures of the Portland Japanese Garden, taken in autumn 2009.
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Contrasts of maple, 2024.
November 1, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Contrasts of maple, 2024.
In honour of Hallowe’en: even sceptics see ghosts…
In honour of Hallowe'en 2025, here are just two of those occasions in which my fundamentally rational, sceptical self was challenged to consider the existence of levels of 'reality' outwith the normal spectrum – experiences which send the…
In honour of Hallowe'en 2025, here are just two of those occasions in which my fundamentally rational, sceptical self was challenged to consider the existence of levels of 'reality' outwith the normal spectrum – experiences which send the…
In honour of Hallowe’en: even sceptics see ghosts…
In honour of Hallowe'en 2025, here are just two of those occasions in which my fundamentally rational, sceptical self was challenged to consider the existence of levels of 'reality' outwith the normal spectrum – experiences which send the reductionists into a lather of (non-rational!) fury...
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October 30, 2025 at 9:42 PM
In honour of Hallowe’en: even sceptics see ghosts…
In honour of Hallowe'en 2025, here are just two of those occasions in which my fundamentally rational, sceptical self was challenged to consider the existence of levels of 'reality' outwith the normal spectrum – experiences which send the…
In honour of Hallowe'en 2025, here are just two of those occasions in which my fundamentally rational, sceptical self was challenged to consider the existence of levels of 'reality' outwith the normal spectrum – experiences which send the…
Navigating Saturn and Neptune 2025/6: Dear Diary, Part 2…
"...We are in a unique time now: not only humanity, but the whole of Mother Earth and all her creatures great and small are suffering the pain and turbulence of increasing chaos as the old order loses its grip. But without Neptune to…
"...We are in a unique time now: not only humanity, but the whole of Mother Earth and all her creatures great and small are suffering the pain and turbulence of increasing chaos as the old order loses its grip. But without Neptune to…
Navigating Saturn and Neptune 2025/6: Dear Diary, Part 2…
"...We are in a unique time now: not only humanity, but the whole of Mother Earth and all her creatures great and small are suffering the pain and turbulence of increasing chaos as the old order loses its grip. But without Neptune to dissolve the deadening rigidities of Saturn past its sell-by date in any phase of civilisation or culture, life could not go on.
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October 19, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Navigating Saturn and Neptune 2025/6: Dear Diary, Part 2…
"...We are in a unique time now: not only humanity, but the whole of Mother Earth and all her creatures great and small are suffering the pain and turbulence of increasing chaos as the old order loses its grip. But without Neptune to…
"...We are in a unique time now: not only humanity, but the whole of Mother Earth and all her creatures great and small are suffering the pain and turbulence of increasing chaos as the old order loses its grip. But without Neptune to…
It's windy! Don't quite know how those roses hang on...
October 6, 2025 at 5:46 PM
It's windy! Don't quite know how those roses hang on...
Navigating Saturn and Neptune: Dear Diary, Part 1…
"...The constant dance between form and formlessness, being and non-being, order and chaos, occurs in all epochs and at all levels...Astrology has its own language for this struggle, speaking through the polarity of Saturn and Neptune. .."
"...The constant dance between form and formlessness, being and non-being, order and chaos, occurs in all epochs and at all levels...Astrology has its own language for this struggle, speaking through the polarity of Saturn and Neptune. .."
Navigating Saturn and Neptune: Dear Diary, Part 1…
"...The constant dance between form and formlessness, being and non-being, order and chaos, occurs in all epochs and at all levels...Astrology has its own language for this struggle, speaking through the polarity of Saturn and Neptune. .."
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September 30, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Navigating Saturn and Neptune: Dear Diary, Part 1…
"...The constant dance between form and formlessness, being and non-being, order and chaos, occurs in all epochs and at all levels...Astrology has its own language for this struggle, speaking through the polarity of Saturn and Neptune. .."
"...The constant dance between form and formlessness, being and non-being, order and chaos, occurs in all epochs and at all levels...Astrology has its own language for this struggle, speaking through the polarity of Saturn and Neptune. .."
A world turned upside down:some thoughts on planetary ingresses and conjunctions…
We are currently entering a world turned upside down – the evidence from wars raging in the bigger picture, to storm tossed personal lives of those who are plugged into the current planetary shifts, is everywhere...
We are currently entering a world turned upside down – the evidence from wars raging in the bigger picture, to storm tossed personal lives of those who are plugged into the current planetary shifts, is everywhere...
A world turned upside down:some thoughts on planetary ingresses and conjunctions…
We are currently entering a world turned upside down – the evidence from wars raging in the bigger picture, to storm tossed personal lives of those who are plugged into the current planetary shifts, is everywhere...
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September 15, 2025 at 8:30 PM
A world turned upside down:some thoughts on planetary ingresses and conjunctions…
We are currently entering a world turned upside down – the evidence from wars raging in the bigger picture, to storm tossed personal lives of those who are plugged into the current planetary shifts, is everywhere...
We are currently entering a world turned upside down – the evidence from wars raging in the bigger picture, to storm tossed personal lives of those who are plugged into the current planetary shifts, is everywhere...
Reflecting on Chiron as his Aries journey continues…
What does Chiron mean to you? Have you experienced his symbolic energy as healing? Wounding? As the ‘inconvenient benefic’, kicking open doors to places you’d never have thought to go? Or have you simply not given him much thought?
What does Chiron mean to you? Have you experienced his symbolic energy as healing? Wounding? As the ‘inconvenient benefic’, kicking open doors to places you’d never have thought to go? Or have you simply not given him much thought?
Reflecting on Chiron as his Aries journey continues…
What does Chiron mean to you? Have you experienced his symbolic energy as healing? Wounding? As the ‘inconvenient benefic’, kicking open doors to places you’d never have thought to go? Or have you simply not given him much thought?
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September 3, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Reflecting on Chiron as his Aries journey continues…
What does Chiron mean to you? Have you experienced his symbolic energy as healing? Wounding? As the ‘inconvenient benefic’, kicking open doors to places you’d never have thought to go? Or have you simply not given him much thought?
What does Chiron mean to you? Have you experienced his symbolic energy as healing? Wounding? As the ‘inconvenient benefic’, kicking open doors to places you’d never have thought to go? Or have you simply not given him much thought?
Neptune, poetry, and August’s melancholy…
I have always loved August, that month where a particular coolness in the morning air on stepping out, a papery rustle tingeing the wind blowing through the trees, intimates that Summer is losing its hold upon the year, that Autumn is ascending…
I have always loved August, that month where a particular coolness in the morning air on stepping out, a papery rustle tingeing the wind blowing through the trees, intimates that Summer is losing its hold upon the year, that Autumn is ascending…
Neptune, poetry, and August’s melancholy…
I have always loved August, that month where a particular coolness in the morning air on stepping out, a papery rustle tingeing the wind blowing through the trees, intimates that Summer is losing its hold upon the year, that Autumn is ascending…
anne-whitaker.com
August 29, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Neptune, poetry, and August’s melancholy…
I have always loved August, that month where a particular coolness in the morning air on stepping out, a papery rustle tingeing the wind blowing through the trees, intimates that Summer is losing its hold upon the year, that Autumn is ascending…
I have always loved August, that month where a particular coolness in the morning air on stepping out, a papery rustle tingeing the wind blowing through the trees, intimates that Summer is losing its hold upon the year, that Autumn is ascending…
Some thoughts on…Twelfth House phases. We’re in one now!
Currently, we are being tossed around worldwide in yet another Twelfth House phase: that of the Saturn/Neptune cycle which began in Capricorn in early November 1989, accompanying the tearing down of the Berlin Wall and the fall of Communism.…
Currently, we are being tossed around worldwide in yet another Twelfth House phase: that of the Saturn/Neptune cycle which began in Capricorn in early November 1989, accompanying the tearing down of the Berlin Wall and the fall of Communism.…
Some thoughts on…Twelfth House phases. We’re in one now!
Currently, we are being tossed around worldwide in yet another Twelfth House phase: that of the Saturn/Neptune cycle which began in Capricorn in early November 1989, accompanying the tearing down of the Berlin Wall and the fall of Communism. The new cycle of that contradictory planetary pair begins fully at 0 Aries in late February 2026.
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August 19, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Some thoughts on…Twelfth House phases. We’re in one now!
Currently, we are being tossed around worldwide in yet another Twelfth House phase: that of the Saturn/Neptune cycle which began in Capricorn in early November 1989, accompanying the tearing down of the Berlin Wall and the fall of Communism.…
Currently, we are being tossed around worldwide in yet another Twelfth House phase: that of the Saturn/Neptune cycle which began in Capricorn in early November 1989, accompanying the tearing down of the Berlin Wall and the fall of Communism.…
Sneak peak of our new issue cover. Astro-Psychiatry and surprising results from a teacher survey on using astrology in mainstream education. We also remember Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys. Out soon.
August 19, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Some thoughts on…the power of Fate…
I’ve never forgotten Dr Liz Greene, in one of her seminars at the Centre for Psychological Astrology during the 1990s, making a remark to the effect that it is truly astounding the lengths to which the Fates seem to be prepared to go to arrange life-changing…
I’ve never forgotten Dr Liz Greene, in one of her seminars at the Centre for Psychological Astrology during the 1990s, making a remark to the effect that it is truly astounding the lengths to which the Fates seem to be prepared to go to arrange life-changing…
Some thoughts on…the power of Fate…
I’ve never forgotten Dr Liz Greene, in one of her seminars at the Centre for Psychological Astrology during the 1990s, making a remark to the effect that it is truly astounding the lengths to which the Fates seem to be prepared to go to arrange life-changing encounters for people, sometimes right across continents...
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August 9, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Some thoughts on…the power of Fate…
I’ve never forgotten Dr Liz Greene, in one of her seminars at the Centre for Psychological Astrology during the 1990s, making a remark to the effect that it is truly astounding the lengths to which the Fates seem to be prepared to go to arrange life-changing…
I’ve never forgotten Dr Liz Greene, in one of her seminars at the Centre for Psychological Astrology during the 1990s, making a remark to the effect that it is truly astounding the lengths to which the Fates seem to be prepared to go to arrange life-changing…
Understanding Astrology for Twins: Do They Have the Same Horoscope? anne-whitaker.com/2025/07/27/u...
Understanding Astrology for Twins: Do They Have the Same Horoscope? | Writing from the Twelfth House
This very interesting and enlightening experiment does not of course constitute any kind of proof: but it bore out my impressions from reading about the similarities and differences in the lives of…
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July 27, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Understanding Astrology for Twins: Do They Have the Same Horoscope? anne-whitaker.com/2025/07/27/u...
Lunar Reflections podcast: a new astro-kid on the block!
It's been my pleasure recently to drop in and have a listen to a most enjoyable, accessible, thoughtful and informative new podcast, Lunar Reflections with Heliodora and Tarah...
It's been my pleasure recently to drop in and have a listen to a most enjoyable, accessible, thoughtful and informative new podcast, Lunar Reflections with Heliodora and Tarah...
Lunar Reflections podcast: a new astro-kid on the block!
It's been my pleasure recently to drop in and have a listen to a most enjoyable, accessible, thoughtful and informative new podcast, Lunar Reflections with Heliodora and Tarah...
anne-whitaker.com
July 17, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Lunar Reflections podcast: a new astro-kid on the block!
It's been my pleasure recently to drop in and have a listen to a most enjoyable, accessible, thoughtful and informative new podcast, Lunar Reflections with Heliodora and Tarah...
It's been my pleasure recently to drop in and have a listen to a most enjoyable, accessible, thoughtful and informative new podcast, Lunar Reflections with Heliodora and Tarah...
Synchronicity strikes again…a Saturn in Aries lunar tale
I've been an astrologer now for decades. But the synchronicities invariably revealed through its symbols between the microcosm of our tiny lives and the vast planetary macrocosm of which we are part, never ceases to make me feel humbled…
I've been an astrologer now for decades. But the synchronicities invariably revealed through its symbols between the microcosm of our tiny lives and the vast planetary macrocosm of which we are part, never ceases to make me feel humbled…
Synchronicity strikes again…a Saturn in Aries lunar tale
I've been an astrologer now for decades. But the synchronicities invariably revealed through its symbols between the microcosm of our tiny lives and the vast planetary macrocosm of which we are part, never ceases to make me feel humbled – and often amazed. 'As above, so below', indeed...
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July 14, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Synchronicity strikes again…a Saturn in Aries lunar tale
I've been an astrologer now for decades. But the synchronicities invariably revealed through its symbols between the microcosm of our tiny lives and the vast planetary macrocosm of which we are part, never ceases to make me feel humbled…
I've been an astrologer now for decades. But the synchronicities invariably revealed through its symbols between the microcosm of our tiny lives and the vast planetary macrocosm of which we are part, never ceases to make me feel humbled…
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July 9, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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July 9, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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Bracing wisdom from Rumi...
July 8, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Bracing wisdom from Rumi...
Uranus, Neptune and Pluto: they’ve all crossed my 1C – and I’ve survived !…
I often get asked about the effect of the transits of the ‘Big Heavies’ ie Uranus, Neptune and Pluto, over the IC or root/origin point of the horoscope. Here is my story of life-changing experiences occurring when the Big…
I often get asked about the effect of the transits of the ‘Big Heavies’ ie Uranus, Neptune and Pluto, over the IC or root/origin point of the horoscope. Here is my story of life-changing experiences occurring when the Big…
Uranus, Neptune and Pluto: they’ve all crossed my 1C – and I’ve survived !…
I often get asked about the effect of the transits of the ‘Big Heavies’ ie Uranus, Neptune and Pluto, over the IC or root/origin point of the horoscope. Here is my story of life-changing experiences occurring when the Big Heavies all crossed that point in my horoscope during my twenties, thirties and forties. And - I'm still here!
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July 2, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Uranus, Neptune and Pluto: they’ve all crossed my 1C – and I’ve survived !…
I often get asked about the effect of the transits of the ‘Big Heavies’ ie Uranus, Neptune and Pluto, over the IC or root/origin point of the horoscope. Here is my story of life-changing experiences occurring when the Big…
I often get asked about the effect of the transits of the ‘Big Heavies’ ie Uranus, Neptune and Pluto, over the IC or root/origin point of the horoscope. Here is my story of life-changing experiences occurring when the Big…
As the Sun joins Jupiter in Cancer: a community family celebrates …
We had a big Summer Solstice/10th Anniversary celebration on Saturday 21st June afternoon in Glasgow G20, with wonderful weather – interspersed of course ( this is the West of Scotland...!) with the occasional downpour. It didn't…
We had a big Summer Solstice/10th Anniversary celebration on Saturday 21st June afternoon in Glasgow G20, with wonderful weather – interspersed of course ( this is the West of Scotland...!) with the occasional downpour. It didn't…
As the Sun joins Jupiter in Cancer: a community family celebrates …
We had a big Summer Solstice/10th Anniversary celebration on Saturday 21st June afternoon in Glasgow G20, with wonderful weather – interspersed of course ( this is the West of Scotland...!) with the occasional downpour. It didn't stop us having a wonderful time celebrating our vibrant local community.
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June 24, 2025 at 12:06 PM
As the Sun joins Jupiter in Cancer: a community family celebrates …
We had a big Summer Solstice/10th Anniversary celebration on Saturday 21st June afternoon in Glasgow G20, with wonderful weather – interspersed of course ( this is the West of Scotland...!) with the occasional downpour. It didn't…
We had a big Summer Solstice/10th Anniversary celebration on Saturday 21st June afternoon in Glasgow G20, with wonderful weather – interspersed of course ( this is the West of Scotland...!) with the occasional downpour. It didn't…
Mars in Leo square Uranus: Surprise, Surprise! anne-whitaker.com/2025/06/12/m...
Improving SEO for My Top Ranked Astrology Blog
Discover how my blog climbed to Number 2 in the Top 15 UK Astrology Blogs and my plans for SEO improvements ahead. Stay tuned!
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June 13, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Mars in Leo square Uranus: Surprise, Surprise! anne-whitaker.com/2025/06/12/m...
🚨🌱 The Chancellor is reviewing all public spending from scratch. Please join me in signing the @campaignforthearts.org petition to remind the UK Govt: the arts make our lives happier & our communities stronger. Now is the moment to invest in them. www.campaignforthearts.org/petitions/sp...
Petition: Make the arts part of UK National Renewal | Campaign for the Arts
The Chancellor is reviewing all public spending from scratch. The arts make our lives happier and our communities stronger. Now is the moment to invest in them.
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May 28, 2025 at 1:49 PM
🚨🌱 The Chancellor is reviewing all public spending from scratch. Please join me in signing the @campaignforthearts.org petition to remind the UK Govt: the arts make our lives happier & our communities stronger. Now is the moment to invest in them. www.campaignforthearts.org/petitions/sp...