Yvette Marks
Astrology, Story & Soul: Symbol, Myth, & the Enchanted Cosmos
Where every symbol is alive and each new insight opens a doorway...
We don’t just tell your story — we shake it up, spin it sideways, and invite spirit to speak.
This is where the story shifts -
where you see yourself as you have never seen yourself before.
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YOUR PATH, OUR PARTNERSHIP
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SOLAR SUMMIT: YOUR PERMANENT SOLSTICE- AN INTIMATE ONLINE WORKSHOP
You have a purpose. It hunts, it feeds, and it seduces itself into being. What is it, and how can you help?A Mythic Astrological Immersion — an intimate online workshop, a sacred rite of return to your calling, guided by your birth chart and nourished by myth, spirit, and sky.
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RE-MEMBER THE WAY: ONE TO ONE SESSIONS
Where curiosity meets courage — and the universe unfolds.A one-to-one space for those drawn to depth and enchantment — where the mythic meets the personal... and your unfolding is witnessed with care.
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Solar Summit
YOUR PERMANENT SOLSTICE
An intimate astrological rite that calls your purpose into the light.
This is not just a workshop.This is a summit between your soul and the sky.We gather at the Midheaven — the symbolic throne of your chart — to listen, reveal, and claim your public purpose in its raw, magnetic form.You’ll track how your calling hunts, feeds, and seduces itself into being — not as a job title, but as a living force.We move through guided meditation, oracular astrology, and sacred mirroring in a space woven with myth, symbol, and spirit.Along the way, you’ll meet astrology not as data or doctrine — but as a living language, remembered through the body.We’ll begin with the bones of the chart — the wheel, the signs, the planets — and then hone in on the 10th house and the Midheaven.This is not textbook astrology. The structure I’m teaching — — shaped through years of lived experience and deep chart work with others —braids astrological, psychological, and spiritual threads into a way of seeing that feels both timeless and freshly revealed.It’s both rooted enough for beginners, and rich enough to bring something fresh to seasoned explorers.
🌓 YOU'LL LEAVE WITH:
A personal symbol to anchor your purpose
Astrological insight into your public presence and mythic role
A clearer sense of how your calling uniquely moves and expresses itself
A deeper self-seeing through the light and contrast of other charts
✨ BONUS:
Refer a friend who attends and receive a 20-minute recorded insight after the event.
(One recording per additional referral who joins.)
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Format: A 6-hour live Zoom immersion — including 5 hours of rich, interactive content, personal chart guidance, and time for shared reflection. Thoughtfully paced with a 30-minute lunch interlude and two 15-minute pauses to breathe, soften, and integrate.
Price: £175
Date & time: 27 September 2025, 11:00 - 17:00 UK Time
Limited Places
Booking: Email to reserve your place, join the waiting list for the next event, or gather your own group of 6 and request a private date.
No prior astrology experience needed — just curiosity, presence, and a willingness to listen and be seen.
🧺 BRING:
Your exact birth time
A willingness to listen, be seen, and share
🔆💛🔆JOIN THE SOLAR SUMMIT / FIND OUT MORE🔆💛🔆
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Re-member the way
Where Self Meets Soul
Serious growth. Playful spirit. A mirror that meets you exactly where you are.
You might come with a question — about self, soul, love, work, family, or longing.About the person you can’t forget, the pattern that won’t shift, the future you can almost see.Or you might come with a feeling — depleted, heavy, haunted, disconnected, unsure why.A quiet nudge that something must change. That healing is needed, even if you can’t yet name what it is.We’ll meet what’s stirring — through astrology, tarot, ancestral insight, and oracular listening.Or through deep shamanic healing: soul and power retrieval, energy clearing, spirit work. Work that helps release what weighs you down and return what makes you whole.But this isn’t just guidance or treatment — it’s companionship through a turning.I walk beside people through seasons of rupture and emergence — helping them begin to break free from toxic environments, outdated stories, and limiting beliefs.Together, we follow the thread beneath your concern
and open new ways of seeing, being, and becoming.What we breathe into life together often continues to stir, soften, and unfold long after our time concludes, rippling outward in subtle and meaningful ways.
🌓 This work may be right if you’re:
In a season of change, heartbreak, expansion, or return
Feeling stuck, unseen, or out of sync with your deeper self
Craving insight that honours both your history and your potential
Drawn to guidance that is mystical, grounded, and deeply attuned
Ready to be met — and ready to meet yourself
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This work is not a substitute for therapy or medical care, but may walk alongside them — offering a different kind of support for your healing and growth.
✨Ways we can work together:
🌺 A 10-session container delivered over zoom for steady transformation
Paced to your schedule
Meet for an hour at a time
£1,200 upfront for full payment
Or £450/month over 3 months (£1,350 total)
Payment plans available
🌺 A tailored immersion shaped around your life, rhythms, and needs —
…including the option for me to travel to your locale — to walk beside you, gently observe the patterns at play, and explore together what wants to evolve.This may include shadowing your rhythms, brainstorming in real-time, and co-creating rituals or healing space within your lived environment — wherever you are.
🔆💛🔆work with me / FIND OUT MORE🔆💛🔆
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about me
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I’ve walked away from the edges of boardrooms and broken paths alike — never compromising truth for comfort.
I’ve followed the thread of change across continents and countries, careers, relationships, loss, and initiations — always guided by something deeper than logic.Rooted in both business strategy and delivery, as well as the sacred arts, I bring lived experience from inside hierarchies, creative collectives, independent, cross-sector work, entrepreneurial ventures, and years of deep inner work.Forged by renowned spiritual teachers and influential leaders who embody their truth, I have shifted from six-figure self employed work (GBP) supporting NHS-commissioned organisations and from the brink of scaling a private healing practice to following the promptings of my own guides into a long hush of seclusion - the empty room-, the embrace of more junior roles, and the challenge of severe limits.I didn’t realise it was happening until it had happened, and I didn’t realise what I was learning until I had learned it. It taught me to listen: to silence, to the unseen, and to the self beneath the noise.I walk with others as they remember who they are, supporting them as they begin to loosen the ties that bind, and choose the life that calls.Together, we reclaim your power and step - poised between fear and excitement - into the space where certainty fades and possibility unfolds.
Training and Credentials
I hold an MSc in Consciousness, Spirituality, and Transpersonal Psychology from the Alef Trust in partnership with Liverpool John Moores University, alongside an Honours Degree in Psychology from the University of South Africa.I am a certified astrologer from the Mayo School of Astrology, and have also studied Hypnotherapy and Psychotherapy.My energy healing training includes Theta Healing, TAT, and Reiki (Master level).I have developed intuition through a dedicated self-paced study of Western ceremonial magick, tarot, and runes, and have undertaken intensive, apprenticeship-style hands-on shamanic training over several years — most notably with The Sacred Trust.With nearly two decades of client work and personal practice, I bring a grounded, imaginative, and compassionate approach to creative exploration, soul work and transformation.
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reflections & feedback
Testimonials
At present, you won’t find testimonials on this site — and that’s a conscious choice.Over time, I’ve noticed how the gateway into sacred or intuitive work can be shaped — and sometimes subtly narrowed — by the voices and experiences of others.Words meant as praise can unintentionally create influence, comparison, or hesitation. Critical reflections, whether considered or offered without care or context, can introduce noise or dissonance. Both can pull us away from our own felt sense of what’s true.I want to explore what might happen if I leave space for something else to emerge: a connection between you and the work itself.I invite you to notice what arises through the felt sense of this space — how your intuition responds to what you read here, and what your body knows before your mind makes a decision.That said, if social proof is important to you, you’re welcome to visit me on The Circle platform, where I offer spontaneous, pay-per-minute readings. These conversations are shaped by the immediacy of that setting and often offer insight, affirmation, and symbolic clarity in the moment.These sessions are public-facing and the reviews you will find there from clients in that context are unmoderated.
You are welcome to a reading with me via The Circle. If you use the link below, I receive a small commission as a gesture of thanks.
If, in time, I ask for a testimonial, it will always be through direct, consensual conversation — never assumed, never transactional. I only share reflections publicly when there is clarity, generosity, and full permission on both sides.
Ongoing Feedback & Living Research
I hold this work as a living practice, and your experience of it matters deeply.I am continuously listening, not only to how it moves in others — but to how it evolves me.As part of this inquiry, I invite informal reflections and more structured feedback during, between, and / or after our time together.This ongoing reflective practice is designed with care — to support your integration as much as to help me stay close to the impact of the work and to refine how it is offered.These shared reflections — offered in the moment or with hindsight — become part of the arc of the experience itself. They allow the work to deepen, to clarify, and to continue unfolding beyond the formal edges of the session.I may one day share insights or patterns that emerge — but never in ways that identify you. Any findings shared publicly will be distilled and anonymised, offered in the same spirit of respect with which they were received.
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HUMMINGS
Threads from the spinner of grace
Welcome to this gathering place for my written pieces: mythopoetic essays, symbolic wayfinding, field notes from the liminal. Some arrive as reflections, others as transmissions.The intention is that each piece be as a thread spun by Chariklo, the Spinner of Grace — a resting place along the way of healing, for anyone who might be nourished by these words as they walk their own path of becoming whole.
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Purple Seership: A Vision that Re-Shapes Reality
The long arc of Pluto in Aquarius is power to the people. On 7 July, Pluto’s ruler, Uranus, slips into Gemini, interspersing solid facts with possibility via magical bursts of betwixt and between.
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This is a new narrative — flowering words that give new voice to vision.
A story told through shamans, healers, seers, bees...
Stories from the deep
Your story, written in myth.
And Pluto in Aquarius is turning the page.
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What if Eurydice wasn’t lost?
What if she was the one we were meant to follow all along?
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A mythic descent. A collective return.
For those who walk between worlds
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let's begin
Whether you’re ready to book your place at the Solar Summit, explore one-to-one work, or are simply holding a quiet yes — a sense that something is stirring — you’re warmly invited to reach out. I’d be honoured to hear what’s calling you.
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thank you for reaching out
I’ll be in touch soon
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I’m so glad you wrote. Your message has landed, and this moment matters — not because I received it, but because you reached.That gesture alone begins the unfolding. I’ll read your words with care and be in touch soon.
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be the first to know
I’ll write now and then, when there’s a workshop or something worth sending your way.
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Privacy & Data Use
A simple explanation of how I handle your information
This is a simple explanation of how I (Yvette Marks), as a UK-based sole trader, look after any personal information you share with me — with care, integrity, and transparency
If You Visit This Website
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Help the site load and display correctly
Remember simple preferences (like dismissing a banner)
Offer anonymous insight into how the site is being used (via Google Analytics — but only if you consent)
I don’t personally track individuals or build profiles. If you decline cookies, no analytics or non-essential tracking will be used. You can also manage or block cookies anytime in your browser settings.
If You Get in Touch
If you email me or use a contact form on this site, I’ll receive your message via my Gmail account. I’ll use the information you share (such as your name, email address, and anything you write) to respond to you directly. I won’t share your message or your details with anyone else.
If You Join the Mailing List
If you sign up to hear from me, I will store your name and email address securely within the MailerLite service. I may use this list to occasionally let you know about workshops, offerings, or other updates.
You’re always free to unsubscribe using the link in any email, and I’ll remove your details promptly.
If We Work Together
If we meet for a session, I may ask you to share personal information such as your name, contact details, and—if we’re doing astrology work—your birth data. This is used solely to prepare for and carry out our work together. I may keep this information in:
Encrypted digital files (on my password-protected devices or Gmail)
Printed notes, stored securely
Astrology software (to generate your chart)
If we record a session (with your explicit consent), I’ll send the recording to you via a secure file-sharing service (like WeTransfer).
I treat all such information with confidentiality and respect, in accordance with UK GDPR. I retain personal data only for as long as it is necessary for the purpose for which it was collected — typically up to 6 years for administrative or legal obligations, or sooner if you request deletion (unless there’s a lawful reason to retain it).
As part of my ongoing commitment to integrity and reflection, I may bring elements of our work into professional supervision — a confidential space where I’m supported to deepen the quality of care I offer.When I do, I take great care not to share identifying details. However, if you happen to work with more than one practitioner within a shared professional circle, it’s possible that your presence may be recognised through context.I name this not to cause concern, but to honour your sovereignty and ensure clarity in the way this work is held.
Testimonials & feedback
If you choose to share a testimonial, you can decide how your name appears (full name, first name only, or anonymous). I’ll only use your words in the way you’ve agreed, and I’ll keep a record of that consent.As part of my ongoing inquiry into how this work is received and evolves, I may share general patterns or insights that emerge through client feedback. If I do, they will be fully anonymised and non-identifiable, and always offered with care, integrity, and in alignment with the spirit in which they were shared.
Your Rights
You can request to see, correct, or delete the personal information I hold about you. Just email me at [email protected] and I’ll respond within 30 days.
Data Sharing & Security
I never sell or trade your data. I may disclose it only if legally required to do so or to protect someone’s safety. I take reasonable steps to store your information securely, but no system is ever completely foolproof. Please be aware that anything sent over the internet is done at your own risk.
Some data may be stored or processed outside the UK (e.g. by services such as MailerLite, Gmail, or WeTransfer). I choose providers with strong privacy practices and data protection standards.
Third Parties
Some services I use (like MailerLite, Gmail, or WeTransfer) have their own privacy practices. I choose providers I trust, but I encourage you to review their policies if you’re concerned.Sometimes I share links to other websites that I think you’ll find interesting or helpful. They’ll have their own ways of doing things when it comes to privacy and data, so I always suggest looking at their policies. I only link to places I trust, but I can’t take responsibility for what happens on other sites.
Accessibility
If you use assistive technology and need any part of this site or policy in an alternative format, please feel welcome to contact me directly at [email protected]. I’ll do my best to support you promptly and with care.If email isn’t accessible for you, please let me know the best way to communicate — whether by phone, post, or another method — and I’ll do what I can to accommodate.
Complaints
If you have concerns about how your information is being handled, please get in touch. If we can’t resolve things together, you have the right to contact the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) here:
Updates to This Policy
This policy may be updated occasionally. If the changes are significant, I’ll let you know via email (if you’re on my list) or update the website.
Last updated: May 2025
If You’re Writing Your Own
This policy is written for my own work, but if it helps guide yours, feel free to draw from it. Please don’t copy it in full without checking it’s right for you.
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Terms of Service
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why this matters
This is a simple explanation of how I (Yvette Marks), as a UK-based sole trader, hold our working agreements — with care, integrity, and transparency.This isn’t just a legal page — it’s a shared agreement about how we meet in this work. It exists to protect the spaciousness, clarity, and depth of the container we create together. These words are offered not to control, but to care — for the process, for each other, and for the unseen forces we honour in this work.
Booking & Payment
Sessions and workshops are arranged through direct email conversation. When we agree a time, your space is held in trust — and confirmed once full payment is received.For those in the UK, payment is made via bank transfer. For international clients, PayPal is available — with the request that any additional processing fees are covered by you, so that the full amount listed on the website is received in full.All prices are clearly shared on the website. They are offered with integrity and reflect the energy, time, and preparation involved in this work.For bespoke packages or longer-term journeys, pricing is agreed in advance through email conversation, in accordance with the nature and rhythm of the work we’ve discussed.
cancellations & scheduling
Time is sacred. When we make an agreement to meet, a space is created and prepared for you.If you need to change a one-to-one session, please do so with at least 48 hours’ notice. Short-notice cancellations (less than 48 hours) are fully chargeable, as the time has been set aside for you.For multi-session journeys (such as a 10-session package), up to two reschedules are welcome with 48 hours’ notice. This allows for flexibility while still honouring the arc of the work we’re entering together. Missed sessions outside this are not carried forward.To keep the energy of the work alive, it’s encouraged that multi-session journeys be completed within six months of beginning, unless we’ve agreed otherwise.Workshop bookings are non-refundable and non-transferable, as these spaces are limited and energetically held from the moment of registration.In the unlikely event that I need to cancel — due to illness, emergency, or technical interruption — I will of course make every effort to reschedule your session in good time, and in alignment with your needs.
relational integrity & group space
This work rests on shared care. The space we enter together is built on mutual respect, honesty, and an understanding of the sacred.I may bring our work to a close if the container is no longer supportive — whether due to persistent misalignment, harmful behaviour, or a breakdown in trust. This is not about judgment, but about maintaining the safety and clarity needed for the work to unfold.In group settings, your experience is always yours to share. For the wellbeing of all participants, the stories, words, and inner processes of others are to be held in confidence and not spoken of beyond the space.
communication between sessions
Contact outside sessions — such as to arrange a time, ask a practical question, or check in — is welcomed with warmth and presence.That said, to honour the rhythm of this work and the boundaries of the container, communication between sessions is kept spacious and purposeful. Email is the preferred channel, and I ask that we keep back-and-forth exchanges concise and clear so that our energy remains focused for when we meet.Each point of contact is meaningful, and the space between sessions is part of the journey.
The Nature of the Work & What It Can Open
The offerings here — including astrology, ancestral insight, sacred guidance, and shamanic work — are not services in the conventional sense. They are invitations to step into a deeper relationship with life, with yourself, and with mystery.These processes may support:
A more anchored and spacious sense of self
A reawakening of curiosity, wonder, and meaning
A loosening of patterns that no longer serve
A felt connection to your ancestry, intuition, and inner wisdom
A deeper orientation toward story, purpose, and mythic belonging
A renewed relationship with time, nature, and the unseen
This is not outcome-driven work. It unfolds through presence, through rhythm, and through your own willingness to engage. What arises may be unexpected, gentle, challenging, beautiful — or all of these at once. The invitation is not to fix, but to remember.
an additional note on integration
It is possible that this work may stir what’s long-held or hidden — and sometimes, what emerges can feel tender, disorienting, or energetically intense. While every person’s experience is different, it can be helpful to allow spaciousness around our sessions.Buffering your schedule with quiet time, journaling, or gentle activity can offer your system the space it needs to land and integrate — before re-entering the full pace of daily life.This is not about bracing for difficulty, but honouring that meaningful inner work unfolds on its own timeline.
Limitations & Scope
This work does not offer clinical advice or medical diagnosis. It is not a replacement for therapy, mental health support, or medical care. If you are currently receiving professional support for physical or mental health concerns, please continue to do so alongside any work we do together.This space is offered in complement, not in contradiction — honouring the role of all forms of healing.
third parties
From time to time, I include links to other websites — ones I genuinely think are worth checking out.That said, I don’t run those sites, so I’m not responsible for what they say, do, or how they work. If you follow a link from here, it’s a good idea to take a moment to read their terms and policies, just to be sure.
Website & Communication
The website is a space for information and connection. You are welcome to subscribe to email updates if you wish to stay in touch.All content on this website — including images, writing, and structure — is the creative work of Yvette Marks and may not be copied or reproduced without permission.
Legal Holding
These terms are held under the laws of England and Wales. Should any disagreement arise, we agree to seek resolution first through honest conversation and mutual respect.
Updates to This Policy
This policy may be updated occasionally. If the changes are significant, I’ll let you know via email (if you’re on my list) or update the website.
Last updated: May 2025
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Purple Seership: A Vision that Re-Shapes Reality
The long arc of Pluto in Aquarius is power to the people. On 7 July, Pluto’s ruler, Uranus, slips into Gemini, interspersing solid facts with possibility via magical bursts of betwixt and between....This is new narrative...flowering words that give new voice to vision.
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...In citadels of paper and certainty, borrowed thoughts are braided into new canons, each citation a fragile ghost conjuring a weight of tradition where none was ever given.Yet beneath this lattice of footnotes and man-made dogma — the agreed-upon rules and second-hand truths that pass for fact — lies a thinner realm: a veil-like fabric at the Jungian divide, where psyche breathes life into matter.
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Here, words soften, melt, and life hums at the edge of what we can name.This terrain is well known to certain souls — sometimes called shamans — a word itself borrowed and traded across tongues, wearing no single meaning, no fixed custom, no final shape.Its very ambiguity is a gift: a tear in the citadel’s paper wall through which both speaker and seeker slip beyond the illusion, gather counsel from hidden allies, and return carrying seeds to rewild that which has grown stale.
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One strand winds from the centre of this web into the heart of the paper’s source — the trees of the forest — where honeybees hum stories of origin and possibility.To the Orphics, the bee is the human soul, so its story is our story, its origin our origin, its possibility our possibility: ancestors who once devoured their hosts alive but, over time, turned hunger into honey, loneliness into a hive — proof that morality can emerge within nature itself.They honour this morality in a gentle covenant with flowers: a mutual promise to feed and be fed, to take nothing that is not returned in sweetness.
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Like shamans, honeybees accompany each birth and passing, moving between worlds as keepers of the soul’s crossing.In this way, they dance at the thresholds — guiding souls and tending the unseen, the oldest shamans in fur and flight.
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But they are seers too: their way of seeing is a wonder of its own.For us, purple does not appear in the rainbow’s arc — it is a bridge our eyes conjure by uniting the short waves of violet with the long waves of red.Bees, too, carry this gift: their eyes blend ultraviolet with visible blue to create bee purple — a shimmer we cannot see but which flowers have learned to wear.
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This is no fable but nature’s truth: blossoms coloured themselves to the bees’ favourite vision, shaping petal and pigment to beckon these visitors whose visit keeps the world alive.Within this miracle lives a deeper alchemy: what is seen shapes what is.A way of seeing draws forth a colour; a hidden hope shapes a day.
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The bee’s eye paints the garden; the shaman’s eye paints tomorrow.
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Uranus, ruler of Pluto’s Aquarian path, slips into Gemini — quicksilver tongue, trickster story-weaver, a little explosion scattering betwixts and betweens of possibility between the solid facts.In place of one fixed truth, you are invited to remember your purple seership — the living way of seeing that bridges edges and colours the world each time you look.Colour your prose purple, awaken your purple seership, and find your hum.
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As ever, this is just my way of reading the symbols. When I say you, us, or we, I mean me — and you too, but only if you want to and only if it feels right for you.
Lineage & Sources
Below are the threads — academic and otherwise — that helped shape the weave of this offering.
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While many written sources shaped this piece, my deepest sources remain the oral teachings I’ve received through my training with the Sacred Trust, and the ongoing guidance of my allies in Spirit.
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This work also draws from my own research: specifically, my MSc dissertation in Consciousness, Spirituality, and Transpersonal Psychology with the Alef Trust in partnership with Liverpool John Moores University — a long-form inquiry titled Being the Swarm: An Intuitive Inquiry into Western Shamanic Practitioners’ Lived Experience of Shamanic Power in a Western Society (2024).
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Anderson, R. (2011). Intuitive inquiry: The principles and practices of an inclusive and integrated research approach. In Anderson, R., & Braud, W. (2011). Transforming self and others through research: Transpersonal research methods and skills for the human sciences and humanities (pp. 15-70). State University of New York Press.Chittka, L. (2022). The mind of a bee. Princeton University Press.Cook, A. B. (1895). The bee in Greek mythology. The Journal of Hellenic Studies, 15, 1–24. https://doi.org/10.2307/624058Crockford, S. (2011). Entering the crack between the worlds: Symbolism in Western shamanism. The Pomegranate, 13(2), 184-204. https://doi.org/10.1558/pome.v13i2.184Ketcham, C. (2020). Flowers and honeybees: A study of morality in nature. Brill.Ransome, H. M. (2004). The sacred bee in ancient times and folklore. Dover Publications. (Original work published 1937)Romanyshyn, R.D. (2021). The wounded researcher: Research with soul in mind. Routledge. (Original work published 2013)
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Stories from the Deep
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Your story, written in myth.
And Pluto in Aquarius is turning the page.
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At the centre of the earth is the place where the ancestors lie. This is Pluto’s realm: the underworld — a place of presence from which fumes rose up and out through fissures in the rock and filled the cave at Delphi. That cave, the omphalos — the navel of the earth — was believed to be the axis where this world and the otherworld met.
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The Pythia, seated at its centre, did not speak for herself, but for Apollo — solar deity of light, harmony, and prophecy, who brought pattern to the deep. He helped make the unconscious conscious — and it was the Pythia who gave it voice. Messages were spoken that shaped city-states, leaders, and centuries. Her utterances seeded stories that still move through us today.
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The myth of Orpheus and Eurydice also belongs to this underworld geography — the story of a couple in love.
A snake in the grass, a single bite. Eurydice fell, and the world changed.
She descended to the underworld — and Orpheus followed.
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He did not bring weapons. His grief became sound, and his song moved stone. Even Hades and Persephone were stirred. They offered him a deal: Eurydice could return with him to the life above ground, but only if he went ahead and did not look back.
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Most versions of Eurydice's story end here, naming Orpheus’s backward glance as failure — a moment of weakness, doubt, or disobedience that cost him his Eurydice.
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But zoom out, and the story is bookended by a swarm of bees who always die at the beginning — and who, with the help of the gods, always return to life at the end.
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Pluto as an archetype twists and turns throughout this tale:
He is in the snake that bites Eurydice — as ruler of Scorpio, often symbolised by a snake.
He is in the state of death that the snake causes — as ruler of death.
He is in Eurydice — whose name means profound judgment, just as Pluto has long been associated with the tarot card Judgment — the card of reckoning, resurrection, and return.
He is in Orpheus — as the shamanic figure who can move between life and death.
He is in the place to which Orpheus travels — as ruler of the underworld.
He is in the process of change as ruler of life, death, and rebirth – of transformation.
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Pluto is not only the ruler of death and rebirth.
He is the keeper of what we exile: the envy, the grief, the rage, the hunger to possess.
Those things we call evil — inflicted upon us, inflicted by us.
Not sins — but raw psychic matter, waiting to be worked.
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This is the shaman’s path.
To descend into what others fear.
To make contact with the festering places.
To hold what poisons — until it reveals its medicine.
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Healing begins here. Not in separation from the pain of others, but in resonance with it.
The wound is not removed — it is repurposed.
And what is transmuted in one becomes possibility for all.
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Pluto does not purify by avoidance.
He transforms by contact.
He spiritualises the instinct.
He pulls gold from the grave.
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And Eurydice.
She was not simply lost — she was taken, and then transformed.
She is not only the one who dies; she is death itself, the threshold, the reckoning.
She is the return - not as the one but as the swarm.
Her name — profound judgment — is not incidental.
She is not a victim in a story.
She is Pluto, in feminine form — , she embodies the hard truths we often turn away from. She is what must be faced.
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because Eurydice is in everything.
In the shadow you avoid.
In the ache you carry.
In the silences you inherit.
She is what is exiled, and what calls you back.
Orpheus descends, and Eurydice returns -
no longer the one, but the all.
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The success of the myth lay not in retrieving the one, the Eurydice Orpheus sought, — but in re-membering the hive. In Orpheus being followed out, not by the one, but by the many. By the swarm.
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We are in this story too.
To the Orphics, a bee represented a human soul.
If one of us dies - if Eurydice dies - so do we all
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As Pluto moves through Aquarius — sign of the individual and sign of the collective, of the one and of the swarm — what will your story become?
When I began developing some of these ideas while undertaking my MSc, I paused and asked myself — had I gone too far, linking Pluto with Eurydice? Then I checked my solar return chart: the asteroid Eurydice was exactly conjunct Pluto.The solar chime rang again when the impulse to share this story more widely arose — this time under a Leo New Moon. As I opened the chart of the moment, there she was: Eurydice, sitting right on top of the Sun and the Moon. I followed the thread — and kept listening, in all the ways I know how.May it honour all who inspired it — those in spirit, in story, and in the everyday world.
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As ever, this is just my way of reading the symbols.
When I say you, us, or we, I mean me — and you too, but only if you want to and only if it feels right for you.
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If something in this story stirred your own — a memory, a longing, a truth beneath the noise — you’re welcome to come closer.
I offer one-to-one spaces and workshops for those drawn to depth and enchantment, shaped by myth, chart, spirit, and the subtle threads that move through life.There’s more below, should you wish to follow the thread.
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Lineage & Sources
Below are the threads — academic and otherwise — that helped shape the weave of this offering.
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While many written sources shaped this piece, my deepest sources remain the oral teachings I’ve received through my training with the Sacred Trust, and the ongoing guidance of my allies in Spirit.
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This work also draws from my own research: specifically, my MSc dissertation in Consciousness, Spirituality, and Transpersonal Psychology with the Alef Trust in partnership with Liverpool John Moores University — a long-form inquiry titled Being the Swarm: An Intuitive Inquiry into Western Shamanic Practitioners’ Lived Experience of Shamanic Power in a Western Society (2024).
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Hone, M. E. (1995). The Modern Textbook of Astrology (Rev. ed.). Redwood Books. (Original work published 1951)Hulse, D. A. (2000). The Western Mysteries: An encyclopedic guide to the sacred languages & magickal systems of the world — The Key of It All, Book II. Llewellyn Publications. (Original work published 1994)Metcalfe, B. (2020). The Shaman’s Heart: Reflections on the intersection of shamanism and psychology. In Pratt, C., et al., The Power of Shamanism Summit: Volume 3 [Audiobook]. Sounds True.Peters, L. G. (1989). Shamanism: Phenomenology of a spiritual discipline. Journal of Transpersonal Psychology, 21(2), 115–137.
Romanyshyn, R. D. (2021). The Wounded Researcher: Research with soul in mind. Routledge. (Original work published 2013)Tarnas, R. (2009). The Planets. Archai: The Journal of Archetypal Cosmology, 1(1), 36–49.Webb, H. S. (2013). Expanding Western definitions of shamanism: A conversation with Stephen Beyer, Stanley Krippner and Hillary S. Webb. Anthropology of Consciousness, 24(1), 57–57. https://doi.org/10.1111/anoc.12000
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