Astrology – Revealing Light Tarot

Seven years & one book later

Today I celebrated a milestone with the arrival of my author copies of my new book Revealing Light – How Cancer Illuminated My Divine Blueprint. It took seven years to complete due to the death of my beloved sister Jane who had the same cancer in the same place only at a later stage than me. When she passed I developed writer’s block and survivor’s guilt too. The book is a chronicle of my path towards enlightenment and discovery of latent clairvoyant and psychic abilities. I wrote the following feature article for my publishers and today I would like to share it with you as a way of understanding the rich spiritual insights that can follow loss and grief, and recovery. Thank you.

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LIFE CHANGING CANCER DIAGNOSIS REVEALS HIDDEN PSYCHIC LIFE PATH

It’s the little things we notice when the biggest things are happening to us…and so begins YouTube psychic-astrologer and author Maryann Weston’s first thoughts when diagnosed with cancer.

“I remember the paintings in the specialist doctor’s office. There was a huge one of him playing a grand piano with his wife. How odd, I thought, that something so grandiose should be in a room where people are waiting for medical procedures, and so preoccupied with what those tests might reveal.”

It was important to externalise and not internalise when a diagnosis as shocking as cancer is delivered, she recalled. “It’s like a gut-punch with all the air being sucked out of your body. It helped to notice the minute details around me; a little like counting the lines in a pavement on the way to some terrible event, just to keep yourself grounded.”

These are a few of the early memories Maryann recalls in her memoir Revealing Light – How Cancer Illuminated My Divine Blueprint.

A spiritual odyssey, Revealing Light: How Cancer Illuminated My Divine Blueprint tells the story of its author’s psychological and spiritual evolution, from confronting her mortality with a deadly illness to creating a community of like-minded people.

There are plenty of poignant moments in her book, from her husband picking small pink flowers for her on the way back from the daily three-hour drive for radiation and chemo treatment to the long wait for major surgery – a surgery that would change her life forever.

“Nothing prepares you for this,” she said. “You think if I just do the hard yards, get through painful treatment then the reward is that I will be able to go back to my old life. Well, I guess the universe had other plans for me because I didn’t return to that life. In a way, I began a new one.”

It was the strong and ever-present spiritual signs that began to unlock the dormant psychic abilities Maryann had experienced since childhood…clairvoyance and clairaudience particularly, and mediumship too.

Once a journalist, editor and then a senior government policy and communications officer, Maryann didn’t return to that work, instead she began a spiritual podcast on YouTube, later growing these podcasts across other social media channels.

Today her Revealing Light YouTube channel attracts around 125,000 subscribers and she is busy working as a spiritual communicator, intuitive and counsellor.

“I didn’t forget my journalism, research or counselling skills, I just took them with me as I began working across spiritual dimensions,” she said.

“It became very clear to me that I wasn’t supposed to go back to my old life at all. I believe that life is about service to others, and I’ve always believed that helping someone else is a high calling, and I did that throughout my career. Now, I get to reach hundreds of thousands of people each week and that’s an honour and privilege for me.”

Revealing Light – How Cancer Illuminated My Divine Blueprint covers the years from Maryann’s cancer diagnosis until the present. The reader can walk alongside Maryann throughout radiation, chemo treatment and two surgeries, recovery and long healing, through the many spiritual experiences and connections, to the present-day, honing and refining extraordinary psychic and divination talents.

Maryann details some of her earliest spiritual affirmations in her book.

“When I was diagnosed, I began to see white feathers everywhere. My research into spirituality — spiritual guides, told me that when you were going through a tough time, or in need of protection or divine help, then a white feather signifies that you are, indeed, being watched over.

“They’re everywhere,” I said to my somewhat, doubting husband.

“Well, of course they are. There are white cockatoos everywhere this year,” he countered.

“But they’re always in my path,” I persevered.

“Because you are looking for them.”

“I’m not…”

“You are.”

And so, the skepticism went, but I knew as sure as faith steers you “miraculously” in the right direction sometimes, that the numerous white feathers were for me. One even turned up right in front of my chair, inside my house.

My meditation teacher called. “I just wanted to let you know that I have something for you.”

“Oh, okay. What do you have?”

“I was collecting the mail, and I had a thought about you and your sister and then, as I turned to go inside, there was white feather right in front of me. I nearly stepped on it. I knew it was for you and it’s here when you want to collect it.”

When I went to Sydney for an appointment with my surgeon, there were four white feathers in front of my steps as I walked down the street. Countless, and constantly, recurring examples of divine help. As I said, they were everywhere.

Still my husband remained skeptical until the day we were driving along the highway enroute to my Sydney appointment with the radiation machine [and arguing about whether white feathers were a phenomenon or not]. Out of the air, or on a breeze, came a white feather, directly in my path to meet our car which was traveling at 110kph. It sailed right through the air to me and hit the front window.

“Wow, did you see that feather?”

He nodded, thoughtful.

“It’s like in the Forrest Gump movie,” I said. “I wonder where these white feathers will take me?”

He smiled, still not conceding his skepticism but I knew somewhere he was thinking about the meaning behind coincidence.”

This new hybrid-type, self-help and holistic healing book, that straddles both cancer treatment and survivorship, and burgeoning psychic abilities, offers the reader more than a glimpse into the human condition as well as the evolution of the soul.

At the time of Maryann’s cancer diagnosis and treatment, her beloved sister and best friend, Jane, was also undergoing the exact treatment for the same cancer in the same place only at a later stage. Sadly, Jane passed away around the same time as Maryann was given the ‘all clear’, No Evidence of Disease.

“The most significant thing I must tell you, readers, is about the year my beautiful sister Jane left us. You will have heard her gentle and wise voice throughout these pages. I stopped writing this when she died. For years, I could not revisit the pages here knowing that I had survived, and she didn’t…”

However Maryann did begin living a new life again, negotiating painful survivor’s guilt and using her clairvoyance and divination skills on her multiple spiritual platforms…and eventually completing her book.

“One of my biggest cheerleaders at the beginning of my new life post-cancer, was my sister Jane. A farmer’s wife, this wasn’t her comfort zone, but she encouraged me to keep going in the early days, often standing at the door while I channeled my messages to an early YouTube audience. If any of my extended family and friends were judgmental, she soon set them straight. I was very grateful for her faith in me when everyone else was wondering “what on earth has happened to Maryann?”

I guess that is what I miss; however, as my platforms have grown, my own viewers and supporters help to fill that void of support and the validation of purpose and value. Your truest supporters seldom question your value; my sister Jane never underestimated what I was doing spiritually, nor why. I guess she knew me very well.

I am grateful for Jane’s faith in me, and for the loyalty of my viewers.”

Revealing Light – How Cancer Illuminated My Divine Blueprint is an inspiring book, packed with insight and information, revelation and spiritual connection. You will find chapters especially devoted to astrology during her illness, and a perceptive examination of the Tarot’s ‘Fool’s Journey’ through the major arcana as it relates to health, healing and self-nurturing.

The final section of the book will appeal to readers who are interested in channeling. Maryann uses her mediumship abilities to connect with Nostradamus, Dr Sigmund Freud and the Sleeping Prophet Edgar Cayce, the late actor and comedian Robin Williams, and her spirit guides. All channelings are done through the lens of physical, mental and spiritual health.

“I channeled the famous sixteenth-century French seer, physician, apothecary and astrologer, Nostradamus, on January 20, 2019, after a walk at a nearby golf course led me to a Rose Garden populated with the deepest of red/crimson flowers. I reached down and plucked a petal and rubbed it between my fingers. It left an oily residue.

Around this time a man resembling Nostradamus came through, his facial outline and features imprinted on my third eye as I woke in the mornings. A fleeting view of him as I drifted off to sleep in the evenings. A knowing, that he had stepped forward and, importantly, had something to say. As I do with all my channelings, I let the energetic vibration of Nostradamus permeate over weeks, while I looked for signs and confirmations. The rose petal, as it turned out, was a valid sign that Nostradamus had given me, as you will read in the following transcript. This channeling was before the storming of the [US] Congress on January 6, 2020, and the outbreak of the global Covid pandemic in 2020.”

Revealing Light – How Cancer Illuminated My Divine Blueprint is published on 28^th January 2025. You can find out more, including where to order and/or buy it by visiting publisher Collective Ink https://www.collectiveinkbooks.com/o-books/our-books/revealing-light-cancer-illuminated-divine-blueprint

2025: reality & the future beckon

Welcome to 2025 – what a phrase and what a year it will be. Many of us are not enamoured with what 2025 might bring. That’s understandable.

In the US, a former president who would have been found guilty of charges relating to the January 6th, 2021 insurrection attempt at the Capitol – according to the Special Counsel and his team investigating the charges – will be inaugurated as the 47th US President.

Many of us are unwilling to bend the knee given the past. In fact, this President would have been found to be ineligible for presidential office under Section 3 of the US Constitution’s 14th Amendment, had it not been for the Republican majority Supreme Court’s intervention giving the incoming 47th not just one but many lifelines. As it is, the soon to be 47th president enters office as a convicted felon having failed to stop a jury of his peers convicting him on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to conceal a payment to an adult film star on the eve of the 2016 election. He is the first president in the US history to enter the White House as a convicted felon. Many are dubbing him F47 (felon 47) as a result.

His election throws up the possibilities (with some already occurring) of media censoring and suppression, vindictive retribution (is there any other kind), financial corruption – he was found to have syphoned off $7million during his last time in Office – mass deportation and loss of due process for asylum seekers, welfare cuts and general lawless and rule breaking behaviour. Little wonder some, if not a majority, of Americans find looking forward to 2025 distasteful.

Across the rest of the world some of our major western nations will face elections in a climate of rabid political interference and collusion by US tech and social media giants. We too (I am Australian) must fight back against the erosion of our democratic rights and corruption of our free election processes.

In the Middle East a fragile peace deal has been done. I celebrate that going into 2025 but I wonder how long it will be until Israel’s rogue, extremist leader Netanyahu breaks the deal in favour of totally consuming Gaza once hostages are returned. Another tragic war is being fought in Ukraine, a country that must now face a hostile US President who has few real allies and even fewer friends other than, it appears, Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Astrologically, the sky is ominous though hopeful I would wager. Major movement of the outer planets promises that what we think may occur in 2025 may be the opposite of what actually transpires. We may find our power yet when we think we have none. Expansive and benefic Jupiter moves from Gemini into the cardinal sign of Cancer in June – it’s going to be all about our feelings and nothing motivates more than emotion. I don’t underestimate the anger and pushback against incoming 47 in 2025, including from allies. Take for example the anger emanating from the usually mild mannered Canadians who railed against the incoming president when he said their sovereign and much loved nation should be the US’s 51st State.

Neptune and Saturn currently in Pisces will move into cardinal sign Aries (direct action) in March and May of 2025 respectively. Time for a much needed reality check and concrete steps to course correct and find new ways forward. Any new plans will need hard work to pull them off.

As I write, the lunar nodes have moved into Pisces and Virgo – again showing us in great detail what we need to see but also giving us an opportunity to create a different future without the smog of illusion.

All in all, it’s going to be a bumpy ride in 2025 however it will not be without its opportunities for change too. In the US, voters should remember it is just over 21 months until the midterm elections will be held. If incoming 47’s power will be curbed it will be then. For nervous allies like my own country, Australia, it’s time to remember our sovereignty and independence. If lessons can be learned from the US it is how oligarchy and corruption go hand in hand and how, if not checked, will corrupt the very system that holds it to account – the majority then loses its power to those with money, power and influence who seek undemocratic rule…a kleptocracy.

In other 2025 news, my book Revealing Light – How Cancer Illuminated My Divine Blueprint will be published on January 28th. You can read more about it here in this feature story in Mystic Living Today: https://mysticlivingtoday.com/view_page.php?ID=4310

You can also preorder or order it here: https://www.collectiveinkbooks.com/o-books/our-books/revealing-light-cancer-illuminated-divine-blueprint

The Collective rises

I have spent the last few days listening to international authors talk about our world…as it once was and as it is now. We reflected on the rapid changes we have undergone this century and, particularly, in the last decade or so. The constant theme in all the discussions, was the impact of social media.

Yesterday a panel asked the question: Do books still matter?

Authors agreed they did, however all spoke of the downgrade in discourse, language and literacy and the rise of populism resulting from ‘social media’. Prominent UK author Alexander McCall Smith gave a fictitious example in a recent short story of the taxi driver who was reasonable and pleasant to his customers and then had to ‘go to taxi driver school to learn how to be confrontational’.

Other panel members spoke about the reactive and ‘angry’ discourse on social media. People were always reacting to something yet it was initially thought social media would help build positive interactive communities. In some ways it has fulfilled its initial reason for being, yet we cannot ignore the damage it has wrought on our civil society when AI generated militia pages are circulated to contest a free and fair election if the result does not go the way of a particular candidate, and where violence is threatened and organised, and activated.

When Pluto moved into Aquarius on November 19, 2024 we all breathed a sigh of relief. Surely now the power was in the collective hands. What we failed to realise is the extent we would have to wrestle power back from the all pervading oligarchy that has been built around social media…the so called tech billionaires, among them the reported richest man in the world Elon Musk (yes I did nearly forget his name after calling him Leon Musk for so long).

Ironic indeed that their fortunes have grown on the content ‘we the people’ provide them with daily, free! Ironic isn’t it that this free content we provide empowers them into positions where they become unelected officials in a government with the power to take away our social security pensions, and our cries fall powerlessly on their social media. If it seems like a giant con, it’s because it is and has been.

And when we consider all of this, we realise why Pluto in Aquarius will uncover corruption and, with effort, return the power to the collective. Already we are building new social media less prone to oligarchical takeovers, and using and nourishing independent media while rejecting legacy media.

After the US election I felt the energy of revolutions of the past, not the American revolution but the French Revolution. Yes, a revolution is coming, one where the people will stand up to the privileged and the obscenely corrupt profiting from power. They should watch themselves. As we’ve seen in Syria and are witnessing in Georgia, people power is a force that can overturn corrupt regimes and, with persistence, be a rallying cry that would curdle the blood of the tyrant and his armies.

Time to reflect. My break away with authors, writers and journalists on the ocean and traveling to Tasmania, has been good for the soul. New perspective has altered my bitterness and cynicism post US election, into a healthy realism that has new insight and purpose. This is a time for collective power to rise.

Why we’re under the astro weather

It’s an odd time, confusing, unbelievable. Most of us are apprehensive at best; filled with anxiety and dread at worst. When it appears there’s a way forward, it seems to lead nowhere. It really does feel like there’s scant hope at times.

What if I were to tell you the present-day astrology is reflecting our discombobulated state post November 5th US election. Many of the major planets are retrograde, except our old friend Pluto which has only just gone direct in Aquarius (the collective) after 15 years in Capricorn (money, wealth, oligarchy). The other forward motion can be found in Saturn in Pisces (boundaries, commitment & hard work meets the need to create and rebuild).

However retrogrades take us back over old ground to learn the lessons. They can catapult us into the past and we go inward, not outward, as we attempt to reset. Retrogrades also bring opportunities for rebalancing and refocusing of our goals and, for many of us, that goal is how we move forward managing the president-elect.

Let’s do a headcount of the retrograde planets, Mercury (communication), Jupiter (luck and good fortune), Uranus (sudden and unexpected change), Neptune (inspiration, dreams, psychic receptivity, illusion, and confusion) and Chiron (our wounds and healing). Is it any wonder we feel we are stuck in a 2016-early 2021 Groundhog Day, contemplating ‘how on earth did we get here, again, and how the hell are we going to move forward)?

There are some clues in the current astrology. We see how destructive the election of the former president has been on relationships. For almost half the US 2024 voting population, there is a real need to break away from anyone or anything remotely associated with the former president. Personal relationships, business dealings and patronage, social media platforms…and it appears there won’t be any let up in this process of cutting away what you can no longer ‘stomach’. The Moon (feelings) in Scorpio (endings and new beginnings) is making a trine (harmonious flow) to Saturn in Pisces. People really are considering their options, from moving countries, to moving states, to boycotting businesses and Thanksgiving too. This trend will continue when Saturn moves into Aries in 2025. Something new is brewing and people are working out right now, how to launch this new and necessary pathway forward.

Adding to this is the mighty Sun (I am) in future oriented Sagittarius, in a grand trine to the North Node (purpose) in Aries (new identities and beginnings and a new cycle) and Mars. The North Node (purpose) makes this trine to Mars (assertion and action) in Leo (leadership, perseverance, drive).

It seems going back over old ground and making definitive decisions on how we move forward, and importantly, the way we move forward and why, will eventually bring concrete and solid plans for the future. The planets will not be retrograde for long. Neptune (confusion) retrograde moves forward on December 7 and Mercury (communication) ends its retrograde on December 15. Uranus moves forward on January 20, 2025 and, importantly, Chiron (the wounded healer) ends its retrograde on December 29.

Believe it or not, this period of inwardness and regression is actually a necessary reset. There is no doubting the reelection of the former president carries with it tremendous lessons for all. What emerges after the chaos and volatility will be something new. As to what that is, look no further than Pluto in Aquarius. It both exposes the underbelly and corruption while putting the power in the collective to act for the future. Through seeing and experiencing the truth of what is no longer serving us, we get to decide how we move forward. Many assume they will be powerless in the future, however Pluto in Aquarius assures us we won’t. There is real power in the collective…history proves that suppressed people take back their power eventually. It’s often through a revolution.

Aquarius is the sign of the innovator, the humanitarian and the visionary. Pluto will help clear away what no longer serves us, personally and collectively whether we like it or not.

Remember it is in times of great change and challenge that the best of humanity emerges. Resilience, stoicism, innovation, drive, talent, ideas, motivation and commitment. We will learn the lessons well, as we must, and create something new.

Pluto in Aquarius will eventually bring the reset we need, even though there is a need for commitment and hard work in the coming days. Even now, there are new communication channels forming on new social media, alliances for the future being built and old partnerships are ending. Remember that faith is not something that miraculously drops out of the sky, it is something we hold to in desperate and hard times.

A spiritual evolution

When I was diagnosed with cancer in 2015 my world flipped upside-down. I went from being immersed in the day to day opportunities and challenges of life…family, career, friends…to having to contemplate my mortality. The view of my potential end seemed far too close and so my reality shifted to fighting a battle to survive. It wasn’t just altering course – get sick, recover, resume, it was a seismic shift that completely changed my life.

Anyone who has had cancer knows the uphill battle we fight from the moment of diagnosis and through the long months, and years of treatment. My final surgery was in 2017. Radiation, chemo, major abdominal surgery, infections, more surgery…and then adjusting to life afterwards. Nothing was or is the same. Yet life is deeper, sweeter and layered with more meaning now.

When I was diagnosed I did the only thing I know. I had been a professional writer since graduating from university, and so I wrote about my cancer years with such motivation. It made sense to record the biggest challenge in my life to date. It wasn’t until I lost my sister Jane to the same (familial) cancer that I had, in the same place, but at a later stage, that I put my pen down. I survived and she didn’t. We had gone through the same treatment and I had made it through…she had fought courageously for six long years. She was there for me every step of the way, and I for her…and then she was gone. It would be three years before I had the heart to write again.

Early last year, I began to look at my unfinished manuscript “Revealing Light”. So much had happened since 2015. I had fully immersed myself in my clairvoyant and psychic abilities which had only grown stronger with the cancer. I had grieved for my sister, and for myself…I didn’t want our story…the cancer story, to be lost and so I began to write again, documenting my spiritual evolution post cancer. I delved into survivor’s guilt, the astrology at the time of my illness and looked at the tarot through a physical and spiritual lens. I wrote about connecting with nature and animals, and the richness of living spiritually. Whatever physical abilities that had been impaired as a result of cancer, my spiritual abilities had soared and my writing documented the process from its beginning onwards.

After finally finishing the manuscript…it took me seven years…I sent it off to UK publishers Collective Ink and was offered a traditional publishing contract. The book, Revealing Light – How cancer illuminated my divine blueprint will be published in January 2025. Pre orders are now available through Amazon UK who distribute worldwide and I will be talking more about how cancer reawakened my dormant psychic and clairvoyant abilities over the coming months. More information on the book is here: https://www.collectiveinkbooks.com/o-books/our-books/revealing-light-cancer-illuminated-divine-blueprint

This book is about the gifts received through adversity, about learning in the fiery waters of a spiritual baptism that many cancer warriors experience and how crisis can shatter existence to reveal divine purpose in life – a blueprint we agreed to before we were born.”
Maryann, Revealing Light…

Sunsets & memories

I was born in the flurry of an emergency. My mother who had pre-eclampsia when carrying me, was given Pethadine for the pain of childbirth. It just so happened that she was allergic to that…and so my birth became dramatic. My mum’s memories were hazy, but she did tell me it was very late in the afternoon that I was born. Later on, an astrologer friend did a birth time rectification on my natal chart and established I was born at 6.50pm. Our birthdate and place gives us which planets are in what signs of the zodiac, but a birth time gives us our Ascendant and places those planets in their signs in the zodiac’s Houses. This additional information tells us about the major themes (Houses) we are likely to encounter in our lives, and our Ascendant tells us how we present to the world.

Around 6pm in the summer months…I was born in December in the Australia…the sun is low in the sky. I have always been drawn to sunsets, perhaps because that is when I came into this world. Sunsets mark the end of a day. Metaphorically, they are about cycles drawing to a close.

I always find peace in a sunset. A stillness as activity winds down. I use this time to ride my ebike and I enjoy the gentle rays of the sun and the quietness in nature. As I was riding, literally into the sunset, the other day, I came across a ‘murder’ of crows. About 20-30 of them perched on the huge light pole of the oval I was riding around. All was quiet and I realised they were watching the sunset…and me…from their lofty perch. As I headed for home, they suddenly took flight and flew with me to a nearby tree. The crow is my spiritual totem. I paid my respects to them, and rode home as night fell.

Whether it is riding a bike, or taking a walk, the opportunity to become one with your natural surroundings deepens reflection and allows you to be in the ‘flow’ of the experience. You will never find this consuming media in your lounge room just before a sunset.

Sunsets are a gift.

Doing the work.

A couple of days ago, I read on the New Moon in Virgo. It was a blend of astrology and tarot, and clairvoyance, I was comfortable with…so much of the past month of August 2021 had been uncomfortable, ranging to distressing.

At the beginning of the month I had a serious sense of foreboding (is there any other kind?). I say ‘serious’ because I’ve covered much over the past 4 years psychically across the world and have not been as rattled. Perhaps it was the Delta variant sweeping across my home state in Australia, perhaps it was the horrendous withdrawal of allies and the US from the ill-fated Afghanistan ‘war’, or the absolute madness on anything from Covid and vaccines, through to the illogical and insane conspiracy theories emanating from Q-anon. Such insanity that there are actually ‘Q’ Members of Congress in the US, and not far from it in other countries. The continual connection to that energy just wore me down. At times, it felt like we were all on the verge of drowning in our own destruction.

As August began, I was dreaming of an endless procession of funerals – black hearses outside churches – and then my dreams turned to severe flooding events. Boats floating underwater, torrential rains and stranded people in homes. I warned my viewers at the beginning of the month…August is going to be difficult. This was cold comfort to me, seemingly caught in the anxiety of knowing what was coming. As it turned out, my readings on Delta being uncontrollable across my state, were correct (other states have more control at this point). Horrendous flooding across Europe and in parts of the US seemed to be prescient. As I write, Hurricane Ida is bearing down on Louisiana. Is this where the submerged boats were? I warned viewers there would be people needing to get to high ground. And yet, despite the heaviness of August, including the deaths and mayhem in our withdrawal from Afghanistan, I felt a shift coming in September. I outlined my insight in a New Moon in Virgo reading which is included in this post. What does this mean…will things get easier? Not quite yet, though I see signs of progress nevertheless.

On 6th September 2021, the New Moon enters the most hard-working of the zodiac signs. Over Washington, it is in the 6th House of work, public service and health. There are real signs, I feel, of people waking up to the endless loop of negativity that governs our politics. What we are seeing…the rise of the ‘Big Lie/s’, the conspiracy theorists, the aggressive ‘Covid-19 is a hoax-ers ’, the split mentality of far right and far left politics…the unwillingness to give any ground, and the sheer destructiveness of the continual media and social media cycles, is no accident. We are meant to see this…we are seeing this…and we know it has to change if we are to survive. I believe enough of us are noticing this now, and with that attention, so too is the need to do the work…to repair, to reform and to move forward, not backwards. There is no better time for this than when the New Moon (setting goals) is in Virgo (doing the work).

So, yes, I am still optimistic despite what we’ve witnessed in August. We are getting ‘woke’ from our complacency and polarisation because there is no other choice. Change is often necessary and always inevitable.

New Moon in Virgo, 6th September 2021.