You can go your whole life without seeing something that was always surrounding you. 

Then you see it once, it is so simple and yet so obvious you are astonished that you never spotted it before but you know that from now on you will always be aware of it and your life will never be the same again.

From that point on you see it reflected back to you constantly in things that you had entirely taken for granted or had thought meant something else altogether. 

Seven years ago, at the age of 63, I found my soulmate and moved to the other side of the world to be with her.

This has proved to be a quantum leap in all areas of my life, not least with my research into astrology.

Until then, my focus had been strongly on the ties between specific placements in people’s charts and verifiable events in their lives. I was always driven by a powerful desire to prove astrology even to the most sceptical opponents.

Since then, my attention has been drawn more and more to the space between placements and the movement through that space called progressions and the link that they provide between our current life on Earth and our soul’s journey through our many previous ones.

I have discovered my true place in this new world down under, it is on a secluded beach a 15 minute drive from my home, and I walk along it for a couple of hours every morning.

For me this is a time of meditation, I focus on the sand beneath my feet and the natural beauty of the scene and allow any thoughts to come and go.

It is while walking along this beach that all of the insights about the astrology of past lives have come to me. I have become so used to this process that I now see this place as a kind of portal which allows me a glimpse into the forces that drive human life.

If I can allow myself to become internally quiet enough, I can hear what the ocean and the sunrise is trying to tell me.

With this solitude I sometimes feel a connection with the world’s oldest indigenous people who no doubt walked this very shoreline many thousands of years ago.

I have lived most of my life by the sea, and have been doing these early morning walks for over 40 years. But this place is very different from the promenade of a major English tourist town.

There are no distractions, occasionally I will come across other people walking or the odd solitary fisherman, but that adds to the feel of a tiny human standing in the middle of a vast open space, patiently searching for something and very occasionally landing a small fish, which they invariably throw back in.

A theme that often comes to me is that I have reached the other shore, a place far away from where I have spent most of my life.

No two days are the same, but the waves keep coming. Some days there is a stillness and they are barely perceptible, other days they have high peaks and come crashing down with great power.

It is very easy to see a symbolic connection of the ocean with eternity and these waves with our own individual lives, that rise, have their brief moment of selfhood and then inevitably fall back into the greater whole.

To reach this beach, I park the car and walk about 1 km down a steep bush track (and back up at the end), but I feel this is all part of the process, to try and help me reach a quiet receptive state.

Some days, when I don’t feel like doing the extra walk, I drive along a paved bush road to a small beach car park. I am usually the first one there.

Some mornings there are a handful of surfers, mostly men, but of all ages. They arrive in white “utes”, an essential form of transport for Aussie “tradies”.

There is a small platform at the front of the car park that overlooks the beach and they stand there for a while gazing out to sea, assessing the conditions. Then they get changed into their wetsuits and amble down to the shore.

Some stop to do a range of stretching exercises, but most just wade in. When they get to their desired point, they wait calmly for the right wave, a process which can go on for a while.

As an uninitiated watcher of this scene, I have no sense of what they are waiting for. Perhaps it’s just a feel thing.

When they catch the right wave, they are up on their boards to ride it.

Often they miss it (even the experienced ones), and have to return and wait again. Even the ones that catch it right are surfing for just a few seconds until they fall off again.

Then they wade back out for more waiting.

This process continues for some time until they return to the car park, change back into their normal clothes, exchange a few words of banter with each other and head off for work.

As a former skier, I can see the appeal. But in terms of the sheer amount of effort and patience required for such a brief moment of reward in riding the wave, I’m also baffled by it.

They come all year around, even in the dark in midwinter. It’s a kind of religious ritual that forces them to get up so early and go through all this.

It’s as if there is a deep, compelling need to be part of something greater, to let the forces of nature shape the start of their day.

They tend to surf on a part of the shore close to the car park, so I watch for a while but then head for the complete solitude to be had at the far ends of the beach.

Today however, I saw this scenario in a completely different way.

Australia was literally the other shore, the place where souls go to between lives.

These men were souls emerging from that other place to once again contemplate making an appearance in human life.

They would wait for the right individual lifewave, climb aboard and try and stay on it for as long as possible, while accepting that wave would inevitably throw them off and they would be submerged by the water.

After a while they would return to the car park which seemed to stand as a place to congregate with a few other like minded souls, and review those lives before receding into the hinterland.

Then they would come again and perform the whole thing the next day, or next week or whenever the lifewave conditions permitted.

Having seen these surfer/souls in this way, I’m amazed that it never occurred to me before and I now know that I will always have this view of them.

My intention with this article was to explain some more about the way of seeing a birthchart from the soul’s perspective through the use of progressions.

I had planned to use the chart of the late Queen Elizabeth as an example.

But I also felt compelled to write about the soul surfing. I could not understand why these two themes should come together until I saw her chart on the page.

Taurus of course would always prefer dry land and the Sun right on the cusp of the 3rd house does seem to suggest a car park.

And if ever a sign was to represent the depths of the ocean it would be Scorpio.

Liz’s chart is unspectacular, Sun in Taurus, Capricorn rising, 6 planets in Fixed signs, most of her stuff below the horizon. You get the impression she would have rather led a life out of the limelight.

But that T Square apex Saturn in Scorpio at the top of the chart demands that she wade back in to do her duty.

You would think the richest woman in the world would have something to smile about but that chart ruling Saturn with the Capricorn Ascendant gave us the serious, dour, unchanging persona that seemed to go on forever.

Seventy years as “never complain, never explain” with that crown superglued to her head, but also with an unspoken “I never asked for all this”.

I have written extensively about the Windsors over the years and a recent piece The Instantaneous Acceleration Of X And Y looks at Elizabeth’s relationship with her son Charles from a progressed perspective.

In that article I explain this about progressions and how they differ from transits.

“When we are looking at our transits we are basically seeing how the Universe is interacting with our chart, how the patterns of a moment impact on those of the one we were born on.

This requires us to conceive of our placements and patterns as they were when we were born, so that we can assess what the Universe requires of us by way of adjustment, hence the name transits, short for transitions.

The method of Progressions requires us to look at a birthchart in a completely different way.

With progressions, we are not looking at actual planetary movements, this method is a symbolic one calculated by using the two movements of the Earth round on itself in a day and round the Sun in a year.

The word progression implies something that isn’t static, that moves on its own, so we look at our birth moment as a point in time, with a future but also a past.

Conceived of in this way, we see ourselves as something that is progressing, and hopefully learning and developing through many different lives.”

So we look at Elizabeth’s birth, not as the be all and end all, but as a moment in time.

The most important progression is the Sun. We can see that there are no planets ahead of the Sun until we come to Pluto at 12 Cancer.

This is very interesting in itself as it means that the only progressed conjunction that Liz’s Sun would make in her life (with Pluto) would be during the year 2001, which was when her son Andrew either had sex with a minor or pizzas with his daughters.

If we look at the progressed Sun’s journey to get to Pluto we can see that the most powerful period by far would be when it forms a Grand Cross to her T Square, from 20.51 (square Mars) to 25.32 Taurus (opposite her MC).

And given that the apex Saturn is right up there the real challenge comes between 24.26 and 25.32 Taurus.

What was happening at this stage Elizabeth’s life?

This progressed Sun period occurred between 1947 and 1953, the period during which she became a mother, lost her father and was crowned Queen.

If we progress Elizabeth’s chart to when her son was born.

That T square becomes a Grand Cross.

On 14th November 1948 (when Charles was born) her progressed Sun was exactly (3 minutes orb) square her natal Neptune and square her Jupiter (1/2 degree).

It is also exactly opposite Charles’ own Sun.

As I have mentioned many times, progressions are not so much about events as people. They mark the comings and goings of members of our soul group.

We can see that clearly in the case Elizabeth’s progressions for Charles’ birth, and in the article The Instantaneous Acceleration Of X and Y, I go on to show that his link with his mother goes back to the 18th century when he was Charles V1, Holy Roman Emperor and she was Maria Theresa, his daughter who succeeded him.

Unsurprisingly since she has a T square apex ruling Saturn on her MC there, this area of Scorpio does seem to be an issue for Elizabeth.

Andrew also has a T Square apex planet there, his Moon at 25.29 Scorpio.

Note that like Charles’ Sun, Andrew has his Moon towards the end of the 4th house of family.

What are the chances of that happening, Liz’s two eldest sons and the people that have caused her the most trouble in her life both having one of their lights in the 4th house within a couple of degrees of her apex Saturn?

The odds against that happening by chance are about 300,000 to 1 against.

But this soul group Scorpio theme doesn’t end there.

Elizabeth’s father, George V1 has the Moon at 24.51 Scorpio, within half a degree of her natal Saturn.

Apart from the fact that this takes the odds up to around 10 billion to 1 against, it very powerfully links into Elizabeth’s progressions.

I have consistently said that progressions are not so much about life events as about members of our soul group coming into our lives and also leaving them.

For members of a royal family, these themes will often coincide.

George died on the 6th Feb 1952 at the age of 56. Elizabeth ascended to the throne at a much younger age than she would have expected to.

Her progressions to that date.

Her progressed Sun is exactly opposite her apex Saturn (father’s death) and her Midheaven (her becoming Queen) and George’s Moon.

Without question Liz’s progressed Sun opposite her apex ruler Saturn would be the most powerful one of her life.

If we take another look at her chart, we can see there is one other important one that comes earlier.

Before her progressed Sun reaches the T square, it will form a square with her 7th house Moon and a sextile with her Pluto.

This happened between 1938 and 39.

Elizabeth’s 7th house Moon is Philip.

“The two families crossed paths at the wedding of Princess Marina and Prince George in 1934. Philip was 13 and Elizabeth was 8.

In 1939, when Elizabeth was 13 and Philip was 18, they had a more significant encounter at the Royal Naval College in Dartmouth. Philip was tasked with entertaining the young princess and her sister, and it was at this point that Elizabeth became smitten with him and they began to exchange letters.”

I have mentioned before the extraordinary synastry between Elizabeth and Philip.

His Venus is conjunct her Sun.

His Sun is exactly trine her Mars.

Their Ascendants are conjunct each other.

They both have the Moon and Neptune in Leo in the 7th house.

Philip’s Moon is exactly conjunct Elizabeth’s Neptune.

Her Moon is exactly conjunct his Neptune.

In 1939, Philip’s progressed Sun and Mars were sextile his Venus.

In 1934 his progressed Sun would have been exactly sextile Elizabeth’s Sun.

When Philip died in 2021, Elizabeth’s progressed Venus was sextile her Sun.

When Elizabeth died in 2022, Philip’s progressed Venus was conjunct his 7th house Moon.

In The Instantaneous Acceleration of X And Y, I described the extraordinary connection between Elizabeth and Charles which is powerful evidenced if you progress her chart to his birthdate and regress his to hers.

In A Right Royal Progress I extend this birthdate connection link to include Charles with his two wives, Diana and Camilla, again with stunning results.

If we do the same thing with Philip to Elizabeth’s birth

Philip’s progressed Sun is exactly conjunct his Mars, which despite the fact that he wasn’t even 5 years old at the time, would actually be the most important one of his life.

So Elizabeth’s arrival in this world marked his most important progression.

If we regress Elizabeth’s chart back those 5 years to Philip’s birth, her 7th house Moon has formed an exact sextile with itself.

So we can see that all the major comings and goings of Elizabeth’s life, the birth of Charles, George’s death with her accession to the throne, her meeting with Philip, his death and even his birth are all pinpointed by the most powerful progressions in her life.

Every time I research this soulmate progression link I come up with discoveries that are even more stunning than the last ones.

It is as if the whole study of astrology has taken a quantum leap.

For 40 years my passion was to find a mechanism that proved astrology scientifically, and I succeeded in doing that with the Capricorn Astrology Research Project

This required me to examine the charts of over 20,000 famous people and my discoveries included the simple fact that planetary transits (particularly of Pluto) to these charts would trigger the major events in people’s lives.

My recent discovery that Secondary Progressions operate not simply from the perspective of our life events but trigger the comings and goings of our soulmates, is in my view far more profound and important.

Much of what we know of astrology comes from traditions that have a strong connection with karma and reincarnation. These principles underpin Vedic astrology.

Many astrologers both of the past and the present have referenced past life connections through a birthchart.

But by and large this has been of a general nature.

Observations like “you have the South Node in the 7th house so therefore you have themes around learning lessons through relationships that have been carried over from your last life”.

But I have never come across any astrologers describing a specific mechanism for detailing past life events, where and when they occurred, which members of our soul group were involved and which roles those souls are playing this time round.

The assumption would be that no such mechanism exists, and even if there was one, it would not be comprehensible to human beings.

My discoveries have proved that this mechanism does exist through Secondary Progressions/Regressions. It is not hidden at all, far from it, this mechanism is observable and available for us to use.

And as I have said before, the first half century of my astrology research has been devoted to transits and current life events, whatever I have left of this life will be focused on these progressed connections with our other lives.

Our life is just one of many, each time we are born with a certain combination of planetary patterns that informs what happens to us.

We live through that experience and when we die, our placements recede into the 360 degree space in the chart, to take a rest on the other side, until we choose to return again with a different but related combination of planets.

Whether one single life wave last for a few years or almost hundred, we finally get back to the car park and have our review.

You can imagine Elizabeth taking off her royal wetsuit and being greeted by her guide.

“G’day soulmate, you were on a bomb out there.”

“Yes, I had it all going for me, as much money as you could ever dream of and everyone loved me, but those three Scorpios just kept getting in my way. 

The first one fell off, the second was too dozy and the third was just a snake (another surfer who is always trying to nail everyone else’s line). It was no fun at all.”

“Never mind mate, you’re home and dry now. Better luck next time.”

Posted on 15 November 2025

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