Clare Mairead Rose

12/02/2026

I don't know about you, but this time can feel so unsettling

Uprooting
Disorientating
Wildly chaotic yet tiring
Heavy


We know we are in the midst of change when we barely recognise ourselves and our surroundings. I won't be light and fluffy because I am in it too.


It has felt like being brought to my knees, asking why?

Surely it has to get better than this?

When I heard myself ask that out loud, beside my shamanic fire, hunched over in tears, I felt what it was to surrender.

To hold my hands up and admit to myself that I don't know.

That I'm not in control.

We don't know what's coming.

We can't change what has been.


But we can find acceptance, and in that softening, co-create with Spirit all we long to create next.



To be led by feeling.

And to remember we are an essential part of all of this.

We have the power to create, not sit back and wait for life to get better or happen to us.

We have been stripped bare of what isn't ours, what doesn't align, of all that is far too heavy to carry with us.

And that can leave us feeling lost, frazzled, and confused at times.

But what if it isn't solely fear we are feeling, what if this is a newness we are unsure what to do with?



So we simplify.

Back to the roots.

Hands in leaves and ancient moss.

Hearts, wombs, and palms against the ancient ones, the trees that show us the way until we remember.



Merging with earth, smelling her moist soil as long as it takes to awaken who we are again.



An amazing astrologer Carolyn Casey once said that when you feel the burden of Saturn, the weight of the world heavy on your shoulders, lift weights.

Lean into the very thing that feels consuming, and there the lies the medicine.

For these times, this feels so wildly true, to immerse ourselves into the earth and water. Physically. Emotional. Spiritually.

To become so heavy, to sink deeply so we can know what it is to float, be light and soften once again.

Early Saturday morning this week, Saturn leaves Pisces where it has been for 3 years.

We emerge from the depths of grief, shedding, healing, questioning trust and the places we may have had to let go of dreams that weren't for us.

As fast as we emerge from the depths, a spark is lit.

It feels to me like exhaustingly clambering aboard a stationary ship after treading water and fighting to stay afloat, and as you sit down and begin to catch your breath, the winds change and ship sets sail towards the rising sun.



Where are we headed next?

Sit with me in a sacred space with astrology or shamanic work, to explore how you can work with this pivotal month, and start of a new 3 year cycle, so you can step into your life in a heart-led, empowered way, and fall in love with your life again.

04/02/2026

Uranus stations direct today, and we may sense a change in how we relate, sense, be present, receive love, and know our worth.

We have been in a period of remembering our nature, remembering we are nature

And maybe today you feel a stirring, a gentle calling

We close the door on the intensity that the full moon in Leo brought forward

A glimpse into what lies ahead this coming eclipse season, and the nodal shift into aquarius and leo come July this year

The torch has been lit

We can't unsee what we had perhaps been avoiding or unaware of, both in the light and shadow

But now, as always, we come to ask

Are we operating from our hearts or drowning in our, and collective, fear?

Not to judge or condemn, but as a daily, momentary wondering

The sun just appeared through the relenting clouds as I write, and Grace grinned with cacao and mud all over her face saying "Mummy" (her favourite word)

Love is available to us in every moment

Sometimes that's beautiful joy, sometimes it's saying I cannot hold this anymore and collapsing into grief.

Join me to gather to remember this, and to create from the heart🤎

Every month we will meet online, with Cacao, to soften into our powerful hearts. We will gently work together at hearing, journeying with and listening to the whispers of our hearts.

We will journey together for eight months from March, in wondering, and asking;

What do you want?
What do you want to create?

Just six spaces remain ❤️

28/01/2026

life is so full of magic, awe and wonder

we can see and feel it to the depths, when we allow ourselves to feel the polarity

the grief
rage
confusion
despair

the world and things playing out can feel so heavy right now, especially with what it triggers within us

contrary to distraction and suppress culture, the light is found inside and outside, when we feel the barriers, pain, and walls we've built or inherited against it

some ways that help me, include;

shamanic healing

shiatsu

shamanic ceremonies such as sweat lodges or cacao ceremonies

being authentic and speaking how I feel aloud to a tree or a horse

free writing/ brain dumping on the page

shamanic fire ceremonies

medicine walks (intentional nature walk asking for support)

herbal tea

🧡

what has helped on your healing journey? share below

28/01/2026

neptune entered aries this week, we closed a 14-year cycle all around;

illusion
dreams
spirituality
grief
boundaries (or lack of)

this, alongside our walk towards the celtic festival of Imbolc this weekend, we are emerging

but as we emerge, we may be feeling like we've woken from a long dream or daze

we are being asked, and shown, that some things can longer come with us

patterns, stories, identities, projections, and ways

today I opened the sanctuary of my home to my first shamanic healing client here

we worked together, releasing old stories, heavy energy, worn-out ways

so that we can open to our hearts and souls and walk a harmonious path of remembering ✨️

we often work so much at the level of the mind and emotions, but sometimes we are suffering because of something at the level of energy and the soul

interested to find out more, comment 'shamanic' and I'll send you the info

14/01/2026

13/01/2026

If you're weary, know that you're not alone.

We are at the final degrees of Neptune and Saturn in Pisces, these endings, dissolving of dreams and glimmers of new ones, and for you these energies may be dancing between grief and longing, surrender and contraction for you.

They certainly are for me, and many others.

The snake is still shedding it’s skin until February 14th in the Chinese zodiac, and we are feeling it.

We can work with this through movement, expression, free writing our grief, fear and rage, music, herbal teas, or simply lighting a candle and speaking aloud what hurts, feeling the holding from the earth mama, grandmother moon and grandfather fire 🔥

We can also work with the energy of this time together, through;

Shamanic healing to release old stories, heavy energy and begin to walk a harmonious way.

Intuitive Astrology, finding your strengths, guidance, clarity and aligning to the best next steps forward in your life.

And I'm so excited to give a glimpse of our online journey together, in March, we will begin an eight month online journey together called Cacao & Creation ~

We will journey with deep listening, heart healing, creating in its many faces and forms, and let the magic of mama cacao be our guide for this sacred eight month journey together. To let ourselves be and create, for love and joy, with love and joy.

However we are feeling, we are worthy of gathering together and being held by cacao, in community with one another and by our own essence and spirit, connected to all things.

To feel, to express, it's to be alive.

Cacao gently holds us so we can soften into the wisdom of our hearts. She's gentle earth mama medicine, and yet that gentleness ought not be mistaken for lacking in strength. She strengthens our capacity, she reminds us of what it is to feel and be alive, in our hearts.

And when we commit to this, with one another, in a simple way online, we soften the challenges and obstacles we can often face to accessing community, rituals, space to create and time carved for ourselves with intention and presence.

More information coming at the end of the month 🤎

10/01/2026

I'm so deeply grateful, and wanting to share a little deeper here

I'm Clare, and I'm an intuitive astrologer, writer, and shamanic practitioner with a background in psychology, creative writing for wellbeing and meditation teaching.

I live my life through an animist lens, that all people, places, and animals have an essence, a spirit that is alive. And that when we begin to heal and soften ways that have made us forget this, as well as nurturing and listening to ourselves, one another and nature, from a heart centred, whole place, the feelings and possibilities are nothing short of magic and miraculous.

As a part of living this shamanic way, I have come to know, listen to, be supported by and be in relationship with plant medicines, such as rose, hawthorn, lemon balm, tulsi, blackthorn, calendula, blue lotus, and of course, Cacao.

Mama Cacao is a strong, gentle holding medicine, which is great for the physical heart with flavanoids, as well as the joy molecule anandamide.

She has held me through some of the most turbulent times, as well as being such a deep part of the joyful, ecstatic times in my life. She has been a daily blanket for me, to soften, breathe and listen. To sit with intention, even for just 15 minutes, to hear what it is I need, to pray, move, drum, from a heart centred place.

That's her medicine, dropping out of the busy mind and busy world, to be cradled in love for just long enough that your heart can thaw or awaken, and to begin to live from that place.

So welcome if you're knew here, and welcome a little deeper if you're not 🤎

I'm so gently excited to share some beautiful new things emerging in the coming weeks. Keep an eye out ✨️

03/01/2026

The first time I was held in a space like this was with a lifechanging life coach, and it has continued with astrologers, mentors, teachers, reflexologists, and healers.

It wasn't easy to confront a reality that my life was so full of dysregulation, pain, and avoidance.

There have been some incredible elders, not aways in age, but in their deep wisdom and ability to hold a safe space for me to go inwards.

To witness me in both my pain and riveting joy, and they didn't run, shame or shun.

That's the magic. That's what we all deserve.

Chiron, the wounded healer asteroid, stationed direct yesterday after a long five months of inner healing, identity questions and no shortage of what the f***s in an already chaotic year of shedding and endings.

We are on the final leg the next six months of Chiron in Aries, where it has been for the last eight years.

We have extracted deep lessons and changes in identity, self worth, assertion, and the inner child.

Everyone experiences this differently, but those with aries and cardinal placements (aries, cancer, libra, and capricorn) will have been feeling this most.

This morning was also a full super moon in Cancer, and has just joined up with Jupiter, the planet of expansion and growth.

You may have felt a strong pull to close or the urge to run, but the medicine here is letting both have a say, the rage, and the sadness.

Moving with the grief, rage, journalling, having a full moon fire, praying to be held, voicing it all to someone somewhere be that a tree, robin, the great spirit, goddess, however it resonates with you.

We can hold both, the validation of all we have endured, and the hope and possibility of all we are becoming.

That pain can become our greatest medicine.

And when we let ourselves be held, by people, places, plants or the divine, we are capable of so much.

Not to achieve or appease, but to align with what we truly want and need, to feel alive.

To feel alive, isn't that what this is all about?

My calendar is open for intuitive astrology sessions, shamanic healing, womb healing, and mentorship.

Head to www.claremaireadrose.com to book, or book a free intro call

28/12/2025

An invitation to be

This year I gave myself permission to be real

About the pressure of society and consumerism

The disconnection from the slow, natural rhythm that winter is supposed to be

About the ways my nervous system wanted that quiet, gentle, warm embrace all along

And that I, accompanied by beloved friends, my loved ones, and plant kin, can be held in the ways I need

But I only found this in pausing

In sitting in uncomfortable feelings

But we don't need to stay there in it

I sat under the moon beside the fire on Christmas day, with beloved blackthorn and cacao. I sang, cried, drummed, shared and prayed, and it has rippled out since, a remembering that we are the medicine

And not in a light and fluffy, spiritual bypassing way

That we really are incredibly able to converse, feel, intuit, heal and so much more than we'll ever comprehend or understand

We are often blown away by nature's wonders and miraculous design, but lose steam the moment we look at ourselves

We have such an abundance of love and ways to be held by nature, in physical and energy form, but it's the seemingly simple act of pausing long enough to hear what it is we need, and what the plants wish to share with us, that's the often difficult and uncomfortable part

Because we simply were not taught it

Or if we were, it was in secretive, taboo moments

What if I'm doing it wrong?
Am I imagining these colours or intuitive hunches?
Who do I think I am?

These voices emerge for me too, and I acknowledge them, but they sit at the table with me. I take them with me, and continue those conversations.

I continue to ponder. To gently listen to what I need, and to gently listen to what can help me in the natural world around me.

It's so powerful to intuit and plan from a place of alignment together.

Book your astrology cycles forecast 10% off until 3rd Jan, use code 'yearahead'

28/12/2025

An invitation to be

This year I gave myself permission to be real

About the pressure of society and consumerism

The disconnection from the slow, natural rhythm that winter is supposed to be

About the ways my nervous system wanted that quiet, gentle, warm embrace all along

And that I, accompanied by beloved friends, my loved ones, and plant kin, can be held in the ways I need

But I only found this in pausing

In sitting in uncomfortable feelings

But we don't need to stay there in it

I sat under the moon beside the fire on Christmas day, with beloved blackthorn and cacao. I sang, cried, drummed, shared and prayed, and it has rippled out since, a remembering that we are the medicine

And not in a light and fluffy, spiritual bypassing way

That we really are incredibly able to converse, feel, intuit, heal and so much more than we'll ever comprehend or understand

We are often blown away by nature's wonders and miraculous design, but lose steam the moment we look at ourselves

We have such an abundance of love and ways to be held by nature, in physical and energy form, but it's the seemingly simple act of pausing long enough to hear what it is we need, and what the plants wish to share with us, that's the often difficult and uncomfortable part

Because we simply were not taught it

Or if we were, it was in secretive, taboo moments

What if I'm doing it wrong?
Am I imagining these colours or intuitive hunches?
Who do I think I am?

These voices emerge for me too, and I acknowledge them, but they sit at the table with me. I take them with me, and continue those conversations.

I continue to ponder. To gently listen to what I need, and to gently listen to what can help me in the natural world around me.

It's so powerful to intuit and plan from a place of alignment together. Book your astrology cycles forecast 10% off until 3rd Jan, use code 'yearahead'

21/12/2025

winter solstice blessings

goodness me am I blessed

to be so loved by humans, animals, and trees
to be so held, heard, witnessed

that Grace chose me to be her mama

that I get to witness my favourite humans, especially my closest soul sister cousin, dote and adore her, and her bask in all of it

that I get to choose love over and over again, in this precious, precious life

🪔

10/12/2025

Neptune stations direct today after five months, and finishes its final stretch after 14 years in Pisces, never to return again in our lifetime.

Neptune is the planet of dreams, illusion, delusion and spirituality. And what a 14 years it has been, collectively through the rise in wellness, spirituality, but also in the amount of delusion and spiritual ego.

These last five months, we journeyed inwards, beneath the veil, ever so uncomfortably. With Saturn right next to it, we were being asked to stay accountable, to take radical responsibility.

This has felt brutal and confronting at times, and I know so many of you have shared it has been for you too.

A stripping bare of who we thought we were, with this dance between love and fear in all of it.

At times I have been experiencing peace, of grateful sweet simplicity, like a freshness when the house is cleansed, and beautiful aromas of incense fill the air, a clean slate so full of beauty, space and possibility.

And yet, almost paralysingly so, there would emerge this "wait what?" feeling of being so stripped bare, so aware of all the places I cling and escape to

How many choices have been driven by fear or societal shoulds.

How many dreams that were not mine.

How we can project onto people and places, so much so we miss what is truly the reality in front of us.

We met with illusions shattering and dreams dissolving, and we come to ask ourselves, with what is left, who are we?

Neptune's forward motion today may feel really harsh, achy, or uncomfortable, in the body especially.

The body knows, and we can support our body's wisdom by giving it opportunities to speak.

Be that with herbs such as tulsi tea, for the nervous system, cacao to be held and melt into the wisdom of the heart or blue lotus to open more deeply to intuitive knowing. Smelling them, singing with them. Moving the body in dance and with breath.

When the sun peeps momentarily through the clouds by the sea, or a robin sings its melody, we can ask for their help in remembering.

We can awaken our ancient wisdom in many other ways, but it is through our wise, incredible bodies, not in transcendence.

Clare Mairead Rose