Michael Barwick

Michael Barwick

Professional astrologer, international speaker, and writer

Planetary Love: How I First Met the Solar System

A vintage kindergarten classroom with handmade papier-mâché planets hanging above desks covered in paint, paste, and newspaper strips.

Before astrology became a language of meaning, it began as wonder: a childhood encounter with papier-mâché planets, classroom enchantment, and the first glimpse of a solar system that felt personal, beautiful, and alive with significance.

Astrology’s Purpose: Dialoguing with Meaning

Study with an open manuscript, armillary sphere, and star-filled sky viewed through an arched window.

Astrology is often mistaken for prediction, but its deeper purpose is conversation: a way of dialoguing with meaning, listening to the patterns of time, and meeting our lives with greater self-understanding, freedom, and awareness.

The Sun: A Radiant Centre Beyond Personality

A solitary figure steps from a shaded grove toward a sunlit landscape and a mature oak tree, with a young sapling in the foreground.

Each morning, the Sun restores the visible world.

Things emerge from darkness. Distances become perceptible. Paths appear. What had been hidden acquires shape, colour, and direction. The Sun does not merely illuminate the landscape; it makes orientation possible.

Astrologically, the Sun performs a similar function within the horoscope. It is the centralizing principle: the power through which a life gradually becomes coherent, intentional, and distinctly its own.