by Bettina | Aug 26, 2026 | Self-care tips
I always feel it before I see it — late August, the light goes a little golden and slanted, the evenings carry a coolness they didn’t have a week ago, and something in me wants to tidy, plan, and nest. For years I ignored that pull and then got jolted into...
by Bettina | Aug 24, 2026 | Astrology
By the end of August I am usually a frazzled mess. Eclipse season has rattled me, Leo season has had me out late and overcommitted, and my flat looks like the aftermath of a small party I don’t remember throwing. Which is exactly why Virgo season has become my...
by Bettina | Aug 22, 2026 | Hair care
I used to be the person with the ten-step hair routine and the drawer full of hot tools, and I was perpetually running late because of it. The thing that finally changed my mornings wasn’t a new gadget — it was realising that the women whose hair always...
by Bettina | Aug 20, 2026 | Astrology
The first time an eclipse genuinely walked into my life, I nearly quit a job and ended a friendship in the same week, both in the heat of a single dramatic evening. A wiser friend talked me down and told me to wait seven days. I did, and by the following week both...
by Bettina | Aug 18, 2026 | Food recipes
There’s a two-week window every August when the peaches at my market are so ripe they bruise if you look at them wrong, and the berries are sweet enough that I eat half the punnet on the walk home. It’s also the time of year I refuse to switch on my oven....
