Together Hilary and Christina have created Highermoon workshops, with the intention of bringing the ancient wisdom of the east to the modern western world. Combining this wisdom with the most up to date psychological theories, they offer their clients life changing workshops. Highermoon has its roots in our strong desire to be of service to Humanity and the Earth. We envision the highest possibility for ourselves and our planet. In our workshops we aim to raise consciousness, bring the light of awareness to areas where people are blocked and with love and acceptance inspire clients to be clear and focused in their intentions for making a better life for themselves and the world we share.
Hilary began her career as a multi cultural teacher in the east end of London. During her time in London she spent 4 years studying TaiChi, Chi Gong and chi energy healing. For 2 years she studied astrology with a teacher from the Temple of Light in Los Angeles followed by 3 years with the renowned Faculty of Astrological Studies in London. After the birth of her daughter she qualified as a yoga teacher with the British Wheel of Yoga. She spent 6 months living with the American sound healer Gandiva Lorcan studying the healing properties of Tibetan bowls, gongs and mantra. This was followed by 5 years with a zen teacher. Co-founder of Venus Match Dating Agency (as seen on BBC1), qualified astrologer, co-creator of TaiYoga and author of The 11:11 Code, she is currently involved in setting up a retreat centre in an ancient convent in the south of France.
Christina McLaughlin studied classical ballet, dance, and drama at Elmhurst Ballet School and the Royal Ballet School and spent 15years running her own dance school. After the birth of her two daughters she trained to be a yoga teacher, first with the British Wheel of Yoga and then Dru Yoga Therapy, with the Life Foundation School of Therapeutics. She also studied at Sacred Space Institute of Psychotherapy and has an Higher National Diploma in psychospiritual counselling. For seven years she ran group workshops in yoga, meditation, mindfulness, dance, stress management, confidence building and assertion, for the world renowned Priory Hospital. Christina is a Reiki Master and is currently teaching yoga and Spiritdance in prisons and psychiatric hospitals. She has a deep love of shamanism and energy medicine.
Higher Moon
What does our name mean?
Christina
and Hilary chose the name Higher Moon for their transformational workshops by
meditating together. Years later Christina found the following information written by Joyce Mason
which, gives insight into the astrological meaning of Higher Moon. To see her whole article Chiron: Your "Higher Moon" and other astrological articles see her The Radical Virgo blog and her Hot Flashbacks, Cool Insights blog.
Before Chiron was discovered, humanistic astrologer, Dane Rudhyar, predicted that there would be a new planetary body found between Saturn and Uranus that would act like a “higher moon”. It was exactly in that location where the “centaur” Chiron was found on 1/11/77. (See Hilary’s book the 11:11 Code).
Chiron was named two years after its discovery in honour of the wise centaur in Greek mythology, who was half-man and half-horse.
What does this have to do with Higher Moon? More than you can imagine. First, Chiron was discovered at 3 Taurus, the traditional degree of the Moon’s exaltation. It was the only planet under the horizon, in the 4th (the Moon’s house, and the moon was in its own sign Cancer. These were the first hints of Chiron’s lunar nature.
Chiron, the planet has become best known as “the wounded healer”.
All the key words and concepts about Chiron refer to wholeness-or how to achieve it. One of Chiron’s major astrological meanings has to do with bonding issues and their opposite- a sense of separation, feeling different-like a misfit. Chiron symbolises the pain of duality-of being divine in human form. In practical terms, it continues to plague us until we can integrate our many opposites-good/evil, masculine/feminine, human/divine-and so on.
This is one of the greatest paradoxes about Chiron from an astrological perspective. In our wounding lies the key to our healing, and it all has to do with feelings (Moon). We are taught to suppress how we feel, and those stuck knots of unresolved pain often rule us from the subconscious, where we are unaware of what causes our knee jerk reactions to certain incidents that repeat past patterns. So we stay stuck in ritualistic responses, to the detriment of our growth. To be in a body is to feel, and Chiron is associated with the pain of embodiment. We use the expression “ a free spirit”. It takes a lot of living to learn to be free within the confines of flesh and blood-to feel merged with the other beings, despite this fleshy armour with all its foibles.
Ironically, our Chironic sore spots are also our power points. When we do the brave work to release past pain, we often discover our greatest gifts to contribute-where we can be a hero.
You’ve got to be there for yourself, even if your mother or father wasn’t. If we can become our own positive parents and nurture ourselves in the best way possible through our Chironic wounds, we will discover our hidden gifts and positive personal power to give back to society-nurturing the bigger family of humanity. I believe this is the “higher moon” Dane Rudhyar meant. Higher Moon transformational workshops offer an opportunity to discover the healing potential of facing our deepest wounds. “Empowering the individual for the benefit of the whole.”