An interest in the ancestors of her family prompted Margaret to research the ancient folk of the Celtic lands, namely: Albion (Britain), Alba (Scotland), Eire (Ireland), Brittany (N.E. France), Manx (Isle of Man) and Cornwall in the south of England. This led to an awareness of Avalon (The Isle of Apples), and Glastonbury (The Glass Isle) & Chalice Well; thence to the Grail Story. By association & osmosis with those magical places, the deep-ecology meaning of the Grail (Cauldron of Plenty) blossomed like the fabled thorn bush of Joseph of Aramithea. The 'Cup of Healing' holds the means by which the Wounded Land may be restored to its full vitality! (See: Holy Grail)

This website is devoted to the philosophy underpinning Margaret’s current work. That is: encouraging and facilitating a planetary shift of consciousness toward healing & wholeness, using the history & current experience of the Celtic peoples as a personal perspective from which to explore life through astro-cosmology. As such, both are a work in progress - as is life itself.
Margaret says : "It is time for Celtic Australians to acknowledge their own ethnicity and indigenous-ness".

Margaret's early life was spent in rural Victoria, Australia. Her feel for the wild spaces of nature and the plants and animals developed here. As a 3 year old whilst gazing at the blue-grey of the mountains she had her first clairvoyant glimpse into another dimension, she was not fearful - she was simply reassured, yet, overwhelmed by the beauty & enormity of the experience.

In the tradition of the Grail Keepers.

Margaret is deeply saddened by the damaging impacts of human activity on Gaia - our Mother Earth. She advocates a 'custodial' relationship with the land and the waters of the Earth in preference to the 'un-conscious' exploitation so prevalent in our time. We have much to learn in this regard from native peoples.

Ancient Paleolithic hunter-gatherers (who far preceded the early Celtic peoples of North Eastern Europe) must have had a profound affinity for the landscape in which they existed. They lived in harmony with nature for a long period. They were a matriarchal culture which honoured and celebrated the Mother Goddess energy that sustained them.

Paleo-archeologists conjecture over the spiritual significance these people may have invested in their immediate surroundings by analysing cave art, rock carvings etc. What we do know is that at least 7,000 years ago these hardy survivors kept a record of the cycles of the moon by carving counting marks on bone. Their knowledge of the regular passage of the sun, and therefore of the seasons, permitted them to follow the migrating animals on which they depended for their sustenance. Much as the Plains Indians of North America did in following the buffalo herds.

The later Neolithic agrarian peoples (the megalith builders) had a sophisticated knowledge of the movements of the heavens. They tracked the cycles of planets and stars with the aid of their beautifully designed 'cosmic clocks': Stonehenge, Newgrange & the like. (See Sacred Geometry)

The alignments of their stone circles & chambered tombs enabled accurate prediction of eclipses, the Precession of the Equinoxes & other celestial phenomena requiring complex mathematical knowledge. They cared for their landscape & carefully sculpted it to enhance their observations. The massive scale of their earth works - huge mounds & ditches; alignment notches in distant hills etc., - would have required a stable & suitably motivated populace to carry out the necessary labour.

Neolithic people must have had some environmental impact, as they were the first wave of humans to start removing the forests to meet the needs of their lifestyle and the growing population. Yet never, it seems, did they destroy, denigrate or exploit the land as modern peoples do.

Early Celtic peoples together with many indigenous folk had great reverence for water, investing it with mystical significance. These days pioneers in the study of the metaphysics of water such as Dr Matsumo Emoto have done much to remind us of what our ancestors surely held in the highest of regard - the magical healing quality of water. It is water specifically which now brings us to the subject of the Grail story. ( See Holy Grail )

Margaret started doing Palmistry as a 'natural' around the age of 12.

At 16 she was inspired by reading astrology books by Dane Rudhyar, and the world of astrological study opened up to become a lifelong pursuit.

Since moving, in the mid '70s, to Byron Bay - the most easterly point of mainland Australia - Margaret has focussed more specifically on the study of esoteric matters. She is an avid disciple of authors such as Rumi, William Butler Yeates, P.J.Ouspensky, Rudolf Steiner, Greg Braden; John O'Donohue and others.

Have a Tarot or Astrology consultation with Margaret while you are in Byron Bay.

Since the early 1990s, the message of this journey has been transmitted on the airwaves from Byron Bay , through Margarets weekly program - " THE GRAILEY WHOLE CELTIC SHOW" on Community Radio - Bay FM 99.9

You can listen to the program streaming live on the net on Monday evenings (at 8pm AEST).
Simply go to: www.bayfm.org and follow the prompts.

A 32 year nursing career includes work in major city teaching hospitals in such varied fields as Neurosurgical Operating Theatres, Microsurgery, renal transplant & cardiac bypass surgery (when both were relatively new technologies).

Her outback rural nursing gave her an insight into life 'West of the Great Divide', where the challenges faced by indigenous Australians are often unknown to many living closer to the Pacific Ocean side of the continent.

Air ambulance remote area emergency retrievals further exposed Margaret to many an unforseen aspect of the human condition.

Nursing out 'the back of Bourke' she met an aboriginal woman whose artistic portrayal of the starry night sky further stimulated Margaret to explore the cosmology of ancient peoples, but specifically that of her own tradition.

Additionally, her nursing work was to provide the kind of life experience which equipped her for the deeper healing work she was then to pursue with her Tarot and Astrology clients and students.