All about being alone and loneliness - a growing phenomenon around the world. It particularly concerns people outside the mainstream rush of life. Paradoxically, the more that world population has grown, the more that loneliness has become a major issue. It has been a personal experience for me in the last 6-12 months.

Sometimes, when you're alone a lot, you can come off the rails and lose the plot, and your anchorage. It can lead to further problems and can get quite deeply embedded. Sometimes these are but periods of life, and sometimes people get lost in it.

For astrologers, this podcast is a living description of someone who in the last year has had transiting Neptune opposing his natal Saturn. But I survived and am rising again, and this podcast talks about turning loneliness around - either into a happier aloneness or into a new openness to relationship with others. Or perhaps some variant of both. Becoming more comfortable with the way things are.

Introduced this time by a skylark above Botrea Barrows, where I recorded this episode on Saturday 9th July 2022. Outroduced by a nightingale on a tree just outside my house on the farm, a week or two earlier.