THEN
Sydney Mum, around 2010.
Motherhood, writing and astrology. A woman still building the body of work that would later become known internationally as Moonology.
NOW
Moonology travelled.
Books, oracle cards, teaching, podcasts and an international audience. In 2026 Hay House published a revised edition of Moonology.
BEFORE MOONOLOGY WAS MOONOLOGY
The useful thing about an old interview is that nobody knows the ending yet.
I knew Yasmin before there was a Festival, before Social Gain and long before anyone would have had a reason to connect her name with Dubbo.
Our friendship goes back through Sydney and early motherhood. We were connected originally through the man who was my boyfriend then and is my husband now, and our lives crossed during those messy years when children are small and everyone is still becoming whatever version of themselves comes next.
Around 2010 I interviewed Yasmin for Sydney Mum.
What I love about that now is not that I somehow spotted a future international success story.
I did not.
It was simply one woman talking to another at a particular moment: motherhood, writing, astrology and work all occupying the same life.
That is what old community publishing accidentally becomes. A record of people before we know which parts of their lives will look important later.
THE YEARS BETWEEN
Then life did what life does.
We did not spend the next decade standing beside one another watching every career development happen.
There were children and work and moves and different countries and separate lives.
Meanwhile Yasmin kept building.
She had begun as a journalist and television producer before turning more deeply toward astrology and lunar work. Over time that became books including Moonology and Astrology Made Easy, Moonology oracle cards, teaching, events and a global readership.
The work grew far beyond the snapshot I had captured in Sydney Mum.
Which is exactly why the old snapshot matters.
We are all unfinished when somebody first writes about us.
THE ASK
Years later, I asked her to come to Dubbo.
Well, sort of.
By the time we were building the 2026 Orana Every Woman Festival, I wanted an evening around the Full Moon and the Divine Feminine.
Yasmin was the obvious person to ask.
The slight problem was that she was in London.
I asked anyway.
There was no complicated negotiation and no appearance fee. She said yes.
That small fact probably tells you more about why she is in The Orana Woman than a list of bestseller credentials ever could.
Sometimes a project can move quickly because the relationship underneath it has been moving slowly for years.
LONDON TO DUBBO
One room. Two women. About 17,000 kilometres between them.
On Tuesday 3 March 2026, women gathered in the Black Box Theatre in Dubbo for Full Moon & the Divine Feminine.
Yasmin joined live from London.
She led the room through lunar cycles, reflection and ritual.
But an online guest does not make a physical room by herself.
Karen ‘Kaz’ Hamilton of Harmonious Heart held the Dubbo end of the evening. She welcomed the women, grounded the space and closed the event with a sound bath under the full moon.
One woman was on a screen in London. One woman was physically in the room in Dubbo.
Neither part worked as well without the other.
Better Together does not always mean everyone has to be standing in the same place.
THE LONG ORBIT
This is why I do not want The Orana Woman to become a collection of impressive biographies.
Yasmin already has a professional biography.
You can read about the books and the oracle cards and the international work elsewhere.
What I can add is the line between the moments.
The young mothers.
The Sydney Mum interview.
The years when our lives were happening elsewhere.
The message asking if she would join something I was making in Dubbo.
London appearing on a screen inside the Black Box Theatre.
Kaz bringing everybody back into the actual room.
That is the story I have.
Success can make a life look inevitable in hindsight. Friendship remembers all the unfinished versions.
THE ARCHIVE MATTERS
The stories become history while you are still busy calling them blogs.
I think about that a lot now when I look back at Sydney Mum.
At the time it was simply an independent website about women, parenting, work, books, relationships, identity and ordinary life.
Now some of those pieces have acquired another value.
They show people becoming themselves.
Not after the award. Not after the bestseller. Not after somebody else decided the story mattered.
While it was still happening.
That is part of what The Orana Woman is trying to keep doing now.
Pay attention early. Keep the record. You do not know yet which ordinary conversation somebody will want to find again in fifteen years.
— Sharon
