Author: Lynn Hayes

Mercury retrograde alert! August 30-September 22, 2016

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Planets don’t really move backward, but astrology observes the movement of the planets from our perspective on earth so we sometimes see their apparent motion reversing.  We call this “retrograde,” and every planet in the astrological pantheon will reverse its direction now and then. When a planet is retrograde, its influence can become stronger and more pronounced as […]

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The limits of positive thinking

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While Pluto was in Sagittarius (1995-2008) optimism and positive thinking (Sagittarian traits) rose to an art form.  Pluto tends to bring a compulsive drive to any sign that it travels through, and while a certain degree of optimism and positivism is a good thing, the benefits of this kind of thinking end when other feelings are pushed into […]

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Neptune in Pisces and extreme flooding

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A sudden increase in floods over the past few years is being attributed to climate change by many scientists. Climate change is never going to announce itself by name. But this is what we should expect it to look like. That’s what many scientists, analysts and activists are saying after heavy rains in southern Louisiana have […]

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This week’s full moon: eclipse or not?

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It depends on who you ask.  This week’s lunation does not appear on quite a few sites listing 2016 eclipses, and in others it is noted as a “penumbral” (or “almost”) eclipse. Eclipses occur when the Sun and Moon are in relatively close aspect to the lunar nodes (the points where the Moon crosses the […]

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The role of the Ascendant in defining ourselves

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The Ascendant and the Sun sign are often confused and I blame this on Sun sign astrology (so-called “horoscopes” that you see on the web and in newspapers which claim to predict the future based on the sign your Sun was in at the time you were born).  Sun sign astrology claims that the Sun […]

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The return of Planetary Illuminations

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Earlier this year I put the Planetary Illuminations report on hiatus.  I had been undergoing a Big Uranus Transit and re-evaluating how I wanted to spend my energy. I always knew I would revive  this monthly report – after 25 years it’s in my blood.  However, I am making some changes.  I won’t be posting the report […]

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The astrology of the US Presidential election nomination charts

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Astrologer Shelley Ackerman has kindly been posting the data for the nomination of the two major presidential candidates in the US election on Facebook.  Donald Trump’s nomination took place July 21, 2016 at 10:19 pm in Cleveland Ohio, and Hillary Clinton’s nomination took place July 28, 2016 at 10:47 pm in Philadelphia Pennsylvania. The use […]

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A reader asks, “When will we know peace in the world?”

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I received this in my email today: I should think that every published astrologer would be writing about a time when all of these horrid transits and conjunctions will end. Or will they ever? Yet, I have scoured The Mountain Astrologer, online astro sites and subscribe to anyone who might talk about such events. It’s […]

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“The year that rock exploded”: Neptune in Sagittarius

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I was just reading a review of a new book about 1971 as “the year that rock exploded” which says: “In his new book, Never a Dull Moment,Hepworth makes the case that the music from 1971 was the result of “a huge explosion of creativity in a very short period of time” and lives on […]

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