Author: Lynn Hayes

5.5.21 – Take a relaxing break today with a trine from Venus in Taurus to Pluto

art by Amanda Clark Venus in its own sign of Taurus is a delicious gift of comfort and peaceful equanimity, and we get to enjoy it for another few days.  Today and tomorrow, Venus will form a harmonious trine to Pluto, planet of depth and intensity.  Venus/Pluto aspects are usually pretty uncomfortable, since […]

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5.4.21 – Mercury in Gemini: Re-imagining the world ☀️

art by Nastia Kamentseva Gemini is a shapeshifter and easily modifies obstacles and helps to activate the mind to embrace experiences that change us.  Ruled by Mercury, it encourages us to shift the way we perceive our own lives through experiencing our lives through the perceptions of others.  When the planet Mercury travels […]

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5.3.21 – Prepare for an explosion of brainpower today! 🤓

art by Daniela Zekina The skies are flooded with energies from the mental realm today.  We have a strong square aspect from Mercury in Taurus to Jupiter in Aquarius, a stubborn combination of fixed ideas and the potential for everyone to want to be right.  Watch for arguments and disagreements, as well as […]

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Sunday inspiration: A Brave and Startling Truth

As we emerge from the dark night of 2020 into the unknown of a changing world, we are having to face all kinds of difficult truths, especially with Pluto, planet of destruction and regeneration and the teacher of Truth, stationary in the sky at the beginning of this year’s retrograde adventure.  This poem from Maya […]

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Weekend update May 1, 2021: The wisdom of creative inspiration

from the Star Tarot This weekend brings an abundance of beautifully unfolding planetary energies to help ground our biggest and most imaginative ideas into a solid foundation.  The Moon is in Capricorn until Sunday afternoon EDT/Sunday night GMT, facilitating practicality and the organization of dreams into reality.  On Saturday there are no exact […]

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4.30.21 – Challenges with self-preservation when Ceres in Aries squares Pluto

art by Diego Rivera Initially Ceres was named a planet, but as others were discovered in the asteroid belt she was reclassified as an asteroid. In 2006 she was reclassified as a planet along with Eris (and Pluto, but we won’t go there today!), and I started taking her more seriously in astrological […]

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4.29.21 – Infusion of creative inspiration with Mercury sextile Neptune

art by Norman Free A harmonious sextile from Mercury to Neptune today can help soften hard edges and enhance imagination to come up with creative solutions to any difficulties we may be experiencing.  Mercury is in Taurus where we tend to seek peaceful solutions that require as little change as possible, offering comfort […]

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4.28.21 – Expansive awakenings under Sagittarius and Neptune

art by Anry The Moon moves from Scorpio into Sagittarius today following the peak of Scorpionic intensity at yesterday’s Full Moon. This shift from Scorpio into Sagittarius takes us from the deep intensity of Scorpio into the optimistic expansive hope of Sagittarius. Pluto is stationary of course, so there is a layer of […]

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Pluto retrograde, April 27 – October 6, 2021

 art by Eva Bidiuk As we know, astrology is not astronomically correct and planets don’t really move backwards. But occasionally from our perspective the apparent direction of their movement changes, which we call “retrograde.” Most of us are familiar by now with Mercury retrograde periods, which (because Mercury is the messenger planet and […]

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Full Moon in Scorpio, April 26, 2021: Challenging the Saturn/Uranus square

Photo from PixelsTalk A portion of this article was posted last week but has been updated.  All Full Moons are formed by a polarity between the Sun in one sign balanced against the Moon in the opposite sign. Each opposing pair is a cycle of energy that flows from one sign to the […]

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