Author: Lynn Hayes

Planetary news this week: Pluto square the nodes and the Eris connection.

Astrological update for the week of August 7-14, 2023 This week’s update will be short and sweet because I’m getting on a plane in a few minutes for a family emergency.  The biggest news this week is the continuing challenging square aspect between Pluto and the lunar nodes. This aspect began a couple of weeks […]

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Sunday poetry: May your trails be winding and full of wonder

Over the next few days the North Node, the point which marks the gatepost to the future, will connect with the new planet Eris named for the Goddess of Discord. Eris and Pluto have been in a square aspect since January 2020 and I think we can all agree that the last three years have […]

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Sunday inspiration: Something sacred is coming this way

Art by Marti White Deer Song Mars and Mercury have been in Virgo for a few weeks, urging us to order our lives into routines and rituals, so I have been thinking a lot about the routines and ceremonies that help me to maintain a sense of order and magic in my life. […]

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Planetary news this week: The SuperMoons begin!

Astrological update for the week of July 31 – August 7 Supermoons. If you’re subscribed to my Planetary Illuminations report you’ll read more about this tomorrow, but in August we are in SuperMoon season (™Richard Nolle). We have come to think of SuperMoons as being the giant white discs in the sky that occur at […]

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Sunday inspiration for Mars & Mercury in Virgo: The perfect morning

I love learning about the morning routines of different people and over the last few years I’ve been reading and watching videos about different morning routines and trying some things on to see how they work for me. One thing I’ve learned is that although there is no such thing as a perfect morning, there […]

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Planetary news this week: Time to get organized with Mercury in Virgo

Astrological update for the week of July 24-31, 2023 Mercury in Virgo July 28. Mercury was known to the Romans as the messenger god, and was the only one of all the gods to be able to travel between the world of the gods, the world of humans, and the Underworld, the transformational realm governed […]

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Chicago time zone confusion

Our modern astrology software contains excellent databases, but when a client was born in Illinois during a period when Daylight Savings Time was observed it can get very confusing because there was a law in Illinois in effect until 1959 which required birth times to be recorded in standard time even when daylight time was […]

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Sunday inspiration for Venus retrograde

photo from Advanced Style Venus turned retrograde in Leo yesterday making this the perfect poem for today’s inspiration post. We think of Venus as representing relationships and love, and that is certainly true, but Venus also is related to our self-esteem. That is especially true in Leo, the sign which encourages us to […]

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The meaning of Venus retrograde in Leo 2023: July 22-September 3

artist unknown Venus transits are typically fleeting and we are barely touched by them. Come and gone in under a day, even the harder transits are not that difficult except for their propensity for indulgence and lack of self-awareness. When Venus appears to change direction and turns retrograde, though, her movement becomes slower […]

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Planetary news this week: Cancer New Moon and Venus retrograde

Astrological update for the week of July 17-24, 2024 art by Lia Van Elffenbrinck Cancer New Moon. I wrote about this in last week’s forecast so that we could be ready for the New Moon on Monday the 17th, but you may want to catch up here if you missed it. The lunar […]

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