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The meaning of Saturn in Aries, 2025-2028

Saturn will enter Aries on May 24th for the first time since 1996, completing a 30-year cycle of Saturn through the zodiac signs of the ecliptic. Saturn is said to be in its fall in Aries; the discipline needed to accomplish Saturn’s urge for structure can be lacking under the impulsivity of Mars-ruled Aries which tends towards initiating new actions and a bold new direction. By its nature Saturn can be cautious and pessimistic which tends to put the brakes on Aries need for action, resulting in […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2025-05-01T10:54:43-04:00April 29th, 2025|Featured posts, Planetary cycles|3 Comments

The astrology of Virginia Giuffre: The trials of Saturn and Pluto

Trigger warning: This post contains references to sexual abuse and suicide.

Updated with accurate birth time. Virginia Guiffre, the primary and most public of the Epstein accusers, took her own life yesterday. This chart is set for noon since no time is available and without an accurate time we don’t know if her Moon was in late Leo or early Virgo.

In any case there are some difficult chart features that would have been activated over the past few years as Pluto transited the late degrees of Capricorn. Most notably, […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2025-04-26T18:41:36-04:00April 26th, 2025|People|0 Comments

The meaning of Neptune in Aries 2025-2038

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About Neptune.

By its very nature, Neptune is difficult to talk about. It tends to be evasive and dreamy, and full of imagination and artistic creativity. It also can become lost in the illusion of fantasy and encourage sacrifice of the individual self, sometimes for a higher purpose and sometimes in a codependent loss of Self. In its highest form Neptune inspires us to transcend the material world and connect deeply and directly with an experience of the Divine.

In my work, the outer planets act as transformational forces to inspire […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2025-03-22T12:37:13-04:00March 12th, 2025|Featured posts, Planetary cycles|10 Comments

Donald Trump update March 2025

Please keep any comments centered around the astrology.

I have written a few posts about Trump over the last decade, and if you want to catch up on his astrological profile you might want to check out this post from September 2015 (hard to believe that was ten years ago!!).

Things are getting pretty heated and seem even more erratic than some of us expected so I thought it was time for an update.

Transiting Uranus, the planet of sudden change and radical behavior, is crossing the Midheaven, the point of public […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2025-03-18T13:15:22-04:00March 10th, 2025|Featured posts, Politics|4 Comments

Venus Retrograde in 2025 and reclaiming the power of Venus

Before getting into Venus retrograde, let’s talk about Venus. Her pantheonic ancestor is the Greek goddess Aphrodite (1-2000 bce), who was said to be the “personification of the generative powers of nature.” She was connected to love, beauty and sexual desire and was sometimes associated with war, as was HER pantheonic ancestors Inanna of Sumeria (2900 bce) and Ishtar of Mesopotamia (3000 bce). Ishtar and Inanna, along with Astarte in the Levant, are the same goddess and these precursors to Venus carried a more powerful archetype. They were associated with the power […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2025-02-27T12:08:51-05:00February 27th, 2025|Planetary cycles|0 Comments

Ceres in Pisces, February 23 – May 16, 2025

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Ceres is still relatively new in the astrological pantheon, but in my work it has come to symbolize how well we relate to our incarnation. This encompasses so many things: How we relate to food. How we nourish and nurture ourselves. How we handle loss and grief.

The word “self-care” has become sort of trite and over-used, but self-care is exactly what the asteroid-now-called-planet Ceres is all about. Ceres is about our relationship with food (remember it was Ceres/Demeter who starved the world when her daughter was abducted […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2025-02-23T14:07:48-05:00February 23rd, 2025|Planetary cycles|0 Comments

Lunar nodes on the Pisces/Virgo axis

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The Nodes of the Moon are not planets – they are purely mathematical points that show where the path of the Moon crosses the path of the Sun (called the “ecliptic”). The North, or ascending, node acts as a signpost to take us into the future – it points the way for our soul’s evolutionary growth. The South, or descending, node is a signpost from the past. Through the South Node we release people, places and things which we carry with us that are no longer needed.

The North and South […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2025-03-18T13:15:57-04:00January 1st, 2025|Featured posts, Planetary cycles|11 Comments

The astrology of 2025: A year of change

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A few years ago (2022) I wrote this article about the planetary cycles coming up in the 2020s and so far we are right on track:

2023. The entry of Pluto into Aquarius will cement the shift into the Age of Air. I’ll be writing about this in greater depth, but the first few years of Pluto’s entry into a sign typically brings great change and we are likely to see a burgeoning of machine intelligence along with a splintering of the tendency of humans to […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2025-03-18T13:16:19-04:00December 28th, 2024|Featured posts, Planetary cycles|1 Comment

Get ready for Mars retrograde, December 2024-February 2025

The past refuses to be dismissed, for it is the voice of all human wisdom. If ignored, the past exacts its vengeance; men who forget the past are indeed condemned to repeat it.

(Russell Kirk)

(Mars will be in apparent retrograde motion from December 6, 2024 until February 23, 2025.) Mars often gets a bad rap in astrology: Associated with war, hostility, anger and rage; it fuels the primal “id” of need and desire – all things we consider “bad.” But Mars is also the factor that provides […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2024-11-20T10:20:45-05:00November 20th, 2024|Planetary cycles|1 Comment

The meaning of the Chiron/Uranus opposition

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I recently discovered that I have never written anything specific to this opposition, which is a very important dynamic in the charts of many people born between the early 1950s and the late 1980s. In all, the opposition occurred a total of 41 times, beginning with Chiron in Capricorn opposite Uranus in Cancer in the early 1950s and ending with Chiron in Cancer and Uranus in Capricorn in the late 1980s.

This phenomenon occurs because of the elliptical orbit of Chiron (thanks to […]

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