Astrology in my world Archives - Lynn Hayes astrology readings and writings

My writing sabbatical for October and November

Last year I had a very big birthday with a 7 in it, and ever since then I have been pondering my future. I had been wanting to update my VisionCrafting workbook for those of us in the third age of life, the time after the second Saturn return at around age 58 when we realize that time is passing quickly, and the more I worked on that update the more I realized that I myself need this work before I can pass anything along to others.

I’ve been writing regularly […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2024-02-17T15:47:14-05:00August 31st, 2023|Astrology in my world|23 Comments

Sunday Poetry: Sweet Darkness

This is a very personal poem for me right now. I’m in the midst of some intense planetary alignments involving progressed Mars and Pluto (geeky astrological details below) which I have been observing with some trepidation. Would I get in an accident? Set fire to my house? Blow up all of my relationships? But I forgot that Mars is all about the purification of the ego through desire. Connecting with the higher aspect of our own selves to see what it is that our soul is desiring. The questions began to change. How do I want to spend […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2021-09-26T07:49:50-04:00September 26th, 2021|Astrology in my world, Inspiration|8 Comments

Sunday inspiration: Transforming through sadness and presence

Saturn and Pluto are bearing down on the Saturn system in my own chart, and I am really focused right now on the idea of presence and surrender because with Saturn and Pluto there really is no other choice. I so love this writing from Rainer Maria Rilke, which speaks of the ways in which we can use our negative emotions as a doorway through which to find the alchemy of personal transformation. (art by Emily Ballivet)

It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2019-11-24T08:28:52-05:00November 24th, 2019|Astrology in my world, Inspiration|6 Comments

Sunday inspiration: Creating the Now

Photo by Andrew Offield

In my own life, Pluto has been hammering my Libra stellium for the past two years (geeky astrological details: Saturn/Sun/Neptune squared by Uranus) and I have been forced to take a hard look at much of my life to see how the boxes I’ve put myself in (Saturn/Sun) have kept me from my longing to connect with soul (Neptune/Sun). Uranus of course is always resisting boxes of any kind, and tends to want to keep things moving and ever changing. In my heart […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2019-11-17T07:41:06-05:00November 17th, 2019|Astrology in my world, Inspiration|1 Comment

Astrology in my world: Saturn Neptune and the limits of intuition

Saturn and Neptune are both important factors in my chart. Wrapping around my Sun, they cloak me in a confusing vise between Saturn’s pressure for structured discipline, goals and achievement and Neptune’s siren call to let go of the material world and merge with the Divine. Saturn is a personal planet and represents the voice in our head which is always driving us to improve and be better. Neptune is a transpersonal planet, acting as a divine force to inspire us to ascend into a higher expression of our lives and […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2019-09-21T08:17:58-04:00September 20th, 2019|Astrology in my world|8 Comments

Sunday musings: Follow your own path

Deviant Art (click to enlarge)

As an astrologer, there are many different roads to travel. Some astrologers prefer writing to client consultations. Some like to teach. Some follow the more traditional paths into medieval, Renaissance or Hellenistic astrology. Some explore newer ideas with evolutionary astrology or human design.

My path has always been one of personal transformation, effected through writing and therapeutic personal consultations. I have Gemini (the sign of communication) rising, my Leo Moon is in the third house of communication, and my Mercury (planet of communication) […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2019-05-26T07:12:58-04:00May 26th, 2019|Astrology in my world|11 Comments

Astrology in my world: Sunday tribe poetry

“Tell your story.
Shout it. Write it.
Whisper it if you have to.
But tell it.
Some won’t understand it.
Some will outright reject it.
But many will
thank you for it.
And then the most
magical thing will happen.
One by one, voices will start
whispering, ‘Me, too.’
And your tribe will gather.
And you will never
feel alone again.”

–L.R. Knost

I found this poem in a wonderful Facebook group called “Ravenous Butterflies” and it really resonated with me because of my current Saturn transit. All of us are experiencing a tightening of the conjunction between Saturn (tests and […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2019-05-12T08:30:34-04:00May 12th, 2019|Astrology in my world, Inspiration|71 Comments

Astrology in my world: How to make a decision

Librans, of which I am one, are famous for not being able to make a decision. We easily see all sides of a situation, and in a discussion over a point we can convincingly argue for one perspective as well as another. In my house a conversation like this with my double Pisces husband, who dislikes taking a stand of any kind, is very common:

Me: What do you think about my doing X?
Rich: Well, you have always wanted to do it. Maybe you should do it.
Me: Yes but then all of these […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2018-12-07T09:32:01-05:00December 7th, 2018|Astrology in my world|7 Comments

Sunday inspiration: Cut the storyline

This week’s Cancerian New Moon eclipse opposed transformative Pluto which is in an exact square right now to a complex system in my own natal chart that includes Saturn and the Sun. I have been turning inside out as the energy of Pluto demands that I remain aware of the churning emotional and thought patterns that struggle to emerge and be released, just like little daemons I have carried with me throughout my life. The retrograde travel of Mars is a great ally in this struggle to break free of the […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2018-07-15T07:21:58-04:00July 15th, 2018|Astrology in my world, Inspiration|8 Comments

Astrology in my world: The falling away of things I know to be true

Art from Third Eye Tapestries

Astrology gets a bad rap for being unable to reliably predict the future. The fact is, while astrology reveals the underlying order of things, it does not reveal the future. Through astrology we can know when there is potential for difficulty, but everyone experiences these cycles differently, and they are experienced differently at different times.

As I write this today at the end of November, I have just found out that a brilliant astrologer that I have worked with over the years, Dawn Bodrogi, just died. […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2018-07-15T09:50:25-04:00November 30th, 2017|Astrology in my world, Life|28 Comments