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Kids say the darndest things, explained by astrology

In this hilarious article a NY teacher collected funny things her students said and posted them on Instagram. I decided to make this a teaching moment by taking some of the funniest ones and creating an imaginary astrological profile! Enjoy. 😀

“I’m just going to put all the boys that want to marry me in a line and do eenie meenie miney mo.” Chloe, 4 years old.
– Sun in Aries, Venus in Libra, Mars in Scorpio

“I’m happy on the inside, I just don’t want to talk about it.” anonymous, 5 […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2022-09-13T12:40:25-04:00January 18th, 2020|Astrology, Life|1 Comment

Friday repost: Edgar Cayce on Planetary Reincarnation

New feature! On Fridays I’ll select one of the over 2500 articles I’ve written to revive for today’s times. Today we explore Edgar Cayce’s unusual views on reincarnation and planets.

“Ascension” by Juan Carlos Garcia

I found this article about Edgar Cayce and astrology linked to the Astrology Weekly forum. I am particularly interested in the comments about the afterlife realms:

Reality is multi-dimensional. We are multi-dimensional beings who exist simultaneously in a multi-dimensional reality. Long ago, our bodies evolved from primates. Even longer ago, our minds evolved from […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2022-10-15T13:31:23-04:00December 13th, 2019|Astrology|3 Comments

Astral Hell: Is it a thing?

The astrological Twitterverse is aflame today with reports of something called the Infernal Astral, or Astral Hell. Apparently in Brazil this is an established thing among astrologers. I found this website which says:

You have certainly heard someone complain that they are experiencing ” astral hell ” as they approach their birthday. This period is popularly known as a turbulent phase where everything goes wrong and the person goes through some kind of suffering or difficulty. It is believed that during this period things tend not to work very well, health can […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2019-09-24T16:32:08-04:00September 24th, 2019|Astrology|17 Comments

Tell me something good.

It’s human nature to seek pleasure and avoid pain. Nobody wants to feel bad, or go through difficult situations. I have been an astrologer for more than half of my life now, so it’s hard for me to remember what it was like before I knew about planetary cycles that were likely to bring challenges that required adjustment and change, but I imagine that it is pretty confusing. Life is going great, and then all of a sudden here comes a curve ball and suddenly I’m feeling depressed for apparently no […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2023-11-27T14:16:43-05:00August 28th, 2019|Astrology|3 Comments

Pluto: A Case Study

This article has been updated from an earlier post.

Last week I saw a client (let’s call her Sylvia) whose birthchart demonstrates the power of Pluto. Sylvia’s Sun is in the hard-working sign of Capricorn: Capricorns typically have a difficult life when they’re young but because they’re such hard workers (ruled by the Celestial Taskmaster himself, Saturn) they can be quite powerful as they age and incorporate life’s lessons. She also has a Grand Trine including Mars, Jupiter and her Moon, bestowing a sense of inner trust (Jupiter/Moon) that life has […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2019-06-09T14:29:23-04:00June 12th, 2019|Astrology|Comments Off

A journey from modern Iraq back into ancient wisdom and modern science

This article was originally posted in 2009. Astrologer Dave Mockaitis has a fascinating essay connecting the Yezidi, a Kurdish people on the border of Syria and Iraq, back to the Picatrix, a collection of Arabic texts that was widely used by mages during the Renaissance period. He then draws connections back to the Sabians of Harran, adding a layer of interest to my post on the Sabian Symbols,

He then goes back to Hermes Trismegistus, a fascinating quasi-mythological figure who appears to combine the Greek Hermes with the […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2020-11-03T13:41:44-05:00May 11th, 2019|Astrology|2 Comments

Millennials and astrology – a natural fit

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Last year reporter for the Atlantic explored the connection between millennials and astrology:

Many people I spoke to for this piece said they had a sense that the stigma attached to astrology, while it still exists, had receded as the practice has grabbed a foothold in online culture, especially for young people.

“Over the past two years, we’ve really seen a reframing of New Age practices, very much geared toward a Millennial and young Gen X quotient,” says Lucie Greene, the worldwide director of […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2019-04-15T05:54:46-04:00April 19th, 2019|Astrology, Generations|0 Comments

Mercury retrograde and the “Shadow Period”

Thanks to the Internet, the magic of REAL astrology (as opposed to those Sun Sign horoscopes you still see everywhere) is spreading and the concept of Mercury retrograde has gone mainstream. This is exciting since even people who profess not to “believe in” astrology often are aware that when Mercury is retrograde things often don’t operate as we expect them to. Machinery glitches, communication breakdowns, an epidemic of “but I thought you said…” – all are widespread under the influence of Mercury retrograde.

In classical astrology, Mercury is said to be “debilitated” when […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2019-02-25T14:33:53-05:00November 14th, 2018|Astrology|18 Comments

The problem with ancient astrology in a modern world

There is currently a bit of a battle in the astrological community between astrologers studying the techniques of ancient astrological sources and “modern” astrologers, those who use psychological techniques and concepts that are somewhat Eastern in origin, such as past lives and person evolution rather than a defined set of predictive techniques. I first wrote about this debate back in 2007 and you can read more here if you like. It seems to me that astrologers have enough of a battle fighting against those who denigrate the divine […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2018-09-20T17:42:22-04:00September 20th, 2018|Astrology|8 Comments

Commenting on the Lions Gate 8:8 Portal

A client sent me this article last week about the “Lions Gate Portal.” Reports of the a cosmic portal that opens on 8/8 began circulating on the internet in 2015. I have hopes of a cosmic awakening as much as the next red blooded new age person, and certainly there is a lot to learn from numerology (8 being the number of transformation), but when these writers claim that this is an astrological phenomenon that’s a different matter entirely.