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RIP Dr. John

My younger readers may not know anything about Dr. John the Night Tripper, whose Voodoo-styled brand of psychedelic rock was one of the more intriguing sounds to come out of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Although he continued to play music throughout his life and won six Grammy awards, the magical persona of the New Orleans shaman draped in feathers and beads was uniquely suited to the cultural revolution of the Uranus/Pluto conjunction in Virgo that marked the 1960s and early 1970s.

Dr. John (born Malcolm John Rebennack Jr – Dr. John was his stage persona) died on June […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2019-06-09T16:30:46-04:00June 8th, 2019|Death, People|2 Comments

The astrology of Alexander McQueen

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I just watched the documentary McQueen about fashion designer Alexander McQueen on Netflix and was struck by both his exceptional genius and his turbulent personal life and apparently fragile psyche.

McQueen was born on March 17, 1969. (Geeky astrological details: Astro.com has provided a birth time of 10:45 am but this is not an accurate birth time – apparently his mother is quoted as having said his time of birth was sometime between 9:30 and midnight. The ascendant is the most visible piece of an astrological chart since it reflects the persona and the style of […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2019-11-10T19:09:05-05:00February 12th, 2019|Death, People|4 Comments

More on the death of David Carradine

Read the original article here. You read it here first: When I put up the post on Thursday afternoon about Carradine’s death, speculating that the likely cause of Carradine’s death was autoerotic asphyxiation, a Google search turned up no other articles on this topic. Now the details of Carradine’s tragic death have come out and there is no doubt that this was indeed the cause of his death.

When there is a fascination with the dark side of sexuality, we usually find a strong Pluto component to the chart. Pluto is the planet of death, rebirth and transformation, but it […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2018-08-30T09:30:40-04:00June 10th, 2018|Death, People|0 Comments

Musings on suicide, free will and fate

I’ve been fielding a lot of questions and comments about suicide in the past few weeks, specifically whether suicide shows up in the chart, so there’s something in the Zeitgeist. A close friend took his own life a few months ago so this has been present in my own life too especially since Pluto, planet of death, has been sitting right on my Sun for months. Following the suicide of Kate Spade, and now Anthony Bourdain, the questions and comments are intensifying.

Depression shows up in the chart. Potentiality for tragedy in […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2019-09-25T07:55:47-04:00June 8th, 2018|Death, Psychology|2 Comments

RIP Kate Spade

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Designer Kate Spade, whose handbags can be seen everywhere, has died of an apparent suicide at the age of 55. A fashion designer for many years,in 2006 she sold the successful company that she started with her husband in 1993. Their more recent endeavors had not been as well received.

I recently did a session for a client who was very depressed and wanted to know if her chart showed a tendency towards suicide. […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2019-11-10T19:09:06-05:00June 6th, 2018|Death, People, Psychology|7 Comments

Pluto in Capricorn – can Google conquer death?

Before Pluto’s discovery bestowed on him the title of the Lord of Death, that role was occupied by the planet Saturn. Pluto’s role in the concept of death has to do with the surrender of life as we know it and the regeneration of something else in its place. Saturn forces us to deal with the difficult questions and the hard aspects of life, reminding us that life is short and that death is at the door.

Saturn is the ruler of the sign Capricorn, and since 2008 Pluto has […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2014-05-16T06:05:24-04:00May 16th, 2014|Death, Life|2 Comments

The astrology of L’Wren Scott

Dear readers – do not despair, I will soon be bringing you soothing words to calm your fears over the upcoming Grand Cross that is causing tabloid news to shiver around the globe. But meanwhile I have been fascinated with the personage that was L’Wren Scott who took her own life last week.

The birthchart of L’Wren Scott (born 4/28/1964 time unknown) shows someone who was born at the peak of the conjunction of Uranus to Pluto in 1964, with the Sun in Taurus. The Uranus/Pluto conjunction presided over the huge […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2014-03-28T07:18:14-04:00March 28th, 2014|Death, People|8 Comments

The astrology of Philip Seymour Hoffman

The astrology of the death of Philip Seymour Hoffman

By Lynn Hayes|2018-06-11T12:28:32-04:00February 4th, 2014|Death, People, Psychology|6 Comments

The astrology of Paul Walker’s death

Actor Paul Walker died on November 30th when a 2005 Porsche Carrera he was riding in crashed into a light pole and burst into flames. Walker was most noted for his role in the “Fast and Furious” franchise of vehicular-oriented action films so it is ironic that he died in an automobile accident.

Automobiles are ruled by Mercury which is concerned with short journeys as opposed to plane rides to distant lands. Mercury was important in Paul Walker’s chart in several ways: Mercury is the traditional ruler of Virgo (I personally […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2019-11-10T19:21:18-05:00December 3rd, 2013|Death, People|6 Comments

If you could predict death: 2013 edition

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I do a fair amount of what I call “repair readings” – readings for people who have been told things by other astrologers that are upsetting and sometimes ridiculous. Like the time a client was told that at a certain time she would meet someone and it would be the only opportunity she would ever have to find her soulmate. Or when an astrology told a client that her daughter would die on a certain date.

In 2008 I wrote a post “If you could predict death, would […]

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