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Pluto in the natal chart: A case study

This article was originally posted in 2006.

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 […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2023-12-19T14:37:07-05:00December 20th, 2023|Health & Healing|Comments Off

Managing grief in a pandemic

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Most of us thought we’d be out of here by now – the daily pressures of how to navigate this new world is getting kind of old. Is it safe to see our friends? What do I do about my job? It looks like there is light at the end of the tunnel but the way is not yet clear. Meanwhile we are still grieving losses, both old and new. Friendships that were broken. Spouses and other family members that have passed on. Seven million humans […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2021-10-08T08:04:02-04:00October 8th, 2021|Health & Healing|1 Comment

The astrology of Selma Blair and the Mars factor of MS

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UPDATE! Selma Blair kindly provided her birth time after reading and approving this post: 8:45 am. I’ve written a great deal over the years about the way the energies of the personality, as reflected in the natal chart, affect our health. The planetary position of Mars in the chart seems to have a great deal to do with ailments of all kinds including fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, and other such immune system disorders. The way in which we respond to our health problems are also connected to our Mars placements. Mars in the birthchart shows the ways in which […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2021-08-29T07:27:15-04:00August 25th, 2021|Health & Healing, People|16 Comments

Finally, an intelligent approach to mental illness

The field of mental health has come a long way from the asylums of the 19th century, through the idea of drug cures for chemical imbalances of the 20th century. As astrologers we know that certain chart patterns are prone to depression (Saturn), deep core sadness (Chiron), anxiety (Uranus) and oppositional behaviors (Mars) (these planetary correlations are illustrative, but simplistic and don’t tell the whole story). As human beings we know that grief after the death of a loved one is an important part of the human experience and doesn’t need to […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2021-08-27T07:35:53-04:00August 19th, 2021|Health & Healing|11 Comments

Musings on the Coronavirus

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Over the years I have studied a great deal of correlations between historical events and the associated planetary configurations. Often there are clear connections that are easily described. The conjunction of Uranus (radical change) to Pluto (destruction and regeneration) in the mid to late 1960s is one example – it’s easy to see how this planetary combination correlated with the dramatic social upheavals during that decade. Same thing with the square aspect between Uranus and Pluto between 2010 and 2017.

To prepare for this article I wanted to see what other astrologers said about the Coronavirus. Several astrologers say “this […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2020-03-14T08:31:52-04:00February 27th, 2020|Featured posts, Health & Healing, Planetary cycles|23 Comments

Mars Musings: The continuum of rage

Mars is squaring Pluto today, completing a cycle of the past week or so in which Mars linked Saturn and Pluto by forming a square first to Saturn last week, and now Pluto. Mars is the planet of aggression and warfare, and when conflicting with Pluto, which represents death and destruction resulting in regeneration and transformation, you can see where things get a bit intense.

I thought this would be a good time to discuss what I like to call the continuum of rage. In my practice, I have traced […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2019-11-05T06:48:29-05:00November 5th, 2019|Health & Healing|0 Comments

Bernie Sanders: Attack on the heart

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Bernie Sanders was hospitalized this week for a procedure to place stents in the heart. Originally it was said that this was a procedure to open a blocked artery, but it was later revealed that he did actually have a heart attack. He apparently has no history of heart disease.

As I wrote earlier this year in a profile of his candidacy, Sanders is undergoing some stressful planetary cycles right now. For those of you who like the astrological details:

Transiting Uranus is exactly square to his natal Pluto which also conjoins Chiron
Transiting Pluto is […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2019-10-05T07:28:28-04:00October 5th, 2019|Health & Healing, Politics|2 Comments

Musings on autism and astrology: 2019 edition

A reader recently sent me a thesis he wrote about correlations between astrology and autism. As many of you know, this is an area of interest to me and I have written on this before (the archive of autism posts can be found here). My reader quoted a few different sources which seem to correlate the synastry (comparison) between the chart of mothers and autistic subjects, such as the discussion in Elsa’s forum here. I responded to this idea […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2020-05-25T16:58:54-04:00September 4th, 2019|Health & Healing|64 Comments

Psychiatric drugs: A modern distraction

A new study out of Germany shows that only 6% of all psychiatric drugs show any added benefit (in a study which found that 58% of ALL drugs showed no added benefit).

As a child of the ’60s, it is peculiar to me that parents today are GIVING drugs to their kids. The use of drug stimulants for children exploded between 1991 and 1995, and antidepressant prescriptions nearly doubled during the same period – coinciding with the conjunction of Uranus and Neptune. This is not surprising – Uranus […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2019-07-12T08:25:08-04:00July 12th, 2019|Health & Healing|6 Comments

My plan to revamp the US Healthcare system and add 14 years to your life!

This article was originally posted in 2008 and has been updated.

Under this week’s retrograde Mercury in Pisces, which has attached itself to travel companion Neptune over the next week, the William Barr Justice Department under President Trump has recommended repeal of the Affordable Care Act, generating a s*&#storm of panic and anxiety in the hearts of Americans.

The problem as I see it, though, is that the American healthcare system is completely broken. It doesn’t really matter how healthcare is paid for – the system is based on profit and corrupt at its […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2019-05-11T07:32:26-04:00March 27th, 2019|Health & Healing, Politics|3 Comments