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Sunday inspiration for the Virgo Full Moon: The beauty of aging

The Virgo Full Moon on Monday puts the focus on the reality of life in a body. Virgo’s primary concern is taking care of the mundane details of life so that the soul, under the Pisces solar influence, can soar.

No matter how old we are, we are all aging. I love this passage from Thomas Moore and hope you will too. ❤️

Ageing is a beautiful thing. You are moving toward your apotheosis, the thrilling fulfillment of it all. There is nothing to […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2023-11-19T11:49:44-05:00March 5th, 2023|Inspiration|4 Comments

Sunday inspiration: Musings on aging and friendship

Last night I went to a birthday party for someone I have known for over 30 years, since I first moved to North Carolina. A large group of us that were involved in the same meditation group relocated to North Carolina at the same time, but because I left that group in the mid-1980s there were quite a few people I haven’t seen for many years, so there were people at this party that I hadn’t seen for years.

As many of you know if you’ve been following this blog for some […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2023-11-27T14:19:19-05:00December 11th, 2011|Astrology in my world, Inspiration, Saturn Return|14 Comments

Aging and the Eight Gates

It’s no secret that aging gets no respect in our Western post-war culture. Over the past 50 years or so (since Pluto entered Leo) youth has been celebrated and anyone who couldn’t keep up was shunted aside. Without respect for the wisdom and history of our aging population, they became lonely and abandoned. My mother turns 80 this month, and she feels she has little to celebrate at having reached this advanced age. All she feels is the isolation and loneliness of her widowhood and the trauma at having lost her health. It saddens me that she feels there is […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2023-11-19T11:48:52-05:00June 12th, 2007|Life|Comments Off