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Mars in the news: The Opposition and Blood Moon

Astrological Mars is retrograde right now and moving much more slowly than it normally does (from our perspective on earth). Consequently, its impact is more intense with a heightened feeling of aggression and inspiration towards action. Mercury entered Mars’s own sign of Aries yesterday which adds additional fire to the mix and adding excitement and perhaps a few arguments to interpersonal communication everywhere.

Mars of course is instrumental in the upcoming Grand Cross of planets in the cardinal signs of Aries, Libra, Cancer and Capricorn, so this barrage of intensity will not […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2022-09-13T12:28:52-04:00April 7th, 2014|Planetary cycles|11 Comments

New Year, New Moon!

Photo by Steve Matteo

The beginning of 2014 brings us a powerful New Moon in Capricorn, with a Grand Cross in the cardinal (action) signs. Cardinal signs are initiators – they inspire leadership and movement and are just the thing to motivate the kind of goals and dreams that the New Year tends to foster.

This New Moon is a Supermoon (this term is in common usage today but was actually coined by astrologer Richard Nolle) because it is at its closest point to Earth. It’s typically the Full Moons […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2022-09-13T12:29:05-04:00January 1st, 2014|Moon|4 Comments

Summer eclipse season is coming

Image from NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day, 2003. Solar and lunar eclipses occur when the Moon is either full (opposite the Sun) or “new” (conjunct the Sun), and one of the lunar nodes is located within 15 degrees of a conjunction to the Moon. As you’ve probably heard me say before, the astrological impact of an eclipse comes from the presence of the lunar nodes.

The nodes of the Moon are points in the sky where the Moon crosses the path of the […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2011-05-25T06:44:53-04:00May 25th, 2011|Astronomy, Moon|Comments Off

Full Moon in Aries, September 23 2010

The Full Moon occurs on September 23rd at 5:17 am Eastern time in the sign of Aries, balancing the Sun which has just entered Libra. Full Moons occur when the Moon is in opposition to the Sun, and oppositions require that we learn to balance opposite forces.The Aries/Libra polarity is itself concerned with finding balance and harmony (Libra) while staying firmly rooted in our own individuality (Aries). Me and you, this and that, here and there – all are differences that need to be […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2010-09-23T12:01:00-04:00September 23rd, 2010|Moon|Comments Off

The Great Zodiac Standoff

A reader posted this on the Astrodynamics Facebook page – a beautiful pictoral representation of the Cardinal Drama!

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By Lynn Hayes|2010-09-03T15:59:38-04:00September 3rd, 2010|Astrology|Comments Off

New Moon in Leo, August 9 2010

The New Moon occurs in Leo on August 9th at 11:08 pm (Eastern time). The lunation itself (the Sun/Moon conjunction) makes no aspects to any other planet, which suggests that the power of self-expression can act forcefully, unencumbered by any other influence. This is a wonderful time to start a new creative venture, or a program to market your business. Anything that puts YOU on center stage is appropriate with this New Moon.

Leo is about celebration and joy, but there is a dark side as well. […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2010-08-09T18:35:14-04:00August 9th, 2010|Moon|Comments Off

The Cardinal Drama peaks tonight

The Gilchrist Mandala

As I’ve been writing and discussing on the radio show, this is the week that the second wave of the Cardinal Drama peaks (the Cardinal signs are the signs of action and initiation: Libra, Aries, Cancer and Capricorn). Saturn is now in Libra along with Mars opposite Jupiter and Uranus in Aries, Pluto is in Capricorn.

For a few hours tonight, after the Moon enters Cancer at around 6 pm EDT, the Moon will enter the fray, opposing Pluto (180 degree aspect) and forming […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2010-08-06T14:49:33-04:00August 6th, 2010|Planetary cycles|4 Comments

Astrological news July 28,2010: the second wave

The big Cardinal alignment of the summer reaches another peak this week with Saturn already having moved into position and Mars and the Moon lining up as well. (For more information about the meanings of these alignments catch up with this earlier article on the summer’s events.)

Yesterday’s Full Moon marked the final phase of the Saturn/Uranus cycle. You can read more about that cycle here and in many articles on my blog. Suffice it to say that this period, which has lasted for nearly two years, has been […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2010-07-28T06:30:17-04:00July 28th, 2010|Planetary cycles|2 Comments

Jupiter meets Uranus and the countdown begins

(Please refrain from making scatalogical jokes!) Well folks, we’re getting down to it – the planetary drama that has been much discussed over the past few years is finally upon us. Our challenge is to be alert and aware of the impending explosion into consciousness of a new awareness and experience, without devolving into fear as change begins to spin our world around.

The countdown to the Cardinal Drama, as I like to call it, really began back in early 2008 when Pluto entered Capricorn. The Cardinal signs […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2023-12-21T16:11:24-05:00May 18th, 2010|Planetary cycles|20 Comments

Fear and the upcoming Cardinal Cross

You’ll be hearing a lot more about this planetary event over the next few months and years. Ray Merriman is calling the event the “Cardinal Climax,” and astrologer Gary Caton in this recent article in The Mountain Astrologer is calling it the “Cardinal Crisis.” This is an alignment of planets in cardinal signs that will continue to create change in our inner and outer worlds. The cardinal signs are the signs of action, and with various planets conflicting with each other in cardinal signs there will be a great deal of energy for change.

It’s easy to become afraid when we […]

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