Eris Archives - Lynn Hayes astrology readings and writings

Sunday poetry: May your trails be winding and full of wonder

Over the next few days the North Node, the point which marks the gatepost to the future, will connect with the new planet Eris named for the Goddess of Discord. Eris and Pluto have been in a square aspect since January 2020 and I think we can all agree that the last three years have been fairly discordant.

In honor of the transformation that creative chaos can bring, I offer this poem. The predictable offers a sense of safety and security and the comfort of knowing what comes next, but the discordant aspects of life have the potential […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2023-08-06T08:17:30-04:00August 6th, 2023|Inspiration|2 Comments

Weekend update May 22, 2021: Saturn turns retrograde and an intense Sunday ⭐️

art by Jim Fitzpatrick

Like all planets Saturn has two faces, both Beast and Prince. As Beast, he brings out our doubts and insecurities and bestows hardships. As Prince, the self-doubt and endurance required to manage the Beastly enterprises which result in successes and mastery. Saturn is in Aquarius, one of its rulership signs where it is happiest and best able to create the forms and structures which are required in order to build societies (Aquarius) that are effective and well-balanced. Saturn cares little for personal feelings; the ultimate […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2024-02-18T18:58:13-05:00May 22nd, 2021|Planetary news this week|0 Comments

1.29.21 Voices from the Dark Feminine

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As the brilliance of the Leo Full Moon begins to fade, we have an exact conjunction of the Black Moon Lilith to Eris. The Black Moon Lilith, a theoretical point which relates to the Moon, is connected to themes of feminine rage reflecting the story of Lilith, Adam’s first wife, who refusing to submit to her husband was sent to the wilderness without her children and spent the past few thousand years wailing in frustration and anger. The oppression of women under a patriarchal system has become a stronger […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2021-01-28T20:39:26-05:00January 29th, 2021|Planetary cycles, Planetary news this week|4 Comments

Juno and the Black Moon Lilith tell an important story right now

There is an astonishing amount of planetary energies in the sky right now. To recap, we have had three planets tightly wound together in the stable, grounded sign of Capricorn since the spring of 2020 (Jupiter, Pluto, Saturn), creating restriction and pressure for responsibility and the supremacy of societal organizations. Mars (action and desire) is in its own sign of Aries where it is most powerful, about to turn retrograde, in a challenging aspect to the Capricorn planets and challenging their authority and attempts to create order.

Neptune (inspiring transcendence and spiritual […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2020-09-15T17:01:11-04:00September 15th, 2020|Planetary cycles|1 Comment

Pluto turns direct, and what’s next

Art by Sam Brown

As you may have read in these pages and elsewhere, the outer planets travel retrograde for about half the year, every year so that’s not so unusual. This year Pluto turned retrograde (it appeared to travel backwards from our perspective on Earth) at 23 degrees back in April, and traveled only three degrees since then. In preparation for its retrograde turn it has come to a virtual standstill and is beaming down its Plutonian pressure for change, transformation and letting go.

While Pluto has been traveling through Capricorn, […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2019-10-03T03:55:34-04:00October 3rd, 2019|Planetary cycles|3 Comments

Sunday inspiration: Feeding the Wolf with Eris and Pluto

Deviant Art. Today the Sun aligns with Eris (disruption) which is in a challenging square to both Pluto (destruction/regeneration) and Saturn (tests and challenges), which flank the South Node of the past. The symbolism of Eris as the goddess who became angry when she didn’t receive a wedding invitation and retaliated by starting the Trojan War was eerily reflected in the fact that the discovery of Eris correlated to the time when a hanging chad changed the fate of US history and ushered in […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2019-04-14T06:59:46-04:00April 14th, 2019|Inspiration|4 Comments

The Eris-Uranus conjunction of 2015-2017

(Album Art from “All Hail Discordia” by Divine Right.) If the global situation seems crazy and insane (and it does!) we can blame it on the conjunction between Eris and Uranus in the warrior sign of Aries, a conjunction that began in 2015.

Eris is a small planet that was discovered in 2003. Her Roman name was Discordia – she is the goddess who, when not invited to a wedding, began the Trojan War by throwing a golden apple marked “for the fairest” into a circle of goddesses, […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2018-01-04T08:45:19-05:00September 9th, 2016|Planetary cycles|7 Comments

The astrological quandary of new planet discoveries

Image by Vivek Sonar

Each time a new planet has been discovered, it has opened a new doorway in the field of astrology. For thousands of years the visible planets told the entire astrological story, and life was considered to a march towards one inevitable destiny. The planetary story of the natal chart was either exalted or debilitated, and one was forced to resign oneself to fate.

Beginning in the late 18th century with the discovery of Uranus, the astrological landscape began to change. A flurry of revolutionary […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2018-08-04T08:31:05-04:00October 18th, 2015|Astrology, Science|2 Comments

Astrology, the Kepler telescope, and extrasolar planets

The orbiting Kepler telescope has spotted a Jupiter-sized planet around another star — a sighting that demonstrates it can see Earth-like planets if they are out there, scientists reported on Thursday.

The planet, called HAT-P-7b, was already among the 300 or so known so-called extrasolar planets, the team led by the U.S. space agency NASA reported. But measurements of its orbit by Kepler show the telescope will be able to see smaller planets, they reported in the journal Science.

“Kepler is operating at the level required to detect Earth-size planets,” the team, […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2020-11-03T13:44:45-05:00August 5th, 2009|Astrology, Astronomy|Comments Off

Eris is bigger than Pluto!

The new planet Eris has been found to be 27% larger than Pluto, causing some astronomers to joke about Pluto not being able to catch a break. As astrologers know, however, size doesn’t matter – despite it’s tiny size, Pluto packs a powerful wallop.

I have done just a little work with Eris in charts where it forms tight aspects to other planets and haven’t been able to get a clear sense of how it works. From the lack of published material on the subject, neither has anyone else! On the other hand, not every planet […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2018-11-19T21:27:36-05:00June 17th, 2007|Astronomy|Comments Off