Kuiper belt Archives - Lynn Hayes astrology readings and writings

Fighting for Pluto’s right to be a planet

Astrologers chuckle when we hear people say that Pluto is no longer a planet. Try telling that to someone going through a gnawingly agonizing Pluto transit! But ever since Pluto was reclassified (some say “demoted”) a few years ago, a small but very vocal contingent of astronomers is fighting to classify Pluto as a planet once again.

One of these astronomers is Alan Stern, who was interviewed by Space.com:

Just because Pluto orbits with many other dwarf planets doesn’t change what it is, just […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2023-12-03T11:14:12-05:00December 2nd, 2010|Astronomy|Comments Off

Chiron in Pisces: The bliss of healing

Chiron moves into the sign of Pisces today. Chiron is an interesting planetary body whose orbit lies in the Kuiper belt. But just as Chiron was not an ordinary Centaur even though he was half horse and half man, Chiron is not just an ordinary KBO (Kuiper Belt Object). For more information on the planetary properties of Chiron visit this earlier article, and here you’ll find more information on the astrological Chiron.

Today Chiron leaves Aquarius for the sign of Pisces. […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2023-11-27T14:23:57-05:00April 21st, 2010|Planetary cycles|5 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

Is Chiron an asteroid? A comet? Or what?

Chiron the healer

Chiron was discovered in the late 1970s, and although many astrologers still seem not to include it in their practice, it has been an important part of my work for over 20 years.

Chiron is an important part of the planetary energy that is taking place right now since it is locked into the conjunction with Neptuneand the soon to be separating Jupiter. You can read more about the astrological Chiron here. Astrologers sometimes categorize Chiron with the other asteroids: Vesta, Juno, Hygeia, Astraea, and thousands more […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2020-11-03T13:35:11-05:00July 8th, 2009|Astrology|Comments Off

Ceres may be an impersonator!!

Thanks to Astrococktail for the link to this article.Last year Ceres was reclassified as a planet along with Pluto and the new planet Eris as a “dwarf planet,” and most recently as a “Plutoid.”

Ceres has an interesting history: when it was first discovered scientists hailed Ceres as a new planet, but then after Neptune was discovered and it was much larger, Ceres was […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2019-11-10T19:32:01-05:00July 26th, 2008|Astronomy|Comments Off

Pluto – no longer a planet?

For several years now, scientists have been threatening to remove Pluto’s “planet” status because it has turned out to be much smaller than originally thought when it was discovered in 1930. Scientists now believe that Pluto may be a member of the Kuiper belt band of rocky objects that orbit the Sun just past Neptune. The International Astronomers Union meets today in the Prague to decide whether Pluto can keep its title. If Pluto is declassified as a planet, will it lose its astrological symbolism as well?

Anyone who has ever monitored the timing of a transit of […]

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