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How to manage the square from Jupiter to Saturn, 2024-2025

We might look at Jupiter and Saturn as the two planets which help us to interact with the outer world. Unlike the other planets which describe the inner personality, Jupiter and Saturn describe the way we reach for the future with our hopes and dreams (Jupiter) and begin to master the material world (Saturn). Jupiter helps us to craft theologies and beliefs that help to give our life meaning and gives us the confidence to venture into the future; Saturn reminds us that hard work and adversity is the way to build […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2024-08-11T16:28:38-04:00August 11th, 2024|Featured posts, Planetary cycles|0 Comments

Astrological news this week:

Astrological update for the week of August 1-8, 2022

art may be by Reina Cottier

Mars/Uranus/North Node. This week will begin with the climactic conjunction of Mars to Uranus and the North Node, an event which was building last week and peaks on Monday. Mars is fiery action and Uranus is the rebellious departure from the norm, so together they make quite a team. Meanwhile the North Node calls to us from the future, asking that we make the correct choices to lead us down […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2024-02-18T10:56:44-05:00August 1st, 2022|Planetary news this week|0 Comments

Astrological update for the week of November 8, 2021: Mars and the cycle of change

As you may know, I’ve been calling the square from Saturn to Uranus the story of 2021 – the pressures between control for the sake of society (Saturn) versus the rebellion and radical motivations of Uranus. There is no more vivid representation of the Saturn/Uranus square than the global battle over masking and vaccinations during this pandemic and the extreme path which this debate has taken.

Saturn and Uranus are five degrees apart from an exact square, but the aspect is tightening over the next month until it culminates in mid-December. Every […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2024-02-18T12:17:36-05:00November 8th, 2021|Planetary news this week|5 Comments

7.5.21 – Release of stuck energy with the Sun sextile Uranus

Over the past few days we’ve had a powerful compression of planets in fixed signs conflicting with each other. Saturn square Uranus of course, the story of 2021, but Mars in Leo has been involved in that dance as well which has inflamed and activated any tension. There is a force now for change – the release of the past for the sake of the new – under Uranus which is conflicting with Saturn’s tendency to hold things back and delay until the timing is right. Over the weekend the Taurus Moon […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2021-07-05T07:44:58-04:00July 5th, 2021|Planetary news this week|0 Comments

Astrological update for the week of January 18, 2021: Inauguration astrology, a lot of Mars, and heads up for Mercury retrograde

Today’s video is not political! And I’m very relieved that the weekend did not turn out to be the chaotic disruption that was promised after January 6th so I’m hopeful for a smooth presidential transition this week after the inauguration. However, I do spend a few minutes talking about the chart for the inauguration, as well as some thoughts for how to manage these challenging times. Mercury will turn retrograde on January 30th so we might as well start to prepare now as the speed of Mercury begins to slow down. Transcript follows the promo material.

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By Lynn Hayes|2021-01-18T07:16:09-05:00January 18th, 2021|Planetary news this week|2 Comments

1.13.21. Just when we thought we were done with Mars…

art by Samuel Farrand

Mars may have left Aries, but it is pretty busy this week. Mars (aggression) squares Saturn (repression) today as the Sun approaches a conjunction to Pluto (intensity), and over the week Mars will act as a flare for the challenging square from Jupiter (expansion) to Uranus (revolution). If you’re thinking that doesn’t sound like a great planetary climate for insurrection and the breakdown of government in the United States (Pluto in Capricorn returning to its place in the US chart), you would be correct. I […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2021-01-13T07:58:21-05:00January 13th, 2021|Planetary cycles|2 Comments

1.6.21 Mars enters Taurus, finally

art by Luis Tamani

Let us all breathe a sigh of relief now that Mars will finally leave Aries at 5:27 pm on January 6th! Mars, planet of passion, anger and fire, in its own sign of Aries, has inflamed a great deal of simmering rage in the collective unconscious. Mars in Taurus can be explosive – after all, a bull is placid until it finally has had enough and then you’d better get out of the way. But it is less inflammatory, and there is an underlying […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2021-01-06T08:06:29-05:00January 6th, 2021|Planetary cycles|7 Comments

Monday astro update for the week of September 28, 2020 including the Aries Full Moon

Here’s your regular weekly update, complete with a bit more about the Aries Full Moon (but be sure to check out my complete post on this lunation which I feel will be important in helping us integrate the planetary intensity of the moment). We also have both Saturn and Pluto turning direct for more big energy shifts, and Venus moving from Leo into Virgo. I’ll also be weaving in the details of lunar influences so that you can put the whole picture together for your planning. Transcription is below, but as I always I encourage you […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2020-09-28T07:36:43-04:00September 28th, 2020|Planetary news this week|4 Comments

The Virgo New Moon and a choice for the future

photo by Mary McIntyre

Virgo is what we call a mutable sign – it’s the third in a series of signs that begin with the June solstice in Cancer and prepares us for the turning of the next season as we shift into Libra the September equinox. The dance of the “modalities” as they are called always begins at the entry into a new season with a cardinal sign of action. The second sign is of the “fixed” nature and […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2020-09-17T08:14:44-04:00September 17th, 2020|Moon|2 Comments

The dance of the Mars square to Saturn and Pluto

If you know the artist of this wonderful piece please let me know! As Mars (planet of action) pirouettes through the sky and prepares to turn retrograde on September 9th, it has already formed a challenging square to Jupiter (ideological conflict) and Pluto (power conflict). Today it makes the first of a series of squares to Saturn (repression and conflict). Interactions between Mars and Saturn are often described as the attempt to drive with the brakes on, but of course we already have that kind of scenario with so many retrograde […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2020-08-24T08:24:08-04:00August 24th, 2020|Uncategorized|0 Comments