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Planetary news this week: The SuperMoons begin!

Astrological update for the week of July 31 – August 7

Supermoons. If you’re subscribed to my Planetary Illuminations report you’ll read more about this tomorrow, but in August we are in SuperMoon season (™Richard Nolle). We have come to think of SuperMoons as being the giant white discs in the sky that occur at the Full Moon when the Moon is closest to Earth (perigee), but a New Moon can also be a SuperMoon. It’s the distance from the Moon to the Earth that creates the SuperMoon, […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2024-02-17T15:49:30-05:00July 31st, 2023|Planetary news this week|2 Comments

Planetary news this week: August 2, 2021

Astrological forecast by Lynn Hayes

Major events

This week we have the conjunction of the Sun to Mercury, one of the linchpins of the Mercury retrograde cycle (the exact conjunction was August 1st but it lingers into the beginning of the week). The Sun conjoins Mercury, planet of the mind, once as Mercury travels direct, and then again at the midpoint of the retrograde cycle. I think of the Sun as the Illuminator, shining a light into the darkness, and the Sun/Mercury combinations bring the potential for realizations and a new kind of intelligence.

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By Lynn Hayes|2021-08-02T07:39:10-04:00August 2nd, 2021|Planetary news this week|6 Comments

Weekend update July 31-August 1 2021: Sun/Mercury conjunction, and Ceres in Gemini

art by Holly Sierra

The big news this weekend is the conjunction from the Sun to Mercury. The superior (when Mercury is direct) and inferior (when Mercury is retrograde) conjunctions from the Sun to Mercury are the turning points marking the manner in which the transmission of information is conducted. This occurs at different levels – the personal: our own individual minds, the things we think about and understand, and the way we communicate with others. The mundane or political level, where nations and other social structures communicate […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2021-07-31T07:32:34-04:00July 31st, 2021|Planetary news this week|1 Comment

The meaning of Mercury in Cancer: May 28-August 4, 2020

art by Ellen Uytewaal

Mercury, the planet of messages and information, is typically in a sign for less than a month, but because of the upcoming retrograde it will remain in Cancer until August 4th. Any retrograde Mercury period is important since a retrograde planet applies greater emphasis and tends to dominate the astrological influences. This year, however, when Mercury turns retrograde on June 18th it will just one of five planets in retrograde (followed by Neptune a few days later for a total of six). You […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2020-05-29T08:17:11-04:00May 29th, 2020|Planetary cycles|3 Comments