Pluto in Capricorn Archives - Lynn Hayes astrology readings and writings

Farewell Pluto in Capricorn, 2024

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Pluto entered Capricorn in 2008 and spent 15 years in that sign of materiality and infrastructure before slipping in and out of Aquarius beginning in 2023. As the planet of creative destruction and deep transformation, as it travels through the signs Pluto uncovers and reveals the decay of human life which is ready to be eliminated. Rather like the vultures who serve as the clean-up crew after the death of an animal in the woods, Pluto’s destruction isn’t chaotic or discordant; instead it cleans up the detritus from the […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2024-11-10T07:25:52-05:00November 10th, 2024|Consciousness, Inspiration|6 Comments

It’s here: The US Pluto return

art by Jerry Lo Faro

The US Pluto return culminates this week. Some of you are familiar with the term “Saturn return” – an event which happens for everyone at age 28-30 and then again around 56-60 when Saturn returns to its position by degree in the natal chart. These are very Saturnian events – times when we need to face responsibilities and hard facts as we transition into the next phase of life.

The Pluto return occurs when Pluto returns to its position in the natal chart. Pluto takes 248 […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2023-04-07T07:43:33-04:00February 20th, 2022|Featured posts, Politics|10 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

When the King of the Gods meets the King of the Underworld: Jupiter conjunct Pluto in 2020

Jupiter is the planet from which the kindly word “jovial” derives and which is said to act as the Greater Benefic in the lives of men. It expands our world both physically and mentally, instilling a desire for greater knowledge and high philosophies. As a result, Jupiter has a tendency to constantly be pushing boundaries (boundaries are associated with Saturn) and resists responsibility in the name of freedom. Under the influence of Jupiter we seek to know god, or to be god as the quality of hubris is woven […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2020-04-01T13:11:33-04:00April 1st, 2020|Planetary cycles|5 Comments

The meaning of Saturn in Aquarius

art by Krystle Marie Smith

Before we can understand the meaning of Saturn in Aquarius, we need to understand Saturn’s role in human existence. This is especially important because as the traditional ruler of Aquarius, Saturn is said to be in its domicile in Aquarius (as well as in Capricorn).

Understanding astrological Saturn

Before the discovery of the modern planets Uranus, Neptune and Pluto (not to mention Chiron, the asteroids, and all of the other points that are now used to some extent by astrologers) there were seven planets […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2020-03-20T19:35:31-04:00March 20th, 2020|Featured posts, Planetary cycles|2 Comments

How the next recession will happen: An astrological view

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Economists struggle to understand the ebb and flow of markets and attempt to find reasons why a market will expand and contract. Astrologers have better tools. They’re not perfect enough to depend on for day to day trading – there are too many variables. One’s own planetary cycles, the peculiarities of each individual company, the global atmosphere and how each individual nation is affected by planetary cycles. But what we can do is observe the larger planetary cycles to predict a general atmosphere of expansion and then contraction.

While […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2019-10-13T11:31:00-04:00October 23rd, 2019|Money and markets|1 Comment

The Fifth Sacred Thing and Water Wars

In 1993 Starhawk, an early spokesperson for the neo-pagan movement, wrote a book called The Fifth Sacred Thing. In this post-apocalyptic novel, set in San Francisco, a theocratic dictatorship has seized all of the assets of the earth: air, food and water, and is the sole source of pharmaceutical antidotes for the ecological poisons they themselves create. The Fifth Sacred Thing is Spirit, after the four elements of Earth, Air, Fire and Water.

It is a scenario that is not so far-fetched today, but in 1993 a world such as this seemed […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2019-10-11T17:12:13-04:00October 19th, 2019|Ecology|0 Comments

Mania and depression in the financial markets

Earlier in December I wrote about the stock market roller coaster of the past year, and since then it’s gotten even crazier, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average careening from 23,693 on December 19th to a low of 21,721 on December 26th, and zooming up over 1000 points yesterday, the biggest single increase in history.

I lay the blame for this erratic volatility partly on the last gasp of Uranus, planet of disruption, traveling through the fiery sign of Aries for the last time through the end of February.

Meanwhile Jupiter (the […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2018-12-27T09:16:26-05:00December 27th, 2018|Money and markets|6 Comments

The astrology of the 2018 US stock market rollercoaster

If you’ve been reading this blog, you’ll remember that the financial collapse of 2008 coincided with the entry of Pluto, planet of destruction and regeneration, into the contracting sign of Capricorn after spending 13 expansive years in optimistic Sagittarius.

At the end of December 2017, Saturn (tests, challenges and the reality principle) moved into its own sign of Capricorn which tends to make people somewhat cautious and risk-averse. The first big dip of the year took place between February 1st and 5th under a challenging aspect from Venus to Jupiter. Venus and Jupiter […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2018-12-18T17:13:36-05:00December 17th, 2018|Money and markets|2 Comments

Jupiter in Sagittarius: Prepare for adventure! November 2018 – December 2019

Jupiter left intense Scorpio for sunny Sagittarius on November 8, 2018, a planetary shift heralded around the world with the superlatives you would associate with a planet as big as Jupiter entering a sign as happy as Sagittarius. Astrological headlines declare “Outgoing, lucky and limitless”; “the upgrade your life needs”; “Getting to Yes”; “taking you on a beautiful adventure.” Everyone loves Jupiter, the planet of good fortune, luck and abundance.