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Musings on hate, violence and healing

In the early days after I started this blog in 2005 I found it interesting to profile people in the news. Primarily this was for my own interest in order to explore the motivations of people who do weird things, but also to illustrate in real life the value of astrological understanding. In attempting to understand the minds of criminals, I would often profile individuals who committed appalling acts of violence. But over the past few years, the number of mass shootings has increased to such a degree that I can […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2018-10-29T15:05:31-04:00October 29th, 2018|Crime, Life|12 Comments

The seeds of the Capricorn stellium are blooming now

Steven Forrest has posted a lovely video discussing the travel of Uranus, Neptune and Saturn through Capricorn in the 1980s and 1990s and you can watch it here. Steven was my first teacher and I respect him greatly – his books The Inner Sky and The Changing Sky are required reading for beginners and really, for anyone who hasn’t read them.

In the video Steven discusses the humans that were born when Uranus and Neptune were in Capricorn during this […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2019-11-10T19:22:37-05:00October 15th, 2018|Featured posts, Planetary cycles|99 Comments

Low esteem and materialism go hand in hand

updated from 2007.

Researchers have found that low self-esteem and materialism are not just a correlation, but also a causal relationship where low self esteem increases materialism, and materialism can also create low self-esteem. The also found that as self esteem increases, materialism decreases. The study primarily focused on how this relationship affects children and adolescents. Lan Nguyen Chaplin (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) and Deborah Roedder John (University of Minnesota) found that even a simple gesture to raise self-esteem dramatically decreased materialism, which provides a way to cope with insecurity.

“By the time […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2019-11-10T19:09:05-05:00July 18th, 2018|Life|1 Comment

In praise of hierarchy: A tale of the Uranus/Pluto square

In case you missed it, ever since Pluto entered Capricorn in 2008, followed by Uranus entering Aries in 2010, these two planets were locked in a challenging aspect that inspired and motivated the change that we have seen between 2010 and 2017. (You can catch up here if this is all new to you.)

I always find it interesting when the zeitgeist (defined: the defining spirit or mood of a particular period of history as shown by the ideas and beliefs of the time) reflects for the mainstream thinker the planetary cycles […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2018-01-07T18:45:55-05:00January 7th, 2018|Future Shock, Life|2 Comments

The Astrology of 2018 – What can we expect?

Over the past ten years the people of planet Earth have experienced a cataclysmic shift that has affected virtually every area of human life. Pluto (planet of deep transformational forces) changed signs in 2008, moving from expansive Sagittarius which embraced migration and “one world” culture as well as celebrity and theology into the contracting sign of Capricorn which insists on being practical and creating strong foundations that can’t be buffeted around by the whims of the world. Pluto then was drawn into a protracted conflict with Uranus, planet of […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2019-02-03T08:43:42-05:00December 30th, 2017|Planetary cycles|8 Comments

Pluto in Capricorn: The Death of Capitalism?

Astrologer Richard Nolle posted a link to this article on Facebook:

At the very moment of its ultimate triumph, capitalism will experience the most exquisite of deaths.

This is the belief of political adviser and author Jeremy Rifkin, who argues the current economic system has become so successful at lowering the costs of production that it has created the very conditions for the destruction of the traditional vertically integrated corporation.

Rifkin, who has advised the European Commission, the European Parliament and heads of state, […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2020-07-31T09:49:26-04:00July 12th, 2016|Future Shock, Money and markets|7 Comments

Uranus/Pluto: The Freelance Economy

When Pluto entered the sign of Capricorn in 2008, there was a huge contraction in the business world as well as a global recession, and many people lost their jobs. Pluto creates major shifts in the affairs of the sign through which it travels, and Capricorn is the sign of the structures that create the foundation on which we live. Corporations, governments, economic structures – all of these are under Capricorn’s domain.

In 2009, Entrepreneur magazine ran this article:

When the economic sky fell last year and CEOs […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2014-06-27T08:57:44-04:00June 27th, 2014|Life, Money and markets|4 Comments

Pluto in Capricorn – can Google conquer death?

Before Pluto’s discovery bestowed on him the title of the Lord of Death, that role was occupied by the planet Saturn. Pluto’s role in the concept of death has to do with the surrender of life as we know it and the regeneration of something else in its place. Saturn forces us to deal with the difficult questions and the hard aspects of life, reminding us that life is short and that death is at the door.

Saturn is the ruler of the sign Capricorn, and since 2008 Pluto has […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2014-05-16T06:05:24-04:00May 16th, 2014|Death, Life|2 Comments

The Fifth Sacred Thing and upcoming 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|2013-09-06T07:30:49-04:00September 6th, 2013|Ecology, Future Shock|0 Comments

We are the leaders now

Tina Malia’s voice and music is expansive and opens the heart and soul to the yearning for awakening and the hope that transformation is truly possible, for the planet and for all people. This video is of the beautiful song Heal this Land.

In “Leading with Vision and Trust” Warren Bennis writes:

Why did India’s poor march to the sea with Gandhi against the salt tax? Because they trusted him. Trust is based on predictability: trusted leaders make themselves known and make their positions clear. Four leadership qualities together engender trust:

Vision

Empathy

Consistency

Integrity

Creating a vision

Leaders manage the dream: […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2021-07-25T07:05:55-04:00August 3rd, 2013|Inspiration|1 Comment