Saturn in Libra Archives - Lynn Hayes astrology readings and writings

The Mars/Saturn conjunction 2012: how afraid should we be?

Mars Saturn conjunction clip from the film “Mars Attacks”

Astrologers love to forecast doom and gloom for some reason, and in today’s world of intense energy shifts and change many readers of things astrological tend to filter astrological information through their lens of fear. I have a mission to dispel this astrological anxiety, and what better time to do this than now.

Mars and Saturn are nearing a conjunction (alignment) in the sky – they will be at the same degree of Libra on August 15th. Traditional and Vedic astrology consider both […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2012-08-11T09:48:43-04:00August 11th, 2012|Astrology|22 Comments

Saturn in Libra meets Pluto in Capricorn: The Marriage Amendment

gay marriage astrology Here in North Carolina citizens are voting on a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage. I have been listening to some of the conservative talk radio shows in an attempt to find out the reasoning behind the necessity for this amendment.

It seems to me that if people are so concerned about the sanctity of marriage the first thing to be outlawed should be divorce. This is really less about marriage and more about the perceived “wrongness” of homosexuality. But since we are in a Saturn in Libra phase where […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2012-04-27T05:23:58-04:00April 27th, 2012|Life|0 Comments

More friendship advice from Saturn in Libra

If you live in North Carolina you can visit me this weekend at the Body Mind Spirit Expo in Raleigh at the fairgrounds (Kerr Scott Building). We have lots of beautiful rocks and crystals for sale, and I’ll be doing readings and mini readings.

Meanwhile, in other Saturn-related relationship news, researchers in Edinburgh studied 200 students to determine their feelings about Facebook friends. At least 12% of them were anxious about their Facebook obligations, and that 12% had an average of 117 “friends.” The remaining 88% had an average of […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2011-02-26T06:57:26-05:00February 26th, 2011|Life|1 Comment

Saturn Rx in Libra: Facebook relationship news

In Libra, Saturn likes to codify relationships. Saturn after all is the planet of structure and form, and Libra is the sign of relationships and connections. Saturn turned retrograde a few weeks ago, so it is now appearing to move backwards from our point of view here on Planet Earth, turning our attention back to areas of life that need tweaking and realignment so that they can be most effective.

So it’s not surprising that Facebook took this opportunity to adjust its definition of relationships, adding “civil unions” to the […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2011-02-22T07:25:12-05:00February 22nd, 2011|Relationships|Comments Off

Saturn retrograde, January 2011

The other day I wrote about the expansive energy of Jupiter moving into Aries, but we are also dealing with a more contracting influence at the same time: the retrograde turn of Saturn.

(Astrology lesson: Because of the way we view the motion of the planets from earth, they sometimes appear to move backward and we call that retrograde. When a planet is appearing to change direction, its motion slows down and we call that “stationary.” At that time its influence is often particularly powerful.)

Saturn governs hard work, […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2011-01-26T08:31:51-05:00January 26th, 2011|Astrology|Comments Off

Saturn in Libra: The Gift of Beauty

We often think of Saturn as the “Celestial Taskmaster,” and grumble about his tests, challenges, delays and disappointments. But we sometimes forget that he is also the giver of wisdom and the kind of strength that comes through overcoming adversity and difficult situations.

Beth Owl’s Daughter wrote a beautiful post about the Gift of Beauty in All Things that includes these words of wisdom:

Blessed is your gift of Beauty in all things,
and the beautiful body and spirit you have given me,
With which I am able to celebrate, create and participate.

This bead in my gratitude prayer beads can be a […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2010-12-11T08:10:53-05:00December 11th, 2010|Life|2 Comments

The United States Saturn Return

Every thirty years, Saturn returns to its place in the birthchart and that is no less true for national charts than it is for the charts of individuals. The “Saturn Return” is a time that requires the celebration of Saturnian characteristics: solitude, hard work, facing up to the hard cold realities of life.

Saturn in the US chart is at 14 degrees Libra (see this earlier article for more details about the US chart and why I use the Sibley chart with Sagittarius rising), so the Saturn […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2010-10-26T16:05:55-04:00October 26th, 2010|Politics, Saturn Return|2 Comments

Saturn in Libra and musings on Mad Men and beauty

Libra is ruled by Venus, and Venus is the goddess of love and beauty. Venus bestows the power of attraction, and this includes physical attractiveness as well as personal magnetism. With Saturn in Libra, our ideas of beauty and our ability to relate to others are tested, and those of us with Saturn in Libra are tested in our individual lives.

I was disturbed by the Mad Men finale the other night in which Don Draper threw aside his carefully crafted veneer of intelligent pragmatism and fell hook line and sinker […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2010-10-20T20:41:18-04:00October 20th, 2010|Life|Comments Off

Saturn in Libra: Testing the boundaries of marriage

Saturn as we know presides over structures that we create in our world and in our society, such as the institutions of government and marriage, which is a formalized relationship that is sanctioned by the State. Libra is the sign of relationships between things, ideas, and people. So when Saturn travels through Libra, the limits (Saturn) of relationships (Libra) are tested.

My generation has Saturn in Libra, and we were the first generation to question the need for marriage – much to the consternation of our parents, the Pluto in […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2010-10-17T18:39:54-04:00October 17th, 2010|Relationships, Religion|Comments Off

The astrology of Proposition 8

Yesterday’s ruling by a federal district judge overturning Proposition 8 occurred in the midst of a big planetary lineup involving Mars, Saturn, Jupiter, Saturn and Pluto. Proposition 8 (the California Marriage Protection Act) restricted the state’s definition of marriage to opposite-sex couples and invalidated all same-sex marriages that had occurred in the state prior to that time.

The election of November of 2008 that passed Proposition 8 coincided with the first opposition between Saturn (conventional thinking and morality) and Uranus (liberation and the breaking free from the status quo). This was […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2010-08-05T06:22:27-04:00August 5th, 2010|Astrology, Politics|3 Comments