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Planetary news this week: Virgo season, Pisces Full Moon, much more!

Astrological update for the week of August 21-18, 2023

There’s a lot to unpack this week! Grab a coffee or cup of tea and let’s get cracking.

Sun enters Virgo August 23. The Sun’s entry into Virgo technically marks the beginning of Virgo season, but with Mercury and Mars already in Virgo the focus on order and the world of the mundane is already well underway. The shift from Leo to Virgo will help to soothe some of the fiery energies that have been flying around lately – the only planet left […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2024-02-17T15:47:57-05:00August 21st, 2023|Planetary news this week|0 Comments

Astrological news this week: Mars enters Gemini and the Uranus station

Astrological update for the week of August 15-22, 2022

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What is the Uranus station? Every planet appears to travel retrograde at some time or another – the outer planets (Uranus, Neptune and Pluto) are retrograde for about half the year. Saturn and Jupiter turn retrograde about once a year. Mars turns retrograde about every two years, Venus about every eighteen months, and Mercury about every three months. Obviously planets don’t really travel retrograde, but geocentric astrology observes the motion of the planets from Earth and we interpret the symbolism […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2024-02-18T10:55:49-05:00August 15th, 2022|Uncategorized|0 Comments

Sunday Inspiration: Take the perspective of an eagle for a broader view

Susan Seddon Boulet

What a time we are living in! And this week is particularly powerful: a Full Moon at the 29th degree of Aquarius, the modern ruler of Aquarius (Uranus) stationary in the sky having just turned retrograde. Under the modern rulership of Uranus, the Aquarian energy opens up portals of energy and make it difficult to sleep. Uranus is known as the Awakener, and sometimes we have to take that quite literally! So today I offer you this piece of wisdom as we take the leap […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2021-08-22T08:11:26-04:00August 22nd, 2021|Inspiration|13 Comments

Astrological forecast for the week of August 16, 2021: Retrograde season and a Full Moon

There is a lot going on this week, so grab a cup of coffee or tea and let’s get started!

Retrograde season. This week Uranus turns retrograde, but it has been virtually stationary at 14 degrees Taurus for six weeks. When a planet prepares for a direction change it appears to be at a standstill, just like a car that is making a U-turn. At that time its influence can be the most potent, especially if it is hitting a sensitive point in your chart (anywhere from 10-20 degrees of the fixed […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2021-08-16T07:41:58-04:00August 16th, 2021|Planetary news this week|7 Comments

Sunday inspiration for Uranus turning retrograde

Uranus is the planet that encourages us to let go of the old, the stale, the familiar worn out habits which no longer serve us. Instead, Uranus urges, be you! Be the unique and wonderful creature that sets you apart. Go ahead and dance to the beat of a different drum. Wear purple and wear a red hat – whatever it is that encourages your individuality and liberation from the expectations of others and the outworn routines of daily life. Uranus urges, WAKE UP!!

I recently discovered this wonderful poet Alexandra Elle, and I love this list that […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2021-08-14T18:53:36-04:00August 15th, 2021|Inspiration|0 Comments

Prepare for August’s planetary twists and turns

Although it’s the solar eclip se on August 21 that is making all the headlines, a more important planetary dynamic is the fact that three planets change direction in August: Uranus, Mercury and Saturn.

Planets of course don’t really change the direction of their orbit, but from our perspective here on earth sometimes the planets appear to move backwards which we call retrograde. When they reverse course again to move forwards we call that direct.

On August 3rd Uranus, planet of radical change […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2017-08-02T09:59:46-04:00August 2nd, 2017|Planetary cycles|2 Comments

Adventures with Uranus/Pluto: The vortex of the powerful cycle of change

Art by Ruysen Flores Venancino

In astrological language, the powerful planetary cycle involving a challenging square between Uranus and Pluto is culminating this week. The fact that Mars is involved, needling Uranus into explosions where restriction has become untenable, and pressuring Pluto to effect its destructive influence and clear the decks completely, makes this week even more intense.

This is the first Uranus/Pluto event since the cycle began in 2011 when the planets came within a degree of the exact alignment, in which neither of the two […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2016-07-29T06:43:38-04:00March 11th, 2015|Planetary cycles|0 Comments

Musings on Uranus as he retrogrades today

Painting by Gay Nichols. As one of the outer planets, what I like to call the “transformational” planets, Uranus turns retrograde for about half the year, every years. This ebb and flow of planets moving forward and then retreating before moving on again is a natural part of life and if we are able to slow down the rush of our thoughts we can find ourselves rocking to the rhythm of this eternal planetary wisdom. This is very much like the seashore, where the waves flow in and recede again, […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2013-07-17T06:50:34-04:00July 17th, 2013|Astrology|7 Comments

Mercury retrograde roundup: Wild times

I knew this would be a tough Mercury Retrograde period when I wrote this post. With Mercury and Uranus turning retrograde on the same day, we were bound to be in for some surprising (Uranus) twists of fate and weird events and we are certainly seeing that in some corners of the world, especially in the highly charged electrical atmosphere of yesterday’s Full Moon in Aquarius.

A software glitch cost Knight Capital, a trading firm, £290M in trading losses when the automated system sold all of […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2012-08-02T17:14:12-04:00August 2nd, 2012|Astrology in the news|14 Comments

Planetary news this week: expect intensity

Storm Brewing by Mikey Studios. Rebellious Uranus in a challenging square to intensely transformational Pluto. Mercury and Uranus, the two planets of the mind, have just turned retrograde. A coronal mass ejection from the Sun has hit the Earth’s magnetic field, causing alterations to the Earth’s magnetosphere and a spike in the planetary K index of geomagnetic activity (to a 6 at the time of this writing). But wait, there’s more! Jupiter is moving into an awkward aspect (quincunx) to Pluto this week. This is not a major aspect […]