Uranus Square Pluto Archives - Lynn Hayes astrology readings and writings

RIP Peter Fonda and Woodstock: An end, finally, to the 1960s

There are few more iconic images of the 1960s (or what astrologers call the Uranus Pluto conjunction) than Peter Fonda in the film Easy Rider and the Woodstock music festival. Both took place in 1969, technically after the end of the big planetary conjunction that brought together the planet of radical change and destroyer of the status quo (Uranus) and the planet of destruction and total transformation (Pluto) in the sign of convention and conservative […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2023-03-02T12:52:05-05:00August 17th, 2019|People, Popular Culture|2 Comments

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

“When will we see the end of these difficult planetary cycles?”

Someone left this question in a comment recently, and I quite frequently hear this question from clients. It’s a difficult one to answer because there are so many layers of planetary cycles that begin on the personal level with your own astrological chart that is affected by planetary movements. Then we have the astrological chart of the nation in which we live that undergoes planetary cycles which affect the political landscape. Expanding even further, we have the dances of the slower moving planets including Saturn, Chiron, and the outer planets […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2017-04-11T08:14:25-04:00April 11th, 2017|Astrology, Planetary cycles|2 Comments

The Mars effect, February 2017: Stocks, politics and personal power

“Event Unknown”

Mars went into Aries on January 28th and will remain in that fiery sign of will and adventure through March 9th. While in Aries, Mars is at its most potent and the aggressive force is permitted full expression, unhampered by the niceties of signs like Libra or Pisces, by practical considerations such as Capricorn and Taurus would exercise, or by reason and intellectual processing such as Gemini and Aquarius would instigate. It is pure, unadulterated need and drive.

Mars is also bold and especially in Aries, does […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2019-11-10T19:50:55-05:00February 21st, 2017|Planetary cycles|11 Comments

The Astrology of 2017: An Overview

Looking for a listing of all planetary events for 2017? You will find it here.

The magic of astrology operates on a variety of different levels – at the microcosmic levels the movement of the planets affect our daily lives and define the trends that mark our passage through time. Those periods where we feel like everything is difficult? A Saturn cycle. The times when everything falls out of our grasp and we are forced to start anew whether we like it or not? Blame it […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2016-12-31T12:51:10-05:00December 31st, 2016|Astrology|6 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

Capricorn New Moon at the Solstice: The dark point of stillness

Capricorn New Moon Winter Solstice Art by Sherri Conley

“The black moment is the moment when the real message of transformation is going to come. At the darkest moment comes the light.” – Joseph Campbell 

The Capricorn New Moon will occur just six minutes after the moment of the Winter Solstice – the point at which the Sun moves into Capricorn in the tropical system. The three days before the Winter Solstice are the darkest days of the year in the northern hemisphere. […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2019-11-10T19:50:18-05:00December 20th, 2014|Moon|1 Comment

A Pope for the Uranus/Pluto square

Pope Francis astrology As you know if you’ve been reading the astrological news in the past few years, we are now in the waning phase of a square aspect (90 degrees) between Uranus and Pluto. You can read more about this phase in the sidebar of this blog if this concept is new to you, and you may want to catch up on this post about the Uranus/Pluto square from last year detailing the news events that correlate […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2018-06-11T12:22:43-04:00November 11th, 2014|Planetary cycles, Religion|3 Comments

New Year, New Moon!

Photo by Steve Matteo

The beginning of 2014 brings us a powerful New Moon in Capricorn, with a Grand Cross in the cardinal (action) signs. Cardinal signs are initiators – they inspire leadership and movement and are just the thing to motivate the kind of goals and dreams that the New Year tends to foster.

This New Moon is a Supermoon (this term is in common usage today but was actually coined by astrologer Richard Nolle) because it is at its closest point to Earth. It’s typically the Full Moons […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2022-09-13T12:29:05-04:00January 1st, 2014|Moon|4 Comments

A look back at the astrology of 2013

“The Tower” by Linda Ravenscroft

Salon posted an article the other year entitled “The year in Misery, 2013.”

As a year marked by revelation (and authoritarian attempts to quash revelation), 2013 was a big year for misery — making known and felt our troubling state of current of affairs.

This quote accurately describes one aspect of the intense square (90 degree) aspect between Uranus and Pluto that has been driving the global astrology since 2011. Uranus in Aries breaks down the status quo and creates […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2018-06-11T12:23:20-04:00December 31st, 2013|Planetary cycles|0 Comments