Astrological Musings

Here’s the link to the Planetary Illuminations for August 2010, and here is a tidbit to get you started for the month: August begins in the middle of the second wave of the Cardinal Drama, as I’m calling it. Mars has entered Libra, conjoining Saturn and opposing Jupiter and Uranus. The effect of these four…

The worst of the astrological storm is over, and in today’s radio show we’ll be looking ahead at the upcoming planetary cycles that will carry us into the next phase.  How can we use this powerful energy we’ve been experiencing?  What steps can we take to bring lasting change into our lives where alterations are…

Illustration by Daniel Marsula For the next week or so we will be living with Mars and Saturn conjunct in Libra.  Libra is normally a lovely sign – it is concerned with fairness, equality, peace and harmony, beauty and an aesthetically pleasing environment.  But when Mars gets into Libra it likes to stir things up.…

by Lynn Hayes The big Cardinal alignment of the summer reaches another peak this week with Saturn already having moved into position and Mars and the Moon lining up as well.  (For more information about the meanings of these alignments catch up with this earlier article on the summer’s events.) Yesterday’s Full Moon marked the final phase…

As Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Pluto align in the big Cardinal Drama that is 2010’s biggest astrological story, a shocking revelation of 90,000 classified intelligence report concerning the war in Afghanistan have  been leaked via the Wikileaks website: WikiLeaks.org — a whistleblower website — published on Sunday what it says are more than 90,000 United States military…

Catch up on Part 1 here Beginning in 1954 when Tupperware parties began putting money in the pockets of housewives and Playboy Magazine began sowing seeds of dissatisfaction in the lusty hearts of suburban dads, the ground was being fertilized for the sexual revolution that was to come later in the 1960s.  Saturn continued to…

A reader on my Facebook page suggested a connection between Saturn in Libra and the sexual revolution.  Saturn was actually in Libra between 1950 and 1953, placing it a little earlier than the actual sexual revolution which we typically think of occurring in the 1960s along with all of the other revolutions brought about by the conjunction…

Saturn went into Libra, and I found these links on my Facebook page this afternoon: Safety of cosmetics video on Democracy Now The Story of Cosmetics on Youtube A site called Truth in Aging And a new bill proposed in Congress for safe cosmetics It appears that safe cosmetics is a theme for the upcoming…

by Lynn Hayes Libra by Evelicious Saturn first entered Libra in late October of 2009, but then retrograded back into Virgo in March, cleaning up issues of healthcare reform and other mundane details of life and the tender ecological balance that holds our body, mind and spirit together.  Saturn’s passage through Virgo encouraged thrift and…

Just what we need for our overworked and internet-addicted minds as Uranus retrogrades back into Pisces and completes its blurring of the boundaries (Pisces) between technology (Uranus) and reality! Meditation is known to help the mind, body and soul, and new research shows it can also improve attention span. Researchers at the University of California…

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