Astrological Musings

by Lynn Hayes A reader writes: I was born under the sign of LEO. I think I have two other planets in LEO. I can tell you that I am far from a LEO. In areas that I should be strong because of my LEO traits, I am often handicapped by fear/anxiety. At times I…

by Lynn Hayes This came as no surprise to me, but it’s interesting to see an article like this in the Wall Street Journal: Dorothy Lee and her husband of 40 years were driving home from a Bible study group one wintry night when their car suddenly hit the curb. Mrs. Lee looked at her…

by Lynn Hayes Representative John Murtha of Pennsylvania, who was one of the more outspoken critics of the Iraq War, died yesterday from complications of gallbladder surgery.  I profiled him back in 2005 in this article.  Murtha had a nearly exact conjunction of Mars (aggression and war) to Chiron (wounding and healing), and transiting Chiron…

by Lynn Hayes This article is written for the Eastern time zone, please adapt to your own locality Venus is conjunct Neptune on the 8th – a wonderful time for creativity and dreams but rather less suitable for practical work or mental focus especially with the Moon in Sagittarius. Moon enters Capricorn on Tuesday the…

This week’s radio show is on forecasting.  Why do we call them “transits”?  What are progressions, anyway?  We’ll be talking about a variety of tools that astrologers use to look into the future. You can listen on the internet using the player below (before 11 am EST on Sunday it will play last week’s show),…

by Lynn Hayes photo manipulation by Vandelay Design.   Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know that popular mythology says that the Mayan long count calendar will end on December 21, 2012 and therefore the world will probably end too.   Many cultures break the aeons of time into smaller and more manageable…

by Lynn Hayes Fans of the planet Pluto will find this pretty interesting: Pluto is not simply a ball of ice and rock but a dynamic world that undergoes dramatic atmospheric changes. While they believe the changes are driven by the seasons, it may mostly come from how quickly things can change on Pluto. The…

by Lynn Hayes A new study has found that young people are losing interest in long-form blogging, as their communication habits have become increasingly brief, and mobile. Tech experts say it doesn’t mean blogging is going away. Rather, it’s gone the way of the telephone and e-mail — still useful, just not sexy. read more…

by Lynn Hayes The new CIA warnings that Al Qaeda will attempt an attack on the United States in the next 3-6 months is not a surprise to those of us monitoring the stars.  The square of Saturn to Pluto that occurred on January 31st, just two days before the announcement, is an aspect of…

by Lynn Hayes I’ve been predicting in these pages over the past couple of years that the balance of power in the world would soon be shifting away from the United States.  I say that not because I lack a sense of patriotism, or because I “hate America” as Sean Hannity would say, but because…

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