Astrological Musings

by Lynn Hayes The major force of the eclipse is now behind us, although its influence will linger for the next few days.  Eclipses are often associated with the “unmasking” of something that has been hidden – in the solar eclipse, the power of the lunar unconscious force unmasks that which has been hidden from…

by Lynn Hayes An article in Yahoo News yesterday was entitled “Solar eclipse pits superstition against science,” but to me there is no better example of the split between traditional Vedic astrologers and “modern” transformational or evolutionary astrologers.  I welcome my Vedic astrologer readers to chime in on this topic and look forward to an…

by Lynn Hayes.  This is written for Eastern time zone with GMT in parentheses where necessary for our international friends – please adjust accordingly for your own part of the world.  You can see the positions of today’s planets here. 1.  Mercury makes a harmonious sextile to Mars on the 20th.  Great energy for anything involving…

by Lynn Hayes Astrologer Dave Mockaitis has a fascinating essay up on his blog connecting the Yezidi, a Kurdish people on the border of Syria and Iraq, back to the Picatrix, a collection of Arabic texts that was widely used by mages during the Renaissance period.  He then draws connections back to the Sabians of…

       “Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul.” Victor Hugo I would argue that human beings are also entitled…

Today’s show experienced some technical difficulties so I am in the process of uploading a new sound file.  If you listen to the archived show please skip the first 8 minutes or so.  Tune in Sunday morning for a discussion of the Secret Moon and the powerful eclipse and what effects it could have on…

by Lynn Hayes The New Moon that occurs at 10:35 pm EDT on July 21 (2 am GMT July 22) is also a total solar eclipse, in which the Moon passes in front of the Sun from our perspective here on Planet Earth, obscuring the light of the Sun for a short time. Solar eclipses always occur…

I’ll be writing more about the eclipse in the next day or two, and I’ll be discussing it on my radio show Sunday morning.  (Look!  Beliefnet gave me a box for my radio show in the sidebar.) But for now I’ll post Jessica Murray’s excellent article from her blog, and thank you David Crook for…

by Lynn Hayes The swine flu began as a mysterious strain of flu, a mixture of swine, bird and human flu strains, just as Chiron and Neptune were moving closer towards their exact conjunction.  At the time I wrote of my suspicion over the sudden appearance of this hybrid strain of flu. After all, it…

by Lynn Hayes Mary Plumb at The Mountain Astrologer has posted an interesting comparison of the chart of Sonia Sotomayor with the chart for the US.  An interesting point in Mary’s excellent article is that Ms. Sotomayor was born with Mercury having just turned retrograde.  Because it had just changed direction, Mercury was moving slowly…

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