Astrological Musings

by Lynn Hayes With the furor over gay marriage and health care reform taking precedence over the past few years, the battle over abortion has faded into the backdrop of American society.  But just as the conjunction of Chiron and Neptune is culminating, the murder of one of the few doctors who performed late term…

I apologize to those of you who await the Daily Skywatch only to be disappointed not to have seen it lately.  Writing a daily forecast plus keeping up with the news is a greater task than I anticipated but as things calm down I will hopefully be able to get back to it. Meanwhile, Skywatch…

by Lynn Hayes The meteoric rise of Susan Boyle has been like a fabulous firework which rockets into the sky out of nowhere, explodes itself across the heavens, and then falls to earth again forever changed. You can read more about Susan’s birthchart and astrological profile here, and about how the current planetary cycles affected…

by Lynn Hayes.  This is written for Eastern time zone – please adjust accordingly for your own part of the world.  You can see the positions of today’s planets here. Lots of planetary stuff going on this weekend. At around midnight tonight (May 29th) EDT the Leo Moon will oppose Jupiter, Chiron and Neptune and our…

by Lynn Hayes Neptune retrogrades around midnight tonight EDT, and Chiron follows on Friday.  These two planets have been linked since last summer although their tightest connection occurred this week.  (You can find other articles on the Chiron/Neptune conjunction here.) The outer planets are considered the “transformational” planets because they create big change at the…

by Lynn Hayes This article was originally posted in July of 2007. Somewhere along the line astrologers split into two camps as some moved forward into humanistic or psychological astrology (leading into evolutionary and transformational astrology) and some moved backwards towards traditional or medieval astrology. Rob Hand was one of my favorite authors, and his…

From Space.com: Normally to find Neptune you would need to have access to a very dark, clear sky and very carefully examine a sky chart or star atlas; an attempt to locate Neptune can then be made using a small telescope or good binoculars. But this week, using good binoculars or a small telescope, you’ll…

by Lynn Hayes President Barack Obama just announced his pick for David Souter’s seat on the US Supreme Court:  Sonia Sotomayor.  Ms. Sotomayor would not only add another female voice to the Court, but she  would also be the first Hispanic to serve on the highest court of the land. Originally appointed by President HW…

by Lynn Hayes.  This is written for Eastern time zone – please adjust accordingly for your own part of the world.  You can see the positions of today’s planets here. The Moon entered Cancer at 2:58 am EDT on the 26th, turning our attention to our loved ones and the safety of our tribe. On the…

by Lynn Hayes I found this article in a link from Astrococktail about the frequency of musicians who have been found dead at age 27.  Most of us know about the potentially problematic experiences of the Saturn Return at age 28, but this was a connection I had not thought much about. Before each Saturn…

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