Astrological Musings

by Lynn Hayes One of the interesting blogs you’ll find in my blogroll is Todd Chapman’s “Through the Looking Glass.”  Todd is an avid watcher of meaningful connections, and he has over time made an fascinating study of connections involving Ceres.  Todd writes,  Anyone familiar with my entire body of work will surely know that…

by Lynn Hayes Arlen Specter, a moderate Republican senator from Pennsylvania, has served five terms in the US Senate since he was elected in 1980 but today announced that he is switching to the Democratic party: I have been a Republican since 1966. I have been working extremely hard for the Party, for its candidates…

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.  We have a very busy Moon today as the Gemini Moon harmonizes with the triple conjunction of Jupiter, Chiron and Neptune as it forms a challenging…

I’ve written before in these pages about the intensification of the struggle between the more liberal mindset (signified by Uranus) and a more conservative approach (represented by Saturn) as Saturn and Uranus face off in the sky, beginning in 2008 and continuing throughout 2010.   Sign of the Times has an article about social psychologist…

Spaceweather offers this beautiful photo by Richard Fleet of yesterday’s conjunction of the Moon and Mercury with the Seven Sisters of the Pleaides: For more information about what makes the Pleaides so special, please refer to this earlier article. 

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.  Mars square Pluto – waning, but still powerful for the first few days of the week.  When Mars (individual drive, desire and anger) squares off against…

by Lynn Hayes.  This is written for Eastern time zone – please adjust accordingly for your own part of the world. Sorry folks, I wrote this Friday night but for some reason it didn’t post!! As I reported yesterday, Mars and Pluto are aligning in a challenging square that will be culminate on Sunday April…

Dharmaruci at Astrotabletalk has a great article today.  Mars is gearing up to square Pluto on the 27th, and a stressful aspect between those two can be quite intense.  Mars deals with the more personal issues of anger and boundaries, and Pluto, as the higher octave of Mars, addresses the larger scale issues of rage…

by Lynn Hayes When you combine the Wounded Healer (Chiron) with the planet that inspires devotion and illusion (Neptune), you often get mysterious illnesses among other things.  Chiron and Neptune  are sitting on Jay Leno’s ascendant and induced a mysterious illness yesterday, and now there is news of a mysterious new strain of the swine…

by Lynn Hayes.  This is written for Eastern time zone – please adjust accordingly for your own part of the world. Yesterday’s Moon/Venus conjunction made quite a display!  (Photo from Spaceweather.) I didn’t put up a Skywatch for today, but tomorrow the Moon is quite busy again AND is a New Moon in Taurus. Venus…

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