Astrological Musings

by Lynn Hayes On March 10, 2009, Michael McLendon (4/11/1982, time unknown) went on a rampage in his home town of Kinston, Alabama, resulting in the death of eleven people including his grandmother, aunts and uncles.  He killed his mother and her three dogs and then set the sofa on fire, an act of extreme…

by Lynn Hayes.  This is written for Eastern time zone – please adjust accordingly for your own part of the world. The financial markets have been responding to the retrograde turn of Venus with a stunning reversal into a rally which lasted for four days.  With the Moon in optimistic Sagittarius, I would have expected…

I’ve been invited to be a guest on the radio show Wisdom’s Soft Whisper on our local radio station tomorrow (Tuesday, March 17) from noon to 1 pm.  The hosts, John Troy (aka the Wizard Baldour) and Trip Overholt have created a program that “extricates wisdom from knowledge and provides a clear and secular roadmap to…

by Lynn Hayes.  This is written for Eastern time zone – please adjust accordingly for your own part of the world. The Moon entered Sagittarius early this morning, turning the focus to the realm of adventure and ideas.  Under the Sagittarian influence we are more optimistic, our vision is broader and we are more social…

by Lynn Hayes If you missed Jon Stewart’s crackdown last week of CNBC that resulted in a week-long mock battle between two mock journalists, head right over to Comedy Central and catch up on everything that ran last week.   I admit that I get much of my news from the Daily Show, and I…

The ides of each month were days in the approximate middle of the month – in March, May, July and October the ides fell on the 15th, and in other months the ides were the 13th. Until the solar calendar was adopted by Julius Caesar, the roman calendar was lunar based and the ides of…

by Lynn Hayes.  This is written for Eastern time zone – please adjust accordingly for your own part of the world. The Moon is very active this weekend – it is in Scorpio where we are a little more passionate and emotional, and more tenacious around issues of power imbalance.  Mars enters Pisces today, adding…

No matter how much wisdom we attempt to muster when we are approaching a difficult transit, there is no way to make it easy.  Sometimes, though, reframing the way we approach the challenge can turn the entire experience around for us. In a flash of blogchronicity, Beth Owl’s Daughter has a post from yesterday on…

by Lynn Hayes.  This is written for Eastern time zone – please adjust accordingly for your own part of the world. For those of you seeking an easier way to navigate through any emotional turmoil that Chiron and Neptune are stirring up, your answer comes this morning with a fast-moving transit of the Moon in…

by Lynn Hayes In the Daily Skywatch for March 9 I wrote of the spike in violence that was occurring all over the world, and since then there have been even more shocking mass murders in Germany and Alabama.  This dramatic rise of violence occurred as Mars (aggression) passed over the approaching conjunction of Chiron…

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