Obama’s Preacher Situation and Inauguration Day Transits

Last updated on: December 18, 2008 at 8:01 pm By Lynn Hayes

President-Elect Barack Obama has taken the concept of reaching across the aisle to a new level in his choice of Evangelist Rick Warren to deliver the opening invocation at the inaugural ceremony on January 20. Rick Warren, author of “The Purpose Driven Life” and one of the best-known evangelical ministers in the US, was moderator of the Faith Forum between the presidential candidates earlier this year and was a leading supporter of Proposition 8 in California which banned gay marriage.... Read more

The Fed Still Doesn’t Get It

Last updated on: December 17, 2008 at 8:02 pm By Lynn Hayes

The current economic downturn is caused by a global contraction and correction. From an astrological perspective, this correlates closely to the entry of Pluto into Capricorn which demands facts and a strong foundation in order to achieve economic growth. For the past 13 years, as long as Pluto was in Sagittarius (the sign of expansion and optimism), economic growth was generated by optimism and the inflation of debt which fueled a spending spree around the world. The US Federal Reserve yesterday... Read more

Inspiration for Times of Change

Last updated on: December 16, 2008 at 8:05 pm By Lynn Hayes

From Beth Owl’s Daughter’s newsletter this month: [T]ere is a lovely interpretation of the 59th hexagram of the I Ching, Huan or Dissolution, which I think illuminates the lessons we’ve been experiencing in this Wheel of Fortune year: “Crisis means opportunity, but only when all of like mind can be organized behind one compelling visionary ideal. “This is particularly true during disorganized times, when energies and resources are scattered. Great energy and generosity are needed to seize the moment, and... Read more

The Battle Against Time

Last updated on: December 15, 2008 at 8:08 pm By Lynn Hayes

Interesting article on a new book called Rhythms of Life: The Biological Clocks that Control the Daily Lives of Every Living Thing: Man has invented many ways to measure physical time, from ancient sundials to water and sand clocks, from the pendulum to the wind-up pocket watch, all the way to the modern atomic clock. An example of this latter-day timekeeper, introduced in 1950, measures a second as 9,192,631,770 cycles in the energy radiation of the Caesium atom. This produces... Read more

The Tale of the Antikythera Mechanism

Last updated on: December 14, 2008 at 8:11 pm By Lynn Hayes

A new video shows a reconstruction of t by museum curator Michael Wright: The Antikythera Mechanisms is an extremely sophisticated device using a 19-year lunar cycle, which corresponds to the 19-year cycle of the lunar nodes. New Scientist online magazine weaves an exciting tale of the origins of this incredible device, and notes that when Cicero saw a device like this one, in the first century BC he wrote: “The invention of Archimedes deserves special admiration because he had thought... Read more

Pluto: “The Seeds of What Could Be”

Last updated on: December 14, 2008 at 8:10 pm By Lynn Hayes

Robert Wilkinson has a great article about Pluto in Capricorn today. I particularly love this section: Pluto is how we confront the seeds of what is and could be, and learn the willingness to do what it takes to get to the core patterns so that a better seed can sprout in our lives. If we consciously embrace a determined focus utilizing Pluto’s power of “Economy of Energy” we can find our greatest realizations of who we are, who we... Read more

The Christmas Star

Last updated on: December 12, 2008 at 8:24 pm By Lynn Hayes

Every year at about this time we start pondering the mystery of the Star of Bethlehem. There are lots of different explanations that I’ll be covering over the next couple of weeks. Here is an interesting article that appeared in Universe Today: David Reneke, news editor of Australia’s Sky and Space Magazine, believes astronomers may have found the answer – or at least something that fits all the known facts – basing his research on the highly esteemed gospel according to... Read more

Rod Blagojevich – The Astrology of Hubris

Last updated on: December 9, 2008 at 8:31 pm By Lynn Hayes

You may have heard that the governor of Illinois was arrested today for trying to sell the Senate seat left open by the ascendancy of Barack Obama to the highest bidder. What was this guy thinking? Evidently he had been under investigation for fraud since 2003 (according to the text of an affidavit in the case), yet he continued to engage in more and more outrageous acts of corruption and fraud. The court documents are an extremely entertaining, though shocking,... Read more

Saving the Economy: Capricorn vs. Sagittarius

Last updated on: December 8, 2008 at 8:33 pm By Lynn Hayes

As most of you know who read this blog regularly, Pluto has just transitioned from the optimism sign of Sagittarius to the practical sign of Capricorn. Since Pluto presides over issues of death and endings we have seen some real chaos in our financial systems as we move from a process where blind faith (Sagittarius) creates results to a process where the foundations must be solid in order to achieve success (Capricorn). Hank Paulson, an Aries with a lot of... Read more

Happiness is Contagious! Spread It Around

Last updated on: December 7, 2008 at 8:37 pm By Lynn Hayes

I have long believed, and now teach, that happiness and joy are habits that can be learned. Depression often runs in families, but it is my belief that this is because of belief systems and habits of reaction that are passed down from one generation to the next. A new scientific study shows that happiness “spreads among people removed up to three degrees from each other.” Sadness also spreads in a network, but not as quickly, the researchers found. Each... Read more