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Astrology: Leave me Alone, I’m Lonely, the Venus-Uranus dilemma – or is it?

Reading Time: 4 minutes On 30 November, two of my favourite planets take up positions across the sky from each other, with Venus at 29 degrees of Libra (her own sign – more on that in a moment) and Uranus at 29 degrees of Aries (ruled by Mars, the lover of Venus). This is their third opposition transit since early September, as they’ve danced an astrological tango through the sky, thanks to their respective retrogrades.

When planets sit across the chart from each other in a 180-degree relationship, it’s a bit like two of King Arthur’s knights sitting across the roundtable from each other. They don’t share the same point of view at all, so they each bring their own vantage point for whatever’s going on in life. But they can see each other incredibly clearly, so it’s like an opportunity for each to offer insights on the other’s area of expertise.

That makes for some potential tension, but when you know how to use it, the tension can be a potent fuel for expansion and exploration.

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NYT: A Dark Consensus About Screens and Kids Begins to Emerge in Silicon Valley

Reading Time: 6 minutes Tim Cook, the C.E.O. of Apple, said earlier this year that he would not let his nephew join social networks. Bill Gates banned cellphones until his children were teenagers, and Melinda Gates wrote that she wished they had waited even longer. Steve Jobs would not let his young children near iPads.

But in the last year, a fleet of high-profile Silicon Valley defectors have been sounding alarms in increasingly dire terms about what these gadgets do to the human brain. Suddenly rank-and-file Silicon Valley workers are obsessed. No-tech homes are cropping up across the region. Nannies are being asked to sign no-phone contracts.

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What Does the San Ysidro Border Closure Have To Do With Ukraine? More Than You Might Think.

Reading Time: 4 minutes On a day when the Russian Navy maneuvered one of the most hostile and aggressive acts against another nation in modern naval history, the U.S. stood down, silent, while our President took over the news cycle by shutting down a border and ordering our thousands of troops there to engage with tear gas fired on civilians.

And this is why it’s one of those moments in the history of this presidency where the word on precedented is just not enough. It’s a moment we are reminded our President is a puppet of a hostile foreign power and it’s coming just as the world is holding its breath for the Special Council investigation to shine a light on how that hostile foreign power bought and paid for an asset in the White House.

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Sun into Sagittarius – the Santa Claus of the zodiac

Reading Time: 4 minutes On 22 November at 4:01am Eastern Time (USA), the Sun moved into the optimistic sign of Sagittarius, where he’ll be for a month, lighting up themes of expansion, wild possibility, exploration beyond the known, enthusiasm, fun, travel (literal or within the imagination), and a fiery spark of inspiration.

And the effect is multiplied on 26 November, when the Sun lines up exactly with big, expansive Jupiter – the ruler of Sagittarius and the astrological Santa Claus of the solar system.

That double whammy can feel like a surge of ‘anything is possible!’ that can have us bouncing out of our seats with new ideas, unable to sit still for more than a few minutes.

But there’s some other energy at play which can feel like it’s putting the brakes on and working against us. It’s not, but if we don’t know about it, it can feel tricky to navigate.

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HOW TO DEAL WITH DIFFICULT PEOPLE AT WORK

Reading Time: 5 minutes The Dalai Lama has said, “Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.”

Unsurprisingly, this is easier said than done.

But of course, it’s also impossible to argue with the wisdom behind these words. Ideally, we would all love to maintain our cool in the face of conflict, irritation, and frustration. Yet, imagining yourself with that colleague that always seems to get under your skin isn’t exactly the recipe for inner peace.

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