“We together are realizing each other’s liberation once we find the social and political path to spread this collective awareness sufficiently across social space, then the loving world to which we aspire will begin to be born.” [1]
–Peter Gabel
Peter Gabel was an American law academic and associate editor of Tikkun, a bi-monthly Jewish critique of politics, culture, and society. He wrote a number of articles for the magazine on subjects ranging from the original intent of the framers of the Constitution to the creationism/evolution controversy. Wikipedia
Artist’s impression of a primitive ocean on Mars, which some researchers suggested harbored more water than the Arctic Ocean on Earth. (Most of that water was later lost to space.) (Image credit: NASA/GSFC)
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Recent Mars missions have revealed that the Red Planet contains far more water than previously thought, preserved primarily as underground ice, ancient buried river deltas, and deep subterranean water reservoirs. [1, 2, 3]
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Underground Oceans: Using seismic data from the NASA InSight lander, scientists identified a massive reservoir of liquid water deep within the fractured rock of the Martian crust. The volume is immense; if released, it would cover the entire planet in an ocean 1 to 2 kilometers deep. However, it resides at depths of 11.5 to 20 kilometers, making it inaccessible with current technology. [1]
Ancient Rivers & Lakes: The NASA Perseverance rover discovered buried remains of an ancient river delta up to 35 meters below the surface of Jezero Crater. This provides some of the deepest and oldest evidence of flowing water on the Martian surface. [1]
Subsurface Groundwater Habitats: Research on ancient sand dunes in Gale Crater indicates that underground water continued to flow long after surface lakes dried up. This suggests that subterranean, sheltered environments may have sustained microbial life for far longer than initially believed. [1]
Current Salty Flows: Scientists continue to monitor locations where super-salty water (brines) may currently flow on the Martian surface. The high salt content lowers the freezing point, allowing the water to exist as a liquid for short periods. [1]
Water & Space Exploration: NASA is actively testing mobile wastewater treatment systems (capable of processing human waste into drinkable water and plant nutrients) in preparation for future crewed missions to Mars. [1]
For a look at the data being gathered by NASA’s rovers investigating these ancient, water-carved landscapes:
Some of the most difficult moments in life are moments of having to choose between two paths leading in opposite directions — to tell or not to tell, to leap or not to leap, to leave or not to leave — each rife with losses (even if they are necessary losses) the pain of which you will feel acutely and with gains which you are constitutionally unable to imagine.
You could do it rationally, applying Benjamin Franklin’s framework of weighing the pros and cons. You could do it emotionally, turning to people you trust to decide for you, abdicating responsibility for doing the right thing. You could concede the futility of free will and flip a coin. Still, that bifurcation of the soul remains because life, in all its irreducible complexity, is not something you can optimize the way you optimize a route for minimal traffic or maximal scenery. What makes those moments so difficult is the knowledge that there will never be a way of testing where the other path would have led — you only have the one life, lived.
But perhaps there is a third way — one based not on renunciation, which is at the heart of all binary choices, but on integration, which is the pulse-beat of possibility. A way to stop trudging the ground of forking paths and lift off into the sky of the possible.
If you marry, you will regret it; if you do not marry, you will also regret it; if you marry or if you do not marry, you will regret both; whether you marry or you do not marry, you will regret both. Laugh at the world’s follies, you will regret it; weep over them, you will also regret it; if you laugh at the world’s follies or if you weep over them, you will regret both; whether you laugh at the world’s follies or you weep over them, you will regret both. Believe a girl, you will regret it; if you do not believe her, you will also regret it; if you believe a girl or you do not believe her, you will regret both; whether you believe a girl or you do not believe her, you will regret both. If you hang yourself, you will regret it; if you do not hang yourself, you will regret it; if you hang yourself or you do not hang yourself, you will regret both; whether you hang yourself or you do not hang yourself, you will regret both. This… is the sum of all practical wisdom.
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Many people think [they are in the mode of eternity] when, having done the one or the other, they combine or mediate these opposites. But this is a misunderstanding, for the true eternity lies not behind either/or but ahead of it.
Kierkegaard considers the frame of mind necessary for living beyond either/or:
Were I to wish for anything I would not wish for wealth and power, but for the passion of the possible, that eye which everywhere, ever young, ever burning, sees possibility.
In no region of life is the tyranny of binaries more punitive and the passion for possibility more vital than in our closest relationships, which at their strongest and most nourishing must transcend the confines of binary categories, for any relationship on the level of the soul has elements of lover, parent, child, and friend, and suffers when subjected to either/or. And yet there are times in life when such relationships collide with the confines of practical reality, the reality in which binary choices must be made, and must shape-shift in order to survive.
A century before Anne Morrow Lindbergh wrote so beautifully about embracing the mutability of intimate relationships, Kierkegaard considers what it takes to let a relationship change organically in order to feed the soul in a new way:
The same relationship can acquire significance again in another way… The experienced farmer now and then lets his land lie fallow; the theory of social prudence recommends the same. All things, no doubt, will return, but in another way; what has once been taken into rotation remains there but is varied through the mode of cultivation.
We were born with an inner barometer that tells us, through the body, what is good for us and what isn’t. Most of us have simply forgotten how to read it.
That inner barometer – call it sensing, instinct, deeper knowing, – is the ‘front line’ of truth, and everything builds on it.
Ignore it, and our whole life becomes a lie.
Chiron’s ingress into Taurus on June 19th, 2026, opens the door to restoring it.
With Chiron in Taurus, there’s no more hiding, distracting ourselves, or keeping busy. The time has come to finally come to terms with that part of us that is Taurus.
In a way, we HAVE to do it. We have no choice. In the past 7 years, Uranus has been savaging the Taurus area of our chart, sending electric shocks through it, burning it down, pulling the ground beneath our feet.
Whether our mind agrees with this or not (yet), we needed this shakeup. Like everything that is alive, Taurus cannot survive on stagnation.
Uranus left us with the ashes – and this is from where Chiron is taking over.
Chiron orbits closer to the Sun than Uranus – which makes its energy more accessible to us. Not easy, but workable.
Where Uranus overwhelms, Chiron can actually be met and worked with.
Chiron’s orbit takes around 50 years, which means its return arrives just after the midlife transits – at the point in life when we’re finally ready to face what it asks of us. Something fundamental becomes available to shift.
It makes sense if we look at Chiron’s symbolism: half-horse and half-man, half-animal and half-god, Chiron represents the ongoing process of making nature and consciousness work together.
Without Chiron, we can only live half lives and half truths. Chiron pushes our buttons – he’s called the Wounded Healer, after all – so that we finally address what we’ve been avoiding. The result is not ‘healing’ in a therapeutic sense, but alignment. Restoration. Evolutionary relief.
So how will Chiron express itself during its upcoming 7-year stay in Taurus?
First, this is a rare transit – not the kind we get every other year, where we have the luxury to try and learn.
The last time Chiron was in Taurus was around 50 years ago, from 1976 to 1983. Some of us might remember it, but most of us were either too young or not yet born.
And what is rare is significant. Unless we live for another 50 years, we won’t get another opportunity to heal that part of us that is Taurus.
If there is one thing that the world – and every one of us – desperately needs right now, it’s healing the animal within us.
The Taurus wound is the exile from the body, from the knowing, from the primal trust that it’s safe to be here.
When that primal trust is broken – through early experiences of scarcity, conditional love, having to earn our place, being too much or not enough – the body stops feeling safe – and the knowing goes offline.
When the knowing goes offline, we end up not fully living – running on autopilot, going through the motions.
When Taurus knowing is restored, we just KNOW what is good for us, what makes sense, and what helps us grow. We make good choices. And then all the things we normally associate Taurus with – self-worth, pleasure, money, productivity – follow downstream from there.
Restoring Taurus can be an almost impossible task – that is, if we approach it with psychologizing, affirmations, emotional processing, or in any other non-Taurean way.
OR it can be the most natural thing in the world – if we approach it the way Taurus itself works.
“Chiron in Taurus – Healing Worth, Money, and What Matters” is the framework for restoring our Taurus function.
Sylvain Biget and Xavier Demeersman, Contributing Writers – Futura
Stephan: As American science is gutted and unraveled by Trump and his administration, China is becoming the world leader. The Chinese are developing a new energy technology that may change the global future of humanity.
Turning CO2 into energy might sound like science fiction – or at least like a bold climate promise. Yet that is exactly what China has achieved by inaugurating two fully operational power generators that run on carbon dioxide. Before you imagine giant machines vacuuming pollution out of the sky, though, there is a catch. This system does not capture CO2 from the atmosphere, and it does not use just any kind of carbon dioxide.
At a time when CO2 is usually portrayed as the chief villain of global warming, this development flips the script. In this case, carbon dioxide becomes a technical ally rather than a pollutant. The breakthrough comes from the China National Nuclear Corporation, which has connected the world’s first generator powered by supercritical CO2 to its electricity grid.What makes supercritical CO2 so special?
When carbon dioxide is exposed to extremely high temperature and pressure, it reaches what scientists call a supercritical state. At that point, it is no longer quite a gas or a liquid. Instead, […]
Heather will share her story of falling down and badly injuring her head — and how she is learning to use her suffering as a doorway to a Whole, New Understanding of her Life Purpose!
We all are facing problems, be it a health problem, a financial problem or a relationship problem, or something else. It is time for us all to WAKE UP and realize that there is a SPLENDOUR that is HIDDEN DEEP WITHIN US. It is OUR HIGHER, INNATE SELF, whatever name you wish to give it: God, Jesus, Buddha, Christ Consciousness. Our Innate Self is our ESSENTIAL BEINGNESS — the awareness that lives deep within us, back and behind what we name, label and judge — that knows and can transform every problem, and that can lead us through that unexpected doorway.
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\DW Documentary May 29, 2026 Our memory is a machine of superlatives. Every second, it processes unimaginable amounts of information, decides what’s important and what’s not, and stores what we experience and learn. Our memory also makes us who we are. The experiences and feelings we’ve stored, the knowledge we’ve retained – all of this connects us to ourselves and our past. But how can we improve our memory and make it more efficient? How can we keep it fit and healthy? What happens when it fails us? This documentary follows people who are connected in different ways to the topic of “memory”. In her late 40s, Nicole Adam lost her memory after suffering several strokes. She’s determined to regain it – with occupational therapy and VR glasses. On her road to recovery, she also asks herself the question: Who am I if I don’t know who I used to be? As her story shows, our memory is both vulnerable and adaptable. For actor Henriette Hölzel, on the other hand, learning large amounts of text for roles at the Dresden State Theatre is part of everyday life. She has eight different roles at her fingertips at the same time. She reveals how she manages to keep complex dialogues in her head. Johannes Mallow, multiple German champion and two-time world champion in memory sports, also explains how he streamlines the process of information recollection. Using methods such as the “mind palace”, he takes us to Magdeburg Cathedral to show how he memorizes his appointments so that he never forgets them. But it’s not just training that keeps our memory fit. In fact, forgetting is also important for keeping our memory healthy. Neuroscientist Andreas Papassotiropoulos explains that forgetting is an active process that helps us distinguish between what’s important – and what’s not. To benefit our memory, he recommends sleep and exercise as well as art and culture. Heidelberg neurobiologist Prof. Hannah Monyer makes it clear that our memories have not only shaped our past, but also shape our future: what we remember today influences who we will be tomorrow. A film that tells stories of learning and forgetting, presents exciting research findings and shows how we can strengthen our memory so that it stays with us throughout our lives.
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Many of you have a fraught relationship with discipline. You recognize you need it if you want a life rich with epic adventures. Yet you sometimes resist planning ahead or organizing your resources, fearing it might dampen your immediate pleasures. The problem is that when you skip the planning and organizing, the short-term fun you default to may turn out to be unsatisfying. That’s the challenging news. The encouraging news is that you’re now in a cycle when you can transform how you relate to discipline. I bet you can render some of those old patterns obsolete.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Gemologists evaluate opals less for flawless uniformity than for their mesmerizing play-of-color. They study how light interacts with a stone’s microscopic internal structure to produce vivid, shifting hues. The most prized opals aren’t necessarily the most perfect in shape, but the ones whose internal pattern and rainbow-like displays are most vibrant, varied and alive. This is a marvelous metaphor for you in the coming weeks. I hope you don’t obsess on consistency or smooth away your complications. Let the world see your play-of-color.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “Dear Oracle: Why do we always have to start at the beginning? I’d much prefer just jumping into the middle of things. Right now, I would love to bypass all the tedious baby steps I’m being forced to take as I try to get some momentum going. Please slip me a few clues about how to fast-forward directly to the fun stuff. —Bored with the Groundwork.” Dear Bored: Your timing is perfect. The planetary omens say you are now authorized to vault over the preludes and prologues and dive right into the heart of the action.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): Restoration ecologists work to revive damaged prairies. They’ve discovered that seeds of many native plants can lie dormant in the soil for years, waiting for the right conditions to germinate. If they remove invasive species and restore the land’s natural cycle of controlled fire, wildflowers long absent from the landscape spring back to life. With this metaphor in mind, Cancerian, consider what dormant possibilities may lie buried in your own psyche. What seeds did you plant long ago and then forget? What dreams or talents are waiting for you to clear away the choking overgrowth and create space for them to emerge? Old potentials may be patient, not dead.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Better than any other sign, you understand that ego and generosity can be collaborators rather than enemies. Your charismatic radiance is often a public service. When you express your interesting beauty, you give others permission to tap into their own luminosity. The world always craves your unique flavor of audacious joy, and especially now. The rest of us need your intense insistence that flair and flamboyance are forms of resistance against the forces that would diminish life’s splendor.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Many people struggle with what could be called “imagined ugliness,” a condition clinicians refer to as body dysmorphic disorder. It usually involves fixating on a supposed physical defect, or even on a flaw that exists only in one’s mind. I suspect that almost everyone carries a trace of this tendency, including you and me. The good news, though, is that the current astrological climate is ideal for you to at least partially shatter its spell. You are poised to transform your self-image so vigorously that you begin to regard yourself as a flawless exemplar of quirky, one-of-a-kind beauty.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The Golden Gate Bridge, which is a few miles from my home, is painted continuously. Painters start at one end, work their way across, and by the time they reach the other side, it’s time to start over. The job is never finished; maintenance is the permanent condition. Some people find this depressing, but I find it oddly liberating. It means the bridge doesn’t have to achieve some final, perfect state. It just has to be tended. Similarly, you don’t have to fix everything once and for all, Libra. The relationships, projects and internal states you’re concerned about aren’t meant to reach completion. You shouldn’t worry about trying to finish what’s meant to be an ongoing practice. Just keep starting the cycle again.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Innovative theater director Viola Spolin was a Scorpio. She taught that the best scenes emerge when the actors avoid trying to control outcomes. Instead, they fully commit to the reality they’re creating together. Spontaneous responses are their gold standard. Let’s make this a keynote for you in the coming weeks. Your assignment is to give yourself heartily to improvisation. The most interesting magic will happen as you relax into the collaborative process, trusting it to guide you toward beauty and meanings none of you could have scripted alone.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Musicologists distinguish between “perfect pitch” and “relative pitch.” A person with perfect pitch can sing or identify a specific note without hearing any other music beforehand. Relative pitch is the ability to recognize musical notes in relation to other notes. In the coming weeks, Sagittarius, relative pitch will be a more useful metaphor for you than perfect pitch. Don’t insist on perfect clarity about what’s right and wrong, beautiful and ugly, worthy and unworthy. Instead of obsessing on fixed standards, practice relational discernment. How does this choice feel compared to that one? How does a person behave in this context versus another? For you right now, truth lives in the intervals and connections.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The best way to eliminate a bad habit is to replace it with a good one. Now is an excellent time to acquire more expertise in this art. Start by choosing a specific habit that drains your energy, time or self-respect. Then identify what that habit is secretly trying to give you, like comfort, distraction or a sense of control. Your mission is to find a healthier behavior that offers a similar payoff without the damage. For example, maybe you go online and binge-scroll through bad news because you imagine it soothes your anxiety. Instead of that, read an uplifting book or listen to serene music for a while. Be concrete: When the itchy habit hits, what exactly will you do as an alternative?
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In 1905, twenty-six-year-old Albert Einstein worked full-time as a clerk in a Swiss patent office. During his off-hours, he wrote four audacious papers that fundamentally changed how physics understood space, time, light and matter. He accomplished his revolution without the sponsorship of a renowned university or laboratory. His example suggests that we can perhaps re-imagine and recreate the world even if we’re not supported by glamorous circumstances. I suspect this principle applies to you these days. Breakthrough insights and earth-shaking realizations may arrive while you’re doing ordinary tasks. Be alert for the flashes that arise in seemingly routine and modest situations.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): For linguists, “untranslatable” words are concepts that exist in one language but have no equivalent in others. One example is mono no aware, which in Japanese refers to the tender poignance and appreciation you feel in the presence of fleeting beauty, like cherry blossoms falling. I bring this to your attention, Pisces, because I suspect that you, too, are untranslatable right now. My advice is to forget about trying to get others to grasp what’s going on with you. Here’s a suggestion that might help: Find soulful artists and emotionally intelligent creatives who speak the language of your mystery.
Homework: What gifts do you have that you have never yet given with fullness? tinyurl.com/33ss33ss
Joseph, in speaking of the action of his brethren in selling him into slavery, “Even though you intended to harm me, God intended it for good.” (Genesis 50:20)
Truth is that which is so.
However humble your place in life, however unknown to the world you may be, however small your capabilities may seem at present to you, you are just as much a necessity to God in His efforts to get Himself into visibility as is the most brilliant intellect, the most thoroughly cultured person in the world. Remember this always, and act from the highest within you.
[K]now once and forever that you are not seeking God, but God is seeking you.
“I AM” is God’s name. Every time you say, “I am sick,” “I am weak,” “I am discouraged,” you are speaking God’s name in vain. I AM cannot be sick; I AM cannot be weary or faint or powerless, for I AM is all-life, all-power, All-Good. “I AM,” spoken with a downward tendency, is always false, always ‘in vain.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson said: “Prayer that craves a particular commodity, — anything less than all good, — is vicious. Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view. It is the soliloquy of a beholding and jubilant soul. It is the spirit of God pronouncing his works good. But prayer as a means to effect a private end is meanness and theft. It supposes dualism and not unity in nature and consciousness. As soon as the man is at one with God, he will not beg.”
[Jesus] said, “I thank you Father … because you had hidden these things from the wise and the intelligent and have revealed them to infants.” (Matthew 11:25)
To pardon means simply to remit or wipe out the penalty and let the offender go free, but to forgive means much more than this. It means to give “for”; that is, to give some definite positive good in return for the evil received.
The divine Father of us all is forever trying to manifest Himself in what the dear Scottish minister, George MacDonald, called “a reckless extravagance of abundance.”
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If you marry, you will regret it; if you do not marry, you will also regret it; if you marry or if you do not marry, you will regret both; whether you marry or you do not marry, you will regret both. Laugh at the world’s follies, you will regret it; weep over them, you will also regret it; if you laugh at the world’s follies or if you weep over them, you will regret both; whether you laugh at the world’s follies or you weep over them, you will regret both. Believe a girl, you will regret it; if you do not believe her, you will also regret it; if you believe a girl or you do not believe her, you will regret both; whether you believe a girl or you do not believe her, you will regret both. If you hang yourself, you will regret it; if you do not hang yourself, you will regret it; if you hang yourself or you do not hang yourself, you will regret both; whether you hang yourself or you do not hang yourself, you will regret both. This… is the sum of all practical wisdom.
