Today I say yes to new beginnings

JUL 2, 2025

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Today I say yes to new beginnings

Our very cells respond to the thoughts we think. With every word, silent or spoken, we influence the body’s functioning. We participate in the life of the universe itself. If my consciousness grows lighter, then so does everything within and around me. This means, of course, that with every thought, I can start to re-create my life. In saying yes to new beginnings, I begin to bring them forth.

Today I am open to a life reborn, arisen from the ashes of my wounded self and any limits born of circumstances that are no more. I am willing to be renewed and repaired by the spirit of God’s love. I am willing to forgive.

Amen.

Today I say yes to new beginnings

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The Jesus who challenges billionaires, who breaks ICE detention centers, who stands with transgender kids, who feeds the hungry—that Jesus is still too danger

THOM HARTMANN

JUL 02, 2025 (wisdomschool.com)

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The modern image of Jesus in much of American Christianity would be nearly unrecognizable to the man who walked the dusty roads of Galilee 2,000 years ago. Today, he’s too often presented as a soft-spoken personal savior, a symbol of comfort and obedience, whose primary mission was to get people into heaven after they die. In many churches, he’s been reduced to a mascot for empire, capitalism, and personal prosperity.

But the Jesus we meet in the Gospels is far more dangerous than that.

He was a revolutionary—a direct threat to the religious elite, the Roman Empire, and every system of power built on hierarchy, exclusion, and violence. The message he preached—”The Kingdom of God is at hand”—was not a promise of escape from this world. It was a challenge to transform it.

The Kingdom Was a Threat

To understand the radical nature of Jesus’ message, we need to strip away centuries of theological varnish and return to his actual words. The central theme of his teaching was not individual salvation, but the Kingdom of God—a phrase that appears over 100 times in the New Testament.

This Kingdom was not a place in the sky after death. It was a new reality to be born on Earth, here and now. It was not about private piety but public transformation. It turned the social order upside down.

In this Kingdom, the first would be last. The meek would inherit the Earth. The hungry would be filled. The rich would be sent away empty. The merciful, the peacemakers, the persecuted—they would be blessed.

These were not abstract moral ideas. They were revolutionary statements, threatening to the powerful of his time. Jesus was announcing the arrival of a new political, economic, and spiritual order—one that would dismantle empire, subvert religious hypocrisy, and lift up the oppressed.

Jesus vs. Empire

Jesus lived in a time of brutal Roman occupation that would have delighted Trump. The people of Judea were heavily taxed, militarily controlled, and religiously manipulated by elites who had aligned themselves with Caesar. Crucifixion was Rome’s favored method of control—a public reminder of what happened to those who challenged authority.

And Jesus did challenge it.

When he flipped over the tables of the money changers in the Temple, it wasn’t just about spiritual corruption—it was an act of political defiance against a system that exploited the poor in the name of God.

When he called Herod a “fox,” when he refused to pay homage to Caesar, when he entered Jerusalem on a donkey to mimic and mock imperial processions—it was calculated satire, revolutionary theater. He was, as theologian John Dominic Crossan put it, “a Mediterranean Jewish peasant with a consciousness of divine justice,” whose mission was nothing short of dismantling the machinery of domination.

Not a Sinner’s Prayer, but a Social Gospel

Modern evangelicalism often asks people to recite a “sinner’s prayer” to secure their place in heaven. But Jesus never asked anyone to say a prayer like that. He asked people to follow him—to heal the sick, feed the poor, forgive their enemies, and reject materialism.

He talked constantly about money and justice. He denounced the hoarding of wealth, telling the rich young ruler to sell everything. He warned that “you cannot serve both God and Mammon.” He told parables where the villain was often the rich man who ignored the suffering at his gate.

In Matthew 25, he laid out the terms of judgment—not based on belief or ritual, but on acts of compassion. “I was hungry and you gave me food, I was a stranger and you welcomed me… Just as you did it to the least of these, you did it to me.”

This was not a privatized spirituality. It was a public ethic. It was solidarity with the poor, the outcast, the criminal, the foreigner.

What the Early Christians Knew

The first Christians understood all of this. They weren’t building megachurches or lobbying for tax breaks. They were forming underground communities where wealth was shared, status was dismantled, and allegiance to Caesar was rejected.

Acts 2 tells us they “held all things in common” and “no one claimed private ownership of any possessions.” They were practicing an early form of radical economic justice—what today would be derided as socialism or worse.

They were tortured, arrested, and killed not because they believed in being nice or going to heaven—but because they lived a life that directly contradicted the values of empire. Their refusal to bow to Roman authority was not just theological—it was political.

How Jesus Got Tamed

Over time, as Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire, the radical message of Jesus was tamed. The Kingdom of God was reinterpreted as a post-mortem paradise. Faith became institutionalized. The Church aligned itself with kings and empires, blessing war and conquest in Jesus’ name.

Today, many churches in America have once again traded prophetic truth for political power. Jesus has been co-opted to justify nationalism, racism, corporate greed, and anti-immigrant bigotry. In doing so, they are not following Jesus—they are crucifying him again.

The Jesus who challenges billionaires, who breaks ICE detention centers, who stands with transgender kids, who feeds the hungry without checking their citizenship status—that Jesus is still too dangerous for many pulpits.

Reclaiming the Revolution

But the Gospel hasn’t lost its power. It’s just been buried—under layers of comfort theology and imperial theology.

To reclaim the real Jesus is to reclaim the path of spiritual resistance. It is to stand against systems of domination and announce, with both word and action, that a new world is possible. It is to align ourselves with the powerless and recognize that divinity is most fully expressed not in palaces, but in prison cells and border camps and public housing and hospice wards.

It is to say, as Jesus did, “The Kingdom of God is at hand”—and to live as if that were true.

Not someday. Now.

Cliff Fletcher, loved by many, passed away on Sunday, June 29th.

Cliff Fletcher had been deeply involved in The Prosperos during part of the ’60’s and ’70’s. Over the following years, he often spoke about Thane and his teachings, which were clearly still significant in his life.

He stayed in touch with many Prosperos students. One especially important way he remained close was through the men’s group he participated in for many years.

The group members are mostly Prospero students who are deeply sharing and bonding with each other. 

We are thankful he was part of our lives and for the love we shared with him over the years.  

(via Sara Walker at The Prosperos High Watch Translation Service)

By Maria Popova (themarginalian.org)

“What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?” the Proust Questionnaire asked David Bowie. “Living in fear.” Partway in time between Proust and Bowie, the young Hannah Arendt examined the eternal paradox of how to love and live with fear in her earliest published work, observing: “Fearlessness is what love seeks. Such fearlessness exists only in the complete calm that can no longer be shaken by events expected of the future… Hence the only valid tense is the present, the Now.”

And yet a hallmark of our complex animal consciousness is our prospective imagination — the ability to tense into the future and everything that could possibly go wrong in it, aware that at any given moment we could be making the wrong choice, aware that even if there were a right one, and even if we had the wisdom to discern it and the will to make it, chance will always play a greater role than choice. This is the price we pay for the chance-miracle of being alive at all, each of us the improbable product of chance events that long prefigure our consciousness and its capacity for choice. (Just ask James Baldwin.) So we find ourselves here, cosmic castaways living with the perennial burden of figuring forward in an uncertain universe, discovering again and again in this burden the greatest blessings of beauty and meaning — the object of every theorem and the subject of every work of art, followed to its deepest source.

How to live not without fear but with it, how to let it be the foothold to our capacity for kindness and beauty, is what artist Charlie Mackesy explores in The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse (public library) — a serenade to life, in all its terrifying and transcendent uncertainty, sung in ink, watercolor, and wonder.

The book is less a story than a sensorium for meaning, rendered in spare words and soulful pictures. In a series of encounters and conversations with three other animals, each the keeper of a different kind of wisdom, a small boy confronts life’s big questions: how to live with fear, what it means to love and be loved, where to find the deepest and purest wellspring of fulfillment.

There is an Odyssean quality to the path they travel together, but it is not that of the archetypal hero’s journey. At its heart is a celebration of friendship as life’s supreme collaborative heroism, which saves us from ourselves (the way anything that unselves us saves us).

To a jaded grownup eye, this painted meditation might at times appear as the moral of a Zen parable or an Aesop fable, delivered without the storytelling and poetic rewards of the parable or fable — a little too obvious, a little too simplistic, a little too fortune cookie. But wherever it risks being trite, the story is saved by tenderness.

It helps, too, to remember to take Mackesy’s hand and step into the perspective from which the story unfolds — that of a child wide-eyed with wonder, asking the simplest questions, which are also the deepest questions, with unselfconscious sincerity; it helps to remember Aldous Huxley’s admonition against our fear of sincerity as he contemplated the two types of truth all artists must reconcile, reminding us that while “not all obvious truths are great truths,” “all great truths are obvious truths.”

In this regard, the book feels like a spiritual heir of Winnie the Pooh. And who, this side of 1943, can encounter a fox in a picture-book without thinking of The Little Prince?

Leafing through it, I find myself thinking of the Stoic strategy for overcoming fear: “If you would not have a man flinch when the crisis comes,” Seneca wrote two millennia ago, “train him before it comes.” Better yet, this uncommon book intimates, train him before he becomes a man — train the child that becomes the man, the child that goes on living inside him, the eternal inner child for whom Maurice Sendak made all of his books, knowing that the highest achievement of adulthood is “having your child self intact and alive and something to be proud of.”

Complement The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse — many fragments of which Mackesy has made available as cards and prints — with poet Joseph Pintauro’s wondrous vintage picture-books for adults about life, love, mortality, and the wonder of uncertainty, then revisit the Nobel-winning Polish poet Wisława Szymborska on fairy tales and the importance of fear and beloved Zen teacher Thich Nhat Hanh on the four Buddhist mantras for turning fear into love.

The Kinght of Disks In divination the Knight of Disks often represents a person having influence over your financial situation, like your boss or your bank manager. At his deepest level this Knight is about material and physical resources, and how we handle them. He has a lot to teach us about good management and attention to detail.So on a day which he rules, spend a little time going over your finances, and your overall material position. Look at all the stuff you’ve had in that box at the back of the cupboard for all this time. Go through your insurance policies, and other important financial documents.At the very least, you’ll know where they all are next time you need them. You could also discover a shortfall or something you’ve overlooked. And, at best, you could stumble across something important and rewarding.If all your paperwork is already in order, then spend some time assessing the ways in which you spend your money, and decide whether it’s going the way you want it to. Often you’ll get a fresh perspective on something that you had taken for granted before. Affirmation: “Effort brings reward”

(Angelpaths.com)

BY ROB BREZSNY | JULY 1, 2025

Photo: Shraga Kopstein

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Greek philosopher Socrates declared, “The unexamined life is not worth living.” That extreme statement is a foundational idea of Western philosophy. It’s hard to do! To be ceaselessly devoted to questioning yourself is a demanding assignment. But here’s the good news: I think you will find it extra liberating in the coming weeks. Blessings and luck will flow your way as you challenge your dogmas and expand your worldview. Your humble curiosity will attract just the influences you need.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Recently, I brought an amazing Taurus to your attention: the German polymath Athanasius Kircher, who lived from 1601 to 1680. Once again, I will draw on his life to provide guidance for you. Though he’s relatively unknown today, he was the Leonardo da Vinci of his age—a person with a vast range of interests. His many admirers called him “Master of a Hundred Arts.” He traveled extensively and wrote forty books that covered a wide array of subjects. For years, he curated a “cabinet of curiosities” or “wonder-room” filled with interesting and mysterious objects. In the coming weeks, I invite you to be inspired by his way of being, Taurus. Be richly miscellaneous and wildly versatile.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): How does a person become a creative genius in their field? What must they do to become the best? In his book “Outliers,” Malcolm Gladwell said that one way to accomplish these goals is to devote 10,000 hours to practicing and mastering your skill set. There’s some value in that theory, though the full truth is more nuanced. Determined, focused effort that’s guided by mentors and bolstered by good feedback is more crucial than simply logging hours. Having access to essential resources is another necessity. I bring these thoughts to your attention, Gemini, because I believe the coming months will be a favorable time to summon a high level of disciplined devotion as you expedite your journey toward mastery.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): There’s a story from West African tradition in which a potter listens to the raw material she has gathered from the earth. She waits for it to tell her what it wants to become. In this view, the potter is not a dictator but a midwife. I believe this is an excellent metaphor for you, Cancerian. Let’s imagine that you are both the potter and the clay. A new form is ready to emerge, but it won’t respond to force. You must attune to what wants to be born through you. Are you trying to shape your destiny too insistently, when it’s already confiding in you about its preferred shape? Surrender to the conversation.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Here’s my odd but ultimately rewarding invitation: Tune in to the nagging aches and itches that chafe at the bottom of your heart and in the back of your mind. For now, don’t try to scratch them or rub them. Simply observe them and feel them, with curiosity and reverence. Allow them to air their grievances and tell you their truths. Immerse yourself in the feelings they arouse. It may take ten minutes, or it might take longer, but if you maintain this vigil, your aches and itches will ultimately provide you with smart guidance. They will teach you what questions you need to ask and how to go in quest for the healing answers.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Wise gardeners may plan their planting by the moon’s phases. Through study of the natural world, they understand that seeds sown at the ripe moment will flourish, while those planted at random times may be less hardy. In this spirit, I offer you the following counsel for the coming weeks: Your attention to timing will be a great asset. Before tinkering with projects or making commitments, assess the cycles at play in everything: the level of your life energy, the moods of others, and the tenor of the wider world. By aligning your moves with subtle rhythms, you will optimize your ability to get exactly what you want.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In parts of Italy, grapevines were once trained not on wires or trellises, but on living trees, usually maples or poplars. The vines spiraled upward, drawing strength and structure from their tall allies. The practice kept grapes off the ground, improved air circulation, and allowed for mixed land use, such as growing cereals between the rows of trees and vines. In the coming weeks, Libra, I advise you to be inspired by this phenomenon. Climb while in relationship. Who or what is your living trellis? Rather than pushing forward on your own, align with influences that offer height, grounding and steady companionship. When you spiral upward together, your fruits will be sweeter and more robust.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Migratory monarch butterflies travel thousands of miles, guided by instincts and cues invisible to humans. They trust they will find what they need along the way. Like them, you may soon feel called to venture beyond your comfort zone—intellectually, socially or geographically. I advise you to rely on your curiosity and adaptability. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, the journey will lead you to resources and help you hadn’t anticipated. The path may be crooked. The detours could be enigmatic. But if you are committed to enjoying the expansive exploration, you’ll get what you didn’t even know you needed.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Your assignment is to uncover hidden treasures. Use the metaphorical version of your peripheral vision to become aware of valuable stuff you are missing and resources you are neglecting. Here’s another way to imagine your task: There may be situations, relationships or opportunities that have not yet revealed their full power and glory. Now is a perfect moment to discern their pregnant potential. So dig deeper, Sagittarius—through reflection, research or conversation. Trust that your open-hearted, open-minded probing will guide you to unexpected gems.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The legendary jazz musician Louis Armstrong said, “If you have to ask what jazz is, you’ll never know.” What did he mean by that? That we shouldn’t try to use words to describe and understand this complex music? Countless jazz critics, scholars and musicians might disagree with that statement. They have written millions of words analyzing the nature of jazz. In that spirit, I am urging you to devote extra energy in the coming weeks to articulating clear ideas about your best mysteries. Relish the prospect of defining what is hard to define. You can still enjoy the raw experience even as you try to get closer to explaining it.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In the Andean highlands, there’s a concept called ayni, a venerated principle of reciprocity. “Today for you, tomorrow for me,” it says. This isn’t a transactional deal. It’s a relational expansiveness. People help and support others not because they expect an immediate return. Rather, they trust that life will ultimately find ways to repay them. I suggest you explore this approach in the coming weeks, Aquarius. Experiment with giving freely, without expectation. Conversely, have blithe faith that you will receive what you need. Now is prime time to enhance and fine-tune your web of mutual nourishment.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): How often do I, your calm, sensible counselor, provide you with a carte blanche to indulge in exuberant gratification, a free pass for exciting adventures, and a divine authorization to indulge in luxurious abundance and lavish pleasure? Not often, dear Pisces. So I advise you not to spend another minute wondering what to do next. As soon as possible, start claiming full possession of your extra blessings from the gods of joy and celebration and revelry. Here’s your meditation question: What are the best ways to express your lust for life?

Homework: What aptitude of yours do you underestimate? Use it more aggressively! Newsletter.FreeWillAstrology.com

(Bible.art)

³³ And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not vex him.

³⁴ But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.

–Leviticus 19:33-34 King James Version

(Astrobutterfly.com)

July 2025 is marked by one of the most important transits of the year – dare to say, the decade: Uranus’ ingress into Gemini.

July 2025 is also when several planets go retrograde, marking a turning point for all of us – personally and collectively. This is a time to reflect on what we’ve seen emerging – the glimpse of what’s possible – and where we truly are at this point in our lives.

Retrogrades invite us to ‘go back’ and revisit our past experiences. When planets are in direct motion, we tend to respond or react without fully processing what’s happening.

That’s because when planets move at high speed, there’s simply not enough time to completely ‘digest’ our experiences as they unfold. It’s only when we take a step back and reflect that we gain true understanding.

July initiates this review process. This is our chance to go deeper, refine our understanding, make adjustments, correct course, and gain a broader perspective on WHY things unfolded the way they did when the planets were direct.

In July, we are also supported by 2 favorably aspected lunations: a productive Full Moon in Capricorn and a confident, self-expressive New Moon in Leo. The sense of alignment and forward momentum is real!

Now let’s take a look at the most important transits of the month: 

July 3rd, 2025 – Venus Conjunct Uranus 

On July 3rd-4th, 2025, just before moving into Gemini, Venus and Uranus meet in the last degree of Taurus. 

With Venus and Uranus – the proverbial daughter and father – meeting for one last time at 29° Taurus, we will gain important insight into our identity and our place in the world.

During this transit, take some time to reflect and make a list of:
a) what you genuinely enjoy doing, what feels effortless and pleasurable to you (Venus), and
b) your higher calling – your larger mission in life – what, if pursued, could bring you authentic freedom and personal sovereignty (Uranus).

How are these two things linked? 

July 4th, 2025 – Venus Enters Gemini

On July 4th, 2025, Venus leaves Taurus and enters Gemini.

Venus represents what is important to us – what we like, and what brings us pleasure and happiness. Tracking Venus’ journey through different signs (Venus spends, on average, about one month in each sign) is a very practical way to understand how to enjoy our life more.

While Venus was in Taurus, our happiness came from simple pleasures – like good food, rest, and honoring our own rhythm. With this Venus-in-Gemini month, our focus shifts. 

Venus in Gemini is much more active and curious, so our pleasure and happiness in the weeks ahead will come from taking a more exploratory approach – getting out of the house, making connections, having stimulating conversations, and trying out new things.

And the fact that Venus and Uranus both enter Gemini within days of each other (and immediately after their conjunction in the last degree of Taurus) is very telling – because it will make it very clear to us what needs to shift in order for us to feel more free, engaged, and aligned with who we’re becoming.

July 5th, 2025 – Neptune Goes Retrograde

On July 5th, 2025, Neptune goes retrograde at 2° Aries. One week later, on July 13th, 2025, Saturn also turns retrograde at 1° Aries, so we have a lot of activity concentrated in the very first degrees of the zodiac. 

Neptune and Saturn going retrograde will start to clarify which themes will dominate our collective focus for many years to come – read: the next 14 years.

Neptune and Saturn are not literally conjunct – although they will be less than 1 degree apart, close enough to feel their combined influence. So while the sense of anticipation can be strikingly obvious, the RESET is not happening just yet. 

There are still things to reflect on, still things to adjust. And with Neptune and Saturn both slipping back into Pisces (from later this year until early next year), we’re offered a grace period to fine-tune what needs refining – so we can step into the next big chapter of our lives with our homework done.

July 7th, 2025 – Uranus Enters Gemini

Today is the big day. Uranus begins a new 7-year chapter in the sign of Gemini. 

The 7-year period is a well-known turning point – astrologers often associate it with the Saturn cycle (7 years being the time between two Saturn squares) – but we could also argue that these shifts align just as much with Uranus’ change of focus.

When Uranus changes signs, what used to feel urgent and defining for the past 7 years begins to lose its grip – as new themes suddenly take all our focus and energy.

Uranus ingresses start with a bang. Unlike other outer planets like Neptune, which operate in mysterious ways, Uranus doesn’t have time for gentle transitions – it delivers shocks, breakthroughs, and wake-up calls.

When Uranus entered Aries in 2011, we had Fukushima and the Arab Spring. Uranus in Taurus in 2018 brought us the crypto boom and disruptions to financial and environmental systems. 

Uranus in Gemini will most likely reshape the landscape of artificial intelligence and digital communication – but as the saying goes with Uranus: expect the unexpected.

There may be paradigm shifts related to the Gemini archetype – language, mobility, networks, and the way we process and share information – that catch us off guard and demand changes to help us find greater freedom and autonomy.

A detailed report about this important transit will follow in the next few days.

July 10th, 2025 – Full Moon In Capricorn

On July 10th, 2025, we have a Full Moon at 18° Capricorn. This is a positive, results-oriented Full Moon, trine Mars in Virgo.

Full Moons (and especially Capricorn Full Moons) want to get things done – they are achievement-oriented. And when the productive Mars in Virgo lends its precision and work ethic, this energy becomes even more effective.

There’s something that earth signs understand about the world we live in that other signs don’t – they operate from a matter-of-fact, grounded, and realistic perspective that actually works. They don’t need to overcomplicate things. They take action that’s rooted in reality.

This Full Moon in Capricorn is the one to work with if you want to achieve something meaningful to you.

July 18th, 2025 – Mercury Goes Retrograde

On July 18th, 2025, Mercury goes retrograde at 15° Leo. Mercury retrogrades are those times of the year when we check in with our internal mental processes and make sense of what just happened.

Mercury will be retrograde until August 11th, 2025, covering the 4°–15° Leo area of the zodiac. If you have planets or angles there, this retrograde period will be more personally relevant. If not – pay attention to the house where Leo falls in your natal chart. This is where the review, rethinking, and recalibration will unfold.

July 22nd, 2025 – Sun Enters Leo

On July 22nd, 2025, the Sun enters Leo. Happy birthday to all Leos out there! Leo season is that time of the year when we’re all a little more Leo, regardless of our personal chart signatures. 

This is when we’re encouraged to reconnect with our inner child – what brings us joy, what lights us up – and live a life that is aligned with our most authentic self.

It’s no coincidence that July-August (Leo season) is when many of us take a break or go on holidays – that’s probably because our real Self truly needs more joy, play, and creative expression.

July 24th, 2025 – New Moon In Leo

On July 24th, 2025, we have a New Moon at 2° Leo.

The geometry of this New Moon is amazing – it literally aspects all the slow-moving planets: it’s trine Neptune and Saturn in Aries, sextile Uranus in Gemini, and opposite Pluto in Leo.

At the New Moon in Leo, we’re tuning into larger forces at play – and we are called to step in and claim the role we want to play in this emerging reality. 

Leo wants us to be brave – to lean in, and make our voice, values, or dreams known to the world. We don’t have to know exactly how to make it happen – yet – but the first step is claiming our territory, in the same way the lion shows up and lets everyone know it’s there.

July 31st, 2025 – Chiron Goes Retrograde

On July 31st, 2025, Chiron goes retrograde at 27° Aries.

Chiron retrograde invites us to take a closer look at our wounds. How do your – conscious and unconscious – wounds shape your life?

Our Chiron wounds are not always obvious, but they sabotage our lives in subtle ways. We don’t even know who we could be without them.

Maybe we don’t start a new relationship out of a fear of abandonment. We don’t go for what we want out of an unconscious fear of embarrassment. We don’t fully step into our potential because of an unconscious loyalty to our parents or the roles we’ve been shaped to play.

Chiron retrograde is our opportunity to take a look inside and understand the wound–trigger mechanism. The goal? Transcend the pain – not by ignoring it, but by integrating it. Because our wounds are the keys to our greatest gifts. 

Al Gore | TED Countdown Summit 2025

• June 2025

In this urget and hard-hitting talk, Nobel Laureate Al Gore thoroughly dismantles the fossil fuel industry’s narrative of “climate realism,” contrasting their misleading claims with the remarkable advancements in renewable energy. Drawing on data showing clear signs of progress across the world, Gore makes a powerful case that we already have everything needed to solve the climate crisis — and reminds us of what the most valuable renewable resource actually is.

• Climate Change
• Environment
• Science
• Sustainability
• Technology
• Social Change
• Energy
• Solar Energy
• Data
• Countdown
• Renewable Energy
• Fossil Fuels

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Al Gore

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