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Christopher Wren’s tombstone at St. Paul’s Cathedral, London
“Here in its foundations lies the architect of this church and city, Christopher Wren. Reader, if you seek his monument – look around you.”
—Epitaph on Wren’s tomb in St. Paul’s Cathedral”
Sir Christopher Wren (October 20, 1732 – February 25, 1723) was an English architect, astronomer, mathematician and physicist who was one of the most highly acclaimed architects in the history of England. Wikipedia
Word-Built World: pejorism
Illustration: Anu Garg
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pejorism
PRONUNCIATION:
MEANING:
noun: The belief that the world is becoming worse.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin peior (worse). Earliest documented use: 1879. One holding such a belief is a pejorist.
Can Humans Truly Perceive the Future?
What seems certain is that the boundary between “impossible” and “unexplained” continues to shift as science advances.
MAR 26, 2025 (wisdomschool.com)
Can humans predict the future? For centuries, the idea of precognition—knowing what will happen before it occurs—has been dismissed as mere superstition or wishful thinking. Yet a growing collection of scientific studies suggests there might be more to this phenomenon than skeptics have assumed.
Precognition research began in earnest back in 1901 when scientists Vaschide and Piéron conducted experiments asking people to predict random events like dice rolls. Surprisingly, some participants consistently scored above what chance would predict. While their methods weren’t as refined as today’s standards, they started a scientific conversation that continues more than a century later.
The evidence became more compelling in 2012 when researchers Julia Mossbridge, Patrizio Tressoldi, and Jessica Utts published an extensive review of previous studies. They focused on something called “predictive physiological anticipatory activity” or PAA—essentially, how our bodies might react to future events before they happen.
In these experiments, participants were connected to instruments measuring heart rate, skin conductance, and brain activity while viewing random images. Some images were emotionally neutral, like landscapes, while others were emotionally charged—disturbing or exciting pictures designed to provoke a reaction.
What the researchers discovered was surprising: participants’ bodies often reacted seconds before they saw emotional images, even though the sequence was completely random and unknown to both the participants and the researchers. A follow-up analysis in 2017 confirmed these findings.
Consider what this means: your heart rate might increase slightly before you see a scary picture, even though there’s no way you could consciously know what’s coming. It’s as if your body senses the future.
In 2011, psychologist Daryl Bem published “Feeling the Future,” a paper detailing nine experiments with over 1,000 participants. In one test, participants studied a list of words and later tried to recall as many as possible. After the recall test, a computer randomly selected some words for additional practice.
The strange result? People were better at remembering words that would later be selected for practice—as if the future practice session somehow reached backward in time to enhance memory.
In another experiment, participants chose between two curtains on a computer screen, one hiding an erotic image. The computer randomly placed the image after the choice was made. Yet participants selected the correct curtain more often than chance would predict.
These findings provoked intense debate. While some replication attempts failed, others succeeded, keeping the scientific conversation alive.
Take the case of Malcolm Bessent, a participant in dream precognition studies at the Maimonides Dream Laboratory in the 1960s. Researchers asked Bessent to dream about a randomly selected image that would only be chosen the next day. His dream reports included detailed elements that later appeared in the target images at rates far exceeding chance.
In one notable instance, Bessent dreamed of “something to do with a volcano” and “some men working on something in a pit.” The next day’s random target was a painting depicting Mount Vesuvius erupting—a volcanic scene with people working in the foreground.
Our everyday lives occasionally provide compelling anecdotes too. On the morning of September 11, 2001, numerous people reported having vivid, disturbing dreams the night before that seemed to predict the attacks. While such reports are impossible to verify scientifically, they mirror countless historical accounts of seemingly precognitive dreams.
The U.S. government took these possibilities seriously enough to fund the “Stargate Project,” investigating whether people could describe future locations and events. Participants were asked to visualize places they had never seen, with the targets sometimes selected only after their descriptions were recorded.
In one documented case, a remote viewer accurately described a distinctive crane at a Soviet shipyard before satellite photos confirmed its existence. When the target location was determined after the viewing session, results remained statistically significant.
Remarkably, these findings align with certain interpretations of quantum physics. In quantum mechanics, particles can become “entangled,” influencing each other instantaneously across vast distances—what Einstein called “spooky action at a distance.” Some theoretical physicists propose that time might work similarly, with future events potentially influencing the present.
A 2022 experiment at the University of Geneva tested quantum entanglement across time, finding evidence that particles can be connected not just across space but also between past and future states. While highly technical, such research offers potential mechanisms for how precognition might work at a fundamental level of reality.
Critics point out limitations in precognition research. Most fundamentally, precognition challenges our basic understanding of cause and effect—how can something that hasn’t happened yet influence the present?
Yet proponents respond that the overall pattern across multiple studies remains compelling. Meta-analyses that combine results from many experiments consistently find small but significant effects. And new theoretical frameworks in physics increasingly suggest our conventional understanding of time may be incomplete.
Consider your own experiences. Have you ever had a strong feeling about something that later came true? Or dreamed about an event before it happened? While individual anecdotes don’t constitute scientific proof, they do reflect the kind of experiences that prompted scientific investigation in the first place.
The pioneering psychiatrist Carl Jung documented numerous cases of seeming precognition among his patients. In one famous example, a patient described a dream about a golden scarab beetle. During their session discussing this dream, an actual scarab beetle—extremely rare in that location—tapped on Jung’s window. Jung saw such “synchronicities” as meaningful connections transcending conventional causality.
Today, researchers continue refining their methods to test precognition. Modern studies use sophisticated equipment like functional MRI scanners to detect subtle brain activity that might indicate unconscious awareness of future events.
What’s particularly compelling is how precognition effects appear strongest for emotional or significant events. Your body might react before randomly seeing any emotional image, but the effect seems strongest for the most emotionally charged pictures—suggesting a possible evolutionary advantage to anticipating important events.
The question remains open: can humans truly perceive the future? While definitive proof remains elusive, the accumulating evidence suggests this question deserves serious scientific consideration rather than immediate dismissal.
As research continues, we may discover that consciousness interacts with time in ways we’re only beginning to understand. Perhaps our minds exist not just in the present moment but reach subtly into both past and future—challenging our fundamental assumptions about reality itself.
What seems certain is that the boundary between “impossible” and “unexplained” continues to shift as science advances. Yesterday’s paranormal often becomes tomorrow’s frontier science. Precognition, once dismissed entirely, now occupies that intriguing borderland between mystery and emerging scientific understanding.
Do Your Worst; We’ll Do Our Best
“We shall never turn from our purpose, however sombre the road, however grievous the cost, because we know that out of this time of trial and tribulation will be born a new freedom and glory for all mankind.”
–Winston Churchill
Audio: https://www.nationalchurchillmuseum.org/do-your-worst-well-do-our-best.html
I am very glad to come here today to pay my tribute and to record in the name of the Government our gratitude to all the civil authorities of London who, first under Sir John Anderson, and through the darkest moments under the courageous and resourceful leadership of Mr. Herbert Morrison so long master of the London County Council, and now acting in an even higher sphere to all who carried out their duties faithfully, skilfully, and devotedly, so that at last we made our way through the tempest, and came for the time being, at any rate, into a calm spell.
During her long ordeal London was upheld by the sympathy and admiration of the other great cities of our Island and let us not forget here loyal Belfast, in Northern Ireland and when after the enemywearied of his attack upon the capital and turned to other parts of the country, many of us in our hearts felt anxiety lest the weight of attack concentrated on those smaller organisms should prove more effective than when directed on London, which is so vast and strong that she is like a prehistoric monster into whose armoured hide showers of arrows can be shot in vain. But a frightful measure of cruelty of the enemy’s assault; and I say here that, while we are entitled to speak particularly of London, we honour them for their constancy in a comradeship of suffering, of endurance, and of triumph. That comradeship in this hideous, unprecedented, novel pressure has united us all, and it has proved to the world the quality of our Island life.
I have no doubt whatever, as I said to the civil defence forces in Hyde Park this morning, that the behaviour of the British people in this trial gained them conquests in the mind and spirit and sympathy of the United States of America which swept into an igDominious comer all the vilest strokesof Goebbels propaganda.
We have to ask ourselves this question: Will the bombing attacks of last autumn and winter come back again? We have proceeded on the assumption that they will. Some months ago I requested the Home Secretary and Minister of Home Security and his principal colleagues, the Minister of Health and others, to make every preparation for the autumn and winter war as if we should have to go through the same ordeal as last year, only rather worse. I am sure that everything is being done in accordance with those directions. The shelters are being strengthened, improved, lighted and warmed. All arrangements for fire-control and fire-watching are being improved perpetually.
Many new arrangements are being contrived as a result of the hard experience through which we have passed and the many mistakes which no doubt we have made for success is the result of making many mistakes and learning from experience. If the lull is to end, if the storm is to renew itself, London will be ready, London will not flinch, London can take it again.
We ask no favours of the enemy. We seek from them no compunction. On the contrary, if to-night the people of London were asked to cast their vote whether a convention should be entered into to stop the bombing of all cities, the overwhelming majority would cry, “No, we will mete out to the Germans the measure, and more than the measure, that they have meted out to us.” The people of London with one voice would say to Hitler: “You have committed every crime under the sun. Where you have been the least resisted there you have been the most brutal. It was you who began the indiscriminate bombing. We remember Warsaw in the very first few days of the war. We remember Rotterdam. We have been newly reminded of your habits by the hideous massacre of Belgrade. We know too well the bestial assault yon are making upon the Russian people, to whom our hearts go out in their valiant struggle. We will have no truce or parley with you, or the grisly gang who work your wicked will. You do your worst and we will do our best.” Perhaps it may be our turn soon; perhaps it may be our turn now.
We live in a terrible epoch of the human story, but we believe there is a broad and sure justice running through its theme. It Is time that the Germans should be made to safer in their own and cities something of the torment they have twice in our lifetime let loose upon their neighbours and upon the
world.
We have now intensified for a month past our systematic, scientific, methodical bombing on a lazge scale of the German cities, seaports, industries, and other military objectives. We believe it to be in our power to keep this process going, on a steadily rising tide, month after month, year after year, until the Nazi regime is either extirpated by us or, better still, torn to pieces by the German people themselves.
Every month as the great bombers are finished in our factories or sweep hither across the Atlantic Ocean we shall continue the remorseless discharge of high explosives on Germany. Every month will see the tonnage increase, and, as the nights lengthen and the range of our bombers also grows, that unhappy, abject, subject province of Germany which used to be called Italy will have its fair share too.
In the last few weeks alone we have thrown upon Germany about half the tonnage of bombs thrown by the Germans upon our cities during the whole course of the war. But this is only the beginning, and we hope by next July to multiply our deliveries manifold.
It is for this reason that I must ask you to be prepared for vehement counter-action by the enemy. Our methods of dealing with the German night raiders have steadily improved. They no longer relish their trips, to our shores. It is not true to say they did not come this last moon because they were all engaged in Russia. They have a bombing force in the West quite capable of making very heavy attacks. I do not know why they did not come, but, as I mentioned in Hyde Park, it is certainly not because they have begun to love us more. It may be because they are saving up, but even if that be so, the very fact that they have to save up should give us confidence by revealing the truth of our steady advance from an almost unarmed position to a position at least of equality, and soon of superiority to them in the air.
But all engaged in our civil defence forces, whether in London or throughout the country, must prepare themselves for further heavy assaults. Your oiganization, your vigilance, yoor devotion to duty, your zeal for the cause must be raised to the highest intensity.
We do not expect to hit without being hit back, and we intend with every week that passes to hit harder. Prepare yourselves, then, my friends and comrades in the Battle of London, for this renewal of your exertions. We shall never turn from our purpose, however sombre the road, however grievous the cost, because we know that out of this time of trial and tribulation will be born a new freedom and glory for all mankind.
Winston Churchill
July 14, 1941
The “hot shot rule” to help you become a better leader
Kat Cole | TEDNext 2024
• October 2024
Confidence doesn’t come before action — it comes from taking action, says business leader Kat Cole, who worked her way up from waitress to CEO of a global health company. She presents a simple yet powerful practice called the “hot shot rule” to help you step into a leadership mindset, break free from inertia and take decisive action when it matters most.
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20 Signs of Tyranny
| ROBERT REICH MAR 26, 2025 |
Friends,
I wrote the following more than seven years ago, on February 8, 2018. It pains me to read it.
If I were to write it today I’d change the title from “20 Signs of Impending Tyranny” to “20 Signs of Tyranny.”
We are in a deepening national emergency.
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20 Signs of Impending Tyranny
As tyrants take control of democracies, they typically:
1. Demand personal loyalty from all appointees.
2. Organize military parades and other choreographed shows of force.
3. Threaten to fire independent prosecutors who get too close to the truth.
4. Spread conspiracy theories about “deep state” forces seeking to oust the tyrant.
5. Refer to top-ranking military leaders as “my” generals.
6. Threaten to jail political opponents.
7. Claim to have won an election by a landslide even after losing the popular vote.
8. Stoke tensions abroad, even the specter of nuclear war, to distract from the tyrant’s efforts to consolidate power at home.
9. Circumvent the independent press and communicate directly with followers.
10. Vilify legislators and judges who are critical of the regime.
11. Repeatedly claim massive voter fraud in the absence of any evidence, in order to restrict voting in subsequent elections.
12. Turn the public against journalists or media outlets that criticize the regime, calling them “deceitful” and “scum.”
13. Repeatedly tell big lies, causing the public to doubt the truth and to believe fictions that support the tyrants’ goals
14. Blame economic stresses on immigrants or racial or religious minorities, and foment public bias and hatred against them.
15. Threaten mass deportations, registries of religious minorities, and the banning of refugees.
16. Attribute acts of domestic violence to “enemies within,” and use such events as excuses to beef up internal security and limit civil liberties.
17. Appoint family members to high positions of authority.
18. Draw no distinction between personal property and public property, profiteering from public office.
19. Make personal alliances with foreign dictators, but express indifference if not defiance toward leaders of democracies.
20. Maintain a powerful propaganda arm that claims to be “fair and balanced” but only amplifies the tyrant’s lies and accusations.
The Healing Power of Gardens: Oliver Sacks on the Psychological and Physiological Consolations of Nature
By Maria Popova (themarginalian.org)
“I work like a gardener,” the great painter Joan Miró wrote in his meditation on the proper pace for creative work. It is hardly a coincidence that Virginia Woolf had her electrifying epiphany about what it means to be an artist while walking amid the flower beds in the garden at St. Ives. Indeed, to garden — even merely to be in a garden — is nothing less than a triumph of resistance against the merciless race of modern life, so compulsively focused on productivity at the cost of creativity, of lucidity, of sanity; a reminder that we are creatures enmeshed with the great web of being, in which, as the great naturalist John Muir observed long ago, “when we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe”; a return to what is noblest, which means most natural, in us. There is something deeply humanizing in listening to the rustle of a newly leaved tree, in watching a bumblebee romance a blossom, in kneeling onto the carpet of soil to make a hole for a sapling, gently moving a startled earthworm or two out of the way. Walt Whitman knew this when he weighed what makes life worth living as he convalesced from a paralytic stroke: “After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, love, and so on — have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear — what remains? Nature remains; to bring out from their torpid recesses, the affinities of a man or woman with the open air, the trees, fields, the changes of seasons — the sun by day and the stars of heaven by night.”
Illustration by Emily Hughes from Little Gardener.
Those unmatched rewards, both psychological and physiological, are what beloved neurologist and author Oliver Sacks (July 9, 1933–August 30, 2015) explores in a lovely short essay titled “Why We Need Gardens,” found in Everything in Its Place: First Loves and Last Tales (public library) — the wondrous posthumous collection that gave us Sacks on the life-altering power of libraries. He writes:
As a writer, I find gardens essential to the creative process; as a physician, I take my patients to gardens whenever possible. All of us have had the experience of wandering through a lush garden or a timeless desert, walking by a river or an ocean, or climbing a mountain and finding ourselves simultaneously calmed and reinvigorated, engaged in mind, refreshed in body and spirit. The importance of these physiological states on individual and community health is fundamental and wide-ranging. In forty years of medical practice, I have found only two types of non-pharmaceutical “therapy” to be vitally important for patients with chronic neurological diseases: music and gardens.
Oliver Sacks at the New York Botanical Garden. (Photograph by Bill Hayes from How New York Breaks Your Heart.)
Having lived and worked in New York City for half a century — a city “sometimes made bearable… only by its gardens” — Sacks recounts witnessing nature’s tonic effects on his neurologically impaired patients: A man with Tourette’s syndrome, afflicted by severe verbal and gestural tics in the urban environment, grows completely symptom-free while hiking in the desert; an elderly woman with Parkinson’s disease, who often finds herself frozen elsewhere, can not only easily initiate movement in the garden but takes to climbing up and down the rocks unaided; several people with advanced dementia and Alzheimer’s disease, who can’t recall how to perform basic operations of civilization like tying their shoes, suddenly know exactly what to do when handed seedlings and placed before a flower bed. Sacks reflects:
Art by Violeta Lopíz and Valerio Vidali from The Forest by Riccardo Bozzi
More than half a century after the great marine biologist and environmental pioneer Rachel Carson asserted that “there is in us a deeply seated response to the natural universe, which is part of our humanity,” Sacks adds:
Illustration by Ashleigh Corrin from Layla’s Happiness by Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie.
Complement this particular fragment of the altogether delicious Everything in Its Place with naturalist Michael McCarthy on nature and joy, pioneering conservationist and Wilderness Act co-composer Mardy Murie on nature and human nature, and bryologist and Native American storyteller Robin Wall Kimmerer on gardening and the secret of happiness, then revisit Oliver Sacks on nature and the interconnectedness of the universe, the building blocks of identity, the three essential elements of creativity, and his stunning memoir of a life fully lived.
Tarot Card for March 27: The Empress
| The Empress The Empress is the embodiment of womanhood. She covers all aspects of love, beauty and female strength. Her throne is one built of endurance, tenacity, loyalty and sheer determination. She stands for the mother, and for the daughter… who will in turn become mother.And at her highest level, the Empress also represents the Great Mother in her aspect of protector, nurturer, teacher, lover, and friend. Here are all the elements of compassion, unconditional love and acceptance that comes from a pure and unadulterated relationship with the Goddess.In recent times we have tended to overlook the importance of the innate strength in womanhood. We can get blinded by the dynamic power inherent in male strength, and completely forget the necessity for the counter-balancing influence of female power.There’s nothing mushy about this power – it’s no accident that many Goddesses are regarded as destroyers – but it is infinitely different to male strength. The entire dynamic of its expression is unique and enduring.On a day ruled by the Empress, we need to be trying to touch the Goddess – either within or without. You’ll see Her gentle beauty in a thousand places if you look for it.We also need to be considering love, and the ways in which we express love and receive love in our lives. It’s a good exercise to try out every now and again, anyhow. When we run a quick check on the level of love in our lives as a regular thing, we find it much harder to make the mistake of taking it for granted.On a more mundane level, this is a time to think of mothers – you, if you are one; your mother; the concept of motherhood. And finally, again we need to take that back to whatever we regard as the highest principle of mothering in our lives.And by the way – just because I have talked a lot about women, and mothers, I am not excluding men. You have many of these same qualities within your nature too. So get in touch with them! Affirmation: “Love and beauty flow through my life in a limitless stream.” |
(Angelpahts.com)
Free Will Astrology: Week of March 27, 2025
BY ROB BREZSNY | MARCH 25, 2025 (NewCity.com)
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Ancient Rome’s emperor Julius Caesar undertook a radical move to fix the calendar, which had become increasingly inaccurate as the centuries passed. He added three months to the year 46 BCE, which as a result was 445 days long. I’m thinking that 2025 might seem equally long for you, Aries. Your destiny may feel like it’s taking forever to unfold. APRIL FOOL! I totally lied. In fact, I think 2025 will be one of your briskest, crispest years ever. Your adventures will be spiced with alacrity. Your efforts will be efficient and expeditious. You may sometimes be amazed at how swiftly progress unfolds.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Guilt and fear are always useless distractions from what’s really happening. Right? APRIL FOOL! The fact is that on rare occasions, being anxious can motivate you to escape from situations that your logical mind says are tolerable. And guilt may compel you to take the right action when nothing else will. This is one time when your guilt and fear can be valuable assets.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The German word Flüsterwitze means “whisper jokes.” These jests make taboo references and need to be delivered with utmost discretion. They may include the mockery of authority figures. Dear Gemini, I recommend that you suppress your wicked satire and uproarious sarcasm for a while and stick to whisper jokes. APRIL FOOL! I lied. The truth is that the world needs your outspokenness. Your ability to call out hypocrisies and expose corruption—especially with humor and wit—will keep everyone as honest as they need to be.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): In the lead-up to the Paris-hosted 2024 Summer Olympics, the iconic Eiffel Tower was repainted gold. This was a departure from tradition, as the usual colors had been brown on the bottom and red on the top. The $60-million job took twenty-five painters eighteen months. I recommend that you undertake an equally monumental task in the coming months, Cancerian. APRIL FOOL! I lied. In fact, I do hope you undertake a monumental task—but one that’s more substantive than changing the surfaces of things. Like revisioning your life story, for example—reinterpreting your past and changing the way it informs your future. I think you are ready to purge inessential elements and exorcize old ghosts as you prepare for a re-launch around your birthday.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): When I worked on the Duke University grounds crew years ago, I did the work I was assigned as quickly as possible. Then I would hide in the bushes, taking unauthorized breaks for an hour or two, so I could read books I loved. Was that unethical? Maybe. But the fact is, I would never have been able to complete my assigned tasks unless I allowed myself relaxation retreats. If there is an equivalent situation in your life, Leo, I urge you to do as I did. APRIL FOOL! I half-lied. The truth is that I think you should be a little less extravagant than I was—but only a little—as you create the spaciousness and slack you need.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In his film “Fitzcarraldo,” Virgo director Werner Herzog tells an epic story. It includes the task of hauling a 320-ton steamship up a hill and over land, moving it from one river to another. Herzog could have relied on special effects to simulate this almost impossible project, but he didn’t. With a system of pulleys and a potent labor force, he made it happen. I urge you to try your equivalent of Herzog’s heroic conquest, Virgo. You will be able to summon more power and help than you can imagine. APRIL FOOL! I half-lied. While it’s true that you will be able to summon more power and help than you can imagine, I still think you should at least partially rely on the equivalent of special effects.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Researchers discovered that Egyptian fruit bats engage in extensive communication with each other while nesting in their roosts. Surprisingly, they talk about their problems a lot. In fact, they quarrel sixty percent of the time. Areas of disagreement include food allocation, positions within the sleep cluster, and males initiating unwanted mating moves. Let’s make these bats your power creatures. The astrological omens say it’s time for you to argue more than you have ever argued. APRIL FOOL! I was not entirely truthful. The coming weeks will be a good time to address disagreements and settle disputes, but hopefully through graceful means, not bitter arguing.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Unlike many modern poets, Scorpio-born Alice Notley rejects the notion that she must be part of any poetic lineage. She aspires “to establish or continue no tradition except one that literally can’t exist—the celebration of the singular thought sung at a particular instant in a unique voice.” She has also written, “It’s necessary to maintain a state of disobedience against everything.” She describes her work as “an immense act of rebellion against dominant social forces.” I invite you to enjoy your own version of a Notley-like phase, Scorpio. APRIL FOOL! I lied. In fact, I encourage you to enjoy a Notley-like phase beginning May 1. But for now, I invite you to be extra attentive in cultivating all the ways you can benefit from honoring your similarities and connections with others.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): The Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) is a standardized test that many American high school students take to prove their worth to colleges. The highest possible score is achieved by fewer than one percent of test-takers. We might imagine that earning such a premium grade must guarantee admission to any school, but it doesn’t. During one five-year period, for example, Stanford University rejected sixty-nine percent of applicants with the highest possible score. I’m sorry to predict that a comparable experience might be ahead for you, Sagittarius. Even if you are your best and brightest self, you may be denied your rightful reward. APRIL FOOL! I totally lied. Here’s my real, true prediction: In the coming weeks, I believe you will be your best and brightest self—and will win your rightful reward.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The visible part of an iceberg is typically just ten percent of its total size. Most is hidden beneath the sea’s surface. References to “the tip of the iceberg” have become a staple metaphor in many cultures, signifying situations that are not what they seem. Of all the zodiac tribes, Scorpios are renowned for their expertise in discerning concealed agendas and missing information. The rest of us tend to be far less skillful. APRIL FOOL! I fibbed. These days, you Capricorns are even more talented than Scorpios at looking beyond the obvious and becoming aware of the concealed roots and full context.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In the coming weeks, I advise you to be like the nineteenth-century poet Emily Dickinson. She lived in quiet seclusion, corresponding through letters instead of socializing. She seemed content to write her poems all alone in her home and be unconcerned about trying to get them published. APRIL FOOL! I lied. Here’s my real horoscope: Now is a highly favorable time for you to shmooze with intensity at a wide range of social occasions, both to get all the educational prods you need and to advance your ambitions.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Some systems and situations improve and thrive in response to stress and errors. Indeed, some things need strain or irregularity to be fully healthy. For example, human bodies require a certain amount of stress to develop a resistance to infection. In reading the astrological omens, I conclude you now need stimulation like that. APRIL FOOL! I lied. Here’s the truth: August of 2025 will be a great time for you to harvest the benefits of benevolent stress. But for now, your forte will be the capacity to avoid and resist stress, confusion and errors.
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