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Our upbringing can make us accept them blindly, becoming desensitized of their potential impacts. Thus, it is worth reviewing and questioning what we have been taught, and whether these habits and beliefs are truly good for ourselves and Mother Earth.

One example is what we consider as food. Some cultures find eating cats, dogs, or even whales acceptable. Some cultures don't eat pigs or cows. What impact are we making when we eat (or don't eat) those animals? It's worth contemplating.

When we're so used to considering certain living beings as food, we can become apathetic to their slaughter. This doesn’t apply only to animals, but to plants as well.

I had this realization because last year I saw a video of a cook preparing a fried cactus dish. It required skinning the cactus, and I felt so sad that I cried for it. I realized I felt this way because I had never considered cactus as food, so seeing it skinned looked brutal to me. In my eyes, it was as if a cute kitten were being skinned. But it made me question why I had never felt sad for other vegetables that are constantly being peeled and cooked, including by myself. It's because I saw them as food, and it was normal for them to be peeled and cooked. I didn't see them as living beings with a right to live.

✨ You generally feel happy in your daily life.

✨ You feel relaxed and aren't worried about whether or when your manifestation will arrive.

✨ When you visualize your manifestation, you feel happy without experiencing any negative emotions.

Let your inner light tell you the truth. 🌟

I received this advice from my spirit guides back in May, but I completely forgot about it throughout June.

Fear of uncertainty can keep you in your comfort zone and make you miss opportunities.

Fear of failure can stop you from trying.

Fear of missing out can make you waste your valuable time attending events that you don't actually enjoy.

Fear of other people's opinions can limit how you express yourself.

Fear of self-reflection and introspection can make it difficult for you to be alone without your phone or other distractions.

Fear of abandonment can make you struggle with forming deep relationships.

Fear of being alone can push you to keep entering relationships, instead of waiting for the right person to come along.

By becoming aware of what you fear, you begin to break the cage that confines you.

Through self-exploration, you can uncover the beliefs and past experiences that may have contributed to your fear, then acknowledge and release them while adjusting your actions accordingly.

Mars can represent something fiery, violence, and a high dose of energy. 🔥 Uranus can represent unexpected events, space (extraterrestrials? 👽🛸), and earthquakes.

What could possibly happen: ~ earthquakes ~ seriously destructive fires ~ unexpected, massive violent events ~ the prominent appearance of extraterrestrials ~ airplane accidents or hijackings ~ earthquakes in the financial world (since this happens in Taurus, which is related to money)

If anyone has other guesses, feel free to drop a reply.

This is because, to become very good at something, one needs to be honest with themselves and clearly see the limits of their knowledge. They also tend to look at things deeply and from various perspectives, which is why they often feel unsure and recognize that they don't know (enough).

I had never made New Year’s resolutions, but last year I decided to make one: to publish my Italian poems in a poetry journal in Italy.

This idea seemed almost unachievable or even naïve, as Italian is my fifth language and I only started learning it in 2022. I also have no linguistic talent, only sheer devotion. When I was a teen, I often secretly read graded readers under my comforter with a flashlight during my supposed bedtime, trying to catch up with my peers in English. My parents never noticed.

Unlike the other languages I have learned, my younger self never intended to learn Italian, and there was never any external pressure (e.g. career prospects or government policies) that pushed me to learn it. Yet the Universe made me. Interestingly, once I started learning it, I found myself quite in tune with the musicality of this language, and I enjoyed the process of constructing rhythmic verses. It also channeled my passion and love really well. Even I could hardly communicate in it, I already started writing Italian poems in 2023.

This is because manifestation is not a mental exercise that requires a lot of focus.

It's about setting your intention, NOT focusing on the current situation, and letting go of the outcome to the Universe. 🌌

Not focusing on the current situation is particularly important because our thoughts and emotions carry energy. If we focus on a situation of lack, we sustain that state. By placing our attention elsewhere, we allow things to transform.

A friend took me there on Tue. I originally didn't plan to touch the stones, but he suggested that I touched them to see if I could sense anything. So I did, for the sake of experimentation.

I chose to touch 3 of them, guided by my intuition:

When I touched the first one, I felt a pleasant chill around my heart, and then some of that sensation moved downward until it reached my belly. It made me realize that I had some energetic blockages there.

With the second one, I also felt a good sensation around my heart, but I also felt some tingling around the lower parts of my shins, as if I was being grounded and some negative energy was being pulled out of me from there.

With the third stone, I felt as if some "clouds" were being removed from my head. Then, I worked together with the stone to release the negative energy in my belly that I had noticed while touching the first stone.

Today, when I woke up, I felt so good!

I realized that it's because many of us have a desire to experience the intense emotions that come from them, and the Universe creates a reality for us based on that desire and those emotions. Even if we don't consciously recognize that desire, pay attention to the music, shows, and video games we enjoy. Many of them are filled with pain, suffering, and conflict.

I noticed this because I recently listened to the songs I used to love years ago and discovered that many of them were very sad.

This post is not about blaming people who are suffering. Rather, it's an invitation to reflect on what kinds of desires you have and what emotional energy you've been generating, and to consider whether you want to change them, especially if you're seeking transformation in your life.

For years, I thought the separation of science and religion was caused by the Church suppressing scientific development, such as the heliocentric model proposed by Copernicus in 1543.

But last week, I was shocked to learn that this wasn't true.

Indeed, the Catholic Church opposed that model and put Galileo on trial for supporting it. However, throughout history, the Church conducted only 12 trials related to scientific issues, and only one scientist, Giordano Bruno, was executed—not for science, but for his religious beliefs, including reincarnation and anti-Trinitarian views [1].

Instead, to my surprise, Christianity contributed to science both directly and indirectly. For example, God was invoked as an argument when Francis Bacon tried to convince others that scientific methods would benefit humanity. He reasoned that God had bestowed Reason upon humans, thus by using this gift, humanity could build a better future [2]. Inquisitors invented peer review because they felt responsible for verifying the experimental results described in the books that they were censoring, so they built labs and reconducted those experiments [3]. Many famous scientists, such as Gregor Johann Mendel (the “father of modern genetics”), were clergymen.

In fact, the separation between religion and science is a relatively recent development that gained momentum in the late 19th century, after the publication of Darwin’s theory on evolution. Triggered by the then-controversial idea that humans had evolved from apes, advocates on each side attempted to portray the other as the enemy. At that time, two best-selling books in the U.S. accused the Church as science’s enemy, fueling the separation like a wild fire [4]. Now that I have learned the true history, I realize that my younger self suffered from the propaganda that had caused the separation more than a century ago.

I wonder whether, as a consequence, this separation caused science to focus exclusively on physicalism, instead of including topics that are non-physical but could still be investigated through scientific methods. As a result, it caused a separation more than between science and Christianity, but a rift between science (which focuses on physicalism) and non-physical “spiritual” aspects of life. Thus, some topics can be deemed nonexistent and swept under the carpet instead of being formally acknowledged and studied, or be given a flawed explanation based on physicalism. Example are astral projection and near-death experiences.

As some fields of science (e.g. the study of consciousness) begin to seek answers to questions that may require navigating beyond the current standard approach based on physicalism, it is time for us to move forward from this post-Darwin divide. To begin, we can consider the following:

Where and how should we draw the line between science and spirituality?

What do science and spirituality truly mean?

How can we better explore the profound questions so deeply connected to the understanding of our world and existence by integrating relevant scientific and spiritual approaches?

Addressing this issue will require a collective effort from humanity, and years to find the right balance. In the meantime, this little potato me has to correct the history slide from my talk on the reconcilability between science and spirituality that I gave two years ago because, apparently, that slide was so wrong.

🌍 Background 🌍

This year is the Year of the Fire Horse, and the Horse also carries the element of fire. That means this year has double fire. 🔥🐎 This month, meanwhile, holds the elements of wood and fire, but wood fuels fire. In summary, this month is fire on steroids!

⚠️ Caution ⚠️

Be careful of themes related to the fire element: physical fire (of course), anger, rage, conflicts, and wars. Fire is also intangible, so be cautious with things that are intangible, such as digital, spiritual, or mythical matters. Fire can also be hazy, so it can represent scams.

🧧 Advice 🧧

Restrain yourself and try not to get into impulsive fights with anyone, whether physical or verbal. (If you need help channeling your anger, feel free to ask me for tips.) Be careful of scams, particularly fake spiritual teachers and gurus.

Recently, a friend I've known for a few years agreed to attend an event with me but didn't show up. I waited for her for 2 hours and missed the last part of the event. I texted her, and I knew her phone had received the message, but she didn't respond until after I told her I was leaving.

Later, she gave me some reasons, but both my other friends (one of them is a psychic) and I felt she wasn't being completely honest. She also never apologized, even after I told her I had waited for two hours. What confused me was that she had given me significant help earlier this year and had generally been a reliable friend except this time.

On the other hand, this incident triggered me to reflect on many friendship-related betrayals from my past. It helped me release some emotions and do some healing.

Because of that, I wondered whether, in some sense, her soul had provided a service by triggering this healing process. I also asked my psychic friend for a Tarot reading about why she had lied and what the truth was. The reading didn't explain why she had lied, but it did suggest that the event was connected to my healing.

So, there are at least 3 perspectives I can apply here, along with 3 possible ways to act:

1) She made me wait for two hours, wasn't honest about the reason, and never apologized. It was a betrayal, and I won't continue this friendship.

2) She wasn't honest this time, but she has been a helpful friend over the years. I'll give her a pass this time. Maybe something embarrassing happened that made her unable to come or tell me what was going on.

For example, when I was a teen, I dreamed of becoming a theoretical particle physicist. When I got into grad school at 22, a renowned experimental particle physicist offered me the opportunity to work under her. It was an attractive offer, so I took it. However, during the first two years, I still wondered whether I should stay under her wing or switch to pursue my childhood dream. Eventually, I stayed and completed my PhD in experimental particle physics rather than theoretical particle physics.

It wasn't a bad decision. In fact, it came with many benefits, such as graduating on time and receiving greater recognition. But when I was suffering from severe PTSD a few years ago, that decision really haunted me. I felt that I had chosen an easier path over my dream and had therefore betrayed myself. I also questioned whether I had strength and integrity.

It's true that I chose the easier path, but it hurt no one, and I still learned and gained a lot on this path. Yet, my mind kept attacking me. Now that I've recovered, I no longer feel any regret about my life, even though I still remember the mistakes and imperfect decisions I've made.

In astrology, there are certain planetary alignments in a birth chart that indicate the possibility of mental health challenges (e.g. Saturn aspecting the Moon), and anyone can be born with such alignments.

There are also planetary transits that may bring about these difficulties for a period of time, such as Saturn transiting over a person's natal Moon. Everyone over the age of 30 has to experience this transit at some point in life. While not everyone will experience severe depression during that time, there is a general consensus among astrologers that it can be a difficult period marked by challenges, responsibilities, and emotional heaviness.