AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Aquarian author Alice Walker writes, In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful.” In the coming weeks, I hope you ll adopt that way of thinking and apply it to every aspect of your perfectly imperfect body and mind and soul. I hope you ll give the same generous blessing to the rest of the world, as well. This attitude is always wise to cultivate, of course, but it will be especially transformative for you in the coming weeks. It s time to celebrate your gorgeous idiosyncrasies and eccentricities.
February 3, 2021 by Rob Brezsny
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Herman Hesse s novel Siddartha is a story about a spiritual seeker who goes in search of illumination. Near the end of the quest, when Siddartha is purified and enlightened, he tells his friend, I greatly needed sin, lust, vanity, the striving for goods, and the most shameful despair, to learn how to love the world, to stop comparing the world with any world that I wish for, with any perfection that I think up; I learned to let the world be as it is, and to love it and to belong to it gladly. While I trust you won t overdo the sinful stuff in the coming months, Aries, I hope you will reach a conclusion like Siddartha s. The astrological omens suggest that 2021 is the best year ever for you to learn how to love your life and the world just as they are.
‘Imagine if our nation was accountable’: Online talk explores racial reparations
Luisah Teish, a teacher and author, conducted a ceremony in an online presentation on racial reparations on Sunday. SCREENSHOT
Published: 12/21/2020 3:57:33 PM
GREENFIELD In consideration of its support for racial reparations, members of the local Racial Justice Rising group tuned in to a Zoom discussion on Sunday about the topic, conducted by the Grassroots Reparations Campaign, an organization with members in different parts of the country.
The basic idea of reparations is that Black people are at a social disadvantage as a result of the history of slavery and racism and that the way to repair that damage would be to acknowledge it through laws and government policies. There are different views on what exactly those laws and policies should do.