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Earlier this week, people living in the Northern Hemisphere, experienced the Winter Solstice, the shortest day of the year. It coincided with the Great Conjunction – when Saturn and Jupiter appeared to be touching in the sky. The last time we were able to witness this was in 1623, approximately 400 years ago. For weeks I anticipated what astrologers have acclaimed to be the beginning of a shift to greater focus on others as well as an emphasis on innovation and reform. While I am not an astronomer nor an astrologer, I searched for meaning behind the confluence of these 2 events. “Today, is the day that we will turn from darkness to lightness,” I suggested to my clients.
Miss Conduct: What the pandemic taught me
In a year that was so bleak, some reasons to be grateful.
By Robin Abrahams Contributor,Updated December 24, 2020, 9:11 a.m.
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Say what you will about 2020, we learned a few things. About cooking, supply chains, our families, Zoom and Discord, our hair, systemic racism, electoral politics, loops versus ties, ourselves.
I want to hear what youâve learned. Write and tell me, will you? And in return Iâll tell you a secret: For several very dark weeks this spring, I wasnât sure how Miss Conduct could go on. Whatâs a social advice column when social interaction is nigh impossible? Sometimes letter writersâ problems have no solutions, and the best I can do is to tell them that, which means itâs not their fault for not having solved them already. Saving folks from unwarranted self-blame is worthwhile. But an advice columnâs tone and topics need to balance out over the time, and the idea of unkn