Astrology and divination are ways people try to understand what might happen in the future. They've been around for a long time and are practiced in different religions. Let's see how they're used in ...

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“All forms of divination are to be rejected: recourse to Satan or demons, conjuring up the dead or other practices falsely supposed to ‘unveil’ the future. Consulting horoscopes, astrology, palm ...

Nightfall. A crescent moon gleams in the fading glow of the departed sun. One by one, stars appear, then the luminous river and dusky lagoons of the Milky Way. To the casual viewer of constellations, ...

Following on from the futurist folk and pagan techno of 2020’s debut album Fountain, Berlin-based composer Lyra Pramuk has created Hymnal, a devotional symphony to the universe that moves from ...

World Coconut Day, celebrated on September 2nd, was established by the Asian and Pacific Coconut Community to emphasize the importance of coconuts and support sustainable agricultural practices. The ...

Last year, less than a month into shelter in place, I decided to read the prophecies of Nostradamus. Within hours, I had found a passage that looked an awful lot like a COVID-19 prediction. In the ...

That was the first question the artist Mak Ying-tung 2 asked me when we were introduced in the spring of 2020. After excitedly confirming our initial compatibility – my star sign corresponds with her ...