{:en} January – Week 2 🌓 January 10 – Third Quarter Moon This phase is considered the first energetic turning point of January. It is an ideal time for release, reflection, and preparation for the upcoming New Moon. January Week 2 – General Effects for the Zodiac Signs ♈ Aries This week, emotional insights push you toward leadership. You may make important decisions regarding home and family matters. Inner clarity becomes essential for setting new goals. ♉ Taurus It’s time to establish boundaries for both professional and spiritual balance. Financial plans may begin to take clearer shape. ♊ Gemini A communication-focused week! There are opportunities to express your emotions and engage in honest conversations within relationships. ♋...

{:en} —Frida Kahlo Ah, these feelings, right? You try to drown them, they grab a life jacket. You fling them into the air, they parachute back down. You try to burn them, and somehow they jump straight into the “save in case of fire” box. You try to bury them underground and they’ve already dug a tunnel, tirelessly, relentlessly. After all that resilience and insistence, they still find their way back to you. You say, Didn’t I bury this a few years ago? But nope! there it is again, popping up like a ghost: “I’m baaaack!” You insist, But I threw this into the deepest sea last month....

{:en} Ani Ruins, Kars, Turkiye Hello dear readers... This article will be short for you, but I wanted it to be full of pictures. These photos are from the places I have visited, I think the photos I chose will satisfy you. In my next two articles, I want to put up new photos of these photos and have a visual feast. What would photos look like from the eyes of an artist, wouldn't we? See you again. Let's have a good time... Geometric stones in the sea, Kerpe, Kocaeli, Turkiye Still life: Tea in a wood-fired enamel teapot Church of Ignaccio, Andrea Pozzo, Rome, Italy Pompeii Ruins, Naples, Italy Pompeii Ruins, Naples, Italy Vatican Museum,...

{:en} Greetings to all my dear readers from the start of this new week. As you know, Mercury has turned direct, but its shadow phase will continue throughout the week. Below is the Weekly Astrology Analysis for August 11–17, 2025. Enjoy reading, Aries Rising: This week, your focus is entirely on work and career goals. Be cautious when communicating with superiors, as there is a strong possibility that unresolved issues lingering in the background will become known. An old project may resurface under the influence of Mercury retrograde. Proceed patiently and without haste. Taurus Rising: International matters, education, and legal issues take center stage. Unfinished business is returning for completion. You may confront...

{:en} When you watch the Venice Film Festival from afar, the first thing you see is the red carpet. World-famous stars, flawless gowns, endless camera flashes, and a magnificent atmosphere reminding us that cinema remains one of the world’s most powerful dream industries. But once you arrive in Venice, you begin to see another world behind all that glamour: independent filmmakers trying to tell their stories, make their voices heard, and find a place among major productions. The real struggle often takes place not on the red carpet, but just beyond it. Venice’s Grandeur and the Missing Hollywood Glow Held from September 2 through 12, the 83rd Venice International Film Festival brought...

{:en} We have a strange relationship with negativity. On the one hand, we are forever being told to stay away from negativity, think positive, and remove negative people from our lives. And yet, the moment something negative happens, we can hardly look away. We want the positive. But we’re curious about the negative. “Everything is fine.” Okay. And? But say, “Everything was fine, and then something happened…” Now we pull up a chair. What happened? Psychology has a name for this: negativity bias—our tendency to notice the negative more quickly, process it more deeply, and carry it with us longer. Years ago, psychologist Roy Baumeister and his colleagues published a major review with the wonderfully unsubtle title Bad Is Stronger Than Good....

{:en} Golden Age of Istanbul’s Nightlife: The 90s! The rapid transformation the world has undergone in recent years has made it even more evident how special the era we—Generation X—lived through truly was. In fact, we can say those last ten years, from the 90s into the early 2000s, were the final stretch before everything started to go wrong. These days, whenever we connect with people from our generation or gather, the conversation always begins the same way: So… what did we really live through back then? Who were what and we with on earth were we doing? Do you remember those nights? Do you remember those mornings when we left the...

{:en} There are beautiful olive trees all around me. Each one's body has different curves, a different wonder of divine design. These are illustrious in Bodrum, olive groves overflow from the streets. The nature fuels me a lot when I am writing my articles. The olive grove that I am currently in is an extraordinary source of inspiration for me. In all holy scripts, the olive tree is a symbol of holiness, abundance, justice, health, pride, victory, prosperity, wisdom, reason, purification, and rebirth, in short of the most important virtues and values for humanity. I am experiencing the miracle of the olive trees, and in order to...