{:en} Hello everyone! On October 17, 2024, there will be a Full Moon at 4 degrees Aries according to Sidereal Zodiac Hipparcos Ayanamsa. Those who have planets at 3-4 and 5 degrees according to Sidereal Zodiac Hipparcos Ayanamsa in their birth charts will be most affected by this full moon (especially those in Aries). The most remarkable aspect of the new moon is the Mercury Libra - Saturn Aquarius trine. This aspect can have significant effects on communication, mindset, and discipline. This period can bring depth and seriousness to our mental processes and increase our ability to structure and analyze our thoughts. Mercury's analytical and quick-thinking ability, combined...

{:en} This time I am writing to you from the heart of the Cote d'Azur, the enchanting Saint Tropez, and its beaches... Because I'm there now ? Located in Southern France, Saint Tropez is a city in Nice. The symbol of love and romance, the scene of many passionate loves, Saint Tropez is one of my favorite and inspirational places. Every time I go, I am refreshed. It is extraordinarily stylish with its wonderful marina, colorful houses, elegant cafes, and boutiques. This elegance is blended with a strange naturalness. It is a favorite of people from many parts of Europe and the world. It is a combination of orange,...

{:en} A Renaissance Tale of Nobility, Scandal, and the Birth of the Conservatory By Tugba YAZICI Let’s start with a little drama, shall we? 🙂 Yes, the title takes inspiration from Turkish novelist Elif Şafak’s Bastard and Father , but my story heads in a completely different direction. This isn’t about the book or the author, but about a very real “Father and Bastard” tale whispered through palace corridors, beneath mosaicked church ceilings, and echoed in the lives of the people who shaped the art world as we know it. THE BASTARDS OF THE MIDDLE AGES And the Children the Nobility Tried to Hide In medieval Europe; especially in France, Italy, England, and...

{:en} “If a girl has red shoes, she needs to live very carefully”From the Tale of the Dancing Shoes / Women Who Run with the Wolves, Clarissa P. EstesToday I will introduce you to a book that is one of my bedside books. Written by Clarissa Pinkola Estes. It has been at the top for nearly 100 years! Women Who Ran with the Wolves is an extraordinary book! You ask why? Here you go:The book examines the existence of women and their place in society by comparing them to wolves. More interestingly, she does this by examining known fairy tales from a philosophical perspective. The book, published...

{:en} Hello, I’m Ru.I am an artist, curator, and creative production designer who thinks and works within the field of creative economies. My practice focuses on the invisible connections between art, cities, economics, and narrative. I approach creative production not merely as an aesthetic domain, but as an economic force capable of transforming life, urban structures, and value systems.Through this series of essays, I aim to explore how creative economies are built, how they grow, and, at times, whom they leave outside—by reading cities and case studies together. These texts are not written to provide definitive answers, but to ask the right questions collectively. creative economy describes...

{:en} Years passed.... Time slowly transformed everything. After all those hardships, Süreyya and Cem finally became American citizens. From the outside, life seemed to have finally fallen into place.Haluk, meanwhile, became a respected doctor at a hospital in New York. No one who sees him today could imagine that he once drove a taxi, or understand the conditions under which he arrived in America, or the struggles he endured. He had become a name people respected: Dr. Haluk Saygıner. Süreyya was still a smiling woman. But there are some smiles… that are only what appears on the surface. She had learned to hide everything she had lived through behind...

{:en} Venus Changes Signs Dear readers, Venus is changing signs as of the second week of July. While this transit effect continues until the end of July; When Venus leaves behind its fixed and deeply bonding nature in Taurus and moves into Gemini, our understanding of love and value begin to be reshaped through mental mobility, curiosity and communication. This transition is like a wave of air that lightens our love language on a collective level and carries our relational contacts to the ground of speaking, writing, learning and sharing. Here, Venus is in love with words, not emotions. It attracts ideas more than looks, and seeks mental...

{:en} According to our current knowledge, human society started to observe nature when it discovered that the environment that meets its most important needs such as shelter and nutrition during the agricultural period, when it settled in different parts of the world, about 12,000 years ago. While a magnificent tree develops from a small seed, each seed has a different power, the wisdom and therapeutic properties of the resin secreted by the injured tree to repair itself, some plants create a change in his soul and make his dream, and in the world of plants and flowers that make him feel good as well as bad, he...