Knowing who is helping us offers a sense of safety and assurance, and strengthens our sense of independence and resilience. Spirit animals are here to help us understand our personal challenges by exploring their symbolic meaning and unique characteristics. In Native American and Indigenous cultures, specifically, spirit animals serve an important purpose and are considered sacred. That is why non-Natives must be careful not to use spirit animals in a way that appropriates this culture....

The TikTok user who shared the video said that it had been sent to her by the sister of the employee who had originally filmed the clip. In the video, the worker can be seen confronting the manager but his bravery has backfired after he allegedly lost his job over the video. The viral video shows the Taco Bell manager’s racist remarks about workers. The manager at a Taco Bell in Lexington, Virginia was seen in the viral video saying, “[The employee’s name] is sweeping the floor because he is Black....

In a TikTok video posted to her account, Lexie Firment, a first-year teacher and recent college graduate who starts her job in the fall, opened up about her “teacher to server pipeline story.” The TikToker says that despite having a second job on top of being a teacher, she can’t afford her rent. Using text overlay on a clip of her dancing, Firment wrote, “Today two tables didn’t tip me, I have 1600 in rent due in 15 days, and I cried mid-shift today....

Sometimes we get tired and let slip some snide remark or a thoughtless comment. Sometimes, we just say stupid things without taking a second to consider the effect they’ll have at the moment — or the emotional damage the words might inflict in the long run. We know: Parenting is hard. How do we find the will and the patience to always say the right thing? The good news is, with a bit of advance thought — and an ongoing commitment to calm, kind communication — parents have the power to pre-emptively avoid foot-in-mouth syndrome....

I even fell deeply in love with one of them. Here’s what I lived and learned in my years of multicultural and biracial dating, and how you can get closer when you come from different worlds and nurture a great relationship. RELATED: Loving Day: The Love Story That Legalized Interracial Marriage The changing face of inter-cultural dating I’ve written about my experiences in multicultural dating: The secrecy from family. The worry about my friends meeting him....

We have the Moon in Taurus today, which allows us to feel stable and secure in our love lives. We can top that off with Venus square Pluto, which will give us the confidence that we may have lacked before this date. Pluto is associated with transformation. So if your love life has needed a repair, so to speak, you may just get the perfect plan in order. This is the day when you and your partner decide on certain goals for the future....

Here we are, at the top of Gemini season, feeling ready for the summer and open to positive possibilities, and what will we get to experience on this day? Love, peace, and happiness. It’s a lucky day for those who are in love, and for those who wish to attract love into their lives. Because of transits like Mars in Aries, we will be coming to terms with our own behavior, meaning, this is the time to self-reflect so that we can better ourselves....

Most people just want to settle down and tell themselves that this is it, and it’s good. It doesn’t matter where the relationship goes, as long as we nail it down. We want to be partnered. Once we set that in place, we feel as though everything else will be a breeze. During Moon trine Saturn we may end up wanting a little more than ‘whatever we get.’ We want a love that lives up to our expectations....

It’s good, but we have yet to find out if it’s good enough to last, and if ’lasting’ is what we want out of it, as sometimes that is not part of the ‘dream.’ During the Moon sextile Jupiter on August 19, 2022, we come into contact with our ability to dream and to believe in our dream. We can finally see real possibility, and the universe inspires positive thinking....

With Moon’s opposition to Neptune, many of us will know the feeling of suspicion and doubt, when it comes to our partners. If we are smart, we will work out whatever conflicts we have. RELATED: Each Zodiac Sign’s Monthly Love Horoscope For August 2022 If we are too fretful of confrontation, we may pay for our fear by losing out companion. Fortunately, the signs mentioned here today are made up of people who want nothing to do with failure and will do whatever is needed to get to the bottom of any or all relationship issues....

We are looking at Moon conjunct Venus, which may put us in the mindset of fully accepting the love we have, along with Moon sextile Jupiter, which makes that love seem hopeful and able to last. This is the time in many people’s lives where we aren’t up for temporary, quick love; we’re not looking for casual partnerships or fly-by-night affairs. Basically, we want to settle down or, at least feel like the person we’re presently sharing our lives with isn’t a flash in the pan....

The Moon stays in Capricorn until the evening hours of Saturday and is quite active, which will help you interpret your emotions in a new way. During the first few months of the year, our horoscopes showed that life was less about saying yes and more about figuring out why we were not. There were a lot of lessons to see just how far you have gone into your own healing and even about the choices that you have made in your relationship....

As it goes with many of us, we search for the perfect partner to compliment us. We enter into relationships with people, fall in love, feel the endorphin rush of infatuation and then … real life kicks in. And it always does, flawlessly. RELATED: The 3 Zodiac Signs Whose Long Distance Relationship Falls Apart During The Moon Square Uranus On Saturday, July 2, 2022 This means that the lesson of love and partnership doesn’t go down all that well for some of us....

And of all the things we have in common, there is usually that one thing that prevents us from growing, changing and evolving into the best version of ourselves, and that is the past. The past is no joke; we all have one and it’s in the past that we forge so much of the armor we wear today. The past, although rife with backstory and original meaning, is still the past, which means it doesn’t exist; it’s an illusion....

We need to make something happen in our lives, something that will show us that we are making progress, as opposed to becoming stagnant and stifled. This is where it comes into play where our relationships are concerned. It’s hard enough to keep a romance going, and after a while, it truly does become work. Some couples flow with this kind of work, while others seem to need some kind of external input....

And while many of those reasons are personal and very specific, there are external causes as well, one of them being the state of the cosmic influence of that day. Today, we are influenced by one such transit, and it will take its final toll on the relationships that were bound for dissolution, and that transit is Moon sextile Saturn. RELATED: Each Zodiac Sign’s Monthly Horoscope For September 1 - 30, 2022 When a relationship falls apart, it’s usually not a surprise, and on some deeply dreaded level, we knew it was coming....

August ends Leo Sun and presents us with Virgo season on August 22 and this zodiac sign is all about healing. While temperatures heat up, dispositions and tempers cool down, and for this, we can all be very grateful. RELATED: Each Zodiac Sign’s Monthly Love Horoscope For August 2022 Our helpful transits, this month, will fall on the 11th, which will bring us Venus in Leo, and later on in the month, when we come into the extraordinary Mercury in Libra, on the 25th....

Today’s a day of mixed signals and passive-aggressive communication. This implies that we may feel apprehensive about saying our real feelings, and in withholding, we may end up suffering even more. This is the day when if you don’t say what’s on your mind, you will end up more depressed than ever before. We’ve got three special transits that will either make or break our day today, and those events are Moon square Uranus, Sun conjunction Mercury, and Moon sextile Venus....

For those who have celebrated the onset of the New Year at home, in bed…your party is just about to start, and it will take place on January 1st, though it will not be a social event. If you take the traits and influence of Moon conjunct Uranus to heart, then you will be among those who see January 1, 2023, as a fresh new start and an exciting new day....

The Moon square Uranus known to cause ‘disturbances in the Force’ and the Quarter Moon in Leo, which is the transit that gives us hope, only to take it away if we don’t act on it promptly. This day comes with pressure. We will feel the need to accomplish, set things right and create some kind of security for ourselves. There will be feelings of desperation on Sunday, May 8, 2022, and some of us will feel it more than others....