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HOROSCOPES BY KNOWYOURNUMB3RS By GODDESS KYA

October 20, 2022 — October 26, 2022

Rebirth of A New Nation: The first solar new moon in Scorpio at 2 degrees is on October 25. Venus, Sun, and Moon are all stationed at 2 degrees in conjunction. One of the number two aspects is that two is the number of unions between a male and female being equally yoked. “It takes two,” “it takes two to tango,” and “it takes two to make a thing go right, it takes two to make it outta sight.” Numerically speaking, October is a 7 universal month and the week of the new moon is a 2 universal week. The new moon is on October 25 (2+5=7) and Venus, Sun, and Moon are stationed at 2 degrees. This is a remarkable intense Vinateria sensitive psychic awakening rising from the dead like Kanye said in his song “Praise GOD,” “We gon praise our way out the grave, dawg living, speaking, praise god walking out the graveyard back to life, I serve, follow your worth, see with new sight, into the night, let’s get right.” This is an awakening experience from the depth of your soul for restoration. Claim it, Own It, Be it, Walk it Like You Talk it. Define time is upon us to rise to the occasion. Economics must be restored to its rightful owners.

Organization and balance are key. Keeping your commitment to self and others. October is the sneak peek of the upcoming 2023 year. This is a phenomenal time to enroll in continuing education courses, programs, community outreach, teaching, and volunteering your services. Themes such as relocating, change in your appearance, family obligation, and relationships be it business or personal are all evolving for your growth. Keep a pocket planner for upcoming appointments and events, to keep abreast of your schedule. A cycle of love, romance, appreciation, compensation, rewards, unexpected gifts, and doing your due diligence. October 20-21, schedule time for self-love and self-maintenance.

An astounding weekly supportive cycle for all aspects of your life to blossom in the departments of relationships, business, home, family, and finance. Traveling, changing the ambiance in your home or workplace. It’s time to make way for improvement and advancement to think big expanding your craft to the next level. Remember the foundation of why you begin the journey and start adding different flavors to your products or services. October 22-24, credit is given when credit is due. Recognition, rewards, appreciation, and new relationships began out of the blue, also meeting folks and colleagues you haven’t seen in a while.

New beginnings are a pivotal point in your life including your lifestyles, business relationships, and new terms and conditions. Begin this October with the concepts of new changes and new directions with a new attitude to draw to you the resources needed. Breakups and transformation are not always easy; it’s a time to take the lead in your affairs. Grab a pen and paper to begin planning the next chapter of your life. October 25-26, review or seek counsel before signing legal documents, also a time to sharpen your skills.

Divine intervention where spiritual and physical meet for a special purpose. The unanticipated wild card occurs to make adjustments in your schedule or double-take to put you on notice. Things get uncomfortable only for you to get comfortable developing and working on the things you love. Listen to your heart and emotions and the direction they are pulling you to evaluate yourself. The details, signs, symbols are all there for you to gain insights and fully understand the lesson when you have the ah-ha moments. Awareness and déjà vu at their finest are orchestrated by the divine creator. Tap in.

Do you have a passion? Your passions can open avenues and doors to opportunities. What’s your vision and mission for your passions? What is your “why” to the reasons of what you want to do? What is your purpose? Why are you here? There may be some questions on your mind until the vision comes through, or a conversation helps you to understand yourself more. When the vision comes, work on it. This week, new ideas are awakened; partnerships are formed, or a meeting of self. Visit a nearby body of water, or listen to the water and reflect on your next goals.

In the song “it’s written all over your face,” there is no need to say it. Follow what you love to do as a spiritual and physical alignment of revelations occurs to progress you forward. Sudden changes within your environment are a big focus to shift your plans and possible relocation. A cycle to assist a family member, friend, business partner, and folks asking if you can lend, or support them monetarily. Overall, a month for self-development and self-reflection to better yourself in life, aiming toward your goals and navigating through life changes. October 22-24, allow your heart and passion to guide you.

Capricorn

Dec 22 Jan 21 Emotionally check in on yourself and your health as you are receiving signs re garding that matter. A cycle to explore your creativity to create your dream vision/ goal. There is no easy way to get what you want without applying the footwork to reap the rewards. Release, remove, and discard things that do not serve a purpose to your soul for self-growth as you work toward your goal. Temporary things are changing for you to manifest the resources you need to progress forward in life. October 25-26, level up and get comfortable doing things differently. A groundbreaking monthly cycle in financial blessings in business,  investments, partnerships, and one-on-one relationships flourishing. Obtain the innovation spark within you to complete tasks such as planning, gathering resources, investing, building on the building blocks for your growth on your journey. The new birth of a sudden development, assignments, and introducing yourself into new alliances. Set the tone and put people on notice that you mean business. Evolution is upon you with your due diligence in business and personal affairs. Growth is the theme for October and next year. Scale and position yourself in the mindset of where you are heading, and command, and the rest will flow. Listen to your spiritual guides directing you. Emphasis on partnerships and networking widens your services, and products, sharpening your skills, and mental environment to educate yourself. Mental and spiritual, a decision is upon you to make a move. October 20-21, what’s it going to be? It’s up to you to make the change. When you do a great deed for self ffirst, then others, the universe conspires in your favor. Now it’s time to build on what you established this year moving forward. You have the resources, people, and agenda for advancement. Please remember not to abuse the power as karma will come back to bite you like a bow arrow aiming for the target. October 22-23, repentance is in effect for the betterment of self-evolvement. Let it go. A spiritual attack happens in the flesh and on a soul level. The ques tion becomes how you are attached to the things that are not keeping you vital online or your immune system up to code. When a ship sails it’s on a mission to its destination and there’s no time for wishing should’ve, could’ve, would’ve, you’ve got to do something about it to stop the bleeding. During this cycle, you realize you have been sitting on a goldmine. October 25, it’s your time like the phoenix rising from its ashes. Get to stepping. You sense the new, exciting excursion just around the corner, river bend, or upon arriving that gives you goosebumps. Yes, it’s divine timing to make it happen as you are already in process mode. No need to talk, it’s time to demonstrate. You completed the cycle of talking. It is show me the money time like in the movie “It’s all about the Benjamins” and yes, I want to get paid in full like the movie title. You write it, you name it, you claim it, you be it, you live it, you see it until you own it. Bring it into existence.

Cancer June 22 July 23

Leo July 24 Aug 23

Virgo

Aug 24 Sept 23

Libra

Sept 24 Oct 23

Scorpio Oct 24 Nov 22

Sagitarius Nov 23 Dec 21

Rare Beauty and the BIPOC community: Match or miss?

By MARGRIRA

Special to the AmNews

Full disclosure: I discovered Rare Beauty before the official hype, spending my own hard-earned money again and again. It took me a minute to realize that the brand belonged to Selena Gomez.

Many years ago, at a film junket, I met Ms. Gomez and thought she was one of the kindest spirits that I ever met. This was long before Rare Beauty was a ‘thang’ and I never forgot the kind way she treated me and the thoughtful manner in which she listened. She is the daughter of a Mexican father and mother of Italian ancestry. I remember thinking, “she’s been raised correctly” so it was no surprise when, in 2020, Gomez announced the launch of the Rare Impact Fund.

It started with kindness. The first-moment Rare Beauty products were sold, 1% of sales were dedicated to increasing access to mental health resources and services, especially for underserved communities. In an intelligent move, they had funds added to the good fight by engaging in a strategic partnership with the goal to raise $100 million over the next ten years.

If they reach that goal it will make the Rare Impact Fund one of the most prominent mental-health organizations associated with a corporate entity. And to ensure maximum impact, Rare Beauty formed the Rare Beauty Mental Health Council, which is made up of expert advisors from leading universities, organizations, and companies with a focus on mental health.

It’s interesting to see how blushes, highlighters, lip glosses, foundation, skin tints, and every single product from the Rare Beauty lineup can both achieve their goal as a beauty brand and still help the community with their mental health needs.

Selena Gomez is just 29 and splits her time as an entrepreneur with her duties as an actress, singer, producer and activist. She clearly wins at everything she puts her hand to and her beauty brand, Rare Beauty is just another example of that march toward becoming a legend.

The Rare Beauty team understands the complex needs of the BIOPC community. Here are the best products actually worth your money:

—Rare Beauty Positive Light Liquid Luminizer Highlight can get you either a dewy look or a classic highlight. Plus the shade range features soft pinks to darker nudes and bright golds, suiting every skin tone.

—Rare Beauty Positive Light Tinted Moisturizer Broad Spectrum SPF 20 Sunscreen: Rare Beauty offers 24 different shades and SPF 20 along with a hydrating tinted moisturizer that immediately blurs skin with glowy light to medium coverage that feels weightless on the face.

—Rare Beauty Always An Optimist 4-in-1 Prime & Set Mist hydrates, primes, sets and refreshes skin with soothing ingredients niacinamide and waterlily.

— Rare Beauty Stay Vulnerable Glossy Lip BalmStay Vulnerable Glossy Lip Balm offers five stunning shades that are nonsticky and formulated with a nourishing blend of sunflower seed oil, waterlily, and lotus seed to keep your lips smooth and hydrated.

—Rare Beauty Perfect Strokes Matte Liquid Liner is perfect for liquid liner novices and experts alike with a tip smooth enough to create the perfect wing.

—Rare Beauty Liquid Touch Foundation Brush is a game-changer infused with fibers that does a better job than any fingers can do to blur your base products.

You can find out more about the Rare Impact Fund on rarebeauty.com at www. rarebeauty.com/pages/rare-impact.

TOSHI REAGON

IN RESIDENCE

NOV 05, 10, & 19

Toshi Reagon’s conviction that music can be transformative in consciousness and action is revealed through this intimate residency, featuring Be Steadwell’s Queer pop songs, disco’s death and resurrection with a beat, and a song cycle that explores how sacred sounds become the engine of revolution.

By LINDA ARMSTRONG Special to the AmNews

There is nothing in the world like New York Comic Con! NYCC 2022 that was held at the Jacob Javits Center Thursday through Sunday, had an amazing VIBE! You got the sense of going into a place where you were part of a community. It was so welcoming whether you were a video gamer, a sci-fi lover, a lover of manga, old-school shows, movies and cartoons and new school. The VIBE started before you reached Jacob Javits as there were so many people cosplaying in full costumes walking to the event. Once you stepped inside of Javits there were men, women, and children dressed in full costumes. You had too many characters/people adorned in cosplay to name walking about—but for a taste try Nezuko, Spiderman, Riddler, Poison Ivy, Ahsoka Tano, Sabine, Uzui, Ichiago, Mario, Black Panther, Spongebob with an attached painting of his pineapple home on his back, Bayoneta and Wolverine.

There was merchandise of all types everywhere you turned, including t-shirts, posters, artwork, paintings, sweatshirts, mugs, Funko Pops, video games, figurines, stuffed animals, dolls, collectible dolls, skateboards, lightsabers, jewelry, you name it, it was there. As I walked around my daughters I came upon a stunning, vibrant booth that sold pins, pins with so many different characters from shows like “Black Clover,” “Toyko Ghoul,” “Jujutsu Kaisen,” “Fairytail,” “My Hero Academia,” “Demon Slayer,” “Avatar,” “Ranking of Kings,” “JJK” and still more. Herds of people were in the booth thrilled to grab up their favorite characters, it was a delight to see their excitement. What was another delight for me was to find out that the man ringing the card purchases up was African American Raemon Speights, who was the creator of the pins and designer of the booth. An employee of the Pink Club, the booth held pins representing over 20 different anime licenses, with a variety of pins produced from 600 templates. The Pink Club creates and works with a manufacturer to produce the pins. Speights shared that this was his second year at NYCC. “I feel great! I love seeing and meeting all the fans and having cool conversations. Everybody is welcoming. That’s what I look forward to, it’s the

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(Jasmine Armstrong photo) community. Everyday you hear of things that divide us, pink collecting brings everyone together. People tell me stories of how they met their significant other and lifelong friends pink collecting,” Speights said. Speights possesses a degree in media arts and animation, was a tattoo artist for eight years and then got a job at Pink Club as a pin creator.

As everyone walked around it didn’t matter your age or ethnic background, this was a community of people that came together to experience a fabulous, memorable and moving time! That could mean going to the many booths with activities, doing gaming at hundreds of computers set up for people to play at or spinning wheels and winning prizes, or going to the displays of your favorite cartoons, anime, TV show or manga and taking pictures with the character in huge set backgrounds or getting autographs from comic book writers, video game creators, sci-fi actors and cartoon voice actors and other creatives. Marvel, Disney, Playbill, Funimation, Viz were just some of the groups represented at this mega event.

Did someone say panels? Panel abounded for everything you could think of connected to sci-fi, anime, cartoons and manga. You had panels on every single day. Depending on the status of the shows those panels delivered sneak peaks for the next season of a series whether it was animated or not and they also let you in on the shows in the pipeline for 2023, like Marvel’s animated series “Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur” which will premiere on Disney Channel and Disney+. An action comedy, this animation will star a female African American hero. Yes, you heard me right, Diamond White will play Lunella Lafayette/Moon Girl and she has a 10-ton T-Rex, Devil Dinosaur. The panel had White and Fred Tatasciore (voice of Devil Dinosaur), and Gary Anthony Williams (Pops) who were joined by executive music producer Raphael Saadiq, executive producer Steve Loter, supervising producer Rodney Clouden and producer Pilar Flynn talking about the storyline that centers on an African American teenage girl! The theme song is done to hip hop music and Moon Girl is having fun. She’s on rollerskates and slapping her girlfriend five. The animation looks like a blast! The crowd was very enthusiastic to hear and see what this show will look like when it comes out on Disney on Feb. 10, 2023. The show has also already been picked up for a second season, prior to its debut. This is just a marvelous example of how Disney is inclusive in its programming.

One of my favorite panels was a mix of old and new school with “Star Trek,” which did three separate panels in the 90-minute time slot it had! Dressed in my Uhura costume to honor the memory of the late legacy-maker, Michele Nichols, I sat with my fellow Trekkies, many also dressed in full attire to represent the series they grew up with. These panels had the creatives and cast from “Star Trek Discovery,” “Star Trek Prodigy” (the animation) and “Star Trek Picard.” You almost felt like Scottie had beamed you up! It was GLORIOUS! Star Trek Discovery was already an inclusive series with people of various races and sexual orientations being aboard, but everyone was loving the Black female captain played by Senequa Martin-Green. Martin-Green joined the panel via Zoom. Other cast members were Anthony Rapp and Wilson Cruz, along with executive producers Michelle Paradise, Alex Kurtzman, and Rod Roddenberry, son of the late Gene Roddenberry. Attendees got to see a sneak peak at Season 5 and hear what new characters will be coming to the series. Audience members were thrilled that the show has Rapp and Cruz to represent the gay community and one shared that they inspired her to come out to her family. “Star Trek Prodigy” gave us the creatives and voice actors. This series again stars an African American teen, a boy named Daal played by Brett Gray. Panelists included actors Kate Mulgrew, Gray, Jamella Jamil, executive producers Kevin and Dan Hageman, Alex Kurtzman, Rod Roddenberry, and director and executive producer Ben Hibon. People in the audience were visibly moved when the final panel came out because it had actors we know and love, including Patrick Stewart, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Marina Sirtis, Gates McFadden, Jonathan Frakes, and Brent Spiner. Between “Star Trek Picard” and “Star Trek: Next Generation” fans couldn’t believe they were in the room where it happened. When audience members went to the microphone they tearfully shared that these shows saved them. These shows helped them to feel they were part of a community, instead of alone. Fans thanked the creators and cast for bringing to life such powerful shows, with such beautiful messages of humanity and acceptance.

There is absolutely NOTHING LIKE NYCC! I can’t wait until next year!

Raemon Speights, Pin and booth designer from Pink Club sporting some of his creations at NYCC 2022. (Jasmine Armstrong photos)

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