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HOROSCOPES BY KNOWYOURNUMB3RS By GODDESS KYA

April 14, 2022 — April 20, 2022

Blessings, rewards, compensation are coming in increments, from the Divine and the unseen work that you do. What skills do you have that have been proven to be a service to others? Faith is required to walk this journey with a plan in mind and receive the outcome you envisioned. When a dream or thought is given the process is not included. The process is the journey, along with the experiences of getting uncomfortable and setting short or long-term goals to reach your destination. How much time are you willing to invest in your gifts, skills, and talents? Research is required Vinateria along with consistency. When you start, you don’t know what’s up the road, and your faith, goals, and the ability to show up for yourself are key. “Sometimes we’re tested not to show our weakness, but to discover our strengths.” Success.com

When choosing the words to express what you’re thinking and often feeling at times you may find there’s no definition to describe the notion. It is what it is! This cycle is to acknowledge your innermost feelings and visions, and concepts that come to you without a doubt in your mind. Trust the process and know the Divine is walking alongside you and is showering you with downloads instantaneously. This is a week to be inspired and motivated to continue working on self-development to enhance your progress of elevation. Believing in the supernatural is part of our spirituality in life which is part of folks’ inner knowing and guidance. This year begins with applying new concepts, terms, and conditions on your present agenda. This is the cycle in which you can feel the fruits of your labor, preparing to soar away from the nest. You’re ready to fly on your own operating in a new direction. There’s a window of opportunity awaiting you, and you’re the perfect candidate, speaker, or guest to share your expertise and knowledge. Categorize and organize your business and personal inventory to assist in finding things sooner rather than later. You’re in a cycle this week where you need moments of solitude to clear  your aura and space. Allow the information to come to you rather than asking around. This is not a week for your friends or associates to just pop in on you. Rather, it’s a time for reflecting, traveling near the water or vacationing near the beach, sand, to watch the sunrise and sunset. Details of your next meeting, partnerships, and itinerary are provided by the universe giving you clues for your upcoming schedule to be filled in. Be open to receiving when they do, and there’s no need for questioning higher sources. Just ask for it and know it will be delivered.  This cycle week is a tug here and a pull there. People are giving you advice wanting you to assist in their agenda. Follow your heart, and listen to the direction it’s pointing you in. What do you want to do? Where do you want to be? When are you going to decide for your own regarding matters of the heart? In life, taking a risk on your passions will open doors to an exciting new adventure when you’re ready to embark. Take the lead and follow the schedule of your plans. Self-reflection is a great tool to see the changes in how far you’ve come and from where you began. What’s the next project on your mind? Thinking about traveling long distances or working from work with those who are long-distance? This is an awesome week to suddenly take a retreat and then get back to the business of tackling your tasks with ease. The main ingredient for you this week is looking out for number 1. Impatience gets you nowhere. Practicing the art of patience and grati tude helps you understand the process. Count your blessings daily. Show your appreciation, not just on days when you want to show up, but also on days where you’re being guided to do so. Attend to any family or business matters, and visit nature for peace of mind. Visiting and respecting nature gives insight into yourself and grounding. Nature is also a reflection of humanity, playing out in different ways. Any health scare or close calls that may arise are to get you in alignment with your body in the process of your journey.

Capricorn Dec 22  Matters of the home, heart, and partnerships appear to be swirling all around you at once. You may be contemplating in your mind how you can address these issues. It’s simple! The “how” is about you, and once you think or talk it out, then apply yourself. Jan 21 You can resolve any solution by turning inward first, instead of outward to figure it out. Set aside time to withdraw while releasing the old for the purpose to carry you on your next journey. All forms of relationship and partnership matters are taking a  turn for a greater cause to serve humanity, which is an expansion of your next stage on your path. At times some changes are slow and lagging; it’s all for your betterment. There’s still missing information, so pay close attention to the details for confirmation, since everything’s not always said, nor shared. Short travels, opportunities, investments, branding, marketing, and other entities of yours are hovering in your space this cycle.  Information that was received during the first week is taking form this week, in the physical form. You can feel, sense, hear and find your intuition is greatly heightened. Things that you’ve been on the verge of ending, are now on their way to completion. Once the cycle ends, that’s the cue to move forward on your progress. This cycle week you have the gift of gab by encouraging, and inspiring family, friends, associates, and other people from all walks of life. Lead the way.  The unanticipated may show up like water running, which is a form of the law of attraction. People, things, items, and conversations enter our lives for a season, reason, lesson, and a blessing. How you treat the circumstances will be your lesson, or a blessing teaching you in disguise. It’s your week to retreat and discover a stage of your journey where you travel from the depths within for the answers you seek.  Mental and emotional balance is required due to the demands of obligations, priorities, and other tasks at hand. Structure is needed to carry out your mission as well as following up on personal and business-related matters. This cycle may give you the feeling that things are against you. But it’s a test of your endurance, due diligence, and perseverance through any obstruction. This is a week to review any paperwork, also legal documents  before signing on the dotted line. Partnerships and relationships may be in question as to revise an agenda that was agreed upon in light of missing details, or just newly acquired information. It’s your time to visualize the outcome of your dreams, and what needs to be done. Work on gathering all the resources needed to develop and make them a reality. Follow your dreams. You’re a scholar and information comes to you.

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

Add some Black history stops to your summer journeys

Carolyn Michael-Banks, owner of A Tour of Possibilities, offers African American history tours of Memphis (Courtesy photo)

By SHERYL NANCE-NASH

Special to the AmNews

As you start thinking about where to go this summer, consider adding Black history to the itinerary. Take a journey with a guided tour that teaches and entertains.

While self-guided tours allow you to go at your own pace, you can’t beat having a passionate tour guide who knows the history backwards and forwards, like they lived it. That insight is priceless and ups the experience twofold. Here are a few tours to keep top-of-mind.

Memphis Caravan Tour, Memphis, Tennessee

A Tour of Possibilities offers this guided 2.5-hour of African American history that you enjoy from the comfort of your own car. You hear the guide’s commentary through your car speakers by accessing the link provided upon arrival. The exploration includes sites such as the Slave Haven, (you descend the stairs into the dark, damp cellar and peer through the trapdoors and hidden passages where the fugitives were harbored, you get a glimpse of those turbulent times), the National Civil Rights Museum/Lorraine Motel, (where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated), Beale Street, nicknamed the Home of the Blues, and neighborhoods like Soulsville, South Memphis, Uptown, as well as the Stax Museum of American Soul Music, the I Am a Man Plaza and plenty more. Learn more at: https://www.atopmemphis.com

Charleston’s African American History and Heritage, Charleston, South Carolina

West Africa’s contribution to the heritage and history of the Lowcountry is indisputable. Bulldog Tours explores the influence and experience of African Americans in Charleston from slavery, Jim Crow, to the Civil Rights struggle. Highlights of the two-hour walking tour include significant sites such as the Aiken Rhett House, Mother Emanuel AME Church, and the Philip Simmons Prayer Garden. Simmons was one of the most celebrated ironworkers in Charleston of the 20th century. He made more than 500 decorative pieces of ornamental wrought iron gates, fences, balconies, and window grills that dot that Charleston landscape. Get information here: www.bulldogtours.com

The Black Journey: African American History Walking Tour, Philadelphia, PA

This 90-minute tour begins in front of the Independence Visitor Center and continues across the city at some of the nation’s most important and historical sites such as The President’s House, Congress Hall, Old City Hall, First U.S. Supreme Court Building, American Philosophical Society Museum, Independence Square, Tomb of the Unknown Revolutionary War Soldier and Bicentennial Moon Tree, the former location of the Philadelphia Prison Site and the oldest continuous piece of land owned by people of African descent. You’ll go to Congo Square, visit the unmarked graves of free and enslaved victims of the yellow fever epidemic and see where the Fugitive Slave Act was passed in 1793. Walk in the footsteps of enslaved people, abolitionists, slaveholders and founding fathers. Learn more at: https:// blackjourneyphiladelphia.com

The James Brown Family Historical Tour, Augusta, Georgia

Get on the good foot. The Godfather of Soul has a special place in Black history. Nobody sang and danced quite like him. Cherish the memories with a private, guided tour of his favorite haunts on a nearly two-hour tour. You’ll visit his childhood home, spots where he hung out, restaurants, his elementary school and more. Tours can be set via the James Brown Family Foundation, www.jbtour.jamesbrownfamilyfdn.org

Birding the Harriet Tubman Byway, Bucktown, Maryland

Start your four-hour adventure at the Brodess Farm Site in Bucktown. The guided drive and hike is for bird lovers. Harriet Tubman Tours and Delmarva Birding Weekends sponsor this adventure that goes along the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad in Dorchester County, Maryland. You’ll learn about Tubman as you make your way through the farms and Chesapeake Bay marshes and Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge encountering some of the best birding and bald eagle watching. For more information, go to: https://delmarvabirding.com/birding-the-harriet-tubman-byway

The Real Black Wall Street Tour, Tulsa, Oklahoma

Despite the gravity of the Tulsa Race Massacre, until the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre this year, little was known about it. This tour will give you an education that might be painful but insightful. Explore the historic Tulsa district of Greenwood. You’ll hear the details about the people and buildings that were affected by the massacre, the places that were bombed, including churches and schools. Warning, you might need a hanky. You’ll go through some of the neighborhoods that were leveled. You can get more information at: https://www.facebook.com/therealblackwallstreettour

Gullah Tour, Sandy Island, South Carolina

Just south of Murrells Inlet is Sandy Island, where many of the 120 residents are Gullah Geechee descendants, the culture that originated from West African slaves who worked on the rice plantations in the 1700s. Start the two-hour at the Sandy Island Boat Ramp and take a brief boat ride to Pyatt’s General Store with its African heritage gifts, Gullah Sweetgrass baskets and more. Then you’ll board a passenger van and make your way around the island to the Sandy Island firehouse, old gravesites, church, community center, library, and more. The 9,000+ acre island is one of the largest undeveloped freshwater islands on the East Coast. The tour operator is an island resident and descendant of the original founders. Learn more here: https:// toursdesandyisland.com

Freedom Seekers Heritage Tour, Niagara County, New York

The Niagara River and Gorge was an important crossing point into Canada for those using the Underground Railroad. For the freedom seekers who passed through the Niagara Frontier, the physical act of crossing the Niagara River represented the final act of courage and determination at the end of a long journey. Motherland Connextions’ tour takes you to key towns and sites. Over three hours you’ll visit the Niagara Falls Underground Railroad Heritage Center with its exhibits, scenic built environment, nearby murals of Harriet Tubman and Freedom Seekers and more. In Lewiston, there’s the Freedom Crossing Monument on the bank of the Niagara River. The statute honors the courage of freedom seekers who sought a new life in Canada, and those who protected and helped them on their journey across the Niagara River. Murphy Orchards in Burt is a farm that secretly housed enslaved people on the run in its barn. Another place of refuge is the many canals. You’ll see the Erie Canal in Lockport. Get information at: https://www.motherlandconnextions.com/tours.html

Duke Street Black History Walking Tour, Alexandria, Virginia

This 90-minute guided walking tour along the Duke Street corridor in Old Town Alexandria includes sites connected to the early Alexandria slave trade, such the former site of Franklin & Armfield, and the former Bruin Slave Jail that held the Edmonson sisters as well as sites that connect to early African American’s spirituality like the Shiloh Baptist Church and the Alexandria National Cemetery. You might want to check their other tours too. Freedom’s Fight in Alexandria Walking Tour highlights pre-Civil War history and the stories of runaway slaves, early abolitionists and more. The Still’s Underground Railroad Walking Tour takes you along the downtown King Street corridor and you hear about the Underground Railroad in Alexandria. The Black History in Alexandria Bus tour is a two-hour guided tour that will take you to the Freedom House Museum, Alfred Street Baptist Church, the site of the 1939 Library Sit-In, Contraband & Freedman Cemetery and more. For more information on Manumission Tours, go to: