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Monday, August 28, 2023

Cowboys’ Firsts and Lasts

OSU Kicks Off School Year

and I just go through the motions of it. It’s not really exciting anymore because I’ve had so many first days now.”

While the first days might be lackluster for returning students, Bradley is focused on finishing her undergraduate career on a high note.

Cowgirl offense shines in win over Little Rock

OSU’s offense was dominant from start to finish Sunday.

The Cowgirls routed Little Rock 8-0 at Neal Patterson Stadium to move to 3-1 and undefeated at home.

“We’re starting to see our

identity come together,” said OSU coach Colin Carmichael. “We’re starting to form kind of who we are as a team, trying to do some basic things right. Just trying to make strides every game.”

The Cowgirls threatened shortly into the contest, as Laudan Wilson got a good look at the goal but missed. They quickly responded on their next shot, as Nicole Ray scored with ease thanks to

Logan Heausler’s assist in the 12th minute, putting OSU up 1-0.

“There was a lot of space on the side, and I told Logan there was an opportunity, like, ‘Hey, I’m wide open, next one, next one,’” Ray said. “And sure enough, I could count on her. She found me and set me up, she gifted me that goal. So, thanks to logan for that assist, it was a beautiful ball.”

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As old and new faces traverse campus this week, a mix of emotions have marked the first days.

Whether students had their first move-in day, or are pre-ordering their cap and gown, Stillwater and its students are back to take on another year.

Corey Bradley, a senior majoring in sociology, said the return to Stillwater was not as shiny as it was three years ago.

“I think it just dulls,” Bradley said. “I think, I know, I expect what’s gonna happen,

For Bradley, a first-generation college student and twin sister, her personal goals have motivated her to graduate a semester early.

“My mom is a single parent, and she had twins, so that’s definitely a huge step back,” Bradley said. “We were fortunate enough to get Oklahoma’s Promise, which pays for our tuition, and I’ve gotten a plethora of scholarships because I was in a bunch of things in high school, and I’ve done a lot of things here.”

Museum researchers enlist hundreds of home gardeners in fight to save the iconic monarch butterfly

CHICAGO -- On a suburban street with smooth lawns and trimmed bushes, Martha Chiplis’ yard stands out. It’s not just the wildflowers: purple wild petunia, golden lanceleaf coreopsis, hot-pink Bush’s poppy mallow. It’s the lemon-yellow goldfinches that snack on the seeds, the fluffy bees that feed on the blooms.

And then there’s the star of the show: a monarch butterfly that descends within minutes.

The orange and black showstopper flies low and circles twice, so close that you can almost reach out and touch it.

“Oh! Yea!” says Chiplis, 58, of Berwyn. “They’ve been flying around all morning.”

At a time when monarch butterflies are struggling for survival, Chiplis is one of over 400 home gardeners throughout the Chicago area who have participated in a four-year Field Museum research project aimed at understanding how urban areas can provide much-needed habitat for the iconic insects.

The gardeners, who range from beginners with one milkweed plant to veterans with hundreds, have collected detailed data on monarchs, eggs and caterpillars in their yards, decks,

community gardens and balconies — contributing up to 1,800 records each summer.

“We hope when we publish that it will show that these gardens can support (monarchs),” said Karen Klinger, a geographic information systems analyst at the Field Museum. ”It depends on the year, but one year people saw 7,000 eggs. So there are butterflies that are coming out of these native gardens.”

With experts calling for an “all hands on deck” approach to saving the monarch that includes planting milkweed in parks, agricultural areas and rights of way, Field Museum researchers, who concluded the garden-monitoring phase of their work in 2022, are now analyzing data that they hope will contribute to our understanding of how much private citizens’ backyard milkweed plantings can do for monarchs.

Klinger and Field Museum lead conservation ecologist Aster Hasle were among the co-authors of a 2019 study in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution that found that four large metro areas, including Chicagoland, have higher amounts of milkweed than previously assumed.

The researchers, who did random sampling of existing milkweed, estimated that the Chicago area had 15.3 million stems. And they found that there was enough available green space here — much of it lawn — to add 1.4 mil-

lion stems of milkweed if just 2% of all owners of available green space planted a reasonable amount of milkweed.

That’s important at a time when experts say that planting milkweed is vital to the survival of the Eastern monarch population, which is estimated to be down by more than 80% since the 1990s.

“Cities could provide up to one-

third of the milkweed thought to be needed to stabilize the population,” said Hasle.

Hasle and Klinger couldn’t get into peoples’ backyards to count milkweed for the 2019 study, so they decided to recruit volunteers who would help them understand more about that aspect of the monarch survival puzzle.

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Stillwater traditions such as the Lights on Stillwater, brings the community closer.

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OSU coach Colin Carmichael said he’s starting to see the Cowgirls’ identity come together in their 8-0 win against Little Rock on Sunday.

A monarch butterfly rests in the Rice Garden just outside the Field Museum, Aug. 9, 2023.

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Ary Purifoy makes first start of season at goalkeeper, OSU cruises to victory

Griff McClellan Staff Reporter

Goalkeeping is one of the toughest positions on the field, and Ary Purifoy has a key to managing it.

“It’s something I’ve been doing since I was young,” Purifoy said. “Soccer flows easily for me. When I’m in the game, I think of the advice I’ve received through the years, especially from Cowgirl legend Grace Yochum.”

Purifoy made her first start of the season on Sunday, picking up three saves in 64 minutes in an 8-0 rout of the

Little Rock Trojans.

“It feels good,” Purifoy said. “The more games I get, the more comfortable I’m going to feel. I feel like there’s still a lot to work on, but it’s just the beginning.”

The Cowgirls have four options at goalie, including Purifoy, Grace Gordon (who started the previous three games), Peyton Pearson and Caroline Dill.

Coach Colin Carmichael is pleased with each, and games like Sunday’s continue making the goalie battle a tough decision.

“They’ve given us headaches every week about who’s going to start,”

Carmichael said. “I feel for the kids because they all want to play. All four of them are good, but we have to make tough decisions every week. Whichever one gets the nod, I feel confident they’re going to go in and do a great job and we’re going to win. So, that’s a compliment to all of them.”

Purifoy is the longest tenured goalie on the team, dating back to 2021 (in which she did not play), and she helped establish chemistry amongst the goalkeepers.

“We’ve seen keepers come and go.

The advice I give them is to stay positive,” Purifoy said. “Work on the little

things; the mechanics. I think everybody brings something to the table, and we all give each other advice and that’s what we’re looking for.”

Purifoy’s leadership has set the tone for her team, as the Cowgirls have yet to allow a goal at Neal Patterson Stadium this season.

“Having each other’s backs and getting hyped for each other motivate us. Nobody ever gets jealous. We’re a team. Obviously, it’s competitive; we fight for our positions. But at the end of the day, we always have each other’s backs and have a support system behind us.”

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365 days after injury, Logan Heausler reminded not to take soccer for granted

Griff McClellan Staff Reporter

Aug. 25, 2022.

On that day, OSU forward Logan Heausler’s season ended with an ankle injury. Despite the win against Tulsa that night, the Cowgirls lost Heausler just three games into the season.

“I didn’t think it was real,” Heausler said. “We roll our ankles all the time, so I figured I could get up and run it off, but I couldn’t. I fell right back to the ground and came off the field.

“We got back (to Stillwater) and I couldn’t get my cleat off. That’s when I knew.”

On Thursday, the night before the one-year anniversary of Heausler’s season-ending injury, she was back on the field for OSU’s 3-0 win against Florida Atlantic. And she remembers.

“(The injury) motivated me a lot,” Heausler said. “It’s taught me not to take things for granted.”

Heausler began the 2022 season with great expectations. Her freshman year, Heausler appeared in all 14 games, five of which were starts. She was in prime position to make a great leap as a sophomore before her season came to a screeching halt.

Although the rising star forward was sidelined for the remainder of the season, she continued to be a leader on the team.

“She’s a competitor,” said Cowgirls coach Colin Carmichael. “She loves to fight and she’s aggressive. She sets the tone for us in training with how hard she plays, so we missed that last year.”

After losing stars Olyvia Dowell and Grace Yochum last season, Heausler seized the opportunity to step up in 2023. After returning to the Cowgirls

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lineup, Heausler recorded a goal in each of the team’s first two games.

Carmichael said he’s seen Heausler return to being a leader on the field.

“Players must step up

into those attacking areas and I think she, Hannah Chance, Megan Haines and Adelhia Ghonda showed what they can do,” Carmichael said. Heausler didn’t score against FAU, but she did play

a season-high 48 minutes.

And 364 days after the injury, Thursday was a reminder to her to be grateful for being back on the field.

“You never know when (an injury) is going to happen

until it does,” Heausler said. “If that time does come again, I’ll have no regrets. Every game before that, I felt like I gave it my all. Hopefully we’ll get through the fall without injuries.”

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Logan Heausler learned to not take things for granted after her season-ending ankle injury last season, and she was reminded of that against FAU on Thursday -- a day shy of the one-year anniversary on the injury.

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Win...

ris connected with Hannah Chance to extend the lead. Xcaret Pineda quickly added to the flurry with a goal of her own, and OSU went into the half with a comfortable 3-0 lead.

miss with a successful shot in the 53rd minute, but it didn’t stop there. Chance chipped in a couple goals in the 57th and 58th minutes for a hat trick, which was followed by another Ray score to put OSU up 7-0.

Following Ray’s score, the Cowgirls’ offense found a spark. In the 19th minute Alex Mor-

As the second half got underway, the Cowgirls offensive attack remained intact.

Wilson redeemed her first half

To top it off, freshman Lexi Lee scored the Cowgirls’ final goal.

“I think the intensity we played

with early in each half was really good,” Carmichael said. “It kind of blew the game open. But we have some athletic (and) dangerous up front, the ones who start and the ones who come off the bench, there’s a lot of competition for minutes. As a coach, it’s) awesome because we’ve got so many different weapons.”

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Hannah Chance scored three goals in the Cowgirls’ win.

News

Trump’s not preparing much for historic criminal trials, lawyer Alina Habba says

Shant Shahrigian New York Daily News

Donald Trump is so confident in the outcomes of the four criminal cases against him, he’s not preparing much for the trials, one of his lawyers claimed Sunday.

Echoing the former president’s trademark bluster, attorney Alina Habba said he doesn’t need to prep much for trials looming across the country as his reelection campaign revs up.

“If it was a normal person … I could understand the concern,” Habba told “Fox News Sunday” when asked what Trump is doing to get ready.

“President Trump is not your average person. He’s incredibly intelligent and he knows the ropes.

“What is he going to have to be prepped for, the truth?

You don’t have to prep much when you’ve done nothing wrong, so that I’m not concerned with.”

Since March, Trump has been indicted in Manhattan over his hush-money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels, in Florida on his handling of classified documents, in Washington on charges he illegally tried to overturn the 2020 presidential election and in Georgia over alleged election interference there. Trump has denied all the charges.

Habba repeated Trump’s claims that the cases are aimed at preventing his return to the White House, but said he was unlikely to face multiple trials at the same time.

“These trial dates also are going to move,” she predicted. “It’s unrealistic, it’s theatrics and no judge is going to say that you can be on two trials at once in two different states.”

The first trial in the Georgia case, in which 18

others were indicted, is set for October. The Manhattan trial has been scheduled to start in March, although Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has voiced willingness to push it back if there’s a conflict with another criminal case.

Trump’s most recent indictment, Thursday in Georgia, has proven to be a boon for his campaign, in which he was already far ahead of the pack of GOP candidates.

The night that he was booked on 13 charges at Fulton County jail, he blasted out his mug shot and used it to raise

funds.

“It will be the single most powerful photo in the history of online fundraising,” a Trump campaign staffer crowed to CNBC at the time.

As of Saturday, he’d raised $7.1 million off the mug shot, according to his campaign. It had been selling a variety merchandise like T-shirts and coffee mugs featuring his glowering face.

With a majority of Republicans still backing Trump for office, his GOP opponents have had to walk a fine line between defending the former presi-

dent in terms of the criminal cases and arguing they could do a better job than him in the White House.

Most of them raised their hands when asked at last week’s presidential debate whether they would support Trump even if he’s convicted.

That seemed to disappoint candidate Asa Hutchinson, the former governor of Arkansas.

“I was surprised at that. That didn’t seem to be a difficult question to me,” he told CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday.

While criticizing the

prosecutions, Habba praised the Republican-led House Judiciary Committee for opening an investigation into Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who is bringing the Georgia case against Trump. She said Special Counsel Jack Smith, who is leading the cases in Florida and Washington, should be probed, too.

“It’s definitely political,” Habba said. “They intentionally waited years and years and years for something that happened to bring it now when he is the leading candidate for the Republican Party.”

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In a handout provided by the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office, former President Donald Trump poses for his booking photo at the Fulton County Jail on Thursday, Aug. 24, 2023, in Atlanta Trump was booked on 13 charges related to an alleged plan to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in Georgia.

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Bradley is already focused on her next goal: graduate school. Though she plans to savor her last semester as a full-time Cowboy.

Like many seniors, Lily Beaver has treated the first day as any other.

“I slept through my class yesterday [Monday], so that wasn’t great,” Beaver said. “And then I had to work eight hours last night, so that was not fun. But I made it to class today [Tuesday].”

The luke-warm mentality toward school was prevalent in Beaver’s first day experience.

“I slept through the whole class, so I have to email my professor and be like, ‘I’m so sorry,’” Beaver said. “But, I have a sleep disorder, so it’s part of that. And I also got in late from a trip on Sunday night, so I’m extra tired. But so far, it’s been pretty decent.”

While the routine may feel comfortable, and even boring to senior students, a record number of freshmen have taken to campus.

As a fresh face on campus, Courtney Preston is adjusting to her new environment.

“Today [Tuesday], it’s honestly been a bit better, but as for yesterday

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[Monday], it was really stressful for me,” Preston said. “Yeah, like I was a freshman and I’ve never been, like other than the tour for orientation, I’ve never been around here. I don’t have family up here. OSU’s completely new.”

Preston has stumbled into her new role, but has found the Cowboy family to be a helpful hand during her first days.

“So, I got lost a couple times, but each time I got lost, the people here were super helpful,” Preston said. “Yeah, they could tell I was lost and, I didn’t really feel bad because, I knew I was a freshman and nobody made me feel bad for they were like, ‘Hey, let’s just get you to the right place.’”

For Preston, her first experiences

at OSU have helped her feel more comfortable in a new place.

Another addition to the 4,668 freshman enrolled this semester, Tatum Campion, from Salinas, CA, felt immediately embraced by the Cowboy family.

“My first few days at OSU have been amazing, coming from so far away I’ve been so grateful that everyone has been so kind and that has made Stillwater feel like home,” Campion said.

As new and returning students take to red brick-paved paths this week, the Cowboy spirit is alive and well in Stillwater.

Addison Shields contributed to this story.

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Students were welcomed to campus last week, whether they were returning or joining the Cowboy family.

“There is a huge opportunity,” for researchers to learn from residential gardens, Hasle said.

Small gardens draw monarchs Monarch fever builds in Chicago in mid-September, when butterflies migrating to Mexico typically pass through the region in large numbers, settling on trees by the hundreds.

But Eastern monarchs, which in some cases make that remarkable journey of up to 3,000 miles, have been in steep decline since the 1990s, when pesticide use in farm fields destroyed milkweed, the plant where the insect lays virtually all of its eggs.

In one striking example, there was an estimated 97% decrease in milkweed density in Iowa farm fields from 1999 to 2009, according to a 2018 review of existing studies in the journal Insect Science.

With the monarch qualifying for federal endangered status in 2020 — although not yet obtaining it, due to a wait list — planting milkweed has been embraced by scientists, citizens, nonprofits and government agencies.

Parks, nature preserves, agricultural areas and rights of way have all been targeted. But the call has also gone out to people who garden at home, and some research indicates that home gardens are promising sources of monarch habitat.

The gardens in the Field Museum’s current study include some scrappy underdogs.

As recently as 2015, a lot of people thought you couldn’t grow native plants in pots, Hasle said, but study participants grew milkweed on balconies.

One gardener took photos of milkweed in a single plastic pot — straight from the plant store. The plant hosted a caterpillar, then a chrysalis — a green podlike structure in which a caterpillar matures into

a butterfly — and then an adult butterfly.

Another study participant, who lived in a condo building, grew milkweed on the roof.

“The number of caterpillars on those plants was amazing,” Klinger said. “(Monarchs) can climb up 20 stories, and lay their eggs.”

Monarchs also proved adept at finding the smallest patches of milkweed — often soon after planting.

Being a volunteer monarch monitor wasn’t as easy as the researchers had hoped.

The average study participant spent about a half an hour, once a week, checking each leaf of their milkweed plant or plants for eggs and caterpillars. For those with 100 stems, that process could take more than an hour.

The work could also be emotionally challenging.

If a female lays 200 eggs, maybe two will go on to become butterflies, Hasle said.

As a result, at least 30% of monitors weren’t seeing any eggs in a given week.

“When we asked people why they left the project, one of the reasons was, ‘This was hard to watch,’ ” Hasle said.

But there were successes too.

“I feel like we’ve seen monarchs every day for the past several weeks,” Chiplis said recently.

Chiplis, a graphic designer, and her husband, John Dunlevy, have set up a cafe table and chairs in their small but scenic backyard — a symphony of native plants that includes ironweed, milkweed and grayheaded coneflower.

Native-plant gardeners for 11 years, Chiplis and Dunlevy enjoy an array of butterflies and insects — bright blue, lime green, and striped in cherry red — as well as birds and big yellow swallowtail butterflies.

Chiplis is drawn to bestselling author Douglas W. Tallamy’s proposal for a “Homegrown National Park,” in which individual yards planted with natives help form broad swaths of healthy habitat for small animals including butterflies and birds.

“If everyone plants a

small amount, that will make a big difference,” Chiplis said.

Native plants gain ground

That vision depends on a wider adoption of native plants, which remain a tough sell in some neighborhoods.

Still, there are signs of change.

The Wisconsin-based native plant nonprofit Wild Ones has seen a surge in membership, according to executive assistant Rachel Jaschob. The group, which supports native plant gardening and holds plant sales, has gone from 4,300 members nationwide in January 2021 to 8,100 in January 2023.

On Facebook, the Northern Illinois Native Plant Gardeners group, which Julie Berggren of Wilmette cofounded six years ago, has grown to 5,800 members.

“It just blew up,” said Berggren, a hospital chaplain. “Everybody is doing a native

garden now. It’s really exciting.”

The group’s moderator, Robert Sullivan, attributed the growth to a number of factors, including concern about climate change, Tallamy’s books, recent news articles about the decline of insect populations and concern about the fate of the monarch butterfly.

“I think all of that coming together is really getting people a lot more sensitive to the problems we’re facing with pollinators, but they also understand that there is something they can do to help,” Sullivan said.

During an interview with Klinger and Hasle at the Field Museum’s 100,000-square-foot Rice native plant garden, purple and gold blossoms reached for the sky, common milkweed grew in thick patches, and gemlike bursts of color — delicate violet-blue hoary vervain, bright orange butterfly weed — studded lush greenery.

The mood was upbeat as the researchers noted that this native plant showplace, which opened in 2018, was once just lawn and yew bushes.

“This is our largest exhibit, so — “ Klinger said.

“Suck it, dinosaurs!” Hasle gleefully interjected.

Smaller residential gardens got similarly enthusiastic shout-outs from the researchers, who would like to continue to partner with home gardeners for another insect research project.

“The best garden is the one that people are willing to plant,” Hasle said.

“That’s the key,” Klinger agreed.

Hasle continued: “Twelve milkweeds is better than one, but —”

“One milkweed is better than none,” Klinger chimed in. “We’re all about even one milkweed.”

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Martha Chiplis looks for eggs and caterpillars on milkweed plants and more in her garden outside her home in Berwyn, Aug. 10, 2023.

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Cowboy Calendar

Monday 8/28/2023

2023 Payne County Free Fair Payne County Expo Center until September 3rd @ 8 a.m. - 10 p.m. https://pcexpocenter.com/exhibitors/payne-county-freefair/

Trivia Night

Stonecloud Brewing Company @ 7 p.m.

Leon Polk Smith: Affinities in Art & Design

OSU Museum of Art until Jan. 27th @ 11 a.m. 4 p.m. https://museum.okstate.edu/art/leon-polk-smith.html

Line of Thought: The Work of Saul Steinberg

OSU Museum of Art until Sept. 30th @ 11 a.m. - 4 p.m. https://museum.okstate.edu/art/line-of-thought.html

Tuesday 8/29/2023

Career Fairs: Part-time & Volunteer Job Fair

Gallagher-Iba Arena @ 10 a.m. - 1 p.m.

Stillwater Spoken Word

Stillwater History Museum @ 6:30 p.m.

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Kid’s Eat Free

Louie’s Grill & Bar @ 11 a.m. - 11 p.m.

Live Trivia

Wednesday 8/30/2023

Iron Monk Brewing Company @ 7 - 9 p.m.

Bingo Night

Louie’s Grill & Bar @ 8 p.m.

Small Batch Trivia From Geeks Who Drink

Iron Monk Brewing Company @ 7 - 9 p.m.

Thursday 8/31/2023

2023 Payne County Fair Draft Horse Pulling Competition

Payne County Expo Center @ 8 p.m.

Let’s Talk About Oklahoma

Stillwater History Museum at the Sheerar Aug. 17thSept. 14th @ 6:30 - 8:30 p.m.

Kid’s Night

Eskimoe Joe’s @ 5 - 9 p.m. w/ $1 Buffy meal

Line Dancing Outlaws @ 7 - 8 p.m. $10

Payne County Fair Represents Power of the Past Tractor

Show

Payne County Expo Center @ 6:30 - 8:00 p.m.

Veterans History Project Webinar

Stillwater History Museum at the Sheerar @ 2 - 3 p.m.

Friday 9/01/2023

2023 Payne County Bucket Calf Show

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Cancer (June 21-July 22) — Today is a 9 — Get social and enjoy the party. Renew old friendships over five months, with Uranus retrograde. Take stock of trusted alliances. Friends are your greatest strength.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) — Today is a 9 — Find freedom with commitment. Uranus in retrograde rebels against ruts or confinement. Walk down memory lane. Review and update long-range planning. Clarify goals together.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Today is a 9 — Travel and exploration tempts. Imagination and intuition spark, with Uranus retrograde over five months. Old passions get rekindled. Prepare well for adventures after the Winter Solstice.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — Today is an 8 — Secure what you’ve acquired with Uranus retrograde. The next five months could alter the financial status quo. Plan for resilience and adapt with changes.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — Today is a 7 — Nurture your home base. Rebellious urges could impact partnerships, with Uranus retrograde until Dec. 21. Strengthen bonds by keeping your word. Communication preempts upsetting surprises.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — Today is a 7 — Spontaneous outbursts and surprises can drain energy over five months, with Uranus retrograde. Prioritize healthy practices and routines. Reduce stress with meditation and exercise.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Today is an 8 — Enjoy familiar games, sports and pursuits, with Uranus stationing retrograde until Dec. 21. Revise and refine. Practice what you love. Build and improve skills.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — Today is a 7 — Nesting instincts can surge unexpectedly, with Uranus retrograde over five months. Plan home changes carefully. Prepare now for action later. Imagine the possibilities.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) — Today is an 8 — Discuss how you’d like things to be. Outbursts of invention, emotion, and brilliance can erupt over five months, with Uranus retrograde. Imagine and envision.

Solution to Saturday’s puzzle

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