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Aries
This week is lively and can animate interactions and encourage fast thinking, enabling you to get out of any potentially tricky situations. Naturally, this could complicate affairs, so it would pay to tread with care this week and over the coming weeks. You might also need to redefine your plans and perhaps not rely solely on luck to see you through.
Taurus
There could be delays concerning cash flow and money matters in general. Or you might decide to go on an inner journey and explore the landscape of your soul. Finally, a dynamic solar tie between Jupiter and Pluto over the weekend hints that you’ll be eager for new experiences.
Gemini
Your natural communicative qualities can shine and bestow you with extra wit and savviness. What seemed set in stone may not be, which could be a cause of frustration. Create a plan so you can bring it to life and persevere. There should be a call to look into any emotional blocks that may be preventing you from being as successful as you’d like.
Cancer
It’s also a good time to connect with those who share your goals for developing greater awareness. If a past connection is still causing hurt, use the coming weeks to bring about healing. And if you need help with this, get it. This could stir up a desire to travel and enjoy new experiences. It can be a very uplifting time.
Leo
It’s time to plan for the long term. If you have big goals to reach and ambitions to fulfill, you’ll need to change your mindset. And if you’re looking for romance, this flirtatious influence can be helpful for attracting some wonderful prospects. If there are any skeletons rattling in the closet, this influence encourages you to open the door and take a closer look.
Virgo
What seemed a done deal may not be, and you might need to renegotiate the terms. Don’t let resentment simmer. It’s better to get things out in the open to bring about healing. This can be a chance to develop a winning mindset rather than just hope for the best.
Libra
You may be very curious about many things, and this could lead you to see about taking a class or workshop and perhaps study for a degree or certification. You could grow disillusioned concerning your beliefs about something or someone, and yet this might be a part of the growth process. By daily visualizing the result you seek, you could reach your goal in no time. If you’re ready to remodel your home, get the ball rolling now in terms of financing and costs, and opt for the slow and steady approach.
Scorpio
This is a good time to talk about them, particularly those that you’ve tended to avoid. If you need to discuss certain issues with a counselor, therapist, or other trusted confidant, this is the time to do so. It could be a real relief. It’s time to highlight your skills, as well as enjoy special activities or a romantic break.
Sagittarius
This can be an uplifting week if you’re willing to set new ideas in motion and wait patiently for the results. This very convivial energy might inspire you to connect with people from all walks of life, and you’ll find it easy to make new friends. Are you happy about the feelings you have? This is the time to reflect on them.
Capricorn
Relationships with co-workers and clients can be positive, fostering good connections. Though this can seem difficult for a while, fate may be at work, and something good could emerge from this. This week and remains so for some months, so you might reconsider your attitude to success and happiness and what you can do to improve on such matters.
Aquarius
This could find you indulging in a new hobby, sport, or any other activity that requires dexterity and flexibility. During this phase, you may wonder if this is the right person for you. Avoid making any such decisions until Venus turns direct once again. Finally, money matters come into focus as fiery Mars moves into Pisces, encouraging you to be proactive about handling any ongoing issues.
Pisces
The people you connect with can have a profound influence on you as the sun makes some leading aspects. This can be a time to contemplate ideas and projects and perhaps start on them even though they could take a while to come to fruition. This is also a good time to do inner-child work and generally explore any stuck emotions.
The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has urged Ghanaians to make regular physical activity part of their daily routines to improve blood glucose control and reduce the risk of developing Type 2 diabetes.
It said regular exercise helped the body use insulin more effectively, thereby improving blood sugar regulation and contributing to better overall health.
The call forms part of the Service’s 30-day diabetes awareness campaign ahead of this year’s World Diabetes Day, which is observed on November 14.
The GHS encouraged people to engage in simple physical activities such as walking, dancing, cycling and gardening.
It noted that staying physically active did not necessarily require expensive gym memberships, as everyday activities, including household chores, could contribute to maintaining an active lifestyle.
The Service advised adults to aim for at least 150 minutes of moderate-intensity physical activity each week, stressing the importance of starting with manageable activities and gradually building consistency.
It further encouraged people living with diabetes to combine regular physical activity with prescribed treatment and a healthy diet to help manage the condition.
The awareness campaign, being undertaken ahead of World Diabetes Day, is aimed at promoting healthy lifestyle choices and encouraging early action to prevent and manage diabetes.
This year’s World Diabetes Day is being observed under the theme “early action on diabetes,” with November 14 set aside to raise awareness of the condition and the importance of prevention, early detection and proper management.
By Esinam Jemima Kuatsinu
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We take certain things for granted but it should not be so, especially if you can read, write and understand what is said on TV and Radio in English. Usually at 7:00 pm, I watch the news on one of the popular media channels and it was no big deal until a few days ago.
As I listened to a radio presenter on a popular Fm station, the important role my parents played in my life, as far as education is concerned, suddenly dawned on me. The usual style at the start of the programme, is to play a very funny interaction between a man who identifies himself as Barry …and a Ghanaian man called Akwasi.
This Barry guy apparently was talking to Akwasi by phone and he was speaking in English and Akwasi asked him to speak English, meanwhile Akwasi did not understand the English language, so he quickly asked the Barry guy to change to Twi, when he realised that the intonation was not the normal Ghanaian one.
I really had a good laugh and that was when I realised that my parents had indeed helped me by giving me access to education.
Imagine going to enter a place and they have written push on the door frame and because you cannot read, you decide to assume that you need to pull the door towards you and the embarrassment you will go through, pulling with all your might and especially at places with glass doors at the main entrance, everybody watching you and you struggling with the door for quite a few seconds before deciding to push.
It is in moments like that, that you either start blessing your parents or otherwise, depending on whether they sent you to school or not. There are things we consider as little that we take for granted but in reality, it is a big deal if you are not educated.
I recently had to go to an office located in the Ridge Hospital area and it was located on one of the floors of a story building. The protocol requires that visitors to the place log their details in a book provided for that purpose.
You write the date, your name etc., the usual. Imagine for a moment that you are Akosua Seiwaa, an uneducated person, who is going to see someone in one of the offices in the building and you are required to fill the log book with your details. It suddenly generates a stressful situation for you.
The FM programme really set me thinking about how grateful we ought to be to our parents or guardians who gave us access to education such that we have the confidence to go boldly to all kinds of places without stress.
Just imagine going to a hospital and given a whole bunch of medication. As is usually the case, the pharmacist mentions your name and immediately starts telling you the number of times and the various dosage you are to take them.
He or she then goes to the next person and chances are you are likely to forget some of the instructions. If you are uneducated, how are you going to identify the right dosages and any other special instructions you need. There is a saying that ‘If you can read this, thank a teacher.’ I think it should rather be, ‘If you can read this, thank your parents.’
There was another recording of a hilarious conversation on the show between two ladies one of whom was uneducated and did not understand “It’s been a while”. Apparently a church member met her and she said to her it’s been a while and did not know how to respond till a young girl she was walking with explained to her in Twi “Ose ohuu wo aky3”.
She was bitterly complaining to the friend that had it not been the young girl, she would have been greatly embarrassed with this “it’s been a while, it’s been a while” that the church member said to her. Do not laugh alone. Share. God bless.
