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In today's episode, we explore the fascinating role of AI assistants in aiding older adults to age at home with independence and dignity. Join host Greg Doig as he delves into a study by the Journal of American Geriatric Society, uncovering how smart speakers like Amazon Echo and Google Home have become unexpected allies for seniors. From entertainment and companionship to practical functions like home control and emergency communications, discover how these digital innovations are transforming lives. He will also discuss the challenges faced by seniors with these devices and reflect on how technology can evolve to better serve users of all generations. Stay tuned for an enlightening discussion on how AI helps the aging population thrive in their own homes.

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The work week ends on Valentine’s Day, so here are a few things to know about Venus right now, the planet of love, beauty, and poetry.

Venus spends the least amount of time backtracking through the starry fields overhead. But every 18 months, Venus begins her retrograde, which means the planet will be seen moving not once, not twice, but three times through the same region of sky ~ and Venus is in this process right now.

To be clear, Venus will not be retrograde at Valentine’s Day, but the goddess of love and beauty is already making first moves among the region of stars where the retrograde will happen. And when Venus makes this retrograde, she will change from evening star to morning star. The absolute poetry of it is that next month, at the equinox, it will be possible to see Venus in the morning and the evening, bookending the moment of balance with love.

Right now, Venus is moving among the stars of Pisces. The mood of Pisces is associated with the forces of dawn, and when Venus is there, deep mysteries of the heart surface and wake. Astrologically Venus is exalted in Pisces, which doesn’t mean it rules Pisces, but that Venus reaches its highest potential there. And it’s there on Valentine’s Day.

In initiation literature, Venus often plays a key role. In Paul’s Second Letter to the Corinthians, he is caught up to the third heaven. This is the heaven of Venus. In The Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz, he has an unusual experience of seeing Venus, which is consequent in the outcome of his initiation. And in his Divine Comedy Dante concludes the Inferno, the Purgatory, and the Paradise with the word stars, but he begins each of these sections of his epic with a specific reference to Venus. Here is the reference from the Purgatory, specifically about where Venus is now, in time for Valentine’s day:

The lovely planet, loves own quickener

Now lit to laughter all the eastern sky,

Veiling the Fishes that attended her.

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