Reda Wigle

1 week ago | nypost.com | Reda Wigle

Lizard venom has played a crucial part in helping humans take a bite out of diabetes and obesity. The Gila monster is a large, magnificent, and venomous desert-dwelling reptile found throughout the southwestern US and Mexico. A toxic bite from the Gila can cause searing pain, loss of consciousness, and in rare cases, death. However, a specific element in the venom of the dangerous Gila inspired the development of glucagon-like peptide (GLP-1) agonists such as Ozempic and Wegovy.

1 week ago | nypost.com | Reda Wigle

Mars, our planet of swinging manhood, bald desire and “go time,” is at long last climbing out of the tepid and trepidatious sponge bath of Cancer and onto the regal, shameless stage of Leo on Friday, April 18, 2025. From then to June 17, 2025, Mars will roar through the mane-shaking, masturbating-in-the-mirror sign of the big top and the big cat. Mars is the jock strap planet of action. Understanding Mars helps us realize how passion and power are held and released. Think: fight or flight.

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Look up and be dumbstruck with wonder: the Lyrid meteor shower will grace the skies this month. Records of this celestial shower date back 2,700 years. Citizens of ancient China may have been speaking of the Lyrid shower when they witnessed meteors “falling like rain” back in 687 BCE. This cosmic phenomenon is named for the nearby constellation Lyra, itself a reference to the lyre carried by Orpheus, the most tragic widower/troubadour in the long, bloody litany of Greek mythology.

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Reda Wigle

Mercury is the messenger planet of communication, coordination, creative expression, and information processing. It is called to mind (and to blame) during its thrice-annual retrograde, when smoothness is traded for chaos, we feel compelled to text our exes, connecting flights get canceled, and toddlers accidentally livestream their naked parents. Depending on your date and time of birth, Mercury was traveling through one of the 12 zodiac signs.

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Reda Wigle

While Venus, our planet of wealth, worth, aesthetics and attachment, has finally gone direct after a biblical 40-day retrograde, we have not yet ceased editing and auditing our relationship patterns. Neigh, folks, the deep dive has only just begun as the asteroid Juno retrogrades into the psychic, bone-handled shovel of Scorpio this week.