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Earth has entered what astronomers are calling a "golden age" of solar eclipses.
Over the next three years, six solar eclipses will sweep across the planet: three "ring of fire" annular eclipses and three total solar eclipses, all between 2026 and 2028.
Here’s the full celestial lineup:
☀️ Annular (“Ring of Fire”) Eclipses:
Feb 17, 2026 — Antarctica
Feb 6, 2027 — Chile, Argentina, West Africa
Jan 26, 2028 — Galápagos Islands, Spain
🌒 Total Solar Eclipses:
Aug 12, 2026 — Iceland, Greenland, northern Spain (the first total eclipse visible from mainland Europe since 1999)
Aug 2, 2027 — Spain, North Africa, Egypt (the legendary “Eclipse of the Century,” with up to 6 minutes 23 seconds of totality)
Jul 22, 2028 — Australia, New Zealand (totality over Sydney for the first time since 1857)
This extraordinary sequence is happening because three different Saros cycles—the ancient rhythms that dictate eclipse timing—are aligning at once. The last similar overlap occurred between 2008 and 2010, but most of those eclipses passed quietly over oceans and remote regions. This time, their paths sweep across some of the most historic and accessible places on Earth.
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Official Artwork for the 46th Annual Telluride Mushroom Festival created by Chris Adams of @sporelust 🍄
We asked Chris to tell us about his thought process behind this year’s artwork and his thoughts surrounding the theme, “rewild” and here is what he shared with us:
“When the team shared the theme for the 2026 festival with me, my first impulse was to visualize some romanticized scene of humans dancing naked in the mountains with animals and mushrooms all around, or something like that…
Immediately, I started picking apart my assumptions, perspective and bias in that knee jerk vision: who are the people, how have they shifted from current social norms back into nature, what are the effects on the system they’re recentering, and-on-and-on.
The romantic nature lover in me wants to believe there is a path for humans to rewild by (re)learning our role as just one part of an interconnected system rather than a super species in charge of dismantling & restructuring systems and extracting resources to meet our short term needs and desires.
The cynic in me finds it more likely that we will work ourselves out of the equation altogether, or maybe already have. Leaving nature, perhaps particularly fungi, to rebuild, regenerate and reimagine what comes next.
I imagine the artwork as a compromise between these extreme visions of the human role in the Earth’s future.
If we’re lucky we will find a collective reframing of the human role in local & global ecosystems that allows us to fall back into communion rather than conflict with and consumption of the flora, fauna & funga all around us.
Visualize laying back buried in the thick fur of a Black Bear surrounded by visible & invisible systems of complex interdependency & magical mutualism.
Alternately, we can’t get our shit together and the only way we exist in the future is as the remnants of our molecules reimagined as new organisms & organic matter.
Regardless of the interpretation I’m jealous of that skeleton’s fingers buried in the bear’s fur, and would take a lazy day surrounded by big trees & bigger mountains any old day.”
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As some of you may be aware, the BC College of Social Workers recently published practice guidance on psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy: https://bccsw.ca/for-registrants/standards-scope-of-practice/practice-guidance/practice-guidance-document-for-registrants-psychedelic-assisted-psychotherapy/
The current guidance prohibits social workers from identifying as psychedelic-assisted therapists and advertising or promoting psychedelic therapy services. It also prohibits us from providing harm reduction support to patients exploring psychedelics, including sharing information about safer use.
We are looking for allies of all backgrounds from anywhere in the world to sign and share Heal Lab's open letter in support of our call for a more evidence-informed, harm-reduction-oriented approach.
You can read the full letter and add your signature here: https://heal-lab.ca/an-open-letter-on-psychedelic-assisted-psychotherapy-public-protection-and-evidence-informed-regulation
Thanks so much! 🩷
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