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Time of India
23-05-2025
- General
- Time of India
Past Life Regression: Exploring Previous Incarnations Through Astrology
Reincarnation isn't just the plot twist in a soap opera where everyone suddenly remembers their royal past in Atlantis. For astrologers and spiritually curious folks alike, the birth chart—especially the positions of the Moon's Nodes, Saturn, and the 12th House—offers some eerie clues about karmic breadcrumbs from a soul's past life performance. South Node ( Ketu ): The Past Life Resume This is the VIP pass to who the soul used to be. Ketu isn't here for attention—it's a dusty archive of skills, habits, and comfort zones that feel oddly familiar. This point represents where the soul is already proficient, sometimes to a fault, and where it tends to revert when faced with discomfort. Its sign and house placement reveal the areas the soul is meant to release or move beyond in this lifetime. Example: Ketu in Leo? This soul likely commanded attention, perhaps ruled the room (or the kingdom), or was a literal theatre kid in 18th-century Paris in a past life. The lesson now is to move away from the spotlight and cultivate humility. Ketu in Virgo? Suggests a past life as a meticulous monk who alphabetized scrolls and corrected everyone's Latin. The current challenge is to let go of obsessive perfectionism and embrace intuition. North Node (Rahu): The Cosmic Dare This point acts as the future-self GPS. Rahu represents the soul's current karmic growth point—the areas where it needs to expand, learn new lessons, and step out of its comfort zone. This placement is often uncomfortable or unfamiliar, pushing the soul to evolve by abandoning the comfy bathrobe of past life patterns. Example: Rahu in Cancer? This soul is here to learn emotional intelligence, nurture others (and themselves), and stop ghosting feelings like they're spam calls. It's a journey into vulnerability and emotional depth. 12th House: The Secret Files Also known as the 'cosmic attic,' the 12th House holds the secrets, karmic debts, and past-life plot twists. It's associated with unconscious patterns, hidden enemies, solitude, and spiritual liberation. Planets residing here often carry unresolved lessons or burdens from previous incarnations that must be addressed in this life. Example: Mars in the 12th House? Perhaps a warrior with unresolved anger issues or battles from a past life that manifest as self-undoing. Venus in the 12th House? Could indicate a past life romance that ended dramatically, like a Greek tragedy, leaving lingering emotional ties or a need to resolve karmic relationships. Saturn: Father Karma Himself Wherever Saturn sits in the birth chart, it's pointing directly to an old soul debt or a significant karmic lesson that needs to be learned through discipline, hard work, and patience. It's not punishment, but rather a form of spiritual probation, demanding responsibility and maturity in that specific area of life. Example: Saturn in the 7th House (relationships)? This soul likely fumbled the relationship ball in a past life, perhaps struggled with commitment or responsibility in partnerships. In this life, they have to learn to build stable, loving connections without clinging or projecting past issues. Pluto: The Underworld Transformer As a generational planet, Pluto drops hints about deep, transformative soul evolution that a whole generation is collectively working through. Its sign placement can reveal overarching karmic themes related to power dynamics, cycles of death and rebirth, letting go, and confronting the subconscious. Example: Pluto in Scorpio (1983-1995 babies): This generation is collectively dealing with themes of power, transformation, intense psychological insights, and perhaps letting go of their TikTok-era trauma by confronting deeper truths. Astrology doesn't definitively "prove" past lives, but it certainly offers a rich, poetic roadmap. A birth chart is like a celestial fingerprint—only this one might be smudged with leftover karma and spiritual glitter from a dozen lifetimes ago, waiting to be deciphered. Discover everything about astrology at the Times of India , including daily horoscopes for Aries , Taurus , Gemini , Cancer , Leo , Virgo , Libra , Scorpio , Sagittarius , Capricorn , Aquarius , and Pisces .
West Australian
13-05-2025
- Business
- West Australian
ICE says new tech makes massive south-eastern coast green hydrogen project economically viable
The boss of one of the companies involved in an enormous green hydrogen project on WA's south-eastern coast says it has created new technology that will make the planned development 'economically viable'. InterContinental Energy is part of a consortium looking to develop the US$70 billion ($110b) Western Green Energy Hub north-west of Eucla. The plan is for the construction and operation of 3000 wind turbines, 35 solar farms, and a renewable hydrogen facility across 22,690sqkm that would employ up to 8000 people. Offshore elements comprise a marine offloading facility, desalination plant, brine pipeline, and an ammonia export pipeline. The project has the potential to generate more than 50 gigawatts to produce about 3.5 million tonnes per annum of zero-carbon green hydrogen — making it one of the biggest power projects in the world. WEGH will be built in several phases, with the first stage covering 1900sqkm aiming to generate about 6GW to produce 330,000tpa. The relevant environmental authorities at both the State and Federal levels are currently assessing the proposal, with opposition already formed around the project's potential impacts on the extensive world-class limestone karst cave systems in the area. There also continues to be doubts expressed about the economics of green hydrogen. However, ICE on Tuesday said it had developed the P2(H2)Node, a patented modular system that would transform how green hydrogen was produced. It said the system directly integrated electrolysis plants with wind and solar farms, eliminating the need for long-distance electricity transmission, cutting costs and boosting efficiency. ICE said by standardising design and using modular construction, the system would deliver up to 10 per cent lower capital expenditure and up to 10 per cent higher operational efficiency than conventional approaches. It said the system had taken ICE's Perth-based team four years to develop, with patents granted in Australia and the US, and patents pending in several other countries. ICE chief executive Alexander Tancock said the Node system would reduce complexity, accelerate project deployment and make giga-scale green hydrogen production both economically viable and globally scalable. 'The P2(H2)Node system is designed with global application in mind, particularly for coastal and remote regions rich in renewable resources but lacking robust grid infrastructure,' he said. 'Its decentralised, modular and flexible architecture allows for efficient deployment in a variety of settings, making giga-scale green hydrogen production feasible in locations where traditional models face significant barriers.' Mr Tancock said conventional centralised models required expensive electricity transmission, leading to energy losses and inefficiency. 'The patented P2(H2)Node system flips this model by co-locating giga-scale hydrogen production with wind and solar farms, ensuring power is used where it's generated,' he said. ICE's Australian boss Isaac Hinton said the Node system could unlock the full potential of its portfolio of giga-scale projects, as well as others globally. In particular, ICE's largest project WEGH, being developed in partnership with CWP and Mirning Green Energy, stood to benefit significantly. The node would enable the lowest cost, large-scale production of a range of hydrogen derivatives, including ammonia and e-fuels. 'With the support of recently announced Federal Government hydrogen incentives, WGEH is projected to drive down production costs for green ammonia below US$650 per tonne, unlocking transformative investment opportunities and significant job creation in Western Australia and the country more broadly,' Mr Hinton said. 'By making green hydrogen, ammonia and e-fuels cost-competitive, the P2(H2)Node will support decarbonisation across hard-to-abate sectors like steel, shipping, aviation and fertilisers.' ICE will unveil the details and design of the Node system at the World Hydrogen Summit in Rotterdam, the Netherlands next week. A final investment decision on WEGH is not expected until 2029.
