With New Year’s resolutions and fresh starts in the air, an article about seeking forgiveness seems like a good fit. Have you had experiences with forgiving and being forgiven, and do you think Dr. Amy Wood’s five tips hit the mark?

In honor of Venus moving into Scorpio, a sign ruled by Mars, here are excerpts from a pair of articles that reconsider or reframe two facets of sexuality. In the first, Joe Kort, Ph.D., discusses “Why I Am No Longer a Sex-Addiction Therapist” on Psychology Today. In the second, Stanley Siegel, LCSW, explains that, “When It Comes To Sex There is No Difference Between Male and Female Desire” on Psychology Tomorrow.

Removed from the limited context of a strip club, women-only pole dance classes offer a safe space in which to liberate a form of feminine sexual power that has been repressed, cut off, shamed out of existence, misunderstood or misdirected in the lives of many women. Performance artist and filmmaker Michele Beck’s documentary “My Erotic Body” explores the transformative power of this dance form.

Relationship coach Blair Glaser specializes in applying leadership skills to relationships, and Planet Waves has featured her articles a few times. In this piece, what begins as a tale of love for a challenging puppy actually offers crucial insights about seeing clearly and embracing our own limits — and those of others; just in time for Saturn square Neptune.

With the Sun in Scorpio, attention turns to themes of sex and sexuality (though on Planet Waves, these conversations happen no matter the time of year). But one facet of sex and our sexual organs that people rarely want to talk about is the potential (and reality) of sexually transmitted infections (STIs). Sex educator, artist and writer Zoe Ligon recounts her process of deciding whether to engage sexually with a potential partner with genital herpes.

Clementine Morrigan, a self-described “queer femme sober-addict witch, writer and artist,” has written a blog post on dealing with jealousy in a polyamorous situation from the perspective of someone experiencing life with complex PTSD — a post I think should be common reading for anyone writing about polyamory.