Just had a crazy thought that maybe I’m not rly an astrologer at this point. My passion is magic. It’s always been devotional intimacy for me. Astrology is a language and an avenue toward that. But my real Thing is the place that avenue leads- the intimacy with divinity.
Just learned that, in addition to “elsewhere,” we used to have elsewhen, elsehow, elsewhat, elsewho, elsewards and elsewise, all of which fell out of use one by one between the 16th and 20th century. I’m pissed.
A relationship should be 50/50; I go on about astrology, he gazes up admiringly at me and asks questions about core concepts, gradually acquiring my knowledge until he too goes on about astrology 🥺✨
You are not your brain. You’re not piloting a meat suit. Your consciousness spans to your fingers and toes. Your limbs store memories. Your gut *feels*. The brain is not the origin point of these stimuli, it just interprets them.
The fact that we don’t just bury dead people in the dirt is the most unhinged example of capitalism disrupting a perfectly functional, green process to make it wasteful and ghoulish.
I actually love the superstition that you have to be “gifted” your first tarot deck, because it forces you to break a rule to start the practice. Divination is, in some ways, stealing fire from God. Jimmying the lock on the gate is a fine initiation into its mysteries
It’s wild how unmedicated ADHD brains learn to essentially leverage panic for extra dopamine by creating constant crisises (brutally procrastinated deadline-driven work, for ex), basically hacking its own nervous system to achieve normal levels of neurotransmitters...amazing
No planet scares me like Neptune. The idea that something can blur my perceptions to the point that I just…don’t know what’s real. Literally terrifying. Idk what that says about me.
In Mexico 🇲🇽 when abortion rights were up for debate they marched to the presidential palace & attempted to burn it down. The Mexican government quickly decriminalized Abortion nationwide soon after that.
The thing that finally made me accept I might be autistic was the article that said that classic “socializing w ppl is hard” symptoms are sometimes less present in ppl for whom psychology and socializing become a special interest.
ADHD astrologer tip 🪽
Mercury retrograde is the perfect time to do *that thing* you should have done weeks or months ago.
Mercury in his home sign of virgo has unusually high amounts of agency, for a retrograde.
Not all “turning backward” is bad.
You guys want to hear something cute? the first astrology book I ever owned was inherited from my grandma after she died, and in it there was a list of all of my cousins’ and my birth times, handwritten on a slip of paper tucked in it as a bookmark. I’m a second gen astrologer 💚
yo the craziest thing about having depression and adhd at the same time is that tasks that are 'for fun' (reading, shopping, journalling, crafts) take about as much executive function as anything else to accomplish.
The deeper I get into astrology, the more I value the self taught astrologers. They’re the one whose minds are unbound from these dominant streams of thought and, once they learn the traditional bones, they draw more creative and interesting conclusions more freely
name something on-brand for your sun sign from your childhood- my favorite color was blue in 2nd grade but I convinced myself it was green instead because blue was too common a choice ♒️
If only they’d taught traditional astrology in high school. I would have done so much better in history 😩 it’s literally the only reason I have any idea what was going on at any time in the past
The real skill to interpreting signs & omens is not learning to see them, that is just the first step. It’s learning to filter, to turn it off, using discernment so you can tell what’s signal and what is just endless, constant noise, once you start seeing them
Reminder that if your energy is at an all time low rn, powerhouse planet Mars recently left his domicile to conjoin the south node, so the little engine that could that’s been hanging with us for a month and a half is suddenly docked for repairs. Seek inspiration through fiction.
Accidentally ending the US dependency on fossil fuels by sanctioning them out of the realm of affordability would be like,..a really funny pluto return arc for the US. Fossil fuels are so pluto too- the Greeks called him “the giver of wealth,” and he ruled the earth itself.
Magic has more power if you gather up the courage to take it seriously. Making a constant stream of hedges and irreverent jokes about your own spiritual beliefs and traditions might be eroding your power.
Don’t forget the depression meal of eclipse remediation- spraying the parts of your body that correlate to the eclipse axis with saline solution. So for taurus/scorpio, that’s neck and groin.
One boomer I spoke to once expressed doubt that millenials and gen z are really so broke. “They spend so much money on lattes and holidays!” We spend more money on lattes because none of us can buy a house or retire. The lattes and cute little trips are all we get.
People used to fall in love with me a lot and I realize looking back that it’s because I was wildly avoidant and they were projecting an attachment story onto me.
I want a healer who struggles. my acupuncturist today was so chaotic and smelled like cigarettes and forgot a needle in my arm and I felt *relieved* at the prospect that she is not a paragon of good vibes and white light but a person who smokes cigarettes and has ADHD.
This feels like *such* a venus / saturn sextile thing. I always think of the two as lovers, you can’t have the sweetness of Venus without the structure of Saturn to contain it.
if a journalist wants to write a condescending article about their experience trying on witchcraft for clicks, i suggest they volunteer to be consensually cursed by a team of competent ritualists and report on their findings over the year that follows.
The idea that you can’t do divination for yourself is about as goofy as “you need to be gifted your first tarot deck.”
Prometheus got his liver ripped out a thousand times to steal YOU fire from the Gods, and you can’t ask a measly question of them? where is your SPIRIT
I’m sure I’m not the only one stating the obvious but I think that Jupiter’s retrograde into Aquarius is going to bring a re-introduction of mask mandates, possibly due to this delta strain. Then I bet things will improve again when Jupiter returns to Pisces.
did u guys know that popular astrology software Solar Fire got forced to retract a lawsuit that nearly ruined the global internet’s ability to ***keep track of time**
“What do the gods want from me?” Your gifts. Write for your gods, sing songs for your gods. I am terrible at physical offerings and I hate watching them droop on the altar til I sheepishly deposit them in the yard. So I write. I sing songs. I teach. I spread the word about them.
I wanted some perspective on Pluto returns as we approach the US’.
After the mythological founding of Rome in 753 BCE, 7 legendary kings are said to have ruled until 509 BCE, when the last king was overthrown. The monarchy was abolished.
509 BCE was Rome’s Pluto return.
My cousin just asked me what was going on in astrology cuz she’s having feelings for her ex. I asked her if they started on July 22nd and she said “yes that is when we saw each other for a wedding and it all began.”
Venus in Pisces in aversion to Pisces’ ruler is women gassing each other up in the girls bathroom on a night out, unseen just for a moment by the gaze of patriarchy
I am bent on being less “nice” in 2023. It is exhausting to model every possible negative reaction to my words or choices. Not to mention worthless. It’s kept me safe and now it’s time for it to go.
William Lilly gives the 12th house to witches (for “hidden enemies”), but to update for modern times: if L12 is in your 1st, it just means you yourself are the witch. if L12 is in H7, the witch is your bf.
Several ancient astrologers referenced Saturn as a woman. I’m testing out exclusively she/her-ing her rn, just to see what happens to my conception of her over time. Saturn rules a certain type of harshness and I want to extract that from its context in the patriarchy.
Out of 7 planets used, only 2.5 are attributed a feminine gender. Women have probably been historically 50% or more of any given population. That's not politicized?
the sheer amount of thought that goes into my interactions with folks im still masked around is DISTURBING. this is why a lot of audhd ppl are so prone to drinking to cope with social situations - to turn off the thinking, and be only like, half-masked in stressful situations
If you love your Venus but struggle with Saturn (or vice versa), try giving them a group project to work on. Ritualize your skincare. Protecting your most fundamental barrier against the ravages of time and beautifying yourself with tender touches, you’ll see their best sides.
I paid my rent with astro-money this month!!! 🎉 I was really hoping to hit this milestone this week – this the first time I’ve made rent this way since moving to PDX. And, it makes September my highest-earning astro-month ever, 1.3k.
"compassion for all beings" includes self-compassion. don't let me catch you bullying yourself, neglecting yourself, martyring yourself to make a better world happen for others. i know you think you're being slick but you're not - the gods see u - you count as "all beings" 😤
As a Jupiterian Saturnian, my favorite maneuver is “heavy shit said in the most casual way possible,” and things of great gravity used frivolously for the bit. or the inverse- the saying of silly bullshit with a tone of total solemnity.
BREAKING: Data from two ground-based telescopes have discovered small quantities of phosphine gas in the clouds of Venus. There are no known non-biological mechanisms of making the gas on Venus, so it *may* be being produced by alien microbes. (1/5)