planetary subculture

i study tarot, astrology, and the in between, ☀🌙

[unbotheredmuse]

[monsterbi]

[tempibunxo]

[babyanimalgifs]

Little leaf cutter bee waking up in her tiny leaf bed 🐝 

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[peniswakt-deactivated20210717]

THIS BITCH LIVES INSIDE A TINY BLUNT LMAO

[lesbian-toddhoward]

STOP IT!!!!! NOT EVERYTHING IS ABOUT WEED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[inthefallofasparrow]

[geopsych]

Down at the spring house in the woods there are insects flying around. No wonder phoebes nest in the spring house every year!

[nevver]

Tarot, Nicolas Bruno

[aesthesiamag]

People Matching Artworks: An Unusual Photo Series By Stefan Draschan

People Matching Artworks: An Unusual Photo Series By Stefan Draschan More info: Website | Instagram…

[cynicalbitchmuppet]

I was really hoping these weren’t staged and the artist just spends weeks in art galleries and days in front of paintings to make these

Well guess what… That’s exactly what he did!

[1dietcokeinacan]

Lynda Barry, 2016

[notyourjaan]

If you experienced trauma in childhood or had a rough childhood, dude listen to me. Offer yourself play. You were deprived of it.

Keep bubbles in the house, blow bubbles in the yard, blow them in your room, get a coloring book that doesn’t have to be an adult one with mandalas, watch cartoons, laugh at stupid things, dress up as a superhero for Halloween, wear a Santa hat on Christmas and big light up snowflake earrings, lay down on the floor, lay down in the grass, eat eggos for dinner sometimes. It’s not stupid. You’re not childish. You’re giving your inner child what they had taken from them. They deserve it.

[personal-scientist]

I don't want to derail this post because it's an important message, and OP has addressed it to the people who most need to hear it. But... can i just add, for people who don't feel like they can give themselves permission to do this, that you can give yourself these things even if you didn't overtly experience trauma in childhood?

Even if you never thought of your upbringing as painful or malicious, you can and should still give yourself things you missed out on. Take that class! Learn that skill! Eat the foods you like, or branch out into new ones! Jump in piles of leaves and decorate your walls the way you want them.

Give yourself the things you couldnt have as a kid, especially if you didn't really get to have a childhood, but even if you didn't have the childhood you wanted. Go for a bike ride with friends. Go stargazing. Whatever it was that you feel like you missed, it's important to seek those things and remember that play and joy aren't exclusive to childhood.

[aqua-aries]

As astrology has grown in mainstream popularity it's been interesting to see how people use it to justify super toxic relationships.

"oh but I must have known them in a past life blah blah"

Yep and y'all were toxic together then too ms girl

[revenantluvr]

[aqua-aries]

@kaiadixiii

[vaultsixtynine]

horror but make it healing

[vaultsixtynine]

what i mean is: the house that hates you because it hates all of humanity because it is old, and abandoned, and left to rot. the house that tries to kill you because it doesn't care what you intend or what you want and all it knows is that its purpose has gone ignored and then has changed, by degrees, with malicious intent derived from neglect. a house that sees you as threat and will not wait for you to draw first blood - or worse, to just... ignore it more. again. forever.

but also; what does it look like to meet that house halfway and work to better it. can you renovate it? can you find the hurt and heal it? is it Horror if it can be Fixed? but not fixed like it never happened, but fixed like we reinforced the crack in the east wall of the foundation, we re-bricked the fireplace with respect to its original style, we found the rot and - as gently as possible - removed it, grafted new tissue, applied bandages. can you rehabilitate a haunted house, and offer it love? or is it prideful to even try - because all you're doing is setting it up for more failure and heartbreak in the future, after you die and it goes uncared for, neglected, again?

can you make a house that hates you love you without ensuring that it will hate again after you - because a house lives a long, long time after a human dies?

[aqua-aries]

Calculating Midpoints in Astrology

There are a lot of calculators online that offer a quick means of calculating your midpoint when looking at astrological charts (whether that’s natal, composite, etc.) but after using some of them I found my calculated midpoint was actually the exact opposite from the method of self-calculation I’ve always used. I wanted to share for anyone who may be unfamiliar with how to self-calculate their midpoint!

There are 360 degrees in the circle and each sign contains 30 degrees. So from zero degrees of Aries (the start of the natural zodiac) you add 30 degrees for each sign. For ease of access:

Aries starts at 0

Taurus starts at 30 degrees

Gemini starts at 60 degrees

Cancer starts at 90 degrees

Leo starts at 120 degrees

Virgo starts at 160 degrees

Libra starts at 180 degrees

Scorpio starts at 210 degrees

Sagittarius starts at 240 degrees

Capricorn starts at 270 degrees

Aquarius starts at 300 degrees

Pisces starts at 330 degrees

Take the starting degrees of the signs each of the planets you wish to calculate for are in and add the degree where each planet sits in that sign.

e.g. my sun sits at 13° Aries, and my moon at 16° Aquarius. So I would add 0 + 13 = 13° and 300 + 16 = 316° .

Add these two numbers together, then divide by 2

e.g. 13 + 316 = 329 / 2 = 164°

Find the corresponding sign where this number of degrees sits in the wheel of the chart and subtract the calculated number of degrees from the starting degree of that sign. The difference is your midpoint!

e.g. 164° would be in the sign of Virgo, because Virgo starts at 160°. 164-160 = 4 degrees. So, my sun-moon (or Soli-Lunar) midpoint is 4° Virgo.

Many astrologers also calculate for this including the minute of the degree the planets sit in, which is simply done by adding the minute into the original calculation

e.g. Aries sun at (0 + 13° 33′) + Aquarius moon at (300 + 16° 10′) = 13° 33′ + 316° 10′ = 329° 43′

Midpoints can be extremely helpful in the way of navigating life events (in particular with transits), relevant/meaningful relationships in our lives, and areas of interest! As I continue to study them, they have revealed themselves to be yet another important component of understanding astrology. This method works for any planets, whether it is sun-moon, venus-mercury, pluto-mars, etc.

I am sure there are a plethora of other guides out there that have done the same as this one, but I thought I would share. I hope this was helpful! (:

xoxo

[astrocelestial]

me: I don’t care

saturn aspects: *narrator voice* she did care

[aqua-aries]

[ullathynell]

[theambitiouswoman]

You can’t change your habits if you don’t change your underlining beliefs that lead you to your past behavior. Habits play a huge role in your identity.

[mylordshesacactus]

For evidence that Terry Pratchett understood humanity on a deep and fundamental level, look no further than the breed history of Dalmatians, because that shit is straight out of Discworld.

[mylordshesacactus]

Someone ask me how Dalmatians became associated with fire departments, it’s fucking hilarious.

[mylordshesacactus]

I KNEW I COULD COUNT ON YOU TO ENABLE ME.

So, Dalmatians are at their core a stagecoach guardian. That’s what they were initially developed as.

(This can take people by surprise when they get a Dalmatian as a pet, sometimes. Mind you, some show-line Dalmatians are bound to perfectly nice pet-quality dogs who don’t have much of the actual breed instinct left; but these are not meant to be low-energy dogs, and they’re not at all programmed to be super friendly toward strangers by default.)

So, they’re stagecoach guardians; a well-bred, breed-typical Dalmatian was meant to run alongside a stagecoach for…basically ever, and to snap at anyone who got close enough to threaten the coach or risk getting in the horses’ way.

A brief digression away from dogs for a second, to talk about pre-automobile fire departments.

The essential detail here is that we’ve had fire departments since basically ever (and they were….not infrequently straight-up protection rackets of the “nice place you got here. shame if it caught fire and nobody was willing to come put it out for you” variety, but that’s another story). And we’ve had fire engines for much longer than we’ve had automobiles.

These fire engines (here’s one example) would be drawn by a team of horses, as fast as they could manage in the streets, to the scene of a fire once the alarm was raised, same as today. They’d have bells clanging and alarms going off, same as today. And, same as today, once they got to the fire, all the firemen on board would pour off, throw on the brakes so the engine didn’t roll away, and, you know, focus on fighting the fire.

At which point, because people have always been people

There was a very real problem in which bystanders would steal the fucking horses.

Like…these were powerful, fast-but-strong, extremely well-trained coach horses! They were valuable as hell! And it’s not like you’re stealing the fire engine, after all, right? It’s parked, taking the horses doesn’t mean the building burns down or whatever, you’re just….gonna walk off with them all casual-like.

So obviously, fire departments would prefer to not have to constantly purchase expensive horses and train them to be safe around fire all the time. So they needed guard dogs to watch the horses while they were distracted by the burning building. And the dogs needed to be nimble–no big slow heavy mastiffs–and able to keep up, and have an intrinsic instinct to guard horses. And if they were easy to (haha) spot coming, even better.

So yeah.

Dalmatians are firehouse dogs because opportunistic thieves were doing the 1800s equivalent of stealing fire engine hubcaps and putting the pump up on cinderblocks while everyone was looking the other way.

GNU Terry Pratchett.

[notaboyscout]

[blueymoons]

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