[deathlune]

“the hard season will split you through. do not worry. you will bleed water. do not worry. this is grief. your face will fall out and down your skin and there will be scorching. but do not worry. keep speaking the years from their hiding places. keep coughing up smoke from all the deaths you have died. keep the rage tender. because the soft season will come. it will come. loud. ready. gulping. both hands in your chest. up all night. up all of the nights. to drink all damage into love.”

— “therapy” by Nayyirah Waheed (via nowtryhowandwhy)

[shisasan]

an actual true color photograph showing Saturn, its rings, and one of its moons taken by the Cassini space probe orbiting 23.8k miles away, October 11, 2005

[deathlune]

“It cuts to reveal and to heal. It is exciting and painful. It bridges; it connects. It is violent but loving. It is death that leads to rebirth, and this new life rouses the appetite.”

— Sholeh Wolpé, from The Conference of the Birds; “About this Translation,” (via violentwavesofemotion)

[santisimasblog]

[deathlune]

“Moon marked and touched by sun my magic is unwritten but when the sea turns back it will leave my shape behind. I seek no favor untouched by blood unrelenting as the curse of love permanent as my errors or my pride I do not mix love with pity nor hate with scorn and if you would know me look into the entrails of Uranus where the restless oceans pound. I do not dwell within my birth nor my divinities who am ageless and half-grown and still seeking my sisters witches in Dahomey wear me inside their coiled cloths as our mother did mourning. I have been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic and the noon’s new fury with all your wide futures promised I am woman and not white.”

— Audre Lorde, “A Woman Speaks” from The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde (via telepathic-affair)

[cosmiccannibalcamille]

Bad Moon

Addictions, insecurities, habits, and the unconscious side of the personality – May I present to you the negative aspects of the Moon in the signs:

Aries: the Firestarter; loud, bossy behavior looks for a battleground to defend against boredom and personal attacks on the ego; short-lived and short-tempered feelings and impulses cause emotional volatility and childish tantrums; addicted to action and anarchy.

Taurus: the Sensualist; resistant to force or change, the slothful temperament, with sedentary and stubborn feelings, is unable to forgive or see impartially; gluttonous appetite desires constant comfort resulting in snobbish and bratty behavior; addicted to indulgence and the familiar.

Gemini: the Busybody; feelings are imitated and analyzed, and prying curiosity looks for trouble and disorder to soothe inner restlessness; moody mischief maker with an inability to connect deeply due to extreme shallowness; addicted to questions and commotion.

Cancer: the Grudge; lack of boundaries and objectivity, and inability to let go of antique injuries leads to sulking, accusing, and doubting behaviors; clinging dependency and subtle manipulation stemming from fear of abandonment result in irrationality; addicted to the past and pity.

Leo: the Autocrat; haughty temperament vulnerable to rejection and criticism demands obedience and attention from others; excessively self-serving and inconsiderate, emotional displays and reactions are over-the-top and intended to draw a crowd; addicted to theatrics and threats.

Virgo: the Skeptic; feelings are sterilized with cold, critical judgement and stringent handling to avoid the spread of infectious mysticism and foolishness; suspended affections and harbored hatreds build and cause anxiety, hairsplitting and complaining; addicted to routine and practicality.

Libra: the Politician; preoccupied with unattainable perfection, the fear of being disliked or considered unfair or ugly force artificial reactions and passive aggressive behaviors; emotional indecisiveness and uncertainty results in multiple mood swings; addicted to idealism and partnerships.

Scorpio: the Sadist; vulnerability and unmentionable motivations are fanatically concealed in attempts to keep jealousy, bitterness, and a fear of betrayal secret; obsessively searches for ways to test strength through emotional manipulation and pain-inflicting challenges; addicted to payback and power.

Sagittarius: The Maniac; fugitive from restriction and monotony, runs wildly from the gravity of reality to the falsehoods of fiction; unequipped to handle sincerity and consistency which results in the inability to ground down and take things seriously; addicted to risk and popularity.  

Capricorn: the Control Freak; inner core is guarded by rigid routines and restraint which hardens the view of self, forcing deep self-doubt and distrust of modernization; will attempt to unscrupulously manage and control the emotions; addicted to suspicion and structure.

Aquarius: The Nuclear Bomb; feelings are ignored and blocked by the brain until logic and equanimity spontaneously split from consciousness, resulting in a cataclysmic and unexpected release of emotions; thermonuclear implosion of immaturity that directly opposes civilized composure; addicted to absent-mindedness and analysis.

Pisces: the Masochistic Martyr; self-sabotage and suffering act as anesthesia to limit the experience of pain in hopes of numbing the senses and calming nerves; evasion and deception of self & others are used to avoid responsibility and reality; addicted to fantasy and escapism.

[deathlune]

“Say it now: honey from the sweet, drunk, dead: I lift my eyes, I’m listening; the moon sinks; I chart the back of my hand. I don’t hear your words: I hear the wind, my dreams, disasters, my own strange name.”

— John Thompson, from “Ghazal XXIII,” in Stilt Jack (via a-pair-of-ragged-claws)

[deathlune]

“Take an interest in your pain and your fear. Move closer, lean in, get curious; even for a moment experience the feelings beyond labels, beyond being good or bad. Welcome them. Invite them. Do anything that helps melt the resistance.”

— Pema Chodron, Taking the Leap (via pinelands-vipassana)

[deathlune]

“Some of us go back home to find what we lost. It can be a gruesome journey for many as returning always requires remembering what we have lost; what we must find and for some, it simply means rediscovering how leaving changed them. You realize you are changed in ways you cannot be held hostage again. You have unlearned so many indoctrinations and that can be difficult for those old friends and those who helped raise you to comprehend. You are different, you are not their ideal to the ones who scream that you have forsaken tradition. You are now yours to shape, to sharpen, to tell where and when it hurts without shrinking. Although it is liberating knowing you cannot go back into your innocent bubble, when you never questioned all you are told, realize now you know your voice. Your voice cannot be buried, you have become this woman whose feet they could not cut. The truth is it is very frightening, yes, you are now more yourself but know that once you choose this path, you will feel so alone in so many ways, but you must remember your mind can no longer be held hostage. You are free and for you, a woman, this is powerful. Never forget this.”

— Love, Ijeoma Umebinyuo (via theijeoma)

[astrolocherry]

Every Moon (man) has a disguise

[deathlune]

Aries Moon: Inside the valiant and protective is a vulnerable child, fearful of abandonment and paralyzed by confusion

Taurus Moon: inside the grounded taurus moon a roamer really has nothing to stand on

Gemini Moon: an incessant gemini moon chatter conceals an innocent need to be heard and acknowledged for being aware and existing

Cancer Moon: an aggressive cancer moon veils the screaming child who is unable to cope with such powerful sensitivity

Leo Moon: inside the proud and performing lunar leo is a baby cub who truly craves acceptance from one true love

Virgo Moon: inside the internalized and intellectual virgo moon is an obligated healer who longs to help but doesn’t feel good enough

Libra Moon: inside the gracious libra moon there is a hollowness that could swallow the universe

Scorpio Moon: inside the intimidating scorpio moon is a wounded child who won’t stop screaming until she figures out why she was born at all

Sagittarius Moon: inside the carefree sagittarius moon is a wrestle against reaction, rage, and restlessness

Capricorn Moon: inside the sturdy lunar capricorn is a frightened child in the body of a full grown man

Aquarius Moon: inside the blase lunar aquarius is an empty scream at the condition of human existence

Pisces Moon: inside the sensitive pisces moon is an essence that generates the highest octave of motherly and maternal love, a ledge of the moon that touches the sea, all life, love, and suffering is born and dies here. in the moment that the moon rises, they see their reflection in the night. this is not all suffering but a true portrait of godly poetry

-C.

[deathlune]

“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds.”

— Anaïs Nin (via onlinecounsellingcollege)

[deathlune]

“When you live in the dark for so long, you begin to love it. And it loves you back, and isn’t that the point? You think, the face turns to the shadows, and just as well. It accepts, it heals, it allows. But it also devours.”

— Raymond Carver, Late Fragment (via thequotejournals)

[deathlune]

“This witch had been crafted from the darkness between the stars.”

— Sarah J. Maas, Queen of Shadows (via rabbitinthemoon)

[astrolocherry]

Virgo Soul Blueprint

A soul here on earth to undertake the job description of ~~ Purification, self actualization, ultra crystal perception, to serve and support others, learning self appreciation and consideration, to provide practical aid, to reign in on the esoteric knowledge of medicine, to heal through the sacred hands, to develop the awareness that others exist beyond the leo ego

[deathlune]

“The deepest work is usually the darkest. A brave woman, a wisening woman, will develop the poorest psychic land, for if she builds only on the best land of her psyche, she will have for a view the least of what she is. So do not be afraid to investigate the worst. It only guarantees increase of soul power. It is in this psychic kind of land development that Wild Woman shines. She is not afriad of the darkest dark, in fact she can see in the dark. She is not afraid of offal, refuse, decay, stink, blood, cold bones, dying girls or murderous husbands. She can see it, she can take it, she can help.”

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes in “Women Who Run With the Wolves” (via eyesaremosaics)

[deathlune]

“راه می بینم در ظلمت من پر از فانوسم I see a way in the darkness. I am a lantern.”

— Sohrab Sepehri (via wnq-writers)

[deathlune]

“I decided, enough pain….I was not the woman who breaks into pieces under the blows of abandonment and absence, who goes mad, who dies. Only a few fragments had splintered off, for the rest I was well. I was whole, whole I would remain. To those who hurt me, I react giving back in kind. I am the queen of spades, I am the wasp that stings, I am the dark serpent. I am the invulnerable animal who passes through fire and is not burned.”

— Elena Ferrante, The Days of Abandonment (via yourcoldclay)