"i'm fire. i'm death." i will burn the HEART.

currently obsessed with good omens. Sherlock is lying dead on the pavement and I have no hope to spare. call me Em. I queue a LOT.

[ms-m-astrologer]

Cosmic Events: August 2026

Executive Summary: practically the entire month (from August 2 through August 31) is spent in the shadow of the Eclipse. Grrr.

Lunar Phases

Sunday, August 2, 11:46 UTC - Disseminating Moon, 25°13’ Pisces

Thursday, August 6, 02:21 UTC - Last Quarter Moon, 13°40’ Taurus

Sunday, August 9, 10:50 UTC - Balsamic Moon, 1°53’ Cancer

Wednesday, August 12, 17:37 UTC - New Moon/Solar Eclipse, 20°02’ Leo

Not only is it an eclipse, but it’s another one where the Moon goes void of course immediately after the phase matures. Hmph.

Sunday, August 16, 05:28 UTC - Crescent Moon, 8°23’ Libra

Wednesday, August 19, 02:46 UTC - First Quarter Moon, 27°08’ Scorpio

Monday, August 24, 05:22 UTC - Gibbous Moon, 16°05’ Capricorn

Friday, August 28, 04:18 UTC - Full Moon/Lunar Eclipse, 4°54’ Pisces

A very volatile one even before we consider that it’s a lunar eclipse. Hang in there.

Monday, August 31, 20:32 UTC - Disseminating Moon, 23°27’ Aries

Void of Course Moon

Sunday, August 2, 12:33 UTC (Pisces) - 20:37 UTC (Aries)

8 hours, 4 minutes

Tuesday, August 4, 18:52 UTC (Aries) - Wednesday, August 5, 02:35 UTC (Taurus)

7 hours, 43 minutes

Thursday, August 6, 23:25 UTC (Taurus) - Friday, August 7, 06:08 UTC (Gemini)

6 hours, 43 minutes

Sunday, August 9, 05:27 UTC (Gemini) - 07:46 UTC (Cancer)

2 hours, 19 minutes

Monday, August 10, 07:30 UTC (Cancer) - Tuesday, August 11, 08:38 UTC (Leo)

25 hours, 8 minutes

Wednesday, August 12, 17:37 UTC (Leo) - Thursday, August 13, 10:18 UTC (Virgo)

16 hours, 41 minutes

Thursday, August 13, 19:24 UTC (Virgo) - Saturday, August 15, 14:20 UTC (Libra)

42 hours, 56 minutes (🤬🤬)

Monday, August 17, 11:31 UTC (Libra) - 21:46 UTC (Scorpio)

10 hours, 15 minutes

Thursday, August 20, 02:46 UTC (Scorpio) - 08:30 UTC (Sagittarius)

5 hours, 44 minutes

Saturday, August 22, 20:31 UTC (Sagittarius) - 20:59 UTC (Capricorn)

28 minutes

Monday, August 24, 06:30 UTC (Capricorn) - Tuesday, August 25, 09:02 UTC (Aquarius)

26 hours, 32 minutes

Wednesday, August 26, 21:59 UTC (Aquarius) - Thursday, August 27, 19:04 UTC (Pisces)

21 hours, 5 minutes

Friday, August 28, 16:14 UTC (Pisces) - Sunday, August 30, 02:38 UTC (Aries)

34 hours, 22 minutes

Monday, August 31, 19:47 UTC (Aries) - Tuesday, September 1, 08:01 UTC (Taurus)

12 hours, 14 minutes

Retrograde/Direct/Erc.

Transiting Mercury begins August in its post-retrograde shadow; it has its greatest western elongation on Sunday, August 2; and it exits this retrograde zone on Friday, August 7. The “superior conjunction” (halfway point of the Mercury-Sun cycle) occurs on Thursday, August 27.

Transiting Venus has its greatest eastern elongation on Saturday, August 15; and enters its pre-retrograde shadow on Monday, August 31.

Transiting Pallas begins August in its pre-retrograde shadow; it stations retrograde on Friday, August 14, and remains retrograde for the rest of the month.

Transiting Vesta begins August in its pre-retrograde shadow; it stations retrograde on Tuesday, August 25, and remains retrograde for the rest of the month.

Transiting Juno is retrograde all month.

Transiting Saturn is retrograde all month.

Transiting Chiron stations retrograde on Monday, August 3, and remains retrograde all month.

Transiting Neptune is retrograde all month.

Transiting Pluto is retrograde all month.

Transiting Eris is retrograde all month.

Ingresses

Thursday, August 6 - transiting Venus enters Libra

Sunday, August 9 - transiting Mercury enters Leo

Tuesday, August 11 - transiting Mars enters Cancer

Tuesday, August 11 - transiting Juno retrogrades back into Capricorn

Tuesday, August 18 - transiting Mean Nodes enter Aquarius/Leo

Sunday, August 23 - transiting Sun enters Virgo

Tuesday, August 25 - transiting Mercury enters Virgo

Opportunity Period

Thursday, August 20, 19:33 UTC - Saturday, August 22, 20:59 UTC. “A long, versatile OP suitable for work or play, but be open to changes, as we are between eclipses.”

(Yes, just one. Surprised to see there are any at all, since it’s eclipse season.)

Et Cetera

The Leo Cross-Quarter Day (when the Sun reaches 15°00’00” Leo) is on Friday, August 7, at 11:43 UTC.

It’s not only eclipse season, but there are so many retrograde things going on - we all know the drill by now. Ground and center; hydrate; take your vitamins; eat your fruit and vegetables. (Though thanks to all the cycloporiasis in the US, we may want to opt for the frozen varieties for a while.)

[cosmichorrorbarbie]

everyone be niceys to him or she’ll blow this whole antarctica up

[echointhewindwind]

Being an Eridian scientist has to be so funny. You train your entire life as a biologist, becoming specialized in your field, probably giving lectures or educational speeches to other Eridians, and then the star savior Rocky comes home with his weird pet dog. Your job is now to cultivate food so the weird dog who is the age of average baby doesn’t die. The dog also saved the stars. Your job is making dog food out of the dog. You also learn that you and the dog have the same job. You are the happiest scientist on Erid.

[cheeseanonioncrisps]

The dog knows more about how the universe works than anybody else on your planet. The dog understands how relativity works and how the universe began. The dog has access to complex machines that can store and process massive amounts of information, launching your society into a new age of scientific and technological advancement.

You later find out that these machines were originally invented because the dog's species has a memory like a sieve and struggles with primary school level maths.

[danatron1]

Hi real quick does anyone have the cat gif that goes like this

[sir-josh-of-art-deactivated2024]

Found and saved one from this very hellsite:

[virtuevistavalley]

You're lying to me. That's a squid

[dailycatsblog]

[file13thetrashcan]

Does he have anything going on in his head? All signs point to “no”.

Definitely wasn’t listening to the Crane Wives at some point, not at all, and you can’t prove anything.

This was mostly an excuse to try out a new coloring style

[whencartoonsruletheworld]

hearing anything about the nolan odyssey is so funny. it's like "they cut the extremely important and infamous nobody scene" "the cyclops is a giant puppet that they put in an actual historical cave + gave circe animatronics for her pig transformation instead of cgi" "they dumped plastic skeletons in an environmentally protected location they were not supposed to be in" "they recreated ancient greek instruments in order to have an accurate score" "all of odysseus's agency is basically gone" "anne hathaway actually learned how to weave ancient looms" "the women in this movie are treated like shit" "they actually buried actors alive to get those underworld shots" "did you see what the fuck zendaya was fucking wearing holy shit you can't DO THAT, MA'AM" "what do you mean there was a legitimate epic the musical reference" "NOT A SINGLE FUCKING GREEK WAS CAST IN THIS MOVIE"

like did nolan have two guys standing at his side at all times whispering ideas in his ear and one told the truth and the other told lies and they didnt tell him which was which until they wrapped production cause

[bruzum]

[thememedaddy]

[ekjohnston]

My doctor recommended not checking my phone before 10 (I wake up at 7), because of how cortisol production works and affects your body. I rarely manage it, but it's nice to know there's a medical possibility that doesn't involve ignoring things or being in denial.

[ambidisastrous]

People who work within a system: okay so studies show that the normal system works 90% of the time, but because it’s very bad when it doesn’t work, we’ve set up a process to manage those outliers. We need six well-trained workers to run the system 100% of the time without any serious incidents.

CEOs and politicians, every time: Well i just saw it go right twice in a row which means the normal system which you say works 90% of the time actually works 100% of the time. We’re cutting the team down to one person pulling 18 hour shifts without breaks

[charyou-tree]

People who have become convinced the system can never work: Lets destroy the system, and fire everyone involved with it. Clearly having it fail 100% of the time because it doesn't exist is better than having it fail 10% of the time while helping 90% of people. Those people who suffer because the system isn't there to help them are a cost of The Revolution.

[fuckthisshit-ugh]

please read this even if you're not indian. especially if you're not indian.

you've seen the jokes. india is "dirty", indians are "everywhere", why don't they fix their own country. ok. let me tell you why, and what's happening right now while nobody's watching.

first, the history you skipped: britain ruled india for two centuries and drained it. economist utsa patnaik's research estimates around $45 trillion in today's money was taken. the india that got independence in 1947 was one of the poorest countries on earth. every "why is india like this" question starts there. you don't get to profit off a robbery and then mock the crime scene.

now, what's happening RIGHT NOW:

in may the question paper for NEET leaked. that's the national medical entrance exam. over 2.2 million students took it. cancelled. years of studying, families' savings poured into coaching, gone overnight because someone sold the paper. students died by suicide after. these were kids who wanted to be doctors.

and out of that came a protest movement. a gen z group called the cockroach janta party, started by a 30 year old named abhijeet dipke, got 22 million instagram followers within DAYS. they've been doing a sit-in at jantar mantar in delhi demanding education minister dharmendra pradhan resign.

and then there's sonam wangchuk. if you've watched 3 idiots, he's the real engineer the character was based on. built solar schools in ladakh. invented ice stupas so himalayan villages have water. spent his whole life on education. he's 59 and he's been on hunger strike for 17+ days now. reporters went to see him this week and he was too weak to talk. and the troll armies are calling him "anti national" and "foreign funded". a man starving himself for other people's children. that's the thing here, anyone who asks a question is suddenly a traitor.

it's not one incident, it's everywhere you look:

• infrastructure worth thousands of crores failing within months of the ribbon cutting. tunnels collapsing in regions where heavy rain is a guarantee, not a surprise.

• youth unemployment near 10% for ages 15 to 29, 13.6% in cities. in a country of 1.42 billion where more than half the population is young.

• only about the top 3% of indians earn above 10 lakh a year. meanwhile billionaire wealth keeps ballooning and the headlines celebrate it.

• manipur burned for over two years. an ethnic conflict, tens of thousands displaced, and the prime minister barely said the word manipur while it happened.

• journalists raided. critics' houses bulldozed. activists sitting in jail for years without trial under laws like UAPA. our press freedom ranking has cratered.

• even the petrol is a fight now, ethanol blending pushed through while drivers complain about their engines and get no straight answers.

and through all of it, the PM, who came to power on religious polarisation (americans, sound familiar?), travels abroad for photo ops and has not held one single open press conference in over a decade. not one.

what i'm asking:

if you're not indian: share this. our media mostly won't cover any of it because the big outlets are owned by the same billionaires the government serves. the only reason wangchuk's fast is getting any coverage is people refusing to look away.

if you ARE indian: speak up even if you're comfortable. especially if you're comfortable. join the protests. add to this, correct me, translate it. staying quiet is a choice when nothing in this post touches your life.

india is not "dirty". india was robbed, and it's being robbed again, from the inside this time. but it's also the country where a 59 year old will starve for strangers' kids and 22 million young people will rally behind a party literally named after cockroaches, because cockroaches survive everything.

we can still save her. but only loudly.

reblog. share. don't scroll past.

[charlesoberonn]

It's far too late but I really wish we stopped calling generative AI "AI" because it's just not Artificial Intelligence.

It's like if we called drums "sonic booms" because they make a loud sound.

[charlesoberonn]

It's like if we called all carbonation foam "lava" because of baking soda volcanos.

It's like if we called cars "spaceships" because a car salesman once lied about their product being capable of space travel

It's like if we called vitamin supplements "cancer cures" because some people mistakenly believe they cure cancer

[sentimentalslut]

trying to explain to tumblr that the Middle Class in not their enemy

[sentimentalslut]

saw someone say that someone complaining about only having 7k in savings makes them contemplate “doing something bad”

you know that 7k covers like. one hospital visit WITH insurance, right?

[sentimentalslut]

“people who make six figures shouldn’t be allowed to complain —“ most people who make six figures are, these days, solidly middle class. where i live, a combined household income of $110k is *lower middle class*.

“people who can afford homes —“ are typically 400-600k in debt for them. also if “can own your own home” is your threshold for the rich you are contemplating eating, i think you are genuinely stupid

“boohoo your investments dropped, stop complaining rich boy” idk how to tell you this but. most of us have a retirement account. you should probably open one

[dirt-mann]

[ruhaniya]

[gallusrostromegalus]

A cat is a machine that turns proteins into violence.

[starathsbunker]

#Helios was declawed by his former owners so he doesn't just slap things he dislikes like most cats#he really only feels confident in hissing at them#Especially because a lot of the thing he doesn't like are bugs and those are sharp sometimes :(#Selene has figured this out and now when she hears him hiss she sprints over the kill the fuck out of the bug#Helios has learned she will do this so he'll hiss at stuff louder and louder until she hears him#A nervous old man and his emotional support homicidal maniac tags by @gallusrostromegalus

I couldn't reblog without the tags because the context is hilarious

[gallusrostromegalus]

A Nervous Old Man (right) and his Emotional Support Violence Machine (Left)

Yes, he is more than twice her size. Yes, he is five times her age. Yes, he cries like a big baby until she kills Unacceptable Scary Things (earwigs) for him.

[cm8x-insanity]

I couldn't get these two and their dynamic out of my head, @gallusrostromegalus I doodled them (guessed on their collars)

[gallusrostromegalus]

OH MY GOD MY CATS HAVE FANART

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

so what you're gonna do is you're gonna trim the top off a bulb of garlic, using the knife's edge to take off the tip of every individual clove, that's important. you're gonna place the garlic face-up in a square of tinfoil, drizzle with olive oil, wrap completely in foil, place in baking tray, repeat with a copious amount of garlic bulbs. you're gonna put that baking tray in an oven set to 375-400°F, for 30-50 minutes, until soft and browned. you're gonna toast some good bread, slather generously with butter and honey, maybe a tiny lil bit o' salt. and then. you're gonna SQUEEZE. OUT. THAT. ROASTED GARLIC. onto the butter honey toast. and you're gonna eat it. food stolen directly from the plate of the gods. that's what you're gonna do.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

the garlic. it beckons you

[thesweetestsupervillains]

It occurs to me that "1920s gangster doing a cooking show while holding you at gunpoint" is an untapped market.

We've had normal cooking shows. Now we need period piece cooking shows in character.

[lizzystuffsthings]

I would watch 14 seasons of this!

[akindplace]

I had a hard time growing up. I’ve met people who were bad for me - but were not evil. They were dysfunctional people who did terrible things that marked me in more ways than I’d like to admit. I know this pain has changed me and I’m not even sure it’s for the better. And that made me feel so hopeless about myself for years. But there is one thing that kept me going when I felt like giving up, and that was love.

Being loved changed me as a person, even more so than my trauma. Whenever I see old pictures of me, I feel love for her. Looking at a beautiful sunset knowing most people will see it and think about its magnificence, I feel love for being alive. Loving others and being loved changed me, surely, for the better. And maybe that’s good enough as a life’s purpose. It allows me to have hope.

Love makes me think that everyone can be helped when they are encouraged and validated and seen for who they are. People are capable of doing terrible things with their hatred but also capable of making positive changes when they act with compassion. Love has changed me in so many ways, and it was for the best, though it doesn’t erase the past, it gives me hope for a better future.

And if you don’t have a relationship with anyone in your family, remember that people find families in their friends. And they will love you. And you left a bad romantic relationship and are afraid of never being loved in this way again, don’t give up. Talk to your friends, their love is just as important. Someone else might come around later, and you will feel that romantic love again.

I’m not saying that someone’s love will immediately heal every hurt you ever felt, and that you should look for someone only to fix you, because that’s not a healthy way to be loved. I’m saying that love encourages you to grow, to look inward and see what needs to heal, to look at yourself with a little more kindness, to let go of the past to the best of our abilities. We change when we are loved, often because our loved ones make us feel stable, more confident, and they know how to keep encouraging us when we worry about our own capacities. They nurture the change in us.

While writing this post, the poem “Invitation” by Mary Oliver came to mind: “believe us, they say, / it is a serious thing / just to be alive / on this fresh morning / in the broken world. / I beg of you, / do not walk by / without pausing / to attend to this / rather ridiculous performance. / It could mean something. / It could mean everything. / It could be what Rilke meant, when he wrote: / You must change your life.”