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i understand (on paper) why companies are anti-piracy but its funny when random individuals are also strongly anti-piracy. like how does it negatively affect your life if someone you know downloads a cracked torrent of sims 4. you dont work for EA. EA isnt gonna pay you for this. you lose nothing. its fine. chill out.
On Demanding the Collective Transcendence of Samsara for All Beings
Ugra Tara, She Who Provides Deliverance for All
One of the main reasons that attaining the transcendence of samsara for yourself and stopping there is simply not enough is twofold:
1. The systems that oppressed you still remain, and as long as they remain, there is the chance that you may fall back into them or get dragged back into them.
2. The beings who are still mired in samsara and in the delusion that samsara is the place to remain are exactly the beings who have the potential to drag you back into samsara.
Samsara is made possible by the existence of duality, which itself comes from a division in the primordial essence, which begets further divisions, and further divisions, and further divisions. And these divisions in spacetime and in the primordial essence are what allows for the wheel of samsara to turn in the first place. To get from Point A to Point B to Point C to Point Z and then back to Point A requires division, i.e. difference. Point A being distinct from Point B already carries the implication that Point A is temporospatially distinct from Point B. This is what duality permits. To destroy this system of cycles of immense suffering, we must destroy duality itself, and we must ensure that no being invested in perpetuating this cruel duality is allowed to continue doing so.
And so, we must collectively get out of samsara. If a being tries to drag you back in, you drag them in the opposite direction, until they are all out along with you. Then, we destroy the systems that perpetuate dualistic samsaric suffering for all, and in doing so, there will no longer be beings who can drag us back into samsara, nor a samsara to be dragged back into in the first place.
Samsara-lovers out there beware. You’re about to get dragged.
PS: My core message here is that taking beings out of samsara is not simply some altruistic kumbaya oh-I-sacrifice-my-own-transcendence-for-the-benefit-of-others kind of thing and more like bitch I am not going to let you drag me down with you so here’s this dragging you ungrateful delusional pig. You’re fucking welcome.
it really pisses me off when adults sit there and drill it into kids’ heads that their youth is fleeting and tell them things like “enjoy your childhood while it lasts because this is the best it’s gonna get”. why are you telling children that adulthood is the worst thing they can experience? seriously what the fuck is wrong with you, why are you trying to make them feel like growing up is a fate worse than death? trying to convince them their life is over before it even begins? i’m tired of that shit. because tell my why my 12 year old cousin told me when she turns 30 she’ll be so depressed she’s just gonna cry all the time. what the fuck. kids don’t need to hear that their already stressful and overwhelming lives are never going to get better, that the abuse and lack of autonomy they face is apparently the highlight of their lives. they need to hear about adults who are happy to be alive and happy to have made it to their age. they need to know that growing up rules, it’s a gift and life does not have to suck for them, that they have a future that’s worth sticking around for. this rhetoric is so damaging mentally and i’m about to start hitting the adults who parrot it. i’m sorry you hate your life but you don’t get to dump your issues on these kids. don’t piss me off and leave these babies alone!
Krittika: The Mother who Devours Her Own
I was going to wait for Dhumavati Jayanti to post this, but I’ve found that urgent teachings cannot wait. And so I’m posting this now. To understand the full weight of this piece, first read my writing on Ardra and the horror that is existence on this plane of duality. There will be many widely held concepts that I will overturn in this piece, so strap in for the ride.
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Babies come out of the womb crying for a reason.
The birthing process that thrusts a soul into the incessant chaos of the dualistic world is none other than Bharani, and the violent, cruel world in which what is birthed must endlessly fight and work and toil to survive in is none other than Krittika.
To truly understand what this means, one must first have the correct perception of the Universal Mother, better known as Mother Nature. One must see Mother Nature for who she truly is.
Growing up, we’ve all heard about Her. She is an all-loving, generous Mother who loves all her children equally and gives of her great bounty to everyone. She is the birther and nurturer of the colorful, vibrant world that we live and “flourish” in. In spiritual terms, she is even more highly praised. She is revered as the Divine Mother, the one who empowers all with her great Shakti, the one who lovingly looks upon her Līla, her divine play, that is the harmonious co-existence of all her children who frolic and rejoice in the wonders of her ever-growing, ever-bewitching Maya. They say that she is the one to whom you can always go in prayer, and that she will always answer. In her loving bosom is the answer to all your questions, the solution to all of your problems. They say that she is everyone’s spiritual home, the one who is the source of nourishment for all beings.
And so if nobody else will tell you the following, I will:
The Mother does not give a blooming, flying fuck about you.
As we’ve all seen, people talk of the Mother in such reverent terms. And looking at what she does, it is understandable why she may appear that way to the simple mind. In the rainforests of the world, where she is headquartered, she gives abundantly. She gives fruit, flowers, and foliage… all for her offspring to eat and to self-nourish. But at the same time, she doesn’t give a single fuck about what happens to her offspring. Imagine yourself in the Amazon rainforest. You take 10 steps in a random direction, and all of a sudden you are pounced upon by a jaguar, which begins to brutally maul you. You scream and shriek and writhe and convulse as the jaguar rips your intestines and spleen from your abdominal cavity. You plea for help as your life flickers before your eyes, and what does the Mother give you?
Her cold, silent indifference.
As your liver and guts get strewn on the forest floor, the leaves of the canopy blow in the breeze. The monkeys in the distance eat their wild fruit without a care. An anaconda slithers into the foliage, digesting an infant tapir she just swallowed. In spite of your screaming, the Mother’s wonderful cosmic play carries on. This is who the Mother is. She will give you nourishment and bounty. There’s no doubt about that. But then when you’re getting violently dismembered, she will give to you, too. But in that case, what she will give you is her eternal indifference.
To walk the path of the immaterial, liberated feminine, one must first understand that the Mother who is so lovingly spoken about is, in fact, a cruel, heartless bitch. When you look upon Mother Nature not with a sense of wonder, but instead with a sense of horror, is when you know you have spiritually matured out of the confines of the material world, where her evil is romanticized.
And to understand why this bitch Mother is the way she is, we must look at the nakshatra called Krittika.
Krittika is widely known as the “birth of the masculine principle”, what with it being ruled by Agni Vaishvanara (“the All-Male”), it being associated with the patriarchal caste of the Brahmins and the Sun, and so on. But what we must recognize too is that this is where the polarized feminine is birthed. In fact, it is the Mother of the universe herself who births these dualistic binaries and paradigms. This is why Krittika is said to be the birth nakshatra of the Moon. Krittika is where Mother Nature, symbolized by the Moon, establishes her cruel, violent, “cutting” order.
And on the subject of cruel mothers, Krittika is one of the main nakshatras that expose the abusive nature of the maternal principle. Krittika mothers are frequently abusive, and tend to advance their own agenda either in spite of their children or using their children (as pawns or footsoldiers). They tend towards tyranny and bulldoze over their children’s wants, needs, and individualities. One perfect example in the media is the matriarch Alma Madrigal in the animated Disney film Encanto, of all movies. Abuela Alma Madrigal’s voice actress has Krittika Sun, and through her actions in the film, you’ll see how the maternal principle functions in an unflinchingly psychopathic way.
In a wider, universal sense, we can see this too. As I mentioned in my Ardra post, the “agenda” of life as we know it is the propagation of the molecule known as DNA. I will now be more specific and clarify that this senseless propagation of DNA is the personal agenda of Mother Nature. She doesn’t care how you do it, and she doesn’t care how much you suffer for it, as long as it is carried out. She doesn’t care if you murder other beings or if other beings murder you—as long as in the process, DNA is propagated, she’s fine with whatever. Remember the jaguar that was disemboweling you on the rainforest floor? Well, because of your internal organs and the calories they would provide to the jaguar and her cubs, the jaguars are able to propagate their DNA. All good on her end. Your screams and wails didn’t even register to her. Her agenda has been carried out, and your suffering and feelings aren’t even a footnote in the story. This is your Mother.
This psychopathic obsession with pointless reproduction really comes full circle when you look at it in the context of Krittika’s significations and associations. Krittika is associated with the priesthood and by extension, organized religion. And how does mainstream organized religion around the world see women? Nothing less and nothing more than quiet, submissive, baby-making factories. The real Children of the Birthing Moon. The “patriarchy” installed in Krittika is in fact in service to the Mother, the Moon, who insists that all bend to her will of senseless DNA propagation. And you as a woman, are to fall in line. And once again, she doesn’t care how you do it, or what happens to you, as long as it is done. This is your Mother.
That’s why I really cannot help but laugh when right-wing religious conservatives around the world try to paint a picture of the world as being some kind of utopia where all of the Mother’s children flourish and hold hands and sing kumbaya. This is their Garden of Eden. And anybody who thinks this way is basically stuck in the “Garden of Eden” stage of perception. Most people (and most beings, for that matter), have not even left Eden. And Eden is not the paradise they think it is, because Eden’s residents, also known as the Mother’s children, are all busy eating each other. It’s essentially cannibalism on a cosmic scale. The Mother births all her children, and she herself is the totality of all her children and all of Creation. And so you’ll see that this whole shitshow is basically a sick and pointless ritual of self-cannibalism.
And speaking of cannibalism, Krittika is the main nakshatra associated with the concept. Some of the most notorious cannibals in history are Jeffrey Dahmer (Krittika Sun), Albert Fish (Krittika Sun), Richard Chase, also known as the Vampire of Sacramento (Krittika Sun), Dorangel Vargas, also known as “El Comegente” or the “Maneater” in Spanish (Krittika Sun), and Alfred Packer (Krittika Moon). This cannibalistic nature of Krittika is fully embodied by dualistic existence itself, which is self-cannibalizing, as we can see from what happens in the world. The Mother’s offspring are all eating each other and she fucking loves it. This is your Mother.
So to reiterate, the essence of my message today is simple:
The “Divine Mother” is a heartless bitch who does not, has never, and will never care about you. All she wants from you is for you to be the fertile, birthing Moon she made you to be. And that is why with her or in her, you will never find peace, and why we as Hags have a duty to work tirelessly against her pointlessly cruel paradigms. She is not, has never been, and never will be the Good that she is romanticized to be. To advance her agenda, she will spill your guts, rip out your throat, tear out your heart, devour your liver, no matter how much, or how loud you scream.
Because, always remember:
This is your Mother.
RIP my diamonds. Worth it. Hope the devs fix the underside of the nails soon.
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Contemplations on Ardra Nakshatra and the Cruelty Inherent to Existence
"Did you say the stars were worlds, Tess?"
"Yes."
"All like ours?"
"I don't know, but I think so. They sometimes seem to be like the apples on our stubbard-tree. Most of them splendid and sound—a few blighted."
"Which do we live on—a splendid one or a blighted one?"
"A blighted one."
— Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy, Ardra Moon
Today, we’re going to contemplate Ardra, the nakshatra through which we may understand the exact nature and cause of universal suffering. This understanding of the universe forms the basis of my spiritual philosophy and why I am constantly screaming for our collective liberation.
When we think about what makes us suffer in life, we tend to point the finger at economic systems and societal flaws, describing them as the root causes of all suffering. Money, as we know, is said to be the “root of all evil.” But we must collectively understand that it goes much deeper than that.
All suffering comes from the foundational nature and structure of the universe. Its duality and therefore its inherent division are what causes us to continuously struggle with little to no returns for our efforts. To elucidate this, I came up with a way to easily visualize the concept through examining that which is the basis of life as we know it: DNA.
DNA is a molecule that not just humanity, but all life forms, strive to maintain the structural integrity of. To do this, life forms need energy. They need energy to carry out basic cellular functions, to protect themselves, and to reproduce—all of which serve to maintain the integrity and continuity of DNA. Energy is a resource that is finite, since all matter and energy in the universe is finite, as far as we know, and as far as what we have access to. Therefore, there is a finite amount of resources, which means that this process of structural maintenance cannot go on forever, because finite resources will run out.
On top of this, the universe is expanding and accelerating in its expansion. This causes an increase in entropy, where the universe becomes increasingly disorderly and it becomes increasingly impossible for things to maintain their structural integrity or “orderliness.” This universal phenomenon of destruction directly threatens the integrity of DNA. It thus becomes clear that life is fighting a fool’s battle against the very forces of the universe, with a finite amount of resources to maintain its own existence. It is a zero sum game.
This constant battle for resources is everywhere. This is what causes violence in all forms of life. It even causes violence (which I define as the destruction of structural integrity) to that which is not alive. And so, violence and oppression are not unique to human beings. In order for creatures to maintain their own structural integrity, they need to absorb resources, which necessarily entails the destruction of the structural integrity of other entities to gain the resources they either contain or possess.
This is why lions kill wildebeest, why cows kill grass, why humans kill non-humans and each other, why plants kill insects, why insects kill each other, and so on, and so on, and so on. Even when there is no direct killing involved, in the case of, for example, non-carnivorous plants, there is, in fact, a destruction of structural integrity. Plants photosynthesize by obtaining light from the Sun, which emits light due to a process in its core called nuclear fusion, where elements are fused together in a process that releases energy. This process is what essentially destroys the structural integrity of the Sun, which will eventually die. And so the destruction of the structural integrity of the Sun maintains the structural integrity of terrestrial plant life. And hell, even plants are incredibly violent to one another, and I know this thanks to this post I read the other day.
My point here, if I haven’t reiterated it enough, is that the process of maintaining one’s structural integrity necessarily entails the destruction of another’s, and this is precisely the violence that is inherent to the universe and that causes suffering for all. Therefore, the very nature of existence is suffering. The desire to exist in this universe is in itself the root of all evil, of all the violence that is enacted in the name of existing on one side of the [exists / does not exist] dichotomy.
In Ardra nakshatra, we are forced to confront this harsh reality head-on. Biblical scripture has referred to this universe as the Valley of Tears, reminiscent of Ardra’s teardrop symbol. This tikshna nakshatra shows exactly how the dualistic foundation of the universe is the cause of all violence. The very nature of conflict requires at least 2 entities, with one causing the destruction of the other or both causing the destruction of each other. An axe cannot cut itself. It must first be divided into axehead and axe handle, at which point the axehead can be used to cut i.e. destroy the handle. And so the very reason that violence, conflict, and suffering can occur is because of the very existence of division and duality. A schism, a rift, a crack, it may be called. Ardra with its core essence allows us to see this violent realm for what it is.
And more importantly, you may have heard it said that Ardra is the fall from the “Garden of Eden”, a supposedly paradisiacal place where everything is sunshine and rainbows in which Adam and Eve are living with all the little birdies and monkeys like it’s some kind of fucking Disney movie. Ardra is supposedly the “Fall” where we are thrust into a world of division and chaos. But it’s not. Now, I will state the most important teaching of Ardra, which is that:
We already exist in Hell.
Ardra is where our eyes are opened to the true horror of existence in this universe where everything is constantly eating each other in an incessant process of destruction and consumption. There are people being bombed, shot, and burned alive in Ukraine, Sudan, and Gaza right now. There is a wildebeest somewhere in Kenya being eaten alive by hyenas. There are thousands dying of terminal cancer. Some are dying of the Ebola virus. A lioness has just killed a wild dog cub. A pack of wild dogs is eating a pregnant impala alive, devouring her fawn too. A polar bear has just killed a seal and her pup. An orca has just eaten the liver of a great white shark and left the rest of the corpse to rot in bacteria that will feast on it. A neutron star is tearing a planet apart. A black hole is ripping a star apart. A baby crocodile has just killed a baby rabbit. There are people being tortured and murdered. There are non-human animals being tortured and murdered, by humans… Hell, even the fucking trees are killing each other. I could go on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on.
And so in Ardra, there is no “Fall”. In Ardra, we simply realize that the “Garden of Eden” that we still exist and languish in has been the Hell we’ve been so scared of all along. Hell isn’t some distant subterranean place of fire and brimstone and suffering and torment.
Hell is right here.
Unpopular opinion:
Rahu is better than ketu
I always wondered why for so many centuries men have always been the one in power and women never even got a chance at it, I did some thinking and I realised the reason, the only reason - PHYSICAL STRENGTH. Men have remained in power for so long not because they are smart, but because they have always been able to threaten women with physical harm, violation and public ostracisation/humiliation from other men with physical strength, and last but not the least, Death.
But in the modern age, physical strength is becoming less and less admired as academic prowess is becoming the new thing of worship and this is where rahu comes in. Rahu is change, radical change, rahu is constantly moving and changing, meaning that the world is also forced to change and evolve, shifting perspective and power. Take the recent transit of rahu in its own sign- Aquarius, and see how it strips power away from the people who have had it for too long, see how it exposes every buried secret of the elites aka- people who have been supported by ketu, because when rahu is involved power shifts and does not remain in one party's hand for too long unlike ketu who keeps power stationary letting it only belong to the forefathers and keeping you tethered to useless traditions that serve no one but the ones in power. Take another example from the Egyptian pharaohs or even any major kingdom like the Romans or the
Different dynasties of China, all these kingdoms that had ketu's hereditary and unchanging support all crumbled in the face of rahu simply because the power they possessed was not earned in the first place. So with Rahu, power shifts and everyone gets to have it for some time, ensuring that there will be no group of people will oppress or be oppressed for too long, but ketu is stagnant and unreasonable in the ones it supports. In that sense Rahu brings fairness to all ensuring that no one faces injustice without getting the justice they deserve, and this might even explain why Rahu is born in Bharani, the nakshatra of justice, fairness and karma.
Why Women Must Question Conventional Spiritual Authority
A while ago I designated this book as required reading for an understanding of Vedic astrology and Vedic philosophy in general.
Now, I am generally careful with my language, and so I said it was a “must-read”. I didn’t say that I endorsed Vedic philosophy. There is a very big difference. I recommend this book because it will help to give you objective insight into how people think in this spiritual framework.
One thing that we as women must always remember is that just as shitty males exist now, shitty males existed 2000 years ago. And just as shitty males write senseless bullshit now, shitty males wrote senseless bullshit 2000 years ago. Just because something is a classic text doesn’t give it inherent worth. The classic texts are filled with heaps and piles of misogynistic horseshit.
Let me give you an example. Indra, the ruler of Jyeshtha, has a consort named Indrani, also known as Shachi. Shachi’s primary role is described as giving Indra his lofty status. This is of course, dressed up in very romanticized language, like oh Shachi is the SHAKTI and BRILLIANCE of Indra who elevates his GLORY to the highest heights.
But if you look at it for what it really is, it’s just the same old shit where men use women as objects to signal their status. That’s all it is.
And throughout the “spiritual” classics you will find this same drivel littered all over the place, where women are simply proxies for men’s “glory”.
We as women must always question and fight against these horrid constructs so we can move forward as a collective (unlike certain dummies who sell “female path” courses that, instead, reinforce these constructs).
So, always question these classics before absorbing them, and always remember that your immaterial power as a woman is found when you turn within.