[your-astro-mami]

Is 12th house synastry really so horrible? Everything I’ve read about it is so negative snd it’s scaring me, especially because me and girlfriend have a 12th house stellium in Sun, Mercury Mars and Pluto in Scorpio (her planets in my 12th house). Is there something I need to be worried about?

Planets in the other person's 12th House in Synastry can have their positive and negative side (as do all of the others).

The 12th House synastry can show a very invasive relationship, it can show a very personal, intimate connection. In many cases, it may show a telepathic-like connection, strong intuition when it comes to the other person (especially if the Moon or Mercury are in the other person's 12th House). Moon in the other person's 12th House can show incredible intimacy - very strong attachment and awareness of the other person's emotions. Incredible closeness, but it can also feel very unhealthy as you may absorb the other person's energy - both positive and negative. Mercury in the other person's 12th house can show openness about emotions, you may read the other person's mind, as I said, it can feel telepathic at times. On the negative, hiding information, secrecy, lies and manipulation or avoidance of communication is also likely.

The 12th House relationship can make you very naive, very vulnerable, very emotionally open - it can bring out a side of you that may feel very weak, very needy at times. The relationship may also bring out your savior complex (especially if it's Mars in the other person's 12th house - you want to be their hero, their savior). Mars in the other person's 12th house can also make the relationship quite slow - both people might be afraid to act on the relationship, fights or any confrontation might be neglected and it can show a lot of tension that is slowly built up.

If the Sun is in the other person's 12th house, the relationship can make both people aware of a side of themselves they have hidden from others. It can show a very spiritual connection - the Sun person feels like the light in the House person's life, their source of strength and inspiration. But in many cases, it can show a relationship where the Sun person is giving so much without getting anything in return - the House person may absorb their light and not reflect it back.

Venus in the other person's 12th House can show a romance that is very selfless, similarly to the 7th house, but on a more emotional level. You are aware and considerate of the other person, but your relationship may feel like your escape from reality, a place where you live out your fantasies and lose control. It can make a very irresponsible relationship (not towards one another, but moreso of other people in your life). It can also show making promises and plans that cannot be followed through. Sometimes, it can show a slow relationship/a relationship that takes its time because both people might be passive, refuse to take action (whether it's for moving, children, living together, marriage, etc).

Jupiter in the other person's 12th house can show strong spiritual connection, bringing out the other person's faith in themselves, building up their confidence from deep within. It can be a very positive placement really, especially for mental health, troubles with confidence and courage from either side.

Saturn in the other person's 12th house on the other side, can be quite heavy in a synastry. It can show a lot of fear, being afraid of disappointing the other person yet critizing them when they are unable to reach perfection. It can also show an emotionally closed off relationship. Despite that, there is a lot of responsibility for the other person, willingness to improve for them.

Uranus in the other person's 12th house can show a lot of chaos, for the House person it may feel like the Uranus person has come into their life to disrupt their peace - can be in a positive or a negative way. Sometimes they inspire them to be brave, sometimes they just push them to do someting they aren't ready for. Neptune in the other person's 12th House is also a sign of a spiritual connection, but it can make the relaitonship prone to escapism, substance abuse or support of any vices of the other person, lack of control and responsibility that is just heightened in the relationship. It can show a very selfless, sacrifical relationship. Pluto in the other person's 12th House can show willingness to make changes from deep within for the other person. It can also show a relationship where you have a lot of psychological influence on the other person.

[chromaticabrasions]

ohhh im so microwave safe im so fucking microwave safe please put me in the microwave

[runby2]

i smoked cat boy weed

[sonicapproves]

[runby2]

thanks sonic

[wuggen]

Recently discovered, fully by accident, that the trick to feeling like you have more time in the day is to actually do shit with the time that's there, which seems fake and wrong and it's frankly infuriating that it works >:|

[blackwoolncrown]

pretty shitty how baseline human activities like singing, dancing and making art got turned into skills  instead of being seen as behaviors

so now it’s like ‘the point of doing them is to get good at them’ and not ‘this is a thing humans do, the way birds sing and bees make hives’.

[sonateharder]

I know I’ve posted this before, but it bears repeating.

This is a thing humans do; you don’t have to be good at it to enjoy it.

[smoqueen-deactivated20251108]

count dracula? uhh, 1 lol

[noahnomore]

[captain-price-official]

You mean Mexico isn’t naturally sepia?

[boppinrobin]

american directors: the sun just hits different

[albaricoquess-deactivated202510]

They drag me on Instagram every time

[vxmp4eternal]

LMAOOOOOOO isnt that sad some ppl are like that 😂😂😂😂😂

[whitepeopletwitter]

[possiblynya]

a little autobiographical piece about the internet

[possiblynya]

a little autobiographical piece about the internet

[anxietyproblem]

[ittybittytatertot]

One last time before the decade ends

[twilightown]

CAUSE EVERY TIME WE TOUCH I GET THIS FEELING

EVERY TIME WE KISS I SWEAR I COULD FLY

CAN’T U FEEL MY HEART BEAT FAST, I WANT THIS TO LAST

NEED YOU BY MY SIDE

[the-husbando]

This is the closest gif that can really capture the utter chaotic energy that is released when people hear this song

[condensed-theorem-shop]

One of the most bizarrely cool people I’ve ever met was an oral surgeon who treated me after a ridiculous accident (that’s another story), Dr. Z.

Dr. Z. was, easily, the best and most competent doctor or dentist I’ve ever encountered – and after that accident, I encountered quite a number. He came stunningly highly recommended, had an excellent record, and the most calming bedside manner I’ve ever seen.

That last wasn’t the sweet gentle caretaking sort of manner, which some nurses have but you wouldn’t expect to see in a surgeon. No; when Dr. Z. told me that one of my broken molars was too badly damaged to save, and I (being seventeen and still moderately in shock) broke down crying, he stared at me incredulously and said, in a tone of utter bemusement, “But – I am very good.”

I stopped crying on the spot. In the last twenty-four hours or so of one doctor after another, no one had said anything that reassuring to me. He clearly just knew his own competence so well that the idea of someone being scared anyway was literally incomprehensible to him. What more could I possibly ask for?

(He was right. The procedure was very extended, because the tooth that needed to be removed was in bits, but there was zero pain at any point. And, as he promised, my teeth were so close together that they shifted to fill the gap to where there genuinely is none anymore, it’s just a little easier to floss on that side.)

But Dr. Z.’s insane competence wasn’t just limited to oral surgery.

When I met Dr. Z., he, like most doctors I’ve had, asked me if I was in college, and where, and what I was studying. When I say “math,” most doctors respond with “oh, wow, good for you” or possibly “what do you want to do with that after college?”

Dr. Z. wanted to know what kind of math.

I gave him the thirty-second layman’s summary that I give people who are foolish enough to ask that. He responded with “oh, you mean–” and the correct technical terms. I confirmed that was indeed what I meant (and keep in mind, this was upper-division college math, you don’t take this unless you’re a math major). He asked cogent follow-up questions, and there ensued ten or so minutes of what I’d call “small talk” except for how it was an intensely technical mathematical discussion.

He didn’t, as far as I can tell, have any kind of formal math background. He just … knew stuff.

I was a competitive fencer at this point in time, so when he asked if I had any questions about the surgery that would be necessary, I asked him if I’d be okay to fence while I had my jaw wired shut, or if it would interfere with breathing.

“Fencing?” he said.

“Yes,” I said, “like swordfighting,” because this is another conversation I got to have a lot. (People assume they’ve misheard you, or occasionally they think you mean building fences.)

“Which weapon?”

“Uh. Foil.”

“No, it won’t be safe,” and he went off into an explanation of why.

Turns out, he was also a serious fencer – and, when I mentioned my fencing coach, an old friend of his. (I asked my fencing coach later, and, oh yes, Dr. Z., a good friend of mine, excellent fencer.) (My coach was French. Dr. Z. was Israeli. I never saw Dr. Z. around the club or anything. I have no idea how they knew each other.)

So this was weird enough that later, when I was home, I looked Dr. Z. up on Yelp. His reviews were stellar, of course, but that wasn’t the weird thing.

The weird thing was that the reviews were full of people – professionals in lots of different fields – saying the same thing: I went to Dr. Z. for oral surgery, and he asked me about what I did, and it turned out he knew all about my field and had a competent and educated discussion with me about the obscure technical details of such-and-such.

All sorts of different fields, saying this. Lawyers. Businessmen. Musicians.

As far as I can tell, it’s not that I just happened to be pursuing the two fields he had a serious amateur interest in – he just seemed to be extremely good at literally everything.

I have no explanation for this. Possibly he sold his soul to the devil.

He did a damn good job on my surgery.

[saywhatjessie]

#op your oral surgeon is an immortal

[kyraneko]

Some god is slumming it on Earth with maxed-out stats helping people and his dive bar of choice is oral surgery.

[sodapoplio]

[kai-wildfang]

Can someone from the Pokemon fandom explain this, I don’t understand nurse Joy’s reaction.

[coolsville-ghetto]

Ho-oh is basically a minor deity, so nurse joy pretty much just heard this ten year old say “i threw a rat at a god.”

[camiluna27]

i threw a rat at a god

[logo-comics]

The best part? Pikachu is awake. Pokemon faint upon being defeated.

What Nurse Joy heard was more along the lines of “I threw a mouse at a god and the mouse won.”

[teacupfulofstarshine]

what is a king to a god

what is a god to a ten year old with an electric mouse

[can0n-fodder]

Things corporations make their employees do because they thing customers like it (hint: we don’t)

Things corporations make their employees do because they thing customers like it (hint: we don’t)

1) Verbally greeting every person who enters the store. I swear to God, the poor cashier at my local Dollar General is going to lose her voice. She probably has nightmares that include “Welcome to Dollar General!” 

2) Force them to wear uniforms. All it takes for me to identify an employee is a name badge, or maybe a vest or something. That’s it. My retail purchasing brain will not crumble into righteous offense if your employee isn’t shoved into a hot, uncomfortable poly/cotton polo and gut-cinching khaki pants. There is nothing about that ensemble that creates a “professional work atmosphere.” It’s Wal-mart, buddy. No one is looking for a professional work atmosphere at the place they go to buy toilet paper. 

3) Forcing restaurant employees to take their meals in “the break room”, even when they buy the food from the restaurant they work in. If I see staff eating at one of the open restaurant tables in the corner, you know what I think? Nothing. They’re people eating, just like everyone else in there.  They say expectations can create behavior, so maybe we should step back and wonder if the monster-customer isn’t a creation of the corporate world assuming every customer is a monster and catering to it. 

[awkward-teabag]

I’d like to add:

4) Banning employees from having a water bottle even when they’re stuck at a till or booth and cannot leave to get a drink. If it’s under the counter, I don’t see it (and it’s already a mess under counters as it is, putting a water bottle into that chaos won’t do anything). And if someone takes a drink from one, I don’t even register it because staying hydrated should be seen as normal.

5) Forcing employees to apologize for anything and everything, from stock issues to not carrying items to customers breaking shit. Demanding this from employees just strengthens the idea that retail workers are lesser beings who are never allowed to say no or call out assholes while making customers feel like they’re superior and can do no wrong.

6) Banning employees from talking to each other. As long as they’re aware of things and can drop it to help a customer, what’s the big deal? It’s a way better experience to walk into a place and see the employees talking and laughing than into a place that’s silent outside of the radio where the employees’ eyes are glazed over because they aren’t allowed to have a human connection while on the clock.

[pom-seedss]

7) Forcing employees to stand for their entire shift, even banning leaning against the counter, even when there are no customers. There is nothing unprofessional about sitting.

8) Forcing employees to SIT for their entire shift. (Mainly in call center work I’ve found). Sitting in the same uncomfortable position at the computer for hours on end is not good for anyone, there is no reason why employees shouldn’t be able to stand up and stretch. We’re not toddlers, someone standing to stretch isn’t going to disrupt the entire call center for goodness sakes.

[metapianycist]

i firmly believe that “customers like it” is just a thinly veiled excuse for american corporations’ exerting this level of control over workers. I’m absolutely certain that a no-talking-to-fellow-workers rule is a calculated attempt to prevent workers from unionizing—i believe that it was common in factories 100 years ago to have such a rule, specifically to make worker uprisings more difficult.

[borrowedfeathers]