#aspecting

[toontowncreepypasta]

when classpecting for ocs or bloodswaps, or frankly just understanding a canon characters classpect, here’s some tips:

1) what are the traits they share with everyone else in that aspect? if they’re a void player what do they share in common with equius, horrus and roxy? if there isn’t anything they share in common with those three, they might not be a void player. it doesn’t matter what traits they are, but they should be comparable in SOME way.

2) what are the traits they share with everyone else in that class? same idea! if they’re a knight what exactly do they share in common with dave, karkat and latula? this is the easier question, classes tend to be easier organized because classes solely focus on what you bring to the table, what your role is in the session, and what your role is in the general story.

3) how can i incorporate this into minor personality traits? think about dave and his time aspect and his vaguely mentioned fetus jars. john and his breath aspect and his instant change of pester handle and his general distaste towards his dads affection. roses light aspect and her obsession with psychology. jade and her space aspect and her growing her own crops. these are all things related to their aspects that were in play before they ever even knew about godtiers! this is HIGHLY IMPORTANT for understanding their relationship to their aspect!!

[astrologysh]

sun trine moon

balanced personality. many people with this aspect are personally popular, likely because they expect harmony in the relationships; these people are generally very attracted to relationships and are attractive to others; their relaxed, easygoing disposition puts others at ease.

emma watson • harry styles • adam levine • lucy hale

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In Which the Priest Answers the Inquisitive Child

Yes indeed, it was I in the mask and the paint last night; that's no secret. Everyone knows it.

But the god was there also.

Read more...

[shadowsofthemind]

Being around 7 people aspecting as Gods you worship, in a tiny hallway, by yourself, is probably the most intense energy I've ever experienced. It's both exciting, and terrifying.

[horostones-blog]

We are among the first peoples in human history who do not broadly inherit religious identity as a given, a matter of kin and tribe, like hair color and hometown. But the very fluidity of this—the possibility of choice that arises, the ability to craft and discern one’s own spiritual bearings—is not leading to the decline of spiritual life but its revival

Krista Tippet

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Heart and Mind Aspect Breakdown

WARNING: I talk about the Self in this breakdown, if you are disturbed by derealization or the question of your experience being fake or otherwise not as it seems, I would not advise reading. Sorry, and thank you. Don't worry, you're perfectly real I promise. *Kisses you on your forehead.* Mwah.

A few weeks ago I made a full aspect breakdown, where I went through each of the Homestuck aspects and wrote a little bit about them. Since then I've thought a lot about aspects. I cant stop. Every time I blink I see the aspect wheel.

But this insanity might yield some more aspect wisdom. So, here's my Heart and Mind.

Heart was particularly hard for me to grasp for a bit, and that's just because I was focusing on it's relationship to Time and Rage, and seeing it as some kind of weird thing about the Self. But, I should've been focusing on it's relationship to Mind, and it being some kind of weird thing about perspective, and how perspective influences actions.

Mind is the aspect opposite to Heart on the wheel. It represents viewing the world through an objective, logical lens. It draws from Light, and uses the objective information to make objectively relevant decisions.

Obviously, I should've taken my understanding of Mind and flipped it so I could see Heart. Heart sees the world through a subjective, inner understanding of things. It draws from Void, and uses irrelevant information that can't be understood to make decisions.

Mind says that the pepper has chemicals inside that will cause a burning sensation, so we shouldn't eat it.

Heart says that the pepper tastes hot, and interesting, and it hurts in a good way.

Notice that neither of these perspectives are wrong. It's all just a take on the human experience of how we understand things. Sometimes we think with our Minds, and sometimes we think with our Hearts. Both are equally valid ways to view and take action on what we see. Simple, heard it again and again all the time. Can't believe I ever didn't understand Heart.

[WARNING: DEREALIZING SECTION BEGINS BELOW]

But hold the fuck on. Is that really all? What about the previous take about Heart being character traits and personality? Yes, yes, that hasn't gone away. I'll talk about how these things all go together, including Mind's opposite take.

Heart sees things through the lens of Void, which represents mystery and secrets. Void is everything you won't ever know in your lifetime. Everything you don't perceive. Like, for example, who you are. It's quite hard to perceive your Self. Your Ego. Do you know who is reading this? Is it actually [your name]? Or is this body, this name you've got, a room that houses a real you? A lot of individuals feel this is true, that your body and name are only external things that house and label something that has no name, and no body. Or, perhaps just a different set of names and bodies. The only objective thing is what you feel is true about yourself. Are you a boy? A girl? Do you feel like one? Both maybe? Do you even feel like you have a gender? It's all about your personal view, which doesn't come from anywhere external. It comes from Void. What you think you are behind this shell of flesh and persona is your best guess. You find out by asking yourself questions, and the answers come from... Nowhere. Irrelevancy. It's a secret. Heart's relationship to Time is why it's so introspective. Time is the aspect of the Self, the being, the experience of beginning and ending. It's about ME, ME, ME. I'm here, I'm experiencing, I'm feeling. Heart's relationship to Rage gives it it's action. Rage is the aspect of waking up to the truth. It takes the fact of Light and Void, that there is objectivity and subjectivity, and confusion and clarity. But Rage spends too long looking at one, and gets mad when it finds out that the other exists. Rage lends to Heart the ability to see that your body is not who you are. You are who you are, and who you are is an important part of this world and your experience, so you should take action for what you believe in. "Find the truth about your Self," it says. [DEREALIZING SECTION ENDS HERE] Mind sees objectively, through Light. It takes note of Void, it says, "sure, that's there, but what's here?" It takes an interest in objective things, things it can see and feel and know for a positive fact without much introspection. It's sacrificing the acknowledgement of who's in the room in favor of finding out what the room is, and what's outside of the room. Notice how I said "sacrificing". Sacrifice is a theme of Space, which is where Mind got the idea of sacrificing trying to look into the unknowns, the Void. It does so in favor of the available information that you do know about, the Light. Light is everything you CAN see, everything you will know in your lifetime. Mind, like Heart, draws from another nearby source. Heart draws Rage for the source of it's action. Mind draws Hope. Mind is looking at Light, and looking for the best ways to achieve the ideal, the Hope. Ideals are somewhat of an unknown, which is Hope's relationship to Void. Hope is ideal due to it's relationship to Light, Light being the aspect of “the best” and most “correct” outcome. In my All Aspects Breakdown, I said that Hope is so weird because it COULD be true, and it would be sweet if it was. Mind says, "Okay, if it really can be true somehow, I'll try to find the best path towards getting it." This is displaying Mind's relationship to Life. See this shit? See how it all connects? How high do you even have to BE to think of this shit Andrew Hussie? HOW? So, anyway, if you have any insight into aspects and stuff, I've turned my asks and comments on I think, so you can give me your wisdom on the topic. Thank you for reading! I hope to do more of these in the future, if the inner need arises and I've been on a particularly wild psychologic bender.

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Shifted Cardinal Aspects - A Theory?

If you don't know, the cardinal aspects in canon are just the topmost and sidemost aspects on the wheel. I'm starting up a fansession where the aspect wheel is shifted clockwise so that Light and Void and Hope and Rage are the new cardinal aspects. The point of this is to shift the powers so that I have something to hone my focus on.

So, aspect wheel is cardinally shifted. The cardinal aspects now are:

Void = Light (was. Space = Time) Hope = Rage (Breath = Blood)

Or,

Hope, Light, Rage, Void (Breath, Time, Blood, Space)

It seems that I MUST always relate my theories to homestuck canon(which makes perfect sense), though in my honest and serious observations I can see I've completely lost the fucking plot of the whole comic. Homestuck made me feel like opening my eyes and truly being INTO something for like. The first time in my life. Like, yes, I still know the comic, I've read it through multiple times, each time taking a fine look. And I hate what Hussie did to it. TBF, he was probably in a very strange place when he put this all together. But thank you Hussie, for showing us your "ironically good webcomic." It actually touched me, in ways nobody understands. But I have found this new dimension of the plot. And lost my mind. This knowledge, this insight, could possibly prove useful for once though.

The sessions in homestuck were twin, for few other reasons than that Hussie probably read some books with some big names on them. Jung and Campbell for example. Beyond the threshold(entry into sburb) there will be guardians, helpers, and mentors. In the comic, the two races are at odds and obscured from each other. Reading it was like reading an instructional manual on how to puke. That was because they are also, due to it literally being their pre-ordained fate, chronologically moving in opposite directions. The trolls arrive at the kids session pretty much right after having to future-past mouthfuck themselves in individual separate time zones on the meteor. Future selves informing the past selves, and the past selves being no more prepared to make a difference in how it all panned out in the end says the same thing about time as it usually does in homestuck. Needlessly complex 10th dimensional nonsense. Time is all about events, and Time was what Aradia had given the trolls when she took the hit for all the other trolls to scram, only for her to come back after death having transcended. Then they busted out the other side of the scratch into the universe they created. Karkat seems convinced he makes them Bound to his misfortune, despite actually being the only leader among them to succeed in uniting them all, pretty much AT all. John is just inverse. He IS the Hero of Journeys, whereas Karkat is the Hero of Unity(*). The Heir to Plot Progression, to be the god that became this force that pushes things toward the place they're going to be. The wind blows the way it is meant to go. No-place-else. John just controls that wind, thus justifying the depiction of his powers. John is also a leader-non-leader. He isn't the leader, he will take no such responsibility, meanwhile Karkat begged to be the Leader. But they both will lead, they will do the work, they will ultimately be the force necessary to save the session and everyone. I think because Breath and Blood were the difference between leaders, lives, species, relationships, and all such matters, and they made the depiction of those two worlds look and act and feel the way they did, WE can flip it a few degrees clockwise and achieve a method.

So, whoever is closest to Hope and Rage on the aspect wheel will then save or harm the session. One being the Hope, another being the Rage. One for the Optimism of Prospit, another for the Skepticism and Drudgery of Derse. These heroes are going to either make it through with (hope) or break through with (rage), and at the end of the tunnel they're passing through is a blinding (light). The only thing they have to protect themselves and proceed? Nothing. (void). They have not a damn thing. But. Perhaps. Thats the only thing you've needed all along. A solution in the void.

Our heroes of Light and Void or those closest to them will be the heroes keeping shit afloat. These guys are on the latitude of the graph, they're the line of increase/decrease(passive/active*). When you don't have an even balance of light and void, its either too bright or too dark. However, we're up against a tyrant of Light, using it with unmatchable strength and influence. Caliborn becomes Lord English because he killed his sister, even though he shouldn't have and he knows it. But, even as the Lord of Time he was not victorious at the end of the story. His sister, the Muse of Space, only wins when she loses. By dying, and by existing, inspires a timeline where she kills her brother and plays the doomed session, makes a deal with the mother of all monsters that ends with… Stopping. Lord English. It is unknown what happens after the trolls and kids escape into the new universe but. Yeah. There we go.