（ ♡ ） angelkin / divinekin tips that aren’t just « wear flowy dresses » and ritualized domesticity.
- - - disclaimer :: this is what works 444 me & my divine self-concept. if it does not align with your tastes, aesthetic sensibilities, or general tolerance for angelic theatrics, that is entirely expected.
— send emails !! write letters !! leave anonymous asks !! if your nature is that of a messanger, let your voice travel where your body cannot.
— study angelology across dispersed theological & esoteric systems. learning how divinity is structured across cultures, can in turn clarify your own noemata !!
— construct a shrine. it may be physical or digital. consider:
• what form could embody your presence ? (statue, effigy, framed likeness, abstract symbol) you can also make a statue out of clay.
• what sigil might function as your invocation mark ? make one !!
• what crystals correspond to you ?
• what plant/flower correspond to you ?
• what herbs correspond to you ?
• what incense/scent/oil feels like your atmospheric signature ?
• what candle colour corresponds to you ?
• what are acceptable offerings at your altar ? (dancing, singing, your favorite silly drink…)
• now, what offering would you reject ?hmm ???
• what ritual would petition your attention ? & conversely, how would you respond ?
• compose a prayer in your name !!
— engage with resonant frequencies such as 999 Hz or 1111 Hz, often framed as angelic harmonics. whether symbolic or perceptual, they function as auditory liminal spaces.
— DO BACKSTRETCHES !!111!!!111!!!! if you are of the angelic temperament, then the spine becomes a sacred column. loosen what has been carried too long. let the body remember it was not made only for endurance.
— try ancient methods of scribing if it calls to you. medieval scribal methods hold particular allure to me. you can age parchment with tea or coffee. vellum-making exists too, if you don’t mind the smell.
— if protective instinct is intrinsic to your nature, direct it at your favorite person with consent & clarity. being someone’s guardian angel, when offered freely, becomes a form of devotion rather than possession.
— seek elevation, both literal and perceptual. rooftops can serve as vantage points for contemplation. but stay safe please !!! height is meaningful only when it does not erase grounding.
— if your angelic identity is rooted in divine machinery rather than religion, cultivate technical literacy. learn systems of computation, networks, and code as one would once learn scripture.
that’s all for now, loves ♡ feel free 222 reblog this w/ more ideas !! — rem 🏹͙🪽⋆˙⟡
A noema (pronounced noh-EE-mə or noh-AY-mə, plural noemata) is intrinsic knowledge about one's kintype, hearttype, or other alterhuman ident
A noema (pronounced noh-EE-mə or noh-AY-mə, plural noemata) is intrinsic knowledge about one's kintype, hearttype, or other alterhuman identity. Noemata may include memories, things one experiences as memories but which are not believed to be real memories, gut feelings, and general knowledge about the looks, life, or habits of one's alterhuman identity. Noemata may have a psychological or spiritual basis, may be a mix of the two, or may have unknown origins.
As noemata are intrinsic knowledge, knowledge from external sources such as books, films, and games are not noemata.
What sorts of noemata do you experience? Where do they come from? Do you associate them with a past life or something else?
We predicted political upheaval in America in the 2020s. This is why it’s here and what we can do to temper it.
You might hear some people ask, “How could we have known what was going to happen to American politics 5 years ago?” And you can answer them by pointing them to this article / paper, published in 2020 by NOEMA. The article elaborates on research performed in the 1990s that identified social and political trends pointing to serious upheaval due to political populism and the historical tendency for the wealthiest members of a society to turn away from a society that is as good as it can be for most or all people and to, instead, move toward an oligarchy that favors themselves and their children at the expense of everyone else. It’s a really good read.
An excerpt:
Almost three decades ago, one of us, Jack Goldstone, published a simple model to determine a country’s vulnerability to political crisis. The model was based on how population changes shifted state, elite and popular behavior. Goldstone argued that, according to this Demographic-Structural Theory, in the 21st century, America was likely to get a populist, America-first leader who would sow a whirlwind of conflict.
Then ten years ago, the other of us, Peter Turchin, applied Goldstone’s model to U.S. history, using current data. What emerged was alarming: The U.S. was heading toward the highest level of vulnerability to political crisis seen in this country in over a hundred years. Even before Trump was elected, Turchin published his prediction that the U.S. was headed for the “Turbulent Twenties,” forecasting a period of growing instability in the United States and western Europe.
Given the Black Lives Matter protests and cascading clashes between competing armed factions in cities across the United States, from Portland, Oregon to Kenosha, Wisconsin, we are already well on our way there. But worse likely lies ahead.
Our model is based on the fact that across history, what creates the risk of political instability is the behavior of elites, who all too often react to long-term increases in population by committing three cardinal sins. First, faced with a surge of labor that dampens growth in wages and productivity, elites seek to take a larger portion of economic gains for themselves, driving up inequality. Second, facing greater competition for elite wealth and status, they tighten up the path to mobility to favor themselves and their progeny. For example, in an increasingly meritocratic society, elites could keep places at top universities limited and raise the entry requirements and costs in ways that favor the children of those who had already succeeded.
Third, anxious to hold on to their rising fortunes, they do all they can to resist taxation of their wealth and profits, even if that means starving the government of needed revenues, leading to decaying infrastructure, declining public services and fast-rising government debts.
Such selfish elites lead the way to revolutions. They create simmering conditions of greater inequality and declining effectiveness of, and respect for, government. But their actions alone are not sufficient. Urbanization and greater education are needed to create concentrations of aware and organized groups in the populace who can mobilize and act for change.
Top leadership matters. Leaders who aim to be inclusive and solve national problems can manage conflicts and defer a crisis. However, leaders who seek to benefit from and fan political divisions bring the final crisis closer. Typically, tensions build between elites who back a leader seeking to preserve their privileges and reforming elites who seek to rally popular support for major changes to bring a more open and inclusive social order. Each side works to paint the other as a fatal threat to society, creating such deep polarization that little of value can be accomplished, and problems grow worse until a crisis comes along that explodes the fragile social order.
I don’t really get much exomemories. Not from other lives at least. Depends on when and how you or I count lucid dream world, it’d be a toss up for me to call all of them exomemories, but I also wouldn’t say some of them aren’t. It gets fuzzy at time whether it truly is just made up chaos from mind, or if it has been a view into a different world. Sometimes they felt like that.
The dream I talked about last day has a bit of element of exomemories in there. How much? I do not know.
Other moments where I have exomemories are from vision. This was me doing a group guided mediation, and I sort of fell asleep, but then.
Thunder booming, flashing, the storm raging. The sky is dark, and the ocean is wailing. Peeking through the clouds, a sliver of form, a white dragon darting in and out of the storm clouds.
I don’t actually know if it was indeed my kardiatype, but there is a inkling of it being true, so I’d like to think so. And based on that, I do think they have a storm based power. Just like your typical generic east asian dragon. (You can see I have a lot of gripe of my kardiatype being seen as Haku)
You can say the rest of the thing I figured or theorized are based off of the exomemories, I would call some of them noemata, even if a bit wobbly. Because how am I sure my kardiatype was a prince of the ocean? To be honest, I’m not certain either. Sometimes there are just things we don’t or can’t know about our identitype, and that’s okay, their significance and for the identification ones, our self identifications, do not diminish just because we end up having created element within. After all, the phrase “to make memories” is not just a metaphor. You are “living, doing, creating, experiencing.”[1]
Talk about created memories vs exomemories. I also had a flash of vision with my hearttype that confused me to no end, because while it is a possible headcanon of mine, my mind was no where near thinking of a headcanon to even get there.
Laughter. A kid with bright blond hair running towards a village, a house. A pair of eldery couple came out to greet the young child.
I know that’s not Konoha. And I know that kid is me/not-me/Naruto.
It’s really interesting how I can remember it so clearly, compare to my dream memories that are faded at the edge, blurry. I think that’s why I see that as a exomemories. There’s too much other sensation, the sight clear, the sound loud, and maybe scent? You also see I had momentary confusion between the self pronoun there. That was the spark for me to ponder if it may be a kardiatype that was later disregarded, as while important to me, my Naruto hearttype wasn’t a foundational building block of who I am. I also don’t know if Kurama was with that Naruto. But here is where noemata comes in.
I have a lot, and a lot of noemata. Things I just know in my gut. Maybe for my fictomere they are influenced by the source material as well as fandom interpretation. But still. Headcanon and imagined story in my head had this ethereal feeling, like they are not all there, much more pliable, but also more distant from me.
My Naruto hearttype has a Kurama with him. And has a far strong tie to Uzushio. I don’t know if Uzushio was around, maybe that’s why that little bit of exomemory, that Naruto wasn’t in any place recognizable. It look like a random village, all wood hut. Maybe those are Uzushio people.
I think that is true.
A lot of the times, noemata just pops out of nowhere. Or sometimes, I ask questions, and something within me will answer. And I will know. It is why when I assist others in self discovery, I will ask questions, and the “no”’s and “maybe”’s are just as valuable as “yes”’s.
Sometimes you don’t even have to ask questions, something external will trigger and you had that lightbulb turning on moment. Like how I realized that three-tailed kitsune is specific is my Naruto hearttype’s paratype, and how my Aurelion Sol is the 5th concept version that people dub the “unbounded” form. Or that my kardiatype’s guarded village was one that was in ancient Japan, not one of the well known period people likes to talk about.
My own style of self discovery is very lax, “follow the flow” style, however. I got a lot of noemata jumpscare this way.
Like how out of the thousands of pokemon, it was Mew that resonated with me and become a archetrope, instead of say, dragonite or ditto.
Like I somehow figured out I’m not neccessary flying so much that I’m floating. Like how Mew does. Or that I don’t breath any elemental attack. Or the various detail discovery with each and every one of my forms, how the aquatic form have far more different physics than many of my other forms (shark head, sonar receptive ears, quill feather on back though that’s more from phantom shift than pure noemata, turtle flipper though that’s more a empathy moment from playing Ark Survive Evolved and seeing how the magmasaur’s hind leg moves), how I’m just certain that the dream dragon kintype is a present thing, current life thing.
It gets harder and harder to tell if some noemata are purely random, or maybe born from the churning of internal contemplation that always accompanied the discussion on alterhumanity within the community. Like when I figure that I do not eat physical substance, or how I know I as a dragon is a spirit, sort of like youkai and kami, sort of a energy being, sort of a pokemon like creature, a rpg monster.
Regardless of exomemories, noemata that are from random chances or from deliberately triggered knowledge, or created memories or personal “canon”, these are all the breadcrumbs of one’s alterhumanity, all important, all precious.
Been thinking about my Black Iris OCs and decided to make some changes!
First change is that I gave Micah a totally new gf name Noema! New oc, new personality, etc. I wanted to create a different dynamic where she's a morning person, loves being out in the sun and is more forward and teasing, but in private she gets bashful thinking about how Micah reacts to her flirting. They are very much a "He asked for no pickles" kinda dynamic, but he's still an asshole to almost everyone else. She enjoys his reactions and making him nervous where he's unable to make a coherent sentence. Like normally Micah is the type of person where he does not get embarrassed nor does he care how he is perceived. He says and does dumb shit, but the moment she's there, he becomes a bundle of nerves. He likes to imagine how he'll be more forward and take the lead when it comes to her, but in reality, he just freezes up... He'll get better eventually.
Second change is that I gave Gio a different hairstyle, just longer and messier. There's a specific outfit I had in mind that he'd wear, it's like... a jumpsuit but, I haven't drawn it yet lol. Feel like it's fitting to his personality more. Still bubblegum pink prince though!
So I’ve been wondering for A While why the hell dragons have horns. My dragons, I mean, specifically. They’re not a huge display feature (I mean, they’re certainly attractive and it would be weird-looking if you didn’t have them, but they’re not emotive like the crest and wings and thus they’re not enormously important to display afaik), and they’re not shaped right to be very useful for offensive combat.
Until it finally clicked a couple days ago, when discussing with a friend the physics of attacking someone from above in the air (for. reasons), and it occurred to me that they are for combat, defensive combat, against a very specific threat that of course is a threat for flighted creatures - being attacked from above. See, when you attack someone from above, you flare your wings to hit feet-first, because shock absorption has to be a thing - but almost immediately your head comes down to bite at the back of their neck, because that’s the most vulnerable spot probably on the entire body of a dragon. If you can grab high up on the back of the neck between your jaws, it’s going to be all over for your opponent pretty quickly.
Unless, say, your opponent has backwards-facing horns with which to gore you in the eyes, mouth, or general face area (maybe even the throat, if you’re really incautious with it) if you’re too far up their neck.
I think there is a spot where you’d be out of range of the horns but still far enough up the neck to do damage, but it’s a lot harder to hit that way without putting yourself at pretty serious risk (losing an eye is potentially fatal, for a wild dragon) or just biting so far down the neck that you’re not going to do much serious damage. (I mean, it’ll hurt, but the neck gets too thick to snap someone’s spine or crush their carotids with your jaws from behind at a certain point, unless you’re significantly bigger than they are.) The other option is to grab immediately under the base of the skull, too close for the points of the horns to be a threat - but you’d have to get underneath the horns in the first place, which probably means striking with great precision when the head is already arched down at something in front of/beneath them, which is extremely unlikely to happen in single combat. (That, of course, would be an extremely fatal attack; you’ve already won the fight if you can get that hold on someone.)
small update on my maned wolf hearttype/kintype questioning:
last night i hadn’t done any research about maned wolves yet. i had been too busy hyperfixating on other alterhuman things during the day to start looking stuff up, and too tired to think about it as i was getting ready for bed.
as i was absentmindedly watching youtube videos, taking a break from alterhuman stuff, i got the urge to do a deep throaty sound. not really like a howl, but sorta? my head would be in a howl-ish pose, but the sound would be shorter and different. random creature instincts aren’t too out of the ordinary for me, and i don’t know if i’ve had this one before; if so, it would’ve been a while ago.
it occurred to me that this might be a sound maned wolves make, so after my video was finished i looked up some others about maned wolf sounds. and! the first one was of a maned wolf roar-barking! which was very euphoric. i watched a few more videos, which mostly showed them squealing/squeaking. i already do that all the time, stemming from my fox kintypes + autism.
i’m pretty sure i haven’t heard any maned wolf sounds before then. i’ve only seen them in pictures and a 2-second silent video as far as i remember. so my explanations for this roar-bark noema is: 1) i have heard the sound and just don’t remember, 2) simple but enjoyable coincidence, or 3) i subconsciously got the impression that they’d make a sound like that just from looking at them, which my brain then randomly threw at me.
unfortunately this hasn’t helped me much with the actual questioning. i don’t think it’s a kintype tho, if it’s anything at all. the muzzle stands out most — it doesn’t quite fit me. i think it’s too long, or the wrong shape in another way. it feels dysphoric to imagine on myself. however i have seen many red foxes whose muzzles are longer/different than my red fox muzzle, too. maybe the maned wolves in the closer-range videos just happened to have different muzzles than me and i’m applying a face shape to myself that i don’t even need to have.
again, sounds and appearance alone aren’t very helpful, especially this early on.
i may do more research today or tomorrow, but currently i’m a bit burnt out by yesterday’s hyperfixation.
Imagine being me and not being caught up with your source even though this worlds version of you and your source is near identical to your noemata and then you catch up a bit and go "wow that's not like me at all!" so you stop engaging with the source for a bit until someone tells you to go back you need to see this and well I'll be darned if the newest episode isn't actually exactly in tune with your noemata, something you've known for years and years before it got written and produced here.
