#perception

[feral-ballad]

Carrie Fountain, from Burn Lake; “Burn Lake 4”

[miamaimania]

René Magritte (1938) ꩜ Glass fragments mirror what they can't contain

[astrologywithclara]

The right people don’t need to be convinced by your presence

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If you have Pluto in the 1st house in your natal chart, it doesn’t make you more or less “beautiful” in a conventional way, it just changes how you’re perceived. People tend to feel something before they actually process what they’re seeing, and that can confuse them a little. There’s nothing to fix in that, it’s just a presence that doesn’t go unnoticed.

Venus–Neptune aspects in your natal chart make your beauty challenging to define, because people don’t just see you, they also project onto you. That’s why you can come across very differently depending on who’s looking. It’s not inconsistency, it’s simply that your image leaves space for other people’s imagination.

If you are a Capricorn rising, you aren't cold, it just takes you a bit more to reveal yourself. Not everything shows right away, so some people might miss it at first. But when someone actually takes the time to look, things start to make more sense.

Your Venus in the 2nd house is more immediate. People tend to recognize your beauty without needing to think about it too much, because it fits more easily into what they already understand as attractive. It doesn’t mean more or less value, just a different kind of readability.

If you have Mercury in the 3rd house, you shift the focus. It might not be your appearance that stands out first, but the way you speak, respond, or move in conversation. And once that happens, people start seeing you differently. It’s a kind of beauty that shows up in interaction.

With Sun in the 5th house in your natal chart, your presence is magnetic and matters more than anything else. You tend to be noticed before people even decide what they think of you. It’s not about specific features, it’s just the way your energy comes through.

Your Moon in the 12th house is harder to read, even for others. There’s always something that stays slightly hidden, so people feel something without fully understanding it. It’s not immediate, but it tends to linger.

If you have Venus–Pluto aspects in your chart, you aren’t "too much". You're just intense. The reactions you get can be strong, sometimes even mixed, but that doesn’t mean there’s anything wrong. Yours is a kind of beauty that isn’t neutral.

If you are a Gemini rising, you aren't static. Your expression shifts, your energy moves, and people often find you more interesting the longer they observe you. It’s not something fixed, it unfolds over time.

Your natal Venus-Saturn aspects don’t take anything away, they just slow things down. You might not be immediately approachable, but what people notice about you tends to stay with them longer.

➵ You don’t have to make sense to everyone, you just need to be seen the right way by the right people. And keep in mind that "beauty is always in the eye of the beholder". 💗

Credits to @saradika-graphics (divider) 💗

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[classycookiexo]

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

An interesting demonstration of how the human brain works.

But also something of a lesson regarding perception, and the unreliability of subjective perspective versus objective reality.

You can be extremely certain about how you perceive the world, your "lived experience," that which you "feel it in my heart." But that doesn't mean it's actually true. And it doesn't mean we have to endorse it, or ignore or outright deny objective reality.

That's a "you" thing, not a "we" thing.

[prunelya]

Si vous pensez que tout se résume à ça… cela révèle surtout vos limites.

[foldingfittedsheets]

My coworker Astrid and I were chatting yesterday. I mentioned that I have this specific moment that I’ve always felt like was my transition from child to sapient being where I suddenly looked at myself and had the epiphany that my appearance mattered to others perception of me and I conceptualized myself as a person. It was really wild and being a His Dark Materials fan I’ve always been like, yeah, that’s when I got Dust and my daemon settled.

Astrid was fascinated and told me she hadn’t had that exactly but she did remember being on this one road trip through Kansas and she’d looked up at the clouds and suddenly, all at once, she could perceive them as being three dimensional. Even though conceptually she’d always known they had depth she could now perceive the shape.

She told me this in the slightly embarassed way that said she didn’t think this sounded impressive and she wasn’t expecting me to sit bolt upright and exclaim, “Me too! I had that too! It blew my mind!”

It wasn’t that I hadn’t seen clouds before but clouds were just up there in the sky, taken for granted and generally they just made flat shapes. But to realize the full scope and depth of clouds, to shift from thinking about them as a faraway background element of nature to seeing them as huge majestic three dimensional things had been awe inspiring.

“Right?! I just spent the whole rest of the drive overwhelmed with the beauty of the world, staring at the clouds!”

“When I try to tell people how profound it was they just act like I was high but it was like, this massive shift in how I saw the world right around adolescence.”

Slightly curious if anyone else had experiences like these as they stepped toward adulthood.