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I need to learn spanish immediately. I met a bunch of hermanos this week and felt horrible speaking portuguese to them

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is the jupiter-venus conjuction in cancer going to be as beneficial and great as many astrologers make it sound?

I dont't know what they're saying, but it all depends. Beneficial for whom? It always depends on a lot of stuff. Unfortunately in my own situation it's not that big of deal, for example, because it's not something big on my Solar Return and Jupiter and Venus are not my timelords right now. The conjunction is in my 9th house and that's only relevant because my profection timelord was in there in my Solar Return, but I'm just going to take a short trip to Rio to go to a conference at a university and I think it's going to be fun seeing a bunch of people from my academic field presenting their research and going to the bar with them afterwards, but that's normal and I'll be coming back home on the next day and that's it.

In mundane astrology it could be interesting somewhere, but I havent been keeping track that much. I know that in Brazil, the conjunction is happening in the 5th house of the solar ingress chart (which had mars in it), and this brought to light the problem of adultification and exploitation of children on social media, and the issue quickly began to roll through Congress for the implementation of a law to regulate social media in this regard, because you know with these big techs how easy it is for the algothrim to quickly take you to either far right/fascist or pedo content and they don't block that shit. I havent been following the news super closely lately, but it seems like it's been a pretty big deal here at least since last week deepening the discussion a lot. And it's all very fitting for Jupiter and Venus in Cancer in the 5th house, as Jupiter is about legislation, lawmakers, congress, bringing justice to issues; while Venus and the 5th house can both be about children and entertainment, leisure; Venus rules the 3rd house in the solar ingress chart as well, which is about communication, social media etc; and the sign of Cancer consistently shows a theme about protecting the vulnerable.

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No but really movies like Bacurau show just how fucking laughable and sterile the Western capitalist LGBT Representation Industrial Complex is. There’s Black trans women, old married lesbians, femme gay/queer men, a literal badass enby bandit king/queen, and all of them look real. They don’t look like fucking models. They look like real, actual people who live in a small town in the middle of nowhere in Brazil. They come in every shape and size, have scars, burnt and cracked skin. And they all fight viciously and gloriously for their community. It’s a glimpse of how beautifully human and diverse and queer cinema could look like if it wasn’t a capitalist shell game pumping out Disneyfied blockbusters. What an absolute eye opening experience.

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You know how finding good info about fixed stars is kinda complicated? Are you familiar with fixed star Zaniah? If so, can you explain a bit what it stands for

FIXED STARS

edit august 2025: I just edited this entire post because I felt inspired. I did a more in-depth analysis of the fixed stars from the film Bacurau and gave more tips on how to research fixed stars. I hope it encourages you to watch it and look for more. Soon I'll be posting about more films with fixed star activations.

It is not complicated to find good information on the fixed stars. I don't know if I'll describe your case, but I'll tell you why most people think this is hard. The best place for this is the Constellation of Words website. It not only gives you all the information, but also gives you its sources.

People go there on the list of fixed stars and find the degree they're looking for on the "Long 2000" column, right? For those who don't know, you look at the degrees of longitude when you want to find if there's any fixed star conjunct something in your chart, and the fixed stars move roughly 1° degree every 70 years, so on the "Long 1900" column you'll find the degrees for the fixed stars in the year 1900.

Let's say someone has their Sun at 26° Taurus. They'll soon find out that's where the fixed star Algol is. So they go to the page for Algol on the Constellation of Words website and look only for the interpretation for the Sun with Algol. A lot of people do this, they'll ignore all the rich information that site offers, ignore the sources, and definitely nevermind what the arabs, or the hindus, or the chinese had to say about that star, because those guys don't know anything, right? They only see this:

With Sun: Violent death or extreme sickness. If also in no aspect to a benefic, or there is no benefic in the 8th house, and the dispositor of the Sun in a day nativity or if the Moon in the night one is in square or opposition to Mars, the native will be beheaded; if the luminary culminate he will be maimed, mangled, wounded or torn to pieces alive; and if Mars is at the same time in Gemini or Pisces his hands or feet will be cut off. [Robson, p.124.]

That's not only scary, but useless if they haven't read the entire article. They won't understand why those things were said. If they would only read the whole page, they'd have a lot more insights. They would know, for example: that Algol is said to be similar in nature to Jupiter and Saturn; it's an eclipsing binary and that's relevant for interpretation; it's the star that the greeks associated with the head of Medusa, which is being held by Perseus' hand and you can't ignore that; they would understand its name and etymology, its history, what different traditions said about it etc.

The more they'd find, the more they'd have questions, they'd start exploring the site and its sources. And of course, they'd click on "Perseus" to understand the whole constellation and not just one little star of the constellation. You don't understand Aries by just looking at what the ancients said about Hamal, right?

Perseus is a defiant hero, called the champion, the rescuer; he's a rebel, who questions authority and overcomes seemingly insurmountable challenges. In my opinion, the myths are not everything, and – if you're only considering the hegemonic greek narrative – you should not analyze them so deeply and hold on to their hermeneutics like it's holy grail of a fixed star's interpretation, but they should be considered as great tools to understand and remember the nature and effects of the stars.

According to Ptolemy, Perseus is like Jupiter and Saturn. It is said to give an intelligent, strong, bold and adventurous nature, but a tendency to lying. [Robson, p.56.]

A lot of these statements were made for when the star was rising, which would describe the nature of the person. So, not every fixed star you have activated by planets will mean something about your character. It will most definitely mean something about events in your life.

But this is Perseus. Algol is the head of Medusa, which is almost treated as separate, but not quite. Algol will focus on the more violent aspects of the constellation.

Of the nature of Saturn and Jupiter. It causes misfortune, violence, decapitation, hanging, electrocution and mob violence, and gives a dogged and violent nature that causes death to the native or others. It is the most evil star in the heavens. [Robson, p.124.]

And still, those were exaggerated truths. Altough we see literal manifestations of this, a lot of things will tend to show as much more metaphorical or symbolic, and especially in modern day natal charts.

But I don't want to focus on nativities here, because Algol is too interesting for that. This is mainly a story about decapitation, capital punishment, so, a lot of the themes are about justice, of a very violent kind. It's Saturn and Jupiter, as Ptolemy says. Justice, but also mercilessness, cutting evil off at the roots. At the same time, the greatest consistency found in Algol's associations across many traditions lies in its connection with the dead, mass death, and evil spirits. Algol is called "the demonic star".

I think that watching movies released during a fixed star's activation is the most interesting way to explore the themes and understand how they show up with nuance. One of my favorite cases is the movie Bacurau, because of the amount of fixed stars activated in the chart of its premiere in the Cannes Film Festival, on the 15th of May 2019, at 10pm. Algol gets activated by the Sun, but it's not only about the decapitations in that movie, you can see the underlying themes of Perseus and it's much deeper. Lunga is Perseus: in the scene where they finally bring justice to Bacurau, he seems to be wearing a necklace with a fig pendant. The fig is a hand gesture used to ward off evil that has much of the same apotropaic functions as Algol. In Brazil it's tied to religions of african origins. I already wrote a whole post about Algol here, so go there to get more of my takes on it.

The chart also gives us a Sagittarius ascendant, with the star Antares on it, another violent one, also known as "the heart of the scorpion".

'By virtue of its tail armed with its powerful sting, the Scorpion creates natures ardent for war and active service, which rejoices in plenteous bloodshed and in carnage more than in plunder. Why, these men spend even peace under arms: they fill the glades and scour the woods; they wage fierce warfare now against man, now against beast, and now they sell their persons to provide the spectacle of death and to perish in the arena, when, warfare in abeyance, they each find themselves foes to attack. There are those, too, who enjoy mock-fights and jousts in arms (such is their love of fighting) and devote their leisure to the study of war and every pursuit which arises from the art of war.' (Manilius, Astronomica)

Manilius describes the main thing we understand about the movie pretty clearly: rejoicing in carnage. In myth, the scorpion is sent to kill the giant Orion, who tried to rape Artemis, or, in other accounts, threatened to kill all living creatures just to prove his strength and hunting skills. Mars, who is in the 7th house of enemies, is conjunct the Orion's star called Betelgeuse. Like Orion, the white invadors are there just to do some sport hunting, and the people of Bacurau are the prey.

But the scorpion is a well prepared animal. The community enjoys fighting almost as much as its invadors: at night, the people gather around watching video edits of Pacote's killings on a big screen, and then practice some capoeira. Capoeira is a martial art desguised as a dance, which was created by enslaved africans in Brazil to defend themselves from their masters. Over time, it became a complex cultural expression of resistence, and you can see it's interestingly very scorpionic in its history. Lunga, Pacote and company are of a band of killers and criminals, seen in Bacurau as necessary evils, antiheroes, because, ultimately, they help and protect the community. Their charaters are a reference to the Cangaço, a late 19th century banditry phenomenon in the northeast of Brazil.

The scorpion is sent by Artemis to sting Orion in his heel and gets put in the sky for it. It always makes me think of the people of Bacurau, who, threatened with anihilation, come out of the holes to trap the enemy and sting them from behind.

Bacurau is like that because it's ruled by Jupiter, the locals know their own history, the people have wise elders, healers and teachers, and they invite tourists to visit their museum to get to know them, which only on a second watch will sound very threatening.

The scorpion's venom is most times present in Antares movies, but this one even more so, because Jupiter as the ruler of the ascendant is also activating the fixed star Ras Alhague of Ophiuchus, the serpent's charmer.

"When Ophiuchus, encircled by the serpent’s great coils, rises he renders the forms of snakes innocuous to those born under him. They will receive snakes into the folds of their flowing robes, and will exchange kisses with these poisonous monsters and suffer no harm." (Manilius, Astronomica, 1st century AD, book 5,  p.333). "It is said to give a passionate, blindly good-hearted, wasteful and easily seduced nature, unseen dangers, enmity and slander. Pliny said that it occasioned much mortality by poisoning. This constellation has also been called Aesculapius and held to rule medicines". (Robson, p.54.) "[Ras Alhague] has a Saturn like character, and some of the undesirable Venus qualities are also present. Connected with these are Neptunian tendencies, making the native especially prone to infectious contamination caused by toxins. People thus influenced are easy going in the use of medical drugs, hallucinatory drugs stimulating foodstuffs, too much good living and overindulgence in tobacco and alcohol..." (Fixed Stars and Their Interpretation, Elsbeth Ebertin, 1928, p.72-73.)

The people of Bacurau are much in favor of using psychotropic drugs, notably during their funerals and during armed conflict. I believe drugs, poisons, venoms, medicine, can be associated both with the Scorpion and Ophiuchus, but people connect it a lot more to the stars in the tail of the scorpion, not much to its heart.

Jupiter already signifies wise people and keepers of knowledge and memory, and Ophiuchus also famously makes doctors and healers sometimes, because the constellation is associated with Asclepius. The first character we see is Teresa arriving to Bacurau to bring them medicine. She brings them to Domingas, the doctor of Bacurau, who has an important role as a protector of the community. Jupiter shows up in the teacher, the doctor and especially the late matriarch Carmelita, who is almost like Bacurau herself, as the mother of many who have built Bacurau and still contribute to it.

Finally, there's also the Moon conjunct Algorab, of the constellation Corvus, and this is no doubt the most interesting fixed star activation for this movie. The raven is described as an ominous bird and a procratinator. It has two main stories. In the first one, Apollo sends the raven to fetch water and when it fails to do so, it gets punished to be forever thirsty and unsatisfied.

Apollo gave a feast to Jupiter and requiring water sent the raven with a cup (Crater) to fetch some. On his way the raven noticed a fig tree, and, resting there until the figs became ripe, feasted himself upon them until, remembering his errand and fearing the anger of Apollo, he picked up a snake (Hydra) and on his return gave as an excuse that the hydra had prevented him from filling the cup by having kept the spring from flowing, this being the cause of the delay. The god was not deceived by the lie and ordained in punishment that the raven should never drink so long as figs were not ripe. Apollo placed the raven (Corvus), cup (Crater) and snake (Hydra) in the heavens as a memorial, where the Water-snake guards the water from the everlastingly thirsty Raven. Corvus now sits within sight of the Cup of water, but he can never drink.

"Ravens, crows, and rooks, go ‘kraa kraa’. The call of the crow is a nasal caw compared to the deep, guttural croak of the raven, although both species have extensive and varied vocal repertoires. The cawing of the ravens or crows was heard as 'Cras! Cras!' by Latin speakers, and was thought to mean 'Tomorrow! Tomorrow!' We get the word procrastination, 'postpone until the morrow”, from Latin cras.'" Constellations of Words.

Interestingly, "Bacurau" is the name of a brazilian bird, also known in some places as "amanhã-eu-vou", which means "I'll go tomorrow". Bacurau is a nocturnal hunter, attentive to it's surroundings, while ravens are really smart scavengers, same as the people in the movie. The second story of the raven is not as relevant to Bacurau, but it involves getting bad news and a lot of grief, which is just like the general climate in Bacurau where the people are always grieving.

[Algorab:] Of the nature of Mars and Saturn. It gives destructiveness, malevolence, fiendishness, repulsiveness and lying, and is connected with scavenging. (Robson)

The Corvus is a constellation situated near the Virgin, in the very dry transition between summer and autumn. Since Babylonian astrology this portion of the sky has had a raven whose job was to announce the return of the rainy season, like Apollo's raven was supposed to bring the water to the gods. The movie starts and the very first scene is of a water truck coming to Bacurau and passing by a road accident with another truck that was carrying coffins. One of the main problems faced by the community of Bacurau is the lack of water, caused by a blockade in their river, built by militias with the complicity of the mayor. The water truck was requested because of this, and it arrives in Bacurau as the townspeople gather for the funeral of their great matriarch Carmelita. Teresa hallucinates that the matriarch's coffin is overflowing with water.

This is amazing astrological symbolism and it's just the first few minutes of the movie. That's why fixed stars really fascinate me.

The northeast region of Brazil historically suffers with incredible droughts, which used to be particularly devastating before president Lula. In the beginning of the movie, Lunga, aka our Perseus in this story, has a bounty on his head and is hiding at an incredibly dried up dam.

The scenes were filmed in the real life Gargalheiras dam in the town Acari, RN. In 2024, Gargalheiras overflowed for the first time in 13 years. Fortunately, they keep the time, so we know it happened at 11:30 pm on April 3rd, exactly as the star Algorab crossed the midheaven. The event was a spectacle, celebrated by the people of Acari and the entire northeast with much joy.

I swear to you that all the information you need on fixed stars can be found on the Constellations of Words website. Of course I also love to look up their sources and I end up investigating charts of people, movies, books etc with those stars, and that adds to my knowledge too, but that website is all you need. Here are my favorite of their most cited books:

Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos book I chapter 9-11, because he's the earliest source and it's important to see the difference between how the hellenistics called and understood the fixed stars and how things changed after the persians.

Vivian E. Robson's The Fixed Stars and Constellations in Astrology (XX AD) is a must have. It's strictly astrological and teaches a method on how to interpret fixed stars, which is interesting, though you don't need to follow it necessarily.

Marcus Manilius' Astronomica book 5. I always make sure to read attentively Manilius' poetry about the constellation I'm researching. It's always incredibly useful, never disappointing.

William Tyler Olcott's Star Lore: Myths, Legends and Facts (XIX AD). This is a great one to get a lot of the different stories and histories of the stars. It really helps you to understand the symbolisms in depth.

It's also always incredibly enriching to my research to try to understand the babylonian constellations. For those, the website is not going to help much, you'll need other sources. I always go to Gavin White and his articles on "The Babylonian Zodiac" that are available in PDF on Skycript almost at the end of the page.

I advise anyone to limit their knowlegde of stars. Have you seen how many there are? Not all in the catalogue wil be important. And if you worry about knowing a lot of them, you'll never really know them. So how do you know which are important? You watch for magnitude. The brightest stars are the most important and they were studied a lot more.

The smaller the number on magnitude, the brighter they are. Some of them are even negative, like Sirius, which is -1.46 on magnitude. Sirius is the brightest star in the sky. Algol is 2.1, as you can see above. I don't consider the stars with a magnitude number higher than 3.5. Unless I see them manifest pretty clearly, which is not common. They start getting invisible to the naked eye, correlating to weaker effects.

Zaniah is a star in the Virgo constellation, magnitude 4.0. I don't know it and I probably won't study it, but it seems to have been an important star, marking an arabic lunar mansion. If you want to investigate it, I suggest looking at the article for Virgo and then go to specific stars.

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Predicting children and pregnancy in Astrology: Angelina Jolie

I finished my series on predicting children and pregnancy in Astrology, you can go check it out! Get a membership on my Patreon or purchase the collection of posts for $15 USD.

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Have you ever read birth charts of murderes here? Did you find any interesting patterns on their birth charts?

In a way I kinda did that here, but not to analyze their character, just their fate. I'm anti-psych, an abolitionist and I hate: the obssession people have with true crime in general, the notion that there's people who are irredeemably evil, the psychologization of criminality, the individualization of the issue, leading to the notion that crime can be prevented by cop or psych professionals (aren't they just one in the same?), the whole intersection of psychology with the legal field, how imperial/usamerican all of this is... And when coming from astrologers this just bores me to death, if not piss me off. It's nothing personal though, I'm in psychology, I'm in touch with wannabe mind hunters all the time and sometimes even befriend them. I could read any chart in my own way, but I don't like feeding content to that side of the internet, or messing up my algorithm even more.

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Did you guys know this blog is a Leo with a Pisces Moon? 🥳

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for the music ask: 10 & 16 ?

10 - Bon Iver, "Calgary", specifically the live version below, because it reminds me of my late kitten. She would get so curious by the sound of the harmonica, she would come meowing whenever I put this on.

16 - I'm not a classical music listener, but I guess I always get excited when "Masquerade: Waltz" comes on a movie scene.

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MUSIC ASKS these are actually pretty fucking hard but why not.

1:A song you like with a color in the title

2:A song you like with a number in the title

3:A song that reminds you of summertime

4:A song that reminds you of someone you would rather forget about

5:A song that needs to be played LOUD

6:A song that makes you want to dance

7:A song to drive to

8:A song about drugs or alcohol

9:A song that makes you happy

10:A song that makes you sad

11:A song that you never get tired of

12:A song from your preteen years

13:One of your favorite 80’s songs

14:A song that you would love played at your wedding

15:A song that is a cover by another artist

16:One of your favorite classical songs

17:A song that would sing a duet with on karaoke

18:A song from the year that you were born

19:A song that makes you think about life

20:A song that has many meanings to you

21:A favorite song with a person’s name in the title

22:A song that moves you forward

23:A song that you think everybody should listen to

24:A song by a band you wish were still together

25:A song by an artist no longer living

26:A song that makes you want to fall in love

27:A song that breaks your heart

28:A song by an artist with a voice that you love

29:A song that you remember from your childhood

30:A song that reminds you of yourself

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Leftists are judging me very harshly on my presumed opinions. I'd rather be judged on my actual opinions. So, here they are:

[literally exactly what the leftists have been presuming]

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CLIMATE ASSISTANCE REDUCED BY 50% | On Wednesday night (9), the Cacique Cobra Coral Foundation, an esoteric entity famous for supposedly intervening in the weather conditions of a location, especially during large events, said it had also suspended, by 50%, its climate assistance to American companies. The decision went viral on social media. The timing helped. American authorities issued a warning, also on Wednesday (9), for strong storms in the cities of Philadelphia, Baltimore, Richmond, Virginia, and Washington, D.C., where the White House is located. -> Link.

The White House now.

Cacique Cobra Coral 

Rainstorms are a frequent occurrence in Rio de Janeiro’s tropical climate. Yet year after year, the Marvelous City defies meteorological forecasts and is blessed with dry weather and clear skies when it needs it the most, such as during its famed Carnival celebrations.

This, locals will tell you, is not the result of good luck, but the work of a weather-controlling spirit called Cacique Cobra Coral.

In Brazil, the spirit is widely credited with guaranteeing a clement climate during major events, including music festivals and presidential inaugurations...

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Wealth and Fame in the birth chart - #3

Hello, I'm sorry that this edition took so long. I'll continue on chapters 18-20 of Valens' book II of the Anthologies where he'll talk about the Lots of Exaltation, Daimon and Fortune, and the Place of Acomplishment (11th from Fortune). Things are getting a little harder to understand, so at the end I'll make a summary about my conclusions and the questions that remain with me after this study.

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HOMEM COM H / LATIN BLOOD — THE BALLAD OF NEY MATOGROSSO (2025) – dir. Esmir Filho The relationship between artist Ney Matogrosso and Brazilian poet and singer Cazuza transcends the fleeting nature of romantic love; it is remembered by Ney as a profound and enduring connection, marked by passion, rebellion, and tenderness. They met when Cazuza was still young: a fiery spirit, impulsive, fearless, and unapologetically alive. Though their romantic relationship eventually dissolved, what remained was something far more lasting: an unbreakable bond of affection, friendship, and mutual admiration that persisted until Cazuza’s premature death from AIDS at the height of the global epidemic. In the final chapter of Cazuza’s life, he embarked on a farewell tour. Every show was masterfully directed by Ney — an act of love, care, and artistic kinship. It was during this period that “O Tempo Não Para”, now a timeless anthem in Brazilian music, was born. Ney, upon hearing the song only once, immediately recognized its brilliance and insisted that Cazuza include it in the setlist. That single decision transformed the song into one of Cazuza’s most powerful and lasting legacies. Decades later, Ney still speaks of Cazuza with a mixture of reverence and tenderness, often confessing without hesitation that he never stopped loving him. Their story lingers not only in memories but also in the poetry Cazuza left behind. One, written for his paternal grandmother, Maria José, was found by his mother after Maria José passed away. Upon reading it, she entrusted it to one of Cazuza’s former bandmates, who instinctively reached out to Ney. It was Ney who breathed life into the poem, transforming it into the hauntingly beautiful song “Poema”, which became one of his most celebrated hits. Far beyond the confines of romance, their bond became a testament to chosen love, enduring friendship, and the sacred intersection between art, memory, and resistance. Ney and Cazuza continue to echo through Brazilian cultural history as symbols of artistic freedom, vulnerability, and the refusal to be silenced.

HAPPY PRIDE! 🌈

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Not caring is a privilege of the ones who will be protected with the shield of environmental racism and the genocide against non-white peoples. Not caring makes you a coward hiding behind that shield while people are fighting. Watch The Falling Sky, read Davi Kopenawa, Ailton Krenak etc, people have been dying with the environment since the beginning of this crisis, we're not separate from nature.

why bother caring about the environment when 1. It’s so obviously a lost cause and 2. There’s definitely going to be a nuclear war?

And what are you doing about it Anon? Learn about ecological restoration or get out of my way.