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the years have made me weird and strange to talk to. but still i must post

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“Libraries, archives, and museums all find themselves at the intersection of materiality and the mystical. Perhaps this is why we’re so quiet when we enter them.”

— Jenn Shapland, “Finders Keepers” in Tin House (via in-the-middle-of-a-daydream)

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anyway you should always remember that all those foreigners you see dying on the news are just as real people as you are who have just as much interiority as you do. there is nothing about you that makes you more important and it is by pure chance that you are not in their position. in fact, this holds for all of history. every person, no matter the horror of the fate that befell them, had just as much interiority as you do. i feel like some people haven't fully internalized this.

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New Moon in Cancer – 25 June 2025 (ALL SIGNS)

This Moon is a tide that turns inward, a hush before the first note. Cancer’s waters do not wash things away, they soften them until the hidden shape appears. From 25 June onward a new story germinates in the dark, written in the language of need, safety, and belonging. Listen: the tide is drawing its breath, preparing to climb the sand in a shape you’ve never seen. Meet it barefoot, and it will remember your name.

🛑 just a note: if you see my writing reposted on other platforms without credit, especially Twitter, please feel free to tell me. my work is deeply personal, and every metaphor carries something I lived through. Thank you for protecting my voice when I’m not in the room. also, if you want to know more about your birth chart my book link is at the bottom of the page :)

Aries Sun & Rising

There’s a hush moving through the halls of your inner home. Not the house you rent or paint but the one with ceilings made of memory and wallpaper stitched from the sound of your own heartbeat. This New Moon touches the origin point, the root cellar of your life. And it asks: What does safety mean to you now? You’re learning that the version of home you deserve is not a performance, it’s the place where you can stop bracing. Where the armor unclenches. And this new beginning may come in unexpected forms: a decision to move, a conversation that reshapes the past, a promise to mother yourself better. Let it be quiet. Let it be real.

Watch for: → Strong cravings for stillness or solitude → Family dynamics shifting, or news that invites emotional clarity → An urge to cook, nest, clean, or finally hang something on the wall

Ritual: boil cinnamon sticks in water until the steam curls toward you like a memory. Inhale deeply. Whisper: I am allowed to stay.

Taurus Sun & Rising

The voice inside your head has changed dialects lately, less polished, more personal. This New Moon enters the space between your thoughts and your truths, asking: What if you only said what you meant? There is a soft but seismic shift happening in how you speak, write, listen, and share. You’re no longer interested in filling the silence with empty syllables. You want your words to mean something. And that’s where the healing begins. In the story you choose to tell next. You may reconnect with a sibling, rediscover your love of writing, or finally put into words something you’ve carried for years. Let it come through you like ink made of saltwater.

Watch for: → A conversation that brings release → A message that feels like a tiny key → Urges to take a short trip, buy new books, or unfollow what numbs you

Ritual: write one sentence you wish someone had said to you when you were younger. Carry it in your wallet until it feels like yours.

Gemini Sun & Rising

The soil of your worth is shifting because something deeper is ready to bloom. This Moon does not care about your title, your salary, your metrics. It wants to know: what makes you feel safe in your skin? It’s time to reroute your relationship with receiving, with ownership, with enough. You may be called to begin a new financial chapter, set boundaries around what you give away for free, or rediscover pleasure without guilt. This isn’t about luxury. It’s about belonging to yourself so fully that even the way you spend money becomes a love language.

Watch for: → New income possibilities or money conversations that hold emotional weight → A craving for slower beauty: cooking, tending, touch → Letting go of old self-worth stories inherited from family or survival

Ritual: place a small coin under a glass of water overnight. In the morning, pour the water into the soil and keep the coin in your palm. Feel the exchange.

Cancer Sun & Rising

You are being rewritten by water. This New Moon isn’t outside of you. It is you. It rises through your chest like a tide that refuses to recede until you finally let it say: I am ready to begin again. You’re no longer obligated to the versions of yourself that others have memorized. There is permission here to soften where you were once sharp, to step forward without apologizing, to walk into the world as someone who knows they deserve to take up space. This isn’t reinvention. It’s reclamation. The Moon is pouring its ink into your outline and saying: draw again.

Watch for: → The desire to change your look, your name, your tone → New beginnings that are deeply personal but hard to explain → People reacting to your shift, let them. You’re not performing this time.

Ritual: stand before a mirror in the dark. Say your name out loud, then whisper a new word that belongs to this version of yo, like free, beloved, sovereign. Let the mirror listen.

Leo Sun & Rising

There’s a part of you that’s always had to shine. To hold it together. To stay composed, perform, radiate. But under this Moon, something ancient inside you wants rest, not as escape, but as medicine. This is the Moon of hidden rooms and sealed envelopes. Of memories that knock at the back door. It asks: What have you not let yourself feel because it made you less impressive? You are being invited to release, deeply and without drama. The kind of shedding that no one sees, but that changes everything. This is the beginning of a private revolution. One no one has to applaud.

Watch for: → Unexpected dreams or memories resurfacing from nowhere → Emotional exhaustion that isn’t laziness but truth → The desire to disconnect not from people, but from performance

Ritual: take a long bath or shower in the dark. Light one candle and speak to your reflection when your face re-emerges in the steam. Say: You can stop holding it all.

Virgo Sun & Rising

You are not meant to carry every soul you’ve ever loved. This Moon asks you to set down the ghosts of obligation, and look toward what’s calling you now, the future-friends, the co-dreamers, the ones who speak to your hope rather than your wounds. This is a new chapter in how you commune, not just with people but with vision. What kind of life do you believe in enough to begin building? You may be reshaping your circles, realizing you’ve outgrown some communities, or finally saying yes to a vision that used to feel too far away. You don’t have to lead the world, just find the ones whose dreams make you remember your own.

Watch for: → Sudden dissolving of old friend dynamics → New invitations to collaborate, organize, or co-dream something → Realizing that fitting in has cost you more than standing out ever could

Ritual: write down a vision you have for the world, not for yourself. Light a small flame and speak it into the fire. Let the smoke carry it into the hands of those who share it with you.

Libra Sun & Rising

You’ve been working hard to keep the surface calm but this Moon goes for the root. It slips behind the mask, into the part of you that wonders, What is all this effort for? It’s not an ending, it’s a recalibration of direction. Not just what you do, but who you are when you do it. This is the kind of new beginning that may arrive as a pang of doubt, then evolve into a wave of self-reclamation. You’re allowed to redefine what success means. You’re allowed to want more, or less, as long as it’s true. The crown doesn’t matter if it doesn’t fit your head anymore.

Watch for: → Shifts in professional reputation, goals, or power dynamics → Unexpected praise or pressure that makes you question your path → The urge to create something that aligns more with your emotional truth

Ritual: write a resignation letter to a version of success you no longer serve. Burn it. Then write a vow to the vision you want to work for now.

Scorpio Sun & Rising

You’ve been climbing a mountain. But this Moon doesn’t ask you to summit, it asks you to expand your horizon. Not with ambition, but with reverence. What if your life is not a ladder, but a landscape? This New Moon calls your attention to the philosophies, places, mentors, and stories that can stretch your worldview. You may be pulled toward something foreign, unfamiliar, a risk of hope you haven’t dared to follow before. But this is not about escape. It’s about trusting your curiosity enough to let it become a compass.

Watch for: → Travel, teaching, publishing, or spiritual questions appearing → A desire to study something obscure or meaningful → Feeling emotionally tethered to a truth you can’t yet explain

Ritual: look up at the sky and name something you believe that no one taught you. That’s your North Star. Let it guide you now.

Sagittarius Sun & Rising

You’re not scared of endings but you are scared of losing control. And this Moon? She asks you to surrender control gently, not with panic, but with trust. She wraps her hands around the part of you that bargains, holds back, or calculates your vulnerability, and she says: What if intimacy wasn’t dangerous? This is a new beginning in the realm of shared energy, deep love, invisible exchanges. You may find yourself confronting a debt, merging lives or bank accounts, grieving what cannot be saved, or diving into something that demands all of you. It’s not about danger. It’s about depth. This is the kind of transformation that leaves you more alive, not less.

Watch for: → Honest conversations about sex, trust, power, or debt → Emotional clarity in long-term entanglements → The end of something that makes space for a more real version of love

Ritual: pour water into two glasses. Label one mine, the other ours. Pour them into a third and ask: What am I choosing to share, and why?

Capricorn Sun & Rising

You’ve been building alone for so long you’ve forgotten what it feels like to be held. This Moon comes bearing partnership, not just in love, but in presence. It reminds you that intimacy is not weakness. That collaboration does not cost you your autonomy. You are being invited to re-pattern how you relate. Not by effort, but by listening. Not by sacrifice, but by self-trust. This is the beginning of a new way of being chosen, one where you don’t have to abandon yourself to belong. You can be fully met only when you fully arrive.

Watch for: → A new relationship, contract, or relational dynamic forming → Clarity about what you will and won’t compromise anymore → Encounters that mirror the version of you you’re becoming

Ritual: sit with someone who sees you clearly. Without fixing, ask: How do you experience me when I’m being real? Then say thank you and believe them.

Aquarius Sun & Rising

The body has been whispering. This Moon turns up the volume to remind you that healing isn’t an idea, it’s a rhythm. A practice. A return. This is a new beginning in how you honor the vessel that carries you. How you work, how you rest, how you recover. You may notice shifts in health, routine, daily energy. But deeper than that, you may realize how much you've been holding in your muscles, your breath, your jaw. You don't need a better system. You need a softer one.

Watch for: → Health-related revelations, subtle or physical → A calling to be more present in your daily rituals → The urge to build a life that feels livable, not just impressive

Ritual: stretch for five minutes, not to become more flexible, but to meet yourself. Then ask your body what it wants from you this month.

Pisces Sun & Rising

The dream doesn’t need to be perfect, it just needs to be yours. This New Moon kisses the corners of your creative life, your joy life, your romantic life, the parts of you that have longed to feel alive, not just useful. It’s a return to desire. Not lust but aliveness. This could be the beginning of a new romance, a new project, a new permission. You may suddenly remember how you used to express yourself before the world told you to be quiet. Don’t just follow the muse, become her.

Watch for: → Creative impulses or fertile, sensual energy blooming → The reemergence of childlike wonder or a literal child → Romance that doesn’t fix you, just mirrors you

Ritual: create something small and imperfect tonight: a song, a scribble, a spell. Let the mess be a message: joy lives here.

my book here :)

© original writing by @theskywithin — reposting or translating without credit is copyright infringement.

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And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

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No body talks about the angry stage of healing. The frustration you feel when you realize how long you were taken advantage of, ignored, and made to feel not good enough. The rage you feel towards the people who hurt you, abused you, and took advantage of your heart.

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(through gritted teeth) sometimes what's good for your mental health isn't another do nothing day or a little treat sometimes what's good for you is putting in some of the work. Not all of it at once but sometimes you have to finish that essay or at least take the next step or you have to clean your room or at least dust the shelves or you gotta do the laundry or at least put it all in the hamper and it's not fun and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks but you have to because i read a post on the internet that told me that's what being nice to yourself is sometimes

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tumblr is for putting your stuff somewhere that's not secret but also not for anyone particular to see so it's true neutral in a really nice way

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Joy Sullivan, from Instructions for Traveling West: Poems; “Instructions for Traveling West”

[Text ID: “you’re homesick / for all the lives / you’re not living.”]

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THINGS TO TAKE:

Your time

A nap

A walk

The compliment

Your energy where it’s valued

Deep breaths

Your power back

Your inner child by the hand

Nothing personally

A chance on yourself

It one day at a time

Up space

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The world feels heavier these days. War and hate creep further into places once thought safe, and destruction—of forests, of lives, of hope—seems to be the one thing we’ve truly mastered. Whether it's bombs falling or ancient trees cut down or love denied out of fear or ignorance, the ache of it all is relentless. I won’t pretend I’m above it. Most days, I feel it in my bones. The despair. The helplessness. The creeping sense that we are losing something we won’t be able to get back.

But today, I did what I often do when it’s too much: I took my camera and went to the forest. I sat on a rock, as I’ve done so many times before, heart heavy with doubt. And then, from the green hush beside me, came a soft chirp. I turned, and there she was—a tiny fledgling robin, newly launched into the world. She didn’t know anything of war or hate or vanishing trees. She only knew that I was there, strange and still, and worth a closer look.

She hopped and fluttered from branch to branch, curious and bold in the way only young creatures can be. And in that brief moment, there were no headlines, no grief, no fear. Just a small bird being a bird. And me, being a person. Quietly alive.

I know her life will be hard. So will mine. So will yours, perhaps. But for that moment, the world paused, and there was joy. And I thought—yes. I can live another day. I hope you can too. European Robin/rödhake. Värmland, Sweden (June 22, 2025).

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i found a baby picture of my cat please please look at him i'm begging you

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