#basics

[theartingace]

So on my recent revisit of centaur bodyplan challenges on my Centaur Wheelchairs post there was some talk of how centaurs would be stretching to make up for the decompression horses usually get in their backs when they graze, and also I've just seen a few tags and other notes curious about centaurs stretching and folding so.. here ya go! Some new stretches focused on stretching more like how horses do with their necks, and then just a collection of all my wibbly wobbly Big Stretch! and general range of motion doodles

[palatinewolfsblog]

"If our Christianity causes kids to go hungry, the sick to go without healthcare, the stranger to be unwelcome, the elderly on social security to be called a "parasite," all while billionaires get richer, we've profoundly misunderstood the most basic elements of Jesus' teachings." - Rev. Benjamin Cremer

[baylardian-1]

whenever we're watching Basics this is the vision that reliably pops into my brain during the scene where Chakotay takes baby Naomi to help Samantha lmao

[funeral]

I have often been asked where the archetype comes from and whether it is acquired or not. This question cannot be answered directly. Archetypes are, by definition, factors and motifs that arrange the psychic elements into certain images, characterized as archetypal, but in such a way that they can be recognized only from the effects they produce. They exist preconsciously, and presumably they form the structural dominants of the psyche in general. They may be compared to the invisible presence of the crystal lattice in a saturated solution. As a priori conditioning factors they represent a special, psychological instance of the biological "pattern of behaviour," which gives all living organisms their specific qualities. Just as the manifestations of this biological ground plan may change in the course of development, so also can those of the archetype. Empirically considered, however, the archetype did not ever come into existence as a phenomenon of organic life, but entered into the picture with life itself.

Collected Works of C.G. Jung, Volume 11

[cronicasdeunafashionista]

[dinosaurwithablog]

I decided to try to paint with watercolors. This is my first attempt. It took me 15 minutes. It's an interesting medium. The paint seems to have a mind of its own. 😉😁🤣 As you can see, I'm still trying to figure out how to guide it to where I want it to be. I know that I need to shade the lemon more, but I'm afraid of screwing it up so I left it as it is. It's very basic, but I'm learning the basics so I think that's okay for now. After my first attempt, I have decided that I like watercolors. I'm gonna keep trying to get it right. It's a lot of fun!!

[coinandcandle]

Which Witch? - Let's Talk Labels!

Are you a green witch? Perhaps you’re a crystal witch or a sea witch? Maybe you're a kitchen witch? Let’s talk about these labels, what they are, and if you need them!

First and foremost let's discuss:

Do I need a label?

Nope! While you’re more than welcome to use one--many even--they aren’t required!

I won’t give you an exhaustive list of witch types, as you’ll learn there are as many labels as there are witches. Instead, I want to give you an idea about how these labels come to be and how you can decide on them if you’d like.

Labels for witches come from a variety of paces but a label almost always denotes a certain specification of their craft.

The tools they prefer (crystals, tarot, herbs, runes etc)

The biome or domestic area they thrive most in (sea, forest, swamp, mountains, urban, suburban, garden, kitchen etc)

The path they choose to follow (traditional, pop-culture, hedge, folk, poison, ceremonial, etc)

Their involvement with other witches (solitary, coven, hereditary, etc)

The type of magic they prefer (glamour, curse, healing, etc)

An over-arching concept or theme (death witch, love witch, divination witch, cosmic witch, etc)

Some labels are more specific than others and some can even encompass other labels!

For example: a green witch could be a witch who deals with all of nature whereas a plant witch would focus on just plants and a garden witch would focus on garden-specific plants.

You’ll also hear the term eclectic witch. What this label means is someone who uses a little bit of everything, or doesn't follow one specific path.

Unfortunately, there are those who use this label as a shield to hide their appropriation, assuming they can take what they want from any culture, closed or open, without doing proper research or initiation.

That said, many of those who use this term are not like that! They are simply witches who are just as likely to do magic in the forest as they are in the city, or to use tarot as much as they use pendulums, or perhaps they use herbs as much as they do crystals!

Not every witch needs a label, some don't ever use them, or they may use them only when chatting with others about their preferences in magic. Labels may even come and go as you move forward on your path. Choose whichever labels work for you, even if that means no labels!

[missjiablog]

hi loves,

hope everyone is having a wonderful start to their weekend today.

i was inspired by an instagram story post i made earlier sharing 4 outfits, so i decided to share some here on tumblr.

i feel like i have a changing style, but i absolutely find comfort in cutesy clothes, classy, basics & neutrals, streetwear, and so much more.

honestly, it's hard to choose one.

what's your fashion style like?

yours,

miss jia.

p.s. here’s the song reco of the day!

[minimalist-daydream]

Vintage American Apparel ads

[crystaldust]

Highlights from “The mind”

[session 10 of “Keys to the ultimate freedom” by Lester Levenson]

♡ The mind is an instrument created by you to imagine the Oneness as chopped up and separated into many parts interrelated.

♡ The mind is simply the sum total composite of all thoughts.

♡ The mind becomes habitual.

♡ The subconscious mind is running us - making us the victims of habit.

♡ The thing that keeps us from recognizing and expressing our infinity is simply the mind, conscious and subconscious. If we are to express this infinite nature, we can do it only by getting behind this mind. When we reach the realm behind the mind we operate without thoughts, intuitively, and are in harmony with the whole universe.

♡ The direction is to still the mind. Quiet the mind and you'll see your infinity right there.

♡ Just let go of the mind completely and what's left over is your infinite beingness, all knowing, all powerful, everywhere present.

♡ Were we to direct all our energies to stilling our mind, we would soon be realized.

♡ You feel as good as your mind is quiet.

♡ Your mind is an instrument used to identify your real Self with your body and world.

♡ If you do not identify with your body or mind, neither your body not your thoughts will effect you.

♡ In this dream-illusion there's a thing called thought. And thought determines and is the cause of all matter.

♡ In your imagination you have written and projected a cinema show of acts, actors and audiences on a screen and have lost sight of the fact that it is all in your imagination, your mind. Discover this and you discover the absolute Truth.

♡ The world and universe are a mental concoction.

♡ A thought is an assumption of lack causing a wish to fulfill it.

♡ All thoughts are of non-truth.

♡ You've got to use the mind to quiet the mind. You need to use determination to still it.

♡ Without concentrated mind, progress is relatively small.

♡ A wandering, wavering mind is one that dissipates one's energy in the form of many thoughts. Hold one thought and the energy is less dissipated and more conserved.

♡ Direct this conserved energy toward the Self. 

♡ In the beginning the mind pursues the Self intermittently between long intervals. As one continues, the intervals shorten. .Toward the end, the mind is constant in the pursuit and does not wander from it.

♡ The more you eliminate mind, the more peace you feel.

♡ The mind will never discover the Self because the mind is the cover-up over the Self. It's only by letting go of the mind that the Self is seen. You get the mind quiet enough to allow your Self to be obvious to you so that you may use It to let go of the mind.

♡ Eliminating what you are not is growth.

♡ Every mind uses the very same unlimited intelligence. Everyone uses it as much as he believes he can use it to fulfill his desires. When he learns that his mental limitations are self imposed, he lets go of them. Then his intelligence (I. Q.) can be raised to the degree that he knows he has no limits.

♡ We are all in the same mind and the only thing that keeps us from reading the other one is that our attention is too centered on our own little self.

♡ All minds are influencing each other.

♡ Thoughts smother the capacity to be happy.

♡ Anything man can think can be.

♡ The ego-mind struggles for survival and tries to subvert your direction.

♡ The mind cannot give the ultimate answer because it's part of the ego, part of our limitation.

♡ When the Self, which is just behind the mind, is discovered, you see that the mind is limited and let go of it.

♡ Where is the world without your mind? Is there such a thing as world when you submerge the mind? The thought of the world creates it. This whole solid universe that you mentally say is a solid universe is just your thought that it is a solid universe.

♡ Anything your mind is absolutely convinced of materializes instantly.

♡ Mind can do anything with the body.

♡ Every thought is motivated by a desire for pleasure or an aversion to pain.

♡ Letting go of all attachments and aversions is letting go of all your thoughts.

♡ The only thing we are aware of is our own thoughts.

♡ What we're seeing out there is our own mind.

♡ The mind can be made quiet wherever you are. The place to do it is right where you are.

♡ As mind gets quiet, first the sense of havingness decreases until a measure of security is felt. It becomes less necessary to have in order to be. Then the sense of doership decreases until a further security is felt in that one is not the real doer, that the real doer is a higher power, that one can actually be with much less doing and it becomes less necessary to do in order to be. Finally your real Self that has always been in the background steps in and takes over and you feel that there is nothing necessary any more that you must have or do, that there is no choice but to only be!

♡ Unless we're eliminating the mind, unless we're eliminating ego, we're not progressing.

♡ The more we keep looking into the mind, the quieter we become.

♡ If I am separate then there has to be others, he, she and it. And you start dividing up the One by first becoming an individual separate from It. Thought first divides and separates you from the One Beingness, and then creates a multitude of beings and things and all the relationships. It's all your thought, that's all it is.

METHODS OF MIND REVELATION

♡ See the source of the mind and you will find your Self.

♡ Turn the mind back upon the mind and it will reveal its secrets.

♡ Eliminate the ego. The ego thinks and causes all thought. The ego is the identifier of the Self as the body.

♡ Surrender the mind to God.

♡ The mind must be eliminated permanently by realizing that it is not real but only an apparency, an illusion that has its source in your Self.

♡ Where there is only subject and no object, there the Self is.

[colebabey888]

Could you make a list like your must haves one about what clothes you buy on shein and from where like with the link or code pls tx

Love your content btw 💘

first of all, thank you ! 🫦 🩷

Must Haves | IT GIRL DIARIES

SHEIN EDITION 🎀 🐈‍⬛

as i mentioned before, i usually only get my basics from shein but i have to say recently they have been stepping their game up. these are items ive bought before, except for the flared leggings and one pair of pajama set, they are currently in my cart 🫦 🐈‍⬛

brands i buy : xllais, musera, dazy, anwesta, missguided

links below :

plain black tee - xllais

soft pink tank tee - xllais

white short sleeve halter tee - xllais

pink silk stripe pajama set - missguided

pink metallic sequin halter - missguided ( make sure to get the sizing right, i had to return mine & size down because the sizing on the chart was a bit off )

bright pink pajama set - missguided

brown flared yoga pants - musera

black waist overlap sweats- musera ( definitely purchasing these again in different colours )

grey highwaist flared leggings - xllais

these 3 brands are my go to right now, the others were spontaneous purchases but i was impressed by the material so i def recommend them. majority of these pieces, i got multiple in different colours such as the basic tops from xllais and flared yoga pants from musera 🫦 🐈‍⬛

i can only add 10 images max on a post so unfortunately this will have to do for now, i will give updated posts with more ideas 💋

from the images already it looks like such good quality and maybe you can understand why i don’t mind buying my basics off shein if the brand has good material.

this is basically an example of the basics & what i usually purchased off shein and where, hope this helps xoxo 🩷

tip : place your orders on sundays , the tax fees may be lower, atleast it is for me whenever i order !

[palatinewolfsblog]

"Capitalism is based on the ridiculous notion that you can enjoy limitless growth in a closed finite system. In biology such behaviour of cells is called Cancer." - Hugh Culliton.

[astrolovecosmos]

Astrology For Beginner's Part 2

Part 1 Here

Fire and Air are considered compatible elements, so are Earth and Water. The elements + qualities is how ideas around polarities come into play. Astrology works off of different axis and opposites. For example, Taurus (Fixed Earth) and Scorpio (Fixed Water) are polar opposites and sit opposite of each other in a natal chart. Because Air and Fire are not considered compatible with Water and Earth, Aquarius (Fixed Air) and Leo (Fixed Fire) are considered incompatible with Scorpio and Taurus. Although it is important to understand compatibility is much more complex than just comparing Sun Signs or even Venus Signs, especially if you dive into that sector of astrology, and even if you and a loved one are technically "incompatible" you're still human, can love each other, and can still have a great relationship.

After learning about elements, qualities, and polarities I suggest researching all of the other planets and what they stand for: Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto.

This Article by Cafe Astrology has summaries for all of the planets as well as Asteroids.

I suggest learning about what a Natal Chart is at the same time as the planets. A Natal Chart can be drawn up for a person, place, company, country, a character, a book, almost anything. A Natal Chart takes a moment in time and allows astrologers to analyze all of the placements and components to give predictions, describe compatibility, to describe a person, and more. This chart freezes the time of "birth" for something like a person or country. The Natal Chart is this wheel you may see in books, blogs, posts, etc.

(Image from Wikipedia)

A Natal Chart should not be confused with a natal chart report, birth chart report, or astrology report which is just a list of all of your placements. This wheeled chart format is also used in other forms of astrology like Transits, Synastry, Secondary Progressions, and more. Those would be referred to as a Transit Chart, Synastry Chart, etc. and they have a different use and are calculated differently than a Natal Chart.

There is a LOT to learn about with just your own Natal Chart. Start out with the basics of Houses, Planets, Asteroids, and the Angles (Ascendant, Imum Coeli, Descendant, Midheaven).

A rule of thumb to know is that a House acts as the environment for an area of life, the planet is a direct influence, and the sign is the overall themes. A common metaphor for this is the House is the stage, the sign the costume, and the planet the actor.

I could keep going by diving into more details of the Natal Chart but these are the starting points I'd suggest to someone who is just learning about the basics of astrology.

[just-imagine-au-sgot]

scars guide

[hellomynameisbisexual]

Bisexual Basics

— Karin Baker

THE MOST BASIC thing about bisexuality is that it unlinks what most cultures see as a fundamental connection: sex and gender. If you can understand that for some people sexual attraction is not tied to a specific gender, then you understand the most important thing about bisexuality.

At least in the United States, separating sexuality and gender is difficult. While public attention—negative and positive—has recently been focused on homosexuality, the idea that it is not the only alternative to heterosexuality is less often recognized. This is not surprising, given that here as in most western cultures, there is a tendency to organize concepts dualistically, to see only opposites.

Heterosexuality and homosexuality as related ideas are one example. Thus, even while homosexuality is not an acceptable alternative to heterosexuality for many people, it is clearly fixed in their minds as the other option. Few conceive that there could be a third option, or even a continuum of possibilities.

This or That

Bisexuals sometimes refer to society’s tendency to dichotomize as an “either/or” approach. You must be attracted to either women or men, be either heterosexual or homosexual—what bisexuals sometimes lump together and call “monosexual.” Similarly, in our society, no matter what your actual racial background, you are seen as either white, or a person of color.

In contrast, some of us see bisexuals as having an approach to sexuality that could be called “both/and.” We are heterosexual and homosexual, both at the same time—which actually adds up to something completely different.

The woman whose parents are respectively white and African American is not racially or culturally half one and half the other. She is a blending of the two, in which neither aspect can be separated out. Similarly, bisexuals are not “part” queer, or “part” straight—we are what we are.

The Continuum of Sexuality

Maybe the idea that sexual attraction actually falls on a continuum, rather than clumping around homosexuality and heterosexuality, seems obvious. As a bisexual person, it is certainly obvious to me. However, I have come to realize that some are confounded by the idea.

This inability to imagine that someone could truly be attracted to more than one gender is probably the origin of myths such as “bisexuals don’t really exist,” and “bisexuals just haven’t made up their minds yet.” For some, sex means desire for women or men, but never both.

In a recent example, a bisexual friend of mine overheard a conversation between a lesbian and a gay man in which both commented on how confused bisexuals were. One of them said, “sooner or later bisexuals have to make up their minds!”

I wish I’d been there to ask them, why? Can you explain the basis for your reasoning? Why can’t we have already made up our minds—to be bisexual?

It seems to be hard to escape the assumption that there are only two choices, and everyone must ultimately settle for one of them. I have never heard a logical argument, or any biological law that explains why this choice is so unavoidable.

I have an easier time with this when I think about how hard it is for me to grasp attraction to one gender only, whether gay/lesbian or straight attraction. Because sexuality and gender aren’t linked for me, I’m surprised when I hear about people who are only attracted to women, or only attracted to men.

As a feminist I can understand why some women would choose not to be with men. I can also see that a person might want something in a sexual relationship that is more typically found with one gender or the other. But how could one gender always fall outside the boundaries of sexual possibility?

I believe that it happens, because people tell me that it’s true for them. It’s just extremely hard to imagine.

In fact, we bisexuals have a tendency (which I resist in myself) to think that all people are potentially bisexual. If they haven’t acted on it yet, monosexuals must either be repressed, or they just haven’t found the “right man”/“right woman” yet.

I suppose this is the bisexual equivalent of the monosexual perception that bisexuals are just going through a phase and haven’t made up our minds yet.

Gender in Bisexual Attraction

Although gender is not a limiting factor for bisexuals, it does sometimes play a role in bisexual attraction.

Some bisexuals that I know are attracted to women and men for gender-specific reasons. For instance, they like women because they see them as: easy to talk to, or nurturing, or soft and curvy; and they like men because they find them: straightforward, or more assertive, or hard and muscular (or some such gendered reasons).

So in this case, gender is part of the formula, but not a limiting factor.

Other bisexuals I have spoken with are also attracted to women and men differently, but they turn the previous specifications upside down. These bis say they find they like butch women and effeminate men. In a way this comes down to appreciating people to the extent that they escape genderedness.

But there are also many bis, such as myself, for whom gender has no place in the list of things that attract them to a person. For instance, I like people who are good listeners, who understand me and have interests similar to mine, and I am attracted to people with a little padding here and there, who have fair skin and dark hair (although I’m pretty flexible when it comes to looks).

“Male” or “female” are not anywhere to be found in the list of qualities I find attractive.

Monosexual Misconceptions

Bisexuals in the United States often experience hostility from lesbians and gay men, as in the incident described above. Lesbians and gay men, like heterosexuals, are often uncomfortable with breaking out of a dualistic way of looking at things.

Bisexuals blur boundaries thought to be fixed in stone, and this is disturbing.

Actually, bisexuals may appear to pose a more direct threat for lesbians and gay men than this general social disturbance. Lesbians and gay men who a in our society have almost always gone through a long process of leaving their family and heterosexual friends, as they leave the closet.

The community that rejected them is replaced by the one they join when they come out; the lesbian and gay community becomes their new family and friends, the place where they feel security and belonging.

Bisexuals who pop up in their new community blur its boundaries, making it feel less safe, less apart from the rejecting heterosexual community. Especially for those who believe that a bisexual has a fifty-fifty chance of finally choosing heterosexuality, a bisexual may well appear as the enemy within their midst.

Bisexuals often face misconceptions shared by lesbians, gay men, and heterosexual people. One of these is mentioned above: that bisexuals are confused people who havent made up their minds yet.

Undoubtedly some bisexuals are in a transitional phase between heterosexuality and homosexuality, but this is not necessarily so. And even when it is true, why should transition be seen as problematic?

Another common myth is that bisexuals are not committed to the struggle against queer oppression. Like many stereotypes, this may have some basis in reality. There are bisexuals who stay in the closet, who gravitate toward opposite gender relationships, marriage, and whatever else it takes to fit in.

Of course, many gay men and lesbians also never make it out of the closet. In fact, the lesbian and gay movement has always included bisexuals. Some have been openly bi, while others haven’t felt it worth the struggle to be open in the face of disapproval from the community that is so important to them.

Today, some bisexuals, like some gay men and lesbians, are not interested in getting involved in political struggle, but many others are very active within the queer community.

Another misconception is the idea that to be bisexual you must be sleeping with both women and men, and along with this, probably cheating on your partner. This is like saying that you cannot call yourself a lesbian (or gay, or straight) if you are single and celibate.

I believe that you’re bisexual (homosexual, heterosexual) if that’s what you call yourself. Your orientation stays the same, you still feel attraction, whatever your current actions.

Now it’s true, there are bisexuals who feel more fulfilled if they have relationships with a woman and a man. Some of these may have an agreement with their partner(s), and some not, but bisexuals are not the only sexual orientation where unorthodox relationships can be found, or where some cheat on their partners.

Bisexual Oppression?

A lesbian once told me that bisexuals experience oppression only to the extent that we “are homosexual.” She used this as an argument for leaving the name “bisexual” off titles of marches, community centers, newspapers, etc.

Who is included in group names has been a controversy for years (going back at least to the time when including the word “lesbian” was controversial because “gay” could supposedly count for both).

I don’t agree that bisexuals face only homosexual oppression. It’s true that when we are in same-sex relationships, one of the things we experience is heterosexism (and also, in our opposite sex relationships we do not as directly face the oppression gay men and lesbians face, although if we are openly bisexual we never completely escape heterosexism).

However, bisexuals confront forms of oppression that lesbians and gay men do not. Bisexual oppression includes compulsory monosexuality and the invisibility that is a result of monosexism. We are made invisible when people can’t conceive of sexual attraction that isn’t tied to one gender or the other, thereby denying our existence.

Even face to face, there is nothing about us that says we’re bisexual—if we’re with the same gender it’s assumed we’re lesbian/gay, and we must be straight if our partner is of the opposite gender.

Unless we happen to be holding hands and kissing a woman and a man simultaneously, an either/or way of seeing things means most people will automatically categorize us as either homosexual or heterosexual. This is monosexism at work.

In recent years some things have changed for bisexuals in the United States. We have started to find each other and form organizations and small communities. Conferences happen regularly in different parts of the country, and a national network exists.

Books about bisexuals multiply, as we tell our stories and develop theories about how we fit in. Much to the discomfort of some lesbians and gay men, we have been increasing the pressure to have our presence within the queer community acknowledged.

It seems inevitable that we will have an impact on how the people of this country view sexuality. Will this go further and affect the fundamental tendency toward dualistic categorizing, the either/or mindset?