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Sydney Omarr - 1976 Weekly Astrological Guide for AQUARIUS - Signet - 1976 (cover art by Bart Forbes)
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cancersstellium · 5 months
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paid readings— open + as i’ve gotten more requests for paid readings, i’ve put together a list of services below! feel free to message me if you have questions or perhaps have something in mind that i don’t explicitly offer yet. + as a reader, my strengths lie in my affinity for all five clairs, energy work, and my empathic abilities. if this resonates, please read with me 🖤 for readings that list a clair description, it means that i will explain, show, and/or tell you whatever has come up for me in one of those areas during your reading.
+ please note that the descriptions underneath my reading types are there to guide you through what the reading may look like and get a general feel of what i will be looking for. i do not always follow this exact format. feel free to include any context or specific questions in reading requests.
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please note: i will not answer death, health, or certain money question -> ex. what does my dead relative want me to know? will my surgery go well? what stock should i purchase?
currently i am only accepting payment through my cashapp ($theoraclenextdoor). please message me with the request for your reading and confirm with me before sending any payment. all pricing in usd.
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general readings 2...3...4 pricing includes: number of cards pulled (ex. $3 = 3 cards). please specify type of reading (ex. love, career, general) energy/energetics 7…11…22 -> where is your energy at currently? where is it stuck? where does it flow freely? are you in your wounded masculine/feminine energy? (note: energetics is not about gender) pricing includes: 2-3 cards (general overview)… 4-5 cards + a colour of your energy as it is now… 5-6 cards + a description on how your energy feels manifestation 7…14…21 -> what are you currently manifesting? what’s blocking you from your manifestation? what area of your life has the strongest potential for positive manifestation? pricing includes: 1-2 paragraphs… 3-4 paragraphs… 5-6 paragraphs + ‘clair’ description the oracle’s advice (channeling) 3…6…9 -> wisdom is knowledge gained through experience. though i possess much wisdom on my own, in this reading my advice is blended with the divine’s channeled wisdom. pricing includes: 2-4 sentences (best for: yes/no questions)… 1-2 paragraphs… 3-4 paragraphs, includes ‘clair’ descriptions or signs to look out for the bigger picture 18..36 -> ask me anything and i’ll pull a nine card spread, read and reflected on in 5 different ways: by column, by row, diagonally, as a whole, and with the centre card in consideration. pricing includes: 2-3 sentences on each card set… 2-4 paragraphs + further reading of the 2 directions that intuitively feel the most pertinent (ex. row & column, diagonal & centre card) dream mirror 7…8…9 -> do you have a dream you feel means something? i’ll need as many details as possible. let’s interpret it together. pricing includes: depth of reading. experimental pricing. this will also depend on how much you can recall monthly or weekly forecast 5…15 -> similar to a weather forecast, here i will tell you what the allotted time ahead looks like for you. pricing includes: general 3 card forecast (can specify love, career, etc) … mini astrological forecast & analysis based on your natal chart + 5 card draw for specific question (ex. is december a good month for a fling?) yahtzee (dice divination) 5 -> dice can be a helpful tool in divining the future in simple terms. while a yes/no question is essentially what can be answered, my dice always yield more than you are expecting pricing includes: yes/no [sample dice reading > “should i go the party on saturday?” dice roll: u: 5, d: 2, f: 6, b: 1 , l: 4, r: 3. oracle’s answer: yes. it’ll be a good opportunity for you to get out and grow socially! although you might find yourself worried about the logistics, now is the time to leave behind that need for structure and planning. i think you’ll be surprised at how fun it will be.] mini astrology reading 6…9 -> send me your natal chart and ask me that question that you know is written in the stars. pricing includes: 1 questions answered in 1-2 paragraphs… up to 2 questions answered in 3-5 paragraphs (*reading does not include interpretation of personal transits or chart degrees) dealer’s choice tbd -> unsure about which service will yield the best answer? tell me a little about yourself (>2 paragraphs please) and i’ll let you know which reading i think you should seek with me.
legal disclaimer: these readings are for entertainment purposes. my readings should not be used in place of legal, medical, mental health advice. as readings are subject to the reader’s interpretation, they should not be regarded as absolute.
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hccn-overseer · 9 months
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Issue 10, 6/21/2023 - The Overseer
Issue Masterpost About the Overseer
This week's issue is accompanied by a PDF version created by the lovely Cheer! Pick it up here to check it out!
This Week At The Overseer HQ
By Nes
Welcome to a new segment here at The Overseer where we keep you updated on the mishaps here at The Overseer HQ! Ever wonder what your favourite writers and artists are doing between issues? Well, now you’ll be able to tell!
The HQ was incredibly hyped this week as we approached our 10th issue, a big milestone! We ended up naming this week our official birthday, so be sure to wish all writers, artists, editors, etc, a very special day if you see them! If they act confused, assume they have been replaced with a clone and act accordingly.*
Incidents this week were shockingly low with only 28 reported. These incidents include a food fight in the breakroom, multiple fires thanks to a failed baking attempt, and multiple failed kidnappings. The Overseer would like to remind people that no, our writers are not up for adoption and you cannot take them home. That goes for artists and beta readers as well. 
The Seers are ecstatic this week as they are back in business with three asks to answer! Be sure to give them lots of love and consider leaving an ask of your own via the ask box, they’ll be answered as soon as we receive enough to warrant an article. 
We’re also busy at work on the Citizen Census which is set to be released the first week of July, huge thanks to Lydia for leading the charge in gathering the information needed! If you have some citizens who haven’t completed the census form yet, then you can do it here! The Census Forum is set to close on the 28th. We can’t wait to finish the article and see the employment rate on the server!
The Overseer would also like to note that we are always seeking new writers, artists, and proofreaders. To apply, simply pop into The Overseer channel on the server and let us know you’re interested in taking part in the newspaper!
*for legal reasons The Overseer would like to state that no one has been replaced with a clone and this is a joke
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Articles on the Overseer this week:
The Overseer Newspaper Celebrates 10th Issue!
Affiliate Happenings
Throwback #1
Weekly Weather Report
Yet Another Birthday Article
Astrology Corner
Ask the Seers
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Now onto other news below the cut!
The Overseer Newspaper Celebrates 10th Issue!
By Lydia
The Overseer Newspaper releases its tenth issue today, June 21st, 2023! This fan-created project has brought over 500 Citizens the latest updates regarding everything from the inner community’s events, changes, and overarching evolving presence on the Server overall to frequent updates about their favored Hermits’ recurring content. The dedicated staff appears overjoyed to be able to celebrate the newspaper’s tenth “Birthday” and has stated that this is an incredible milestone. Previous conversations within the organization have included wishing to commemorate all of the work that the team has contributed to this ongoing collaborative project. Through each issue, The Overseer solidifies its identity as “Made by the Hermit Citizen Community, for the Hermit Citizen Community,” through its recurring columns featuring Horoscopes, a Lost and Found, an Advice Column, Server Affiliate Summaries, retrospectives from On the Sidelines, Citizen Organization Advertisements, Weather Forecasts, its Games and Puzzles, and its aesthetically detailed Coloring Pages and Comics. This newspaper releases both a textual version and a PDF version of each issue through its Tumblr page and garners an increasingly growing readership of the Hermit Citizen Hub.
Roo, the Editor-in-Chief of The Overseer, has guided the Newspaper collective through each issue’s weekly progress, providing suggestions for new articles, keeping track of the present staff members and their engagement, structuring the order of the articles for their public releases, providing the Affiliate Summaries, frequently updating the staff about the ongoing news regarding both the Hermit Citizens and the Hermits themselves, answering endless questions from both outsiders and staff members, organizing special events for The Overseer’s future issues, and bolstering consistently high morale among the staff through encouraging and welcoming leadership. The task of keeping each staff member accountable while also ensuring that they are not overworking themselves to the bone is far from an easy one, with over twenty staff members and an enormous passive viewership of approximately six hundred participants of the Hermit Citizen Hub. The comprehensive duties of this volunteer position can easily rival those of a full-time paid occupation, and it is incredibly generous of Roo to provide these extensive services without monetary compensation. The Overseer staff and the Hermit Citizen Community would like to extend a long-overdue “Thank You” to Roo, the ever-determined visionary, and cat-herder of The Overseer!
While each newspaper issue varies in length, the written voices of each contributor have become increasingly distinct over the past ten weeks. Frequent readers of The Overseer may very well be able to guess the writer of each article by merely a single paragraph, and the subject matter of each article. Corundum Cat and Jamie create ominous, humorously written Horoscopes each week. Sirius, Ilea, and Azure make Word Searches, Crossword Puzzles, Coloring Pages, and Comics that invite readers to test their wits and their knowledge of color theory. Roo brings the most prevalent Hermit Affiliate groups to the center of attention through the bi-weekly Affiliate Summaries, all with the reporter’s commentary. Jester, Nes, Vi, and S all provide lighthearted assistance for all Citizen problems through The Seers Advice Column.
Rainy brings readers full Weather Forecasts to help Citizens prepare for thunderstorms, rip tides, and the odd sandstorm, as well as predictions for Hot Guy sightings. Lydia shines the spotlight on Citizens’ artistic pursuits. Two previous issues also included Lydia’s Spectating Science column, which ran capacious reports covering scientific researchers of the Server. Virtual ensures that all missing items are tracked down with perfectly descriptive articles in the Lost and Found. Felix provides Op-Eds full of wonder and boundless enthusiasm for life itself in the On the Sidelines column. Jamie organizes advertisements from all around the Server in the Citizen Advertisements column. Cheer shows off her affinity for graphic design through the PDF versions of each issue, including adapting the titles and formatting each article.
With over fifty articles published in total for The Overseer, every writer’s level of finesse and skill comes to light through their efforts to make an entertaining, informative, and personalized newspaper. In addition, the majority of the staff also shares the task of writing recurring topics with each other, allowing for a varied writing group each week. It is not an accident that readers may see various recurring articles written by different members from one issue to the next. While not seen as nearly as challenging as performance art, the act of providing one’s written word in a public setting can be nerve-wracking to any number of viewers. The Overseer wishes the best of luck to all of the writers, all of whom are trying very hard to develop their creative literary experience to the best of their ability in the public eye!
The assiduous team of designers, editors, reporters, writers, and organizers of The Overseer, including Arcade, Azure, Berry, Cheer, Corundum Cat, Felix, Fool, Ilea, Jamie, Jester, Lee, Light, Lydia, Mewie, Morph, Nes, Nika, Rainy, Roo, S, Sirius, Snuffy, Styx, and Virtual, would like to share their thanks to each of their readers for the steadfast support they have received for the past two and a half months! They would also like to thank the overall Hermit Citizen Community for effortlessly maintaining such an altruistic and vivacious space for all of their fellow participants.
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Affiliate Happenings
By Roo
Bdoubleo: There has been a sighting of the Bdoubleo in his natural habitat. All is well with the world.
GoodTimesWithScar: Apparently, literally all the Hermits are the tallest possible, even not counting various extra limbs. The good times keep timing.
Grian: They’re planning a trip to Omega Mart. Please don’t look up commercials, as from what I’ve gathered, they are extremely concerning and honestly, probably the worst thing I will see in my life, if you don’t count the newspaper’s lack of storage. Nobody worry, we’re still debating on whether or not to call Pearl, as we’re all broke enough already.
JoeHills: (Non-threateningly) Joe Hills.
MumboJumbo: As a direct quote, “Mumbo Jumbo should compete in a stache' contest,” which, while having a multitude of grammatical and spelling errors, we at the newspaper fully agree with.
PearlescentMoon: They’re studying her under a microscope. They’re taking notes. They’re running full-level tests and then wiping up the extra soup spills so as to not ruin their hard work.
ZombieCleo: Cleo has been turned into a lofi girl (gender neutral) and honestly, I think we should be scared.
If your affiliate channel has not shown up this week, it is, as always, and I should really not have to keep saying this, but it’s become a tradition at this point- it is because it has been inactive or the activity has been minimal. Have a lovely week, citizens!
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Throwback #1
By Ilea
With the rise of museums on Hermitcraft (and us at The Overseer covering briefly what is in them), the local Hermit-history nerd of The Overseer (that’s me) decided that covering some of the artifacts collected in detail would be interesting. It will probably be a series showing up now and then.
So, welcome to the first edition of this trivia thing, I may manufacture the name in the future. This week we are looking at the season 9 big Iskall head in the implications of Iskallman being back.
Firstly, who is Iskallman? Technically, Iskall with an extra Iskall head on his head. However, what is more important is that said head implies that Iskall will give someone a gift that is of help. The character originated from Hermit Challenges after Iskall got dared and has been carried over to season 9.
Now the big head was made to give Stress a gift and later to use in his King’s court audition tape. 
Questions that we cannot answer are ‘How is Iskallman?’ and ‘Will Iskallman be back?’ We only may hope to learn that in the future, but that has been your quick history throwback for a week.
I have been your host, Il, thanks for reading.
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Weekly Weather Report
By Nes
Temperature will be presented in Celsius format, sorry, Americans
Thursday - Cloudy skies with a high of 21 Celsius is expected to last throughout Thursday, with winds picking up in the evening. An excellent day to do outside work as the clouds will prevent a lot of the suns UV’s from reaching you, plus the slight wind ensures you won’t overheat.
Friday - Light showers are expected to begin Friday afternoon alongside a high of 32 Celsius. Showers will last until around dinner time before clearing out to reveal clear skies. Might be best to choose an indoor activity.
Saturday - Clear skies with a high of 34 Celsius is expected for Saturday and will last the entire day, be sure to hydrate properly and consider avoiding labour intensive work while outside during the day.
Sunday - More clear skies with a high of 38 Celsius, seems like a bit of a heatwave has hit Hermitcraft. Be sure to drink lots of water, avoid unnecessary labour, and try taking showers if you feel real groggy. 
Monday - The heatwave continues with clear skies and a high of 34 Celsius, as always be sure to hydrate and take care of your bodies needs.
Tuesday - Clear skies continue but the heat seems to have gone down as the high is expected to be 26 Celisuis, might be a good day to get anything you put off during the heatwave done. 
Wednesday - Light showers are expected in the morning before making way to clear skies by noon with a high of 25 Celusuis, perhaps consider visiting a nearby body of water for a swim.
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Yet Another Birthday Article
By Roo
The Overseer was an idea suggested by Hermitcitizen and mod Void on April 15th, 2023, the idea coming from a dream, if our sources are correct. Not even a week after the Hermitcitizen Hub was up and running, the first issue was  posted on April 18th. The three days between the newspaper's founding and first issue were full of pure chaos, name suggestions, and a growing group of various citizens contributing in their own ways. 
The name "The Overseer" was suggested by Shroomgun, and for the last ten weeks, the crew at The Overseer has been working to produce a newspaper each week, complete with games, weather, articles, coloring pages, a PDF version, and even a recent expansion to Twitter.
The newspaper consists of less than 30 citizens, and honestly, if I were to pick a newspaper crew,  i sure as hell wouldnt pick them I would pick them every time. These citizens are all people who put in extra time for no paycheck (we're all unpaid interns, any donations would be welcome) and make amazing creations. Thank you so much for everyone in the newspaper crew, because if it was just me and one or two other people, it'd be a really crappy newspaper. I may be herding cats, but if I'm fully honest, I'm more of a cat person anyways.
Here's to many more weeks to come.
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Astrology Corner
By Winter
Have you been feeling without guidance? Do you look at your birthday, look up your star sign, and wonder, “Do I need to bake a cake?” “Are the horoscopes gonna be wholesome this week?” Don’t worry, here at The Overseer, we can help you.*
Aries: You will find a pet and adopt it. You will then become lifelong friends.
Taurus: You will find a really nice coffee shop and become friends with the co-owner. 
Gemini: You will adopt an introvert and make them feel welcome.
Cancer: You found this epic cat cafe and wanted to book it for your birthday, but someone else has booked it. Weird.
Leo: You get a message from a long-lost relative with an inheritance sum of “more than Docm77’s” diamonds. So, a lot. Are you the richest Hermitcitizen?
Virgo: You approached Capricorn about Cancer. You also got paid by your employer.
Libra: You have arranged (after Decked Out is complete, of course) for TangoTek to do the groundhog thing he did last time Decked Out was being built. If he comes out, you and the Decked Out people get to go on extended leave. 
Scorpio: You have been gifted 20 pugaliers. Take good care of them.
Sagittarius: You get to be adopted by The Rift. Congratulations!
Capricorn: You will be approached about throwing a birthday party for Cancer. If you choose to take on this task, make sure it is at a cat cafe.
Aquarius: You get adopted by Gemini, and they then will accept the cupcakes you make in response. 
Pisces: You are somehow significant to the lore and get an exhibit dedicated to you in one of the museums.
All star signs: Did you think I could be wholesome?
*Ignore how blatantly specific these are. Nothing bad will happen to you.
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Ask the Seers
By Seers Jester, S, Vi, and Nes
Life can be confusing and sometimes we don’t hold all the answers, but that’s ok because The Seers are here! Have you recently adopted a Warden and don’t know what to do with it? Do you believe yourself to be in danger due to your affliate Hermit blowing up our resident mad scientests machine? Ask us for advice and we’ll be sure to get back to you… eventually!
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Dear Seers,  um.. every time I pass the tree of whimsy, I hear voices, is this normal ? - Talking to the voices in my head
Dear Talking to the Voices,
While mildly disquieting, hearing voices isn’t too uncommon on the hermitcraft server, particularly when near a build with as much residual whimsical energy as the Tree of Whimsy (Whimsy Anomaly Center of Knowledge [W.A.C.K.] site OO100) or The Entity (W.A.C.K. site CON412). Though if you are still concerned, here’s a quick checklist to determine the severity of your situation:
Do the voices remain even when you have left the W.A.C.K. site’s radius?
Do the voices imitate either your voice, or the voice of a friend/loved one?
Are the voices accompanied by music? Particularly acoustic covers of your favorite and/or least favorite songs.
Do the voices become panicked or even scream when near large redstone contraptions?
If the answer to any of those questions is yes, please stop by the W.A.C.K. research center (located below the end island) for testing treatment - The Seers
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Dear Seers, can we adopt the horse-curse horses from Scarland? - Really wants a horse from scarland
Hello Really Wants A Horse From Scarland! What is kidnapping if not surprise adoption? Just be sure not to get caught by Scarland staff and take proper care of the horse - chances are they’re safer in your hands then his given his track record of keeping literally anything alive. - The Seers
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Dear Seers I work and live in Scarland, and need to find a new place to go after the incident, what are the safest places to live? - Someone who has probably already faced Docs wrath since sending this in
Assuming you are not already one with the ground due to this delayed response, perhaps consider moving into The Perimeter! Shockingly there is no place safer for you right now than the most dangerous place on the server. Good luck! - The Seers
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ADVERTISEMENTS
By Jamie
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Fun and Games
This week's fun and games are brought to you by Lydia and Azure!
Word Search and Crossword by Lydia
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Brain Teasers by Azure
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And that's all for this week folks, thanks for reading and have a wonderful week!
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mariacallous · 7 months
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If you’ve heard of political astrology, you probably believe it’s for fascists.
The 20th-century far right was invested in occultism, and fascists of many kinds were ardent occultists. As George Orwell noted, “A year before the war, examining a copy of Gringoire, the French Fascist weekly, much read by army officers, I found in it no less than thirty-eight advertisements of clairvoyants.” The Nazi interest in occultism was not just fodder for pulp movies and comic books, but a meaningful aspect of their politics.
Beyond fascism as such, political astrology has been associated with the broader right throughout the 20th century, where it shaped political decision-making in powerful and unsubtle ways. Past examples abound: Nancy Reagan’s astrologer set her husband’s schedule. When it became known that former South Korean President Park Geun-hye was in thrall to a self-proclaimed shaman, the ensuing scandal toppled her government.
The critical theorist Theodor Adorno wrote several analyses of the linkages between occultism and the political right, which were published in 1975 as The Stars Down to Earth and Other Essays on the Irrational in Culture, including a critical reading of the astrology column of the Los Angeles Times. According to Adorno, astrology supports the right wing because it promotes an “ideology of dependance,” which views a fundamentally irrational status quo as fated and unchangeable and presents the reader’s responsibility as adjusting to it, thus internalizing their own oppression. Since astrology gave its consumers a false sense of their own power while persuading them to in reality do nothing, it obviously supported the right wing in this analysis.
Political astrology is returning today—but not on the right. Instead, astrology is booming among largely progressive millennials and Generation Z, especially in LGBTQ+ circles, where it is so popular that people who don’t like it can feel like outsiders.
For some people in this milieu, queer astrology is explicitly left-wing. In an article published in GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, Alexa Winstanley-Smith has written about the possibility of explicitly instrumentalizing astrology’s popularity for far left politics: “It might be asked: perhaps can we help ourselves to the interesting potential of astrology if we simply clean up our ideological commitments and clarify the role of astrology as a methodological resource?”
But astrology’s politics are more complicated than any simple link to left or right. Explaining this means a deep dive into the history of astrology’s relationship to power and modernity. In Europe’s past, astrology could be used for many political aims, whether to support or attack the status quo. In contrast, modern left-wing astrology has not escaped the limitations that Adorno identified generations ago for astrology on the right.
Perhaps the most noticeable feature of contemporary leftist astrology is that many of its practitioners do not believe in it. Adorno noticed that astrology was already ironic in his analysis: “so many followers of astrology do not seem quite to believe but rather take an indulgent, semi-ironical attitude towards their own conviction.”
Instead, the adherents of modern astrology see it not as a set of true statements, or even its ostensible purpose, a generator of predictions about the future, but as a way to articulate meaningful narratives about the world and their place in it. Astrology, in this sense, functions similarly to political ideologies. Whereas politicians on the campaign trail promise more an approach to current affairs than a set of accurate statements about them, horoscopes promise a cosmos in which the individual human life has literally cosmic significance. Both are an articulation of aspiration and potential—a guiding promise of how the world or the individual should or could be.
Astrology, not unlike party affiliation, is a narrative we tell ourselves. And thus, its myths and symbols can be reappropriated for political ends. The political gadfly Sam Kriss argues that for astrology to be a leftist force in modern politics, it must be unreal, since only then is it capable of indefinite manipulation: “The night sky has always been the terrain on which we make and unmake our own social reality,” and “[i]f astrology has been pressed into the service of mundane power, to represent a world that can never change, our task is not to do away with it, but to fight for its liberation.”
But in its current state, left-wing astrology lacks the real-life application to be up to the political—let alone revolutionary—task. Adorno argued that astrology is conservative precisely because it expected “from the transfigured shape of society misplaced in the skies an answer that only a study of real society can give.” Astrology inscribed the U.S. social order onto the cosmos without actually analyzing it. Although modern left-wing astrology claims to provide this analysis, it is no less toothless than its conservative predecessor: Instead, it merely asserts that it’s left-wing and leaves the rest as an exercise for the reader. The rhetoric is maximalist, and it leads to no action.
In contrast, Winstanley-Smith writes that the left needs an organizing metaphor robust enough to compete with the right-wing concept of political theology—and she posits queer political astrology as the left’s best bet for it.
Yet Winstanley-Smith looks for a political astrology that is both left-wing and queer in the same milieu where fascist astrology flourished: the hothouse of ideas that was Germany between the wars. Her quixotic search for a “useable history” of queer political astrology takes the form of a close reading of a book by Karl-Günther Heimsoth (1899-1934). Heimsoth was, simultaneously, a Nazi, an astrologer, a communist spy, a gay rights activist, and a friend of Ernst Röhm; in the words of Flann O’Brien, “it was the sort of thing one did at the turn of the century.” This profoundly 1920s Type of Guy was shot and killed during the Night of the Long Knives, Hitler’s purge of the SA. It is ironic, but also telling, that the best representative of a queer astrology in this paper turns out to be a literal Nazi, and Winstanley-Smith concludes by wondering if the search for a left-wing political astrology is, in fact, futile.
However, unlike Adorno, I am not willing to say that astrology is inherently conservative—or inherently anything else. Both in theory and in practice, astrology can align with both left-wing and right-wing values and objectives. Some of the best examples of this multivalence come from European astrology’s last hurrah.
Astrology was not primarily medieval in Europe; its last great age—real, nonironic astrology, astrology as serious intellectual heavyweight—was the Renaissance, the beginning of the modern world. During this time, astrology also had political functions, which cannot be narrowed down to simply left or right.
It is perhaps because of astrology’s ubiquity in early modern Europe, at all levels of society and politics, that it functioned not only to support power, but also to undermine it.
Astrologers served as advisors for princes and heads of state, extending their power over ordered nature to guide their clients’ power over other people. Astrology was an essential element of the way the Holy Roman emperors of the 15th and 16th century upheld and exercised their power. Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler were imperial astronomers and astrologers for Rudolf II, Matthias, and Ferdinand II. Kepler also advised the general of the imperialist army under Ferdinand, Albrecht von Wallenstein.
Astrology was not only important for governance because it gave heads of state a way to see into the present and predict the future, thereby guiding their own actions. It was just one part of an entire worldview, the ideas of which had influenced European thought since the late classical period. In this worldview, nature was an ordered system, in which what was larger or more important (the macrocosm) and what was smaller or less important (the microcosm) were similar in form and influenced each other.
The idea was that the elite could improve their mastery over larger entities, such as states, by improving their mastery over some smaller part of them, such as the cultivation of their own persons or handicrafts. This informed a few otherwise unusual and difficult-to-explain activities, including the fad for creating lathe-turned sculptures in ivory. Some early modern beliefs about the cosmos used ideals of a celestial monarchy to make earthly monarchs sacred, ranging from beliefs about Charles V and Elizabeth I to practices such as ritualized dances in which Louis XIV portrayed the sun.
However, in contrast to 20th-century right-wing uses of the occult, which were inherently supportive of the state’s power, early modern astrology was used not only to support earthly power, but also to destabilize it, whether deliberately or by accident. Astrology inspired the Italian heretic Tommaso Campanella to rebel against the Spanish authorities in Southern Italy and write The City of the Sun, a treatise describing a communitarian, egalitarian theocracy. Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II’s mystical practices are well-known, but far from making him a despot, they weakened his ability to actually govern or indeed know what was going on outside his own palace. (Eventually, his brother deposed him.)
The Holy Roman Empire was fractious and heterogeneous, and astrology preoccupied both its emperors in the first decades of the 17nth century and their enemy Frederick V. Rudolf II and Frederick V both used mysticism as one element of their politics, but one sought to protect the status quo and the other to disrupt it. The culture that Frederick and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Britain’s James I, fostered at their court in Heidelberg combined alchemy, astrology, a keen interest in scientific advances, and devout Calvinism. They were “progressive” in the literal sense of this word: they believed in ideas that were modern to them. This mixture of intellectual influences helped contribute to the development of modern science to the development of modern science.
Early modern astrology was used for many political projects. It was neither solely progressive nor conservative because it was so pervasive: Astrology was an organic element of the cultures of early modern Europe. It was intellectually serious, and its seriousness came with complexity: An individual astrological chart was a complicated affair that took days to draw up. Astrologers themselves were political actors, men of the court, and core players in Europe’s self-transformation who took their beliefs as seriously as Calvinism or Catholicism.
In contrast, the modern left’s approach to astrology is ill-suited toward political ends because it is inextricable from the consumer culture it should be criticizing, one steeped in the approaches of fandom. Many modern, first-world astrologers don’t believe in astrology; they’re roleplaying being the kind of people who believe in astrology. In Postcolonial Astrology (2021), Alice Sparkly Kat calls this shaping of something that everyone involved knows to be false but makes the foundation of their identities anyway a kind of fanfiction:
“We look for identity from it. The reason why astrology, as a subculture, creates beautiful community and spiritual validation is not because there is anything special about such an occult language or because it has the ability to glimpse into one’s being in a way that’s different from other identity languages; it’s because astrology’s practitioners and fans have made it our own.”
Adorno noticed this too, arguing that astrology offers “the pleasant gratification that he who feels to be excluded … nevertheless belongs to the minority of those who are ‘in the know.’”
This false empowerment of the excluded is the seductive appeal of astrology for leftists and the LGBTQ+ community, but the formation of one’s identity through astrology is also a profoundly early modern idea.
Historians use the term self-fashioning to refer to constructing your persona and behavior based on admired cultural models. This is related to the influential late 20th-century philosopher Foucault’s analysis of classical and early modern practices as examples of what he referred to as the “care of the self,” the introspective attempt to live according to aesthetic and ethical rules of conduct. Astrology in the context of these ideas is a technique of the self, like asceticism, meditative prayer, or bodily practices such as fencing and dancing: It describes your personality, the situations around you, and your relationships with others, and it provides guidelines on how to shape yourself by living.
In contrast to early modern self-fashioning, modern left-wing astrology exists within a socioeconomic and cultural context in which consumers build identities and communities around shared participation in aspects of popular culture, which Grinnell College professor Ross Haenfler calls “participatory culture.” In this context, it’s probably most accurate to describe astrology as a fandom, a type of self-fashioning based not only on the consumption of commodity goods, but also on their active transformation through activities such as making fanart, going to conventions, or writing fanfiction. In the most pessimistic reading, fandom finds a consumer good and consumes it, and in consumption the consumer finds their self in it, because they put it there. As Kat wrote in Postcolonial Astrology, “I’ve seen queers” laughing with their friends about “being a Leo rising because it makes them feel so seen.”
The use of sun signs as identity types, that you can “be” a Leo rising like you can “be” a Gryffindor, is an excellent example of the consumption of astrology as a product. The modern sun sign system was expressly constructed to be consumed in this way. (The sun is one of the astrological “planets.” The positions of these planets against the constellations of the zodiac are important, as well as their relationships to one another.)
The use of sun signs as a source of identity was inadvertently developed by British astrologer R.H. Naylor when he published the newborn Princess Margaret’s nativity in August 1930 in the Sunday Express, along with some vague predictions of crisis. This Caesarist unification of the masses and the royal was so successful that the Express offered him a weekly column, the world’s first newspaper horoscope. At first Naylor offered advice to people whose birthdays fell within the week each paper came out, but he devised the sun sign system in 1937 because it was faster and easier to give advice to one-twelfth of the population at a time. Sun signs were more profitable because they were mass producible.
A sun sign horoscope is a mass-produced consumer good, and so is any identity you get out of it. According to Walter Benjamin, once the aura (authenticity, one-of-a-kindness, the sacred) vanishes from the work of art, art’s value is based on the demands of revolutionary politics. But modern leftist astrology demands no revolutionary politics; instead, it praises the apparent authenticity you feel from participating in the astrology fandom.
This “feels like” authenticity because it is manufactured: It’s profitable when fandoms enjoy the consumer goods they’re fans of. To the author of Postcolonial Astrology, your sun sign feels more authentic even than class: “Rather than talking about ourselves within the typical categories of race, gender, and class, people want to build community around identities that feel authentic and close.” If I were a leftist, I would argue that your sun sign “feels authentic and close” while your class doesn’t because the culture industry has sold one of them to you.
Today’s leftist astrology rests on the implicit beliefs that the universe is essentially meaningless, astrology’s tropes are projections of the human mind, and they therefore both can and should be rehabilitated for leftism. “As above, so below,” the catchphrase of astrology since the classical period, meaning that the macrocosm reflects the microcosm, where the things that are “lower” are controlled by the things that are “higher,” also implies “as below, so above.” Different leftist astrology fans express this in different tones, from whimsical to edgelord:
From Kay: “As a pseudoscience, astrology is a communal practice and a silly one. …The meaning of the sky comes directly from us. You are the thing that animates heaven.”
And from Kriss: “As above, so below. Those in power have taken this as a normative principle. What is below will have to conform to what is above…through force if necessary, But a liberated astrology, far from discarding this doctrine, should instead take it very seriously.”
The writers of both these examples are consumers: They participate in the astrology fandom by saying that astrology is leftist, that it should be more leftist, or that they are performing leftism by being fans of it, but all this talk—this fanfiction—accomplishes little to nothing. Leftist astrology has no practical leftist function. Adorno’s observation that astrology provides a false sense of empowerment still holds.
If astrology is a technique of self-fashioning, what are leftist astrology fans fashioning themselves into? Postcolonial Astrology divides its audience into categories like this: “millennials or boomers, white or other, queer or cisnormal.” LGBTQ+ people have historically been excluded from the mainstream in many times and places, but they nevertheless want to find sources of meaning in their lives or a sense of community.
Yet the claim that astrology should appeal to LGBTQ+ people (because it is countercultural and LGBTQ+ people are not “normal”) assumes that the queer community is a powerful oppositional political force, around which political astrology might coalesce. Instead, in the modern United States, the LBGTQ+ community seems divided politically. While queer people are embattled in some respects, in other respects they seem to be a part of the U.S. political mainstream—something they’ve fought hard to achieve over the centuries.
Writers such as Winstanley-Smith, who argue that queer political astrology should be appealing because it’s a way to live for groups of people who do not want to occupy “determinate conventional status among the general public,” ignore all this. For these authors, queer political astrology is necessary because it’s not mainstream. But they do not consider that for some gay people, an oppositional political identity may not be productive for its own sake.
Dividing human beings into the “cisnormal” and the “queer” assumes that a dichotomy between cisgender, heterosexual, white, adult, able-bodied, upper-middle-class men and everyone else exists in the first place, and that it is, in the words of Claude Lévi -Strauss, “good to think with.” In this way, these calls for radical queer astrology perform the post-early modern gender binary by claiming to reject it.
Ever since about 1750, astrology’s romantic appeal is precisely that it has been seen as nonscientific. The charitable reading of the claim that astrology is or should be queer is that rejected forms of dealing with the world can be seen as a queering of knowledge, a deliberate embrace of a belief that is marginalized by a people that is marginalized. We could argue that the embrace of astrology, magic, or occultism is another way to accept lived experience—especially marginalized lived experience—as an antidote to the conventional.
This argument fails to take two things into account, and they are important. In the first place, it is referring specifically to modern astrology, which is primarily a consumer product or kind of fandom, ignoring astrology’s rich and fascinating early modern history.
In the second place, and more seriously, it relegates women and LGBTQ+ people to an intellectual ghetto in the name of empowering them. Not every form of marginalized knowledge is marginalized unjustly; some of them are factually incorrect. The argument that astrology is a form of queering knowledge portrays a world in which only straight men can grasp reality, and women and queer people, like children, operate in the realm of whimsy. Men and women, the cisnormal and the gay, are framed as fundamentally different kinds of intellect. This is as rigid and stifling a discourse as anything produced in the previous two centuries. The only difference is that the values have been inverted—this time it’s good to be stupid. What’s worse, the non-cisnormal, in this line of thought, perform their outcast status by winkingly adopting beliefs that are known to their practitioners to be false.
The full implications of this argument’s contempt for the human spirit are probably unknown to its adherents, or else they would not posit it. Radical queer astrology is neither radical nor queer; it’s a hundred thousand pages of “maybe gay men are like women.” Fortunately, it’s also largely powerless.
The astrology that Adorno analyzed generations ago was right-wing. It discouraged conflict, encouraged its female readers to identify with those in power by imagining they were powerful, and shunted all impulses that might be used to create meaningful social change into a focus on the self.
Modern, left-wing, queer astrology is not a radical departure from this past. It does not challenge late capitalism except on its surface level but lives symbiotically within it. Left-wing astrology cannot provide a coherent account of power because the subcultures associated with it are forms of consumer culture, which means that they only thrive within the liberal social order they claim to oppose.
Early modern astrology was an authentic element of cultures that were different from our own. Europeans of that time used it to shape their lives and their conceptions of themselves; to uphold their social orders or to challenge them.
In contrast, modern leftist astrology claims to be a form of dissent. But in the end, it—like the modern sun sign—is a consumer product.
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DECEMBER 11TH - DECEMBER 18TH, 2023 | PREDICTIVE VEDIC ASTROLOGY
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Full Report Available on Youtube Members & Patreon. Weekly Planetary Placements & Aspects Predictions , Full Moon & New Moon Reports Included. (I Focus On Squares & Oppositions)
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( warning: i have dominant Aquarius placements, i thoroughly enjoy typing in all caps. excuse me ! )
As Of December 11th, 2023 ( Mini Report)
Lilith RX: Cancer (26) 9th House
AS PROMISED, LILITH IS MAKING HER ROUNDS. LAST WEEK LILITH WAS RX  IN LEO 10TH HOUSE, AND AT THE TIME IT WAS CLEAR TO ME THAT YOU WERE BEING ENERGETICALLY VIOLATED AND BULLIED AND PROTECTIVE FORCES WERE BEING ACTIVATED AND ACTING ON YOUR BEHALF. PERSONALLY, ONE OF MY PROTECTIVE FORCES IS LILITH, THE QUEEN- HERSELF. WE ALL KNOW CANCERIAN ENERGY IS ASSOCIATED WITH BEING THE MOTHER AND ANY GOOD MOTHER IS LOVING, NURTURING BUT FIERCELY PROTECTIVE OF HER BABIES. MY INTUITIVE INTERPRETATION IS FURTHER CONFIRMED WITH CANCERIAN PROTECTIVE ENERGY IN THE 9TH HOUSE WHERE GOD CARRIES OUT SPIRITUAL BUSINESS. TO BE CLEAR, GOD’S CHOSEN PEOPLE ARE FIERCELY PROTECTED AT THIS TIME AND ANYTIME. PLEASE NOTE THAT WITH PROTECTION COMES REJECTION AND SO DURING THIS TIME YOU MAY EXPERIENCE SOME OR A LOT OF REJECTION. THIS REJECTION CAN OUTWARDLY APPEAR TO BE HURTFUL, AN INCONVIENCE, AND OR UNCOMFORTABLE BUT IF YOU ARE ABLE TO SEE THINGS AT A HIGHER PERSPECTIVE WITH TRUST, EVERYTHING LITTLE THING IS GOING TO BE ALRIGHT- BOB MARLEY VIBES.
IC: Aquarius (9) 4th House
CONSIDERING WHAT WAS JUST MENTIONED WITHIN THE LILITH RX IN CANCER 9TH HOUSE PLACEMENT, WITH REGARDS TO BEING TEMPORARILY HELD BACK FOR PROTECTION, IN ADDITION TO BEING FORCED/GUIDED TO STAY HOME AS A RESULT. I ALSO MENTIONED HOW GOD, AND YOUR SPIRIT FAMILY KNEW IN ADVANCE WHAT WAS UP AHEAD BEFORE YOU AND TO NOT TAKE THIS TEMPORARY SET BACK AS A FORM OF PUNISHMENT, THOUGH IT MAY FEEL THAT WAY. YOUR FAITH IS BEING TESTED FOR SURE HOWEVER, IN THE MEANTIME WHY NOT FIND SOMETHING ELSE TO DO? LIKE A KID ON PUNISHMENT OR JUST SIMPLY NOT ALLOWED TO GO OUTSIDE FOR WHATEVER REASON THEIR PARENTS DIDN’T DISCLOSE, THEY USUALLY FIND SOMETHING ELSE TO DO TO ENTERAIN THEMSELVES. WITH THE IC IN AQUARIUS, THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT YOU ARE BEING ENCOURAGED TO DO BECAUSE BY DOING SO, YOU WILL FIND A NEW GIFT, TALENT, INTEREST AKA. YOUR HIDDEN GENIUS. THE IC IS HIDDEN, AS IS THE 4TH HOUSE. BOTH OF WHICH DEAL DIRECTLY WITH OUR ANCESTRAL ROOTS, GENETICS, REAL ESTATE, VALUE, FOUNDATIONS, MOTHERS AND YOUTH. WITH THE IC IN AQUARIUS, RULED BY URANUS, THIS ALL INDICATES HIGH LEVEL OF GENIUS’ AND INTUITION.
Vertex: Aquarius (11) 8th House
THE VERTEX IS ABOUT DESTINY AND FATE. MOST MISTAKENLY BELIEVE IN FREE WILL AND WITH THAT THINK THEY ARE IN CONTROL AND FIGHT HARD TO OBSTRUCT YOUR DESTINY. THIS TRANSIT IS INTERESTING BECAUSE AS PREVIOUSLY MENTIONED, THE VERTEX DEALS WITH FATE AND IT’S IN AQUARIUS, THE SAME SIGN THAT THE IC IS IN. THE SMALL DIFFERENCE IS THE FACT THAT THE IC IN AQUARIUS WAS IN THE 1ST DECAN THAT URANUS IN ADDITION TO BEING INTROVERTED. WHEN YOU ARE INTROVERTED, ISOLATED AND ALONE- IT’S MUCH EASIER TO NOTICE THE DETAILS. DETAILS ARE EXTREMELY IMPORTANT! NOW, THE VERTEX IN AQUARIUS IS AT 11 DEGREES, WHERE THE INTELLECT IS MORE EXTROVERTED AND RESTLESS. I MENTIONED WITH THE IC IN AQUARIUS, TO ALWAYS BE PLUGGED INTO YOUR CRAFT, TECHNOLOGY AND WHATEVER FIELD URANUS RULES TO ENSURE YOU ARE CONSTANTLY CHARGED UP. WELL, THE VERTEX IN AQUARIUS IS EXTROVERTED AND THIS IS COMPARABLE TO HAVING A PHONE OR LAPTOP AND FORGETTING THE CHARGER. AT SOME POINT, THE TECHNOLOGY WILL DIE AND YOU DO NOT HAVE YOUR CHARGER. FOR THIS VERY REASON, THIS IS WHY YOU WILL BEGAIN, FOR SOME, TO HAVE A SHOCKING CHANGE IN YOUR FINANCIAL SITUATION AS CONFIRMED WITH THE IC IN AQUARIUS 4TH HOUSE. PEOPLE WILL BE REALIZING THIS WEEK THAT THEY NEED YOU AS YOU ARE THEIR CHARGE.
Descendant: Aries (27) 7th House
I HAD JUST MENTIONED WITHIN THE VERTEX IN AQAURIUS 8TH HOUSE PLACEMENT, HOW DESTINY HAS OFFICIALLY BEEN ACTIVATED. THERE WILL BE SOME AT THIS PROFOUND TIME WHO WILL BE EXPERIENCE MAGIC AND EXPERIENCING ENDLESS POSSIBILITIES WHEREAS OTHERS WILL BE EXPERIENCING HELL. TO GET A FULL GRASPS AS TO WHY SOME WILL BE WITNESSING MAGIC OR HELL, I HAVE TO REFER BACK TO LAST WEEK, BRIEFLY. ENERGY FLOWS, NOTHING JUST HAPPENS. LAST WEEK, THE DESCENDANT WAS IN ARIES BUT AT 12 DEGREES THAT MARS RULES. DURING THAT TYPE, THERE WERE SOME PEOPLE BEGINNING TO FEEL THE TEMPATURE AND PRESSURE RISING, ESPECIALLY IN RELATION TO OTHERS. YOU, OR OTHERS MAY HAVE STARTED TO FEEL OVERWHELMED, DEFEATED AND LIKE YOUR BACK WAS BEING PUSHED UP AGAINGST THE WALL. EVERY TURN YOU MADE, WAS MET WITH OPPOSITION. YOU, OR OTHERS FELT LIKE THEIR IDENTITY WAS BEING THREATENED AND AS A RESULT YOU, OR OTHERS WERE BEGINNING TO FEEL PARANOID AND LIKE YOU COULDN’T TRUST ANYONE, BECOMING MORE SECLUDED AND CLOSED OFF. YOU, OR OTHERS WERE STARTING TO FEEL DEPLEATED ENERGETICALLY AND AGAIN, INCREASINGLY UNTRUSTING OF OTHERS. DUE TO THIS UNTRUSTWORTHINESS YOU OR OTHERS WERE INADVERTENTLY PUTTING YOURSELF IN A CAGE, BECOMING NARROW MINDED, CALCULATING AND EITHER EXTREMELY REGLIIOUS OR SPIRITUAL TO IT’S DETRIMENT.
Ascendant: Libra (27) 1st House
IN PURE LIBRA FASHION, THIS TRANSIT CAN PLAY OUT PEACEFULLY OR VIOLENTLY. THE REASON BEING, THE ASCENDANT IS EXTREMELY INFLUENCED BY THE DESCENDANT, AND AS DISCUSSED WITHIN THE DESCENDANT IN ARIES 7TH HOUSE PLACEMENT- SOME MAY BE FEELING OVERWHELMED, PRESSURED AND LIKE THEIR IDENTITY IS BEING THREATENED WHICH WILL USUALLY RESULT IN ANGER OUTBURST OR WORSE, VIOLENCE. AS FOR THOSE WHERE THE ASCENDANT PLAYS OUT PEACEFULLY, THIS IS DUE TO RELEASING WHATEVER TENSION, CONTROL, ANIMOSITY, BITTERNESS AND RESENTMENT THAT YOU MAY HAVE BEEN HOLDING ONTO. THE DESCENDANT IN ARIES IN THE 7TH HOUSE IS REVEALING THE NEED TO BE IN CONTROL, ESPECIALLY IN RELATIONS WITH OTHERS. ONLY THE WISE KNOW YOU CANNOT CONTROL ANYONE OR CIRCUMSTANCE EXCEPT YOURSELF. YOU WILL LOSE YOUR MIND AND BEARING THE MOMENT YOU TRY TO CONTROL ANYTHING AND ANYONE BUT YOURSELF AND UNFORTUNATELY, SOME MAY INDEED, LOSE THEY MIND WITH THE ASCENDANT IN LIBRA BECAUSE THEY CANNOT CONTROL ANOTHER PERSON OR PEOPLE. YOU CANNOT MAKE SOMEONE ACT HOW YOU WANT, SAY WHAT YOU WANT OR BE WHO YOU WANT AND YET- THIS IS WHY SOME PEOPLE DURING THIS TRANSIT WILL BE MAD, BIG MAD.
Midheaven: Leo (9) 10th House
A CHOICE NEEDED TO BE MADE WITH THE DESCENDANT IN ARIES AND ASCENDANT IN LIBRA. PERSONALLY, I CHOSE PEACE, LOVE AND HAPPIENESS AND SO FROM THIS POINT FORWARD THAT WILL BE ALL I AM FOCUSING ON. THE HIGH AND BEAUTIFUL VIBRATIONS. THE MIDHEAVEN IN LEO CONFIRMS  SUCH CONSIDERING LEO ENERGY IS ALL ABOUT ATTENTION, ENERGY, HEALING, GROWTH, EXPRESSION AND CREATIVITY. WHERE YOUR ENERGY GOES IS WHERE IT GROWS AND IN THE 10TH HOUSE,OF BUSINESS, CAREER, REPUTATION, SOCIAL STATUS, POWER, AND FAME- THAT’S WHERE SOME OF YOU ARE CHOSING TO EXERT YOUR ENERGY INTO. I KEEP HEARING FROM THE GRAPE VINE, “ STANDING ON BUSINESS” AND I SUPPOSE THIS TRANSIT IS INFLUECING SUCH A SAYING THAT IS POPULAR. WITH THAT BEING SAID, THIS TRANSIT CAN INDICATE POPULARITY, ATTENTION, ADMIRATION AND NOTERIATY IN WHATEVER CAREER FIELD YOU ARE IN. BRIEFLY, THIS WILL ATTRACT HATERS AND ENEMIES BUT YOU ARE NO LONGER FOCUSED ON THAT NEGATIVITY, YOU DO NOT WANT TO HEAR IT, SEE IT OR THINK ABOUT IT. IT’S GIVING STARVE THE ENERGY VIBES AND KEEP IN MIND OTHERS MAY TRY TO STARVE YOU OF ENERGY, BUT KEEP DOING YOU REGARDLESS. I AM SURE YOU UNDERSTAND THAT EVERYONE IS TRYING TO BE SEEN, ACKNOWLEDGED AND FAMOUS IN THEIR OWN RIGHT. SO, WHILE YOU MAY NOT BE IN THE SPOTLIGHT, THEY WAY YOU WANT, THAT SHOULDN’T STOP YOU FROM CREATING AND OR BUILDING YOUR CAREER OR NAME FOR YOURSELF. THIS TRANSIT CAN PLAY OUT BOTH WAYS, YOU MAY GET A RUSH OF ATTENTION AND THEN IT DISAPPEARS.
Part Of Fortune: Scorpio (17) 1st House
THE PART OF FORTUINE IN ASTROLOGY IS THE ENERGETIC JACKPOT. IF YOU HAVEN’T NOTICED ENERGY IS THE NEW CURRENCY BUT THEN AGAIN, THAT HAS ALWAYS BEEN THE SECRET FORMULA. EMPHASIS ON SECRET, WITH SCORPIO’S SECRETIVE A$$! WITH CONSIDERATION TO THE PART OF FORTUNE BEING IN SCORPIO AT 17 DEGREES, WITIN THE 2ND DECAN RULED BY NEPTUNE, THIS CAN INDICATE YOU APPEARING SECRETIVE, ELUSIVE AND MYSTERIOUS AT  THIS TIME. ASSUMING THIS IS TO PROTECT YOUR ENERGY AND TO AVOID CONFLICT. ON A NEGATIVE NOTE, THIS TRANSIT CAN BRING FORTH DESTRUCTION. LAST WEEK, THE PART OF FORTUNE WAS IN GEMINI AND IT WAS CLEAR THAT THERE WAS SOME ENERGETIC MANIPULATION OR STRAIGHT UP CURSES BEING SENT TO YOU WHILE YOUR ENERGY WAS BEING STOLEN FROM YOU AND WITH THAT BLESSINGS AND OPPORTUNITIES. I ADVISED LAST WEEK TO “ PLAY DEAD”, MEANING COMPLETELY DETACH, SHUTDOWN, BECOME MORE PRIVATE, CALCULATING AND PROTECTIVE OF YOUR ENERGY BUT MORE SO YOUR MIND.
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Research links for beginners in the broom closet?
Thank you so much for your question! Before I give you any recommendations, I want to talk a little bit about research and being in the broom closet.
First, most of my resources are books so I can give book recommendations but it is often more difficult for me to provide a list of links just based on what materials I use in my craft. Secondly, it is important to narrow down the subject matter. I can provide a bunch of random books but they may not be what you are looking for or what you are interested in. I would recommend choosing a set amount of topics (maybe like 2 or 3) that you are interested in and focus on those. Overwhelming yourself with information on multiple different subjects is not going to help you learn. I will provide some books on popular subjects below but they may not be about topics that interest you. I also occasionally will recommend sources in my posts so if a post interests you, try scrolling to the end to see if any sources are linked. Lastly, if you are someone who cannot house books (because you are in the broom closet or do not have the money) then I would subject taking advantage of resources like zlibrary or pdfdrive because you can download many books for free from those sites.
Not being able to practice out in the open can be difficult for many reasons but I want to stress the following. If it is unsafe for you to practice (because you will be hurt or kicked out) please do not do so! Research is always okay but never put yourself in a position where you could be in danger, especially if you are a minor (not saying you are but just in case). Please stay safe, it is okay if you have to wait a few years until you are in a safe space before practicing. It will not hold you back or make you less of a witch.
Resources:
🖤Books
Cunningham’s Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs- Scott Cunningham
The Ultimate Guide To Tarot- Liz Dean
Honouring Your Ancestors- Mallorie Vaudoise
Protection & Reversal Magick- Jason Miller
Psychic Witch- Mat Auryn
The Green Witch- Arin Murphy-Hiscock
🖤Websites
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My faith based opinions that would have be arrested by chronically online christian bloggers are that you can be feminist and be a christian, that Christ wanted women to follow him and women have always worked outside of the home and it wasn’t unbiblical. That being a pro life feminist means that we ensure the safety of women and children. That also, if your “godly” husband thinks that you dying in childbirth or from any complications in your pregnancy is something he is ok with - you need to leave him. He is demonically possessed. Demonic possession isn’t always like in the movies, you have to listen and trust god when he is guiding you and telling you to be safe ie, our gift of fear. Also christian women need to stop consuming the content from this new wave of neo trad girls when all do is say they’re anti feminists and have a mostly male audience. It’s not spiritually enriching or productive. Our faith is not a trend. It used to be edgy “anti sjw atheists” making this content, now it’s “new age traditional conservatives” using our faith as an aesthetic. It’s false and it will change again to something else.
I think I’m just talking from experience because my little sister is consuming this type of content. She changed from the ‘anti feminist anti sjw atheist’ to a ‘crystal healing reiki student using astrology and essential oils for any injury’ to finally, the ‘anti women’s rights trad wife’ despite not even having a boyfriend. I’m engaged but I’ve gotten a lot of hurtful things told to me by for wearing pants and having a job. I really hope one day she sees that all these people she watches and follows online are either grifting for money or so chronically online that they’re mentally ill and aren’t participating in society. But having a relationship with God is eternal, it will never change because he will never change.
Yeah I never understood why Christians where so defensive against "Christian feminist" but had no issue with "Christian nationalists". I mean if you think feminism has no basis on the Bible because women have to be submissive, so does nationalism because we Christians are supposed to claim only one nation that is the kingdom of God. Same for the Christian conservatives who will mock queer/LGBT Christians over the fact that homosexuality is a sin and them making a whole personality/pride around their identity, when their are themselves building their entire personality around hating the self and entertaining a whole load of sin (violence, constantly cussing people, picking fights, etc.)
There was an AITA with a woman asking if she was the asshole for shutting down her husband to have a delivery at home and without painkillers just bc his mom & sisters did it. He argued it was the only for them to "respect her" I-
Maybe it's just me but I don't consider those trad pickme as actually Christian?? like to me, they are comedians larping as Christians. They are the Christianese washed version of the girl boss. There's nothing "soft Christian girl uwu" in putting out whole videos every day. That stuff is A LOT of work and logistics. What they won't tell you is that they also have a team (editing, copywriting, social media managers, etc) which doesn't fit with the "I don't want to join the workd force and stay at home all day uwu" narrative. Just bc you're not in an office doesn't mean you're not working nor help the corporate world running - especially by hiring people. As someone who's doing vlog on the low, unless filming /editing it all day, it's impossible to regularly update video (~weekly basis) without having a team. And since those women braf about taking care of their house and child this is unlikely they are in fact filming & editing all their videos by themselves.
IDK most of those girls come off as highkey deceptive, bored and just want to flex their lavish lifestyle. In a society when accesss to work is a privilege, not having to even work seems like a luxury. Those chicks are capitalizing off of it.
That being said, I love the irony of those "anti female rights" girls. They've been to school (isn't there a middle aged trad guru who tells girl to not pursue university when she herself has a PhD? 💀), most likely own a bank account, opened their social account without asking for any male permission, wear make up..... but they will swear up and down that females rights and feminism is pointless.... Yeaaah.
I'm 100% convinced most of the girls looking up this content will grow out of this phase though. That's why I'm not too bothered by that. This trend is just the natural consequences of the millenial #girlboss thing - the girls just want to rest for a while lol You can be that in ~10 years, the pendulum will come back in, and a whole new generation of girls who had witnessed the fall from grace of these trad redpill pickme (divorced, single mother, DV, etc.) will revive the girlboss thing as a defiance to the system responsible of that situation ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯
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Weekly Rashifal from 14th August to 20th August 2023
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Welcome to some other edition of our Weekly Rashifal, where we delve into the celestial energies and astrological influences that form the upcoming week from August 13th to August 20th, 2023. Let's discover what the cosmos has in save for each zodiac sign and find the particular possibilities that lie beforehand.
Aries:
Career: Opportunities for boom and reputation are on the horizon.
Business: Collaborations and new ventures ought to cause prosperity.
Love: Emotional connections deepen, fostering romantic moments.
Marriage: Open conversation enhances marital expertise.
Students: Focused studies lead to educational success.
Health: Prioritize well-being via self-care workouts.
Advice: Seek steerage from mentors or elders.
Taurus:
Career: Progress in professional endeavours brings stability.
Business: Consistency and strategic selections yield fulfilment.
Love: Strengthen the muse of your relationships.
Marriage: Cultivate persistence and mutual guide in marriage.
Students: Enhanced awareness results in instructional excellence.
Health: Balance physical and intellectual fitness thru workouts.
Advice: Practice mindfulness for mental clarity.
Gemini:
Career: Showcase your abilities and include new possibilities.
Business: Creative methods lead to commercial enterprise growth.
Love: Honest communication deepens courting bonds.
Marriage: Nurture concord and emotional connection.
Students: Stay devoted to studies for fruitful results.
Health: Prioritize relaxation to manage strain successfully.
Advice: Embrace new gaining knowledge of studies.
Cancer:
Career: Embrace demanding situations for an increase in your profession.
Business: Ventures show promise of growth and development.
Love: Harmonious relationships convey pleasure and know-how.
Marriage: Seek happiness and shared experiences.
Students: Excel in research with renewed determination.
Health: Maintain emotional well-being through self-care.
Advice: Listen to your instinct for guidance.
Leo:
Career: Utilize your abilities for professional advancement.
Business: Expect favourable results and wealthy ventures.
Love: Single Leos can also come across interesting romantic connections.
Marriage: Nurture love and information on your relationship.
Students: A productive week for research lies ahead.
Health: Manage strain stages for the highest quality properly-being.
Advice: Connect with your inner creativity.
Virgo:
Career: Experience growth and reputation in your profession.
Business: Consistency brings fulfilment in enterprise endeavors.
Love: Deepen emotional connections for intimacy.
Marriage: Foster harmony and mutual admiration.
Students: Excel in lecturers thru targeted efforts.
Health: Balance physical health with rest techniques.
Advice: Practice gratitude and advantageous thinking.
Libra:
Career: Embrace the possibilities for growth and fame.
Performance: Partnerships for business expansion.
Love: Enjoy a harmonious and loving relationship.
Marriage: Have fun and raise support.
Students: Increase concentration and academic proficiency.
Health: Make it a priority to stay in shape by taking care of yourself regularly.
Tip: Take up another sport to relax.
Scorpio:
Career: Professionalism and satisfaction mark your professional journey.
Performance: Expect positive results and growth for companies.
Love: Deepen emotional bonds and strengthen bonds.
Marriage: Strive for balance and harmony in relationships.
Students: Don’t grow in intensely focused classes.
Health: Prioritize physical and emotional well-being.
Tip: Look for ideas from religious practices.
Sagittarius:
Career: Embrace possibilities for career advancement.
Business: Growth and increase beckon in business ventures.
Love: Deepen your bond and cherish happy moments.
Marriage: Experience love and know-how for your relationship.
Students: Excel in teachers via determination.
Health: Prioritize nicely-being with a balanced way of life.
Advice: Embrace mindfulness for clarity of concept.
Capricorn:
Career: Explore new avenues for professional growth.
Business: Enjoy successful offers and profitability.
Love: Strengthen emotional connections in relationships.
Marriage: Nurture concord and support for your marital bond.
Students: Stay centered on studies for top-of-the-line outcomes.
Health: Prioritize self-care to preserve well-being.
Advice: Practice staying on electricity and patience.
Aquarius:
Career: Embrace sudden possibilities for the export boom.
Business: New ventures supply capacity enlargement.
Love: Experience concord and emotional connection.
Marriage: Rekindle love and know-how in your relationship.
Students: Tap into creativity for educational achievement.
Health: Focus on intellectual and emotional well-being.
Advice: Seek internal peace thru meditation.
Pisces:
Career: Feel inspired and stimulated by your expert interests.
Business: Witness improvements in your business ventures.
Love: Deeply connect to your companion emotionally.
Marriage: Enhance love and romance in your courting.
Students: Excel in studies with creativity and intuition.
Health: Balance physical and emotional nicely-being.
Advice: Embrace effective affirmations for steerage.
As you navigate the week ahead, bear in mind that astrology offers insightful perspectives to manual you. However, the energy to shape your adventure, in the long run, lies inside you. Utilize those predictions as equipment for self-discovery, growth, and empowered decision- making. Embrace the possibilities for fantastic alternate, private improvement, and success that this week brings. Wishing you a week full of positivity, boom, and happiness.
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Money and abundance are just a pure flow of energy, an exchange of energy of which there is more than enough for everyone.
Do not be afraid to re-analyze your belief system regarding money and eliminate from it all those taboos, fears, prejudices, and limiting beliefs that do not correspond to you, but that someone else put there in your head and left it there.
Do not look at money with eyes of contempt, resentment, and fear, those beliefs are limiting you. See money as your ally, as your friend, as another form of energy that is available at your fingertips, as well as all other forms of energy that surround, nurture, and protect your energy field.
“Get ready to manifest your best life with Elhoim Leafar's latest offering: Manifestation Magic! Leafar is a beaming light of positivity in the magical community and this comprehensive book is his torch for guiding others on their path. With a diverse and expansive approach to spellcasting and ritual, this book speaks to the modern magic makers of today -- showcasing the potently powerful means for tapping into the endless enchantment of the universe. I highly recommend this book for anyone looking to bewitch their lives with an abundance of magic!”  
-- Michael Herkes, author of The GLAM Witch and The Complete Book of Moon Spells 
“In Manifestation Magic, Elhoim Leafar offers a diverse, practical guide meant to help readers ‘achieve happiness, economic prosperity, and abundance through rituals and spells. The book provides brief overviews of astrology and planetary influences; how to arrange spells around days, times, and lunar phases, as well as deities associated with abundance and wealth. The author draws from a plethora of cultural sources and also helpfully touches on psychological barriers to obtaining wealth. Those interested in the magical power of ritual will find Leafar to be a sage guide.”
 ― Publishers Weekly
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cecillias-garden · 2 years
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My Weekly Tarotscopes
The Weekly Tarotscope is an astrological Horoscope done like a tarot reading, with each sign having a card drawn for it. This is primarily a week-at-a-glance, but one can look further or in specific places by looking at their other placements beyond the sun sign.
Credit to @auxphonos for putting this guide together
Your signs and how they relate to your tarotscope: 
Sun - Your overall theme of the week. Your Self. Personality, Identity, Purpose. Moon - Your inner self and inner work to reflect on. Your Emotional and Nurturing self. Ascendant/Rising - Your other theme of the week, but socially. Your Public face and interactions. Mercury - A look at this week's Communication, Travel and Learning. Mars - This week's advice for furthering your Ambitions, Goals and Desires. Venus - Advice for Love/Romance and The Arts - your creative works in all mediums. Jupiter - A barometer for your personal strengths, luck and energy.
Insight into progress in your long term themes: 
Saturn - Where you need to mature, set boundaries. Uranus - What to keep in mind about your life's themes of innovation, social norm subversion and change. Neptune - What to think about regarding your dreams, ideals and how you envision the world. Pluto - Your subconscious, cycles ending or beginning.
I post the Weekly Tarotscope each week, and will link this post in all future postings <3
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otaviogilbert · 13 days
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Weekly Astrology Forecast | Nov. 19 – Nov. 25 2023 | Insights from Joshua the Psychic
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Dive into the cosmic energies of the week ahead with Joshua the Psychic! Join for a weekly astrology forecast covering January 21st to January 27th, 2024. Joshua brings his intuitive insights to guide you through the planetary movements and celestial influences shaping your week. Discover what the stars have in store for you and how to navigate the upcoming energies with grace and clarity. Tune in for a glimpse into your astrological destiny!
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stratusrising · 14 days
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Tap into the Mysteries of a Love Horoscope
Falling in love can be fun and adventurous and sometimes love can be confusing and challenging. Have you ever wondered if your love life is affected by something greater? Maybe your love life is not controlled by you at all. Astrology has visit site here shown to play a big part in the way our lives play out and the way the stars line up may very well have an impact on your love life! That is why it is fun to read free love and romantic horoscopes.
Just by entering your date of birth on free horoscope website, you can find out what lies in store for you. Horoscopes can be extremely accurate and many people cannot believe how the results are so close to what is really going on in their lives.  There are lots of free love and romance horoscopes that you can read. By finding a reliable source, you can gain an insight on what path your love life may be about to take. If you are unsure about what step to take next in your relationship or if you are wondering if you should pursue a new love interest, getting your free romantic horoscope may answer some of your questions. A lot of people are not convinced until they actually start reading their weekly romantic horoscope and then they realize that the horoscopes are more accurate then they had expected.
For years, people have been looking to the stars for directions. Whether it is looking for the North Star or looking for a full moon, stars and astrology have been an important resource for many people. If you think about it, the science of astrology is amazing. The fact that there are so many constellations and planets in outer space can leave anyone feeling that we are such a small fraction in this universe and that there has to be some sort of greater force out there. So it is no surprise that people are excited about what the stars can say about different aspects of their lives. Not only can your love life be guided by the stars but so can your finances, career, health, family relationships and much more. If you are curious and never have read your horoscope before then you may be pleasantly surprised to learn what they can say about you and your life. Maybe you are wondering if now is a good time for a romantic get-a-way, or if tomorrow is going to bring a better day for romance, often horoscopes can give you some idea of what is coming your way. If you are not convinced that horoscopes can predict your future, reading your weekly love horoscope can just be a fun way of lightening up your week. Most free love horoscopes can be accessed easily and often a new horoscope can be delivered straight into your email inbox daily or weekly.
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manav-007 · 14 days
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Jyotishay - Free Online Astrology Predictions by Best Astrologer
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Introduction: Astrology has long been a source of fascination and intrigue for humanity. The alignment of celestial bodies is believed to influence various aspects of our lives, from personality traits to major life events. In today's digital age, accessing astrology insights has become more convenient than ever, thanks to platforms like Jyotishay App. In this Jyotishay blog post, we'll delve into the world of astrology predictions and how Jyotishay App and its renowned astrologers are making a difference.
Understanding Astrology: Astrology is an ancient practice that studies the positions and movements of celestial bodies to gain insights into human affairs and natural events. It's based on the belief that these cosmic energies can influence and shape our lives in profound ways. By analyzing birth charts and planetary positions, astrologers can make predictions and offer guidance on various aspects of life, including career, relationships, health, and more.
Introducing Jyotishay App: Jyotishay App is a revolutionary platform that brings the wisdom of astrology to your fingertips. Whether you're curious about your future, seeking clarity on current challenges, or simply exploring your astrological profile, this app offers a wealth of features and services. One of the standout features of Jyotishay App is its access to some of the best astrologers who provide personalized and accurate predictions.
Key Features of Jyotishay App:
Personalized Horoscope: Get your detailed birth chart analysis and understand the planetary influences on your life.
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Conclusion: Jyotishay App is not just a platform for astrology enthusiasts; it's a gateway to self-discovery, empowerment, and enlightenment. By harnessing the ancient wisdom of astrology through modern technology, this app bridges the gap between celestial insights and practical life applications. Whether you're seeking predictions, remedies, or simply a deeper connection with the cosmos, Jyotishay App and its team of esteemed astrologers are here to guide you on your journey.
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Love Astrology to Know the Happenings Earlier in Your Love Life
The following article reveals information on love astrology, love match prediction, sample questions this website regarding your love life, and love compatibility.
Love astrology is devoted to your favorite things love and astrology. Love astrology helps you in understanding of your relationship and advises you to improve your relationship. Love astrology is based on twelve zodiac signs. Love astrology forecasts the relationship between two zodiac signs. Every person is guided by the positions of planets, stars, and sun at his or her birth time. Any change in the positions of stars, planet and sun keep affecting the life’s events. When two meet each other in a relationship their constellation at the time of birth have effects on each other. Love between two individuals is not the same. The love astrology forecasts the type of relationship between you and your partner will share your compatibility, and your way of thinking & taking life.  
Love match prediction helps you and your partner in understanding that your match will be perfect or not. If there is no possibility of match then love match prediction advises you to do extra for improving your relationship. It assists you to understand your heart, your love & your partner.  It helps you in finding answers of your questions based on the positions of your sun sign and your partner’s sun sign. The love match predictions offer solutions to problems of those who are looking for a soul mate and those who are already in love.    When you wake up in the morning, your first desire is to see a smile on your partner’s face. It may happen sometimes in your life that you are unable to see the smile on your partner’s face or there is a lack of romance between you and your partner on a morning.
That is the time when love horoscope comes to your side. love horoscopes help you in finding answers of questions like Am I lucky in being love, when I am going to get married, he or she loves me or not, we are sexually compatible, when I will meet my partner of my choice, the tips to make him or her to fall in love with you, it will be better to remain single or married, number of relationships in life, etc. Thinking traits & sexual compatibility are taken for consideration and forecasting love horoscopes and a detailed process is applied to examine the match between you and your partner.
The love match report offers a detailed explanation of mental compatibility, physical compatibility, wealth & luck made due to match, the duration of attraction, growth of family, the development of children. Love horoscopes are forecasted yearly, monthly, weekly and even daily. Read your love horoscopes based on your need. Yearly love horoscopes offer brief information about your love life round the year while monthly horoscopes provide you what are going to happen in your love life in the next month. Daily love horoscopes you the detailed information of your love life.
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The most trusted and astrologically detailed datebook available, Llewellyn's 2023 Daily Planetary Guide makes it easy to plan your days using powerful cosmic energies. For forty-five years, this essential datebook has helped astrologers find the best time to do anything on a monthly, weekly, and daily basis...even down to the minute.
With Opportunity Periods―times when the positive flow of energy is at its peak―and weekly forecasts to guide you, you'll know exactly when to plan a vacation, sign a contract, schedule a party, or ask for a raise. Get ahead of the game in everything you do using this guide's valuable information on aspects, ephemerides, retrograde planets, and eclipses for 2023. Even beginners can plan wisely with explanations of the planets, signs, houses, and more.
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