this mercury rx/mars is bruuutal lowkey

interesting to think about the moon's detriment position in capricorn, and how we really are subject to natural laws, to a certain structure, to mortality. we are constrained by it. we are subject to change, and to time. the nurture of our own bodies is a fight against time.

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weed is a great example of saturn triplicity in gemini lolol

the way they literally HID isaac newton's alchemical work bc they deemed it contradictory to his legacy and too woo woo, they even bullied the scholars who PRESENTED his work

you can't "prove" that astrology works, but you can testify that it does.

i also think the reason why astrology is incompatible with modern science is bc, while consistent in many ways, astrology is inherently contradictory in nature, and very attuned to people's individual, subjective experience of the world,

people want concrete proof of astrology in the same way they're seeking proof of the soul. there is no concrete proof. you just have to believe, and experience. and once you do, that's where the magic happens, that's where the muses find the poets, and why we still talk about Plato's work today

mars and venus are social planets, they represent what happens when we have to live among others, in relationship with others, yet also have distinct, individual selves

as a 3H moon, nothing pisses me off more than when ppl don’t have public transit etiquette. like yes let the mother of 4 exit the tram with her stroller first before you try to get on😀

1H ruler in 10H means embodied action and agency and choice making happens in quite a visible place Your little avatar is up there making sure you act in alignment with your official roles in life - whether it's professional or a family title, you know your actions reflect on your role

It’s a good episode! My wife is an Aquarius rising with a Leo sun and I’m a Leo rising with Saturn trine my sun and this really gets into the qualities of the signs!

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I've seen people work with disabled people or prominent disability advocates themselves have exalted planets, and that makes sense because accessibility is marketed as restful and, therefore, luxurious. But accessibility, much like exalted planets, carries a certain gravity and often extra work.

like Cassandra, we are often doomed to be ignored and ridiculed bc we can see something which takes so much time and effort and deep knowledge that to the uninitiated you seem mad, foolish, or dim; tragically, this also includes one another, as we are all partially blinded by the prism we witness

astrologers are in the unenviable position of studying a real system that was produced thousands of years ago, cannot actually be demonstrated in satisfying numerical way, requires deep familiarity with history and spirituality *and* sound thinking, and absolutely cannot be explained easily to most

plato captures why venus exalts in pisces REALLY WELL in phaedrus (i know i keep bringing it up, but it really is an excellent text)

im not sure if any other working astrologers experience the same thing, but sometimes i get empathy fatigue. caring deeply about other people is very rewarding, purposeful, and important for me. this is when you schedule self care into your timetable....time to refill the cup

horoscopes should indeed be written in the form of riddles. divinity doesn't expose herself fully, she hides, and then demands you go looking for her!

not me electing the time to send my final paper for my course this term, and yes i used the scheduled send option on gmail

chloe saying i was always meant to be a writer its the natal promise like....altered some part of my brain chemistry for sure

wow so many !! i’m a sucker for any venus star with venus, esp alphecca, deneb adige, vega, fomalhaut 🩵

this is a complicated question bc after years of toil, writer’s block and inner critic, my writing practice is now very simple. i would say 1) i forced myself to write daily horoscopes for a year so done was more impt than perfect and 2) i was always meant to be a writer, its the natal promise 💅

suddenly im like why is the vibe so weird- moon separating from venus in libra applying to mars in scorpio, now we know...........

moon/mercury = absorb everything, retain what you can.

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praying to god that i finally get a good night's sleep, we're at that point. my brain physically needs it

going to school and learning the historical background of everything us astrologers are trying to scrap up from the internet is so...vindicating. like we're not crazy lol it's literally RIGHT THERE

i think we all kind of practice a form of alchemy by studying astrology, and ultimately transforming ourselves, transmuting the soul into a higher version

mercury! in! sag!

okay this is crazy, so the Pelican is a very known symbol for Jesus Christ, obviously I went to go check what planet rules this animal, and Al-Biruni says Jupiter rules birds with straight beaks!!! so fun!!! Jesus is very Jupiter!!!

honestly, ik we have this debate every couple months about sex & scorpio, but ultimately i do think they're connected via alchemy. the Rosarium Philosophorum (1550) is a great example of this story of transmutation, and many of the allegories of union in these 15th.cn. texts allege to sexual union

"Ibn Ezra pictures a beautiful, red bodied woman eating. Her very flesh the color of passion, she satiates her hunger." Coppock, 36 Decans/Scorpio I. & then here we see Lady Wisdom depicted as a red bodied woman, feeding two wise men/two sages, who suck the milk of wisdom in the Aurora Consurgens.

From my lecture: "The dragon is often seen as an imagery of the lower forces of nature that need to be controlled or vanquished" fascinating to think about this in context to the nodes.. i'm not an expert at them though, does anyone have any ideas they'd like to chime in?

when you think about how important the Sun and the Moon are in alchemical history, it makes so much sense why the sect lights are also deemed so important. spiritual, scientific, and artistic alchemy derived from the marriage (common metaphor in alchemical texts), or the merging, of these two lights

lowkey i rlly fuck with Martin Luther, what a guy🤣

getting sick 3 times this month was not on my bingo card but i should've know w fallen asc lord in the monthly revolution and a moon applying to saturn THEN TO MARS

the emerald tablet mentions the Sun as the Father and the Moon as the Mother of the philosopher's stone.......fascinating

We can learn a lot about how to interact with the divine from the protestants: 1. read/interact with religious/spiritual texts. for protestants, this would be the bible, but any will do. for non-religious folks, i highly recommend Plato, specifically the Timaeus.

literally had dreams of me writing my paper it's taking over my entire life

Scorpio reminds me a lot of ancient alchemical descriptions, one of them is Visions of Zosimos, where the science of chemistry appears to him in these divine dreams/visions, but most are violent, and associated with death.

damn, people forget that science (from alchemy), began as a spiritual thing, spiritual transmutation reflected into alchemical transmutation. spirituality and science are a goddamn circle

one of the things i don't understand in the old testament, is why god is so angry...Jacob Böhme has a really cool framework for the creation of the world, also based off the bible, where God comes as a principle of wrath, but from this wrathful fire, also comes light and warmth?

so much of owning my power comes down to understanding when something it out of my hands and putting faith in something higher

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Martin Luther's L12 being Moon in Aries in the 9th conjunct the 9th is soooooooo loud, excommunicated from the Church and thrown in prison bc of his convictions