I’m a cis-gender man which basically means that, when I was born, the doctor went “It’s a boy!” and when I was old enough to understand I agreed with him.
The thing is, I don’t know why I feel like a man. I was teased and bullied for it a lot when I was little. I’ve never had stereotypically American male interests. I never cared about sports or cars or guns. I was more interested in music and cooking and the arts. I’ve always been emotionally in tune and sensitive, even when I did my best to suppress my emotions to survive a childhood of abuse from other children.
It’s not physical either. I don’t feel like a man because I have a penis or a beard. If you put my brain in a robot body or any other body, my essence would still feel male (I assume). I literally can’t imagine what being any other gender would feel like, since I feel so acutely male.
I think that’s why the concept of being transgender always made sense to me. I’m a man. I don’t have any bloody clue why I feel like a man, but I don’t feel that it’s tied to my body or my interests or the way that I’ve been treated. I feel like a man because of something beyond that. Something ephemeral. So, why couldn’t others feel the same? Why couldn’t a person who’s been misidentified as a girl feel like a boy for the exact same nebulous reasons that I do?
And, since gender really doesn’t make any sense to me anyway, why couldn’t there also be people who feel as if they don’t have one? Or who flow across genders like a ship on a map?
Are there people out there whose sense of their own gender is inseparable from their physical form? If you put those people into robot bodies or, simply, other physically different bodies, would their gender identity also swap? If so, why? Are they actually more lost in their gender identity than I am and they need to hone in on the physical in order to anchor themselves?
Why do people feel like they are the gender that they are?
How your Moon Sign might affect your Sun Sign
Moon = how you (your sun) feels and responds
Aries Moon - focuses on your sun’s “being”, it asserts your sun
Taurus Moon - makes your sun more conservative, sensual, and patient
Gemini Moon - makes your sun focus on quick thinking and is knowledge driven
Cancer Moon - makes your sun more focused on feelings, and feeling things out
Leo Moon - makes you sun sign “brighter”, makes your sun sign seek expression, recognition, attention
Virgo Moon - makes your sun sign more analytical, more detailed, and a focus on refinement
Libra Moon - makes your sun sign more focused on balance, harmony, and equality
Scorpio Moon - makes your sun sign more investigative and suspicious, more depth, desire driven
Sagittarius Moon - makes your sun sign more willing to seek, explore, ask questions, look for a purpose
Capricorn Moon - makes the sun more focused on use, professionalism, more goal oriented, how they can be useful, what is useful to them
Aquarius Moon- makes your sun sign more of a visionary, knowing, and forward thinking
Pisces Moon - makes your sun sign more empathetic, intuitive, and belief (idealism or illusion) driven
Aries: I start to feel like im losing control so
Taurus: I start to feel uncomfortable with my surroundings so
Gemini: I start to have trouble verbalizing my feelings and thoughts so
Cancer: I start to feel unsafe so
Leo: My self-image starts deteriorating so
Virgo: I feel unorganized so
Libra: I feel out of balance so
Scorpio: I start being self-destructive so
Sagittarius: I feel trapped in my own mind so
Capricorn: I feel like a failure so
Aquarius: I feel too generic so
Pisces: I’m drowning in responsibilities so
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1st house: I let everyone know through my self-expression to deal with it
2nd house: I pamper myself or but myself new stuff to deal with it
3rd house: I keep it to myself and overthink to deal with it
4th house: I cry and let it all out to deal with it
5th house: Do what makes me happy to deal with it
6th house: I organize or clean my environment and mind to deal with it
7th house: I distract myself with relationships and the people around me to deal with it
8th house: I start falling back into my usual bad habits to deal with it
9th house: I move somewhere else and leave people behind to deal with it
10th house: I start to be harder on myself and think of how I can be better to deal with it
11th house: I isolate myself to deal with it
12th house: I escape back to my own reality to deal with it.
Omg I love Donnie Darko! But I could never quite understand the ending. You know I reckon he’s either an aqua sun with a Scorpio moon or maybe a Scorpio with a Capricorn moon
Oooou!!! I love these placements you guys are giving him! And it was such a sublime film! I adore the symbolism! I feel like what he really wanted in the end was to die so that’s why out of any moment he could’ve chosen he chose to be in his room when the engine fell into his room! I think that’s a big reason behind the smile at the end!
And an aqua sun with a Scorpio moon makes so much sense! I think he was a cancer rising with Aquarius stellium in his 8th house which to me explains his obsession with death and concepts of intimacy
For every person who thinks you're "too quiet" there's one who thinks you're an amazing listener. For every person who thinks you're "too clingy" there's one who loves how much and how openly you care about others. For every person who thinks you're "too weird" there's one who admires how you dare to stand out from the crowd. For every person who thinks you're "too sensitive" there's one who respects you for being so in touch with your feelings. For every person who thinks you're "too confident" there's one who thinks your self respect is an inspiration. What's a negative trait in one person's eyes might be exactly what someone else is looking for. It's not black or white.
Setting up a birdhouse in the spring. Photo by Valery Shustov (1969)
Ocean Vuong, On Earth we’re briefly gorgeous
At 11:03 p.m. EST on Sunday, Feb. 9, Solar Orbiter, an international collaboration between the European Space Agency and NASA, launched aboard United Launch Alliance’s #AtlasV rocket for its journey to our closest star. The spacecraft will help us understand how the Sun creates and controls the constantly changing space environment throughout the solar system. The more we understand about the Sun’s influence on the planets in our solar system and the space we travel through, the more we can protect our astronauts and spacecraft as we journey to the Moon, to Mars and beyond. More here.
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“The Pianist” (Roman Polański, 2002).
My therapist asked me to create something “motivating” so I made these.
lol.