(by J.Ōta)

(most of) my rose quartz pieces 🌹

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My gorgeous Amethyst & Citrine points.

Brian Froud-is a worldwide famous illustrator of fairy tale and fantasy figures. He worked on the ‘Faeries’ book and on the movies 'The Dark Crystal’ and 'Labyrinth’ by Jim Henson and featuring David Bowie.

I commonly see people get very confused about how placements function and I’m gonna say it again

Sign = traits

House = area of life

Aspects = connections between two things

One does not change the other, having an 8th house something doesn’t magically equate it to being like a Scorpio placement! They all function differently, and whilst overlaps in manifestation exist, they are different and those details should be noted! If you feel drawn to a sign, house or aspect, there will be another reason in your chart! Attempting to force these things into the same box only sheds off the details and proper meanings of each thing!

Blood lunar eclipse! 🌹🌕⚡️

The total lunar eclipse is occurring at 4 degrees Aquarius on July 27th at 2:20pm MT. It is also a blood moon for the reddish tint it will have. Keywords for this full moon are: rebellion, karma, endings, hope, strength, confrontation and power. There is a lot going on with this lunar eclipse, the moon will be conjunct to retrograde Mars and square Uranus, which will amplify the moons energy adding strength and also a unnerving need to confront any issues from your past. People that trigger past issues may be confronted…using this energy to confront past issues regarding anger, repression, sexuality will be important to letting go of older destructive patterns. This moon wants us to look at our dreams and hopes for humanity and the freedom within ourselves. Working within a group or community for a common goal. New dreams may come about by letting go of what holds us back or restricts us. Venus is exactly trine Pluto which adds intensity to our relationships, wanting depth and allowing for transformation within our values and pleasures. Overall it is a full moon with a lot of energy and power, manifesting endings for positive movement. Releasing karmic patterns and pushing our souls more towards our purpose. Pay attention to the signs and purge destructive relationships, patterns, thoughts etc. This weight has to give, letting go and releasing transformative energy. ✨

When I said that Pisces is everything yet nothing is because Pisces is the last sign followed by the first. Pisces is the thin line between having it all and having nothing, to exist and to vanish. To be present and absent, to be awake and to be dreaming. Pisces is the word “almost”, you feel like you have only few steps to go but yet seem to take a long time to reach them.

How Well Do you Know Neptune?

Dark, cold and whipped by supersonic winds, Neptune is the last of the hydrogen and helium gas giants in our solar system. More than 30 times as far from the sun as Earth, the planet takes almost 165 Earth years to orbit our sun! In fact, in 2011, Neptune completed its first orbit since its discovery in 1846.

Here are a few things you might not know about the windiest planet:

If the sun were as tall as a typical front door, the Earth would be the size of a nickel and Neptune would be about as big as a baseball.

Neptune orbits our sun, a star. Neptune is the eighth planet from the sun at a distance of about 4.5 billion km (2.8 billion miles) or 30.07 AU. 

One day on Neptune takes about 16 hours (the time it takes for Neptune to rotate or spin once)

Neptune makes a complete orbit around the sun (a year in Neptunian time) in about 165 Earth years (60,190 Earth days)

Neptune has six rings

Voyager 2 is the only spacecraft to have visited Neptune

Neptune has 13 moons. They are named after various sea gods and nymphs in Greek mythology

Did you know that Neptune has storms?

Similar to Jupiter, Neptune has storms that create gigantic spots in its atmosphere…well, it did. When Voyager 2 flew past Neptune in 1989, it tracked and imaged the “Great Dark Spot” — a storm larger than the entire Earth! When the Hubble Space Telescope imaged Neptune the spot had disappeared, only to be replaced with two smaller storms, which in turn also disappeared.

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Rising signs are limited to the physical part? they don't have anything to do with our emotions or so?

rising sign is not just the physical body - its the layer between us and the world, which includes the outwards appearance and the physical incarnation but its also our view of the world, our mentality and attitudes and how we are perceived upon first sight beyond the physical appearance. its not our emotions, thats true, but it shows how they are filtered to the world so to say

On the topic of being obsessed with introspection and “self discovery”, i recently read something by Viktor Frankl which I feel fits the whole following of astrology/mbti/personal discovery etc very well. He said that, because life has become void of meaning for many, because there is an “existential vacuum”, we compensate by “psycho-analyzing” ourselves, sharing our psychological problems and insights with others, discussing them, etc (and he predicted this development in the 40s!). An existential vacuum leads to an obsession with the own psyche that can be the cause of neuroses and its pseudo-therapy. Self-reflection can in itself be the root of many problems. I had a talk with someone about how phases of self-reflection and lots of journaling are often the least mentally stable and happy ones. When we feel good, we do not feel the need to conduct some sort of self-therapy. Viktor Frankl also came up with the concept of using a paradoxical intention for healing neuroses. A patient with insomnia, for example, cannot sleep because they so rigidly and obsessively try to sleep, which hinders them from relaxing into an unconscious state. So a paradoxical intention would be “for a change, why don’t you try to not sleep tonight, and just relax and think about something nice?” - which then makes them fall asleep quickly. Maybe by setting the paradoxical intention “i will not try to figure myself out and heal myself” many of the problems which were simply rooted in obsessing over yourself will take care of themselves.