Full Moon - Blog Posts
“Beware of the Circle. Your blood is like air and vile flesh will hunt you tonight. You must bring salvation with haste!” -Granholt
“The Mistress was once a girl. A girl trapped in a cellar.” -Granholt
Drawings of scenes from my animated short film, which you can watch here.
Some pictures of the moon i took a while ago ☁️🌑 🌒 🌓 🌔 🌕 🌖 🌗 🌘 🌑
(reblog but dont steal it took me a very long time to get those right)
Yo adivino el parpadeo de las luces que a lo lejos.
Van marcando mi retorno
“A la vuelta de la esquina, la luna celestial de cada día”
"I love you to the moon and back"
Pink Libra Moon, Miami FL
what blitz should've said in full moon.
my twitter.
What would you take to the Moon with you?
Friday the 13th, 2014… the full "honey (or strawberry) moon," with mercury in retrograde.
Shot this almost last minute, just using an inexpensive basic zoom lens and a tripod (autofocus too on most of the shots, no less— I know, I know). It was at 180mm. No fancy telephoto, no telescope mount. The lower photo (longer exposure) shows my perch for a few of the shots. To cut the neighborhood porch lights, I actually shot from between bushes and trees. From my angle the lights were almost all out of sight.
The top photo is the one I liked the best.
The middle two show a series of adjustments I made. I fired about 17 shots, and started a very small amount of post on them (primarily cropping tight to moon),
Cr: @ dirafames in Pinterest 📍
Mild Spoilers For Full Moon!
Was it just me, or did Moxxie seem a little bit different in this episode? He seemed more crude and violent than in previous episodes. Maybe he grew a backbone after the whole “Striker” incident, or maybe I’m just crazy.
Mild Spoilers For Full Moon!
I’m sorry, but Blitz being super (and childishly) happy about finding a coin on the ground and then immediately insulting somebody else is just the most Blitz thing to ever exist.
Spoilers For Full Moon!
I’m not sure if anyone has pointed this out before, but in the scene where the Cherubs are being interrogated, there’s a light that shines over the blue ex-angel. (I don’t know any of their names).
I’m pretty sure the light is supposed to look like it’s from Heaven, signifying that the blue one is still pure. The other two angels don’t have a light because they’ve been acting crazy and irrational since at LEAST they got kicked out of Heaven.
Nostalgic Anime you might forgotten! Part 4
Princess Tutu
Precure
Full Moon
Yumeiro Patissiere
Tokyo Mew Mew
Wedding Peach
Marmalade Boy
Yona of the Dawn
Earl and Fairy
ITS HERE IM ABOUT TO WATCH IT, WISH ME LUCK
🌌 PART I: The Arab Astrologers—Names You Must Know
📝Abū Maʿshar al-Balkhī-known in Latin as Albumasar
Born in Balkh (modern Afghanistan) in 787, a former hadith scholar who turned to the stars in midlife.
His Kitāb al-Madkhal al-Kabīr (The Great Introduction) became the bedrock of European astrology when translated into Latin.
He systematized planetary natures, zodiac signs, houses, aspects, and the elements.
His “conjunction theory” argued that history moves in great cycles, marked by rare celestial alignments—especially Jupiter-Saturn conjunctions, which he claimed heralded the rise of prophets and empires.
"All change under heaven is written first in the sky."
📜 Al-Kindi – The Philosopher of the Arabs
A polymath in the Abbasid court, blending Greek philosophy with Islamic theology and celestial theory.
In De Radiis Stellarum (On the Stellar Rays), he proposed a theory of stellar influence—not superstition, but a natural force, like light or magnetism.
He laid early groundwork for what would become natural philosophy (proto-science), suggesting stars transmit influence through rays affecting Earthly matter and human temperament.
🌍 Al-Biruni – The Observer from Khwarezm
Though more astronomer than astrologer, he cataloged astrology in full without ever endorsing its claims outright.
His Kitāb al-Tafhīm contains precise definitions of astrological terms, planetary motions, and how horoscopes are calculated.
A master of cultural synthesis: he compared Greek, Indian, and Persian systems, noting their commonalities and contradictions.
🕊 Abū al-Rayḥān al-Sijzī & Al-Zarqālī – Instruments of the Sky
Developed the astrolabe, armillary spheres, and zij tables—astronomical charts used by astrologers to pinpoint planetary positions with astonishing accuracy.
🪐 PART II: What the Arabs Contributed to Astrology
🧠 1. A Philosophical Foundation
Arabs didn’t just practice astrology—they thought about it. They debated whether the stars compel or merely incline.
Al-Farabi and later Avicenna argued the stars could only affect the body, not the soul—a blend of Neoplatonism and Islamic ethics.
The stars whisper, they do not command.
📊 2. Horoscopic Techniques Refined
Arabs inherited and enhanced horoscopic astrology from the Greeks:
Twelve Houses (Bayūt): Places in the chart signifying career, love, health, death.
Lots (Arabic Parts): Points calculated from planetary positions, like the Lot of Fortune and Lot of Spirit, used to fine-tune predictions.
Triplicities and Dignities: Systems to assess planetary strength.
Interrogations (Horary Astrology): Divining answers to specific questions, such as “Will I marry?” or “Will the king win this war?”
⚔️ 3. Political and Historical Astrology
Astrologers like Abū Maʿshar claimed that world events—plagues, conquests, religious shifts—were written in planetary cycles.
Used to time coronations, launch battles, found cities.
Caliphs would sometimes delay decisions until the astrologers said the heavens were "favorable."
🏥 4. Medical Astrology
Used zodiac signs to diagnose and treat illness—Aries rules the head, Pisces the feet, and so on.
Ibn Sina (Avicenna) himself, though skeptical of predictive astrology, used astrological charts for medical diagnoses, especially in fevers and crisis periods.
🌠 PART III: Astrology in Islamic Society
🌗 Religious Debate
The Qur’an warns against claims to know the unseen:
"Say: None in the heavens or on the earth knows the unseen except Allah." (Qur’an 27:65)
So Islamic scholars:
Allowed astronomy (for timekeeping, Qibla direction).
Permitted astrology only if used to understand natural rhythms—not fate.
Condemned fortune-telling or attributing independent power to stars.
Yet astrology persisted—not as dogma, but as courtly art, folk belief, and scientific curiosity.
🕯 PART IV: The Transmission to Europe
Translations of Arabic astrological texts into Latin via Toledo and Sicily reawakened Europe’s interest in the stars.
Terms like zenith, nadir, azimuth, almanac, and even algorithm come from Arabic.
Albumasar, Albohali, Messahala—all Arabic astrologers Latinized into the canon of European learning.
The Renaissance astrologers (like Ficino and Agrippa) drank deeply from Arab wells.
🌌 In Closing: A Legacy Like the Night Sky
The Arabs did not merely gaze at the stars—they listened to them, charted them, debated them, and passed on their wisdom in tomes that still echo today. Astrology, as they practiced it, was never just fortune-telling—it was philosophy, poetry, medicine, and mathematics entwined in a cosmic dance.
A Night Beneath the Palm’s Shadow
The wind hums secrets through the date-laden trees, whispering names of those who once walked this dust, where footprints fade but never truly leave, pressed deep in the memory of the earth’s quiet trust.
Oh, moon of longing, hung low and bright, do you still remember the songs we sang? Verses embroidered in the fabric of night, soft as jasmine, where old echoes hang.
A mother calls, her voice a prayer, threading through the hush of dawn, her hands—cracked, but full of care— building futures from threads long gone.
And here I stand, between past and now, a daughter of sand, of stars, of sea, asking the wind to teach me how to love, to lose, yet still be free.
