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whimsicalpoet44 · 2 years

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Placements that I think are tough to have & why.

Here's more astrology observations.

**These aren't bad placements. Every placement has positives/negatives to them. I just find these placements to be quite challenging and can take more effort or intentionality than others to work through**

4th House Aries (Especially in the IC): The fourth house is the house of family/home. Aries in the fourth can indicate a really difficult childhood, particularly when it's related to the mother. They may have had a parent that was really impulsive or aggressive that made them responsible for their emotions. As a result, emotional regulation may be something they struggle with and expressing their emotions can make them feel vulnerable. Aries IC can indicate that there's a lot of generational trauma left over from their ancestors that they're having to undo. Positives? They can make quick decisions when necessary and can take charge of family matters with ease.

8th House Placements: The 8th house rules death, re-birth, long term investments, and transformation. That's a lot of heavy themes in one house. They may struggle with loss/grief in more than one area of your life. They say 8th house placements are like a Phoenix - constantly burning themselves down to emerge anew. That can be quite exhausting. I also find that 8th house placements cause an unbalance in personal power. They may spend a majority of their life figuring out how to balance energies. Positives? They make great psychologists, they're super analytical, and they aren't afraid to broach topics others may stray from.

Capricorn/Aquarius Rising: Two words: Saturn ruled. Self reliance can be a good thing, but these placements are often forced to take care of themselves from a young age. Saturn is the planet of restrictions, self-discipline, and self-sufficiency. Often times, our lessons in Saturn are things we must learn alone. Saturn ruled charts have this energy times ten. They face a lot of lessons throughout life. The positives? Natural leaders, persistent, and capable of achieving just about anything they set their mind too, because Saturn has shown them that they can do it alone.

Scorpio Rising: They're ruled by Pluto - the planet of death/re-birth/transformation (much like the 8th house). Saturn ruled charts and Pluto ruled charts have a lot in common. Scorpio Risings are often used to bring about change in different settings. The theme of their life is often growth and transformation - at any expense. They're very private and they trigger others very easily. They may find it difficult to open up to others and may feel a general distrust of others as a whole. They can feel chronically misunderstood. The positives? Literal human lie detector and extremely intuitive.

5th House Chiron: Chiron is the thing we have trouble healing in ourselves, but what we can do a great job healing in others. The fifth house is the house of the inner child/creativity/hobbies/joy. They can be insecure about their creative ability and have a huge lack of joy. This can be traced back to childhood. Someone could have told them they couldn't do something or that they were bad at a particular skill. They second guess themselves a lot as a result. They can also experience a ton of guilt and shame for being happy or having fun. The positive? They can inspire others to be creative when they heal.

Moon Conjunct Saturn: Saturn wants to discipline. The moon wants to nurture. They can feel intense feelings of shame/guilt from reflecting on ways they behaved in the past. It's also an indictor of a harsh childhood and they can internalize their parents wishes/dreams as their own (Saturn = Father | Moon = Mother). There's a constant fear of never reaching their full potential and they can often avoid rest because they don't feel like they're being productive. They also take life really seriously and they're super sensitive. (Remember that sensitivity isn't always bad thing.) The positives? They have a lot of discipline surrounding their emotions and they have a great sense of humor (probably from the trauma).

Aquarius Sun: They don't like being told what to do or think (which can be good), but they can often stay rooted in their old beliefs if they feel someone is pushing their opinions onto them (even though they insist that they're open minded). They can also sometimes end up stuck in a harmful belief system if they feel it's not the norm so they can retain their "unique" persona, rather than actually ask themselves what they believe. (Literally every Aquarius man I've encountered, but this can manifest in anyone with an Aquarius sun). They love people as a whole, but struggle with people on an individual level. They think more in a big picture way, but struggle with the small picture. They can also see everything that needs to be fixed in society, but struggle with the fact that they cannot fix it (leaving them feeling powerless.) The positives? They're unique. They're comfortable with the unusual. They stay true to themselves and who they are.

Gemini Anything: GEMINIS: you are only on this list because of the stigma that follows Gemini's. If you google the most hated sign, you'll get Gemini. Being a Sagittarius, I freaking love Geminis. But they have such a stigma. They can sometimes be impulsive, inconsistent, or indecisive. They also hate routine. I think this is how they get the stigma, because most people have a narrow minded view of how these can present. The positives? They have great charisma and they're usually artistic. They're witty, curious, funny, and passionate. (This is a Gemini love post, let's be honest.) Do some Gemini's present in the stereotypical way? Sure. But I find that many write off all Gemini's and develop a fulfilling prophecy about their intentions.

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dark4ngel · 2 years

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✞ᴅᴇʙᴏɴᴀɪʀ.✞

𝑇𝑜𝑑𝑎𝑦’𝑠 𝑃𝐴𝐶 𝑟𝑒𝑣𝑜𝑙𝑣𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑 𝑦𝑜𝑢! 𝐴𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑛𝑒𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑔𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑓 𝑏𝑒𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑦𝑏𝑜𝑑𝑦 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑑𝑚𝑖𝑟𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑠𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑓𝑒𝑒𝑙 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒’𝑠 𝑛𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒 :)

𓅓: 𝑜𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑎𝑔𝑎𝑖𝑛, 𝑡𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑝𝑖𝑐𝑘 𝑎 𝑝𝑖𝑐𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑢𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑓𝑒𝑒𝑙𝑠 𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜𝑜

𝓟𝓲𝓵𝓮 1. 𝓟𝓲𝓵𝓮 2. 𝓟𝓲𝓵𝓮 3.

ᴘɪʟᴇ 1: ᴅᴇᴀᴅʟʏ ᴅᴏʟʟ.

𝐼𝑛𝑡𝑢𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑚𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑎𝑔𝑒𝑠：𝐺𝑢𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑒𝑑，𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑖𝑐，𝑏𝑟𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑎𝑓𝑟𝑎𝑖𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑡𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑖𝑔𝑛𝑠．𝑚𝑒𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑐ℎ𝑜𝑙𝑖𝑎，𝑛𝑜𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑔𝑖𝑐，𝑎 𝑏𝑒𝑎𝑢𝑡𝑖𝑓𝑢𝑙 𝑣𝑜𝑖𝑐𝑒？𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒，𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑦𝑝𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑣𝑒𝑠 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔，𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑢𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑎 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑏𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑘𝑒𝑟．𝑐𝑜𝑞𝑢𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑒．𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑖𝑑𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔．𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑚𝑖𝑔ℎ�� 𝑤𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑜𝑓𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝑤𝑎𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑢𝑛𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑢𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑔．

𝐼𝑛𝑡𝑢𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑚𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑎𝑔𝑒𝑠：𝐺𝑢𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑒𝑑，𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑖𝑐，𝑏𝑟𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑎𝑓𝑟𝑎𝑖𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑡𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑖𝑔𝑛𝑠．𝑚𝑒𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑐ℎ𝑜𝑙𝑖𝑎，𝑛𝑜𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑔𝑖𝑐，𝑎 𝑏𝑒𝑎𝑢𝑡𝑖𝑓𝑢𝑙 𝑣𝑜𝑖𝑐𝑒？𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒，𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑦𝑝𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑣𝑒𝑠 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔，𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑢𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑎 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑏𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑘𝑒𝑟．𝑐𝑜𝑞𝑢𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑒．𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑖𝑑𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔．𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑚𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑤𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑜𝑓𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝑤𝑎𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑢𝑛𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑢𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑔．

༅ᴏᴘᴇɴɪɴɢ ᴘᴏɪɴᴛ: ʜᴏᴡ ʏᴏᴜʀ ᴇɴᴇʀɢɪᴇs sᴛʀɪᴋᴇ ᴍᴇ ᴀs ᴀ ᴘᴇʀsᴏɴ.

Starting off, this pile’s energies are pretty strong. I want to say domineering but it doesn’t feel forceful. It’s like quiet but in charge.. your energies command respect and it’s very alluring. You might be often told that you’re pretty wise or you might be really psychic at times, predicting things that happen way before they do or seconds before they do. Your energies are hard to know and tap into, you strike me as a person who’s very guarded and mysterious, you may not talk much or show much but you definitely get a lot done. You strike me as an honest person who’s quite independent and skeptical. Could give a lot of constructive criticism even when it’s unasked for and seems kinda repressed at times, on the other hand you’re balanced. Like you know how to deal with hell literally, you could be dealing with super stressful situations in such a mature way or be the leader who suddenly goes into power when everyone else seems lost or confused. You’re like a phoenix who rises from the ashes, you’re a great team player who works hard and earns hard. You’re also regal. If I could explain you in two words it’ll probably be queen/king shit.

༄ᴍᴀɪɴ ᴘᴏɪɴᴛ: ᴛʜᴇ ʟᴏᴠᴇ ʏᴏᴜ ɴᴇᴇᴅ ᴛᴏ ɢɪᴠᴇ ʏᴏᴜʀsᴇʟꜰ ʙᴇꜰᴏʀᴇ ᴀɴʏᴏɴᴇ ᴄᴀɴ.

Freedom.

Stop.

Take a deep breath and exhale.

Stop holding yourself to an impossible standard, stop trying to be perfect, stop trying to remain calm in all situations and stop thinking you have to be liked by everyone you come across. You have an insecurity, a fear of change and things one upping you. Like rejection or abandonment or being left out in the cold especially when you showed how sensitive you can actually be. You could only ever enjoy love when you learn to give yourself the freedom too. Sometimes shit happens and we learn from our past and what not to do. But you need to stop and think to yourself if this experience I learnt from my past is really a lesson or a restriction. Learn to give yourself the art of forgiveness. Let go of the people who hurt you or how society expects you to behave. Forgive that person even if you know they’d never apologize. It’s not a weakness to do so.. it’s merely just you evolving :)

Learn to let go of the past and those high walls. You always appear to have a front that wards people off, to show that you do not wear your heart on your sleeve but rather guard yourself with a sword, ready to scar anyone who comes your way as a way of protection. And maybe it helped in the past but it’s time to let that go, embrace your sensitivity and your emotions. No they are not weak and limiting. Your heart yearns for joy, don’t shut friends or lovers out or people who genuinely care for you, I feel this is a period in which you rise from your ashes and walk away from your loneliness. Life is best lived with people who can share your experiences with :)

༄: ᴄʟᴏsɪɴɢ ᴘᴏɪɴᴛ: ᴀᴅᴍɪʀᴀʙʟᴇ ᴛʜɪɴɢs ᴀʙᴏᴜᴛ ʏᴏᴜ:

Your uniqueness, your thought patterns are often fascinating to the people next to you or around you. I don’t care if you believe it or not but you come across as knowledgeable and smart to people. It’s very abstract and broad. I feel you’re pretty elusive too and you’re well spoken. Something about you comes across as polite but rude when provoked. Your balance and diplomacy. Wise and your rebirth. How you constantly evolve. And your introspective qualities. You guys are also really pretty to people who meet you for the first time. I heard you’re unique once again. I just noticed you’re the only pile that’s on it’s own. Your independence is an admirable trait :). You make people

ᴘɪʟᴇ 2: ᴛᴡᴏ ᴅᴏʟʟs ᴀɴᴅ ᴀ ᴘʜᴏɴᴇ.

𝐼𝑛𝑡𝑢𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑚𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑎𝑔𝑒𝑠：𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑦，𝑓𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑙𝑦，𝑦𝑜𝑢’𝑟𝑒 𝑏𝑖𝑔 𝑜𝑛 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑓𝑒𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑠𝑒𝑐𝑢𝑟𝑒．𝑑𝑖𝑓𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑢𝑙𝑡𝑦 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑙𝑤𝑎𝑦𝑠 𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑛𝑒𝑥𝑡 𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑢𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑑𝑜．ℎ𝑖𝑔ℎ 𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑟𝑔𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑞𝑢𝑖𝑐𝑘 𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑘𝑒𝑟．𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑏𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑦 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑎 𝑙𝑜𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑓𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑠 𝑜𝑟 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑓𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑠．𝑠𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑟𝑔𝑒𝑡𝑖𝑐． 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑎 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑏𝑙𝑒𝑚 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔．𝑒𝑥𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑎𝑛 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑡．𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑏𝑒 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑦 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑔𝑒𝑡𝑓𝑢𝑙 𝑜𝑟 𝑐𝑙𝑢𝑚𝑠𝑦．

༅ᴏᴘᴇɴɪɴɢ ᴘᴏɪɴᴛ: ʜᴏᴡ ʏᴏᴜʀ ᴇɴᴇʀɢɪᴇs sᴛʀɪᴋᴇ ᴍᴇ ᴀs ᴀ ᴘᴇʀsᴏɴ.

Careful. As energetic as the intuitive messages felt, your energies can actually be really slow or share a duality. You’re a careful planner and you like doing your things a certain way. I heard you research a lot, especially on topics that really hold your interest. Lmao y’all are really sneaky. This is the perfect example of never let them know your next move. You guys are unassuming, masters at showing you a front they want you to believe, could come across as carefree or even lazy at times but secretly y’all are hard workers. You believe in working hard to earn that money and you do earn that reward, you’re fast paced or energetic when it comes to your goals, a visionary as you see yourself in places you want to be before even reaching said goals. Vivacious and diva-esqué, you’re passionate and courageous, fiercely independent too. You’re willing to stand your ground and face whatever circumstances you’re faced, although burnouts and fears could be a huge limiting factor. There’s also a side of who who strikes me as sad or emotional instability. There could be moments in which you struggle to get yourself focused or grounded and you might feel like you aren’t achieving much or anything. But once you’re over these mental blocks, you’re calculating, strong and logical. You balance your masculine and feminine traits really well. You know when to stand your ground and get your voice heard and when to lay low and enjoy peace and diplomacy. Also you strike me as joyful! You’re really that fun friend who everyone thinks is somehow always lucky? So I heard.

༄ᴍᴀɪɴ ᴘᴏɪɴᴛ: ᴛʜᴇ ʟᴏᴠᴇ ʏᴏᴜ ɴᴇᴇᴅ ᴛᴏ ɢɪᴠᴇ ʏᴏᴜʀsᴇʟꜰ ʙᴇꜰᴏʀᴇ ᴀɴʏᴏɴᴇ ᴄᴀɴ.

Be the dependable figure you always wanted.

This may not resonate for all but the select few, the parental figure you never had growing up. For the others become a person who provides you a sense of security.

Maybe you’ve given your love freely to people who didn’t deserve it or was shamed for freely expressing your emotions, so now you hide behind this detached facade. Of one who isn’t bothered by anything and one who isn’t afraid to cut people out, always on alert and never letting their heart be easily given to another again. Maybe you went through a breakup or a devastating experience, if not, the experiences of others have shown you that the world isn’t a place for sensitive people, so you adapted and became a solid rock, shielding you from the outside world. Thing is, security for you may be expressed in material terms. You work hard hoping to one day fulfill that gaping hole left in you from the lack of security you had become accustomed too. So you end up being too controlling of partners, friends and even family. The thing is, you’re naturally an abundant person, things are easily manifested by you and wishes and dreams are usually accomplished by you. Being so controlling and holding on to too many grudges and defenses slow them down a lot. Instead of wanting to become stable or gain stability out of a fear, change your motifs into one that encourages you to want stability so that the people close to you and yourself could live happily. Comfort doesn’t equal happiness but breaking out of a mold and embracing the new, although scary, can guarantee you freedom and happiness. Start little by doing the things that make you happy. Give yourself the life that you weren’t opportune to have before, love yourself the way you wanted someone or want someone to love you first before anyone can.

༄: ᴄʟᴏsɪɴɢ ᴘᴏɪɴᴛ: ᴀᴅᴍɪʀᴀʙʟᴇ ᴛʜɪɴɢs ᴀʙᴏᴜᴛ ʏᴏᴜ:

You’re patient and welcoming. You provide a sense of comfort to people who feel out of pocket or lost. You listen and you’re supportive. Really artistic and emotionally smart. You have a way with words and can portray them in such a beautiful light. You’re empathetic and loving. You’re like a warm hug after a cold day. You’re always there to be a friend and always there to help one too. You learn fast or you’re pretty wise. A hard worker or you easily take the stress of people’s back by listening to them. You’re sensitive and you’re joyful. Always on the move and you inspire people.

You’re a lucky star ⭐️ :)

ᴘɪʟᴇ 3: ɢʜᴏsᴛ ꜰᴀᴄᴇ

𝐼𝑛𝑡𝑢𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑚𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑎𝑔𝑒：𝑐𝑎𝑛’𝑡 𝑏𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡ℎ𝑒，𝑠𝑢𝑓𝑓𝑜𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔，𝑠𝑖𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑡，ℎ𝑦𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑒，𝑟𝑒𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑑．ℎ𝑖𝑑𝑑𝑒𝑛．𝐼 𝑑𝑜𝑛’𝑡 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑒 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒．𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑠𝑦𝑛𝑑𝑟𝑜𝑚𝑒．𝑎𝑠𝑙𝑒𝑒𝑝．ℎ𝑢𝑟𝑡．𝑞𝑢𝑖𝑒𝑡．𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑠𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑚，𝑟𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑑𝑟𝑜𝑝𝑠．𝑝𝑒𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑐ℎ𝑜𝑟．𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑡．𝑒𝑥ℎ𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑑，𝐼 𝑛𝑒𝑒𝑑 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑠𝑙𝑒𝑒𝑝 𝐸𝐸𝑙𝑠 . 𝐷𝑒𝑓𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑣𝑒．

༅ᴏᴘᴇɴɪɴɢ ᴘᴏɪɴᴛ: ʜᴏᴡ ʏᴏᴜʀ ᴇɴᴇʀɢɪᴇs sᴛʀɪᴋᴇ ᴍᴇ ᴀs ᴀ ᴘᴇʀsᴏɴ.

Irritated, emotionally distant and reclusive.. tired..

The need to put up a front and to play off how okay you are, on the outside, you’re this fun loving person, you laugh a lot, talk a lot and listen a lot. Basically you give a lot of yourself with very little in return. Need a friend, you’re the first to call. Someone to loan money from or a shoulder to cry on, there you are!. You’re a person who gets taken for granted due to your kindness, you too long for understanding and a person who would for once ask you what you want instead of what can you do for me. You need rest. You’re on the verge of a burnout and you work too hard, you think a lot and you e probably got really conflicting thoughts that leave you stagnant for days or months because you can’t come up with the right decision to make that won’t affect anyone. Deep down inside you kinda resent the way people paint you in their minds. You’re sort of bitter and tired. You want to be seen as wise and intuitive like you actually are..but for some reason you find yourself being this person who comes across as fully capable, even on days when you need a break. You hate unnecessary conflict and could be very manipulative when you want too, you may feel really isolated and like wonder if all the people you surround yourself with are really people who care about you or just fillers that’ll be gone in some years to come. You come across as a people pleaser to me, scared of losing said people but aren’t exactly gaining anything from them. Sensitive and very kind person who has a really different side in the inside that they’re careful not to show anyone.

༄ᴍᴀɪɴ ᴘᴏɪɴᴛ: ᴛʜᴇ ʟᴏᴠᴇ ʏᴏᴜ ɴᴇᴇᴅ ᴛᴏ ɢɪᴠᴇ ʏᴏᴜʀsᴇʟꜰ ʙᴇꜰᴏʀᴇ ᴀɴʏᴏɴᴇ ᴄᴀɴ.

Listen to your own self.

You’re always listening to everybody but have you ever stopped to ask yourself what you want? Or do you always put yourself on the back burner? Give yourself that acceptance that you crave so much. Become your own company, instead of ostracizing a part of you, learn to cohabit with it, they’d always be things that’ll hurt us and things that’ll be out of our control, stop being so scared of changing the status quo or staying in a bubble simply because it’s what you’re used too. You’re a free spirit at heart and one who’s not meant to feel like they do not know where they’re heading in life simply because so many suggestions and people have a thing or two to say about you. I say you regain your mental clarity by drowning out the background noise, don’t try to fit in either cause you were never meant too. Embrace being different, embrace new beginnings and ambitions. You only feel trapped presently because you’re not following what your heart wants you to do, you’re following what society expects you to do. It’s okay to not be seen as fully capable or quick on your feet or king/queen like. It’s okay to have fears and weakness’s. It’s okay to be you. You need to understand that the limitations you’ve put on yourself attract low level people to you. Remember you only attract the love you think you deserve. Learn to live life in the now and not the later. The time for that would come eventually.

༄: ᴄʟᴏsɪɴɢ ᴘᴏɪɴᴛ: ᴀᴅᴍɪʀᴀʙʟᴇ ᴛʜɪɴɢs ᴀʙᴏᴜᴛ ʏᴏᴜ:

Trustworthy and reliable. You keep secrets. You know how to balance things really well, when to be fun and when to be serious, when to be sensitive, emotional and caring and when to be cold, jarring and direct. You believe in harmony and you often strive to retain harmony. You’re nurturing and you know the right words to say to someone that’ll turn their mood from a frown to a smile. You’re really hardworking and you value loved ones very dearly, you also cherish things given to you. You’re not impulsive and brash but you’re confident and passionate. You’re loving really loving and curious. You love to learn new things and you inspire people to explore new horizons with you. Lastly you’re really diplomatic and balanced. But please. Learn to say no.

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seafoamreadings · 8 months

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week of october 1st, 2023

these are written predominantly for the *rising* signs but they are also intuitively "channeled" enough that they should work for any dominant energy you have! (try your sun if you don't know rising, or more advanced readers can try moon, anywhere you have a stellium, etc and see what works best for you!)

aries: mars is a little more active this week than he has been of late. this is a comfortable setting for you, and yet *too* much impulsivity is not beneficial even to you, let alone to those around you. so don't hold back if you need or wish to act, but do think for just a moment first. it's part of the action. with nodal activity including both mars and venus, this is also a sort of 'twin flame' vibe week for you.

taurus: venus is up to some magical things. as she is your ruling planet, this bodes well for you. however, it may feel a bit like orpheus and eurydike leaving the underworld at the moment. your fate need not be the same as theirs.

gemini: with your ruling planet making a last trine to pluto in capricorn and then heading for libra, it is a time of change. this is compounded by the proximity to the recent equinox. yet you're the most quicksilvery mutable sign of all the mutable signs; change is your comfort zone. let it all be for the best. lean into the shifting.

cancerians: financial difficulties begin to clear up nicely but don't loosen the purse strings too much, venus in leo is still a lavish spender. use the vibe to attract resources to you, rather than spending them much.

leo: venus reaches the final degrees of your sign and this brings about the end of the shadow period after her recent retrograde here. things look a little more vivid, more beautiful now. maybe a confusing love situation straightens out along with it.

virgo: since it's in your twelfth house, venus finally leaving the retrograde shadow zone can feel like a rude awakening after a (pleasant?) dream, or an icy shower after a delusional party bender. don't beat yourself up about any "mistakes" - lessons got learned, right?

libra: your whole vibe is reclaiming right now. call your power back. bury the past. go forward as a beautiful phoenix. don't let anyone treat you in ways you've experienced as hurtful. not only this week, but henceforth. start now.

scorpio: just in case you've made any bad impressions in the last few months, this is the perfect week to begin to right them. certain people were simply blind to the real you during this period, but now a veil is lifted.

sagittarius: if something has been holding you back in some way, it is as though that obstacle is miraculously removed from your path forward, or at least a path over or around or through it is revealed. even if it seemed impossible before.

capricorn: early this week do up a budget and make any necessary purchases. in the second half of the week, while hoarding is not necessarily recommended, be very cautious of overspending materially. money spent to help others is more encouraged.

aquarius: any fraught relationships lighten up from this week on, if they haven't already when venus went direct. the closer she gets to virgo, the smoother it will be for you. integrate the last of your lessons from that likely trying venus retrograde period as she exits the shadow.

pisces: although the astrology of the week is gentle, most folks won't be expressing it the way you normally do, and/or may not be receptive to the way you express things. it's your nature to be compassionate about such things, and patient, even if sometimes it feels lonely. but fear not, more watery times suitable for you are coming up later on.

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flamboyantly-incompetent · 1 year

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OoTP, Chapter 1 - A Hesitant Offer

Draco Malfoy x Hufflepuff!Reader

Warnings: none?

Masterlist

Word Count: 1948

Note: Welcome to the first chapter of my Draco x Reader series! Starts in Order of the Phoenix at the beginning of school term.

Ever since arriving at Hogwarts in your first year, you've had to come to terms with your nigh nonexistent sense of direction. That, coupled with the changing staircases, and Peeves' unfortunate habit of blocking several corridors with a single tantrum, meant that most days you had to leave the Hufflepuff common room at least twenty minutes before anyone else did.

This morning was no different. As you shouldererd your bag and climbed out of the round door, beginning your journey to Herbology 5, your friends waved at you from their cozy seats by the fire. They all had this period free, and had offered to walk you to the greenhouse several times, but in all truth you didn't mind wandering the castle halls before other students were about to disturb them. You liked meeting new paintings and ghosts, some more forthcoming than others, and some willing to give you directions. Early last year, the Fat Friar had personally shown you to your first Divination lesson.

September was quite nippy in the Scottish Highlands, but the castle was kept warm by strategically placed fire places, and the greenhouses varied on the climates of the plants within. The walk between the castle and the greenhouses, however, was a wind tunnel to be feared all year round.

In a stroke of good luck, you found your way on the first try, and the vegetable patches were in sight long before any other students. The sunlight was pleasant in that early morning way, and the wind was as brutal as ever. You pulled your robes tighter around yourself. As you passed, you peered across the way to note how the courgettes were doing - there were several that looked ready to harvest. The image of steaming courgette and tomato gratin filled your mind, and you smiled wistfully. Then, your stomach rumbled and you could only think of regretting skipping breakfast.

Voices in a tense discussion bled out from greenhouse 5, and you grimaced. It sounded like Professor Sprout was talking to a fifth year about their O.W.L.s.

"I am sorry," Professor Sprout said, though her tone suggested she was not sorry at all, "that you are displeased with your marks. However, I stand by them, and will not be grading anything on a 'curve' this year."

The frustrated student replied, "I didn't know you could get a T! What does that even mean?"

"Well, Mr. Malfoy, a T stands for 'Troll.' It means a troll could've written your essay." You tried to stifle a snort of laughter. Which essay was she talking about? Surely not the essay on self-fertalizing shrubs - that one had taken you two reference books and a single hour to complete. Granted, you'd only received an E, but your parchment was a quarter inch too short.

You stopped by the greenhouse door, wondering if you should interrupt their discussion, or if somehow listening in was better.

"That's insulting!" Malfoy said, "They're bushes that consume their own shit - what more is their to say?"

"Five points from Slytherin, Mr. Malfoy. I expect more from my O.W.L. students." There was some silence. You took this opportunity to enter the room. Professor Sprout smiled at you; you smiled back awkwardly, and put your things down in an effort to avoid eye contact with Malfoy and prepare for the lesson. Professor Sprout continued, more quietly but you could still hear, "As it is still early in the term, I will accept a rewritten assignment due in one week. And I highly recommend you find yourself a tutor. As I'm sure you've guessed, I only accept students with passing marks into Advanced Herbology."

Behind you, a few other students, Ravenclaws, shuffled in also trying not to eavesdrop.

Malfoy huffed away from Professor Sprout and stomped up to some other Slytherins, arms crossed and muttering. "Tutor," he spat. They looked at him quizzically. "Just wait until my father hears about this."

Ah, now you recognized him.

Professor Sprout cleared her throat from the back of the greenhouse and the class quieted, Malfoy still glowering by the door. "Today, we'll be attempting to produce high quality smoke from the fire breathing snapdragons you've been attending to. Go on, fetch your plants. Excellent. Now, the key to a good smoke is a high soil pH, and immediate watering after a bout of fire breath. There are a number of ways to do this, so have fun and try your best. Professor Snape has requested whatever we harvest today be added to the potions' store room, so capture the smoke in these." She gestured to a collection of glass bottles with marble stoppers to her left, then shooed you all to begin your work.

From your bag, you produced the pestle and mortar your mum had sent you for Christmas first year, and set it next to your snapdragons. They were glowing softly, the red flowers pulsating with a white light. There was a canister of chunk limestone in the corner; you waited patiently while a Ravenclaw student poked through it, presumably looking for a piece the right size. Across the room, Malfoy looked lost, and so did his friends. You tried to ignore it.

You plopped a reasonable hunk of limestone into the mortar and began to grind it into as fine a powder as you could muster. Then, you sprinkled the powder around the base of the plant, working it into the the soil gently with a trowel, and took out your wand - 10 and 3/4 inches of chestnut with a unicorn hair core, quite bendy. Limestone generally raised soil pH slowly, so you'd have to help it along.

You drew a circle clockwise with your wand and whispered, "Longius ire." The snapdragons responded well, the tips of the outer petals now a stable purple.

"Aguamenti," you said, wand tapping a watering can. Nothing happened. You frowned and said again, more forcefully, "Aguamenti!" A small, pitiful stream, a few drops really, fell from your wand onto the thin metal. Sighing, you carried the empty can to the hand-cranked water pump outside. As you passed, you glanced at Malfoy's plant. The tips of his flowers had turned a sick green color.

You returned to your snapdragons with a full watering can and a glass bottle. You prodded a couple flowers with your wand, the white glow they gave off turning yellow, then orange, until finally they ignited into tiny bursts of flame. The moment the last flower died out, you doused the whole thing with water, and gathered the plum-colored smoke into the bottle by swirling it with your wand. The snapdragon shook off the excess droplets grumpily, and you put the marble stopper back in the bottle and looked around.

A fair few other students had successfully bottled the smoke, and most looked to be the right color. You labeled the bottle "Y/L/N" and stood to turn it in.

Then you smelled something horribly acrid. It was Malfoy's plant. He'd succeeded in coaxing the flowers to produce flame, but the smoke was all wrong. You coughed and covered your nose with the sleeve of your robes, as did most people around him.

"Stupid bloody plant," he muttered.

By the end of class, you'd produced another bottle of smoke, and continued to watch Malfoy struggle pitifully. The glass of the greenhouse shuddered as the bell tolled in the distance, and in unison the class stood up and began filing out of the room. You threw a look behind you. Malfoy was shooing the other Slytherins away, holding a bag of something or other.

Before you really knew what you were doing, you'd weaved through Malfoy's gruff looking friends and approached him, asking, "What's that?"

He turned and scowled at you. "Why?" But you could clearly see the label. Leaf mold.

"It just seems like you could use some help. Did you know that leaf mold makes soil more acidic?"

"That's why I'm using it, to raise the pH. Duh."

You sputtered, "N-no, acidic is low - a high pH is alkaline."

"Oh." Malfoy looked down for a moment, then knit his brows together and said, "Well it's stupid-"

"Look, you need a tutor and I'm offering. What'd'ya say?"

He looked you up and down appraisingly, and you regretted offering your help with every passing second. "Why?"

"I'm not sure what you mean."

"Why do you want to help me? What do you want?"

"OK, I definitely don't know what you mean. We can meet Saturday? I can help you rewrite your essay that I... overheard you... and Professor Sprout talking about." He opened his mouth to speak, looking even more affronted. "Just meet me here Saturday morning after breakfast. These are all open to Hufflepuffs on weekends."

Seemingly forgetting whatever he'd wanted to say a moment ago, he said, "I thought this was a Slytherin - Ravenclaw class."

"Oh. I'm a fourth year. This was the only Herbology five that fit into my schedule. I'm sorry, I've gotta go - double Potions - we have a deal?"

Malfoy glanced around at the empty greenhouse. "I don't even know who you-"

"Y/N." You edged out the door. You really did have to run, quite literally if this conversation didn't wrap up soon. "See you Saturday!"

Thanks to another broad stroke of luck, you ran into your friends on the way to your shared Ravenclaw/Hufflepuff double potions class, and made it with minutes to spare. After the lesson, you decided to swing by Professor Sprout's office to, hopefully, get some guidance for tutoring for an O.W.L. you hadn't even thought to worry about yet.

Like Hagrid, your head of house had her own private garden, though it was a series of rooftop patches that grew a variety of rare and occasionally dangerous plants. Not a pumpkin in sight. This year, there was a newly installed aquaponics tank growing a mass of thriving, slithering and hissing venomous snake plants. You gave them a wide berth as you crossed the garden to the office door and knocked.

"Come in!" rang a warm voice from inside. Professor Sprout smiled warmly at you from her desk when you opened the door to her small office. "Hello, dear. Have a seat. What can I help you with?"

Inside, the office was overfull of house plants, none of which were practical in any sense, but they were clearly cared for with love. You dodged an enchanted watering can and sat down. "Well, I just wanted to let you know that I've offered some tutoring to Draco Malfoy. And I was wondering if you had a list or something of the things the O.W.L.s should cover?"

She clapped her hands together, clearly pleased. "Excellent. I was hoping someone would take pity on him. I have some notes around here somewhere. One moment." She began rifling around in her desk drawers and continued, "Not a helpless case, that boy, I suspect he just needs a bit more attention than I can afford to pay him. It doesn't help of course that the gentle study of magical flora is often written off as a lesser one. Aha! Here it is. I expect you've seen most of these, but let me know if you need anything once you get going." She handed you a list of scribbled plant names entitled 4 OWLS. She was right - your mum grew most of these for her shop. This should be a cinch.

"Thanks, Professor."

"Of course, Miss Y/L/N. Was there anything else?"

A slow, giddy smile grew on your lips. "I wondered if you could show me the new aquaponics setup?"

She grinned. "Come with me."

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rose-pearls · 2 years

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Maybe one day I'll forgive myself

Summary: Hangman lost not only his WSO but also his girlfriend in the accident.

“Hangman the only place you’ll lead anyone is an early grave.”, the words hung in the air, and he could hear a surprised gasp from Phoenix. He couldn’t show Rooster that his line had affected him, so he continued the show trying to fake it.

“I love this song.”, he takes the opportunity to leave the bar, needing the air after hearing that blow.

He knew he was an asshole, a cocky one but he never thought someone who knew the story would tell him such a thing. Rooster, Phoenix and Coyote had been there when the training accident happened, when he lost you.

Jake had met you in flight school and you were quickly assigned as his WSO, you seemed shy at the beginning, but time showed him that there was a bright fire behind that shyness that could rival his sarcasm. He had fallen for you the moment you helped him with some paperwork that had to be done, he had always had difficulties with filling paperwork due to his dyslexia, but you just helped him without taking no for an answer and never told anyone.

You were also the one that gave him his callsign, when the lessons got boring you always ended up playing hangman. Plus, he had dyslexia, so it worked with the game that filled up your textbooks over time. He still had those textbooks at home, but he tried not to look at them too much.

He didn’t know if you would ever love him the way he loved you until an argument erupted between the two of you because he left your wingman and you had been angry about it until you couldn’t hold it in anymore.

“That was dangerous, he could have died.”, he can still hear you say it to him, willing him to understand.

“It was just a training exercise, I would never do that in a real situation.”, you were looking at him like you were trying to decipher something, him probably.

“Be careful, that is all I’m asking.”, he had felt cold when you said that and realized that he should be careful, especially with you in the back.

“I will, I would never put you in any danger.”, a soft smile appeared at his words, and he had felt his heartbeat get faster at the sight of it.

“You should show Jake more often and leave Hangman on the side.”, he chuckled back then because he knew you preferred it when he was Jake, but he still couldn’t shake his Hangman persona.

“It’s only for you sweetheart.”, he had shot you a wink and by some luck you started blushing, so Jake took his chance and asked you out on a date.

That started your love story and the next two months were the best of his life, hearing your laughter, seeing you smile as bright as the sun, having you in his arms.

He remembers dancing around in the kitchen in the refrigerator light and keeping you close to him, afraid that if he let go you would slip through his fingers.

And one day you did.

It was supposed to be a training day, seeing if they could do a simple maneuver with the F-18 and you had both been excited to try it out. Everything was going well until a bird strike happened and your left engine stopped working.

“Jake left engine is out.”, he tried to calm himself down and save the other engine but after a few seconds the right engine caught on fire. He can still hear the fear in your voice.

“Right engine is on fire. Red signs everywhere, were going down.”, he had felt like he couldn’t breathe then, he had lost control of the only thing that he thought he would always be able to control, and he could hear the fear in your voice.

“Eject. Eject.”, he said and waited for you to eject before following, that was the moment he heard a sick sound coming from behind him. He first thought it was the plane that was making that sound and landed on the ground but when he tried to find you and saw you there lying on the ground unmoving, he knew.

He felt like the air had been ripped out of him as he stumbled towards you, praying that it wasn’t what he was thinking and that you were alright. You were supposed to go on a date tonight, you had bene looking forward to it all week.

He fell on his knees in front of you, your eyes were closed but that didn’t mean anything. Your helmet was broken in two, but he couldn’t take it off, as it could make things worse, but as he tries to support your head on his knees he feels a warm liquid against his fingers, blood. He couldn’t see anything anymore through the tears as he tried to find a heartbeat, but it was in vain, and the tears finally fell.

“Sweetheart? Common you need to wake up, we still have so much to do, we need to go home.”, he had managed to say through the sobs as he held you closer to him.

“We need to go to that fair you wanted to see, and go to that Christmas market, and you still have to meet my parents and my sister. Remember you were so excited about the idea. We still have a date planned tonight, remember we were going to go to that new restaurant and then eat a bunch of dessert before going to see the stars. I-”, he choked up through the tears and held her closer as he sobbed through her flight suit.

“Please, please wake up I can’t live without you. You’re all I have, please don’t leave me hanging love.”, he continued pleading holding your head in his hands, but nothing made you move, and he continued to sob as the medics arrived ripping him off your body.

The next days had been a blur, learning that you were officially dead and that he was cleared of any wrongdoing. As his captain told him that he felt sick, you were his WSO, and you died on his watch, he killed you.

The ceremony had been the hardest part, having to slam your wings into the casket as he watched your picture in front of him. They gave him the flag, as if it would make up for the loss. The casket went down, and people left trying to get him to leave but he couldn’t, he stayed there trying to tell himself this wasn’t real and that you were going to be there in a minute telling him to move his ass.

His apartment was still filled with memories of you, pictures, trinkets you never took home and as he came home that night, he broke down on the floor of his bedroom with one of your shirts in his arms that still smelled like you. Memories of you flashing before his eyes as he sobbed harder, barely registering that Coyote had entered and was holding him.

He never got over your death, he could never fly again like before, couldn’t fly with a WSO again. He could still hear your voice in the back of his F-18, like you were still there helping him. The guilt stayed even ten years later, he thinks of you every day, when he sees a cooking show because you always wanted to cook the same thing, markets that you always loved to go to.

He swallows the lump in his throat as he ignores the song that Rooster is singing, he knows that you wouldn’t have wanted him to feel this sad, guilty but he couldn’t stop that feeling as he thinks of you.

‘One day, I will forgive myself for not being able to save you.’, he thinks and feels Coyote’s hand on his shoulder, trying to be there for him. He closes his eyes and tries to remember your bright smile to give him strength for the mission.

“I believe in you Jake, not Hangman, you.”

#top gun fanfiction #top gun imagine #top gun x reader #jake hangman x reader #hangman x y/n #hangman x you #jake hangman seresin #hangman fanfiction #jake seresin fanfiction #jake seresin x reader #jake hangman x you #jake seresin imagine

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saintsenara · 8 months

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mmmh another ship ask

Lets go with snumbledore, (snape really has a weakness for powerful men + redheads)

this is so true and real, anon.

i’m weirdly into snumbledore, because i think it’s really one of the best ships - and, really, probably one of the only ships - which can show dumbledore actually doing some self growth.

because, obviously, it starts out with the potential for horror baked into it. snape and dumbledore have a vast power imbalance at pretty much all points of their acquaintance, and would even without the fact that dumbledore is the one person who keeps snape out of azkaban and who uses that fact to leverage control over him in the mission against voldemort. the age gap is colossal. dumbledore sends snape out to potentially die every time he goes off to voldemort, which requires him to have a certain detachment from snape as a real person.

and - and this is the crucial one - dumbledore’s recognition of himself in snape is pure self-loathing - "you disgust me" - which manifests itself as punishment [dumbledore allowing snape to be humiliated in front of his fellow teachers in philosopher’s stone - as quirrell says about snape’s decision to referee a quidditch match which dumbledore attends anyway, rendering quirrell too afraid to try any funny business - and fudge in prisoner of azkaban; not stopping the presumed-to-be-real moody searching his office in goblet of fire; making him give harry occlumency lessons in order of the phoenix, even though he undoubtedly realises that they will be disastrous; and not letting him teach defence against the dark arts] externalised against snape as a way for dumbledore to soothe his desire to punish himself.

but then this stops in the hazy couple of weeks between the end of order of the phoenix and the beginning of half-blood prince, when snape saves dumbledore’s life after he puts on the ring-horcrux and then does the agonisingly brave thing of agreeing to kill him once it’s no longer possible to contain the curse, and their dynamic equalises.

it’s always really striking in half-blood prince that dumbledore is completely over harry’s sniping about snape - in the earlier books he has admonished him for not using snape’s title, but otherwise looked the other way when harry complains about him, but in half-blood prince he straight-up tells him to shut up. [he also, strikingly, very nearly gives the game away and confesses why snape switched sides - the one thing, as we discover in deathly hallows, which he promised not to do - when harry finds out towards the conclusion of half-blood prince that it was snape who reported the prophecy to voldemort.]

dumbledore coming to recognise that snape - whatever his other faults - is brave, loyal, steadfast, and trustworthy [hence why he lets him teach defence against the dark arts in half-blood prince - he no longer fears what snape’s intellectual interest in dark magic may lead to] is sincerely the most profound example in the series of dumbledore - who tends to pick a view of a person and stick to it, as the eleven-year-old tom riddle can attest - realising that his initial judgement of somebody was mistaken.

[as an aside, i think that this is the implication behind the "we sort too soon" line, shown in deathly hallows and spoken by dumbledore to snape in harry’s fourth year. i’m not the biggest fan of this - i hate the implication that snape displaying an admirable trait like courage would mean that he wasn’t a real slytherin, that house can be understood positively too! - but i do recognise that it’s supposed to be interpreted as the beginning of dumbledore coming to understand who snape actually is.]

and within an equalised dynamic, snape and dumbledore are actually very well matched. they’re intellectual equals, they both have a shared experience of guilt and grief, they both had difficult childhoods, their aesthetic senses are charmingly divergent, snape being so emotionally feral is good for someone as emotionally repressed as dumbledore, and so on.

i ship it, your honour.

#asks answered #asenora's opinions on ships #snumbledore #albus dumbledore #severus snape #they invented the goth bf rainbow bf dynamic

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cosmic-metanoia · 5 months

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The Abhorrent Mother

***Major Spoilers for Final Fantasy XVI***

Calling Anabella the "devil" or a "bitch" sounds like a term of endearment rather than an insult. There are no words that accurately embody this woman. In my book, she wins the award for the most evil villainess which shows just how well-written she was! But it did get me thinking...in addition to the countless atrocities she committed, could it also be because she shatters the stereotype of the sacrificing and caring mother? Do we perceive her as more evil because of that?

In many cultures and religions, mothers are depicted as being soft, feminine, caring, unconditionally loving, and sacrificing for the betterment of their children and families. The character archetype of an "evil father" exists but that typically is more well-received.

When it comes to Anabella, it's as if she is the ultimate sacrilege of the pregnant mother who carries, gives birth, and loves her children dearly. Normally, with her attitude, we expect the classic "evil stepmother" archetype in full blossom. Clearly that is not the case here. I recall how some folks in the FFXVI discussion forums were waiting for the big reveal that she was indeed NOT Clive and/or Joshua's mother - because how could someone so evil give birth to two righteous sons? Turns out nope - she was, indeed, their biological mother through the bitter end!

If she was just an evil stepmother, that would have been incredibly commonplace and trite - making her their actual mother made her all the more impactful. Afterall, evil comes in all forms.

I also read that a few people had hoped she would get a redemption arc. I'm glad she didn't. And I'm glad that her and Clive never reconciled. She was too far gone and the years of verbal and emotional abuse could not be forgiven by Clive, Jill, and others. She betrayed her family, her nation, her people and started a chain reaction that altered history all to obtain more power, more riches, and an "upgrade" to her future royal bloodline.

When Bahamut/Dion killed the Emperor, sacked Twinside, and killed Olivier, all that she had built was ripped from her within minutes. (Also, notice how she did not even think to herself 'Hmm....why is there no blood or body?' after Olivier dissolved away into thin air upon being stabbed through. )

At her end, she had nothing left but to face the consequences of her actions. And I could only imagine that seeing her beloved Joshua whom she thought was dead drove the fear of some divine retribution right into her.

Personally that scene really hurt to watch - how Joshua was the last person to offer her his hand when no one else would. But that speaks more to who he is as a person. To be fair, the last time he saw his mother was when he was 10 years old and he was the one person she showed a shred of decency albeit because he was the Phoenix. Otherwise, she would have tossed him aside like she did Clive.

When she frantically swiped her blade at him and cut him in her madness, I thought, "Yep...time for her to go! How dare she hurt our beloved birb?!"I also thought it fitting that in the moment of escaping accountability, she died by her own hand. It was heartbreaking to see Joshua witness yet another parent's death right before his eyes. Clive and Jill looked away in pity for her.

She could have been the mother of not one but two Dominants and be remembered in history for that. But she threw away her family happily with both hands.

The lesson here - "some of the most poisonous people to walk the earth come in the form of family." Sure, people do deserve forgiveness depending on what their actions were but there are rare times when a so-called redemption arc is not earned and not deserved.

One final lesson is that as a child, you have the power to be different from a horrible parent and that fact is glorious.

#ff16 #ffxvi #final fantasy 16 #final fantasy xvi #ff16 joshua #ffxvi joshua #joshua rosfield #anabella rosfield #ffxvi spoilers #ff16 spoilers #final fantasy xvi spoilers

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Understanding the 8th house in Astrology (Synastry and Natal)

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Let's talk about the eighth house and its meaning in astrology. Only the meaning, description. I will try to do another post with the signs.

⇢ Many people love to idealize the "good" sides of the 8th like "steamy relationship" or "an alluring person". However, traumas shouldn't be glamorize; they should be healed. The 8th house is like a closet, and inside of that closet we find fears, doubts, traumas, vulnerability, and so much more.

⇢For instance, the energy of the eighth house represents how obsessive you are, and which are your obsessions? What are your secrets? Can you keep secrets? How you view intimacy? How you approach sex? How you view a sexual partner? How you view sexuality? What turns you on or off? What is your sexual orientation? How you perceive death? What are your fears? What is your generational heritage or traumas? What you inheritance? How mysterious you are? In what areas you hide things? How you investigate, your inner detective? How good you lie? What are your inner goals?

Following with death, it is not exactly physical death; it explains about your transformations. How you process your own "death" in order to advance to the next stage, how you grieve or mourn. Continuing, the 8th house is opposite of the 2nd house, so how you share your possessions or inner fears? How we emerge with others? What is your relationship with taxes and gambling? How you lend or owe money, even pros and cons? What are your partner's resources? What you offers to others (partners) ? Why others give you money? How you share money resources with your partner? Do you have limits or you should draw new limits, too? What are you hiding? Your shadow self face.

The sign, aspect and planets in your 8th houses can reveal of this info. In some chart, some themes are more prominent than others. Next time, reevaluate your 8th house closely, it will reveal a lot of you that's hidden.

In natal

Depending on the planet, this closet (your 8th house) can have a password, or even be blocked by a chair or a desk (another planet or more). The sign will try to be the digits/ words you use to decode the password, and you can try to guess it. No matter the planet, the impact of the house is monumental. It's hard to describe the confuse energy, especially because the 8th is extreme, all or nothing.

The native may use it for its benefit after knowing the painful side. Transformations are a journey and not so pretty or easy.

Someone with this placement knows that they are changing constantly, so they either take responsibility or blame others.

If they blame others, they will never advance truly from the turmoil. This lead to vengeance, resentment or anger issues as result self-destruction: addictions. Nonetheless, they should trust the process, but trust is not simple after many betrayals and letdowns, even from themselves. This native needs to learn that they can't control everything; you just need to learn the lesson and keep moving like the eagle and reborn like a Phoenix. The biggest recommendation for every person with a 8th placement is let your pain talk. What are you shutting down your emotions? What are you afraid? It's time to be vulnerable. It's time love and accept that part that everyone hurts.

In synastry

This house is not only about hot sex or an enigmatic couple only. It's about remembering to open yourself and let the other do the same. Are you ready? Perhaps, nobody is ready for it. Sharing your inner fears to someone else,it is a difficult task.

The 8th house energy is scorpionic, have you seen Scorpions in love?? I don't think so. I think, the less dramatic representation of Scorpio is the eagle, yet they are usually alone or typically known for that, don't they?! To love someone with the 8th house energy means to learn that you cannot control them, and still love them. The obsessive energy of this house makes things steamy and creates mysterious, even an addictive effect. Being addicted is not good, though.

In synastry, the challenge for the 8th person is acknowledge how their partner is a person, not a possession. Change should come without other's imposition. Each person has their own demons and fears. For this reason, this house synastry can be difficult. Obssesion over someone is not love. If the individual' love perspective is rooted in pain; they will add more pain to others, stinking their venom like a true Scorpion. Love in the 8th should be transformative not destructive, where both are fine with changing and emerging together.

Overall, this house is not easy. if you have any planet or a stellium in the 8th house, I understand your confusion and anger. People ignore how hard is to be transforming yourself constantly. Because these changes are constant, Scorpio energy is always renewing itself. Any placement with Scorpionic energy proves it. You aren't the same person you were yesterday.

This is a reminder to take things slowly, bb, you are doing well. Take care, mochis.

©️ deepmochi, 2022

#the 8th house #astrology #astrologynotes #the 8th house in astrology #Scorpio #zodiac #astrology community #astronotes #astrologia #2022 #astroblr #astro tumblr #deepmochi #astro placements #plutonian energy #8th house

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this is such a random question but do u have a favourite question from persian folklore and if so, what is it?

hello! i was confused at first but i saw ur ask correcting 'question' to 'story' :)

i think my favourite is conference of the birds ! i read it when i was like...maybe 9? and i thought it was so beautiful at the time, the book i bought had these colourful illustrations too...i still think it's such a beautiful poem/story

it's about a group of birds who realise they don't have a ruler and their life is purposeless. one of the birds suggest they search for a ruler, the simorgh (phoenix, essentially, but translates literally to 30 [si] birds [morgh]). this birds tells them they must journey through 7 valleys in order to reach the simorgh at the end. the valleys being quest, knowledge, detachment, unity, wonder, and annihilation.

they voice out their anxieties about making this very harrowing journey and the quasi-leader bird tells them stories and anecdotes to tell them why/how they should get past these fears (this is the main bulk of the story iirc). going through these valleys, more and more birds die of panic and illness, heat and cold, violence, etc, until at the end (at the end of the valley of annihilation) there are 30 left. at this point they have detached from their 'selves' such that their perception of each other is identical to their perception of themself and vice versa - they realise they are resemblances; beings that are united and nonexistent as individuals.

once they make it to the simorgh, all they see is a mirror, or rather, themself reflected back. it's sort of a lesson in unity, detachment, self-perception, and that the absolute/beauty/god/beloved is not in itself a separate being but a reflection, and specifically, a reflection of the self which is also the totality of all things. it's cyclical but in a comforting way. they realise they are the simorgh (phoenix/30 birds). .....ok this sounded confusing and it IS a little confusing but when u read it, it makes more sense it's so beautiful

brief descriptions of the valleys if ur interested:

#asks #anon #ty for the ask i love this story #idk if it counts as a folk tale but it is a story/poem so :') anyway the story is rly pretty i highly suggest reading it!#this rewired my brain when i was a kid esp the end

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Spoiler Thoughts & Reactions: Azula in the Spirit Temple

This is the stuff I had to leave out of my other post because it's spoilery, mostly concerned with Azula's character arc. It seems the fandom is having mixed reactions to this, but I think it moves Azula forward in a big way as a character, even though very little changes about her general situation.

The thing I'm most struck by is that this thing has the exact same character arc as the 2-chapter vision question I sent Zuko on in Traitor's Face, complete with the protagonist seemingly rejecting redemption at the climax by attacking the spirit in what is actually a symbolically self-destructive reaction to becoming consciously aware of the abusive they experienced from Ozai- an awareness that may lead to better choices in the future.

I love that Azula actually talks about Ozai here, and the flashback to her discovering her Firebending is perfectly illustrative of her dynamic with her parents. During her spirit visions, Azula claims to no longer support Ozai because he failed and lost his Firebending, which seems to be a change from how she was still taking his orders in 'The Search.' After 'Smoke & Shadow' was loudly silent on the matter, we see that she's truly taken a step forward in her characterization and is no longer consciously trying to win his approval. I had suspected as much, considering her obsession with Zuko, but it's good to see it given confirmation and focus.

At the start of this story, Azula is definitely diminished, though, running around the fringes of the Fire Nation committing petty acts of sabotage, no longer attempting any grand plans to manipulate Zuko but rather just generally antagonizing him. This is a change from her professed mission in S&S to supposedly make him a better Fire Lord by teaching him the power of fear over love.

My own speculations are that that she either wasn't serious about her true motivations in S&S (which I think would be a retcon), she's now lashing out at him in revenge for his rejection of the lesson, or she's just taunting him with her own continued survival and freedom in order to show him that his belief in love can't accomplish everything.

Getting back to Ozai, I was stunned to find that this comic actually has her admitting that her father abused her and she feared him. That is a huge step forward for her, acknowledging the part he played in her troubles. And yet, at the story's climax, when she goes to attack the spirit who has been troubling her and giving her visions, she proclaims herself the daughter of Ozai (not Ursa, unlike Zuko at the climax of 'Zuko Alone,' despite Azula also admitting some real truths about her mother), gives him the title of the Phoenix King, and uses it as proof of her claim to the Fire Nation throne. That seems to be a huge reversal from the earlier acknowledgements, and she explicitly frames it as a rejection of the possibility of redemption- a rejection even of the need.

This would seem to be a rather meta sign of what we should expect next for Azula, that there will be no Redemption Arc and she will remain a villain. But I'm not so sure.

Because Azula is not being honest.

The spirit, after it takes its final monstrous bug-like form, describes itself as a mirror of Azula's inner-self, a monster just like her, and the consequence of rejecting redemption. Azula attempts to destroy it with her lightning, a symbolic act of self-destruction. She seems to once again be embracing Ozai's worldview that human connections are a weakness. And the symbolic self-destruction seems to indicate that this will not end well for her.

But I would say that the final pages are not definitive about what is next for her.

For one thing, the spirit is not destroyed. When Azula continues her journey through the forest where she found the spirit temple, the first panel puts an insect of the same type and color as the spirit's final form in the foreground. So she's mistaken about that, and if we continue to say that it's a symbol of her inner-self, she didn't succeed in destroying it.

When she finds the Fire Warriors -- who she initially said she would hurt for leaving her to go rescue a captured member she had given up on -- she observes their close friendship and chooses to walk away. She covers this by saying, out loud to no one, that they are unworthy of her leadership. Who is she trying to convince? This directly parallels the feelings about Ty Lee and Mai that were explored in her visions. So clearly she's in denial about what she's feeling, attempting to talk herself into a more palatable justification, and has grown from wanting to hurt the Fire Warriors for their disobedience and having what she wants.

Then, interestingly, as Azula walks away, she says she'll find a new place to rule and new followers, and that she always does. This is despite her earlier talk about being the rightful heir to the throne.

I've long said that the dumbest, least interesting way to use Azula in any AtLA sequels (including fanfic) is to have her trying to usurp the title of Fire Lord from Zuko. It plays into the rivalry taught to them by the way Ozai played them against each other, but in the context of the setting, it's a fool's errand. Even if the Fire Nation accepted her, the rest of the world wouldn't, not if she's going to antagonize them. Restarting the war is a no-go, as the Fire Nation has lost its colonies and captured territory in the Earth Kingdom, and now it no longer has a military or technology advantage. I can't buy that someone as smart as Azula would want to put herself into an career dead-end like that.

But it seems, thanks to those final pages, this comic has advanced Azula enough that even though she wants the throne, she recognizes that it offers her nothing in either real power or personal satisfaction. If she really is looking for somewhere else to rule, she's no longer interested in fighting with Zuko over a token that their father had dangled over them all their lives. She doesn't even care what Zuko does with it.

(That's not to say she won't fight with Zuko over other things! Which I would be fine with.)

And she's off to find something worth fighting over, even though she's still very flawed and in denial about a lot of it.

So I think this comic opens up a lot of possibilities for Azula. Maybe she'll continue being a villain, but for smart stakes. Maybe she'll eventually work her way to a true redemption. (I especially like that the dialogue ties redemption with apologies; it's not enough to stop being bad, a true redemption requires acknowledging past wrongs and attempting to make up for them.) Or maybe the continuing AtLA story will do what I like to play with when I write Azula:

Just find a way for her to achieve peace with herself.

Anyway, the more I think on this comic, the more I like it. I'll be crushed when the animated Aang movie makes her a generic villain again. XD

#azula #azula in the spirit temple

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Here's the backstory of the Pilgrims in accordance to the novel. Because at this point, I might as well!

SŪN WÙKŌNG (孫悟空)

The monkey, the myth, the legend himself!

On the continent of East Pūrvavideha in the country of Àolái (傲來) atop Huāguǒshān (花果山)—Flower-Fruit Mountain—there lived monkey who hatched from stone, and being the only one in his troop to be brave (or impulsive) enough to rush through the local waterfall—what would become Shuǐlián Dòng (水帘洞), or Water-Curtain Cave—he's subsequently made the Hóuwáng (猴王), or Monkey King.

Years later, due to having an existential crises, he decides to go find the secret to immortality and eventually encounters an immortal named Pútí Zǔshī (菩提祖师), Patriarch Subodhi, whom Wùkōng would train under for ten years. Under his tutelage, the Monkey King received lessons on—among other things—human language and etiquette, calligraphy, philosophy, and magic. It was also Subodhi who gave Wùkōng his name, giving the following explanation:

"Though your features are not the most attractive, you do resemble a pignolia-eating monkey (husun). This gives me the idea of taking a surname for you from your appearance. I intended to call you by the name Hu. If I drop the animal radical from this word, what’s left is a compound made up of the two characters, gu and yue. Gu means aged and yue means female, but an aged female cannot reproduce. Therefore, it is better to give you the surname of Sun. If I drop the animal radical from this word, what we have left is the compound of zi and xi. Zi means a boy and xi means a baby, and that name exactly accords with the fundamental Doctrine of the Baby Boy. So your surname will be Sun."

The Patriarch said, “Within my tradition are twelve characters that have been used to name the pupils according to their divisions. You are one who belongs to the tenth generation."

"Which twelve characters are they?" asked the Monkey King.

The Patriarch replied, "They are: wide (guang), great (da), wise (zhi), intelligence (hui), true (zhen), conforming (ru), nature (xing), sea (hai), sharp (ying), wake-to (wu), complete (yuan), and awakening (jue). Your rank falls precisely on the word 'wake-to' (wu). You will hence be given the religious name ‘Wake-to-the-Void’ (wukong). All right?"

"Splendid! Splendid!" said the Monkey King, laughing. "Henceforth I shall be called Sun Wukong."

Eventually, Subodhi sent Sūn Wùkōng away after the monkey displayed his new transformation powers to his fellow disciples, but not before making him promise to not tell anyone where he had learned his abilities from.

Later, after returning to Flower Fruit Mountain and stopping the demon from further terrorizing their home, Sūn Wùkōng then travels to the East Sea for a weapon. Of course he soon obtains his famous golden staff—Rúyì Jīn Gū Bàng (如意金箍棒)—from Áo Guāng (敖光), but as for the rest of the items, he gets the phoenix-feathered cap—Fèngchìzǐjinguān (鳳翅紫金冠)—from Áo Qīn (敖欽), Dragon of the South, the cloud-stepping shoes—Ǒusībùyúnlǚ (藕絲步雲履)—from Áo Shùn (敖順), Dragon of the North, and the golden chainmail—Suǒ Zi Huángjīn Jiǎ (鎖子黃金甲)—from Áo Rùn, Dragon of the West.

Later, Monkey manages to cheat death itself by scratching out his name as well as those belonging to several other monkeys from one of the ledgers of the dead.

Finally grabbing the attention of the Jade Emperor, Wùkōng gets tasked by Heaven to become their BìMǎWēn (弼馬溫), the overseer of the imperial dragon-horses, in order to keep him out of trouble. And to his credit, he does an excellent job at it; as a result of this position, horses in general end up fearing and respecting him.

But then when Sūn Wùkōng realizes just how low of a position he's actually in, he abandons his post, proclaims himself Qítiān Dàshèng (齐天大圣)—Great Sage Equal to Heaven—and soon enough, he's at war with the entirety of the Celestial Host and later ends up becoming even more immortal than he already was. Long story short, he's soon bested by Buddha and gets trapped under Five Phases Mountain, Wǔhángshān (五行山), for the next five hundred years.

After being freed, he's given the Jīngūquān (金箍圈) to wear on his head to ensure his good behavior.

TÁNG SĀNZÀNG (唐三藏)

Based on a real monk of the same name, Táng Xuánzàng (唐玄奘)—courtesy name Sēng (唐僧)—also called Táng Sānzàng or Tripiṭaka, was born to a man named Chén Guāngruǐ (陳光蕊) and a chief minister's daughter named Yīn Wēnjiāo (殷溫嬌), and even before going on the pilgrimage, this man has never known peace for very long. And neither have his parents.

For starters, in his first life, he was known as Jinchan Zi (金蝉子)—Golden Cicada—the second disciple of Buddha, but was so inattentive towards the lessons that he eventually entered a cycle of reincarnation as punishment; by the time he's born to the Chens, he'd already been through ten previous lives.

And then it gets worse.

Having been made governor of Jiāngzhōu (江州) shortly after the wedding, Chén Guāngruǐ and Yīn Wēnjiāo began to travel to their new home, only for Guāngruǐ to be killed by the boatmen who were supposed to take them there because one of them—Liú Hóng (劉洪)—wanted Wēnjiāo for himself. Fortunately, Guāngruǐ body is found by a yaksha loyal to the local Dragon King of Hóngjiāngkǒu (洪江口), whom Guāngruǐ had previously rescued while said Dragon King had been in the guise of a fish; repaying kindness with kindness, Guāngruǐ's soul was allowed to stay with the king until the time came for it to reunite with his body, which was given a preservative pearl so it wouldn't decay.

Meanwhile, after giving birth to a son, Wēnjiāo sends her baby down the river to save him from being killed by Liú Hóng, having been promised by the celestials that she'd be reunited with her family one day. This son is then found by Monk Fǎmíng (法明) of Jīnshān Temple (金山寺) and given the nickname Jiāng Liú (江流), River Float, as well as the religious name Xuánzàng, and after eighteen years of being oblivious to his true identity, he finally reunites with his mother and grandparents, gets Liú Hóng arrested, and then reunites with his father afterwards.

Anastasia AU, anyone?

Anyway, he's later selected to go on a journey to India, called Tiānzhú (天竺), to retrieve a set of Buddhist scriptures, becomes sworn brothers with Emperor Tàizōng (唐太宗) himself before leaving, and then eventually meets a certain mystic monkey who's been trapped under a mountain for five hundred years.

ÁO LIÈ (敖烈)

Known as the Third Jade Dragon Prince and the White Dragon Horse, the son of Áo Rùn is never actually given a name in the original novel, but Liè is the most common in adaptations, and that's when he's given a name at all. But no matter what, his story remains more or less the same throughout—due to inadvertently setting his father's pearls and palace on fire, Áo Rùn reported him to the Jade Emperor, who sentenced him to be executed, but not before having Ao Liè lashed three hundred times first.

But of course, Liè was ultimately saved by Guānyīn a few days before he was set to be executed and was then tasked by her to carry Táng Sānzàng to the West before having his horns and scales taken off, only to regain them at the end of the journey. Being the second of the group Táng Sānzàng would meet, the encounter happens due to Liè eating the monk's original horse and a fight with Sun Wukong ensues until the matter gets resolved with Guānyīn's help.

Technically, he's never counted as an official disciple in the original book and neither Zhū Bājiè and Sha Wujing even realize Liè isn't a regular horse until two months after joining the group.

Other than that, Liè doesn't really do much as far as the original book is concerned, save for two instances. One is sometime after Sun Wukong had been banished the first time and everyone else in the group had been indisposed in some way by Huáng Páo Guài (黃袍怪), Yellow Robe Demon.

Everyone, that is, except for Áo Liè!

In order to save Sānzàng from this latest threat, he disguises himself as a palace maiden, tries to stab the demon while performing a sword dance and... loses. To the point of getting his leg injured.

It's okay, he did his best.

So Zhū Bājiè soon finds him hiding out, and after the pig demon attempts to quit the journey altogether, Áo Liè proceeds to give him one hell of a call out while also showing just how much faith he has in Sūn Wùkōng.

Once again, to quote the Anthony Yu translation (side note for those unfamiliar with Yu, Bājiè's name is given a literal translation, hence Eight Rules):

Idiot mounted the clouds quickly and went back to the city; in a little while, he reached the post-house. The moon was bright and people had become quiet at this time, but he searched the corridors in vain to find any trace of his master. All he saw was the white horse lying there: his whole body was soaked and on one of his hind legs was the mark of a bruise about the size of a pan. "This is doubly unfortunate!" said Eight Rules, greatly startled. "This loser hasn’t traveled. Why is he sweating like that, and with a bruise on his leg? It must be that some evil men have robbed our master, wounding the horse in the process."

The white horse recognized that it was Eight Rules; assuming human speech suddenly, he called out: "Elder Brother!" Idiot was so shaken that he fell on the ground. Pulling himself up, he was about to dash outside when the white horse caught hold of the monk’s robe by his teeth, saying again, "Elder Brother, don’t be afraid of me."

Idiot was so shaken that he fell on the ground. Pulling himself up, he was about to dash outside when the white horse caught hold of the monk’s robe by his teeth, saying again, "Elder Brother, don’t be afraid of me."

"Brother,' said Eight Rules, still shaking, "why are you talking today? When you talk like that, it has to mean that some great misfortune is about to befall us."

The little dragon said, "Did you know that Master had landed in a terrible ordeal?"

"No, I didn’t," said Eight Rules.

The little dragon said, "Of course, you didn't! You and Sha Monk were flaunting your abilities before the king, thinking that you could capture the demon and be rewarded for your merit. You didn't expect that the demon was so powerful and you were the ones no doubt who were beaten. At least one of you could have returned to give us the news, but there was not one word from either of you. That monster-spirit had changed himself into a handsome scholar and broken into the court to present himself to the king as an imperial relative. Our master was changed by him into a ferocious striped tiger, who was then taken captive by the officials and locked up in an iron cage in one of the palace chambers. When I heard how Master suffered, my heart felt as if it had been stabbed by a sword. But you were gone for nearly two days, and I was afraid that any further delay might mean that Master would be killed. So I had no choice but to change back into my dragon body to go and try to rescue him. When I reached the court, I couldn't find Master, but I met the monster in the Silver Peace Palace. I changed into the form of a palace maid, trying to deceive him. He asked me to do a sword dance, during which I tried to slash him. He escaped my blow and defeated me instead with a candelabrum. I tried desperately to hit him when I threw the sword at him, but he caught it instead and gave me a blow on my hind leg with that candelabrum. I dived into the imperial moat and saved my life; the bruise on my leg was caused by the candelabrum."

When Eight Rules heard these words, he said, "Is that all true?"

"You think I'm deceiving you?" said the little dragon.

Eight Rules asked, "What are we going to do? What are we going to do? Can you move at all?"

"If I can," said the little dragon, "what then?"

"If you can move at all," said Eight Rules, "move into the ocean then. Old Hog will pole the luggage back to the Old Gao Village to pick up my wife again."

When the little dragon heard this, he clamped his mouth onto Eight Rules's shirt and refused to let go. As tears fell from his eyes, he said, "Elder Brother, you mustn't become indolent."

"Why not?" said Eight Rules. "Brother Sha has already been caught by him, and I can't beat him. If we don't scatter now, what are we waiting for?"

The little dragon thought for some time before he spoke again, tears streaming down his cheeks. "Elder Brother, don't mention the word scatter. If you want to save Master, you have to go and ask a person to come here."

"Who is that?" asked Eight Rules.

The little dragon said, "You'd better hurry and mount the clouds to go to the Flower-Fruit Mountain, so that you can invite our Big Brother, Pilgrim Sun, to come back. Most certainly he has dharma power great enough to subdue this fiend and rescue Master, avenging at the same time the shame of our defeat."

"Brother," said Eight Rules, "let me go ask someone else. That monkey and I are not on the best of terms, you know. When he killed that Lady White Bone back there on the White Tiger Ridge, he was mad at me already for wheedling Master into reciting the Tight-Fillet Spell. I was just being frivolous, and I didn’t think that the old priest would really recite it and even banish him. I don't know how he hates me now, and I'm certain also that he won’t come back. Suppose we have a little argument then: that funeral staff of his is pretty heavy, you know. If he doesn't know any better at that moment and gives me a few strokes, you think I'll be able to live?"

The little dragon said, “He won't hit you, because he is a kind and just Monkey King. When you see him, don't say that Master is in peril; just tell him that Master is thinking of him and deceive him into coming. When he gets here and sees what's happening, he will not get mad. He will want most certainly to have it out with the monster-spirit instead. Then the demon will surely be caught and Master will be saved."

"All right, all right!" said Eight Rules. "You are so dedicated. If I don't go, it'll mean that I’m not dedicated. I'll go, and if indeed Pilgrim consents to come, I'll return with him. But if he is unwilling, then don't expect me, because I won't be coming back either."

"Go! Go!" said the little dragon. “He will certainly come."

Clearly the dragon is the true unsung hero of this story.

As for the second instance, long story short, Sūn Wùkōng wanted to make what he ended up calling the Elixer of Black Gold for an ailing king and needed Liè's help—in his horse form—for one of the ingredients.

ZHŪ BĀJIÈ (豬八戒)

Originally holding the Heavenly title of Tiānpéng Yuánshuài (天篷元帅)—Marshall of the Heavenly Reeds—Zhū Wùnéng (猪悟能)—also known as Zhū Gāngliè (猪刚鬛) and Zhū Bājiè, and often given called Idiot, dāizi (呆子), was punished via reincarnation because he'd attempted to seduce the moon goddess Cháng'é (嫦娥), a massive no-no! In certain retellings, such as the 1996 version, this is expanded to him going through many lifetimes of tragic romances. Regardless, his soul eventually passes through the womb of a sow by accident, thus becoming the pig demon we know him as today.

The second of Táng Sānzàng's disciples, Zhū Wùnéng joins the pilgrimage after he kidnaps and marries a young woman from a wealthy family in Gāolǎozhuāng (高老莊) named Gāo Cuìlán (高翠蘭). Disguising himself as Cuìlán, Sūn Wùkōng eventually defeats Wùnéng in battle and he becomes a disciple afterwards, earning the name Bājiè (referring to the first eight of the ten Buddhist commandments) in the process.

Glutenous and selfish, Zhū Bājiè is often at odds with Sūn Wùkōng and also tries to find reasons to quit the pilgrimage on more than one occasion. His weapon is known as jiǔchǐdīngpá (九齒釘耙), the Nine-Toothed Rake.

SHĀ WÙJÌNG (沙悟淨)

And last but not least, Shā Wùjìng! Once Juǎnlián Dàjiàng (捲簾大將), or Curtain-Raising General, in Heaven, Wùjìng was banished after he carelessly broke a crystal cup during the Festival of Immortal Peaches, and as such, was not only banished to the Mortal Realm as punishment, but was also sent flying swords to stab him every week. Growing desperate, he soon starts to eat any traveler who passes by his territory. Taking mercy upon him, Guānyīn tasks him with also accompanying the Táng Monk on his mission.

Eventually, the other pilgrims encounter Wùjìng, Wùkōng fights him for a bit, and then after that gets resolved, our heroes, having finally assembled, are all ready to carry on with their journey to the West. He also carries a staff.

You all know the rest: they traveled for the fourteen years in total (as opposed to the eighteen years it took the real Táng Xuánzàng), got the scriptures, Sānzàng completely forgot his promise to a turtle to ask Buddha about how much longer it would take for him to regain human form and so the Pilgrims were forced to swim to shore after being thrown overboard (no one ever say that older books can't be hilarious), and then they were all granted titles upon returning home: Táng Sānzàng and Sūn Wùkōng are made Zhāntán Gōngdé Fuó (旃檀功德佛) and Dòu Zhànshèng Fó (鬥戰勝佛), or Buddha of Candana Merit and Buddha Victorious in Strife, respectively, Zhū Bājiè is named Jìngtán Shǐzhě (淨壇使者), or Cleanser of the Altars, Shā Wùjìng becomes Jīnshēn Luóhàn (金身羅漢), or Golden-Bodied Arhat, and Ao Liè gets promoted to Bābùtiān Lóngmǎ (八部天龍馬), or Dragon Horse of the Eight Heavenly Sections.

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tarotmundomonde · 11 months

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Your current karma general reading

First, I want to thank @lilstargazing for suggesting this topic to me. It wasn't one I had thought of but found it very interesting and so here we are!

pick a number 1-5 OR pick a colour: 1-blue 2-red 3-purple 4-yellow 5-green Hope you enjoy! And next will be "Your current karma in romantic love reading"!

1.Welcome to pile number 1. What comes to your current karma, a lot is about communication and the intellectual. Very strong throat chakra and sacral chakra activation, possibly healing those chakras or rebalancing those chakras could be needed. First of all, there could be some hidden motivations surrounding you. There is a strong focus on you claiming your independence and you being the real you. To be your authentic self, to express yourself. You could experience a lot of worry, but you need to overcome that. It seems you are called to do some shadow work, because you are meant to grow. Be mindful of what you feed your mind, the more you focus on the positive, the more the positive will expand. And a part of the shadow work is to become aware of your own hidden motives and what it is you are longing for. And then to find your north star, to find your inner light, to find yourself. It looks like also you are dealing with hunger. For example, you could have a bigger appetite, because you long for more in life or maybe you simply need to eat more healthily. It looks like you are also meant to take a step back, trust and start planning and strategizing. Whatever that would be about, maybe just about daily routines, maybe school or work. It does look like there is a very stong focus on strategizing. And on foreshadowing, predicting what's going to be next, or what's going to be someone else's next move. Also, what's simply the best strategy for you, for example at work or learning and study strategy. Indeed, it's a lot about clarity and clearing things, making space. Maybe literally you need to do some cleaning. And also to get organized, to get things organized, to put things in order and in the right places. Like making things easy for you to find them. There is also focus on service and on kindred partnerships. You are called to tap into the energy of grace and peace and blessings. And you seem to be learning about using power with wisdom. So you are possibly taught lessons about what is to be in your power and what is healthy. And also, it looks like a part of your current karma is that some change is coming or going on, transformation and joyous opportunities. Now, one more thing that came through for this pile is also celebrity. Like said before about being you, there is a reference about shining like a celebrity, to be the star you were born to be. To walk your path. Perhaps it's time for you to confront your fears of exposure, of being seen and noticed. To become a bit more bold and just be you and shine your own light. And as always, don't forget to leave some feedback, if it resonates with you.

2.Welcome to pile number 2. What comes to your current karma, there is a very strong presence of divine protection in your life at this time. There is also a great possibility that you could be into the supernatural at this time. You have a very strong lesson about denial and acceptance going on for you right now. You are definitely going through so many transformations at this time, so it's inevitable that you are experiencing some storms as well. It's life and it's also about stepping into life and to not be afraid of changes. Your life seems to be speeding up somehow. You are experiencing the phoenix effect in so many ways and on so many levels at this time. It seems like life could feel like quite the mystery to you at this time. Having to experience deep emotions and learning not to worry too much and learning to trust life. And learning how to find peace and how to create peace and how to be in peaceful energy. Learning to be grateful about peace, too. Peace is a huge theme for you right now. And then the phoenix effect as rising from the ashes aka taking your power back. To kinda rediscover yourself and to grow into a stronger you. Another big theme for you at this time is discovery and learning great lessons. Don't worry, you have spirit guides watching over you. For some of you, now is a time of studies. Maybe you are a student and so it seems that your studies are currently a big part of your current karma. You could feel drawn to libraries or bookstores or to school buildings or perhaps just generally to some specific types of architecture styles as well. Creativity and creation is a big theme as well. Creative thinking and creative solutions. Your current karma involves working harder and growing smarter. It's time for you to find new ways of solving problems. Whether it's just about some small tasks or situations. There is also a huge milestone for you in the cards. And one more thing is that you are learning that you'll always have what you need or find what you need. So you are taught lessons about gratitude, of assistance and that you have all you need. And as always, don't forget to leave some feedback, if it resonates with you.

3. Welcome to pile number 3. What comes to your current karma, it's like you've been disconnected from your spirit and so you are asked to reconnect with your spirit, with your higher self. There is a sense of much good impending, but delayed currently, because you need first space for you to reconnect with the divine. Third-eye activation came through for you, maybe you need to do some third-eye chakra cleansing and rebalancing. But at this time it is activated, so you could notice yourself having increased intuition and clear seeing and visions. You seem to also be dealing with some sort of power struggles. So a part of your current karma is to take your power back, step back into your power and the right use of power. So you are called to work on having healthy boundaries and also honesty came through for you. And also you are called to see the royal you, to work on your self-esteem and you are going through a time of self-esteem healing. One big theme that came through for you as well is patience and stillness. It's not the right time yet, so use this opportunity to also focus on resting and taking it easy. You might not fully realize it, but you are taking steps forward and moving forward, even if it doesn't seem so at this time. You do seem to have some collaboration going on or coming in. Passion also came through. So there is a focus on your passions like hobbies. Also, sacral chakra healing and rebalancing. One absolute big theme for you is the divine presence. You might be struggling with faith issues at this time, but it's all about finding faith and having faith. You have very strong divine protection present at this time. It seems to be very important that you know that. Now on a lighter side, you are called to become a magnet for love, light and joy. It really wants to enter your life, you are called to enter that energy space. There are magical moments awaiting you, miracles. And true love. And as always, don't forget to leave some feedback, if it resonates with you.

4.Welcome to pile number 4. This pile has heavy student vibes to it. It's very clear that this is a student pile. Your current karma is so clearly all about student life. For example it's pretty clear that you cannot advance in big steps, but instead you are required patience and to build little by little and in breaks. For example you have to focus on one semester at a time, on one exam period at a time. So a strong part of your current karma is studying and teachers and choices and consequences and creation and creativity and wisdom. In the end, this is all teaching you to walk your path and to trust you have the needed inner wisdom reguarding your student life and courage. And a part of you growing wiser is of course possible regrets, like the regret that you didn't study enough during the exam week. Things like that. And then endings. It's so much about preparations, plans, planning and routines. About knowing the outcomes you seek and what you are trying to manifest. It's a lot about using your mind and the intellectual, knowing the best learning methods for yourself and to tend to the small things, to pay attention to details. A lot of mental hard work. It seems a part of your current karma is to find and recognize your gifts and to not settle for less. And you seem to be dealing with so much new information, which is so typical for students. And as always, don't forget to leave some feedback, if it resonates with you.

5.Welcome to pile number 5. If you chose this pile, it seems you have a bit of everything going on at the moment. So what comes to your current karma, one thing is home. This could be about renovation or relocation or just home life in general. A part of your current karma is also status quo and obstacles. And a part of it is assistance and control. So it seems you also need to learn how to accept help from others. You seem to also need to focus more on your nourishment. It's not just about food, but also about what you consume online and through all media, what you feed yourself energetically, etc. You are taught about prioritizing self-care. And about judgment. It seems you are experiencing some level of enlightment at this time. Your wisdom is growing and you are starting to see some things more clearly. There is also a focus on increasing your knowledge, be it through school or taking classes perhaps. A very strong focus on relationships, including friends and colleagues. It's really about learning that you are not alone. There is a sense that you have your own team. A massive energy of unconditional and all-encompassing love being present in your life at this time, it's time for you to tap into it and to learn to feel such love with no judgment. You are learning about acceptance and serenity. And you are learning about life, about experiencing life, about living life. That life is about everything. And as always, don't forget to leave some feedback, if it resonates with you.

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plussizeappreciationfics · 1 year

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OS: Was it worth it? Pt.2

Idea by: me

Requested: No

Pairing: Namor x Plus!Size reader

Warning(s): none

Images/gifs found on google/pinterest

A/N: Ya'll know I'm messy so here's part 2 lol

Your heart pounded in your chest as you sat on the throne, your baby boy sleeping in your arm and wrapped in soft cloth to keep him warm and comfortable while you held your royal spear in the other, clenching your hand around it as the nervousness started to become very intense. The guards held their positions while staring at you, keeping you protected by every passing minute. A rush of gratefulness washed over you as it still was weird to have them in the palace, your own palace. The fact that they voluntarily followed you only made you even prouder as former Queen of Talokan as the biggest lessons had never been forgotten by your people: that you stuck together as a civilization through good and bad times.

You let out a shaky sigh before clearing your throat and raising your chin a little bit. reminding yourself who you are.

“He��s here”.

You spoke in a cold tone, sensing the waves of quick motions through the water. Your heart skipped a beat before it increased its pace again as you didn’t feel fully ready to face him again. Unfortunately, you didn’t have a choice, you couldn’t keep the secret to yourself as he had every right to know the reason why everything happened in the first place.

Just seconds later the giant doors to your throne room were slowly pushed open, half of your guards turning their bodies towards the new guest while the others ’s continued to face you. Your eyes immediately rested upon Namor who came swimming into the room with the help of one of his servants, his right foot wrapped in bandages and cuts and bruises resting all over his body.

You couldn’t hide the amused smirk when he approached you before kneeling down and keeping his head bowed down to show you his respect, his servant copying his actions a few feet behind him.

“Leave us. I’ll be fine. He won’t hurt me” you ordered, sensing the doubts of your guards as they feared for the life of their Queen but still obeyed you and made sure to stay outside the room in formation in case something would happen. Namor waited until the last guard left the room and closed the door before lifting his head up and finally looking at you.

Thud…

You listened to his heartbeat which was steady as a rock, his eyes filled with shame, sadness and love.

You continued to scan him from head to toe and couldn’t help but feel a sense of longing, desire and love wash over you as you looked at your husband. He had obviously gone through a lot the past months and you knew all about it because your spies kept you updated on his every move. You couldn’t deny that there were days where you wanted to end it all but you couldn’t do that as the former Queen of Talokan, and now current Queen of Talyra. You were raised to be strong, to not give up as there was always hope on the other side.

“Speak” you ordered.

“[Y/N], former Queen of Tenoch, Queen of Talyra, Mother of Tenoch and my wife, I am coming to you as a humbled King that has been defeated in a war I seeked out. Talokan has suffered a great loss, first of its Queen and now of its citizens….” tears brimmed the eyes of your husband as he allowed himself to sniffle and take a deep breath, his eyes still staring intensely into yours.

You nodded your head as a signal for him to continue.

“I-I lost everything….My honor as King of Talokan, the love of our grown children who have fled our shared palace to join you here and your love. I was a fool. Fooled myself into thinking that I would end up rising like a phoenix from the ashes without you. With someone new”.

You swallowed hard as anxiety.

“What do you want from me” you whispered softly.

“My Queen, please allow me to prove myself as a worthy husband and king to you again. Please forgive me for the hurt and pain I put you through and please let me prove that I’ve learned from this awful mistake and show you how much I still love you and will continue to love you”.

It’s time to show him, mama, the tiny voice from your son spoke in your head, making you look down at your baby boy who was now staring up at you, hiding in the royal wrap while his beautiful big brown eyes spoke to you. You nodded at him and smiled, making him let out an adorable giggle that made your and Namor’s heart flutter in happiness. He was bursting with anticipation to see his son. You averted your gaze back to your husband, dropped your spear and slowly rose from your throne and moved your way down the few steps before hovering in front of him.

“Stand up”.

“As you wish, my Queen”.

The two of you locked eyes once the king rose to his feet and for a split second, your souls connected again. Delicate shivers ran down your spine and your heart fluttered in your chest. Even when being apart for months, your love for him was as strong and powerful as it always had been.

“Look at your son” you shakingly whispered before removing the cloth covering your baby boy and tossing it to the ground. You held baby Namir in front of his father and watched pridefully how his tiny wings fluttered on his little feet. Your husband gasped in shock before kneeling down again, pressing his forehead against the floor while soft sobs left his body.

“The reason why you have been defeated is because you were never meant to win this war. You were never meant to rule over the dry lands. Our son Namir will ease us into a new era, an era where we might have to fight against the dry land walkers. But if we don’t, we will continue to develop into a stronger and smarter civilization. You and I will not live for eternity.”.

“I will spend the rest of my days fighting for your forgiveness, my Queen '', Namor vowed while intense shivers ran up and down his spine. He couldn’t put into words how proud yet ashamed he felt, proud for knowing that his legacy would never cease to exist but ashamed that he thought that he was worthy of eternal life. That he’d be the sole main ruler of Talokan.

He slowly got up to his feet and widened his arms towards Namir, silently asking you permission to hold his son and bond with him. The same way he always had held your other shared children and formed a beautiful bond.

“Not yet. Answer me this question” you spoke, having found your voice again while holding Namir in your arms again so that he could be comfortable.

“I will answer anything you ask me”.

“Was it worth it?”.

The King froze as he never blinked at your question.

“Yes. It was worth it”...”.

Thud…

“I’ve now realized that this was meant to happen…She was meant to happen” your husband spoke without his heart skipping a beat, telling the truth to you.

“I allowed my ego to become bigger than everything you and I have created. Bigger than you, our children and people. She and I were able to share the same generational hatred and disappointment. I confused our shared history of pain with love. We are allies, waiting to merge our forces when future generations attack us. Only allies”.

Tears brimmed your eyes as you nodded your head.

“I am still deeply wounded by your foolish and traitorous actions towards me and our marriage, Namor”, hearing you say his name made him fight back tears again.

“I built this city on my own, in honor of Namir. This is a sacred place I will not allow you or your enemies to destroy”.

“That will never happen”.

Talyra will continue to exist along with Talokan, am I clear?” you stated.

“Yes, my Queen”.

“You and I will continue to reign over Talokan and Tylara as equals. Our children will continue our legacy”, you took a deep breath, “I don’t know how long it’ll take for me to process what you put me through, I cannot guarantee full forgiveness”.

“I’ll make sure to show you every day that you are the love of my life, mother of my children and Queen of Talokan and my heart, even if you find me worthy of forgiveness, [Y/N]”, Namor vowed again before surprising you by gently approaching you and holding you and Namir close to him.

“I am nothing without you, [Y/N]”, Namor his lips against yours, pouring his undying love for you into the kiss and silently promising that he’ll do anything to help you heal from the wounds he inflicted. Your heart fluttered in your chest and you couldn’t help but slowly kiss back, not knowing how your marriage would continue after a disaster like this but hoping tht it would turn for the better. For you, your children and the people of Talokan.

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