#Eclipse Ass Wednesday

[thedenofravenpuff]

Happy Eclipse Ass Wednesday!!

I regret nothing

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Enjoy!

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[thedenofravenpuff]

Is Eclipse Ass Wednesday, my dudes

Eclipse I love you but please get your fat juicy ass away from the screen, it's interrupting the lore!

[just-my-latest-hyperfixation]

🧠🪱 Wiggly Wednesday 🪱🧠

Today, I'm thinking of ...

... the older teens going out for karaoke. (I don���t even know if there’d realistically be a karaoke bar anywhere near them in 80s rural Indiana, but let’s just assume.) It’s a fun night and everyone is having a blast. Steve and Robin render a hilarious, very off-key but very passionate duet of Total Eclipse of the Heart, even Nancy tries her hand on some Cindy Lauper after a beer or five. Only Eddie keeps leafing through the available songs on display with a scowl on his face, muttering something about mainstream shit. It’s only once that bar is almost empty when he finally concedes - not without a lot of coaxing from Robin and Argyle bribing him with some of his best product. 

He chooses Don’t stop me now by Queen. 

He’s barely three lines in when Steve, sipping his beer and ogling the bartender’s cleavage from across the room, turns to look. Because well, the slow intro of the song goes surprisingly well with Eddie’s voice and the way he sings it, lips so close to the microphone he might as well start sucking it off? The bartender’s boobies are suddenly the last thing on Steve’s mind. 

The song picks up, and Eddie starts tossing that ridiculously floofy mane of hair, rocking those stupid, slender hips of his, dancing around the stage like a whirlwind, all with that infuriatingly pretty, dimpled grin of his. He’s a sight to behold. Steve has been catching himself thinking as much before, but here, on that stage, leather pants hugging his ass, lights illuminating his hair like a halo? Yeah, he’s stunning. Steve’s allowed to think as much, right? Some people are just stunning, no matter the gender. Everybody has those thoughts sometimes, it doesn’t make him gay or anything, does it?

And then Eddie comes whirling across the stage, leans into his space and makes direct eye contact as he sings “I wanna make a supersonic man out of you”. And then he’s gone again, continuing with his performance like nothing happened, and Robin is slapping Steve’s shoulder, howling with laughter at his dumbstruck face. 

Steve finds out a lot of things about himself right then and there.

...

Later that night, a very confused sexuality-crisis-ridden Steve buries his face in his pillows while Robin pats his shoulders, and groans “I don’t understand, Robin! I mean, it’s so stupid! What even is a supersonic man?” 

Robin's like "idk, babe, but apparently you want Eddie to turn you into one, so that's all we need to know rly."

Tagging a few friends to share a brainworm of their own: @sidekick-hero @penny00dreadful @medusapelagia @braincell-pingpong @griefabyss69 @steddie-island @doomcheese @eyesofshinigami

[lisenberry]

WIP Wednesday...

Just a tease in case anyone was wondering if I was ever going to get to the smut in this fic...

The Mountain is You

Ch. 3 snippet:

MDNI/18+/NSFW

CW: Dom/Sub dynamics; fem! inspection; spanking.

You sat back on your heels with your hands folded in your lap as he walked in.  His bootsteps seemed to vibrate across the wooden floor beneath your pillow.  A steady gait, with all of the suspense of a drum roll.

As you faced the high-backed chair, you could only make out the top of him until he made his way closer into view.  He was tall enough when you were standing up.  But on the ground at his feet, he eclipsed everything else around him.  There were no windows, no ceiling.  Just his thighs giving way to his waist, his arms and shoulders. 

Your head tipped back as far as it could just to take him all in, and even then, you came up short of meeting his eyes.

“Already off to a good start, I see.  You look lovely, sweetheart.”  He appraised you in a way that was both agonizingly slow and methodically brief, as he took off his jacket and slowly rolled up his sleeves

“Thank you, sir,” you answered, to the spot on his chest where his flannel shirt opened in a V.  It earned you a quick bob of his head in approval. 

He was starting you off easy.  That much was clear.  Like a teacher on the first day of school.  Throwing you softball questions to gauge how much of the summer reading you’d done over break.  How you responded determined how far he’d go, and which side of him you’d get.

Could he see the goosebumps spreading across your skin at the mere sound of his voice?      

“Next time, I want you to look at me when you say it.”  He bent down only slightly, aiding your efforts just enough that you could obey. 

His clear eyes glinted patiently between his dark lashes.  Dark brows, dark beard.  They were like signal fires along an unknown path.  No choice but to give yourself up and follow.

“Yes, sir.”  A slight smile pulled at the corner of your lips as the first flutter of heat worked its way from your cheeks down to the echoing emptiness in the cradle of your hips.

“Good.  I like to begin with an inspection.  To assess your readiness, and to make sure your healed from the previous session.”

“I’m ready,” you quickly admitted when his bare hand grazed against the side of your cheek.  You turned into it, starved for even the slightest touch of his roughened palm.

“And I like to take my time exploring what’s mine,” he rumbled, firmly snagging a hold of your chin.  A gesture that simultaneously chastised you for speaking out of turn, and possessively staked his claim. 

You let out a surprised breath, and he took the opening as an invitation to slip his fingers inside your parted mouth.  Two at first, and you instinctively flattened your tongue and closed around their impressive girth. 

“That’s it.”  A short hum of approval followed, as your eyes slipped closed while you sucked them deeper.  “Don’t overexert yourself just yet.  There’s plenty of time to show me how much you can take.”

He let you savor him a bit before he pulled out with a wet pop of skin and spit, and you nearly feel forward at the loss.  You licked at the salty trail his skin left behind on your lips.  

“Turn around and bend over the stool.”  He pushed a plushily upholstered ottoman closer behind you.  It was the perfect height to kneel and bend against as your arms fell over the other side. 

“Open your legs wider, don’t be shy.”  He folded up the hem of your skirt and brazenly pawed at the skin of your ass in wide circles.  You felt it stretch and pull at your exposed holes, and you wondered if his skin alone was abrasive enough to leave scratches behind. 

In the way his voice had already left etchings on your mind.

“Christ, you’re soaked.  Have you been touching yourself?”  It was barely even a question, the inflection missing from his even tone.

“Yes.”  He pulled his hands away at your answer, leaving a chill in its absence, intentionally.  “Sir,” you corrected.

“Good girl.”  A harsh clap to your backside was your reward.  It smarted with a sharpness that took you by surprise.  He wasn’t taking it easy anymore.  “What have you been thinking about when you play with my sweet little cunt?”  His hand returned between your legs, and with it, a probing forefinger glided along the split of your folds.

How long had it been since you'd been touched like this? Ghost had only ever let you use toys on yourself. Those were the rules, for your safety and his. Where were the rules now?

This is what you wanted...

“This, sir.”  Another slap, and you felt your muscles melt into the ottoman and your legs part wider to brace for the next impact. 

But it didn’t come.   Instead, he pulled back and cleaned off his slick smeared fingers along the side of your thigh.

“This, sweetheart, was just a warm-up.”

[barblaz-arts]

What’s you’re HC for how “in control” Enid and Vega are while in wolf form?

I like to think that Enid has excellent control of her wolf, where you don't even feel any different with her when shifted except that yanno, she's a tol werewolf. I think so for the following reasons

- Enid's switch from murderous upon attacking Tyler to soft when she turned to Wednesday then murderous again when she went back to mauling Tyler was smooth af. Girly is in perfect control of herself then.

- i forgot who pointed this out, but I saw somebody say how impressive it must be for Enid to be able to shift(for the first time, even) during a LUNAR eclipse. I always just blamed lazy/bad writing when none of the Furs at school wolfed out to beat Crackheadstoned's rotting ass without a good explanation. But now I'm thinking maybe the Sun blocking out the moon was preventing them from wolfing out. Most of them, at least. Now if only the show explicitly says that so I can forgive the writing

-lastly, I just like the thought Enid doing cute girly shit like this even wolfed out

As for Vega, she's a lot wilder when she's a wolf. Not necessarily more violent(tho that does happen, when certain circumstances are circumstancing) but she's just a lot more instincts than logic whenever she's a wolf, which might feel a lot different for Vega who is more of an intellectual like Wednesday

[bitesize-astrology]

Challenging Conversations

Wednesday - October 2, 2024

Today's New Moon Solar Eclipse at 10° Libra (occurring at 2:49pm ET) is a reminder that relationships are only as good as the conversation that is allowed to happen inside them.

Redefining relationships has been a key response to the South Node's travel in Libra since July 2023. While many relationships were scrapped, most were reclassified or their status changed. Long time friendships becomes one of just friendly acquaintances. Relationships that were one-sided find more balance. And relationships that were more casual become more serious, whether that be professional, personal or romantic.

This New Moon Solar Eclipse reminds you of the importance of having an authentic voice in your relationships. That you must speak your mind, express your thoughts, hash out uncomfortable feelings, and agree to disagree when and if that is appropriate. It's a reminder that "going along to get along" is at a times an appropriate short term solution, but never a workable long term solution.

But it's also a reminder that we don't have to be an ass about how we express ourselves. Kindness, consideration and respect are key, along with a desire for the best outcome for everyone. It IS POSSIBLE to be in that space while discussing topics that are challenging, uncomfortable and at times, confrontational.

[decafdino]

Wip wednesday

nobody tagged me, I just wanted to participate lol. I'm actually getting excited about this supernatural au (even though it is rapidly getting out of hand)

They do eventually make it to the farmer's market. It's late enough in the day that it's mostly empty, which also means the pickings are slim. TK doesn't seem to mind, though, bouncing around the meager rows of pumpkins and thoroughly examining each one.

"Baby." Carlos crosses his arms. "It's been almost an hour. What you want to carve can't possibly be that big, can it?"

TK sighs exasperatedly. "It's not about the size, Carlos. It's all in the shape of the pumpkin."

"They're literally all the same shape: round."

"First of all, pretty sure round isn't a shape, babe." He picks up a pumpkin. "Second, they're not all round; this one's all lumpy on one side."

"So don't carve on that side. Problem solved."

TK sets the pumpkin down and swaggers over. "You know, if I didn't know any better," he says, "I'd think this whole excursion was just a way to get in my pants."

Carlos cocks an eyebrow. "Like we didn't just do that right before we came."

TK snorts. "I'm not that easy, Reyes."

"Playing hard to get?" he gasps in mock surprise. "That's supposed to be my line, Strand."

"Really? You don't remember our first night together?"

"Yes, but I also remember the first time we met." Carlos squeezes his ass. "I wasn't about to let a wolf string me along."

"So I guess you could say we were both a little skittish," TK compromises.

He's about to lean in for another kiss when movement catches in the corner of his eye. He turns, and immediately drops his hands from TK's face, blushing. "Uh—"

"Talia," TK beats him to it. Unlike Carlos, he seems actually happy to see her. "Fancy seeing you here."

"Hi, y'all," she says, almost bashful, like she didn't mean to interrupt them.

Or she didn't mean to get caught staring, Carlos' brain unhelpfully supplies. "You shop here?"

She shrugs casually. The black tank top she's wearing to combat the Texas sun shows off her bare shoulder, littered with even more scars. She shifts when she notices Carlos looking. "I go here sometimes, yeah. Mostly just for supplies."

"Supplies?" Carlos questions.

"Ingredients." She shows him one of the bags, full of herbs Carlos recognizes immediately. They're mostly used in the hunter community to ward off and weaken certain types of supernatural. He doesn't know if wolf's bane is in there, but if she came a little closer he knows TK would be able to tell.

"I'm pagan," she explains. "There's supposed to be an eclipse coming up, so I'm going to try to take advantage of it."

TK nods, though Carlos can tell he's fighting the urge to wrinkle his nose by the way he keeps sniffing. "Yeah, I heard about that," TK says. "They're saying there's supposed to be nearly full coverage?"

"We'll see," she says. "And you two are…?"

"Pumpkin shopping." Carlos hopes his smile doesn't look too forced. There's just something off about Talia, something he doesn't trust. Maybe he's being a little superficial, but an average hunter wouldn't get those scars unless they had a habit of becoming needlessly violent with their kills. "And you know what, I think we've just found the perfect one." He picks up the pumpkin TK had dropped at their feet, the one with the lumpy sides, and tugs TK over to the woman at the register.

TK doesn't stays silent, though Carlos can tell he wants to ask. As he's getting handed back his change, Talia calls out, "Enrique says hi, by the way."

Carlos stiffens, then forces himself to turn and wave. "Tell him we say hi back."

"See you around, Talia," TK says with a wave. Once she's turned away, Carlos hurries him back to the car.

"You don't think—"

"I don't know," Carlos answers honestly. "But I'm not willing to risk it."

"You don't trust her?" TK asks.

"I don't trust a lot of people." He sighs when TK gives him a look. "Enrique is traditional, and Talia is his—whatever she is to him. If they're on our trail—"

"Baby, if anyone's on our trail we would know by now. Especially you," he says, cupping Carlos' cheek, "my paranoid control freak. Nothing slips past you."

"I'm choosing to take that as a compliment."

"That's good, because it is one." He kisses Carlos' cheek. "I promise to stay safe, if that will make you feel better."

Their foreheads press together. Carlos takes a moment to breathe in TK's air, to cherish the closeness they have. He never wants to lose this. He can't even imagine what he would do without TK, even though the lives they lead are dangerous. "You can't promise me that."

"I can do my best, and you'll do yours. Right?"

"Yeah," he says, resolve hardening. "Let's go home and relax. How does that sound?"

TK smiles. "It sounds like someone wants to help me carve this pumpkin."

[skiplo-wave]

I don't want to be this person, but I just find it extremely weird that the April eclipse brought the huge waves in the Atlantic. The September partial-eclipse brought in the hurricanes in the Atlantic. This October eclipse last Wednesday happened and now we have a big ass storm arising from the Gulf that is suppose to hit exactly a week after that eclipse. There's only ever been two hurricanes (small) recorded to had came from the Gulf of Mexico. It happened in 1859 and 1888. Eclipses in those time periods? No. But there was other significant things that happened those years.

This is not normal. I know people keep saying it's global warming. No.... Absolutely not. Partially? Maybe. But I will tell you one thing, it has something to do with these eclipses and the moon. I'm not a scientist, but I'd be gladly to argue with a so called professional right now who always told us the moon balances our oceans. Plus we got a asteroid in our orbit acting like a "second moon" and a star that they are calling the Star of Jacob. Not to mention last week we also had a comet fly over. And if you are religious, October 9, tomorrow of Hurricane Milton, the constellations will line up exactly right to form the story of the Book of Revelation. We will see the four horsemen in the stars tomorrow night, the beast etc etc. All that.

Craziest year to date and we not done with October yet

[tiffersrenee]

That eclipse was almost as amazing as dat ass

Damn. That was smooth. I've been working all week but finally off Wednesday! Maybe I can squeeze in some photo time?

[thedenofravenpuff]

I spent too much time and effort on this.

You are welcome, happy Eclipse Ass Wednesday to the Funtime Freddy x Eclipse shippers!

Enjoy

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[willfrominternet]

Amateur astrological outlook: Wednesday, September 18, 2024

Happy Partial Lunar Eclipse Harvest Supermoon, everyone. That baby's gonna be big tonight, so don't miss it. If you've had any dumb technological mishaps or wonky feelings, now you know why.

For tomorrow, Wednesday, September 18, 2024: Mercury will directly oppose Saturn early and stay strong throughout the day. Plus, those Sun aspects with the three outermost planets will strengthen.

That big-ass Harvest Moon will sextile retrograde Uranus at around midnight, conjunct retrograde Neptune around 4:00 am, and sextile retrograde Pluto around 6:30 am. Moon transits like this usually last about twelve hours, so expect these effects to last through the morning and afternoon. Plus, later in the day, the Moon will square Mars, so expect it to have a lot of fun with you.

The forecast: Holy shit, don't do anything rash today. With the Harvest Supermoon, the partial eclipse, and Moon affecting pretty much all the big planets, your emotions are going to run wild. Any challenges you've faced this week so far may feel amplified, any miscommunications you've had will seem more disconnected, and even easy conversations and tasks will look daunting. Even the slightest inconvenience will feel like a major obstacle or change in your way. Basically, at any point today, be aware of getting in your head. Sure, it's the middle of the week, which is a tough time for this kind of spiritual pressure. But keep your head down and give yourself space if you need it. And don't worry about what anyone else thinks about you needing to take some time to breathe. Chances are that Moon has them doing the same thing.

Boilerplate disclaimer: Forecasts written from the Eastern Time Zone (GMT -4). I’m using two-degree orbs for these forecasts and utilizing a mix of the Planetdance software and Astro-Seek to calculate positions and aspects. Your mileage may vary. Blame the stars, not me.

[massvoraciuseffect]

Have any of you gotten larger since last time I asked this question?

(Doing the wide Wednesday thing.)

"Yes. I'm almost done 'harvesting' some of my agents on the Citadel, and they've definitely left a mark on my waistline. I'll be heading to Illium soon." replied Liara, licking her fingers. She was in someone's office, and from the looks of it, the owner was now struggling desperately inside the archaeologist's bloated belly. (Liara muse update: +12 preys (agents), +17 kg)

"Not particularly much, but yeah. A couple or three asari here, a couple or three turians there, a dozen quarians that decided to move to work in my belly���. Anyway, little by little, my ass is growing~" replies Tali. That said, it should be mentioned that her breasts have gone up a couple sizes too. (Tali muse update: +18 preys (3 asari, 2 turians, 13 quarians), +22 kg)

"Yeap. And not little so, ugh. - Jane had just gotten out of the shower, and it was noticeable that her body had once again added mass - muscle, fat, overall growth. - This time, you could say I got lucky with the asari. I met one of the Eclipse mercenaries from the Reaper war at the gym. We got to talking, it turned out she was one of the ones that someone on my team ate her during my hunt for the Collectors, and reformed during the start of the Reapers invasion. We discussed the past, and it turns out she doesn't find a place for herself in this post-war world, and is frankly afraid of being eaten all the time because of her criminal past. She suggested that I eat her, and give her at least a hundred years off from the outside world. Well, and I wasn't stupid, so of course I said yes. So this mercenary also gave me the contacts of her friends and acquaintances with similar problems. I spent a couple weeks visiting and eating them. But now i had added over 50 pounds of muscle and body fat~" (Shepard muse update +54 preys (asari), +58 kg, +0,1 meter)

[akabi-ouppies]

week in review in the lack of certain celestial light (looking disrespectfully in the direction of the sun gods)

monday - rejoice play ball, nothing as usual

tuesday

Zodiac - Akabi, akabi wins 2-3, something something the biggest brightest star until exactly 12.05 on this unholy saturday being the sun

Canada team - Panopticons, poland wins 2-3

New Rep - Seasonals (in winter), seasonals win 0-3 with an alledgedly nervewracking 33-35 second set

Reinforcements - Night Knights, knights win 1-3

Dragons - Zodiac, i watched this one and im fucking happy for it even if im starting to be slightly concerned about zodiacs role in the buildup of divinity, worst team vs best team the underdog zodiac wins 2-3, dragons had them until set 3 when they finally got used to being the chinese zodiac instead of the greek

Canadas team - Malacca straights, malacca wins 2-3

wednesday

zodiac vs reinforcements, 1-3 reinforcements

malacca straights vs ottomans in purple, purple didnt help em cuz malacca was in their gold, malacca wins 3-0 and a friend said that it was a close last set rip ottomans

team rooster vs panopticon, panopticon wins 1-3

Ancients vs Canada team, ancients win 3-1

Akabi vs Red Dragons, we got our asses handed to us, dragons win 1-3

Heavens vs Moonbeams, heavens win 3-1

thursady

collectors vs dragons, dragons win 2-3

panopticon vs seasonals (in winter), seasonals win 0-3

team rooster in black vs canada in gray, canada wins 2-3

moonbeams vs collectors, collectors win 0-3

new republic vs ancients, ancients win 2-3

night knights (offending party) vs heavens, night knight wins 3-1, i watched this one and it was a very technical game since heavens have more divine/legal dominion over the sky so them winning here is a bit sus in retrospect, second set went 40-38 for fucks sake

friday

collectors vs zodiac, zodiac wins 1-3

malacca straights vs new rep, new rep wins 1-3

golden moon/moonbeams vs reinforcements, moonbeams win 3-1

heavens in thunder kit vs zodiac in silver, heavens win 3-1, this match is however under investigation for illegal divine intervention and its not been cleared up yet, i didnt watch it but literally every person i know that did watch it INSISTS that there was a totally unrecorded third set that zodiac might have won? its unclear, comment your beef below

seasonals in summer vs ancients, seasonals win 3-0

new republic in green vs ottomans in turquoise, new rep wins 3-1, rip eastern roman empire. i watched it and i did it fully expecting the story of the eastern empireto be told and it kept looking like it wanted to be told and was starting to be told but there was intereference, in hindsight this too is yuri sus

today, the cursed saturday : )

ottomans in their fucking banana core kit vs ancients, everything the new rep ottomans game wasnt but still no story being told, ottomans win 3-0

and finally

the offender

night knights vs akabi at high noon, night knights win 3-0 set 1 33-31, set 2 25-22 set 3 25-18

it was

a GOOD

GAME

UNTIL IT WAS NOT

while writing this ive heard people i trust alledging that the sun does still exist but like in dusk/dawn conditions but like thats fucking scary that its globally yknow? its supposed to always be high noon somewhere in the world but nope, not in eclipse games smile (weeping)

rooster vs straights is still ongoing and its 1-1 rn and like its a good neighbourhood match, im rooting obviously for roosters because hi please help the sun rise (pained)

rooster does have another match against ottomans tomorrow which i think theyll take home easy so like banking on that if nothing else, but then theres budget eclipse right after with akabi and golden moon 6pm so lets hope that if its not fixed by then or something happens its also the budget version of whatever this is :,U

[elminx]

This week starts with some big hits early on and then sort of fizzles as we make our way through the weekend.

Last weekend we were deep in Saturn territory as our Sun and Venus both squared off with Saturn in Pisces. Gemini planets do not like being held accountable for their actions, creating a lot of tension in the air. Some of us certainly had to take stock of where we are at and make some decisions. Others of us needed to and probably shirked on the job.

If you were in it between our new moon and today, know that you were right on time. This energy continues through the beginning of the week as Mercury also squares off with Saturn on Wednesday. This is our big check in our communications of all times - there are some big things going on with tech right now, too. Beware that everything being said right now is not true - Mercury in Gemini is a great liar, you may have to dig in to find out where the truth is.

Additionally, the Sun, Mercury, and Venus will make sextiles with Chiron in Aries - this is a painful check-in with the last dregs of this eclipse cycle. Chiron is slow moving and still sitting on top of the point where we had that big hitter total solar eclipse - whatever came up for you during that time may be returning for reevaluation. Our lunar nodes will exit the axis of Aries-Libra as the year ends, but we need to grapple with these issues of independence versus codependence versus interdependence all the way through until then.

It's notable here that although our Gemini planets are normally a strong ally to our South Node in Libra, they strongly align with Aries's views of independence in this regard. Don't ignore your Others this week if they are asking for care or assistance - it's likely to come back to bite you in the ass later.

The days to watch for here are Tuesday (Venus sextile Chiron) and Thursday (the Sun and Mercury sextile Chiron).

This is all playing out while Mars in Taurus squares off with Pluto in Aquarius, too. This is volatile and angsty energy and people may be looking for a fight - especially if it's an easy way to end things. Mars in Taurus can seem like a placid cow on the surface but mind those red flags because it can become a raging bull in 2 seconds flat.

Some things are ending. Pluto is already in retrograde motion and working towards moving back into Capricorn one last time but until then, we are in the inbetween. That makes fixed signs - in particular - especially uncomfortable.

On Friday the Sun and Mercury meet up at 24° Gemini - note here that Mercury is the ruling sign of Gemini. This will be an auspicious day for all writers or creatives who work with Mercury energy but it can produce anxiety and other maladies of the mind. If you feel like you are moving too fast, try to gound out some of this airy energy. This is a great day to do Mercury and Air magic of all kinds.

The weekend will feel murky and tenuous as Mercury squares off with Neptune in Pisces. This tends to pull the wool over our eyes and can make us sleepy or ill at ease. If you're into liminal energy you may enjoy this but don't expect to get anything done. Rest and take it easy and don't push things. It will pass soon enough.

Energy Update: June 2024

June is a "5" Universal Month [6 (June) + 8 (2024) = 14 = 1+5 =6] in an "8" Universal Year. 5 months tend to shake things up and carry some level of tension. Some adjustments may be in order. This aligns with the astrology of the month as we have a major shift of focus as the Sun, Mercury, Venus, and Jupiter all leave the fixed sign of Taurus for mutable Gemini.

The Set Up

We begin the month with the Sun Venus and Jupiter in Gemini, Mercury and Uranus in Taurus, Mars in Aries, Saturn and Neptune in Pisces, and retrograde Pluto in Aquarius. By month's end, all our personal planets will change signs (Mars into Taurus and Mercury and Venus into Cancer), the Sun will enter Cancer, and Saturn will retrograde in Pisces.

The Nitty Gritty

We continue our month-long astrological lineup with a sequence of all planets stretching from Aquarius to Gemini. We are finally starting to move into new ground, symbolized by our personal planets finally transitioning out of the last quadrant of the horoscope wheel (notice those pesky outer planets still hanging out there), but something is holding us back. It's worth noting that while the Sun, Mercury, Venus, and Jupiter will all chug away as trailblazers through Gemini this month, Pluto is working toward moving backward into Capricorn one last time.

If you're looking ahead, circle 9/1 on your calendar (the day Pluto enters Capricorn - it's gonna be a whopper) but for now, we just have to live in this in-between zone. With so many planets in Gemini, that shouldn't be particularly difficult as Gemini is nothing if not adaptable. (at times, perhaps, even pathologically so)

In a year made of ups and downs (8 years are the rollercoasters - they contain the whole gambet), we will find ourselves floating neither at the top nor the bottom of the ride. Maybe coasting is a better word. This isn't a bad thing - a lot has been going on and the aftermath of it demands some serious introspective and hopefully adjustments. The natural inquisitiveness of Gemini will likely keep things from being boring. But after some big bangers, June looks pretty...terrestrial?

That's a weird word to apply to a month ruled by mutable air and then cardinal water, but, here we are.

That's sort of it. We've been getting whopped by some major astrological conjunctions between the Big Hitters and our personal planets for the last two months. This can be seen as the hands of fate - or whatever you personally feel like calling the thing that is beyond us that seems to impact our lives - reaching down and having a good fuck around with our personal lives. It was a lot. If you can read these words, you've made it through - maybe some of you even got to beat the bad guys.

Take a moment to Breathe. June is not going to be like that, folks. If that shit is hitting the fan right now, it's strictly your own shit. That can feel worrying or freeing depending on your perspective. There's no judgment here, just note how that makes you feel. It's information about yourself and you can never have too much of that.

There are no non-lunar aspects on 6/1 (and honestly not even any interesting lunar ones, I checked) - that is just confirmation that this is a bit of a month off. Sure, there are some power days and a few days we should at least stay aware of. But if anything, we have a chance to get a bit jovial (Jupiter is in Gemini all month, let's talk big and worry about the consequences later) and enjoy life a bit.

Right now, our planets transiting Gemini will be in general alignment with Pluto by sextile and Chiron and the North Node by trine, but misaligned (square) to Saturn and Neptune in Pisces. The few days to watch out for are those Saturnian squares - those will always be the days to look out for. Gemini doesn't exactly ENJOY the consequences that Saturn brings to the table and is known for trying to lie their way out of a tough situation - that's the big thing to look out for this month.

Enjoy yourself but try not to shirk too much responsibility. By sign, Jupiter and Saturn will be square with one another all month and that always indicates some level of tension between our sense of enjoyment and our sense of responsibility. Saturn is preparing to retrograde as well.

Our Saturnian dates for the month are as follows: 6/8 Venus square Saturn, 6/9 Sun square Saturn, 6/12 Mercury square Saturn, 6/26 Mercury trine Saturn, 6/29 Saturn retrogrades We note the pattern here: Venus (emotion), Sun (self), and then Mercury (thought) twice over as our planet of Communication catches up with the Sun and Venus, and moves ahead of the pack. Whereas the hits from the last two months were from the otherworldly energies of Uranus, Chiron, and the Lunar Nodes - Saturn means business. Earthy business (Saturn rules the cardinal earth sign of Capricorn, after all). You may need to attend to the practical things in your life that got tossed aside as the world got so scrambled.

Gemini isn't known for their staying power. They would rather flit about doing this and that than commit to a single path. Remember to schedule free time to explore this month, but Saturn will certainly demand that you stop now and again to regroup, if not actually hold down a home base. This is going to be markedly easier for earth signs, fixed signs, and anybody with a strongly Saturnian chart.

The big flex of the month is being able to tell which days are for exploring versus which days need focus and attention and fluctuating between the two. Mutable signs or people with highly Mercurial charts will have an easier time with this half of things. Magic done to gain higher levels of discernment about which paths to choose may aid in this effort substantially - Mercury will be a good guide here.

The good days look really good (for perspective here: my Venus is in Gemini so I may be a bit biased). Gemini/Mercury days are always going to be good for adventure, information gathering, and communication of all kinds. Have a little fun with your life, play around a little. Be less serious and more inquisitive. Actively explore the other side of an issue, just for fun. The world is Gemini's oyster because Gemini knows that now is the only guaranteed moment. If you've wanted to become better acquainted with Mercury, Gemini's planetary ruler, this will be a very good time.

Gemini/Mercury days: 6/3 - Mercury enters Gemini (the absolute perfect day for a road opener, amiright?), 6/4 - Sun conjunct Venus 14° Gemini (playful love/playful emotions), and Mercury conjunct Jupiter (the best day for writers/speakers to do magic for inspiration for quite some time), 6/5 - New Moon 16° Gemini, 6/14 - Sun conjunct Mercury 24° Gemini (I think, therefore, I am)

Our new moon on 6/6 is at 16° Gemini and pulls in the energy of Venus through conjunction and Saturn by square. Its numerology is 3/6 [3 (Gemini moon) + 3 (Gemini Sun) = 6. and 6 (Geminin new moon) + 5 (June 2024) = 11 = 1+1 = 2.]. Both 3 and 6 are creative numbers which is echoed by Venus's involvement in this particular new moon - this will be a powerful day for creatives of all time to take positive actions (Saturn) towards their craft. Do some concrete magic and then put it into action.

Our full moon on 6/21 is one of the big power days of the entire year. As I have mentioned in past posts, 2024 is most auspicious money-wise in that it has two Capricorn New moons (one in January and one in December) and two Capricorn full moons (one in June and a second astrological blue moon in July). If you have money magic to do, this is the day to do so. This falls on a Friday so don't forget to include Venus in your planning if you're inclined towards planetary magic.

The numerology for this full moon is 4/9 [0 (Capricorn Moon) + 3 (Gemini Sun) = 13 = 1+3 = 4. And 4 (Capricorn full moon) + 5 (June 2024) = 9.] which supports structure and completion. This is a Capricornian moon, after all, it's about getting money into the bank where it can make more money. Don't think fast cash, think big results. This is the kind of energy that requires follow through, do with that what you will.

The energy shifts a lot as the Sun, Mercury, and Venus all enter Cancer. Welcome to the Summer season - we recognize the switchover from willy-nilly mutable Gemini to focused cardinal Cancer as the seasons shift. Now we've had our fun and it's time to get a bit more back into the grind. Our planets in Cancer will get along better with Saturn and Neptune than they did in Gemini (by trine) but will run into some crunchiness as they square off with the Lunar Nodes and Chiron.

Cancer is the midpoint of the axis between Aries and Libra where our lunar nodes still sit for a little bit longer. This is going to be a bit of a hit back to eclipse season and whatever has been coming up in your life around Independence/Togetherness. Mercury squares the nodes on 6/23, this may feel especially intense because Mercury was strongly involved in our total eclipse stellium during April while they were in retrograde. Try not to get too emotional (Mercury in Cancer) about what has already happened. Venus in Cancer follows suit on 6/26 - this last week of the month just may feel overly personal.

Sometimes (most times probably) we all take things more personally than they actually are. Cancer does this especially because they seem to carry their whole very emotional world around with them like a little snail house. Cry it out if you have to, but then put on your emotionally mature glasses and acknowledge what has nothing to do with you. Sometimes life sucks, sometimes bad things happen. Some things just aren't avoidable - no matter how much you worry, plan, or cast magic against them.

That's the big lesson of lunar node aspects: some things happen. All you can do is change how you react to them.

If it feels like a lot, know that you are right on time. Saturn is deep in its pre-shadow retrograde all month and the energy is likely to deepen as we move through the last dregs of June towards their retrograde on 6/29. There's likely going to be a heaviness to the air, possibly a sense of oppression. Saturn stations twice a year, this is business as usual, but it can feel hard to get through in the moment. Just keep putting one foot in front of the other and it will be July before you know it.

The Details

6/2 - Sun in Gemini sextile North Node in Aries/trine South Node in Libra, Mercury in Taurus sextile Neptune in Pisces, Jupiter in Gemini trine retrograde Pluto in Aquarius 6/3 - Mercury enters Gemini, Venus in Gemini sextile North Node in Aries/trine South Node in Libra 6/4 - Sun conjunct Venus 14° Gemini, Mercury conjunct Jupiter 02° Gemini, Mercury in Gemini trine retrograde Pluto in Aquarius 6/6 - New Moon 16° Gemini 6/8 - Venus in Gemini square Saturn in Pisces 6/9 - Mars enters Taurus, Sun in Gemini square Saturn in Pisces 6/11 - Venus in Gemini sextile Chiron in Aries, Mars in Taurus square retrograde Pluto in Aquarius 6/12 - Mercury in Gemini square Saturn in Pisces 6/13 - Sun in Gemini sextile Chiron in Aries, Mercury in Gemini sextile Chiron in Aries 6/14 - Sun conjunct Mercury 24° Gemini 6/16 - Venus in Gemini square Neptune in Pisces 6/17 - Mercury enters Cancer, Venus enters Cancer, Mercury in Gemini square Neptune in Pisces, Mercury conjunct Venus 00° Cancer 6/20 - Sun enters Cancer, Sun in Gemini square Neptune in Pisces 6/21 - Full moon 01° Capricorn, Mercury in Cancer sextile Mars in Taurus 6/22 - Mercury in Cancer square the lunar nodes 6/26 - Mercury in Cancer trine Saturn in Pisces, Venus in Cancer square the lunar nodes 6/28 - Mercury in Cancer square Chiron in Aries 6/29 - Mercury in Cancer sextile Uranus in Taurus, Venus in Cancer sextile Mars in Taurus, Saturn retrogrades 19° Pisces Do you like my work? You can support me on Kofi. I offer astrology reports written by me.

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Photographs by Clark Hodgin for The New Yorker

Trying to Breathe in a City of Smoke

As the world warms and Canada burns, what once seemed unprecedented is becoming familiar.

— By Carolyn Kormann | June 7, 2023

When the smoke comes, you notice it in your body before you see it in the air. On Monday evening, I went for a run and then felt queasy and lethargic. Only on Tuesday did I notice the haze in Manhattan. By Tuesday night, the air smelled like barbecue. On the half-mile walk to my yoga studio, I saw a few people in N95 masks, and I wished I had worn mine. I started to get nauseated; my eyes felt itchy. A young man on the street cried out, “Those Canadian wildfires are sick, bro!” Online, someone tweeted about the “Blade Runner-ass weather.” I half expected the neighborly camaraderie that arises during intense storms and lunar eclipses, but mostly people just squinted and carried on. I worried about Frannie, my ninety-six-year-old landlady, who had walked four blocks to a neighborhood restaurant and back. She told me that she didn’t notice the smoke.

By Wednesday morning, ash was falling in northern New York. School trips and soccer games were cancelled. A friend texted, “Are you going to go outside and take a few drags off the sky?” I heard of a woman sitting on her front steps, struggling to breathe even with the help of oxygen. Friends of friends were reminded of places like Delhi, where daily exposure to severe air pollution can be deadly. New York City recorded the worst air pollution of any major city in the world, according to the company IQAir, and it was still getting worse. Just after noon, the magnolia and tulip trees outside my window shook violently in the wind. As weather forecasters had promised, a wall of smoke blew into Manhattan. At a Broadway matinée, the actress Jodie Comer said that she couldn’t breathe and left the stage.

The smoke was coming from Canada, where more than four hundred wildfires are currently burning. We do not know what caused many of them—a dropped cigarette, lightning, a downed electrical wire—but they are raging through the boreal forests of British Columbia, Alberta, and now Quebec. Wildfires are nothing new in these woodlands, but these are much earlier and larger than usual. And, like so many recent fires, they are directly linked to weeks of anomalous extreme heat. Climate change has created longer, hotter summers; worsened droughts; and fuelled vast bark-beetle infestations that have killed billions of trees.

We keep experiencing things that are unprecedented, worse than anything anyone can remember, even as we’re told that they will become common. “You’re likely to see events like this more often, where you have prolonged heat that dries out forests and makes these fires more likely,” Marshall Burke, a professor at Stanford University, and a leading expert on wildfire-smoke exposure and impacts, told me. Burke has plotted the levels of fine particles, which scientists call PM2.5 because they are 2.5 microns or smaller, in the past seventeen years of New York City air. The past two days, he said, have been off the charts. But even these levels didn’t reach what West Coast cities, including San Francisco and Seattle, have experienced in the past few years.

“There is no safe exposure to PM2.5,” Burke told me. In the past decade, research has shown that these particles can penetrate deep into the lungs, enter the bloodstream, and even reach the brain. They are associated with heart attacks and dementia. Even among healthy people, Burke and his team have found that, with higher levels of air pollution, cognitive performance decreases, and workers are less productive. There is a very strong relationship between even just short-term smoke exposure and poor pregnancy outcomes—in particular, preterm birth. Research by Burke and his collaborators has concluded that, when there are fifty micrograms per cubic metre of PM2.5 in the air, emergency-department visits for asthma tend to double. Burke checked New York’s numbers at that moment, around 1 p.m., and saw that they had reached about a hundred and fifty micrograms. “That’s just crazy,” Burke told me.

I told Burke that smoke had begun to seep into my office, like a deskside bonfire. “This is a really important point,” Burke said. “I mean, we can stay inside, but being inside is imperfect.” He pulled up a map of indoor air quality, which draws on data from citizen scientists who are publicly sharing measurements from their air monitors. “I’m just looking at Manhattan right now,” he told me. “I can see inside people’s homes, and they’re at sixty, or even above a hundred micrograms inside.” This is far above the threshold, outdoors, that would double emergency-room visits for asthma. In poorer communities, highways, power plants, and leaky buildings often make this problem persistent.

By one-thirty, the world through my window looked sepia. The sky turns orange because only longer wavelengths of light penetrate the smoke. Frannie, my elderly landlady, was now concerned. She has spent her life in New York and has never seen anything like this. She put on a mask inside; so did I. I worried about my sister, a teacher in Yonkers, who has bad asthma and felt light-headed and dizzy. “I’m feeling a little nervous and scared,” she told me in a voice mail. “I have students who are asthmatics, too. It’s really eerie to see how it’s bright yellow outside, and you can see the smoke sitting. Nothing that we’ve ever experienced here. Makes me feel more for those that experience this out West. Also, a good teaching opportunity.” She meant, quite literally, a science lesson about air-quality levels and their resulting health impacts. But what is it supposed to teach us? We know the story of the climate crisis, of how wealthy nations have burned fossil fuels at an astonishing rate, pushing our planet to the brink. Yet we live as though we do not, and we breathe the consequences. ♦

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Season Two

Episode Two: 222 Spiritual Downloads

WARNING! FULL DISCLOSURE! A message for your sensitive ass! Don’t take my advice or anything I say seriously. This is all for shits and giggles. Why you trippin?

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STOP SCROLLING! If this post has found you it’s because we’re energetically intertwined! I am receiving a channeled message FOR YOU 🫵

Hold on! I’m hearing… I’m feeling… I hear that… That you are the baddest fucking boss baddie bitch!

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Press play to start the vibes 😙

Oh, is there someone else or not?

'Cause I wanna keep you close

I don't wanna lose my spot

My black candle’s flame was always low and frail.

2:22 told me everything before you even opened your mouth.

I ground and cleanse myself after you.

I cut the cord and ask the universe for a sign.

Is there someone else? By The Weeknd starts playing.

Night came and your car was on fire.

A few nights later baby cries, glass breaking, and what I think was a gunshot.

Oh let’s not forget the footsteps on my roof.

And now the most painful revelation of them all, you compromised my health and well being.

11:11

2:22

3:33

4:44

5:55

777

888

And my favorite

999

So you ask, is there someone else or not?

[Death by Oliver Hibert)

There is someone else, hun. It’s me. My higher self. My final form. It’ll always be me.

And you lost your spot almost immediately babes. I was mirroring you the entire time. I never had a spot with you so…

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I cannot stress this enough. Trust your motherfucking intuition! Trust your body. Trust your knowledge of life! There is patterns and signs everywhere that scream at you to be acknowledged. Listen!

I’ll give you a simple example.

If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck… guess what?

I heard something some time ago. This man said, “trust people. Trust that people are going to be people. Trust that the politician is going to fulfill that role. Trust that the thief is going to steal.” Trust the patterns.

Believe the narcissist 😈

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The NEW MOON starts at 1:30 am Wednesday April 19th and will end Thursday April 20th at 9 pm. It will peak at 11:12 am on the 20th! It’s time to ask the universe in specific detail what is it exactly that you want.

Our New Moon will be part of a SOLAR ECLIPSE that will run from 8:36 pm April 19th to 1:59 am the following morning. Plant the seeds you wish to grow.

And don’t forget ARIES SEASON ends same day as our New Moon Eclipse. The world is your playground. Take advantage of the last wave of fire 🔥

MERCURY RETROGRADE starts April 20th and will end May 14th. We are already in the pre shadow period. Pay close attention to who hits you up during this time.

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As for me, I’ll be gone for a bit… I met The Divine Masculine and he’s helping me regain my powers 🥹✨

End Credits:

I wanna thank CVS for taking all my money 💙

I wanna thank my little bucket of nails (car) for always breaking down and prohibiting me from driving more than 20 minutes anywhere 😁

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Next time on The Kassie Show:

Goodbye to The Fool Era.