#Education Prediction By Date Of Birth

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Destiny Matrix

(predicting some events of your life and characteristics of your fs)

• For entertainment purposes only, enjoy •

•☞ Masterlist

Guys, destiny matrix chart is So gorgeous 😭 , I fell in love. I am new to this, but it's so fascinating, so I am sharing with you guys. Obviously I learnt a lot from ann_matrix_destiny insta page. I explained some of her work here, rest is mine.

✨What is Destiny matrix chart?

-A spiritual and metaphysical chart that reveals a person's life path, soul purpose, and potential.

✨How is it calculated?

-Based on a person's birth date, using a complex system of numerology and astrological correspondences.

💫 How to see some important events of your life?

see this area(perimeter line)of your chart , this will explain many important events of your life.

💚Age of getting married/ meeting with your significant other/ spouse:

- look at your age in your chart, if you see 3,5,6,19,20 at the top of your age then at that age you will get married/ meet your significant other/ start a family. Like in this chart I have shown above '5' is top of the age of 23.5- 24, so this individual will meet their spouse at that age/ get married.

• Going through Transformation in your life :

- if you see 13 or 16 at the top of your age , then at that age your life will drastically change/ you will go through a huge transformation of your life. You will change your location/ your career/ will shift to another country or city.

⚡Moving abroad/ travelling:

If you see 7,10,21,22 above your age then this is the best age for travelling or going abroad.

if you find 21 in your love line(circled part)then most probably you will marry a foreigner.

And if you find 7, 10 , 21 or 22 in this positions then most probably you will go abroad/ find your partner there .

Now , the future spouse part : -

💖 Hints about your future partner :

Look at the number below the heart symbol to know about your future partner. In this chart it's 21.

So, let's explain each numbers -

•Number 1: The magician

- creative and innovative

- skilled and talented

- confident and charismatic

- however they may also struggled with over - confidence and arrogance.

- gemini / Virgo zodiac sign placements

- profession : musicians, writer, public speaker, coaches and mentors , scientist, entrepreneur, marketing and advertising professionals.

- meeting: conference or seminar, art galleries, meuseum, workshop or studio, networking events or industry conference, class or training session.

• Number 2 : High Priestess

- intuitive and wise

- mysterious and enigmatic

- maybe quiet and reserved.

- soft spoken and considerate.

- cancer zodiac sign placements.

- profession: councillors, therapists, psychologist, Nurse or healthcare professionals, social workers, spiritual leaders, energy workers.

- meeting: secret or private settings, libraries, coaching, weddings , meeting in the context of any spiritual retreats.

• Number 3 : Empress

- Full of life , energy and vitality.

- encouraging others to grow and flourish.

- committed, dedicated and faithful.

- Taurus and Libra zodiac sign placements.

- profession: fashion designer , sculptors, teachers and educators,event planer, environmentalists, musicians, healthcare.

- meeting through : parties, gatherings, festival, fair, creative workshops, artistic projects ,meuseum, concerts.

• Number 4 : Emperor

- Natural born leader, authoritative, commanding.

- makes tough decisions with clarity and conviction.

- commited to family and responsibilities.

- zodiac sign: Aries placements.

- profession: executive, CEO, leader or manager, military officer, architect, Engineer, government officials, buisness owner.

- meeting : buisness meeting, job interviews, formal events , official ceremonies.

• Number 5 : Hierophant

- values established customs, rituals, and institutions.

- upholds ethical standards and moral principles.

- prioritise stability and security over change and uncertainty.

- Taurus zodiac sign placements

- profession: spiritual leaders and mentors, councellor , advisor or consultants, traditional healers or healthcare professionals.

- meeting: spiritual or religious gatherings, traditional ceremonies or rituals, educational and training sessions , counciling or therapy sessions, church,temples , mosques.

• Number 6 : The lovers

- collaborative, work well others.

- empathetic and aware of others feelings.

- true to themselves and their values.

- zodiac sign: Gemini placements.

- profession: counselors, coaches , writer , journalist, artist, musicians, public speaker, philosophers , scientist, researchers.

- meeting : social getherings or parties , creative or artistic collaboration, Beauty or fashion events , community or networking meeting.

• Number 7 : The chariot

- Determined, self disciplined.

- ability to overcome any obstacles and setbacks

- has clear direction

- zodiac : cancer placements

- profession: nurses , social worker, military, architect, psychologist, chefs , nutritionist, hospitality professionals.

- Meeting: family gatherings, home or domestic settings, caregiving or helping professions.

• Number 8 : strength

- courageous, brave , have inner strength.

- has capacity to forgive and let go.

- has self discipline and self control.

- zodiac sign: leo placements

- profession: artist , designer, performers , public speaker, motivator, executives, philanthropist, teacher, councellor, athletes, trainers.

- meeting: park or garden, fitness or wellness center, creative studio or art space, festivals, social gatherings.

• Number 9 : Hermit

- quiet, reflective, and introspective often preferring to spend time alone

- serves as guide or mentor

- discerning and concious about every step they take.

- zodiac sign: Virgo placements.

- profession: therapist, counselors,teachers , coaches , writers, editors, healthcare industry, social worker.

- meeting: therapists or counselor office, library , spiritual or religious sanctuary, coffee shop , book store.

• Number 10 : wheel of fortune

- flexible, able to adjust to changing circumstances.

- believes in destiny

- have philosophical outlook on life.

- zodiac sign: Taurus, leo, scorpio, Aquarius placements.

- profession: life coach, astrologer, environmentalists, entrepreneur, investors, historians.

- meeting: a farm , airport, bus station, temple, monastery, party,park , near mountain or river.

• Number 11 : Justice

- impartial and balanced

- they make descision based on reason and logics.

- have strong sense of morality and ethics.

- zodiac sign: Libra placements

- profession: lawyer, judge, counselors, social worker, activists, advocate, journalist, analyst , or spiritual leader.

- meeting: courthouse, law office, government building, council chamber, community centre, places of worship, philosophical organization.

• Number 12 : Hanged Man

- they are reflective , look inward for answers.

- they are open to new settings.

- courageous, deep understanding of themselves.

- zodiac sign: Pisces placements

- profession : spiritual leaders, therapist, counselor , artist, writer, healthcare industry, motivator, life coach.

- meeting : temples , church , meditation room , yoga class , hospital, library, therapy office,art studio, gym.

• Number 13 : Death

- they are like phoenix from the ashes.

- they can navigate difficult situations and come out stronger.

- constantly growing and evolving.

- zodiac sign: scorpio placements

- profession: therapist, estate lawyers, spiritual leaders, scientist, healthcare professionals.

- meeting: counselling centre, place of worship, innovation hub or entrepreneurship centres, hospital, wellness center.

• Number 14 : Temperance

- they strive for equilibrium in all aspects of life .

- they prioritise physical, mental and emotional well-being.

- have creative sides.

- zodiac sign: Sagittarius placements .

- profession: doctor or nurse , therapist or counselor, artist or musicians, spiritual leader, international relation specialist , life coach , designer .

- meeting : art galleries or museums, embassies or international conference centres , community centres, clubs , parks , garden , spiritual center , yoga class.

• Number 15 : The devil

- they thinks outside the box and brings fresh ideas .

- magnetic personality, can attract others.

- unconventional, transformative.

- zodiac sign: Capricorn placements.

- profession: politician, CEO, artist, law enforcement, military, detective , investigators, activists, occultist.

- meeting: historic mansion or estate, a secret rooftop, art galleries, studio , book store, library , cafe.

• Number 16 : Tower

- they seek honesty and transparency even if it's uncomfortable.

- rebellious, resilient, revolutionary.

- they are open to new ideas.

- zodiac sign: Aries placements.

- profession : scientist, inventor, engineer, architect, military officer, crisis manager, technologist.

- meeting: transformation hub, a unique event space or art studio, bookstore, library, co-working space.

• Number 17 : Star

- they have a optimistic outlook of life and believe in a bright future.

- inspiring, peaceful, compassionate.

- creative and imaginative mind.

- zodiac sign: Aquarius placements.

- profession: creative expression, artist , industry related to healing and wellness, science and technology, humanitarian work, counselors.

- meeting: yoga studio or wellness center, botanical garden or peaceful outdoor setting, co-working space, concerts? , innovation hub.

• Number 18 : The Moon

- they trust their instincts and have a strong connection to their subconscious mind.

- deeply in touch with their emotions.

- unpredictable, may surprise other with their actions.

- zodiac sign : Pisces placements.

- profession : psychic or medium, artist or writer, musician, poet , spiritual teacher, healer, counselors.

- meeting: mystical or esoteric shop, secluded beach, art studio, a spiritual or metaphysical bookstore, coffee shop.

• Number 19 : Sun

- they exude self assurance and positivity.

- optimistic, enthusiastic, charismatic.

- warm hearted , willing to share blessings with others.

- zodiac sign: leo placements.

- profession: actor or performer, artist, CEO , teacher or mentor, event planner, musicians, life coach, designer.

- meeting: cafe / restaurant/ hotel , studio , gathering hall, auditorium, music festival.

• Number 20: Judgement

- they are introspective and willing to confront their past and inner self.

- self aware, have deep understanding of their strengths and weaknesses.

- awakened, courageous, honest.

- zodiac sign: scorpio placements

- profession : spiritual teacher or guide , therapist or counselor, life coach, researcher, artist or creative expression.

- meeting: spiritual center or temple, yoga class, a writer's workshop, park , garden , therapy or councilling office.

• Number 21: The world

- they have achieved their goals and fullfill their potential.

- compassions, wise, confident

- adventurous and global minded.( Most likely a foreigner)

- zodiac sign: Taurus, Capricorn, leo , placements.

- profession : global diplomat, artist ( global or universal theme) , cultural ambassador, world traveler, humanitarian work.

- meeting: while traveling, international conference centres , airport, spiritual retreat, international art or music venues.

• Number 22 : The fool

- they are willing to take risks and embark on new journeys.

- spontaneous, carefree , open minded.

- have faith in themselves and universe.

- zodiac sign: Aquarius placements.

- profession: entrepreneur or startup founder, activist, humanitarian work,coach or consultants, designer, scientist,teacher, journalist.

- meeting: spontaneous meet-up or pop up events, inspirational seminars, creative workshops,cafe or coffee shop, outdoor adventure location.

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END .....( I am tired af 😭)

☞ Healing through marriage

Thanks for reading 💓

-Piko ✨

[thefundiedata]

Jana Duggar and Stephen Wissmann are married!

On Thursday 15th August 2024, Jana Marie Duggar and Stephen Gerald Wissmann tied the knot in Arkansas. They will be living together in Nebraska. They had previously dated around 2021 and rekindled their relationship sometime towards the beginning of 2024.

They were engaged on 15th June 2024, meaning their engagement was 61 days long (second shortest Duggar engagement after Jed and Kate). Their pre-marriage relationship was at most 227 days long - short even by Duggar standards!

The couple were older by fundie wedding standards. Jana was aged 34.59 on their wedding day and Stephen was aged 31.08. While Jana is older than Stephen, the trend in fundie relationships remains that the man is older than the woman - with an average age difference of 350 days. Jana and Stephen's age difference is shockingly close (4 days in it) to their double-sibling-in-laws' (Jeremiah and Hannah Duggar).

The average ages at Duggar pre-courtship now stand at 22.10 for women and 22.89 for men. For courtship, those numbers are 22.29 for women and 23.29 for men. Finally, at marriage those numbers are 23.05 for women and 23.84 for men. All the Standard Deviations have increased after this wedding, with the SD for women now being greater than the SD for men.

The average fundie couple has a baby 271 days after the wedding and announces the pregnancy on Day 93. If Jana and Stephen are totally fundie-typical, that would mean an announcement on 15th February 2025 and a birth on 21st August 2025. Their predicted family size is four children.

I truly wish the couple all the best for the future. I hope they both get everything they wanted out of the relationship and live a long and happy life together.

Should we get any further data confirming exactly when Jana and Stephen restarted their relationship, I will update the spreadsheet accordingly. For now, it's based on educated guesses!

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The History of Dice in Gaming: From Ancient Civilizations to Modern Fun

Dice have been a part of gaming for millennia, with a rich history dating back to ancient civilizations. In this article, we'll delve into the captivating story of dice in gaming, from their origins to their significant role in today's tabletop and digital games. Join us as we explore the evolution of this timeless gaming tool.

Ancient Beginnings: The Birth of Dice

The history of dice can be traced back to around 3000 BCE when dice-like objects were discovered in Mesopotamia. These early dice were crafted from bone, clay, or stone, often featuring irregular shapes, which added an element of unpredictability to the games. These discoveries provide a unique insight into the ancient world's love for chance-based games.

Dice in ancient Mesopotamia were not only used for entertainment but also served ritual and divination purposes. It's remarkable to think that these simple objects played a significant role in the lives and beliefs of ancient civilizations.

Dice in Ancient Greece and Rome

As civilization progressed, so did the development of dice. Ancient Greece introduced the concept of six-sided dice, still the most common form today. Crafted from bronze or other metals, these dice featured numbered pips on each face, reminiscent of the dice we use today. Romans also embraced dice for games like "Tesserae," fostering the dice's continued popularity in the gaming world.

The use of dice in ancient Greece and Rome was not limited to entertainment. These cultures recognized the educational and strategic value of dice games. Moreover, the Roman fascination with dice extended to gambling, a practice that was both loved and loathed by different segments of society.

Medieval Europe: The Moralization of Dice

Throughout the Middle Ages, dice games persisted despite opposition from religious and moral authorities who viewed them as a form of gambling. The appeal of dice games endured, offering a form of entertainment that captivated people in Europe.

Dice in medieval Europe were often associated with gambling and were regarded with suspicion. The Church and various authorities made efforts to regulate and sometimes ban dice games. However, these measures did little to dampen the enthusiasm for dice, which continued to be an integral part of medieval social life.

Dice in the Modern Era

The 16th century witnessed the emergence of what we now call "standard dice," with their iconic cube shape and numbered faces from 1 to 6. These dice gained popularity for their simplicity and fairness, becoming a staple in board games, gambling, and various other forms of entertainment.

Dice games in the modern era have evolved significantly. Standard six-sided dice, known as D6, have become a universal tool in games and gambling, offering a balanced and predictable way to introduce chance into various activities. Their simplicity makes them accessible and enjoyable for players of all ages.

Tabletop Role-Playing Games: A New Dawn for Dice

The late 20th century brought about a resurgence in dice-driven gaming, courtesy of tabletop role-playing games (RPGs) like "Dungeons & Dragons." RPGs incorporated various dice types, adding complexity and chance to gameplay. Discover how dice rolls shaped epic adventures and character development.

Tabletop role-playing games introduced a new level of complexity to dice gaming. In D&D, for instance, various types of polyhedral dice, from the iconic 20-sided die to the 4-sided die, are used to determine outcomes. Players relied on dice rolls to decide the success of actions, the outcome of battles, and the development of their characters, creating immersive storytelling experiences.

Dice in Modern Board Games

Modern board games like "Monopoly" and "Settlers of Catan" have embraced dice to introduce elements of randomness and strategy. Explore how dice enhance gameplay and make every session a unique and engaging experience.

Board games with dice have evolved to provide a blend of strategy and chance. Whether it's the roll of the dice determining your resources in "Catan" or your moves in "Monopoly," these games challenge players to make strategic decisions while embracing the element of unpredictability that dice bring.

Digital Dice: The 21st-Century Evolution

In the digital age, dice seamlessly transitioned into video games. Online casinos offer virtual dice games, allowing players to enjoy the thrill of rolling the dice from their homes. Discover the digital evolution of this timeless gaming tool.

Digital dice have opened up new possibilities for gaming. Online casinos provide a platform for virtual dice games, where players can experience the excitement of rolling the dice without needing physical dice. The convenience of digital dice has made them a popular choice for online gamblers, and their use extends beyond casinos to a wide range of digital games.

To The Future

The history of dice in gaming is a testament to the enduring appeal of these versatile tools. From ancient civilizations to modern tabletop and digital games, dice have remained a constant presence. Whether for recreation, gambling, or storytelling, dice continue to capture our imagination and add an exciting element of chance to the games we love.

Dice have truly stood the test of time, evolving with each era and remaining an integral part of human entertainment. As technology advances, we can only imagine how dice will continue to shape the future of gaming, captivating new generations of players and enthusiasts.

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and i won't forget to put roses on your grave

 ִֶָ ᯽ .ﾟEVERY ROSE has its thorn ╱ meet the circle of blue rose ╱ tw for mentions of verbal abuse, neglect, drug use, death, and bullying

on a cold christmas morning in a buzzing hospital, bae minseok was born in incheon, south korea to a educated and ambitious firefighter for a mother, but with a cowardly and insecure data entry clerk father. it was quiet growing up, due mostly to the fact that he was not the most sociable, considering that mom and dad weren't home during the day, and minseok spent most of his afternoons distracting himself with boring yet interesting extracurriculars, the relationship between him and his parents wasn't really anything for the first eleven years of his life.

his parents' relationship slowly became unconventional, they became not only a problem for their son, but for each other. it was a norm for minseok to listen to the constant back and forth between his mother and father, and it amazed him to think that those two were once in love. he would listen to all his fathers stupid theories, oh no his wife had a promising career ahead of her? how disturbing! i should turn our son against her! after the first few years of his parents back and forth bickering, minseok decided to turn to something else to get his mind off everything.

in one of his previous extracurriculars, he learned how to play several instruments, but none of them interested him as much as the good old guitar did. if there was anything that could get his mind off the incessant shit talking his parents would do to each other, it was the beauty of the chords he produced on the stringed instrument. playing the guitar, to him, was just a coping mechanism, nothing too serious and nothing meant to be taken any further than a hobby, a thing he did when all the shouting was too much for him.

it wasn't until a friend, a very specific friend, nudged him one day and suggested that he auditioned for a company, at even the sound of those words, an immediate laugh escaping his lips as soon as his friend uttered them. what could he even do besides play one instrument and sing just a little well? what was he supposed to do with his lack of talent? (in his opinion, of course) every company would turn their backs on him, send him out of the door the moment he walked through those doors, but no matter how much he dispelled the words, his friends kept urging him and urging him to at least try to audition, because they just had an inkling that he would make it in.

after the constant harassment from his friends, minseok would roll his eyes and step into the audere media building on an early august morning in 2012, and like his friends predicted, he passed, with much surprise to himself. now— he knew about the shady reputation under the company, but he had also been promised to debut, a promise that would be fulfilled after four years, several lineup changes, and the loss of close friends he'd made in the corner of the practice room. over the four years he found himself trapped in the practice room of a shady company, minseok would lose, then gain, then lose some more hope, he had been accepted into the company for his talents, but he felt as if they were never truly considered by the higher ups. he often felt as if everyone was disregarding him, and he'd never be considered to even debut.

after all the work, the long nights spent in the practice room, and the hundreds of times he almost quit, minseok would finally find his place, with a group of people who understood him, for him, debuting in blue rose was one of the best things in his life, but he'd never admit that to his members, he remains stubborn.

ʬʬ . THE BASICS !⠀

STAGE NAME CUPID ( 큐핏 )

BIRTH NAME BAE MINSEOK ( 배민석 )

DATE OF BIRTH DECEMBER 25, 1995

PLACE OF BIRTH INCHEON, SOUTH KOREA

HOMETOWN INCHEON, SOUTH KOREA

NATIONALITY SOUTH KOREAN

ETHNICITY KOREAN

ʬʬ . THE CAREER !⠀

OCCUPATION SINGER-SONGWRITER, GUITARIST

LABELS AUDERE MEDIA ( 2012 — 2016 ) LUXE DESIGN ( 2016 — present )

TRAINING PERIOD 4 YEARS 6 MONTHS

POSITION LEAD VOCALIST, RHYTHM GUITARIST

DEBUT DATE FEBRUARY 13, 2016

ʬʬ . THE PHYSICAL !⠀

FACE CLAIM YOON JEONGHAN

HEIGHT 178 CM ( 5'10" )

WEIGHT UNKNOWN

BLOOD TYPE B

on a snowy february evening in hat yai, thailand, vidura sukkasem came into this world angry, an emotion which would become a staple for him throughout his life. often compared to a "ticking time bomb", the fury he had seemingly been born with wouldn't disappear with age like his parents had hoped for. instead it manifested into something more, something which would become a liability to his parents. he had not been showered with the same kind of love as his siblings, he was often "too much" for the adults in his life to handle, so as a result, he began to lash out.

his emotions would range from angry, to frustrated, to absolutely fucking pissed directed towards everybody. he eventually became a problem, so much of a problem that his parents had "no other choice" but to ship him off to some boarding school for troubled children, hoping that the harsh lessons would put him in shape, but the schools, just like his parents, stated he was "too much to handle" and he eventually became nothing but your no good troubled teen stereotype (not so much troubled, he just lacked the attention children so needed from their parents). he would battle his own demons all on his own, he didn't need friends, he'd already gotten this far with his parents not giving two shits about him, whilst his siblings pretended he was never there, it was no surprise to anyone that he wasn't interested in the whole making friends part of life.

his personal interests would all be a little wishy washy, from snowboarding, to composition, to dancing, and finally, the guitar (specifically the electric guitar). vidura would stay up all night watching performances from popular rock bands, watching as they did their thing, so effortlessly, he knew that teaching himself how to play such an instrument would be a challenge, but he was never one to give up. having been inspired by bands such as aerosmith, van halen, and of course, queen, the second eldest would find himself borrowing his coworkers' instruments to test them out, just until he could save enough money to buy his dream guitar. over the next few months, not only would he almost completely learn how to play the electric guitar, and keyboard on his own, but he also did some considering, and that considering would eventually manifest into a want, he wanted to be in a band.

even with the constant remarks, chortles, and snickers from family, vidura wouldn't just halt with what he'd wanted for so long, who were they to talk about his life? when they did nothing but cast him aside? it seemed idiotic to him, which he had no problem voicing, yeah it lead to a less-than-stellar altercation between him and a few cousins, but he would say it was all for a good cause. it seemed that his prayers would be answered, when a scout from a familiar (then still) small record label szene vinyl stopped him on the street, having recognized him from a video his manager had posted online, he almost didn't accept the scouts offer, convinced they were a scam, or some sort of cult trying to brainwash him.

but after pondering for a good week, continuously staring at the business card in his hand, he'd try at the audition, even with the way he was clearly nervous, stumbling through the little korean he knew, and uncomfortable under the stare of so many strangers, he would pass, he likes to think it was a miracle, or the clear passion that seemed to ooze around him, or maybe they were just pitying, to this day, he will never truly know why he actually passed.

everything seemed to fast track after that, the titular thai 'wannabe rockstar' (that's what dione calls him, rich), would go through several practice rooms, sleepless nights, two almost life ending injuries, arguments with dance instructors and his fellow trainees, as well as a few predictable breakdowns and broken nails. if vidura is anything, it's a fighter, he wasn't about to be tossed out by this company for being "a nuisance" like he'd been by his parents and the tens of schools in the past. he doesn't care if he fought tooth or nail to be in that lineup, he did it because he deserved it, and he knows that better than anyone else.

ʬʬ . THE BASICS !⠀

STAGE NAME JUNIPER ( 향나무 )

BIRTH NAME VIDURA SUKKASEM ( วิฑูรา สุขเกษม )

DATE OF BIRTH FEBRUARY 18, 1996

PLACE OF BIRTH HAT YAI, THAILAND

HOMETOWN HAT YAI, THAILAND

NATIONALITY THAI

ETHNICITY THAI

ʬʬ . THE CAREER !⠀

OCCUPATION DANCER, COMPOSER, GUITARIST, DRUMMER

LABELS SZENE VINYL ( 2012 — 2016 ) LUXE DESIGN ( 2016 — present )

TRAINING PERIOD 4 YEARS

POSITION MAIN DANCER, VOCALIST, LEAD GUITARIST

DEBUT DATE FEBRUARY 13, 2016

ʬʬ . THE PHYSICAL !⠀

FACE CLAIM CHITTAPHON LEECHAIYAPORNKUL

HEIGHT 176 CM ( 5'9" )

WEIGHT UNKNOWN

BLOOD TYPE O

on a blinding july afternoon, noh hyeon (though originally born noh jaewoong) was born in the heart of daejeon, south korea to a freelance photographer of a mother, one who had such a bright imagination, an ambitious future ahead of her, well— not before she got pregnant with her previously named son, and dumped by her college school boyfriend, who stated he just couldn't "take care of a child with all of his other responsibilities". so, at 22 years old, no college degree, only $1000 under her belt and a whole child under her care, she'd try her best to maneuver through life, and give her son the best life he could ever ask for.

for most of his life, hyeon could recall his mother being unhappy, she'd try to cover it with fake smiles and laughs, but he always secretly knew it. he wished he could help her, but he could do nothing but watch her suffer in silence, as he was just a defenseless child. he would stay up all night thinking, dreaming of a day where he could finally save his mother from the suffering she was put through trying to raise him, he prayed that one day he would find success in a field which would help him provide for her. it was no surprise to anyone who met him that hyeon had quite the imagination, the only things at the forefront of his mind being caring for his mother and his one true dream—

becoming an idol.

baby v.o.x, shinhwa, and of course, h.o.t became big inspirations for the soon to be leader, well, as much as an inspiration as they were an escape. he recalls sitting down at home and watching in fascination as the idols did their thing, so effortlessly, so flawlessly, dressed in stage outfits he could only dream of wearing. for most of his life, though, he only thought that dream would stay like that, a dream, something he could fantasize about in his mind but never truly fulfill, though his mom would enroll him in dance practices, singing lessons, and do all sorts of karaoke in the living room, he never actually thought he would make it, it all seemed like an actual thing he'd accomplish.

but it'd all go to his head, it'd become his main focus, something he couldn't stop thinking about. it got to the point that he couldn't focus on school, too busy thinking about being one of those idols, singing and dancing catchy songs on a stage, loved by the korean public.

it seemed that his mother could see right through the act he was putting up, and she didn't hesitate to drop a train ticket in front of him on a random day, telling him to audition either now or never. though very puzzled by the sudden way his mother decided to tell him to go audition like he'd been itching to, but he knew this was a once in a lifetime chance. so, with adrenaline coursing through his veins, a fourteen year old hyeon hopped on a train and took the whole two hour ride from daejeon to seoul, shaking nervously the whole entire time. he would walk into that audere media building and never look back, his future somehow decided for him in that very moment.

of course, the six years spent in that company were nothing short of hellish, like all of the members, who once considered quitting and going back home, feeling as if he had been wrong at what he thought he wanted to do with his life. it took so much perseverance, encouraging words from (ironically) minseok and remembering what his mother told him to not walk out of those doors and flip the bird at absolutely every person who worked there. it would all eventually be for good, even if he was stuck with the position of bass guitarist, one he wasn't truly keen on receiving (he was much more skilled in terms of the keyboardist position, he even would've settled for being the drummer). still, he'd persevere, spending almost two and a half years working on his skills as a guitarist, he has the lovely juniper and lim jaesang to thank for that.

ʬʬ . THE BASICS !⠀

STAGE NAME HYEON ( 현 )

BIRTH NAME NOH JAEWOONG ( 노재웅 )

LEGAL NAME NOH HYEON ( 노현 )

DATE OF BIRTH JULY 27, 1996

PLACE OF BIRTH DAEJEON, SOUTH KOREA

HOMETOWN DAEJEON, SOUTH KOREA

NATIONALITY SOUTH KOREAN

ETHNICITY KOREAN

ʬʬ . THE CAREER !⠀

OCCUPATION SINGER-SONGWRITER, RAPPER, KEYBOARDIST, GUITARIST

LABELS AUDERE MEDIA ( 2010 — 2016 ) LUXE DESIGN ( 2016 — present )

TRAINING PERIOD 6 YEARS 2 MONTHS

POSITION LEADER, LEAD VOCALIST, LEAD RAPPER, BASS GUITARIST

DEBUT DATE FEBRUARY 13, 2016

ʬʬ . THE PHYSICAL !⠀

FACE CLAIM CHO SEUNGYOUN

HEIGHT 186 CM ( 6'1" )

WEIGHT UNKNOWN

BLOOD TYPE A-

born with what is described as a "natural aura of bad luck" on a rainy may day in ulsan, south korea, ji hansaem was never a blessed child, stuck in the middle of seven other children, he was quickly tossed aside in favor of his less fortunate siblings (which he easily understood, they all needed to be taken care of), so from a young age, he seemed to always be on his own. his three older siblings were either much older or found him boring, whilst his three younger siblings were too young and suffering with life-altering diseases, disabilities, or simply disadvantages. it was no surprise to anyone that the lack of attention from at home caused him to start acting out, taking his anger out on anyone and anything, often resulting in his knuckles ending up bruised.

wherever hansaem went, trouble seemed to follow. it was always chalked up to his horrible situation at home and the fact that he seemed to be the only one of all seven children to inherit his father's angers issues, so he never found any actual help for the constant frustration he felt towards strangers who'd done nothing to him. so, he looked to other ways of coping, because if none of the adults in his life would try to help him, he was going to try to help himself, even if it would take so much time.

the leftover anger he decided to not channel into fistfights would instead be channeled into newfound instruments, namely rapping, dancing, and his mission to be able to play at least 10 instruments by the time he was 30. rapping was always an interest of his, time not spent at home (due to how the apartment had literally a whole village living there), would be spent in his close friends sihyuk's garage, taking free sample beats from not always legal website and rapping over them. he wasn't good at it in the beginning, which he clearly states every chance he gets, but as long as he was left alone with his thoughts and a random beat before him, he could come up with anything (but he would never be considered for the rapper position until last minute).

hansaem doesn't exactly know why, or what kind of confidence had overtaken him at that very moment, but he found himself walking into a familiar company on a horribly humid day in august of 2011, sm entertainment (not sure if you've heard of them or not..), but with all shock, he passed, and he found himself in a mundane day-to-day routine full of practice rooms and gossip about if he would debut in the upcoming nct. unfortunately, his popularity as an sm rookies members didn't immediately mean he was going to be a member, which was clearly hinted at him by the actions of his beloved former company. not wanting to waste his time rotting away in a company that didn't really give two shits about him, he would exit after only 1 year of training, but all hope would not be lost, as he would quickly be approached by szene vinyl with an offer that he just couldn't refuse, of course it meant he had to be stuck around just the single most annoying person ever (i.e juniper), but if it meant debuting, so be it!

ʬʬ . THE BASICS !⠀

STAGE NAME DIONE ( 디오네 )

BIRTH NAME JI HANSAEM ( 지한샘 )

DATE OF BIRTH MAY 23, 1997

PLACE OF BIRTH ULSAN, SOUTH KOREA

HOMETOWN ULSAN, SOUTH KOREA

NATIONALITY SOUTH KOREAN

ETHNICITY KOREAN

ʬʬ . THE CAREER !⠀

OCCUPATION RAPPER, DANCER, DRUMMER

LABELS SM ENTERTAINMENT ( 2011 — 2012 ) SZENE VINYL ( 2012 — 2016 ) LUXE DESIGN ( 2016 — present )

TRAINING PERIOD 4 YEARS

POSITION MAIN RAPPER, LEAD DANCER, DRUMMER

DEBUT DATE FEBRUARY 13, 2016

ʬʬ . THE PHYSICAL !⠀

FACE CLAIM YOO TAEYANG

HEIGHT 181 CM ( 5'11" )

WEIGHT UNKNOWN

BLOOD TYPE B

on a cloudy autumn afternoon in jeju city, south korea, jeon yunseok was born as the second of three children, stuck in the middle and becoming the only boy born in his family after 25 years of just girls being born. from the get go, his family members knew there was something special about him, he had a bright smile and seemingly bulletproof optimism, nobody could ever wear him down, he was just strong like that. he was born naturally sociable, always ready to talk to people, never seen without a smile on his face. yunseok was a boy full of dreams, dreams he wouldn't discard until he at least excelled in one of the fields.

one of his biggest dreams included being an idol, and he would find that dream coming true when he debuted in the former "child" idol group DVIX in 2010, being only twelve at the time. now, the whole thing about the group was that the members would graduate when they were eighteen, then a whole new lineup of boys would show up and repeat the process, but it wouldn't be all smooth sailing. for starters, the lineup was full of children, and children are mean, his fellow members wouldn't think twice before deciding to torment every waking day of yunseok's life, his groupmates found it amusing to call him names, whilst his former company found it entertaining to overwork him with stupid brand deals and acting gigs. all he ever truly wanted to do was be an idol, but he had members who made it unbearable and a company that decided to make him do everything but that.

so, yunseok confided in his parents about the whole situation and they weren't any happy, they immediately removed him from the group in 2013 and sued his former company for child endangerment. the most he knows is that they did eventually get paid, he just doesn't know the specific amount they did. his dreams of being an idol wouldn't falter, though, because he would go on and audition for another company, namely audere media, and with his previous expertise in the idol industry, it was no surprise that he passed.

he would never say that his time in the practice room of audere media was a "horrible one", compared to his previous label, they seemed like angels. of course, his bright personality and constant optimism was still meant with hostility from fellow trainees, but most of them actually liked him, cherished him even. he was known as the "unofficial therapist", as he was an amazing listener and advisor. his shiny reputation would carry on to when he debuted, known as the "brightest member of blue rose".

ʬʬ . THE BASICS !⠀

STAGE NAME YUNSEOK ( 윤석 )

BIRTH NAME JEON YUNSEOK ( 전윤석 )

DATE OF BIRTH SEPTEMBER 25, 1998

PLACE OF BIRTH JEJU CITY, JEJU ISLAND, SOUTH KOREA

HOMETOWN JEJU CITY, JEJU ISLAND, SOUTH KOREA

NATIONALITY SOUTH KOREAN

ETHNICITY KOREAN

ʬʬ . THE CAREER !⠀

OCCUPATION RAPPER, DANCER, VOCALIST, KEYBOARDIST

LABELS HAZE2! ( 2009 — 2012 ) AUDERE MEDIA ( 2013 — 2016 ) LUXE DESIGN ( 2016 — present )

TRAINING PERIOD 7 YEARS 2 MONTHS

POSITION LEAD RAPPER, SUB-VOCALIST, KEYBOARDIST

DEBUT DATE JULY 1, 2010 ╱ FEBRUARY 13, 2016

ʬʬ . THE PHYSICAL !⠀

FACE CLAIM LEE JAEHYUN

HEIGHT 182 CM ( 5'11" )

WEIGHT UNKNOWN

BLOOD TYPE AB

on a seemingly random november day, right as the month was coming to a close, song rinhyo (though he is preferred to be called riley) was born in rochester, new york, as the eldest of four children. his mother- a desirous music teacher who dreamed of doing more with her life, and his father- an equally determined children's book illustrator who was trying his hardest to recover from a once almost life threatening addiction. his father was a man who, like everyone, made mistakes, and had many regrets he wished he could've taken back before his inevitable demise. he would die when riley was only 4, leaving the love of his life and three kids behind (along with a fourth one who would unfortunately be born after his funeral).

as a child, helping around the house was never a foreign concept to him, considering his mother had now become a single parent and didn't have a partner available to watch over the kids anymore. riley would take over the position as "surrogate parent" with ease, mostly because he had a natural instinct to protect everyone younger than him, his siblings are his lifeline, he'd go to any lengths to protect them, so much so that he basically became their parent for a good chunk of their lives. he'd make them breakfast, take them to school, then go to school himself, pick them up from school and proceed to take care of them at home. his routine was a mundane one, the same thing every single day.

as a child, singing was always something he was interested in. his mother was a music teacher, the person who taught him everything he knows about how to advance his vocals, as well as play his two main instruments (the guitar and drums). he would often sing his siblings to sleep, though always begrudgingly due to the fact that he never really enjoyed singing in front of people that weren't teachers or his mother, believing he wasn't exactly amazing or that he would embarrass himself. he always described his skills as "mediocre", he was just your regular guy who enjoyed singing on some occasions and playing guitar solos for fun.

everything would come to a stop when, without him knowing, his younger brother noah would send a video of him singing the song (and playing the guitar instrumental) stairway to heaven by led zeppelin to szene vinyl as an audition tape. he had previously tried to convince the older to audition for the company, having read that they were accepting trainees from everywhere around the world, riley, though he clearly wanted to audition, refused profusely each time due to the fact that he didn't exactly want to just up and leave his family to chase some idol dream that probably wouldn't come true considering his odds. he wouldn't even know until his siblings brought it up to him awkwardly, he swears he almost punched them in the face when learning what they did, but he was even more shocked to know that his audition was accepted, he passed.

riley thought about it for a long time, talked about it with his mom for several days, but she persuaded him, and a decision was eventually made. in a matter of two weeks after his brother had sent that video to szene vinyl without him knowing, he was now on a plane to seoul, able to fulfill a dream he once thought would be impossible to. after arriving at the building for the first time in 2013, he would eventually train for 3 years until he got the chance to debut in blue rose, as their maknae, and as the only member with two instrumental positions. he often thinks his debut was only due to the fact that his best friend, louyoung, left the company, he often feels undeserving of his position, but the members and his family never fail to remind him that he deserves what he has.

ʬʬ . THE BASICS !⠀

STAGE NAME CERES ( 케레스 )

BIRTH NAME RILEY KIERYN SONG

KOREAN NAME SONG RINHYO ( 송린효 )

DATE OF BIRTH NOVEMBER 28, 1998

PLACE OF BIRTH ROCHESTER, NEW YORK, USA

HOMETOWN ROCHESTER, NEW YORK, USA

NATIONALITY AMERICAN

ETHNICITY KOREAN

ʬʬ . THE CAREER !⠀

OCCUPATION SINGER-SONGWRITER, GUITARIST, DRUMMER

LABELS SZENE VINYL ( 2013 — 2016 ) LUXE DESIGN ( 2016 — present )

TRAINING PERIOD 3 YEARS 7 MONTHS

POSITION MAIN VOCALIST, LEAD GUITARIST, DRUMMER

DEBUT DATE FEBRUARY 13, 2016

ʬʬ . THE PHYSICAL !⠀

FACE CLAIM JUNG WOOKJIN

HEIGHT 177 CM ( 5'10" )

WEIGHT UNKNOWN

BLOOD TYPE O

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hi beautiful, here for the reading.😆saw you on my feed and really love your vedic observations and positive energy.💙💙💙

I'm currently a senior in college and applying for postgraduate education in another country in 2025. But I haven't got everything I needed for the application because of my procrastination.🥺 I'm stressed out, worrying about the future like if I can go to an ideal university or what work I would do after graduation. I'd appreciate it if you could share your insights on my life path.

Btw love in a romantic way never happened in my life. Partially because I have been focusing on my study but mostly my own reason.🫠 Learning to love will be a big subject in my life and you girl just want some romance.🥴

Sorry if I only conveyed negative thoughts about my life but I'm dealing with it positively and always hold hope.✨✨✨ life is long, don't need to rush.😂

Birth Date: December 23, 2002

Birth Time: 5:42 AM

Birth Place: Zhengzhou, China

Current location : Jinan, China

Thanks for your time. Looking forward to your

reply, it will make my day!🥰🥰🥰

Hello, your introduction is great & uni is so stressful it can hard not to be a bit negative. I hope you enjoy this reading.

Family:

Your home life could have been strict. Your parents could be very religious. They taught you these beliefs and morals. They may have taught you about your heritage and origins. They can have high expectations for you.

You may feel at a distant from the parents. You can love them and they love you but still they may not truly understand who you are.

There could have been low self esteem in early years due to a critical & controlling parent. The expectations for you may have been too high.

Early life:

Early life you could have struggled in communication. You can speak without thinking. You can have your words misunderstood. You can have a phase where you struggle to communicate -  due to anxiety over public speaking and/or something like a stutter or lisp.

By adulthood, you can love to talk. You love to share information. You want to discuss broad topics. You want to learn new information. Once you have decided on something, you do not want to be challenged on it. You can hate when people disagree or do not understand your perspective. This can result in slight arrogance and stubbornness.

Career/Money:

It is difficult to predict exact career. However, your career will likely have you in an authority position speaking/preaching/teaching. You could literally become a professor. You could work in finance or law. You would be good at communicating (written & verbal) + managing & analysis.

You will be favoured by authority figures throughout career. You have good morals and you are intelligent. You have a true desire to learn and understand. People will respect this in you. They can bless you with advice/knowledge that will help you. You can easily find promotions.

You will have a good amount of wealth. You’re the type of person who needs wealth to feel secure. You will acquire wealth and still feel it is not enough. This feeling of insecurity when it comes to money will stay with you until very late in life. It is most likely after marriage, you feel safe and secure with what you have. You will be secretive about your wealth. You won’t care to buy expensive items just to show off. You will be good at managing money.

Marriage/Long-term partner:

It is extremely likely your spouse comes from a different background than you - different religion, ethnicity, country or province/state. They have a different cultural upbringing than you. 

You are likely to meet the spouse getting higher education or far from the birth land. This doesn’t always mean you need to leave the country to find your spouse. It will be a location that is foreign to you.

Due to Saturn’s influence, you aren’t likely to meet spouse early. I think you already knew this as you’ve said you’re focused on education. This is truly the best thing to do for this placement.

The spouse is likely to be older and/or mature. They can be disciplined, hardworking and be a respected person in their career and personal life.

You can become more religious after marriage and/or later in life. You can join a religious group or regularly attend church/temple.

The spouse is likely religious too. You have a few indicators of someone who converts for marriage. However, these small indicators can manifest as just being more religious and not changing religions.

You’re likely to have more sons than daughters.

There can be issues with secrecy as you or the spouse could hide things from one another. This isn’t going to be something like cheating. More like someone hides purchases or exact income. Or someone holds back true feeling/opinions to not start an unnecessary argument.

You and the spouse will bring in wealth to the marriage. You are likely to desire control over the money - ex: being responsible for making sure taxes are done, wanting to approve of purchases. You may be hesitant to join money.

Physically the spouse may be tanner or have a reddish skin colour. They are likely to be attractive due to Venus in 7th of navamsa.

Due to Venus in 7th & Saturn in 1st, both you and spouse will mature enough to handle any issues that arise. This will be a lasting marriage.

Often I delete my blogs after I get bored. So if you want to save the reading, you would have to reblog to save it.

Please leave feedback. Thank you! 💕

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ISLAM 101: WOMEN IN ISLAM: Part 2

Mary-Maryam

Maryam, or Mary, is the only woman mentioned by name in the Holy Qur’an. She is mentioned in twelve chapters of the Qur’an, a total of thirty-four times. But even more important than the number of times her name is used is the fact that she was mentioned in verses of the Qur’an from different periods of the revelation. Interestingly, she is mentioned by name only nineteen times in the New Testament.

Mary was given her name by her mother. Her name has been said to mean “the one who does not want, one who departs” or “the servant,” but the opinion that the name Mary means “one who worships” in the Aramaic language seems more suitable.

The guardianship of Zachariah

Mary’s honorable family upbringing, the fact that she was a chosen person, and her many outstanding virtues are emphasized frequently in both the Qur’an and hadith. However, the verses of the Qur’an alone are more than sufficient to explain her superiority as a woman. Firstly, she came from an honorable family, a father as noble as Imran and a mother so memorable and devoted that her prayers were accepted by God. Mary was the fruit of a devoted mother’s prayer and because of her oath she was entrusted to a holy sanctuary at a very young age.

When her father Imran died, Mary was still only a young girl and many asked for the honorable duty of her guardianship, but this duty was bestowed upon Prophet Zachariah in an event that was revealed in the Holy Qur’an: “(O Messenger:) that is of the tidings of the things of the unseen (the things that took place in the past and have remained hidden from people with all their truth), which We reveal to you, for you were not present with them when they drew lots with their pens about who should have charge of Mary; nor were you present with them when they were disputing (about the matter)” (Al Imran 3:44). The Qur’anic verse which describes how Mary’s sustenance comes to her is immediately followed by a supplication from Zachariah that clearly indicates that he was growing old and was slowly becoming incapable of looking after Mary adequately. This is the most likely reason for the weak reports claiming that the person who was blessed with her guardianship was a priest called Juraich or a member of her family called Joseph, but these reports have no authority, for God revealed in the Qur’an that Mary was living under the education and care of Zachariah.

Mary was blessed with sustenance from God

Zachariah made Mary a sanctuary in the temple so she could be more occupied with daily worship. During the period that Mary lived at the temple under the guidance of Zachariah, she was exceptionally blessed with sustenance from God. The Qur’an informs us that every time Zachariah went to see Mary, there would be lovely fruits in her room: “Whenever Zachariah went into her in the Sanctuary, he found her provided with food. ‘Mary,’ he asked, ‘how does this come to you?’ ‘From God,’ she answered. Truly God provides to whomever He wills without reckoning”(Al Imran 3:37). It is also known that after giving birth to baby Jesus, she was miraculously provided with the blessing of fresh dates and water. A similar event is reported for Fatima, the Prophet Muhammad’s daughter.

There is no information about Mary’s life before the angel came giving Mary the glad tidings of Jesus’s birth. But the books of Apocrypha (accounts rejected by the Church) convey the blessing of sustenance bestowed upon Mary. However, the Apocrypha gives some information about the earlier period of Mary’s life, including predictions as to where she was born and even estimations regarding the date of her birth. The Protoevangelium, one of the books of Apocrypha, contains some additional information that is not found in the canonical scriptures (those accepted by the Church).

The Sanctuary and sense of servitude

While she increased her worship with every day that passed, the period that Mary was under the care of Zachariah continued with God’s special protection and sustenance. This particular characteristic is mentioned in the Qur’an: “And (in due time came the moment) when the angels said: “Mary, God has chosen you and made you pure, and exalted you above all the women in the world. “Mary, be devoutly obedient to your Lord, prostrate and bow (in the Prayer and devotion to Him) with those who bow!”(Al Imran 3:42–43).

The words of the Creator’s purification of Mary-“God’s purification”-have been interpreted in various ways as referring to spiritual, moral, or physical purification. Some said that this means “purification from disbelief and sin,” while others claim this means “purification from menses following birth, all kinds of physical defect and contact with males,” and most scholars say the words “chosen above women of all nations” refers to all the women of her era, and though the physical actions of worship are stressed in this verse, more important is the fact that Mary abided by both the command of worship, “be devoutly obedient to your Lord, prostrate and bow (in the Prayer and devotion to Him) with those who bow!” and the spirit of worship deep in her soul: “And also Mary, the daughter of ‘Imran, who kept herself chaste (body and soul), so We breathed into it out of Our Spirit, and who affirmed the truth of the words of her Lord, and His Books; and she was of those devoutly obedient to God” (At-Tahrim 66:12).

The Qur’an also bears witness to Mary being a woman of “truth”13 in many verses.

Mary’s superiority to all women

The verse in the Qur’an about Mary being superior to all other women (Al Imran 3:42–43) has been referred to in most commentaries as well as various reports of hadith found in the Tisa Qutubi. About the many virtues of Mary, the Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, said:

1. “The best of the women in the world is Mary (in her lifetime),14 and the best of the women in the world is Khadijah (in her lifetime).” (Bukhari, Muslim)

2. “Many among men attained perfection, but among women, none attained perfection except Mary the daughter of Imran, and Asiya the wife of Pharaoh; and the superiority of Aisha to other women is like the superiority of Tharid (an Arabic dish) to other meals.” (Bukhari, Muslim)

3. “There is no new-born except that (at the moment of birth) Satan disturbs him, so he begins to cry from Satan’s disturbance with the exception of the son of Mary and his mother.” (Bukhari, Muslim)

4. “Of all the women in the universe, four would suffice (as an example for others): Mary, Asiya, Khadija, and Fatima.” (Tirmidhi, Ahmad b. Hanbal)

5. “The best of the women of Paradise are Khadijah, Fatima, Asiya and Mary.” (Ahmad b. Hanbal)

6. “Fatima is the leader of the women of Paradise after Mary.” (Tirmidhi, Ahmad b. Hanbal)

7. “The best women among the camel riders, are the women of Quraish.” (Another narrator said) The Prophet said, “The righteous among the women of Quraish are those who are kind to their young ones and who look after their husband’s property,” (Bukhari, Muslim) and this hadith is followed up in many cases by a report from Abu Hurairah who said, “Mary the daughter of Imran never rode a camel,” stressing the virtues of Mary. According to Imam Nawawi and Ibn Hajar, Abu Hurairah’s aim was not actually to stress the fact that Mary never rode a camel but was just an expression of his praise of Mary’s virtues, or another explanation of these words could be, “It does not mean that a woman who rides a camel is righteous because Mary was a righteous woman even though she never rode a camel.”

As we see from these hadith the interpreters and scholars have varying opinions on the order of arrangement of the superiority of these women, but the most interesting aspect of these hadith is that although the other names may change, Mary is the only person who is mentioned in all the given examples of these hadith, and this should be sufficient to show her unmatched excellence.

Mary’s being among those named by the Prophet

The narrations stated above have led some scholars to believe that there is a possibility of the existence of female prophets. There have been various opinions supporting the idea that female prophets may have been sent and asking whether Mary the mother of Jesus was a Prophet or not. The opinion of scholars who believe Mary may have been a Prophet is based on the fact that Mary’s name is mentioned in the Qur’an among the Prophets: “Those were some of the Prophets on whom God did bestow his grace of the posterity of Adam and of those whom We carried (in the Ark) with Noah and of the posterity of Abraham and Israel-of those we guided and chose”(Mary 19:58), and also on the angel bringing the revelation of tidings and the benevolence provided to Mary from the creator, and the fact that she was a chosen person above all women purified through the grace of God as a “woman of perfection,” and “leader in Paradise” all led these scholars to believe that Mary could possibly be a messenger. However, the general opinion accepted by most scholars is that women were not sent to the world as prophets.

There are some Christian theologians who claim that Mary was a prophet. The Christian opinion in general is that she was superior to other women and saints but not superior to Jesus. Mary has been widely praised in Christian literature for her obedience, patience, modesty, piety, faith, hope, compassion, dignity and many other virtues.

Mary: the monument of chastity

The Qur’an clearly explains in this verse how Mary conceived Jesus: And (remember) when the angels said: “Mary, God gives you the glad tidings of a Word from Him, to be called the Messiah, Jesus son of Mary” highly honored in the world and the Hereafter, and one of those near stationed to God. He will speak to people in the cradle and in manhood, and he is of the righteous. “Lord,” said Mary, “how shall I have a son seeing no mortal has ever touched me?” “That is how it is,” he (the Spirit who appeared before her) said, (quoting God): “God creates whatever He wills; when He decrees a thing, He does but say to it ‘Be!’ and it is.”(Al Imran 3:45–47)

The chapter Mary (19:16–33) of the Qur’an gives an extensive version of the conception, the birth and the events that followed the birth of baby Jesus. Furthermore, God the Almighty reveals how He located Mary and her son Jesus, whom He sent as an example to humans, in a prosperous place on high land with flowing streams and bestowed upon Jesus the divine benevolence He had bestowed upon his mother: “O Jesus son of Mary! O Jesus, son of Mary! Remember My favor upon you and upon your mother” (Al-Maeda 5:110).

There are various reports and comments specifically referring to Mary’s conception of Jesus and the miraculous birth in the interpretations and explanations of hadith which exceed the limits of this article. The embryologic phase of Mary’s pregnancy was just like any other pregnant woman: she conceived, the baby grew in her womb, and when the contractions began she made her way to the vicinity of the date tree behind a flowing stream and then gave birth. But how did the pregnancy and this embryological process actually begin? This question resembles a parcel holding the mysteries of this miraculous event.

So in brief, Mary was a true monument of chastity and, even though she was a virgin, conceived in a miraculous way. The fact that Mary guarded both her dignity and chastity is emphasized in the following verses of the Qur’an:

“And (mention) that blessed woman who set the best example in guarding her chastity. We breathed into her out of Our Spirit, and We made her and her son a miraculous sign (of Our Power and matchless way of doing things) for all the worlds.” (Al-Anbiya 21–91), “And also Mary, the daughter of Imran, who kept herself chaste (body and soul), so We breathed into it out of Our Spirit, and who affirmed the truth of the words of her Lord, and His Books; and she was of those devoutly obedient to God.” (At-Tahrim 66:12).

As a matter of fact, the Qur’an tells us that great disaster and punishment await those who speak unfavorably about Mary, for whatever they say against her chastity and dignity is slander, and their hearts are sealed to faith.

Mary’s death and burial

There is no account in the Qur’an or hadith of Mary’s death or burial, so details and information related to the topic are generally based on Christian sources or historical literature. Not included in the synoptic gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke), Mary’s attending the miracle of Cana (John 2:11) and the event of the crucifix (John 19:25–27) were only reported in the book of John; she prayed with Jesus and his disciples in the Acts (1:14) following his resurrection, but there is no mention of the remaining period of her life, her death, age, or appearance in any of the gospels.

It is estimated that Mary must have been around fifty years old at the time of Jesus’ passing and there are varying reports regarding her own death; some say she was fifty-six, while there are other reports of her being seventy or even seventy-two. The questions of where and how she died have been topics of discussion and dispute for centuries, but the fact that she carried on throughout her life in sincere devotion and worship of God is much more suitable for her general profile.

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October 2023 Important Dates

AKA my notes on The Astrology Podcast's October forecast, hosted by Chris Brennan, Austin Coppock, and Nicholas Polimenakos. Notice how the charts look different? Today Chris is using AstroGold for Mac OS instead of his usual SolarFire for PC (same developers). Working title for the month is "the wobbly scales."

September recap: the Venus & Mercury stations have corresponded with new celebrity birth data, including an update for Dua Lipa's birth time and a time for Elon Musk. The WGA strike, which began under Mercury retrograde in Gemini, has come to a tentative resolution just as the Mercury rx in Virgo ended.

Jupiter's transit into Taurus has put him in contact with Uranus, and we've seen an explosive change in laws and rules with other organized labor strikes, such as UAW, airline workers, and fast food/service employees. We've got 7 more months of Jupiter in Taurus copresent Uranus, enabling changes in contrast to Saturn's negating influence from Aquarius & Capricorn over the past few years. Think "delayed revolts." Nicholas predicts labor will be an important factor in this year's election, based off configurations of previous labor actions.

The Full Moon in Pisces conjunct Saturn corresponded to flooding at California's Burning Man festival (symbolically negating the fire for which it is named), and disastrous floods in Europe and Libya.

Auspicious Elections for October: October 1 at 11:25 AM with Sagittarius rising (has passed by time of posting; apologies) October 2 at 12:20 AM with Cancer rising

Around 12:30AM local time you'll have Cancer rising and the Moon exalted in Taurus in the 11th house (whole signs), just after a conjunction with Jupiter and applying to a square with Venus in the 2nd house of finance. This is a good chart for friends, groups, alliances with the Ascendant ruler Moon in the 11th house with Jupiter, and the ruler of the 11th house in the 2nd tying friend groups and finances together. Saturn in the 9th house makes this chart not recommended for foreign travel, education, and publishing.

October will be pretty intense, with the two eclipses and heavy Pluto involvement. Keywords include power plays, transformation, and concealed movements.

October 4th - Mercury enters Libra Mercury, Venus, and Mars all change signs before the middle of the month, giving us a theme of major beginnings and major endings. When Venus moves into Virgo in a few days, she'll be in mutual reception with Mercury. Previously the two planets were on separate journeys, both retrograde but not communicating, so we'll have cerebral and social functions in harmony again. (A/N: Venus is fall in Virgo, but this Mercury contact significantly mitigates that lack of dignity.)

October 8th - Venus enters Virgo, Mars square Retrograde Pluto We've been moving back and forth over the summer, and will now settle into how things are going to be. Early October contains the the tail end of the Venus retrograde, as she finally passes the degree where she stationed & exits her post-rx shadow, as well as the sign overall, where she's spent an inordinate amount of time (she entered Leo on June 5th). We may see events from as far back as 5 months finally reaching a resolution.

Venus also opposes Saturn right after her ingress (Oct. 8th-10th), and in fact both benefics oppose one of the malefics this month (Mars will oppose Jupiter around the time of our 2nd eclipse). Saturn in Pisces has been weighty, highlighting big, sad things we may not be able to change but must bear nonetheless. Virgo Venus, in an awkward but manageable position for practical help, confronts Pisces Saturn's burdens to our souls. Austin compares Venus's recent transits to exothermic reactions in chemistry, which give off heat, but in Virgo she'll be much more endothermic, drawing heat in.

At the same time, Mars reaches 27° of Libra, putting him in a square to Pluto at 27 Capricorn. Mars is conjunct the South Node, and his ruler Venus is opposite Saturn. The solar eclipse a week later will also occur in the third decan of Libra. This may combine to feel like we're trying to juggle too many balls. Even if you're good at spinning plates, you can only keep track of so many. Inner conflicts, intensifying relationships, and a need for caution are all in order. It would do well to put down in one of the plates, as Mars is in no position to power through all of this (detriment in Libra, South Node encouraging release).

If there's an opportunity to use Mars-Pluto constructively, it comes after an honest assessment of the facts. Chris brings the image of not knowing your own strength or needing to exercise restraint, like a gorilla holding a kitten. We need to know the power dynamic--what we can and cannot do--but the square aspect makes it hard to see directly what's going on (A/N: symbolically it's cross-purposes or seeing events in your periphery). We need to know what the scale of conflict is. Austin uses the example of holding a rope around a rampaging elephant: maybe it's best to let go.

With Pluto relating to money and the US (Sibly) chart having Sagittarius rising, our hosts also predict some kind of "market correction" (trouble) in the US economy, and/or a government shutdown over budget. Mars conjunct South Node in Libra has corresponded to economic trouble of varying intensities (every 19 years with some skips), namely the crash in 1987--which was also on this Libra-Aries eclipse axis.

October 10th - Pluto stations Direct The US Pluto return is still happening since the planet regressed into Capricorn, posing questions of whether a certain impeached ex-president will see some success in the 2024 election. We're also raring for Pluto's (second) ingress into Aquarius in January. Our hosts think the AI story is related to the new Pluto sign, and Google is starting to release hints about a major system to compete with or outclass ChatGPT (text, image, and more).

October 12th - Mars enters Scorpio This is one of his home signs, and he'll immediately trine Saturn over at the beginning of Pisces. Mars working with Saturn gives us drive and determination, the union of impulse and staying power. More generally, Mars in Scorpio connotes precision strikes and the patient, persistent hunter. We can identify the point of weakness and direct all our force at that exact spot.

There's also a brooding quality to Mars in Scorpio. Things brew under the surface. The intensity cultivated here can easily turn inward rather than outward. Any planet in its own sign has high standards, so be careful not to take them out on yourself. Famous Mars in Scorpio natives include Nirvana lead singer Kurt Cobain, Billy Corgan of Smashing Pumpkins, and Taylor Swift--think raw emotions (literally in the vocal style of the former two).

October 14th - Annular Solar Eclipse at 21 Libra

As soon as Moon conjoins the Sun & South Node, her next aspect is a square to Pluto, bringing Plutonic significations into the eclipse. You've only got two hands; are you holding onto something that's past its life cycle?

In general eclipses signify the end of a major chapter, and with it the start of a new thing. When we let things go they don't just disappear--in fact, they may assume a more natural, harmonious state. Instead of holding onto something that takes a lot of energy, let things fall as they may. Whatever we're concerned about, it won't go away, as in 6 months another eclipse will respond to this call. Don't let the sunk-cost fallacy get you: you've put in a lot of time and effort, but it's time to step back and let things assume their natural shape.

October 20th - Sun conjunct Mercury At 27 Libra, they're also squaring Pluto. Generally Mercury-Pluto contacts correspond to major disclosures. Expect investigative journalists to reveal new evidence around this time, and in light of transits earlier this year Austin says specifically this will be the third part to an ongoing story. Think "deep state," as in, actors behind the scenes or in the foundation of events rather than what we see on the surface.

October 22nd - Mercury enters Scorpio At this time, Venus also trines Jupiter from 12° of Virgo to 12° of Taurus. Jupiter being in Venus's sign strengthens this helpful aspect even more, and the Moon even goes into Capricorn soon after to give us a grand trine in the earth signs. We'll get a brief reprieve from some of the more intense configurations this month. Enjoy the simple pleasures: a nice stew, a hot bath, some tea from the garden.

October 23rd - Sun enters Scorpio

October 28th - Umbral Lunar Eclipse in Taurus

This is our last eclipse in Taurus for the next couple decades. The Scorpio-Taurus axis eclipses (beginning in 2021) have corresponded to major celebrity scandals, as well as the skyrocketing prices of food worldwide. Bitcoin, FTX, and other finance crashes have occurred to the Taurus eclipses, a sign which indicates money and food. The increase in labor activities during Jupiter in Taurus will likely also see developments from this eclipse. Between the eclipses, Uranus, and Saturn, fixed sign people (suns and angles especially) have been getting a beating the last few years, and Nicholas says "congrats, you've made it!" (Though Saturn will retrograde into Aquarius soon, and then Pluto will transit that sign for the next 20 years or so).

Mars conjoins Mercury and opposes Jupiter during this eclipse, bringing even more tension. Mercury-Mars indicates arguments and destroyed or corrupted roads and communications, or on the positive side, incisive remarks we needed to hear. Mercury in Scorpio also loves investigating a good mystery and cracking the code. We can get major investigative journalism, or obsession and seeing connections that aren't there.

This is a Full Moon and a North Node eclipse, making it easy to lose your head in all the excitement. Austin advises trying to keep your head cool. Don't go with the flow, because the flow is crazy! This eclipse is the end of a year-and-a-half long saga in Taurus and Scorpio, bringing the last installment of that arc in our lives. Chris has an episode called "eclipses as transits in astrology" where he goes through people's charts and talks about the two-year sagas that are enacted with the nodes in a particular pair of signs.

October 29th - Mercury conjunct Mars (exact) (not pictured)

October 31st - Venus trines Uranus (not pictured) From 21 Virgo to 21 Taurus. Think "I'm here for a good time, not a long time!" for Halloween. We ended September with Venus squaring Uranus, and now they're finally trining. After all this month's tension, we deserve to let loose a little. Nicholas says there are hidden pleasures inside oft-orderly Venus in Virgo, whereas Austin compares it to ordering a different item off the menu at your favorite restaurant. Mars in Scorpio is great for Halloween, scary movie viewings, and seeing beauty in the dark side of things.

[kevin--of-desert-bluffs]

WTNV quick rundown - It Devours! - Joyous Congregation&members

Click here for the plot points! Click here for facts about Nilanjana! Click here for facts about Darryl! Click here for facts about Night Vale and it's citizens (including Cecil and Carlos) in It Devours! Click here for stuff about the other scientists! Click here for misc interesting facts I found!

Stephanie is a young woman who befriended Darryl when they were both children. She is studying for a degree in theology and wants to become a Church Elder (which she does in the end). She is good at volleyball and enjoys the academic side of her religion. She and Darryl end up dating.

Jamillah is a young woman who never lets go of her power drill and understands a lot about machines despite not being too interested in science. She does the illustrations for the churchs pamphlets.

Martin McCaffry is a church member who used to work for the TSA out at the NV airport. He was unhappy with his job and continuously made drawings of an elongated dark figure with no memory of making them. He tried setting traps, making sacrifices and even using a future predicting machine to try and catch it. Eventually, he met a church member called May who turned him onto the religion and a new (worse paying) job overseeing the summer camp counsellers. This doesn't help him either. He eventually becomes consumed with drawing the figure and spends all his time making them, but has never been happier.

The church urges all of it's members to present a happy face to the world with the intention of spreading joy but outside presentation is valued higher than actual feelings.

A religious gesture in the JC is to make a 'circling motion with an upright fist'. If returned, the participants than make eye contact and hum a single low note for ten seconds.

They believe the Smiling God has always been here even before the Big Bang. It lives beneath the earth but used to live with people except people 'weren't ready' and so it had to go away. The DOW is heaven.

The Smiling God uses exclusively it/it's pronouns and has a wide smile with a vast field of teeth.

Blood-letting is part of worshipping a Smiling God.

It is believed to devour your sins, unwanted desires, regrets and worst memories, things you wish you did and didn't and vice versa.

The Central Church of the JC in NV used to practice out of storefronts in half-empty strip malls but earlier 'this year' a proper church was constructed a few miles off of route 800. It's tall silver steeple is visible from the highway and it looks like a mix of a church and an office building. It has huge old looking doors with ringed knockers in the shape of centipedes. The real door to enter is a more office-building looking one around the side.

The JC believe in the '11 stages of human education' which are: birth, earthly nourishment, divine nourishment, friendship, love, awareness, family, enlightment, community and the Devouring. Depictions of these in the church often include foxes, for reasons not fully understood but a possible theory is just that Kevin (their prophet, who apparently brought them the Book of Devouring from 'heaven'/the DOW and would preach on his show) just really liked foxes.

There are classrooms in the church, full of toys like dolls and candles and cars with human faces painted on them. There's also books like 'Felicia finds an obelisk' and 'Smiley the centipede accidentally swallows the Earth'. There is a board with the question 'What is Divine Pain?' on it. The teacher is called Ms French (or was when Darryl was young).

The congregation religious outfits consist of long shapeless yellow robes and big square hats with mesh that covers the face.

Once a year the church holds a 'Youth Culling' where children can choose to become full members.

Before services, church members fast so their hunger will remind them of the Smiling God's hunger.

The Congregation has missionaries in Venezuela, Mexico and Double Mexico. Darryl teaches them Double Spanish.

Gordon hates and fears books.

The Book of Devouring is bound in centipede skin and has a pattern made of nails with wire strung between them on the cover, which makes the interlocking triangles of the centipedes hunting pattern. It is written on the yellow pages of a legal pad and contains diary-like entries of observations and many drawings of the triangular movement patterns. The invocation to summon a Smiling God involves wearing fox masks, jumping up and down and having a tray of milk and teeth.

[35mmshcts]

introducing GIOVANNI VESPER! word on the street is that he is a JOURNALIST at PUBLICATION for the past EIGHT YEARS. though he is OVERTLY CURIOUS & HARD-HEADED, he can also be SINCERE & RESOURCEFUL. in the chaos of new york city, he's sure to fit right in.

— BASICS

NAME.    giovanni vesper. AGE.    thirty four DATE OF BIRTH.    may 26th, 1989 GENDER.    cisgender male PRONOUNS.    he / him / himself SEXUALITY.    bisexual + heavy male lean HOMETOWN.    rye, england

AFFILIATION.    media JOB POSITION.    journalist EDUCATION.    master’s degree in photojournalism

RELATIONSHIP STATUS.    single CHILDREN.    n/a

POSITIVE TRAITS.    honest, resourceful, selfless, hardworking, persistent NEGATIVE TRAITS.    overtly curious, hard-headed, self-destructive, obsessive, confrontational

— BIOGRAPHY

The apple does not fall far from the tree, or whatever it was that people said. Giovanni, too, could not escape the fate that had been written for him in the twining of his DNA. His father, Leonardo Vesper, and his mother, Carmila Vesper, had been an unexpected match. Perhaps it was for that very reason that Giovanni, too, turned out to be quite the anomaly. So, truly, who was to be blamed: The chicken, or the egg?

It was said that his father was born with the trigger of a gun caught between his fingers. If that was true, then Giovanni was born with the trigger of a camera stuck in his. Just as there had not been a way to define his father’s marksmanship, there was also no better explanation as to how Giovanni could always be found with his camera swung around in just the right direction, the lingering echo of a camera’s shutter serving as a calling card. There was no escape from Leonardo Vesper’s bullets, just as there was no escape from Giovanni Vesper’s lenses. Like father, like son.

Not that it meant anything to his father. No, in the eyes of the great and invincible and so goddamn corrupt Leonardo Vesper, his son was nothing more than a disappointment. Not for his aversion for all things military, or the fact that he had settled down as a journalist in a publication rather than accepting his father’s offering to position him somewhere good in the heart of the army. His father had made his peace with that, no matter how begrudging he had been about it. It was not that part that offended his dear ol’ dad’s fragile ego, it was the part where Giovanni grew up to be a good and honest man. What an ironic twist of this otherwise predictable tale, but his father had never been good at being cliché . . . or honest, or a good person or dad, so this came as no surprise to Giovanni. Leonardo Vesper had never been there for him, so he had never expected his father to approve of his career path, either. It wouldn’t be the first time Giovanni disappointed him . . . and he doubted it was the last.

As for his mother, she would always tell him that he was the other half of her shattered dream, the haunting lingering over her graveyard of childhood fantasies, the ‘one good thing that came out of this whole damn nightmare’. Giovanni didn’t understand anything as a kid, and he still understood so little to this day, but one thing he knew was that his parents didn’t have the most conventional relationships. A revered sharpshooter, and a washed up model; even all the way from the beginning, they sounded like an impossibility. But his mother would not be Carmila Vesper if she was soft all the way through, so Giovanni grew a spine like his mother’s iron will, and he picked up the camera over and over again and brought it to her face and made her smile for him again and again because this, he, made her happy. The tree, the apple.

Upon graduating high school, his father was quick to intercept his attempts towards university and put him right through military training. Three years, long and gruelling, of his life, wasted towards a matter he cared nothing about. To this very day, Giovanni still didn’t know how he had managed to let him go, but he had and Giovanni, in spite of all odds, was a free man.

Leaving it all behind was easy. University was a battlefield, but it was the one he picked. So, bruised up and fucked over, Giovanni poured everything into his studies. Journalism had been an accident. He had only looked for the one thing he knew his father would loathe . . . and then, he fell in love with the art of it. Commentaries and news, to provide information and the truth for a greater audience to comprehend. Photojournalism had merely been the next step, a combination of his two great loves. A straight path, an arrowhead that pointed directly towards the life that he wanted to lead.

The rest is, as the say, history. Combining his spectacular habit of stumbling into the most perfect scenes, and his general dauntless manner of approaching matters, Giovanni was quick to carve his own home into the world of publishing. It was smooth sailing from there on out . . . or, it would be, if he didn’t insist upon uncovering truths that would make more enemies than it would allies. But, he would not be Giovanni Vesper without it, no?

— WANTED CONNECTIONS

TBA.

[ghcstlimbs]

my name is [ SAMSON HERNANDEZ ] … and i am from [ TAMPA, FLORIDA] and i’m a [ CHURCH ADMINISTRATOR ]. i lived in helltown for [ 24 YEARS ] because [ IT’S THE ONLY PLACE I CAN CALL HOME ]. i am [ 45 ] my pronouns are [ HE/HIM ] and i am [ DEVOTED, HARD-WORKING, LOYAL ] though some may say i’m [ DOGMATIC, SUSPICIOUS, CURT ]. i also hear i look a lot like [ OSCAR ISAAC ] but, i don’t know if i see it. i’m here because [ I THINK SOME OF THE PARISHIONERS ARE UP TO NO GOOD] but, maybe there’s more to it than that. you never know with helltown.

BASICS

full name: samson morales hernandez age: forty five date of birth: april 5th place of birth: tampa, florida gender identity: cis man pronouns: he/him sexual orientation: straight </3 zodiac sign: gemini

PHYSIOLOGY

height in feet: six foot (let me live!!!) eye color: brown hair color: brunette notable marks: glasses he always wears

FAMILY

father: ángel hernandez, deceased. mother: dolores hernandez, deceased. sibling(s): older brother relationship status: married children: four

BACKGROUND

education: highschool diploma, BA and MA in accounting living arrangements: four bedroom home with his family language(s): english, mostly forgotten french occupation: church administrator

PERSONALITY

positive traits: hard-working, calculating, devout, loving negative traits: tempestuous, judgemental, perjurer, cowardly

tw mild mention of death

Samson knew that Florida was never for the place for him; despite his father's attempts to enshrine them in his parish, he never liked the influence of the heat on his state - people always melted into sinister and hellish shapes. He envisioned himself in a small quiet town from his earliest years, and worked hard to get there. His parents were strict, but loving; Samson cannot blame his parents for his later ill-dealings. Studious from the start, he knew that he would fit well in a quiet, well-mannered profession; numbers were safe, and so he chose them. His brother, with broad shoulders, tall stature and commanding voice, always appeared to his parents as the heir to his father's preaching legacy; Samson lacked the conviction to prove them wrong.

He proved their prediction he was not a holy man correct -- his girlfriend became pregnant, their youth and carefree life blinding them to the realities of casual love. Samson married her quickly, and he does not regret the descision; he believes her pregnancy divine intervention, and feels quick to correct anyone who dares counter this argument. His parents disappointment was swift, and even as their union and child became pure in the eyes of the church, a cloak of deviancy clung to him. Samson and his wife remain an inseparable pair -- they believed she was his greatest temptation, and the source of his soul's union.

Obtaining his degree and rearing his children culminated in a church administrator's position in a parish in Tampa -- a church that rivalled his fathers, and sowed further seeds of discourse in their family. Samson entered his role with the purest of intentions; but the pressures of his young family, a desire to prove his brilliance, and negligent officials, led to him dipping into church funds. Guilt and fear of punishment washed over Samson -- he confessed to his wife, who unveiled she had long known of his activities. He had fooled others; she would never be so blind. To avoid detection, and to break away from his family, Samson and Evelyn swept their belongings into a moving van, and hurried away. His father and mother died within a month of each other years after he left -- his brother still believes it is the malevolence of their younger son, that caused their passing.

Helltown appeared to Samson as the perfect manifestation of his dreams -- a sleepy, unassuming stretch of land, perfect to disappear in. It promised him the quiet normalcy he craved, along with a lucrative position within the church. Samson was closer to the heart of the church than the preacher; it is he who holds the purse strings in a vice grip. But Helltown was not what it seemed -- he will wonder late in the night if the town had transformed itself upon his arrival, a false image planted to lure him in. Because he'll never leave, and it is not the disarray of his past that arrests him -- he too is bound to the darkness locked within the church walls, and Samson cannot help but long for answers. As of late, Samson has stared within his church, and felt all is not right -- the rot that gnaws at the fabric of Helltown has begun to permeate the church's walls. He sees new faces mixed amongst the old, and feels a cold sweat take him; neither, appear called to these hallowed walls for a pure purpose.

WANTED CONNECTIONS

Parishioners -- Whether they're regulars at church, they went as kids and never came back, or they're the type that only show up on holidays! Samson is a regular church attendee in tandem with his job, and he's very into his image as a church going, family man; he'll offer his own sermons to anyone who will listen, or try and entice the youth back to church. He's likely a polarising figure -- either you think he's probably earnest but corny and slightly annoying, or that there's no way anyone is as perfect as they claim. The power that he holds is well known, and cannot be universally liked or agreed upon as a good thing. And in turn, perhaps they are there for the wrong reasons; Samson suspects them, but has no name for their transgressions.

Older helltown residents - Samson's been in Helltown for twenty four years, and he'd rather act like he's born and raised here than talk about his past in Florida. Friends, enemies, neighbours, acquaintances, tennis friends etc; maybe some he's opened up to about parts of his past, or people who have known him for so l

Babysitters, dog-walkers, favorite shop employees -- people that Samson sees regularly, whether it be he's paying for a service or visiting their place of work. Samson likes to project the air of a man who has money (even if its origin is far from holy) who is a striving, upstanding member of the community. 

True-crime and sleuthers -- Samson is very vehement that Helltown is a normal place, and everyone trying to find dark or seedy goings on, merely pollute the community with a sinister energy -- despite his reservations regarding what the parishioners are up to, he's entirely at odds with anyone trying to investigate what's going on. 

[anjan123]

Education Prediction By Date Of Birth

As an experienced astrologer, Anjan Shastri emphasises the profound connection between celestial influences and an individual's academic journey through the practice of Education Prediction by Date of Birth. This ancient method leverages the positions and movements of planets at the time of birth to provide insightful forecasts about one's educational prospects. By meticulously analysing a person's natal chart, Shastri can predict periods of academic success, potential challenges, and optimal times for pursuing further studies. This holistic approach not only helps individuals make informed decisions about their educational paths but also guides parents in nurturing their children's academic potential in alignment with cosmic rhythms.

Anjan Shastri's expertise in Education Prediction by Date of Birth has proven to be a valuable tool for many seeking clarity and direction in their educational pursuits. His comprehensive readings take into account various astrological factors, including the influence of Jupiter (the planet of wisdom) and Mercury (the planet of intellect), to provide tailored advice. Whether it's choosing the right field of study, understanding periods of academic stress, or identifying innate talents, Shastri's guidance empowers individuals to harness the cosmic energies that shape their educational experiences. Contact us to illuminate the path to academic success, blending tradition with practical insights for the modern learner.

[selenafinley-rp]

Selena Finley - General Introduction

This is a general introduction of my original character. It is intended to get an idea of who she is, and serve as a "base template" for further developing her character depending on the storyline. Additional details may be added, and can vary depending on the verse. More visual references, outfit variations etc. will hopefully also follow soon!

Age: 24

Date of Birth: 31st of July (birth year may vary depending on the storyline, as a “default” I’ve set 1710)

Family: Alexander Finley (twin brother), Dorothea Finley, née Schönauer (mother), Richard Finley (father)

Ethnicity: Austrian-English (with a small part of Scottish ancestry on her father's side of the family)

Personality: introverted, calm, optimistic realist, stubborn when she wants to reach a goal, can make herself appear more bold in situations where she has no other choice

Skills: academic education - particularly in natural sciences (biology, astronomy, physics) and mathematics, languages (English, German - taught by her mother, Latin, Greek), piano, horseback riding, general upper class etiquette

Background: Selena comes from a middle- to upper-class family and grows up in a comfortable, protected environment. Her mother is originally from Austria, where she meets her father, an English merchant, during one of his business trips through Europe. After falling in love, the couple eventually gets married and Richard takes Dorothea back to England with him to start a family. His business flourishes over the years, and when his wife gives birth to not just one, but two kids, he is able to afford them a good life, including an extensive education.

Selena and Alexander receive tutoring in a variety of fields, from the arts and music over languages, history and geography to mathematics and natural sciences. Through this, Selena discovers her interest for the latter - particularly physics, astronomy and biology - which she becomes very passionate about, reading lots of books and papers from famous scientists and even starting to make observations and take notes of her own. Besides this, she enjoys spending her time playing the piano. She is an introvert, doesn’t mind being by herself most of the time, although she takes part in social gatherings with acquainted families if the etiquette requires it.

In relation to the time they live in, Richard and Dorothea are rather lenient parents, being gentle and loving with both their son and their daughter, although they also cannot refrain completely from compromising to dominating societal rules. When he reaches his later teens, Alexander joins the Royal Navy to pursue a career as an officer. Selena remains at her parents’ home; due to being a woman, many career parts remain locked for her, but thanks to her education, she is allowed to act as a Latin tutor for the children of other wealthy families. Her parents don’t force or pressure Selena into a marriage, although they would not have been unhappy either if she chose one of the young men from their social circle to be her husband. When Selena is in her early twenties, the family decides to move to the Caribbean to expand their business further, additionally it gives them the opportunity to keep closer contact with Alexander, who has been moved to serve on a ship in the new realms. Selena initially feels distraught from being uprooted from her life as she knew it, but once she gets more used to it, she is also fascinated by the new environment, the flora and fauna and all the potentially undiscovered things out there. However, she is not able to predict what other surprises this new life might hold for her …

Other info: Nowadays, Selena would be considered biromantic and demisexual, however due to the time she lives in, she obviously doesn’t use these terms as they don’t exist yet. She probably wouldn’t recognise her demisexuality as something unusual, as “saving oneself for the right person” fits right in with the values of the society she was brought up in. She also most likely wouldn’t ever become aware of her bi side unless she actually were to fall in love with another woman, as there obviously exists no representation of romantic love outside of straight relationships in her environment.

[lunarcovehq]

Dhruv Mehta is a werewolf that currently resides in Shadow Lake and has been a Lunar Cove resident for 1.5 months.

ITS THE END OF THE WORLD

GENDER/PRONOUNS: CIS Male, He/Him

DATE OF BIRTH: May 28, 1989

OCCUPATION: Scientist at K Labs

FACECLAIM: Dev Patel

AS WE KNOW IT, AND I FEEL FINE

SPECIES: Werewolf

WOLF CLASSIFICATION: Omega

PACK AFFILIATION: Member

WELCOME TO LUNAR COVE, DHRUV MEHTA

Trigger Warning: Death

If you could ask God a question, what would it be?

Such a thing should not have made the boy think, facts and figures was what he knew to be true not prayers and wishes, yet hands clasped and staring at the image adorned with flowers, there were many things he wanted to ask for, wish for, though what could be granted? It was one thing to be born human and another thing entirely to feel human. 

Life had been strange in a strange sort of way, powerless yet surrounded by power, strange in a curious way, eager to know, eager to want, but that wish could not be granted no matter the prayer. A child born from a union of a human and witch had a chance of having powers, but when Dhruv did not grow into any he swore there was a sigh of relief from his mother, it was easier she said, safer, the world is dangerous for people of that kind. Questions on why ended with explanations that could not satiate the boy’s inquisitive mind, why nots were met with shrugs, and the ones that were answered did not contain the level of detail Dhruv required and thus began the journey of discovery — why were things the way they were?  

You never quite forget your first punnett square. The moment Dhruv came to what that was and how genetics influenced the way people received certain traits he ran to his parents, eyes wide thinking he had cracked the code – in a way he had, but in many other ways he had not. Not born within the miraged safety of Lunar Cove, he automatically became an outsider but also a secret keeper of sorts, an entirely different world confined and existed outside of the London he grew up in to which he was whisked away at a young age, yet it could not have been all that different could it? His cousin spoke of the same things, of friends and school, of hobbies and interests, he could relate yet those friends were magical while his weren’t, he was not being taught power control, there was no way he could understand when Mason talked about such things being hard work chances for him ever getting to experience that only squashed further and further as he aged.

Sensing Dhruv’s forlorn state after those phone calls, his father imparted a simple statement that embedded itself into his heart and soul; ‘somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known’ and it was go from there. Everything held a new-found beauty, every theorem, every subatomic particle, all the principles he studied contained a rightness and the knowledge only added to the excitement and the awe. Bright, gifted kid turned into a confident, genius man with achievements and degrees under his belt before his peers. He did not need to have eidetic memory like his father to state complex physics formulas at the drop of a hat, they took practice, yes, but paved way for a slight arrogance that developed over time with every correct answer. He was self-assured, one could try to disprove his statements but Dhruv’s mind grew to be like a spreadsheet, data accessible almost instantaneously, and he only strengthened that. Always pushing on the why, on that thirst to discover something, if not within himself then at least with the world he knew and grew up in. He may not understand magic but Science and Mathematics held answers and provided rational explanations for things,the why and how, they were constant and consistent and Dhruv knew, one day, he’d have all the answers.

Time moved and so did he. Family, friends, education, Dhruv fell into a steady flow but of course, as clever as he was known to be, he couldn’t possibly predict all things. A held gaze across the bar sparked a new kind of curiosity, a drink and a conversation later he realised he did not have all the answers yet, that there could be joy in figuring out something together. Chemistry was one of his favourite branches of science, the study of matter, but what truly mattered? What possibly existed beyond the composition and structure of elements? This. Chemistry was in the ebb and flow of easy conversation, in the sparkles of laughter mixed with soft smiles, Dhruv did not need to be a genius to figure this was something good. Numbers were exchanged and dates were set, and it continued to be good. Perhaps he had made a mistake to pray this would last, to wish for more sunsets and something more because he couldn’t have expected this. A seemingly ordinary day should not have been a cause for concern, but the note held little answers, the unanswered texts and phone calls that only grew in number were effort exerted in a futile way. He did not know what drove them away but it festered as something bitter within him. But time moved and so did he.

Lunar Cove had not been on the radar, in fact, he desire to step foot in that town had waned to a negligible thing, but his parents who had moved to the town a long while ago, wished for their son to join them, figuring with all the chances the outside world had to offer were taken and experienced it was time to come home. True home. Dhruv could’ve argued, and he had a little, there was so much more he could not be confined in that magical barrier but soon grew weary listening to their lectures and with a recent heartbreak that had yet to heal, he agreed.

Dhruv could study life down to the exact atom, life, however, as he had and would continue to soon discover could not be confined to the nucleus of a man and his strive for that something else, life weaved and danced to its own beat that could not be quantified. Song Seo-Joon’s arrival into his life was met with some hesitancy, and that reflected in Seo-Joon too, but the pair struck a chord despite nothing pointing to a friendship working out, it did. They talked about things, bonded on the feeling of not having magic, and Dhruv obviously subjected his friend to his rambles about theories and experiments. It was one such night, where he finished up on work, while Seo-Joon waited, that things in his life shifted again. Except the moments that define lives aren't always obvious, they don’t always scream wolf in the piercing of a needle into skin. But that’s what happened. A careless slip and a careful catch, their lives forever changed yet it was Dhruv’s heart that beat in quiet fear over their discovery, one that would have no choice but to mask as excitement. Everything forward and backwards read entirely new. Genetic structure altered to fit in this new form. Starting into a mirror, the silhouette reflected a similar, recognisable curious glance that a human once wore, but who was he now? A man, but not human, not entirely. What was he? A wolf? Could he claim to be one? The prodding uncovered one only thing: he was something strange and unnatural — he was an experiment.

Gravitational acceleration is a known constant, the mass of the action could be gauged, could he then use it to calculate the weight of a lost future?

They bent the truth but they had not failed, not entirely, a loss led to a breakthrough and cover-ups that followed made way for accolades and awards, still, an ache burned deep, this could've been something to celebrate, to smile and accept the congratulations and though those were done, it felt different from his expectations. He had an answer to something, yet it did not feel correct, he did not feel correct. Utterly lost even though there was more that could be studied, more that could be attained, Dhruv retreated into himself in the following weeks, mood worsening to be told by the Song family that Seo-Joon seemed to have skipped town. That wasn't like him, but not finding the man anywhere and texts being ignored there wasn’t much he could do. Life was just funny that way.

He stayed in Lunar Cove for a while with K labs taking research projects that he could, and joined the pack too, to have some sort of aid for this new form of his, but adjusting was tough, and tougher still was dealing with the Alpha. Nico, while goodhearted, did not, in his opinion, know what he was doing. There was care and acceptance but in the constant onslaught of unimaginable horrors, Nico’s attitude rubbed him wrong. It was one thing to want to protect everyone, a good trait one could possess, yet to only care for a select when the pack was supposedly family? Dhruv couldn’t see any bit of logic to that. A good man did not make a good leader. This led to many quiet disagreements, voicing some when things could not be held in for too long, which when expressed were dished with heavy scrutiny, but he withdrew before things got truly heated. He wanted so desperately to put thoughts into action, to change things despite knowing it’d be foolish, but what could he do? Who would listen? Certainly not Nico, he only cared for his own and Dhruv was not one of them. With rank being the lowest in the hierarchy, he was too weak in more than one way, heck some even outright said he was hardly a wolf to begin with. An error. Didn't matter that he shifted alongside them, pack bond linking them all, Dhruv was not born nor bit, had not taken life to set about this new being he was. But in a way, hadn’t he? Given up his own life for this, that ought to count. It should have counted. 

With no close friends to share such thoughts with and Seo-Joon still supposedly out of town, the bitterness that brew tipped the scales and in a move so utterly foolish but also somewhat thought through, he left Lunar Cove. Taking some time to explore the country before flying back to London to piece back his broken life. However, that feeling of brokenness and sense of feeling lost persisted. The news of Mason's death had him caught entirely by surprise and shocked him to the core. His cousin, happy and bright, should’ve had a long life ahead, not have it cut so short in such a way. The rush back to Lunar Cove was needed this time, for the funeral and also to somehow make sense of the untimely demise. Answers were pieced together in a blurred states of sorrow, confusion, anger and nostalgia. He had not planned to stick around long, but the sight of familiar faces, of old feelings resurfacing, Dhruv decided that perhaps staying would be more beneficial for now.

[justwannaflex]

(—) ★ spotted!! ARTEMIS GOLDWYN on the cover of this week’s most recent tabloid! many say that the 24 year old looks like GRACE VAN DIEN, but i don’t really see it. while the ACTRESS is known for being GENTLE my inside sources say that they have a tendency to be DIMWITTED i swear, every time i think of them, i hear the song POCKETFUL OF SUNSHINE by NATASHA BEDINGFIELD {she + her / cis female}

Headline

I'm walking on sunshine, wooah. I'm walking on sunshine, woooah. I'm walking on sunshine, woooah. And don't it feel good!

Stats

name: artemis goldwyn

alias : artemis könig

age: 24

nicknames: tba

date of birth: 1999

place of birth: New York (USA)

nationality : german & american

gender identity: cis woman (she/her)

sexuality: heterosexual

family : scott goldwyn (father), laura könig (mother), madeline kennedy, amity goldwyn, kaya khalid (half-sisters), atticus goldwyn (half-brother)

occupation: actress

career claim: merritt patterson (hallmark credits) & tba

net worth : tba (it's daddy's money)

spoken languages : english and german

positive traits: gentle, energetic, benevolent, flexible, insouciant, loyal

negative traits: dimwitted, gullible, predictable, dependent, passive, shortsided

characters/celebrities inspo: tba

zodiac sign : tba

Bio

Artemis is the quintessential nepo baby. Born to an actor and a model. Never struggled a day in her life. She is very sheltered and lives in her delulu reality.

She was born to superstars Scott Goldwyn and Laura König. An american actor father and a german model mother. Artemis might have been an accident and the product of a short and tumultuous relationship but her parents still loved her. They hated each others but they loved her. Which made for an interesting childhood. Scott and Laura acted like her friends and not her parents. They competed for her attention and love. Each one wanting to be the favourite. In result, Artemis never wanted for anything and was barely faced with the word no. Had she not been good-natured, they would have made a spoiled monster out of her.

Her real parental figures were her maternal grandparents in Germany and her parents' staff. They were the ones who actually had to educate her while Scott and Laura played the good cops. Artemis was homeschooled to be able to follow her parents' lifestyle. She moved around constantly between Germany and the US. While she never went to school, she spent plenty of time with other children : her neighbours, half-siblings and family friends or entourage's kids. A social butterfly, she hated to be alone and would always cling to someone.

Artemis was kind and pretty. She had that going for her and never cared about being anything else. She knew that she was not smart nor athletic nor gifted. She was just the nice one and she was content with that. As it was enough for her parents, she did not need to be more.

At fifteen, she decided that she wanted to be an actress and follow into her father's footsteps. She told everybody about her wish and got mixed reactions. After hearing many people say that she would have it easy and get roles thanks to who her dad was, she decided to use an alias. She picked her mother's name König to try to have an acting career of her own. Her parents were very supportive of her choice, even if Scott wanted to help her. They both agreed to let her do it her way.

Only it did not work out of her. Perhaps she was not hungry or hardworking enough. She did not need the money. Neither did she crave stardom. As a result, her imdb page credits were extra, guest-starring and tv movie roles. She did not really understand why her career was not picking up. The people around her were getting their big breaks. Most of her siblings and friends were doing great but not her. She was stuck playing big city girl falling in love with the lumberjack.

After watching her tenth holiday movies, her dearest daddy stepped in. He had had enough. And her nepo baby era began. Now Artemis gets cast in the movies her father produces or he uses his connections to get her roles. She let go of her alias and proudly introduces herself as Artemis Goldwyn. The media both love the cute father/daughter red carpet moments and slams her for being someone's daughter or someone's sister.

Her entourage does a wonderful job at blocking the negative press, allowing Artemis to mostly live in her perfect little world where everyone love her and is proud of her.

Career

She started her career as Artemis König. She could not land anything major. She was never the lead, nor even the supporting actress. She spent years as pretty girl #2, hospital victim, bully or yoga instructor. Eventually, she got her "big" break with Hallmark. She became a lead in television movies but nothing that would make her step on a red carpet or win an award.

It became obvious that her career was not going to be a prestigious so her father, actor and producer Scott Goldwyn stepped in. Artemis changed her name back to Goldwyn and stars in the movies her father produces. He also uses his connection to get her roles.

[apocalyptixs]

→ GENERAL INFORMATION

FULL NAME: Santiago Gustavo Silva AGE: 46 DATE OF BIRTH: February 4th, 1992 GENDER IDENTIFICATION: Cis man, he/him SEXUAL ORIENTATION: Demisexual OCCUPATION: Militia POSITIVE TRAITS: Dependable, kind NEGATIVE TRAITS: Paranoid, indecisive FACE CLAIM: Oscar Isaac

→ SUMMARY

From a young age Santiago knew what he'd wanted in life. He grew up with a number of siblings, and he stepped up to take care of the younger ones and looking up to the older. His large family of his youth made him want just that when he was older - to be a parent, to make a family of his own filled with happiness and love. It seemed like maybe he could have that when he met and fell for Miguel at a young age and decided he wanted to spend the rest of his life with him.

Going into college, Santiago had no idea what it was he wanted to do with his professional life. He wasn't overtly inclined towards the medical field, not like Miguel seemed to be. In high school his strongest subject had always been English, but he wasn't sure what he would really do with that. Perhaps journalism? Business? Education? He waffled around in general education courses for a few years before finally ending up with a degree in business, finding a job at a local bookstore, and writing freelance for a newspaper.

He never could've predicted what the future would hold. The walking dead that would come years later and tear up the picture perfect family they'd only just begun to form. In the toughest of times Santi reflects on those years of joy - years of time with Miguel that had been simple and easy. Mornings of sunshine and home cooked breakfast. Afternoons visiting the hospital to make sure Miguel stopped working at least long enough to swallow a mouthful of water and eat something. Keeping busy writing silly little articles and shelving novels.

Not fighting off the undead.

Thankfully, Santiago had Miguel through it all. Even as the world fell apart around them, they stuck together like glue. While Santiago won't ever voice it, Miguel is one of the only reason he's still around. He likely would've given up on this world long before now if it weren't for Miguel keeping him going. But they learned and grew together, fighting the dead and fighting for each other.

Santiago isn't the same man he once was. Having to kill the walking dead, to fight for what was his against an even worse enemy - it changed something in him. Before discovering the Domus Spei he was constantly looking over his shoulder, constantly aware of where Miguel was at all times. He was constantly questioning their next move, where they should go, if they should go at all. But with time, he got better at it. Better, at least, with dealing with the dead.

Arriving at the safe haven six years ago was like breathing in a breath of fresh air. It was something like a promise of safety they hadn't truly had in years. It put walls around them and a roof over their heads and gave Santiago the first whisper of hope for the future. He wanted to do whatever he could to keep the place safe and support its continued development - so he ended up joining the militia despite his fears. He needed to feel as if he was being useful and doing good for their community.

[subir-astrologer]

WHEN WILL MY BAD LUCK END AS PER ASTROLOGY

QUESTION ASKED : When will my bad luck end? I am not able to focus on studies. My date of birth is ****

MY VIEW : Self-realization is the greatest remedy as you understood that you got defocused from your studies.

If one waits for astrological predictions and the end date of such then you are simply fooling your own self.

There is no miracle in astrology remedy that would transform you bad period into good period in split seconds of time. If one wait for such then they will waste their precious time of their education period.

Understanding and realizing one’s weaknesses and working on it is the remedy for it and not that one will wear any gemstone ring or enchant mantras and get rid of the bad period in a second.

I don’t mean that astrological remedies don’t work BUT the native need to understand that the working is very very slow and being a student, one doesn’t have that much time to wait for the results.

Astrology shows one the path and its up to the individual to work on that path and nothing is automatic in astrology and this is what I was trying to explain from the beginning.

So please be logic and seek astrological help for better use where one can know their path of success.

Here in the case of the native, realized that he / she is in wrong path and that will not lead to success. That itself is a prediction like astrology and so one don’t need further to get anything more out of Vedic astrology.

JUST WORKING ON TO FOCUS AND ELIMINATING WHAT IS DISTRACTING ONE FROM THE STUDIES IS THE KEY REMEDY WHICH THE NATIVE ALREADY HAVE WITH HIM BUT NOT REALIZING IT.

This same thing will be said by the astrologer with the references of the planet and will tell the same as I said. So why do one need to hear the same from astrologers.

Well if it is the matter of one’s choice then please go ahead . . . .

Whish you best in life ahead.