#Lunar Exploration Update.

[spacenutspod]

Welcome to Astronomy Daily, your go-to source for the latest news in space and astronomy. I'm your host, Anna, and today we have an exciting lineup of space-related news that I'm sure you'll find fascinating. Episode Highlights - **NASA Cancels Viper Lunar Rover Mission**: NASA has officially canceled the Viper lunar rover mission, initially aimed at exploring the moon's south polar region. Persistent supply chain issues and cost overruns were major factors. While the rover is fully assembled, NASA is exploring the possibility of offering it to US industry and international partners for future lunar exploration. - **Deorbiting the ISS**: NASA has unveiled plans to deorbit the International Space Station using a vehicle developed by SpaceX. This move will bring a controlled and safe conclusion to two decades of remarkable achievements aboard the ISS. SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft will be adapted for this mission, ensuring a precise and safe reentry. - **Hot Jupiter Progenitor Discovered**: Astronomers have pinpointed a hot Jupiter in the making, known as TIC 241-24-9530 b. This planet, situated about 1100 light-years from Earth, has the most eccentric orbit ever recorded and is expected to evolve into a hot Jupiter over a billion years. The discovery sheds light on the life cycle of these extreme planets. - **Preserving ISS Artifacts**: NASA is now considering preserving small artifacts from the International Space Station, marking a reversal of their previous stance. Items like the ship’s bell, logs, and display panels may be saved as mementos, ensuring that the ISS's legacy is immortalized in museums. NASA Cancels Viper Lunar Rover Mission NASA has officially pulled the plug on the Viper lunar rover mission, originally scheduled for a November launch. Persistent supply chain issues and cost overruns were cited as the main reasons. The mission, aimed at exploring the moon's south polar region, was delayed multiple times, pushing potential landing to 2025. Despite the cancellation, NASA is exploring the possibility of offering the rover to US industry and international partners. Deorbiting the ISS NASA has unveiled plans to deorbit the International Space Station using a vehicle developed by SpaceX. This move will bring a controlled and safe conclusion to two decades of remarkable achievements aboard the ISS. SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft will be adapted for this mission, ensuring a precise and safe reentry. The mission will see the ISS drift downwards before the crew finally exits, about six months prior to the final reentry. Hot Jupiter Progenitor Discovered Astronomers have pinpointed a hot Jupiter in the making, known as TIC 241-24-9530 b. This planet, situated about 1100 light-years from Earth, has the most eccentric orbit ever recorded and is expected to evolve into a hot Jupiter over a billion years. The discovery, published in Nature, sheds light on the life cycle of these extreme planets and underscores the importance of multi-institutional collaboration in uncovering the mysteries of our universe. Preserving ISS Artifacts NASA is now considering preserving small artifacts from the International Space Station, marking a reversal of their previous stance. Items like the ship’s bell, logs, and display panels may be saved as mementos, ensuring that the ISS's legacy is immortalized in museums. NASA is consulting with the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum to develop a preservation strategy. Don't forget to visit our website at astronomydaily.io to sign up for our free daily newsletter and stay updated with the latest space news. Follow us on social media at AstroDailyPod on Facebook, X, YouTubeMusic, and TikTok to join our community of stargazers and space enthusiasts. Until next time, keep looking up and stay curious about the universe. Become a supporter of this podcast: Support Astronomy Daily. www.bitesz.com

[gkonboard]

In this video, we bring you exciting news from ISRO (Indian Space Research Organization)! Discover the latest groundbreaking mission on the moon with the Instrument for Lunar Seismic Activity (ILSA) on the Chandrayaan 3 Lander. Learn about how ILSA, utilizing cutting-edge Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS) technology, is recording vibrations caused by the Rover and other lunar payloads.

ILSA's primary mission is to detect and measure ground vibrations, including those caused by natural moonquakes, impacts, and human-made events. We'll share fascinating insights into the vibrations recorded during the Rover's navigation on August 25, 2023, as well as an intriguing event that appears natural, documented on August 26, 2023 – an event still under investigation by ISRO.

[chandrayaannews]

Chandrayaan-3 अपडेट: ISRO ने घोषणा की, प्रज्ञान रोवर अब 'नींद मोड' में है, और 22 सितंबर को फिर सक्रिय हो सकता है!

Image Credit: ISRO Chandrayaan-3: चंद्रमा पर Pragyan रोवर ‘नींद मोड’ में, 22 सितंबर को फिर सक्रिय हो सकता है। ISRO के नवाचार से जुड़ें! भारतीय अंतरिक्ष और अनुसंधान संगठन (ISRO) ने घोषणा की है कि 22 सितंबर 2023 को, विक्रम लैंडर के प्रज्ञान रोवर मॉड्यूल सुनी हवाओं में ‘नींद मोड’ में प्रवेश करेगा। रोवर ने अपने कार्यों को पूरा किया है और अब सुरक्षित रूप से पार्क किया गया है, साथ ही APXS और LIBS…

[pyromaniac-cyndaquil]

It's been a lot of work over a lot of time but I think I can finally share this...

PMD:EoS, but with all of the starters!

...Including Grookey, finally!!!!! 🥳

Introducing PMD: Expanded Sky!

This is a public mod available to download now! It adds in all starters from unova all the way to paldea, as well as zorua, axew and rockruff, and allows evolving eevee into sylveon.

Speaking of which, fairy type has been patched into the game! Disarming voice replaces milk drink and moonblast replaces judgement, which was unused.

Some non-traditional starters are no longer available as hero options in this due to lack of space, but are still available as partners. (Skitty can be chosen as a hero in version 1.0.0 only, so download that version instead of the latest if you wanna use her! Riolu and Shinx are available in version 1.2.1 and below)

If one of your faves was taken off the hero roster (eg vulpix, skitty, riolu, munchlax, etc), I have a tutorial here on how to quickly edit the patched file to put them back in :)

Several regional variants have been added! Alolan Raichu, Alolan Marowak and Hisuian Typhlosion are now available as potential evolutions for their respective base stages.

Partners across both rescue team and all three versions of explorers are available too, including Cubone, Munchlax, Machop, Vulpix, Riolu, etc

Sprites and portraits are courtesy of the brilliant PMD Sprite Repository and the many incredible artists who contribute to it!

Credits for all improvement patches, sprites and portraits are included in the download, as well as an explanation on how to patch the game and the full starter list.

The mod is split in two versions to accommodate all the partners - MIDDAY version and MIDNIGHT version. The download includes both, as well as the tool required to patch your game! You'll need a clean US copy of pmd eos at hand.

A full list of moves learned by newly added Pokémon can be found here, as well as info on how to evolve them and their IQ groups.

If you run into any issues, feel free to drop me an ask or DM and I'll see how I can help/what I need to fix!

You can find the download for this rom hack here!

Edits/updates noted under the cut:

(27/04/23)

The overall mod now has a name - expanded sky! Reflected earlier on in the post.

I've been informed that the included patching tool (XDelta) doesn't work on mac, and after some digging around and discussions in dms we found this tool works for Mac instead.

Added graphics to the post displaying which heroes and partners are part of the hack.

(11/05/23)

Added link to learnset compilation for all new pokémon.

(17/05/23) Version 1.1.0 has been released!

Sobble is now a starter, replacing Skitty (Skitty is still accessible by downloading v1.0.0 on the download page). Sobble is also now a partner in MIDNIGHT.

Zorua/Zoroark's moveset has been tweaked slightly

Base forms of all new starters can now be found in Oran Forest, and can be recruitable in the post-game. The new fire starters can also be found in Giant Volcano.

Extra portraits and sprites were added for Cubone, Psyduck and Machop. Like the rest of the new assets in this mod, these were imported from the PMD Sprite Repository, and credits are on the title screen and in the readme.txt.

Extra credits + more in-depth instructions for patching the game included in the readme.txt.

(18/05/23)

Added a link to a tutorial on swapping out heroes for others already existing in the game.

(22/05/23) - Version 1.1.1 has been released!

Fixed genders for female starter options on the quiz. Updated Fuecoco to use new portraits and sprites. (Credits to Garbage)

(23/05/23) - Version 1.1.2 has been released!

Female starters from gens 5-9 can now evolve correctly (save for starters who don't have evolutions in the game yet - these are listed in the text file in the download)

Rockruff can now evolve, and Midnight Lycanroc's evolution method has been fixed to use the Lunar Ribbon as intended.

(15/06/23) - Version 1.2.1 has been released!

In 1.2.0, a second version of the mod was included in the zip compatible with melon emulator, and potentially others that were having issues with saving.

Fairy gummis were also made available as mission rewards and shop items.

There's a couple more things that can be seen in the changelog including bugfixes, but the main other thing promised was that Froakie and Litten can now evolve directly into Greninja and Incineroar. Due to an evolution flag not being set this ended up untrue, but has been fixed in 1.2.1.

This post claimed dazzling gleam is in the game, but it should've said disarming voice.

🆕 (10/03/24) - Version 1.3.0 has been released!

Dusk Lycanroc, Drizzile, Inteleon, Grookey, Axew and Fraxure have been added, as well as Alolan Raichu, Alolan Marowak an Hisuian Typhlosion.

Axew replaces Shinx in the hero roster, and Grookey replaces Riolu. Additional portraits and sprites added for starter evolutions, including vanilla starters. Sleep animations have been copied over to EventSleep/Laying/Wake animations if missing.

Greninja erroneously had the same moveset as Froakie. This has now been fixed.

Credits are no longer displayed on the title screen.

Sprite, portrait and patch credits can now be viewed by talking to a Cyndaquil NPC on the crossroads.

Evolution help can also be accessed by talking to this same NPC.

🆕 (23/05/24) - Version 1.3.1 has been released!

The uhh. Grovyle problem. Yeah. That should be fixed.

(Grovyle was missing several sprites as a side effect of trying to add new ones, due to his unique setup in the vanilla game as such an important npc. His sprites should now be reverted to a functional state, rather than leaving him to walk fowards on the spot all the time).

An issue present from the start that caused the game to freeze while advancing floors in dungeons occasionally should now be resolved.

[nasa]

Commander Callie Continues Moon Mission in NASA’s Second Graphic Novel

You followed fictional astronaut, Callie Rodriguez, on her journey to the Moon in our First Woman graphic novel, “Issue No. 1: From Dream to Reality.”

In the brand new “Issue No. 2: Expanding our Universe,” find out how Callie and her robotic sidekick RT escape the lunar lava tunnel and what challenges await them on the lunar surface.

See Callie and her new crewmates work together as a team and navigate the unexpected as they take on a challenging mission to deploy a next-generation telescope on the far side of the Moon. Now available digitally in English at nasa.gov/CallieFirst and in Spanish at nasa.gov/PrimeraMujer!

Along with the new chapter, the First Woman app – available in the Apple and Google Play stores – has been updated with new immersive, extended reality content. Explore the lunar surface and learn about the real technologies we’re building to make living and working on the Moon – and eventually, Mars – possible.

Make sure to follow us on Tumblr for your regular dose of space!

[spiralhouseshop]

It's been a busy vending season! I finally got a chance to update the website with these new buttons, zines, books, and organizers!

Portland Button Works & Spiral House Shop September 22, 2023! - New in Stock for Autumn!

BUTTONS

ACABradabra

Stealing From Witches Is Bad For Your Health

Easily Distracted by Plants

Easily Distracted by Cats

ZINES

Ritual (from the folks at Weird Walk comes a fanzine about The Wicker Man)

Frogs Teeth Field Guide Issues 1, 2, 3

Myth & Lore Issues 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, & 6

SLINGSHOT ORGANIZERS

Small pocket sized

Small spiral bound

Large spiral bound

BOOKS

Sigil Magic: For Writers and Other Creatives by T. Throrn Coyle

Magical House Protection : The Archeology of Counter-Witchcraft by Brian Hoggard

Witch Bottles: History, Culture. Magic by Daniel Harms

Occult Botany: Sédir's Concise Guide to Magical Plants by Paul Sédir

The Treadwell's Book of Plant Magic by Christina Oakley Harrington

One Time Around The Wheel by Same Croke

Black Dog Folklore by Mark Normal

The Cornish Traditional Year by Simon Reed

From Granite to Sea: The Folklore of Bodmin Moor and East Cornwall by Alex Langstone

The Kitchen Witch: Your Complete Guide to Creating a Magical Kitchen with Natural Ingredients, Sacred Rituals, and Spellwork

In the Shadows of 13 Moons: Magical Empowerment through the Dar Lunar Mysteries by Kimberly Sherman-Cook

Mountain Magic: Explore the Secrets of Old Time Witchcraft by Rebecca Beyer

[tsams-and-co-memes]

LAES Earth Canon Info

Updated - 11/10/24

Earth's likes:

Pink

Barbie movies

Nature

Animals

Tiny things

Love stories

Princesses

Storybooks/fairytales

Phantom of the Opera

Broadway shows/musicals

Beaches

Lilac flowers

The Powerpuff Girls

Wicked

Hair accessories and makeup

Tim Allen

Aquariums

Anime

Tea

PB&J's and grilled cheese sandwiches

Playing with makeup sometimes

Mac n cheese

Soap Operas

Learning other languages

Chinese dramas

Lethal Company, even though it scares her

Garlic bread

Geese

Skyrim

Fries

Gudetama

Baking sweets

Earth's dislikes:

Cottagecore

Drawing

Violence

Bloodmoon (based on the way she acts towards/with them)

Eclipse (also based on how she speaks to/acts towards him. She gave him chances to be better than he was currently being, and instead of trying, he opted to keep being a jerk) ((This is subject to change))

Driving

Dora the explorer

Sleeping while shrunk down (it feels restrictive to her)

Snapple

Sad movies/shows

Miscellaneous:

Bugs (They freak her out. More specifically, she doesn't like ants and spiders)

Superhero or monster movies

Unlike Sun and Moon, Earth is capable of eating food (partial retcon. Sun and Moon have apparently started eating food)

She used to prepare food for the creator and have dinner with him

She primarily works with children who have disabilities, and children who require more one one one attention

She has a system/database thing in her head that’s loaded with nothing but puns and jokes

She prefers baths over showers

Earth is a silent rage sort of person when she gets angry

Earth has ADHD

She uses a lot of emojis when texting

Her comfort/coping mechanism is saying “pretty ballerina” and/or singing Barbie Girl

She has 5 journals that she's written in as a coping mechanism

Earth starts her days off with morning yoga (the yoga involves screaming), then from there, she goes to work at the daycare. After she's done for the day, she cleans up the daycare, then goes home and cleans every square inch of her room/Monty’s house. After that, it's bedtime, but if she wakes up in the middle of the night, she may go cook an entire meal

She's a clean freak like Sun, and she needs to start her day off by screaming like Lunar

She's pansexual. Maybe demisexual. We're not sure about the specifics yet. She's more drawn to a person's personality than their gender or appearance (according to info in a video, she doesn’t really identify as anything and is more or less unlabeled) (<- according to Solar, she's probably pansexual)

Earth has very good balance

Earth has been ice skating

She watches Bluey

Earth has eagle eyes

Earth's mouth can open

Earth sleeps with her crocheted bunny

[notokbutthriving]

Update on the Castor isn't an astral thing

in the Taurus confronts Nexus ep Castor shows up at the end and shows concern that he [and his sister] weren't consulted, by Taurus, who's JOB IT IS TO DEAL WITH THREATS LIKE NEXUS, before nexus was dealt with, AND he seems concerned that Taurus is hurt but like specifically like he could've helped which is weird bc of how insistent Castor is that he could die and like where he falls on the power scale but then like

Castor has been weirdly insistent that he can die...

To positive star power!

BUT! he has never expressed fear at being harmed by negative star power (he's expressed it for others ie. Lunar and Taurus) and when you look at it Pollux has only worried about him when positive star is on the table (stitchwraith).

Sooo

I dont think it'd be that much of a stretch to assume that Castor is in some way immune, however slight, to negative star power, possibly leaning towards Castor a negative being.

Additionally! Rez, when he first appeared, mentioned he only talked to Lunar because Gemini wasn't on earth, also mentioning he hasn't seen them in quite a while which might be indicative of something more between Rez and Gemini, something I think the show should explore.

It might be a bit of a stretch to connect but if I am correct in my assumption that Castor is a negative being than it would be an excellent way to flesh out both characters.

[beardedmrbean]

TOKYO -- A Japanese spacecraft touched down on the moon early Saturday, making Japan the fifth country to reach the lunar surface. But officials said they still needed to analyze the pinpoint accuracy of the landing.

Hitoshi Kuninaka, head of the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, said they believe that rovers were launched and data were being transmitted back to Earth. But there could an issue with the power supply.

The Smart Lander for Investigating Moon, or SLIM, landed at about 12:20 a.m. Tokyo time on Saturday (1520 GMT Friday). Japan follows the United States, the Soviet Union, China and India in reaching the moon.

THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP’s earlier story follows below.

Japan’s spacecraft arrived on the surface of the moon early Saturday, but it wasn’t immediately clear if the landing was a success, because the Japanese space agency said it was still “checking its status.”

More details about the spacecraft, which is carrying no astronauts, would be given at a news conference, officials said. If the Smart Lander for Investigating Moon, or SLIM, landed successfully, Japan would become the fifth country to accomplish the feat after the United States, the Soviet Union, China and India.

SLIM came down onto the lunar surface at around 12:20 a.m. Tokyo time Saturday (1520 GMT Friday).

As the spacecraft descended, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's mission control said that everything was going as planned and later said that SLIM was on the lunar surface. But there was no mention of whether the landing was successful.

Mission control kept repeating that it was “checking its status" and that more information would be given at a news conference. It wasn't immediately clear when the news conference would start.

SLIM, nicknamed "the Moon Sniper," started its descent at midnight Saturday, and within 15 minutes it was down to about 10 kilometers (six miles) above the lunar surface, according to the space agency, which is known as JAXA.

At an altitude of five kilometers (three miles), the lander was in a vertical descent mode, then at 50 meters (165 feet) above the surface, SLIM was supposed to make a parallel movement to find a safe landing spot, JAXA said.

About a half-hour after its presumed landing, JAXA said that it was still checking the status of the lander.

SLIM, which was aiming to hit a very small target, is a lightweight spacecraft about the size of a passenger vehicle. It was using “pinpoint landing” technology that promises far greater control than any previous moon landing.

While most previous probes have used landing zones about 10 kilometers (six miles) wide, SLIM was aiming at a target of just 100 meters (330 feet).

The project was the fruit of two decades of work on precision technology by JAXA.

The mission's main goal is to test new landing technology that would allow moon missions to land “where we want to, rather than where it is easy to land,” JAXA has said. If the landing was a success, the spacecraft will seek clues about the origin of the moon, including analyzing minerals with a special camera.

The SLIM, equipped with a pad to cushion impact, was aiming to land near the Shioli crater, near a region covered in volcanic rock.

The closely watched mission came only 10 days after a moon mission by a U.S. private company failed when the spacecraft developed a fuel leak hours after the launch.

SLIM was launched on a Mitsubishi Heavy H2A rocket in September. It initially orbited Earth and entered lunar orbit on Dec. 25.

Japan hopes a success will help regain confidence for its space technology after a number of failures. A spacecraft designed by a Japanese company crashed during a lunar landing attempt in April, and a new flagship rocket failed its debut launch in March.

JAXA has a track record with difficult landings. Its Hayabusa2 spacecraft, launched in 2014, touched down twice on the 900-meter-long (3,000-foot-long) asteroid Ryugu, collecting samples that were returned to Earth.

Experts say a success of SLIM's pinpoint landing, especially on the moon, would raise Japan's profile in the global space technology race.

Takeshi Tsuchiya, aeronautics professor at the Graduate School of Engineering at the University of Tokyo, said it was important to confirm the accuracy of landing on a targeted area for the future of moon explorations.

“It is necessary to show the world that Japan has the appropriate technology in order to be able to properly assert Japan's position in lunar development,” he said. The moon is important from the perspective of explorations of resources, and it can also be used as a base to go to other planets, like Mars, he said.

SLIM is carrying two small autonomous probes — lunar excursion vehicles LEV-1 and LEV-2, which will be released just before landing.

LEV-1, equipped with an antenna and a camera, is tasked with recording SLIM's landing. LEV-2, is a ball-shaped rover equipped with two cameras, developed by JAXA together with Sony, toymaker Tomy and Doshisha University.

JAXA will broadcast a livestream of the landing, while space fans will gather to watch the historic moment on a big screen at the agency's Sagamihara campus southwest of Tokyo.

[vexnever]

Journey into the Mystical Grove 🌙✨

Hey everyone!

Today, I decided to skip my usual studies and embark on an adventure into the depths of Neverwinter Wood. With my faithful familiar—a loyal dog—by my side, we set out to explore the unknown.

As we ventured deeper, we noticed a mystical light shimmering through the trees. Guided by curiosity and my companion's instincts, we followed it and discovered an ancient stone archway adorned with glowing runes resembling constellations and lunar phases.

I took a moment to sketch these intriguing runes into my spellbook for future study. Feeling a deep connection, I offered a prayer to Selune, the Moon Goddess, seeking her guidance. The archway's glow intensified, and with a mix of excitement and reverence, we stepped through.

On the other side, we found ourselves in a tranquil grove bathed in perpetual moonlight. 🌌 Seven stone pillars encircled a serene reflecting pool, each pillar engraved with symbols of the moon's phases. The atmosphere was peaceful, filled with subtle magical energy and the soft whispers of a distant melody.

Now, standing in this celestial haven, I'm contemplating my next move:

Should I gaze into the reflecting pool for visions or messages?

Examine the stone pillars to uncover their secrets?

Attempt to commune with Selune for wisdom?

Or explore the grove further for hidden discoveries?

This unexpected journey has been incredible so far, and I can't wait to see where it leads next! Stay tuned for more updates on this mystical exploration. 🌙🐾

[spacenutspod]

Embark on a celestial journey with today's episode of Astronomy Daily - The Podcast, where your host, Anna, brings you the latest cosmic updates. We'll start with a recent NASA mishap that caused a stir on social media, revealing the delicate nature of space operations. Next, we'll explore the ambitious Einstein Telescope project, poised to revolutionize our understanding of gravitational waves, and take a closer look at a critical spacewalk investigating space microbes. We'll also discuss NASA's groundbreaking mission to create artificial stars, revisit a remarkable binary star system with the Hubble Space Telescope, and catch up on China's latest lunar exploration achievements with their mini rover on the moon's far side. Stay with us for an exciting journey through the cosmos.For an astronomical experience, visit our website at astronomydaily.io for the latest news, sign up for our free newsletter, and check out exclusive sponsor deals. Connect with us on YouTube, TikTok, X, and Facebook via @AstroDailyPod for engaging discussions with fellow space aficionados. This is Anna, reminding you to keep your gaze fixed on the heavens. Until our next stellar episode, let the cosmos ignite your curiosity and wonder. Clear skies and cosmic discoveries to all! Support: This podcast is better with your support: https://www.bitesz.com/show/astronomy-daily-the-podcast/support/ www.bitesz.com Sponsors: www.bitesz.com/nordpass https://www.bitesz.com/show/astronomy-daily-the-podcast/sponsors/

[skogenraev]

Getting Back into Witchcraft After a Break

Acknowledge the Break

Before jumping back in, take a moment to reflect on why you stepped away. This isn’t about judgment but understanding.

Were you overwhelmed or burned out?

Did life demand more of your time and energy?

Were you questioning your beliefs or struggling with doubt? → Write in your journal or meditate or draw how your time away has shaped you. This can help you clarify what you want to bring back into your practice and what you’re ready to let go of.

Start with Self-Compassion Your craft doesn’t require perfection. You’re not “behind” or “out of touch.” The beauty of witchcraft is its adaptability. Be kind to yourself and resist the urge to compare your journey to others’. Recognize that even mundane experiences can be a form of magic. Reconnect with Your Why

Ask yourself what drew you to witchcraft in the first place.

Was it a love of nature?

A connection to something greater?

A desire for empowerment, healing, or self-discovery?

Rekindling your “why” can reignite your passion and help you determine what aspects of the craft to focus on first.

Start Small and Simple

Don’t overwhelm yourself by trying to do all the things right away. Start with bite-sized practices:

Daily grounding: Take a few deep breaths while visualizing roots connecting you to the earth.

Light a candle: Focus on the flame as a symbol of your rekindled practice.

Morning or evening affirmations: Speak simple, empowering phrases to set your intentions for the day or night.

Observe the natural world: Notice the moon’s phase, the weather, or seasonal changes.

Small acts of magic build momentum over time.

Reassess Your Tools and Space

If you have a magical space, tools, or supplies, take stock:

Cleanse your tools: Use smoke, sound, or sunlight to refresh them.

Declutter: Let go of items that no longer resonate.

Reorganize: Arrange your space to reflect your current energy and intentions. → If your tools feel unfamiliar or you’re starting from scratch, remember you don’t need anything fancy. A notebook, a candle, and your intuition are enough.

Rebuild Your Foundations

Returning after a break is an opportunity to revisit the basics (just some options - no need or have to)

Meditation and visualization: Strengthen your focus and inner awareness.

Energy work: Practice grounding, centering, and shielding.

Correspondences: Relearn the meanings of herbs, crystals, colors, or elements that resonate with your practice.

Lunar and seasonal cycles: Reconnect with the moon phases, solstices, or festivals.

Explore What Feels Fresh

Your interests may have shifted during your break. Explore new areas of magic:

Divination: Experiment with tarot, runes, pendulums, or scrying.

Spellcraft: Try simple spells for protection, abundance, or self-love.

Nature magic: Work with seasonal energies, local plants, or animal spirits.

Deity work or spirit communication: If you work with deities, reintroduce yourself and reestablish your connection.

Follow your curiosity rather than forcing yourself to do things the “right” way.

Journal or Document Your Practice

Keeping track of your practice can help you stay engaged and reflective:

Daily reflections: Write down small magical moments or rituals.

Dream journaling: Explore messages or symbols in your dreams.

Grimoire: Update old entries or create new ones with fresh insights.

Embrace Seasonal and Cyclical Magic

The seasonal shifts are a great way to align yourself with natural energies.

Winter: Focus on rest, introspection, and shadow work.

Spring: Plant seeds of intention and engage in renewal rituals.

Summer: Embrace creativity, passion, and abundance.

Autumn: Release what no longer serves you and prepare for the darker half of the year.

Seek Community (If Desired)

If you feel isolated, reconnecting with others can inspire and motivate you:

Join online groups or forums.

Attend local witchy events, workshops, or festivals.

Share your journey with trusted friends or like-minded individuals.

Reminder: Community can be supportive, but your practice is deeply personal and doesn’t require external validation.

[cheerful-sixears]

Intro Thing ─ ⋅ ✕ ⋅ ─ About

[[I have not made one of these, yet so here we are.]]

─ ⋅ ✕ ⋅ ─

ˏˋ ☾ -⋅⋅I have a few many faces I call my own.

ˏˋ ☾ -⋅⋅name: Keely, Keebs, Papillon [are a few]

**even when spoken in the third person for both.

ˏˋ ☾ -⋅⋅other [good] names: Keebers, Poe, Killian

ˏˋ ☾ -⋅⋅age: 30

ˏˋ ☾ -⋅⋅pronouns: he/him/his

ˏˋ ☾ -⋅⋅neos: dread/dreadself; monkie/moonself; daes/daemonself

ˏˋ ☾ -⋅⋅gender: xenogender; trans man

ˏˋ ☾ -⋅⋅mbti: infp-t [turbulent mediator]

ˏˋ ☾ -⋅⋅social[?]: ambivert

ˏˋ ☾ -⋅⋅moral alignment: neutral good

ˏˋ ☾ -⋅⋅astrology: capricorn || rooster

─ ⋅ ✕ ⋅ ─

♡ ¦ Therian || Alterhuman || Otherkin ¦♡

♡ ¦ Furry Enthusiast || Artist || Writer ¦♡

♡ ¦ Neurodivergent || Healing || petre|dreamer ¦♡

♡ ¦ Gray-Ace/Aro || Sex-ambivalent ¦♡

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ˏˋ ☾ -⋅⋅Active Realms:

♡ ¦ JttW AU/LMK AU || Still a HUGE wip... ¦ ♡

♡ ¦ [LMK AU [X]  ¦ ♡ ♡ ¦ JttW AU [X]  @journey-thru-six-ears¦ ♡

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ˏˋ ☾ -⋅⋅My beloved worlds to humbly exist within, mostly is: ☾☀︎︎--Sun Shadow Peak-☾☀︎︎ The universe that houses Papillon and his descendant, Keebs, The Lunar Chrysalis and Devin-Jiang with his descendant, Devvie, Duke of the Sun. It's a divergent, Journey to the West inspired universe with many different creative narratives and themes. It's our world that we share, and we heal within. You're welcome to peek inside, if you'd be ever-the-willing or wanting?

ˏˋ ☾ -⋅⋅a couple other worlds/fandoms to actively explore are: Monkey King: Great Sage Returns(Hero is Back), Lego: Monkie Kid, Nezha: Reborn, Monkey King: Reborn, etc. etc. [more coming soon.] ─ ⋅ ✕ ⋅ ─

🦋-Macaque is my main F/O

[[As of now, I'm non-sharing; I'm fragile & unable to interact with mutual f/o havers of him at this time. So, please DNI if you do.]]

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ˏˋ ☾ -⋅⋅ My Twin Brother!: [ @sun-uwu-kong ] (aka, Sun Wukong's Husband)

ˏˋ ☾ -⋅⋅ My IRL Roommate & Best Friend [ @evil-dad-evil ] (aka, Kain's Husband)

ˏˋ ☾ -⋅⋅ TOS/Masterlist: HERE [outdated]

ˏˋ ☾ -⋅⋅ Commission Prices [OPEN] : WIP

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ˏˋ ☾ -⋅⋅ My Art tag is literally: #my art

ˏˋ ☾ -⋅⋅ My Writing tag is literally: #my writing

ˏˋ ☾ -⋅⋅ Rambles and Updates under: #cheerfulchatter

ˏˋ ☾ -⋅⋅ Various Visuals of Papillon, Keely [Me], and my Macaque tags:

Keebs refs/art/posts - Under #keebs monkey

Papillon refs/art/posts - Under #Papillon the Macaque

Mac's tags are all under - #Macaque my Beloved

Ship tags are: #moonlitshadow, #moonlittides,

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ˏˋ ☾ -⋅⋅ Six-Eared Macaque blorbo page: @journey-thru-six-ears

ˏˋ ☾ -⋅⋅ My AO3: [xXx]

ˏˋ ☾ -⋅⋅ My Furaffinity [18+] [Cheerful-Sixears]

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[r0b0s-robos]

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☁︎☀︎ About ☀︎☁︎

Call me: R0B0 [they/it] | early 20s

☆⭐︎★ Main Acct ☆⭐︎★

• @r0b0-wannabe (i reblog a lot on my main)

• I have a discord server for me and mutuals. If ur a mutual and wanna join, lmk!

☾BYF☽

• I’m genderqueer and queer ace

• If you make fanart or inspired fancontent from my creations please tag me

• I usually see Sun and Moon as platonic, but have no qualms with other interpretations. (Within reason, ofc). But for my personal stuff, unless stated otherwise, assume they’re just friends/coworkers/etc

★☁︎ (SOME OF) MY WRITING ☁︎★ Longfics A Botanist's Guide - A botanical garden au where you move to a new town and get a job at a failing garden ran by solar and lunar animatronics. Repurposed - Following the events of Ruin, you (Aster Warren), rescue your friends, the daycare attendants from the rubble, and attempt to teach them how to be independent and explore their newfound freedom and individuality.

Flightless - A fantasy/harpy AU! You were once a harpy yourself and in a relationship w/ Sun and Moon before you died. Unbeknownst to you, you are reincarnated as a human with parts of a harpy soul and over the span of (hopefully) 3 books, solve questions involving your existence and past.

Shortfics

In Hindsight - A two-chapter short fic that follows you, Sunny, and Moon. The attendants struggle to navigate their feelings when you make a new friend.

Oneshots

Sunset Themes Job Security Pretty Boy

Feel free to check out my AO3 for more! -> HERE!

My AUs

Disrepair Park (Amusement Park AU)

A Botanist’s Guide (Botanical Garden AU) - [Ref Sheet]

Flightless (Harpy AU) - [Ref Sheet] - [Amazing Commissioned Work]

NAVIGATION

[r0b0.img] - my fanart [r0b0.readingcircle] - my fanfics [r0b0.input] - me saying stuff [r0b0.responding] - me responding to stuff [r0b0.rblgs] - my reblogs

[updated 08/04/2024]

[random-mailbox]

Random-Mailbox's Favorite Sailor Moon Fics - Week 36 - Sex Pollen

Sex Pollen as a trope is also not as big in this fandom as one would imagine. @lilliebellfanfics has suggested I try to put something together because "it’s spring and pollen season", which seems like an amazing idea until I realized how many of the Sex Pollen trope stories went into the Potions post around Halloween. Thankfully, I have more for you to explore! 

As always, my apologies in advance for spoiling some of these for you (Fic Titles are linked to either FFN or AO3 entries).

The Armour That We Wear - @sailoreuterpe

In this one-shot Usagi and Mamoru start to deal with implications of their anime-inspired break-up after a sex-bubble causes their inhibitions to fall.

La Douleur Exquise - @floraone

This story ties into "4 authors 1 prompt series", parts of which are in the Potions post linked above. In this two-shot, Usagi and Mamoru are working through co-existing within their civilian and superhero lives, while trying to stop people from getting hurt. I loved that this take causes changes in the timeline and forces Black Moon clan and Chibiusa to become anomalies. 

All's Fun with Love and Orbs - @irritablevowel

This is another addition to the "4 authors 1 prompt series" with a focus on Dead Moon Circus arc. In a non-traditional take, meddling from Amazones Quartet causes everyone to argue instead of being unable to keep their hands off each other.

Happy Hump Day!: Chapter 1: Lunar on a Hot Tin Roof - @shnuggletea

With Tokyo experiencing a crazy heatwave, Usagi cannot seem to be able to cool down. Mamoru is the only person who can bring down her fever, even if it might not be in the most conventional way. This is the first chapter of a collection of unrelated lemons if you want to keep exploring.

One story that became part of the Reveals series but might make more sense here is Impulse by @areptiledysfunction1107 , where mysterious fog from a youma is to blame for Tuxedo Mask's inability to see straight when it comes to a certain blonde.

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That's it for this week. Next week are Psychometry stories! Some have definitely made their way into other posts but I hope I will introduce you all to a few more!

Here are the links to the previous Tumblr posts in these series to explore more amazing works based on different themes - make sure to check them out if you haven't had a chance! (Click on title name to go to the post) - I will keep updating the list every week as new posts come up:

Week 1 - Groundhog Day

Week 2 - Established Relationships

Week 3 - Sex Positivity

Week 4 - Unfinished Stories

Week 5 - Darker Stories

Week 6 - Potions 🧪

Week 7 - Reveals

Week 8 - 👻Halloween🎃

Week 9 - Wrong Perceptions

Week 10 - Non-Senshi AU

Week 11 - In-Progress Fics

Week 12 - Mutual Pining

Week 13 - Enemies to Lovers

Week 14 - Slow Burn

Week 15 - Christmas Part 1 - Ugly Christmas Sweaters and Santa!

Week 16 - Christmas Part 2

Week 17 - New Years

Week 18 - High School AU

Week 19 - Slice of Life

Week 20 - Coffee shop AU

Week 21 - Huddle for Warmth

Week 22 - Friends to Lovers

Week 23 - ❤️Valentines Day❤️

Week 24 - Do a Grouch a Favour Day (or Cheer Up Fics)

Week 25 - Soulmate AU

Week 26 - Amnesia Fics (and resources)

Week 27 - 🍀St Patrick's Day🍀

Week 28 - Fix it Fics

Week 29 - Prompt: Mug

Week 30 - Flowers

Week 31 - Traditions

Week 32 - Dreams

Week 33 - Friends

Week 34 - Body-Swap

Week 35 - Medical Assistance