#ascendants

[astrology-by-sita]

THE STORY OF THE SIGNS AND THE STORY OF HUMANITY

In aries ♈️ humans are hunters-gatherers. Each one lives independently and fend for themselves alone in the wild.

In taurus ♉️ humans start to settle and have families. Families have to be provided for so they have farms. Bulls (taurus) plough the land.

In gemini ♊️ the children of those families go to that corner in the neighborhood where they hang out and have fun. They go to school to learn as well.

In cancer ♋️ the children are taught that they belong to a certain family, lineage, tribe, country..."respect the flag and the national anthem" etc etc

In leo ♌️ they decide instead to build their own personalities instead of identifying themselves with family/country/nationality etc. They want their identity to be based on what they create.

In virgo ♍️ they realize that if they want to build their personality they have to be responsible and establish a structured routine, take care of their health, be useful in society etc.

In libra ♎️ after they've learned to be practical/useful in society, they are then ready to establish relationships. It's the change from virgin (virgo) to bride (libra). Virgin here is metaphorical not literal nor about s3xual purity. It's about maturity cause saturn exalts in libra.

In scorpio ♏️ after they've signed the formal contracts in libra, they go deep, beyond the formal. They share intimacy and financial resources. They go through sudden changes. Merging with the other intimately transforms them.

In sagittarius ♐️ after the sudden changes they went through in scorpio, they gain wisdom. They become teachers, mentors, gurus, here to share their experience in the journey of life.

In capricorn ♑️ they use this wisdom to build a legacy. The wisdom gained in sagittarius equips them with patience. How can you be patient if you didn't learn to enjoy the ride? So life goals might take time but the reward is worth it in the end.

In aquarius ♒️ it's no longer about their life goal as individuals, it's about the collective goals of society. They start to care about building a better society with a better, more beneficial structure so that no one is marginalized.

In Pisces ♓️ they learn that all these structures are material. They learn to transcend the body and its needs, and find the soul. The soul has no structure or boundaries or ego.

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How to Spot: Air Signs Edition

Gemini Rising

- come off as if they’re all over the place, shallow, or flaky, constantly changing their appearance or vibe to fit the current trend

- they can charm the room without anyone really knowing who they are, though people can get annoyed with their inconsistency or superficiality

- when they feel good they’re generously spending, but when life gets tough they’re constantly hoarding things

- they overthink their spending to the point of paranoia, tying sentimental value to items and hate letting go of things

- they have an opinion on everything, and want to make sure you know it; they’re overly prideful of their ideas, even when they’re wrong

- home life may feel like a boot camp and family members may find them naggy and hard to please; nothings every clean, organized, or perfect enough for them

- may have a deep interest in family history or genealogy

- they fall in love with an image, not a person or thing, since they prioritize status and looks over emotional connection or creative expression

- either they’re completely dedicated or they’re not interested at all

- they don’t like sharing details about their work or health, and they’re prone to burnout from trying to maintain total control

- they start off hot and passionate but when they feel trapped they either ghost or pick fights to justify their need for space

- they can be hypocritical, demanding freedom while not necessarily granting it to their commitments or partners

- they often seem emotionally distant or rigid, treating emotional vulnerability like business transactions

- they can be too contrary, shoving their “open-mindedness” down other people’s throats; people can see them as someone who likes concepts over real-world practicality

- they can seem flaky or unreliable in their workplace; expect them to “find themselves” through many career changes or false starts

- they’re quick to argue and steamroll others to get what they want; if someone challenges their position in groups they’ll either fight to the top or abandon the group all together

- they can be stuck in their ways, preferring to suffer in silence rather than confront their fears or let go of habits

- they can get too comfortable with their emotional status quo, no matter how damaging it is

Libra Rising

- they desperately want to be liked and admired so they’re always putting on their “best face” in public, too busy trying to make everyone happy

- they avoid conflict like the plague, even if it means letting things fester under the surface

- they hide their true financial state from others, and may hoard money or material possessions; they may pull strings behind the scenes to ensure their financial security

- they dominate conversations, usually lecturing others rather than engaging in dialogue

- they treat family like a job, prioritizing order and structure over emotional connection; they’re not the nurturing type, which make the environment feel dry or lacking affection

- their love and creative life is more about experimenting than connecting emotionally; they want to stand out as different and can be disconnected from emotional aspects

- their daily routines are a disaster and they’re often late, forgetful, or completely checked out; their work ethic is inconsistent and they may overindulge in unhealthy habits, like procrastination or poor diets

- they attract strong-willed partners which often leads to power struggles

- they want harmony but are quick to start a fight if they don’t get their way; their partners may feel confused by the switch from charming to aggressive

- they’re very stubborn and can be slow to make any kind of personal transformation

- their approach to intimacy is sensual and drawn-out, but they’re resistant to any emotional change

- they’re an eternal student, always picking a new subject but never really mastering anything

- may travel often, but more as a form of bragging rights than true adventure

- they’re sensitive to how they’re perceived in their career and can be easily hurt by criticism

- they crave recognition for their compassion but they can also come across as overly emotional or clingy in professional settings

- they can alienate their friends by trying to show off by showboating all the time in social groups, since they’re not good at sharing the spotlight

- they’re secretly very self-critical, always worrying about whether they’re good enough; behind their calm exterior they’re picking apart themselves for every little flaw

- their anxieties may come out in the form of passive-aggressive behavior or nitpicking others in attempt to deflect their own insecurities

Aquarius Rising

- most people find them cool at first, then realize they’re cold as ice and emotional unavailable

- they’re highly unpredictable and refuse to conform to anything, so others find it hard to connect with them

- they often change their appearance or interests without warning, easily getting board with anything mainstream

- inconsistent income is a theme, and they may be confused about where their money went

- they either giving away too much money or floating from one financial mishap to the other

- conversations with then can feel like debates and they’re quick to anger if someone challenges their viewpoints

- when it comes to their personal space they’re not as flexible as they claim to be, they’re borderline possessive; they want stability but are resistant to change

- they’re great at flirting and terrible at commitment, and they often have a half-dozen projects lying around; they love the idea of creation more than follow through

- they let their emotions dictate their routines; one bad mood and their thrown off the entire day

- they create drama in relationships just to feel important; they struggle to balance their desire for independence with their need for validation from their partner

- when it comes to shared resources or intimacy they can be control freaks and micro-manage every detail, demanding perfection from themselves and their partners

- pursue higher education in unconventional philosophies or spiritual practices

- they talk about “justice” and “fairness” but rarely take a stand on anything, using intellectual posturing to mask their lack of depth

- come off secretive and intimidating in their professional life, and can appear ruthless if their reputation or authority is challenged

- they guard their ambitions fiercely and don’t let anyone know their true intentions or how much they crave power

- their social groups seem large and varied, but their connections can feel superficial; they come off as the flaky friend who’s always onto the next big thing

- they’re secretly terrified of failing or losing control, their hidden fear of inadequacy eating away at them

- they pretend everything is fine but behind-the-scenes there’s burnout or self-sabotage

[holycompendium]

Ascendants OC Masterlist ⛊ Pt. 1

⚔︎ quick context : ascendants is my upcoming descendants fic series centered around merlin academy. you can catch the first chapter of the first installment right here!

ADAM ST. ROSE

Fate : Become cursed to live as a beast & marry Belle. Face Claim : Maxwell Jenkins

ANA CRESTA

Legacy : Daughter of a Neverlandian mermaid. Face Claim : Daniela Avanzini

ARTHUR "ART" PENDRAGON II

Legacy : Son of King Arthur of Camelot. Face Claim : Joshua Bassett

ASTERIA CHARIS

Legacy : Adopted daughter of Erato, muse of lyrical poetry. Face Claim : Bailey Bass

AZRIEL INDIRA

Legacy : Son of the Blue Fairy. Face Claim : Omar Rudberg

BELLE BAPTISTE

Fate : Marry the beast king Adam & establish the United States of Auradon. Face Claim : Zoe Colletti

CASPIAN DELMAR

Legacy : Son of Arista, nephew to Ariel & Eric. Face Claim : Reece King

LYNN ORELLA

Fate : Become the all-powerful enchantress who curses Prince Adam. Face Claim : Choi Yunjin

CLAUDE FROLLO

Fate : Become the villainous archdeacon of Notre-Dame. Face Claim : Case Walker

CRUELLA DE VIL

Fate : Descend into madness and become a tyrannical heiress. Face Claim : Riele Downs

ELI LA BOUFF

Fate : Inherit his family's business and become a wealthy sugar baron. Face Claim : Maxwell Acee Donovan

EUGENE "FITZ" FITZHERBERT

Fate : Abandon his royal heritage and become the thief Flynn Rider. Face Claim : Aryan Simhadri

FINCH

Legacy : Illegitimate son of Robin Hood. Face Claim : Brandon Severs

GASTON LEGUME

Fate : Become an arrogant and selfish game hunter. Face Claim : Belmont Cameli

GRIMHILDE

Fate : Become the Evil Queen & stepmother to Snow White. Face Claim : Ariana Greenblatt

JAFAR

Fate : Become the scheming royal vizier of Agrabah. Face Claim : Jahed

KIRSTI LINDT

Legacy : Daughter of Anna & Kristoff, niece to Elsa. Face Claim : Shay Rudolph

LEAH ROSE

Fate : Marry King Stefan and give birth to Aurora. Face Claim : Dior GoodJohn

LOUIS FACILIER

Fate : Sell his own soul in exchange for the power of a Hodou bokor. Face Claim : Niles Fitch

MIMINA "MIMI" MIM

Legacy : Granddaughter of Mad Madam Mim. Face Claim : Avantika Vandanapu

MAI TREMAINE

Fate : Become the head of the house of Tremaine & become Cinderella's stepmother. Face Claim : Kang Haerin

MULAN FA

Fate : Defeat the Hun army and save the Imperial Kingdom. Face Claim : Zhou Xinyu

ODILE "ODIE" ARNAUD-CHRISTOPHE

Fate : Become an eccentric & benevolent Houdou priestess. Face Claim : Whitney Peak

SAM "SMEE" SMIEGEL

Fate : Serve as Captain Smith's boatswain and first loyal mate. Face Claim : Owen Joyner

STEFAN MOREAU

Fate : Marry Queen Leah & father Aurora. Face Claim : Kahlil Beth

URSULA

Fate : Become a fearsome sea witch. Face Claim : Chandler Kinney

ZEVON

Legacy : Son of Yzma. Face Claim : Charlie Bushnell

[niascribbles]

Beelza original witch character for my graphic novel Ascendants (on hiatus).

[begay-doocs]

hi hello

first reference of many (I think technically five and some change). from a group of characters named the Ascendants.

Ignis is tied intrinsically to a deity called The Snow. The prince of the domain The Snow claims as home, Ignis has only ever wanted to be a healer. He is rarely afforded the time to be anything but a warrior. He hopes, in vain, that his upcoming reign will be half as peaceful as his mother's.

more elaboration on that to come.

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Character outfit lineup,,,,,,,,, my little gnc icon

[lee-noma]

Adient Decents | An Ascendants prequel

I

The surface land knew the end of life in its last breath, how it held the body still in its grasp of mortality. Exhaling the last essence of life from the lungs and stilling blood that once pumped through the heart. They did not know Death. Its sons and daughters, their vengeance and thirst for blood in conquest. They did not know the true ivy that poisoned running waters or the stench of rotting flesh in the air as though spoors.

Soon, they learnt that the wails of mothers clutching still bodies sung in the skies and that limbs coursing with fire tore flesh or twisted obsidian blades held no living flesh. As mortal deaths become decaying armies, they suffered for the god of Brikkarg who was their only purpose. Their lives now meaningless, he would make their deaths a rite of passage. Covered in the blood of his victory and his armies full of the slaughter of enemies, a new reign was ushered from the underbelly of Brikkarg.

Long reign its God and eternal King Dhodar.

Eternal was his reign. One of great monuments built of the ruble of bones of those unmoving. High-walled mausoleums where the bodies of his once loyal soldiers become idols of worship and aspiration. Stories and tales that sang of his triumphant rise, and the showers of death he poured over the desolate lands until their land was all blood dunes and bones. The capture of the dissidents, and their rotting flesh torn by the dead ground they are dragged on by Dhodar's generals and their golems.

They praised him while they ravaged and burned in his name. While their decaying teeth tore through flesh and ate like hoarding pigs, they relished in the spoils of war gained by eternal damnation. How their mouths would froth as those hours after their last breaths were taken to destroy in sovereignty. Watching their realisation that it was not Lucifer of Hades, they stood before but something that held no moral or value—just cruelty and the empire that praised it, and his legacy.

The god who wore Titan's bones as a crown and bore scars of battles with Ares. His insignia of flayed skin flagged on poles in procession and pride before tribes were taken for food, flesh, sex, blood, and conquest. The God of Dead Flesh and Conquest, how the names so easily intertwined with that of his ruling name, and so it would be so for 120 centuries. 12,000 mortal years, the lands only knew of Dhodar, God of Dead Flesh and Conquest, immortal ruler of Brikkarg.

12,000 years of rule and he found himself on a throne built into the tower risen in his name, wondering. What more can an obsidian blade and unquenched thirst conquer?

Legacy had been a dead word in the lands of Brikkarg. There was nothing after this servitude, for they had exhausted their last breath on earth and had fallen through the gaping darkness. The same could not be said for Dhodar. He was not mortal or mundane. Had never been shamed in a human body or shed the tears that they wept in sorrow. He had known no whisper of the mercy or the caress of maternity, for the embodiment of suffering was not to ever know its warmth. Pleasure was to plunder and joy was to conquer. There was nothing ripe in his daunting body, for it had been filled with rot from the beginning.

The kind that came from feeding off pain and misery as though it were ambrosia. An opioid made out of the screams of the tormented had made all in his body, blood and bones, vile and devoid of humanity. Breaking down the light that was a soul whose misfortune had left her virtue to the bargain of a father cheating death and the lust of a wealthy evil.

The god of Dead Flesh and Conquest found his most fruitful of campaigns in the matrimony of him and Madeline Umrena. Born under the guise of holy matrimony, she was shielded by a veil and patriarchal governance until she first bled. It was in her 14 years of mortal life that the veil had been lifted, and who was once a patriarchal governance was now an auctioneer. With mercy from a merciless god offered, the Umrena patriarch would pull a golden locket from his chest. Shaken hands as bloody as they had been before his last breath revealed the wide doe eyes and a petel laid nose, the delicate touch of innocence in her pouted lips and locks of nyx black hair. She would be the consort beside the ruling god a trade from eternal torture.

The lace of innocents she had shivered and cried down the aisle in gave regency to the new Queen. Her walk stumbled, and her breaths gasped as living lungs were tortured by dead air. He had stolen a living being, for she would do more than be a consort, she would bear a legacy. It would be deemed so before a crowd of cheering, the clashing sounds of war swords and shields banging against the bodies of the dead. It would be deemed so by her father's blood, which pooled on the altar and stained the white lace torn off her body after vows under his flayed skin.

The cries of consummation were heard through blood dunes and forests of bones. Rattling the soil of the living and creating typhoons in the lands of the dead, the storms brought alert to kingdoms far and wide from Brikkarg. Heard by the dead and the immortal, her pleas for mercy rang, but so did the all too familiar sound of Dhodars successful conquest. A sound even the mightiest of gods halted in approaching, all but a single goddess.

As Madeline looked at the carvings of the full moon, tears and burning torches of fire filling it with light, she heard her. Lilith whispered a promise between the first woman and a newly made one, that a seed of clay would be what the spawn of Dhodar is made of. That the conquest Dhodar relished in today would be the collapse of his immortality tomorrow.

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[mlarty]

The Devil's Garden 🌹 🩸 will he paint them red?

[wellen-katze]

Beware Scratch the dog!

[tsrmarina]

While finishing up the piece with the dragon spawn I made studies to catch ascended Astarion character essence ✍️ Here’s one of them:

Astarion the Ascended 🖤

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#astarion #baldursgate3 #bg3 #larianstudios

[astrology-by-sita]

ON AQUARIUS RISINGS ♒️

This is a part of a series on the rising signs not necessarily in Zodiacal order.

Aquarius risings are social outcasts who feel that they don't belong in their birthplace. Saturn rules 12h and 1h. Night charts especially feel like their society doesn't want them. Their ruler exalts in 9h in libra - the house of foreign lands and religion. But they aren't really religious. They can be critical especially of conventional religion. Saturn exalts in libra because aquarians have that skepticism over traditional religion.

They exalt as in get success and status when they show a formidable rational critique of the dominant doctrine and dogma. They shift societal trends and paradigms. Karl Marx is a great example of an aquarius rising who reaches prominence by critiquing the dominant system in society, an economic system which privileges only the bourgeoisie.

They talk a lot they can be as talky as geminis cause they have aries in 3h and where you have aries is where you're impulsive. But their ruler saturn debilitates in 3h so they won't get success there. Talking just for the sake of talking takes them nowhere but if they show a rational, alternative view of the structures of society they'll be prominent influential figures in their country and even the world.

They view the general as well as the specific. Sagittarius 11h gives them a general (sagittarius) view on human society (11h) but saturn is also particular and detail oriented. Virgo 8h - they transform everything around them (8h) when they get into the details. They can transform a malfunctioning institution or organization into a more functional and efficient one for benefit of all members. State reform and organizational reform is their specialty.

11h is 4h from 8h - the home of 8h. Societal transformation and paradigm shifts are the basis of every personal transformation taking place in 8h. Aquarius has got the best of both. Jupiter is too busy with his grand visions to be occupied with details and mercury is too nitpicky, flighty, to visualize generalities. Saturn does both! Saturn is about small restrictions and binds but it rejoices in 12h where we transcend them all. Saturn rules their 12h.

They have scorpio 10h so bosses and authority figures are threatened by them. They can be better than their bosses at their job so the authority people sense a threat or intimidation. They don't get on well with people of higher positions than them. Especially day charts. Unlike Leos who might try to pander to people in power on order to reach status(Venus ruling 10h),aquarians don't do that and hate that as well. They'd rather work on their own as their 10h ruler Mars exalts in 12h in capricorn.

They have gemini 5h so without intellectual stimulation they won't be attracted to you. You have to impress their intellect and mind. Now let's address the elephant in the room, the moon ruling 6h. People close to aquarius risings (moon is close emotional connections) throw unnecessary burdens on their shoulders. People expect aquarius to serve them and when the aquarius rightfully sets boundaries, problems arise.

Sun rules 7h and 7h is sunset so it's not really a good place for the sun unless the condition of the sun plus its domicile lord states otherwise.

Aquarius get egoistic partners or partners who try to control them. They get arrogant partners who expect the aquarius to serve them. Sometimes partners who gossip behind their back as sun their 7h ruler exalts in 3h.

They should keep in mind that a healthy relationship is supposed to be between two equals. I think they and capricorns both know this deep down better than anyone cause their ruler exalts in libra the sign of equal partnership.

What the aquarius wants first of all is an identity, to be somebody. Where you have aquarius in your chart is what you wish for. They have it in 1h, so they wish for some sense of self. Of course saturn delays that but it never denies. They do find themselves even if somehow later in life. They are late bloomers but once they bloom they're unstoppable trend setters and ideological geniuses.

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Everyone stop what you are doing. Shadow Druid Halsin dropped!

Art by the absolutely amazing baiyameng on Twitter (Or X) (I got the permission to repost the Art here by Baiyameng ♥)

[holycompendium]

new fic alert!

hi! i'm a new fic writer so i'm not sure if i'm doing this right, but i just posted the first chapter of my descendants fanfic on ao3! 'the first fall' is a part of what will be my 'ascendants' fic series, which follows the adventures of students at merlin academy - before the united states of auradon was established!

the first fall follows the very first class of students at merlin academy, and stars legendary characters like the evil queen, ursula, and lady tremaine when they were teenagers. i hope you enjoy!

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BG3 art dump⭐️