#lmao I thought th mental image was funny

[bones-of-a-rabbit]

when u rlly want a belly rub but both of ur husbands aren’t paying attention to u so u follow them around crying softly

[lunasaturnine]

does this track

The planet sews the house, which blossoms in the sign.

For my chart.

Leo/Sun/5th - to create in God’s glorious, conscious image. To dance while doing so. My Leo sign, which rules my 11th house: My 11th house will blossom when my solar needs are fulfilled. My 5th house: Aquarius - the tune I need to be able to dance to, in order to do my solar work. My Libra sun: The dancer, who needs to do the aquarius dance. Dance isn’t all of it. You have to be kind of legislative too. Just. Idk. Maybe that’s more 9th house. Cancer/Moon/4th: You need to take care of yourself. To learn tenderness which means you will be able to do things like gestate, hold a pregnancy, birth a clear idea, be pregnant in vision and let whatever baby you are pregnant with develop.  My Cancer sign, which rules my 10th house: My career etc if I take care of myself. My 4th house ruled by Cap: it’s demanding sober work that needs quiet excellence My moon in Capricorn: A sober, exacting actor. Care-taker. Care-r. Gemini/Mercury/3rd - You must be lively and curious, you must be able to generate two perspectives from one and have freedom of thought. My Gemini sign, which rules my 9th house: my 9th house/coherence, philosophy, worldview, etc. will blossom with the more healthy Gem energy I have. My 3rd house, Sagittarius: How the structures of the world that I am able to grasp mentally seem to be. Like things seem to be on straight lines that connect and point to an obvious conclusion. My Mercury, in Virgo: It is a funny Librarian or weaver or mender who will be doing the curiosity, aka asking the questions. Will make virgo-style observations, with Gemini quickness, that show evidence of Sagittarian truth-style energy. haha it’s the grand trifecta of clever/annoying :) Libra/Venus/7th: You must be gentle and understanding so as to negate tension, so that growth can be possible. You must speak to people from the other side of the mirror. My Libra sign, which rules my 1st house: My general self-presentation, how I strike people, etc, will be enhanced the more healthily I work with this energy. My Venus, the one who will be negotiating relational energy, in Virgo: Silence and observation is a major strategy; to be reserved and find the subtle, healthy smallroots of love. haha My 7th house: Aries. What a shitshow. Ok Aries 7th house that’s what the Other looks like to me, that’s the opposite-mirror energy that I need to learn to inhabit in order to unlock true sympathy/compassion and leap forward in growth. Developing the energy of my Aries 7th house will lmao that’s so rough Ok do I finish? I am get kind of bored. We’ll do Mars. Aries/Mars/1st: You must use might for right, little baby, and you must be the noblest of knights and not just a bad baby or a brutish warrior. You can be a tender baby and a strong warrior, tho. Just not bad or brutish My Aries sign, which rules my 7th house: My relationships. They etc will blossom if I work well with this energy. My Mars, who will be doing the work: Gemini, little sir Gemini, my trusty horse is a Gemini. Mars is your horse you ride into battle. Um just to say that I think your sword or your whatever your offensive weapon represents your sun, because it is the actual enactor of your will. But idk all metaphors are kaleidescopic and it just depends how you look at it. Anyway he’s a little Gemini so the battlefield is often being a troll and learning how to have aggressive conversations in a playful yet nice way. My 1st house, ruled by Libra: So that’s the battlefield, ya? And the basic ecological quality of the battlefield is Libra: the rules are fairness, justice, gentleness. So I need to use my snippy Gemini Mars to enact the goals of peaceful Libra. Yeah! This is rly good. And that’s all the personals except Chiron and Ceres. I’LL DO THOSE TOO GOOD LORD Chiron/Virgo/6th: Surrender, do what needs to be done tho it is unpleasant, learn how to be open to things you wouldn’t choose to do My Virgo sign, which rules my 12th house: My whole cosmic everything/spiritual life will blossom when I get this good. My eternal sunrise. My Chiron, who is the guardian/janitor/maid/mender/etc whatever: He is in Cancer in the 10th house wow ok. Cancer... So Chiron is the dude who... god it’s still elusive. A sign interpretation of Chiron. He is the person who bears my wounds. He is Cancer...the wounds are cancer. And the superpower to be a healer of this energy - that energy is cancer energy. The wounded, and the healer. 6th house, which is Pisces: ugh this is hard and I’m bored, what the fuck is psices ruling the 6th hosue in this context. house is a LANDSCAPE? What is a HEALING LANDSCAPE? Is it that my...ughhhh....the things I have to do but can’t seem oceanic? And I need to learn to SAIL to master them? I like that heh heh heh. Ceres/Taurus/2nd: Agriculture, resonance, satiation. My Taurus energy, ruling my 8th house: My 8th house is where crops will grow if I tend them. Uh? What does that mean? My SEX LIFE? THAT WOULD BE COOL! My Ceres, the farmer, in Virgo: Picky and... I like her a lot she has cool aspects. But Virgo is so passive and picky, and it’s felt like cultivation needs a lot of energy and doing. I prefer wu-wei farming... My 2nd house, in Scorpio: It seems like I have to cultivate very shifty things. I have to manifest the transformativity. I haha I love this this is so apparent with th work I’m doing with my yard. I’m making a mushroom paradise at the top of the hill. My backyard is a shady hill with wooded qualities, and I’m trying to make it a generator of soil so that it will flow awesome soil into the front yard. So my Ceres DOES the tilling of this soil. She’s the FARMER

This is really good. I could really work with this, I like it so much. It’s my favorite astrology form, because it’s a way you can sorta dissect the organ systems of a chart. Then you can see how they all work together. Exciting!

[vardasvapors]

meme, thoughts about how the characters look?

lmao, uh, my “thoughts” about what individual characters looks like are thoughtful and multiple choice and generally are not the same as my Automatic Mental Image of the characters, which are intractable and irrational (er….this is gonna sound stupid, but it was only in the last, like, 3 years that I realized not everybody gets immediate vivid mental images of characters whenever they pick up a book and that my thing is Weird so, uh). But how about…have some of my more general automatic mental imagery from when I was a kid:

1. When I was eight, I saw a community production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream something like 2 weeks before reading The Hobbit for the first time. IIRC, I pretty much imported that production’s Oberon onto Thranduil, and, I think, this import brought along with it remnants of that production’s set dec that were then grandfathered into every single other foresty elf place in the legendarium.

2. The main image that fizzes in my mind whenever I hear the word ‘elf’ or ‘elves’ in the context of Tolkien is this, impression of foamy unnatural clinging hair and soft unnatural clinging clothing with lots of little layered parts that’s more decorative than functional and doesn’t look like anything humans have ever worn commonly anywhere, with a special emphasis on very soft-soled shoes that are completely useless bc elves don’t need shoes. I think it is rooted mostly in Three is Company somehow. ….Yes there’s a nonsense logical leap there. No I don’t know how else to say it! Sorry! Uh, I also can’t remember if I imagined them with pointed ears or not - I wasn’t really exposed to tolkien-inspired fantasy content before I read actualfax tolkien, but otoh I don’t remember ever being surprised by the ears later, so idk?

3. I remember drumming up a variety of north african and middle-eastern and roman-looking dunedain! (yeah “roman” was apparently a specific race for me when I was 11, idk, I think I read a book where the romans were really Stern and Impressive or something). This was all from the Appendices – I don’t recall how much I absorbed about Numenor but I knew that the language that most of the Numenorean rulers’ names were given in was that other different foreign-sounding one with all the ë’s (I knew nothing of finnish at this point), not that other more familiar elvish language with all the -th’s that sounded sort of welsh. And that then this thing happened that reminded me a lot of the fall of Rome and of both Noah and Moses, and guys I am not and wasn’t raised christian or jewish so what I mostly understood at the age of 11 was that the bible had cool stories and this stuff was really biblical and also that all the bible people were either brown like me or not the anglo-type white like 95% of the people around me.

4. I….did picture hobbits as emphatically old-timey (I wasn’t very up on my historical periods back lol) british-y white, though not very pale. The stylistic nods pinged so hard I didn’t even consider picturing them any other way until I joined fandom.

5. More recent of a thing: I like to imagine dwarves being more just short than actually small. Like, they still have a very sturdy and stocky close to human sized build, but rarely get much taller than around 4′6″. I really like the Gimli’s in this fanart and this other fanart (though this one is ofc very stylized). Just, idk, I’m not saying one cannot take cute/funny-designed people seriously or anything like that of course, but in Tolkien, I feel like dwarves should have a more straightforwardly-taken-seriously vibe than, say, hobbits, or ents, or whatever Tom Bombadil is, or figures like that, who are more of the surprise-twist form of being taken seriously. But I’m not totally committed to this.

6. I remember that one of the things that I disliked most about the movies when I first saw them when I was 12 was how OTT hideous the orcs were, especially whatshisname, Puffy McTumor-Face from the Pelennor Fields in ROTK. Lmao wow even right now I can vividly remember the sheer level of contempt I felt towards PJ for that - not entirely unlike the irritation I felt at Tolkien for doing them so much less interestingly compared to Smeagol, but much stronger because it was neutral, not filtered through a scared hobbit’s eyes (not that I articulated it so consciously back then). I don’t remember if I managed to nail down the exact word or say it out loud, but I thought the excessive ugliness was “cowardly” - the same way I felt about the facelessness of the stormtroopers in Star Wars. Anyway, eventually I decided they look like the inverse of elves - elves looked like humans, but with an unsettling strange beauty, so orcs looked like humans, but with a very offputting uncanny valley.