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dduane · 4 months ago
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Been thinking more about Planetaries again - on two levels: should we anticipate more appearances from them in the main sequence books to come? Also, while we hear from Earth's planetary, I don't recall the *Earth* speaking up - in-universe, is that something that happens often? Or is it more like the Powers, where any 'speaking' is strictly an indirect matter? (Can celestial bodies be wizards? ... Wait, we know that one, silly question. XD)
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(b) When a planet has a species sufficiently evolved (in the wizardly sense, which is complex) for a member of it to hold the office of Planetary, they do the speaking for the planet. Worlds without sufficiently advanced species, or holding the space for one that may appear at a later date, will either speak for themselves or nominate another world's Planetary to handle that for them, depending on the situation that obtains. Worlds that are the dominant species will, as we've seen, also speak for themselves.
(a) You're not really expecting me to answer that, are you? Didn't think so. (chortle)
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nasa · 17 days ago
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Space Rocks!🤘But Also ️Space Rocks!☄️
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Asteroids: they’re ancient, rocky, and way cooler than you might think. June 30 is International Asteroid Day, a global event to raise awareness about asteroids and what we’re doing to study them. Here’s why we’re obsessed with them (and why you should be, too).
What are asteroids?
Asteroids are leftover building blocks from the early solar system, orbiting the Sun like planetary time capsules. Most hang out in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, but some—called Near-Earth Objects, or NEOs—orbit closer to home. They range in size from 329 miles (530 kilometers) in diameter to less than 33 feet (10 meters) across.
Why do we study them?
Studying asteroids helps us unlock the origins of our solar system. 
In 2023, our OSIRIS-REx mission collected a sample from asteroid Bennu that could reveal whether asteroids delivered water and other ingredients for life when they collided with Earth billions of years ago.
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Lucy in the sky…with asteroids? Our Lucy mission, which launched in 2021, is named for a fossilized skeleton of a human ancestor, which was in turn named for the Beatles song “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.” Lucy is the first mission to explore asteroids that share an orbit around the Sun with Jupiter.
A timelapse of the asteroid Donaldjohanson taken on NASA’s Lucy spacecraft. The images, captured approximately every 2 seconds beginning at 1:50 p.m. EDT April 20, 2025, show a white, irregular, elongated shape rotating slowly. Its surface is covered in small craters and has a rough, uneven texture. The asteroid appears bright against a black background. Credit: NASA/Goddard/SwRI/Johns Hopkins APL
What if an asteroid hits Earth?
NASA’s Planetary Defense Program uses telescopes to keep an eye out for asteroids and other NEOs, in case any get too close for comfort. Although a catastrophic collision is highly unlikely for the next 100 years or more, the telescopes detect smaller objects on a collision course with Earth a few times per year. No need to worry—these objects are just a few feet (meters) in size and cause no damage.
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theofficialastronomy101 · 7 months ago
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Clearest Image ever taken of Mars’ North Pole. Yes that’s water ice.
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mentallyillmindmeld · 5 months ago
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“I’m a top” “I’m a bottom” I’m unbelievable (yeah)??? I’m undefeatable (yeah)??? Let’s ruin everything?? Blast it to the back row??
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mychemicalvideogame · 3 months ago
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gerard way [ my chemical romance ] and mikey way [ my chemical romance ] as mabel and sable [ animal crossing ]
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heyyyjpg · 7 months ago
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theskywithin · 2 months ago
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Saturn in Aries - May 24 to September 1, 2025 ( for your Rising Sign )
Saturn in Aries will hit each of us in a different house, a different corner of the chart, a different chapter of the self. This isn’t just astrology. It’s pressure, precision, the part of your life that’s about to get stripped down, sharpened, and asked to grow the hell up. Wherever Aries falls in your birth chart is where the performance ends. Where you stop pretending. Where Saturn builds a wall around what you actually care about so you can stop giving your energy to what you don’t.
Here’s what Saturn in Aries is demanding from you, based on your rising sign:
Aries Rising | Saturn in the 1st House
This isn’t a makeover, this is a molting. A dismantling of every version of yourself you’ve ever thrown at the world just to survive. Saturn in the 1st doesn’t want your confidence, it wants your courage. The kind that doesn’t come from being fearless, but from being seen while still unfinished. While shaking. While covered in ash from everything you just burned.
For years, you’ve been quick, reactive, you’ve sprinted through doors just because they were open, fought battles just because they existed. But now the sky says stop. Not to slow you down, but to make sure you know who the hell you are before you charge into what’s next. This is identity on trial. This is instinct under pressure. This is the end of adrenaline-as-purpose.
You’ll feel it in your bones first, that ache that says “this version of me isn’t enough anymore.” Not because you’re lacking, but because you’ve outgrown your armor. And Saturn? He doesn’t let you fake it. He won’t let you perform confidence. He wants you naked in your becoming, sober in your desire, deliberate in your power. This is the first house. The house of I am. So the question becomes: are you?
Are you willing to be honest about who you’ve been? Are you willing to dismantle the identity that helped you survive, so you can become the one that helps you live? Because this is the fire that leaves a mark. And Saturn doesn’t give trophies. He leaves scars, the kind that prove you chose to become real.
Taurus Rising | Saturn in the 12th House
This is the sound of your own silence growing louder. The part of you that’s always known, always avoided, now knocking harder. Saturn in the 12th doesn’t arrive with a spotlight. He slips in through the crack under the door, settles into the corners of your dreams, and starts pulling threads. You won’t always know what’s being undone but you’ll feel the unraveling.
This is the house of the undone self, the memories you’ve buried under routine, the grief you numbed with loyalty, the rage you wrapped in politeness. Saturn brings them all back like ghosts who finally demand names. Not to haunt you but to be laid to rest properly.
Here, discipline isn’t external. It’s internal exorcism. You may find yourself exhausted. Disoriented. Pulled toward isolation, reflection, release. But this is not a punishment. This is sacred demolition. This is the year you stop outsourcing your healing to other people’s approval. This is where you stop pretending that being still is the same as being safe.
Saturn is asking: What part of you has been in hiding? What pain have you made peace with just to avoid feeling it? What truth have you postponed in the name of appearing grounded? Because this is the excavation of the unconscious. And no amount of control will protect you from what needs to be faced. You’re not here to be solid. You’re here to be stripped down to essence and still remain.
Gemini Rising | Saturn in the 11th House
This is the year your crowd thins out. Not because you’re unlovable, but because your vision finally sharpens.
Saturn in the 11th walks into the room and turns down the volume. Every echo of approval you used to chase. Every connection that filled time but not truth. Every dream you clung to because it made you feel busy enough to avoid the real one underneath. This is not the collapse of your community, it’s the pruning of your future.
The 11th house is where we project. Hopes, affiliations, longings too big to hold alone. But Saturn isn’t sentimental. He walks through your social life with a scalpel, asking: Which of these people actually see you? Which of these dreams still belong to you?
You’ll feel it as distance at first. As disconnection. But it’s not loss, it’s calibration. The truth is, you’ve been carrying expired visions. Ones you inherited, ones you outgrew, ones that never truly had your name on them. And Saturn is done letting you pretend you can outrun that with charm, speed, or wit.
This transit is the end of performance-based belonging. The death of the shapeshifter who only knows how to reflect the room. You’re not here to be everyone’s favorite idea. You’re here to become the blueprint no one’s seen before.
And yes, that might mean doing it alone at first. But you won’t be alone forever. Because the ones who find you on the other side of this? They’ll be the ones who were never afraid of your truth to begin with.
Cancer Rising | Saturn in the 10th House
This is where the scaffolding collapses and the bones of your ambition are left out in the open, trembling, unpainted, real.
Saturn in the 10th house doesn’t care how well you’ve played the part. The title, the posture, the curated image of strength, he strips all of it. Not to expose you, but to rebuild you from the marrow. This is legacy under x-ray. Reputation under pressure. Power without costume. And it starts at the root. The unspoken expectations. The inherited pressure. The voices of parents, teachers, cultures that said: “Be good. Be great. Be what we couldn’t.”
But Saturn doesn’t want performance, he wants authority. Not authority you imitate, but the kind you forge through friction. This is not the success story you imagined. This is the one that scorches your name into stone.
You may find yourself questioning everything: the path you’re on, the goals you inherited, the mask of being “put together” you’ve worn like a second skin. And Saturn? He’ll keep the pressure on until you crack, not to break you, but to prove that your center holds even when everything else falls away.
This is your reputation becoming honest. This is your ambition growing teeth. This is your spine learning how to stand without applause. Because the world doesn’t need your perfection. It needs your presence, raw, capable, unafraid to lead from the place you once felt small.
Leo Rising | Saturn in the 9th House
This is where your philosophy gets torn at the seams. Not because it was wrong, but because it was too small to hold who you're becoming. Saturn in the 9th is here to make you uncomfortable with your certainty. To push against every worldview you’ve wrapped around your fear and called it wisdom. The sky opens to test what you’ll cling to when the map catches fire.
You may find your beliefs shifting like tectonic plates, slow, brutal, irreversible. You may lose faith in the things that once gave you direction. But that’s the point. Saturn doesn’t build cathedrals from inspiration. He builds them from stone and silence.
This is where borrowed truths dissolve. Where secondhand doctrines fall apart in your hands. Where you stop quoting what saved someone else, and start figuring out what will actually save you.
And it’s not just spiritual. It’s personal. The dreams you thought were yours. The meaning you sought in travel, in teachers, in elevation, all of it is being stripped until what’s left is real belief, not spectacle. Not borrowed light. Just the raw heat of your own knowing, forged through experience.
Because Saturn isn’t testing your faith. He’s testing whether you can walk without a compass. Whether you can keep going when the sky doesn’t answer back. This is the architecture of meaning, built from your own reckoning. No shortcuts. No rehearsals. No borrowed lines. Only truth and the weight of living it.
Virgo Rising | Saturn in the 8th House
This is not healing, this is demolition disguised as intimacy. Saturn in the 8th doesn’t care how tidy your pain looks, or how carefully you’ve packaged your past. He wants the raw footage, the unedited version. The losses you swallowed. The debts you buried. The way you flinch when someone tries to see too much. Here, Saturn becomes the locksmith of your most private vaults. The ones where your shame sleeps. Where your control mechanisms live like bodyguards around your heart. Where closeness always costs more than you admit.
And now, he’s prying open every emotional contract, spoken and unspoken. The ones where you gave too much just to be held. The ones where silence became currency. The ones you inherited, absorbed, reenacted without consent.
This is where power gets personal. Where trust becomes a labor. Where letting someone in means you no longer get to narrate the story from a safe distance.
Saturn in the 8th will ask: Where are you still giving away your energy just to feel secure? What are you clinging to that was never truly yours? What have you survive, and what have you actually integrated?
There is no shame left to hide behind. No seduction left to perform. Only the quiet, brutal process of reclaiming what was taken and learning to hold what you never believed you were worthy of receiving. Because this isn’t about becoming fearless. It’s about becoming so honest that fear has nowhere left to hide.
Libra Rising | Saturn in the 7th House
This is the year you stop curating yourself into someone else’s comfort. Saturn is setting fire to every performance you’ve ever confused with love. The effortless smile. The art of knowing exactly what someone needs before they ask. The way you’ve built your worth around how easy you are to love, how little space you take up, how softly you leave when it’s time to go.
But this time, you’re not leaving. You’re staying. And Saturn is watching. He wants to know what happens when you stop being agreeable and start being honest. The 7th house is where we meet the Other. But Saturn doesn’t want your projections, he wants the contract. The one you signed every time you said “yes” when you meant “no.” Every time you shaped yourself into someone else’s safe place while your own boundaries quietly bled beneath the surface. Now, that agreement expires.
Relationships may break. Dynamics will shift. But nothing is being taken from you, only returned. Your voice. Your standards. Your solitude. The terrifying freedom of not being chosen by people who only loved the version of you that never made demands.
You will learn that commitment without truth is just a slow kind of erasure. That love without confrontation is convenience. And that the most intimate thing you can say is: This is who I am, even if you leave.
This is not about finding “the one.” This is about becoming someone who can look in the mirror and say: I don’t abandon myself to belong anymore. Saturn in Aries doesn’t want your charm, he wants your spine.
Scorpio Rising | Saturn in the 6th House
This is not about balance, this is about blood. About what it takes to carry a life, not in theory, but in your actual body.
Saturn in the 6th house comes like a cold dawn. No applause, no audience, just the reality of what must be done. He doesn’t care about your dreams if your sleep is wrecked. He doesn’t care about your potential if your nervous system is burning. This is not the house of magic, it’s the house of maintenance. And Saturn is here to show you where you’ve been surviving on adrenaline and calling it discipline.
Here, the sacred is in the repetition. In the unsexy, unshared, unseen parts of your life. The way your jaw clenches when you’re pretending you’re fine. The way your body keeps score when your mind stays silent. You will be asked to choose what sustains you, not what impresses them. You will be asked to stop performing functionality and live it. To make your rituals not about optimization, but about reverence.
This is the house of devotion but not the kind you learned in church. This is devotion as digestion. As scheduling your grief. As reintroducing yourself to hunger, rest, routine, not to control your body, but to listen to it.
Saturn will show you where you betray your wellness in the name of responsibility. Where you serve out of resentment instead of remembrance. Where your helpfulness has become a cage disguised as competence. This is where humility becomes holy. Where your healing becomes logistical. Where you stop reaching for transcendence and begin staying with yourself through the uncomfortable hours. Saturn doesn’t want you to glow. He wants you to endure, beautifully, honestly, and without apology.
Sagittarius Rising | Saturn in the 5th House
This is the year your performance dies. The applause fades. The spotlight cools. And you’re left standing onstage with nothing but your own heartbeat and the echo of everything you once did just to be loved.
Saturn in the 5th doesn’t want your charm. He wants your core. Not the curated personality, but the feral truth beneath it, the messy, unfiltered wanting you’ve learned to tuck behind laughter and light. Because this house isn’t just about creativity. It’s about creation. And creation requires risk. Not the kind that thrills, but the kind that strips. That exposes you not as you imagine yourself to be, but as you actually are when no one claps, when no one validates, when no one says "more."
This transit is a reckoning with your need to be seen. Where you confuse attention with connection. Where you’ve built a persona just sturdy enough to keep your real self hidden behind it.
Love becomes a mirror now and Saturn won’t let you flinch. He’ll show you where you perform desire instead of inhabiting it. Where you make art from longing but refuse to stand inside it. Where your joy depends on being witnessed instead of being lived. This isn’t about being liked. It’s about being willing to stand in your full fire, awkward, raw, unrehearsed, and say: This is me. Even if no one stays to watch.
And when you create from there? When you love from there? It won’t be easy. But it will be real. And Saturn, that hard, relentless teacher, will finally nod. Because that’s the moment you stop performing your life and start living it.
Capricorn Rising | Saturn in the 4th House
This is the quake beneath the floorboards. The slow, guttural sound of a life you built on inherited silence beginning to split at its seams.
Saturn in the 4th doesn’t knock. He rattles. He sinks into the foundation of your being and starts asking questions your family never let you ask. Why do you hold your breath when you speak your needs? Why does safety feel like surveillance? Why does love feel like labor?
The 4th house is not just where you come from, it’s what you carry. The myth of strength. The legacy of self-denial. The house rules no one wrote down, but you still live by. And now, Saturn is burning the blueprint.
You may feel the walls shift. You may feel rootless. Disoriented. But that’s the point. Because this isn’t about returning home, it’s about realizing you’ve never actually felt at home in the first place. This is where loyalty becomes a leash. Where survival strategies start to rot. Where "family" becomes a question, not a given.
You’ll be asked to excavate the grief you normalized. To question the caretakers you mythologized. To finally define what belonging means when it’s not based on endurance or erasure. Saturn here demands structure from within. Not the scaffolding of duty, but the spine of self-trust. Not the house you inherited, but the home you build, slowly, honestly, brick by emotional brick.
Because this time, the foundation has to hold you. Not your lineage. Not their expectations. You.
Aquarius Rising | Saturn in the 3rd House
This is where the noise gets dangerous. Where every thought you inherited, every script you swallowed, every belief that colonized your mind without consent begins to crack under its own weight.
Saturn in the 3rd house doesn’t just ask you to speak. He asks you to discern. To pull apart the voice you use to survive from the voice that’s actually yours. Here, the mind becomes a haunted house. Full of sentences that sound like you, but taste like shame. Ideas passed down like heirlooms. Opinions you wore like armor because clarity felt too vulnerable.
You may feel mentally constricted. Like every word you try to form gets stuck in your throat, like the page is blank because your thoughts are on trial. But this isn’t punishment. It’s purification. Because the 3rd house is not just how you speak, it’s how you think, narrate, repeat. It’s the tone of your inner monologue. And Saturn doesn’t want chatter. He wants truth.
You’ll begin to notice what no longer fits. The small talk that drains you. The constant mental multitasking you use to avoid silence. The ways you intellectualize pain so you don’t have to feel it. And then Saturn will hand you a scalpel and ask: What stays? What dies? And who are you without the noise?
This is the discipline of clarity. The reclamation of your mind as sacred space. And once you speak from that place, clean, slow, certain, there will be no going back.
Pisces Rising | Saturn in the 2nd House
This is the year you stop calling survival a personality trait. Saturn in the 2nd doesn’t care how generous you are, how adaptable, how endlessly available. He comes for the ledger. The one no one sees but you. The one where you keep track of what you’ve given, what you’ve tolerated, and how often you’ve undercharged your own spirit just to feel wanted.
This house isn’t just about possessions. It’s about thresholds. About how much depletion you normalize. About whether your boundaries are made of doors or doormats.
You’ve lived too long thinking value is earned through sacrifice. That worth is proven by becoming useful, needed, desirable. But Saturn rewrites the pricing of your energy. And this time, your self-abandonment is too expensive to keep buying. You’ll feel it in the hunger first. A hunger not for food or touch, but for rest, for enoughness. And then the grief comes. The grief of realizing how many years you mistook being chosen for being cherished.
This transit isn’t here to punish you, it’s here to teach you how to own yourself. Not in the way capitalism demands, but in the way your inner child always wanted: with consistency, protection, and space to stop apologizing.
Saturn in the 2nd doesn’t just show you what you have. He shows you what you will no longer betray yourself to receive. You are the resource now and you’re done being mined.
Whatever house it touches, it doesn’t ask, it demands. It strips the story down to bone. It builds from the burn marks. You will be made honest. You will be made real. You will be made new, not by grace, but by grit. And once you pass through this fire, you will not fit back into who you were before.
So don’t try. Saturn didn’t come to fix you. He came to forge you.
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taiyokei · 5 months ago
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Some comic strip based off the readjusted true-colour approx. of Uranus and Neptune by Professor Patrick Irwin and his team
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amnhnyc · 4 months ago
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Did you know? Uranus is four times wider than planet Earth. And on this day in history in 1781, it was discovered by British astronomer William Herschel. He was using his telescope when he noticed an object in the sky. He thought it to be a star or comet, but within two years, other astronomers showed it was a new planet orbiting the Sun! Uranus, the third largest planet in our solar system, appears blue due to the methane in its atmosphere.
Fun fact: One Uranian year (a complete rotation around the Sun) takes about 84 Earth years to complete.
Image: NASA / Orange-kun, CC0, Wikimedia Commons (artist rendering)
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crandairy-juice · 1 year ago
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jade with long cornrow braids with beads featuring the planets
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author-morgan · 1 month ago
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okay, but hear me out, martian rocks — nakhlite edition.
to anyone who ever said rocks aren’t cool, you’re wrong.
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thepunkmuppet · 1 year ago
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reblog if you’re:
unbelievable
ugh
so unbelievable
uUUUughHh
and if you:
ruin everything
ooohhh
better go home
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stickersaints · 6 days ago
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“frank put together this setlist” oh im SURE he did
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theofficialastronomy101 · 1 year ago
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(NEW UPDATE WITH PHOTOS) Send us your best photos!
Absolutely beautiful! I hope everyone took this in! Makes you think just how small we are. A moment the world comes together as one! That’s true humanity . We will be uploading more amazing photos to this same post. So come back later on and check out our 2024 once in a lifetime eclipse photos.
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bunny-claws · 1 month ago
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planetary aid tldr;
the moon will help you find balance and become in tune with your emotions. 
the sun will help you to be confident and aid in your success. 
mercury will help you when you are traveling or need to study. 
venus will help you become compassionate and form partnerships. 
mars will help to set your goals into action and give you a boost of energy. 
jupiter will help you to become prosperous and improve your luck. 
saturn will help you to be determined but also to serve justice. 
uranus will help you to improve your intuition and promote higher thinking. 
neptune will help to expand your mind and decipher your dreams.
pluto will help you when you need to change your ways and to reveal all that is hidden.
compiled from my personal grimoire & based on my own associations
© 2025 bunny-claws
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