#would that the rest of us could emulate that level of calm and strategy when faced with that much blood

[ohbutwheresyourheart]

okay I'm not arguing against the obvious fact that Bev Keane is a godawful human being

but

she's a real one for seeing her real life skrunkly scrimblo covered in blood and going "okay, we're gonna fix this for you baby boy"

[mirrinbelde-shitposts]

hey girl💐i’d luv a chance to guess ur Mercury sign.. my guess is Capricorn Mercury, ur writings are very organized n straight to the point, smart too. Whether or not I’m right, i wish u a nice day/nite👑

this my chart;) thank u, take care!

Hey! You got it right, congratulations! Have a good day too ^^

Welcome to your reading. Please remember to send feedback.

First impressions when looking at your chart: sea-saw chart shape; MC-IC axis at anaretic degree

SUN IN TAURUS

Your Sun sign is Taurus. You embody the Venusian energy well: you enjoy the finer things in life. This sign is best known for being stubborn; with this amount of Taurus energy, I’m sure you’re quite stubborn, which is a more negative way of saying determined. When you get an idea in your head, you won’t rest until you achieve it. You’re quite friendly and probably enjoy gossip. You’re reliable and hardworking. Being a fixed sign, I’d say you’re most likely not great at dealing with change; you prefer things staying the same. Comfort is important to you, be it literally or figuratively. You are very attached to your earthly possessions; furthermore, I’d say you have a bit of a radical mindset when it comes to money: you’re either too frugal or you spend too much money. Beware of possessiveness and laziness.

SUN IN THE 4TH HOUSE

This placement is somewhat similar to Cancer Sun. I'd say family life is very important to you, as is your home, emotional security and harmony. In order to grow as a person, you should take your time cultivating your positive traits. You may struggle to understand who you really are: the answer is inside, not outside. At the same time, there may be a tendency to emulate behaviours of those closest to you, which may contribute to the aforementioned lack of self-knowledge. Focus on yourself; practice mindfulness. There may also be some sort of conflict with your father or another father figure. Perhaps this person was overly dominating toward you, which may hinder your journey to self-discovery. You may, in time, develop those same characteristics. However, this placement may start to manifest more strongly later in life.

MOON IN TAURUS

The Moon is exalted in Taurus. Placed here, the Moon is quite happy, for this sign goes nicely with its characteristics: family-oriented, home, comfort, calm, familiar things, loving and caring. As with Taurus Sun, you may place a big importance on material things. With the Moon, however, it’s a bit different: you may develop an emotional attachment to some belongings of yours, perhaps because they provide you security. You’re the kind of person to stay home and enjoy a hearty meal, cuddle in front of the fireplace and enjoy sleeping in a comfy bed. You’re quite calm and caring; however, expressing your emotions may not be your strong suit. You should work on your deep attachment issues because they can destroy you if the object of that attachment abandons you.

MOON IN THE 4TH HOUSE

Once again, the Moon is quite happy here, which is the house it rules. This placement ensures that you have a strong connection to your roots: namely, family and home life; it could also be interpreted as your geographic location. Unlike the Sun, 4H Moon wants to feel like a part of the family structure. Your home is probably your refuge when things get difficult. You want harmony and safety in your everyday life. You are probably sensitive and caring and these traits make you someone appreciated both at home and in the workplace. Also, this is a good placement for parents. However, you may lack objectivity, often letting your feelings influence your opinions. You feel deeply.

MERCURY IN GEMINI

This is one of the two signs ruled by Mercury. Gemini embodies the more chatty, talkative side of Mercury. You are curious, intelligent and love to possess and acquire knowledge of every kind. You are good at both writing and speaking; however, speaking is probably the thing for which you are known. Gemini is known as the sign that never shuts up; this is particularly true in your case, with Mercury in this sign. However, since your mind is always racing, you may lack an attention span, always going from one thing to the other. Staying committed to tasks and goals may be a problem for you because you get tired of things quickly. You are good with words and love to socialize. Emotions may be rationalized.

MERCURY IN THE 5TH HOUSE

This is a great placement for artists, especially those whose fields are ruled by Mercury, such as writers. It allows you to pour all your creativity and originality into your craft. Your many ideas are expressed in fun ways and your show a jovial way of seeing things. You may enjoy puzzles or other activities that involve strategy, as well as sports (yes, because sports also require tactics). Basketball, for example, would be a good sport for someone with this placement. Additionally, it's a good Mercury position for someone who works with kids or teenagers, as well as parents. You are creative and fun and it shows.

VENUS IN GEMINI

As is the case of Air Venus, Gemini Venus requires a partner that will spend hours with them talking about anything. You seek a partner that is intelligent and educated and who can hold a conversation. If the other person cannot keep up with you intellectually, it will probably be a huge turn-off. You want someone who is as smart as you, someone who makes you laugh and accepts your quirky nature. However, it may be difficult to find such a partner. You are not great at expressing your emotions, so connecting head and heart is a way to help this. Also, you tend to not show you truly think and you're always joking, so people probably wonder about how you actually feel about them. You are probably quite indecisive when it comes to love and relationships.

VENUS IN THE 6TH HOUSE

Here, Venus gives great importance to things associated with Virgo: routine, health, job. It is important for you to have your routine and to plan things. Once you acquire a habit, it is difficult to let go of it ("Old habits die hard."). Similarly, it is important that you incorporate activities with your partner in your daily schedule. Funnily enough, it is routine that makes you miss things you no longer have: for example, if you lose a friend, you may miss them more because you used to talk every day. You enjoy working on projects that make you feel like you're doing something meaningful; your chosen profession must fulfil you. You want a harmonious workplace that makes you feel happy to work. Also, you have an eye for detail. There can be a need to obsess about your health, as well as your loved ones'.

MARS IN GEMINI

Gemini Mars, to me, indicates that your battlefield is words. Your “attack” is how you think, connect the dots and put your opinions into words. This placement makes me think that you have vast knowledge in almost everything and you’re willing to debate with anyone about anything. I’d say you’re also good at multitasking and bad at routines. You could do with a bit more determination; Gemini is a sign known for its indecisiveness, so you may struggle with carrying out your thoughts and ideas. You have many different interests and can change them up quite a lot, sort of similar to Gemini Mercury. You would do well to be a little more committed to your interests and ambitions.

MARS IN THE 6TH HOUSE

The planet of action has its joy in this house, according to the principles of Hellenistic Astrology. Mars strongly wants to take action, but the 6th house forces it to be more methodical and less impulsive. Your workplace may become your figurative battlefield. You need to be active in everyday life, but you also want to feel that what you're doing is meaningful and makes you feel useful. Mars here acts strongly and concretely in areas of life that are related to work, mainly career, as I mentioned. This seems to be a good position for a leader in the workplace. Similar to Venus, 6H Mars may worry a lot about the body. A great deal of your energy may be directed into taking care of it, perhaps going to the gym is an activity you enjoy.

JUPITER IN CANCER

Jupiter is exalted in this sign. The planet of expansion and luck finds in Cancer a good means of expressing its energy, for the sign is a sensitive one. Whilst Cancer is already sweet and caring, Jupiter expands these traits even more. You are generally a calm person, who empathizes with people's feelings and has a need to both listen and talk to others. However, you can become very fierce when someone messes with those you love. You probably have a very motherly side to you that draws people in. Additionally, I have said that Cancer is the most intuitive sign: Jupiter in Cancer only makes this even more so. Listen to your intuition, which is quite accurate; learn to trust your gut feelings (for example, you guessed my Capricorn sign correctly :D).

JUPITER IN THE 7TH HOUSE

This placement is a highly auspicious one for relationships and partnerships of any kind. It elevates even more Cancer Jupiter because it allows you to fully connect with people on a deep level. You possess the ability to communicate with others and understand their feelings, which makes you someone quite great around which to be. It also favours the expansion of knowledge. All of this applies to romantic relationships as well. You may get into them easily and seem to usually enter the right ones (Jupiter grants you luck). You are quite a caring, sweet partner and bring a very good, calm energy to your relationships. However, this can be a paradoxical placement: on one side, you want that security with your partner and want them to be dedicated to you; on the other, you need your freedom. Balancing these two can be quite tricky, so your partner must understand both of these sides of you.

SATURN IN GEMINI

Saturn here may cause you to be unsure about the themes of Gemini: communication, thinking and expressing yourself. This can cause you to be afraid to speak in public or to withhold voicing your true opinions. You may delve into the study of every area of life or, on the contrary, avoid it at all costs. You probably ponder your words before you speak them. You may have a tendency to be introverted due to this. In a past life, you may have misused your voice, so your purpose in this life is to learn the power of your words. Also, you probably struggle with order, discipline and setting realistic goals. Saturns wants you to learn how to deal with these topics in this lifetime. You may have a lack of self-esteem due to the problems aforementioned. It is important that you work on these blockages.

SATURN IN THE 6TH HOUSE

You can feel responsible for other people, especially your coworkers, even if you struggle getting along with them. There’s a need to serve, to be of use to others; you may find it hard to relax. You are quite organized, so you’d do well to make use of it. You could also be the type to help others in the way to their goals. However, you should also understand that, sometimes, you should just let go and go with the flow. Not everything in life is about hard work, routines or responsibilities. Find something that excites you; try some meditation. There may also be some health issues, perhaps you had them in your childhood. ⬛

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The Miracle at Gabba

It still hasn’t sunk in.

With the series tied 1-1, all India had to do was draw this match to retain this trophy. Australia were in front for almost all the match, and set India a target of 328 on a 5th day pitch. All the experts and pundits were still predicting an Australian win, with a slim chance of a draw if rain intervened. 

No rain arrived. And then the unthinkable happened.

Australia lost at the Gabba, Brisbane after 32 years.

India beat them, without our main batsman, main pace bowler and main spinner. How did this miracle happen.

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Growing up, a test series in Australia used to be a glorious affair. The television would be switched on at 5am, with an early morning cup of hot filter coffee to soothe the nerves. Seeing the carefully manicured grass in different shapes and shades of green used to feel therapeutic. Only until the first ball was bowled. And then it all went downhill. Our bowlers could never handle the Australian batting, even the experienced ones. Our much vaunted batting hardly did better. Even the great Sachin Tendulkar (with Virender Sehwag, Rahul Dravid and VVS Laxman in tow) couldn’t prevent the 4-0 (1991), 3-0 (1999), 1-1(2004), 2-1(2007)  and 4-0 (2011) results through his career. Not a single win on Australian soil. As a generation, we were scarred of Australian tours with even our greatest unable to get us a series win there.

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India started this series being dismissed for 36 all out. The team sheet read:

Prithvi Shaw, Mayank Agrawal, Pujara, Virat Kohli, Rahane, Hanuma Vihari, Wriddhiman Saha, R Ashwin, Umesh Yadav, Mohd Shami, Jasprit Bumrah

India ended the series with 329/7 for a series win. The cast was:

Rohit Sharma, Shubman Gill, Pujara, Rahane, Mayank Agrawal, Rishabh Pant, Washington Sundar, Shardul Thakur, Navdeep Saini, Mohd Siraj, T Natarajan.

Only 2 players in common. Find them. Possibly a quiz question for the future.

Almost the entire cast was replaced. The bowling unit was completely re-assembled.

The new cast contained 3 bowlers from RCB, Navdeep Saini, Mohammad Siraj and Washington Sundar, with whom Kohli has been unable to win even a single IPL trophy in a decade. 

Our pace attack had a combined 13 tests in between them. The Australian attack had over 1013. 

The same Australian attack played all 4 tests. Mitchell Starc, Josh Hazlewood, Nathan Lyon and the greatest bowler currently, Pat Cummins, bowled tirelessly and effectively. They were touted as one of the greatest attacks of all time.

Yet, we won.

Over the course of this series, the Indian team grew up. We all grew up.

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Cheteshwar Pujara and Ajinkya Rahane were the only 2 Indians to play the full series.

Pujara took more blows on his body than any cricketer I have seen, and didn’t flinch once in facing the next ball. He knew Cummins had the ability to make the ball climb steeply off a good length on a day-5 pitch. He knew if he tried to play at it, there was a chance of edging or gloving the ball. So he chose to take the ball on his body. A 150kmph rock, on his body. Thanks to his efforts over 4 tests, the Australian bowlers had lost all bite by the end of the 5th day of the final test. His presence was key in ensuring the other batsmen got to face tired and ragged bowlers.

Rahane played a magnificent innings at Melbourne to help level the series for India, post the disheartening 36. Such an innings is regularly called a ‘captain’s innings’  but nowhere did this moniker fit better. If Rahane had failed in that innings, in all probability, India would have gone too, following 36 all out by conceding another big lead to Australia, and possibly be 2-0 down. His field placings strategy, with a leg side field, and strangling the Aussie batsmen on the leg side, was both, masterful and a stroke of genius.

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And how about’em youngsters!

Shubman Gill started the final day at Gabba with a bang for India with an explosive 91. His sixes off Start and Cummins must still be reverberating in the stadium. He reminded everyone watching of Sehwag, and who knows, he might even emulate him in the coming decade. Gill averaged a stunning 51.60 in this series, his debut. Thats a staggering entry into the game as it comes on the hard and bouncy pitches of Australia. The future is his for the taking.

Rishabh Pant came in knowing he had to go a step ahead of Sydney. He didn’t take a step back the rest of the day. Pant had been criticised, dropped, made fun off on his weight, and was thought of as having wasted his chances and on the verge of being overtaken in the pecking order by other batsmen-keepers like Sanju Samson. He almost took India to victory in Sydney. In Gabba he made sure he was there to score the winning run following his stunning 97 in Sydney with an even more valuable 89 not out.

Washington Sundar and Shardul Thakur were both net bowlers till a few days before this match. They ended up having the batting partnership of the match to save India from certain defeat. India were 186/6 staring at an Australian total of 369. Considering our long tail, Australia would have been thinking of bowing us out for 200 or thereabouts. But the 123 run partnership that they stitched together not just saved India from a huge First innings deficit but also stole the momentum from Aus. Shardul went on to take a whopping 7 wickets in the match. 

Natarajan wasn’t even an international player before 2020. He was picked for the T20 only in Australia and stayed back as a net bowler. All the injuries meant he had to play and boy, was he ready for it. 

Mohammed Siraj lost his father during the course of this series. He chose not to go back for the funeral due to strict quarantine norms. At that time he wasn’t even sure of a place in the playing eleven. He turned out to be the find of the series. He consistently got his SRH teammate David Warner, one of the 2 linchpins of the Aussie lineup out, which in itself was worth its weight in gold. He ended the series with a 5-wicket haul, and pride of place in the massive Gabba win.

In the end, it showed how the new generation was more than ready to step up. They showed no signs of baggage. They didn’t know pressure. They simply exploded with their talent.

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As you walk away from this...

Remember the smile and calm on Ajinkya’s face throughout the series. Remember Ashwin mentioning that the 2nd test was the happiest moment for him in the way we played. Remember the humility Natarajan projected when he admitted he couldn’t even see a ball in facing Starc’s first over. Remember the nonchalant sixes Shubman Gill hit off Cummins and Starc on a 5th day pitch. Remember the cool and calm partnership of Shardul Thakur and Washington Sundar. Remember the stunning swing bowling of Mohammad Siraj. Remember the body blows Cheteshwar Pujara took.

This was no less than a miracle.

These people are special. 

This win is special.