August is a month of momentum. After July's major cosmic shifts, the energy begins settling into something more intentional. Expect new opportunities, clearer direction, stronger boundaries, and reminders that the choices you're making now will echo well beyond this month. 🌙

♈ Aries ❤️ August Predictions You're entering a month where not every opportunity deserves your energy. Expect one exciting invitation, one necessary boundary, and one conversation that reminds you how much you've grown. Your confidence returns when you stop explaining yourself.

♉ Taurus 🌿 August Predictions Your routines become the foundation for something much bigger. Finances begin to stabilize, relationships feel more dependable, and one small decision this month creates lasting peace. Consistency wins over speed.

♊ Gemini ✨ August Predictions Your social calendar comes alive. Messages arrive, invitations multiply, and someone you've been wondering about reaches out. Just don't overcommit. The best opportunities leave room for your own joy.

♋ Cancer 🌙 August Predictions Home, family, and emotional security take center stage. You're building something stronger than it looks from the outside. Healing conversations, healthier boundaries, and a deeper sense of peace unfold throughout the month.

♌ Leo 🦁 August Predictions This is your season to be seen. Recognition, celebration, and a surprising compliment all arrive before the month ends. Don't hide your light just because someone else forgot to bring theirs.

♍ Virgo 🌾 August Predictions As your season begins, everything starts clicking into place. Projects gain momentum, your intuition grows louder, and something you've quietly worked toward begins producing visible results. Trust your preparation.

♎ Libra 💕 August Predictions Relationships soften in the best possible way. Honest conversations strengthen important connections, creativity flourishes, and someone makes their appreciation for you impossible to miss.

♏ Scorpio 🦂 August Predictions You're releasing something that quietly outlived its purpose. By month's end you'll wonder why you carried it for so long. Your power grows every time you choose peace over control.

♐ Sagittarius 🏹 August Predictions Adventure returns. Whether through travel, learning, or an unexpected opportunity, your world expands this month. Stay curious—the opportunity that changes everything may arrive disguised as a simple invitation.

♑ Capricorn 🏔️ August Predictions Career momentum builds quietly before becoming obvious. Someone notices your consistency, and responsibility begins turning into opportunity. Keep showing up. Your work is speaking for itself.

♒ Aquarius ⭐ August Predictions A new chapter is unfolding even if it doesn't feel completely comfortable yet. New friendships, collaborations, and long-term dreams begin taking shape. You're stepping closer to where you truly belong.

♓ Pisces 🌊 August Predictions Your intuition is especially strong throughout August. Pay attention to dreams, repeating symbols, and quiet nudges. You're learning to choose what truly nourishes your spirit instead of what merely feels familiar.

✨ Which prediction resonates most with you? I'd love to hear how August is unfolding for your sign! Reblog to share with your favorite astrology lovers. 🌙💛

Like last week, I had to mail a package and my local USPS was absolutely SWEALTERING. And the staff only had a few fans, some of which they were using faced towards customers, to try and keep us cool.

While doing my transaction, I was chatting with the worker about how crazy this was and how I hoped she had her own fan too, because I could only see the customer-benefit ones. She said yes, but I also asked if there was anyone I could complain to on her behalf and she immediately said yes again and to please do it! She wrote a more direct customer service number on my receipt which I was able to call Friday.

To be clear, I was kind and polite; I stressed how good the workers at this office were and how efficient always: "It's my local post office," but also how unbearable the heat was and how I couldn't imagine MY poor local staff having to suffer in that heat all day. I don't know yet if it will have an immediate effect for the workers, I hope it will though.

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He is my favorite astronaut for any number of reasons, but he’s also one of my favorite visual artists.

Like, look at this stuff????

It’s all so expressive and textured and colorful! He literally painted his own experience on the moon! And that's just really fucking cool to me!

Just look at this! This is one of my absolute favorite emotions of all time. Is Anyone Out There? is like the ultimate reaction image. Any time I have an existential crisis, this is how I picture myself.

And then there's this one:

The Fantasy

For all of the six Apollo missions to land on the moon, there was no spare time. Every second of their time on the surface was budgeted to perfection: sleeping, eating, putting on the suits, entering and exiting the LEM, rock collection, setting up longterm experiments to transmit data back to Earth, everything. These timetables usually got screwed over by something, but for the most part the astronauts stuck to them.

The crew of Apollo 12 (Pete Conrad, Al Bean, and Dick Gordon) had other plans. Conrad and Bean had snuck a small camera with a timer into the LEM to take a couple pictures together on the moon throughout the mission. They had hidden the key for the timer in one of the rock collection bags, with the idea being to grab the key soon after landing, take some fun photos here and there, and then sneak the camera back to Earth to develop them. They had practiced where they would hide the key and how to get it out from under the collected rocks back on Earth dozens of times.

But when they got to the moon, the key was nowhere to be found. Al Bean spent precious time digging through the collection bags before he called it off. The camera had been pushing their luck anyways, he couldn't afford to spend anymore time not on the mission objectives. Conrad and Bean continued the mission as per the NASA plan while Dick Gordon orbited overhead.

Fast forward to the very end of the mission. Bean and Conrad are doing last checks of the LEM before they enter for the last time and depart from the moon. As Bean is stowing one of the collection bags, the camera key falls out. The unofficially planned photo time has come and gone, and he tosses the key over his shoulder to rest forever on the surface of the moon.

This painting, The Fantasy, is that moment. There have never been three people on the moon at the same time, there was never an unofficial photo shoot on the moon, this picture could never have happened.

"The most experienced astronaut was designated commander, in charge of all aspects of the mission, including flying the lunar module. Prudent thinking suggested that the next-most-experienced crew member be assigned to take care of the command module, since it was our only way back home. Pete had flown two Gemini flights, the second with Dick as his crewmate. This left the least experienced - me - to accompany the commander on the lunar surface.

"I was the rookie. I had not flown at all; yet I got the prize assignment. But not once during the three years of training which preceded our mission did Dick say that it wasn't fair and that he wished he could walk on the moon, too. I do not have his unwavering discipline or strength of character.

Almost made me cry right now.