Self Care Tips From Tumblr: When you feel like everyone hates you, sleep. When you feel like you hate everyone, eat. When you feel like you hate yourself, shower. Someone out there feels better because you exist. 

thank you!

Ok so off the top of my head the full moon in Leo is all about ourselves and our creations in relation to the community and collective. It can be about our time to shine out to the world, and or creating/contributing something for the collective. 

Full Moons are powerful times cause they combine the sun with the moon's full reflective power bringing the sister signs together to give us a full spectrum of energy. The sister signs aren't entirely opposite more like two sides of the same coin. Both Aquarius and Leo tend to be revolving a bit around themselves but Aquarius is about the community and group progression/change and our individual role we play apart of the whole where as Leo is more about the self but what the self can do for others that they care for and what the self can create/make/express etc. So Leo full moon is about your time to shine and bring yourself/your creations out to the world for the collective to enjoy.

Now in context to what is happening in this day with other transits we got Venus and Pluto in conjunct in Capricorn which is.. a lot. lol. I mean Leo is already a dramatic sign but this dramatic full moon has an even more dramatic aspect plopped on top of it. All I can say is judging from now it's going to be a moon causing drama worldwide (with all the political hot mess I am sure something is going to pop up today- watch out for the egomaniacs.) 

So a conjunction is when two celestial bodies are in the aligned in the sky making them seem like 'one'. Their energies are fused. Venus is a harmonizer but Venus with Pluto may make the Venusian qualities a bit more extreme (I should know as my natal Venus is in Scorpio and Venus is in detriment there cause its the most dramatic bitch in that sign. Think of the whole vibe of Evanescence's Don't Call Me When You're Sober. The drama, the sexual tension, the toxic failed romance. That's the vibe.) Anyway Venus with Pluto's fused energies creates a mood in the day where our needs for love or to be aligned with our values will be dramatically increased. We will crave to be seen and connected to on a soul level. With the full moon in Leo it may add gasoline to the fires of our confidence or it can add to our desires to be validated as we may really put ourselves out there. 

This conjunction has a big shadow side as it may highlight how some people desire power over others. It can bring out people's possessiveness, jealousy, blown out infatuations and manipulations of each other. Full Moons can shed light on situations (and problems) so it can highlight in our lives where manipulative people may lie. On a macrocosmic scale this full moon could reveal egotistical people bringing harm to the community or where they are seeking control which represses us. (I mean I am sure we can all name a few at this point, but this moon may bring out scandals revolving around them.) 

The repression theme is big this Aquarius season as Aquarius is all about freedom and progression of the community and Saturn (though domicile in Aquarius) is still the planet of restriction so it's going to bring out where we feel restricted if we don't have the community's best interests at heart. (Also this Leo full moon wants you to fight against where you feel repressed though you may meet challenges- though you should aim to rise above them). The Venus and Pluto conjunct may make you feel inclined to do so as well as Venus is about justice and pluto is empowerment. We may feel more vocal and passionate about our values. This Full Moon's energy will be a push to help break through the obstacles or any repression or manipulative people and find alignment with our values.

I’m not trying to be like “ohoho look at me I’m such a good friend”, I’m saying the second I stopped going “I wish I had friends who would invite me to tea parties” and just. hosted the tea parties myself? I still got to do the thing. I still got to see my friends. I still got to be happy with them.

It’s a lot of energy, I get that. Especially if you’re putting in all this effort, but not getting any back.

But I think that’s the reason no one does it. I mean we’re so worried we’ll start doing all these things and our friends won’t like it or won’t be into it, so we just don’t.

Only last week my friend messaged me, asking if I wanted to go stargazing with her. When I forget about our weekly virtual tea party, another friend called me to ask if I wanted them to host it this week.

I’ve been invited on hikes and picnics and pie making competitions over zoom, and it all sort of started with me going out of my way to be “that friend”.

This started out with me just wanting to sketch a lace dress and then poof levitating witch making either the sickest pumpkin pie you’ve ever eaten or some poisonous concoction. Or both.

So this is a thing that happened…

Christian Day, a pagan writer and store owner, sent me this love letter after outing my account name on Facebook. Like many people who have an alias on facebook, I have a rather good reason for doing so. (I have a Meatspace stalker, who use to mail me bits of dead things, and threaten my children, because he wanted me to bear only HIS children. It was a living nightmare that I lived for over six months.) Alas… I was not very happy with Mr. Day for this, and told him so.

This screenshot shows his response. 

You are not misreading that. He actually said “…if he rapes you, please call out my name while he does.”

Facebook has been less than helpful during all this… As a matter of fact, they have sided with HIM, yanking my post with this screenshot on it, and putting my account on a 24 hour hold for “Harassment.” of Mr. Day.

I have… No real game plan at this point, other than not allowing this to go unseen by the many Pagans on the web. I have had such an outpouring of support from my friends and the general pagan community on facebook that it honestly made me cry. On another note, I have had to un-relax, knowing my stalker is still out there and can find me now. But, I will not back down. This shit IS NOT OK for our so called “Pagan Leaders” to do.

He owns two shops, Hex and Omen. HEX is in both Salem, MA and New Orleans, LA and Omen is just in Salem, MA. Avoid him like the plague he is and don’t let him or the people he associates with profit off you (they, Laurie Cabot groupies, own shops in Salem too).

Christian’s at it again.

He threatened to kill a nearby shop owner’s dog (Pumpkin from New England Magic who is ADORABLE) a few years ago out of a nasty feud with the owner, who is SO SWEET!  Of course he denied it.

His boyfriend Brian is just as sick when it comes to people who support Lori Bruno (that fucking feud…oh my GOD.  Don’t even get me STARTED on that).

Now…this.

He’s a media whore…He actually said this to me. He has no problem admitting this to me.  He knows how to cause controversy because “Well, bad publicity is still publicity…The Wicked Witch will still fly!”

This is why I can’t stand Salem now.  This sick bullshit.

I’m cis because I’m afab and still identify as a woman. If I was afab and identified any other way, I’d be trans. I’m intersex because my body itself has a mixed bag of secondary sex characteristics and hormones.

The label “intersex” itself isn’t a gender identity as much as it’s a way for people with mixed or ambiguous sex characteristics to define that experience. There are cis men and women who are intersex, trans people of every kind as well. I’m sure there are intersex people who just identify as intersex entirely but most intersex people I’ve met still identify as male, female, or nonbinary. Because your body doesn’t determine your gender identity.