For you... Pieces of a Saga

while i’m here, and still somehow have followers on this website, i thought it would be useful to repost an activism resource masterpost i saw on twitter a few days ago. it looks like the OP (@thebryreed) set her account to private, but i saved the links and figured they would be useful reading & listening, given everything that’s going on right now.

Malcolm X (1964) The Ballot or the Bullet

Martin and Malcolm by James Baldwin (1972)

Assata Shakur’s Autobiography (1987)

The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House by Audre Lorde (1979)

Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Davis (2003)

The Invention of Women by Oyěwùmí (1997) (this requires institutional access or creativity)

Sylvia Rivera’s Y’all Better Quiet Down speech (1973)

Toni Morrison’s Nobel Prize Speech (1993)

Fidel Castro’s History Will Absolve Me (1953)

Toni Morrison (2015) No Place for Self-Pity, No Room for Fear 

Did you know gratitude:

1. Shields you from negativity

2. Makes you about 25% happier

3. Rewires your brain

4 . Eliminate stress

5. Heals

6. Improves sleep

7. Boost SELF-ESTEEM & performance

8. In Hance's the law of attraction

9. Improves relationships

once i met a taurus cradled and asleep on a rose petal undisturbed by the noise of the world, ‘do you know the time?’ i asked, and she woke angrily to remind me that she is actually a flower child and it’s the hibernation of winter 

once i met a gemini at the meeting of 3 roads, and 2 appeared to tell me i was going the right way if i wanted to reach the opposite destination and 1 told me that was the wrong way because mercury is in retrograde

once i met a cancer in the middle of the story i was reading, because she had been the one calling me back to it, narrating, reciting, and drawing the pictures in my mind for me 

once i met a leo and only because she was running late for the sunrise, i asked for an autograph and she moved the sun to kiss my cheek and leave the stain of poppy glow lips 

once i met a virgo when i lost something and couldn’t find it anywhere, and she found it in an instant along, with the gentle reminder that there is a place for everything - including you and me 

once i met a libra balancing on the tightrope of the horizon, but when i got close she tumbled into the dark side of the night and i looked down at very different girl

once i met a scorpio when i was crawling in the darkness, she had been there and grown familiar enough to re-bloom her wings, and she patiently taught me the way

once i met a sagittarius resting alone on a steady cloud, she told me there was too much saturn action on earth to deal with right now along with the pressure she feels from others to ‘stay happy’ through everything

once i met a capricorn when i asked for guidance from a higher being, she stood waiting for me on the mountain peak, but the very moment that i got close, all i could see was an image of me  

once i met an aquarius playing a string guitar that sounded psychedelic, he offered me a space cake but he warned me it was microchipped  

once i met a pisces after smoking a joint on neptune, she said i must be smoking too much if i managed to make her appear 

Sun in the 11th: who am i, really? why do I express my individuality in groups? why do i love people, but at the same time drive them away? how are some people so sure of who they are? 

Moon in the 10th: do i give enough time to myself? why does everyone tell me to relax? why do i feel so much pressure? what is privacy? should i visit home?

Mercury in the 9th: why are we here? how can i learn more? was that offensive? why is everyone else so shallow? what’s the next flight i can get on? 

Mercury in the 12th: can i trust myself? should i say that? can i be alone? did anyone else feel that? do i daydream too much? what else is out there? wait, what?

Venus in the 1st: why do i care so much? why does everyone come to me? am i genuine? isn’t this beautiful?

Venus in the 8th: why is everyone so superficial? why is everyone i like bad for me? did that make me sound creepy? is this too intense? who am i anymore? 

hey, thanks for your message, the 2nd house is our cosmic runway, venus is the patroness of cosmetics and costumes, so any generous venus gathering in the birth chart,  - plenty of taurus, 2nd house, libra

taurus was not born to wear designer labels and fashion trends,They were born to be a design and a label, to set trends with the natural flair of their eye for beautyneptune also rules theatre, make-up, cinema, art, creativity, and performance, this is too the holographic falsity, the idyllic projection as neptune is all about illusions, this career may call people with a strong pisces essence, and esp neptune in the 1st, 2nd, and 5th  

and there is always leo as this sign is drawn to performance with natural gifts in the arts, the star of the show, capable of telling a story with an outfit, they love the luxe and the glamour, they delight in playing a mystical character or figure

A THREAD written by an Aquarius Sun conjunct Uranus who wants you to break the rules and throw off all your conditioning.

ARIES RISING: To break down your childhood conditioning, stop going it alone. No one is holding you back, everyone’s actually just waiting for you to say “you wanna do this together?”. Stop forcing your agenda or thinking you have to do everything first or alone or the hard way.

TAURUS RISING: To break down your childhood conditioning, get involved with danger and be emotionally transparent please: life conditioned you to be safe and secure. Get involved with yours and people’s demons and break through the material, the 3D reality of this world.

GEMINI RISING: To break down your childhood conditioning, stop darting about all over the place physically & mentally & stop trying to bring logic into everything and constantly serve the facts, because you were conditioned to always prove how clever you were.

CANCER RISING: To break down your childhood conditioning, stop giving a shit and stop caring for people who don’t give you the same back. You were conditioned to always be there for people emotionally or just physically, so break away, detach, be free.

LEO RISING: To break down your childhood conditioning, CRY IN PUBLIC and show your deepest, darkest emotions. Stop putting on a happy face when you’re going through living hell - we can tell because we can feel it even though you’re a good actor. Just be honest about feelings.

VIRGO RISING: To break down your childhood conditioning, stop taking on the role of doing everything for everyone. People need to do things for themselves and you don’t need to fix absolutely everything and everyone. Fix yourself and detach from everyone’s problems.

LIBRA RISING: To break down your childhood conditioning, stop giving a shit. You’ve been conditioned to constantly be polite, to be a people-pleaser. The truth is only your parents asked for it, no one else ever has, and no one is asking for it anymore. Be assertive and bold.

SCORPIO RISING: To break down your childhood conditioning, stop hiding every goddamn thing about yourself. What are you actually protecting yourself from? What are you hiding? When we’re all dead and buried, what will it even matter what you’re hiding?

SAGITTARIUS RISING: To break down your childhood conditioning, spend time in one place and actively care about getting to know little facts, about people. You were conditioned to kind of not give a shit, and this has halted your ability to get close to the stuff around you, now.

CAPRICORN RISING: To break down your childhood conditioning, be a baby. You had to grow up quick. Allow yourself to be a child. Cry openly. Tell people about your needs. Let other people take charge.

AQUARIUS RISING: To break down your childhood conditioning, open your heart. You were conditioned to not care about relating personally, but relating personally is such a gift you’re missing out on. Talk about things from YOUR perspective, how it’s affected YOU personally.

~aries and libra have tension because the chaos and cacophony that accompany aries disturbs and destroys the libra’s peace and now they have to go through the ordeal of getting it back again 

~taurus and scorpio have tension because scorpio is always ready and willing to transform and take on a new self and life, and taurus is so resistant to change and afraid to let go and surrender to the unknown

~gemini and sagittarius have tension because they both want to be the ‘know it all’ who knows it all but close their ears to each other’s teachings with the belief that they have studied and concluded best 

~cancer and capricorn have tension because the cancer is secretly hard and the capricorn is secretly soft, this is their conflict and common ground, once they show these sides to one another they realise the bond between their inner children

~leo and aquarius have tension because aquarius is the shaker of society and the leader of the revolution, and their wild rebellion threatens to shatter the establishment of leo’s monarchy 

~virgo and pisces have tension because virgo ‘thinks too much’ and pisces ‘feels too much’. logic is safe for virgo, but pisces lacks this logic, so sometimes they don’t see that it’s much easier to confront and solve problems head on, rather than pretending they don’t exist and building up more anxiety the longer it goes on