Awful inmune system, crazy ass abusive mom (she even has a restraining order), absent dad that's poor af & a huge etc.

And she's such a softie, my shaylaaa

⊹ Wanna know how I read my charts? This post is for my people who are beginners and want to learn astrology!

This includes…

⟡ The 12 zodiac signs

⟡ Hellenistic astrology

⟡ The elements

⟡ Cardinal, Fixed,Mutable

⟡ The opposites

⟡ The planets

⟡ The big 3

The 12 Zodiac Signs

Aries(the ram)

Taurus(the bull)

Gemini(the twins)

Cancer (the crab)

Leo(the lion)

Virgo(the virgin) or “maiden”

Libra (the scales)

Scorpio (the scorpion)

Sagittarius (The archer)

Capricorn (The goat)

Aquarius (The water bearer)

Pisces (The fish)

Please note this is a mix of both hellenistic and modern.

What is Hellenistic astrology and how does it differ from your usual astrology?

Hellenistic Astrology or “Traditional” is the oldest form of astrology, while modern uses astrology more psychological and personality Hellenistic describes what happens in your life and life events, everything in modern astrology came from Hellenistic astrology other than the modern planets which I will get to below.

⟡ For beginners I recommend using astro seek for looking at your chart, scroll down to the bottom because reading the wheel is a bit to advance for beginners, I recommend using whole sign but you can use your placidus if you want too. Do NOT read astrology takes from any google site, reddit, or instagram, those are inaccurate and it’s mostly based off experiences with people and aren’t legit tumblr is a great place, its only astrology observations and not based off experiences, tik tok is ok-ish take it with a grain of salt and also listening to podcast or videos on youtube or other podcasts. Most importantly if your reading yours or someone else birth chart take your time gathering and reading the information, thats how I get my readings more accurate.

Astrology isn’t witchcraft, religion,spirituality, or belief system its the study of how the planetary influences affect us as people. However it can be used as a form of divination and is often used in spiritual practices.

⟡ The Elements…

🔥Fire: Passion, energy, spontaneity,creativity, action,drive.

Weakness of this element: Impatience, restlessness, hot-headedness, and a tendency to be controlling or self-centered, impulsive.

🌳Earth: Practical, groundness, stability, material things, abundance,down to earth.

Weakeness of this element: rigidity, over-materialism, and stubbornness,perfectionism, overly practical.

🌬️Air: Communication, intelligence, socialization, analysis, mental, thoughts.

Weaknesses of this element: Detachment, aloof, overthinking, anxiety,indecisive, lack of emotions and too logical.

🌊Water: Emotions, intuition, empathy, nurture,sensitivity.

Weaknesses of this element: Lack of emotional boundaries, overly emotional,passive-aggressive ,escapism, avoidance of logic.

🔥FIRE: Aries Leo Sagittarius

🌳EARTH: Taurus Virgo Capricorn

🌬️AIR: Gemini Libra Aquarius

🌊WATER: Cancer Scorpio Pisces

Cardinal signs ♈️♋️♎️♋️(“The Leaders”) these signs start off the seasons and embody leadership qualities,independence, and is action oriented.

Aries(Spring), Cancer(Summer), Libra(Fall), Capricorn (Winter).

Fixed Signs♉️♌️♏️♒️(“The Stabilizer’s”) these signs occur in the middle of each season, embodying stability and is stubborn to change.

Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, Aquarius.

Mutable signs♊️♍️♐️♓️

(“The chameleons”) these signs are adaptable and doesn’t mind change they occur at the end of each season.

Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, Pisces.

~ The Opposites ~

Opposite zodiac signs, or sister signs, are located 180 degrees apart on the zodiac wheel, they portray the opposite traits of one another but balances things out. Each signs opposite is located below.

Aries - Libra

Capricorn - Cancer

Taurus - Scorpio

Leo - Aquarius

Gemini - Sagittarius

Virgo - Pisces

⟡ PLANETS IN ASTROLOGY

The planets are very important in astrology and connects with the themes of each sign.

Sun ☉

Moon ☾

Mercury ☿

Venus ♀️

Mars ♂️

Jupiter ♃

Saturn ♄

Generational Planets/Modern

Uranus ♅

Neptune ♆

Pluto ♇

Sun: Core Identity and Ego, the soul, the conscious mind, intelligence.

Moon: Emotions,Inner self,childhood, your mother and female family members, the physical body, the subconscious, intuition, instincts.

Mercury:Communication, adaptability, travel, messaging, trickery, thinking patterns,mentality,information.

Venus: Love, romance, our beauty, money, personal values, relationships, pleasure.

Mars: War,destructive conflict,physical action, our drive and energy, aggression, how we react to conflict, survival instincts, violence, crime.

Jupiter: Luck and fortune,Growth,Expansion, Higher Education, Spiritual/Religion,Philosophy, long distance travels,faith,law and justice, wisdom, abundance.

Saturn: Restriction,structure,discipline, karma and lessons, time limits, boundaries,rules,responsibilities, authority,limitations, persistence, coldness, darkness, death, old age.

The Generational Planets

Uranus: Sudden changes, rebellion, innovation, technology, going against the norms, liberation, the unconventional,revolution, freedom.

Neptune: Illusion, dreams, intuition, dreams, spirituality, imagination, psychic abilities, no boundaries.

Pluto: Transformation, Death and Rebirth, the shadow self, power, control, abuse.

⟡ Zodiac Signs and their Planets

Aries: Mars

Taurus: Venus

Gemini: Mercury

Cancer: Moon

Leo: Sun

Virgo: Mercury

Libra: Venus

Scorpio: Mars, (Modern ruler is Pluto.)

Sagittarius: Jupiter

Capricorn: Saturn

Aquarius: Saturn, (Modern ruler is Uranus.)

Pisces: Jupiter, (Modern ruler is Neptune.)

The big three are- Sun,Moon,Ascendant(Rising).

The Sun: typically the sign people ask for, “What’s your zodiac sign”. It’s our core identity and are ego. When someone asks you, “Who are you, what are your beliefs” your beliefs are most likely embody a description of your sun sign.

The Moon: Represents our emotions, what we need to feel safe,subconscious,our inner selves or who we are behind closed doors, it also represents our mother/female family members and our family home. Simply put it, it’s our true selves, the reflection of our vulnerable selves, likely qualities only your mother, close family or friends can point out, and the relationship to our mother.

The Ascendant (Rising Sign): Represents our outward persona, first impressions, and the "mask" you wear in public. It shapes your physical appearance, demeanor, and how you interact with the world.

⟡ Hope this made you understand astrology a bit more! This is only part 1 will upload part 2 which will go over malefics, benefics and the exaltations and such.

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Today, the Moon is in Scorpio while Mars is transiting Algol, so I'm bringing some personal and cultural observations about Perseus. For some reason, I've been having a lot of little magical moments with this constellation. It seems that whenever something is transiting it, a lot of coincidences happen and I notice more about it.

I've been noticing its particular relationship with important aspects of brazilian history and culture, which makes sense as even the chart of the european invasion had Saturn with Algol (although I'm not going to talk about that specifically).

Saint George's day

Saint George Parish Church in Rio de Janeiro during Saint George's day in 2026.

So, one september morning, as I was having breakfast, still unaware that the Moon was passing through Algol that day, I was listening to the song Lua de São Jorge (Moon of Saint George). And when I think of Saint George, I think of Perseus. Astrologically and mythologically, Saint George is famously associated with Perseus, having inherited a lot of the elements and narrative patterns from his legend. Saint George is said to have been executed as the Sun passed through Algol on April 23rd in the year 303, strenghtening the link with the greek hero. Check out my other posts about Perseus and Algol here.

But first let me tell you of the bigger context, because, first of all, I live in the state of Rio de Janeiro, where Saint George is the patron saint, and we celebrate and honor him on April 23rd. Saint George has a lot of devotees throughout the country and the festivals can last days, especially in Rio, where April 23rd became a public holiday. But even beyond that, Brazil has a lot of religious syncretism, particularly between catholicism, religions of african origin and indigenous practices. The history of syncretism in Brazil isn't a pretty one, but it's become part of the culture and on the same holiday, religions of african origin celebrate and honor the orisha Ogun, therefore it can't be considered just a Catholic holiday. Ogun is the orisha of iron, war, metalworking, hunting, agriculture, technology and innovation. Ogun and Saint George share important similar qualities with Perseus. The three figures are understood as warriors or heroes who defend people from the oppression of those in power, who are incredibly corageous, who fight monsters, and their symbols are powerful to ward off evil.

Art by Breno Loeser

Anyway, as I was listening to the song, I started googling Saint George, and that’s when I found out that in 2023, the National Confederation of Commerce filed a lawsuit with the Supreme Court against the holiday, claiming it was unconstitutional, because, according to them, creating holidays isn’t a state's competence and that it violated the right to work and to commerce. Basically, big businesses just didn't want to give their workers a day off in the middle of April anymore. Beyond that, the festivities are marked very strongly by elements of afro-brazilian culture, even in the catholic churches, and we can definitely say there's a combination of religious prejudice and racial discrimination in the motivations.

They obviously lost the case and now the holiday has the validation of the Supreme Court. But the case's rapporteur and the only one in favor was the Supreme Court's vice-president, Nunes Marques, who was born with the Sun on Algol and was now trying to kill everyone's vibe. What's important to notice is how both sides of a dispute can be influenced by the same energy, because it's an alegory and the story doesn't need order.

Saint George's day is a public holiday for the preservation of intangible historical and cultural heritage and that's perfectly under any states' jurisdiction. The size and significance of the festival for the culture are huge not only for one religious group. Catholics, umbandistas, camdomblecistas and even non-religious people in Rio celebrate Saint George's holiday going to mass, rodas de samba and eating feijoada at lunch — which is the traditional way to celebrate Ogun, but now many Catholic churches also serve feijoada after morning mass. We have so many songs about Saint George and Ogun by all of our biggest artists — a lot of them sambas and always referencing both at the same time. It's really like a Christmas, you don't have to be religious to enjoy it: here's a compilation album.

A woman holds a leaf of "Saint George’s sword" during Mass, though the plant is african and originally linked to Ogun.

Feijoada and roda de samba during a Saint George's day in Rio.

I've been noticing how a lot of the symbolism surrounding Saint George and Ogun are dominant in Brazilian culture and I love the consistency in which they get linked to the constellation of Perseus. Saint George and Ogun are seen more as warriors and they have a strong martial quality to them, even though here I'm relating them to Perseus, a constellation that's said to have effects like Jupiter and Saturn. Either way, all three are heroes/entities associated with strength and protection above all.

It's widely common for brazilian people to have the "Saint George's sword" plant right outside their door to protect from evil, which is also used in banishing rituals and as a symbol to honor Ogun. Also known in other countries as "snake plant", it's from the genus dracaena, which comes from the greek drakaina, "female dragon", coincidentally the mythic creature that Saint George slayed.

Brazilian history and identity carry a lot of martian symbolism and events — with an impressive number of military coup d'etáts, a record time of chattel slavery, endless exploration, many revolts and working class stuggles etc. Even in its name, Brazil is martial. Because despite our green and yellow flag, "brasil" is a word for red in portuguese, specifically the red of glowing embers. It's the word that's in the name of a native tree that, when you peel off its bark, it looks like it’s bleeding or catching fire, thus the portuguese colonizers would call it paubrasil - brazilwood, meaning "red-as-embers-wood". The Tupi call it arabutã. Saint George and Ogun are both strongly associated with the color red.

Zumbi and Perseus

We actually have another holiday to remember a national hero who gets related to Ogun. It's Zumbi dos Palmares, who's remembered to have died in November 20th, 1695. On that day, we had a full Moon on the degree of the fixed star Mirfak (alpha Persei) as Zumbi was assassinated for being the leader of a legendary quilombo, a highly organized community of runaway enslaved black and indigenous people that became almost impenetrable.

Well, Zumbi wasn't his real name. That was what people called him because of his reputation for being supposedly immortal, because he became a legend while still alive and is now revered almost as an entity or saint. To put it very simply, Quilombo dos Palmares turned into a threat to the colonizer's slaveholding system, because as they repeately failed to dismantle the quilombo and kill their leader, Zumbi's reputation grew and inspired more revolts. When the famous "Zombie of Palmares" was executed, his head was displayed in a public square in Recife to dissipate the legend of his immortality. Today, a monument stands in his honor at the same spot.

Artist: Abelardo da Hora. There are many other monuments dedicated to Zumbi all over the country.

The word comes from the kimbundu's concept of Zombe, which is not like what we understand in hollywoodian popular culture as a zombie. Zombe is a word for "corpse", "dead" or something like a duende. It can have slightly different meanings and practices associated with it in different traditions of the bantu diaspora. "Zumbi" or "cazumbi" can refer to a wandering spirit that goes out at night haunting people, but the origin of the word mostly refers to the general belief in the ancestral spirits and spirit incorporation. The cerimonies and rituals in brazilian religions that have an african origin/influence involve spirit incorporation as a central practice. In haitian folklore, things become even more complex in the tradition of vodou, where supposedly a corpse can be reanimated by a "bokor" (a vodou priest or priestess) in a magical ritual. It's important to emphasize that these traditions have conceptualizations of spirits that are very different from the distortion we get in popular culture, but it's just not my goal to get into depth about that.

As I've said before, Perseus is a spring time constellation, and this specific part of the sky in babylonian astrology had to do with some kind of opening of the earth and potential for the dead to get out of the underworld at this time of year. The image of an old man holding a decapitated head could have been representing a kind of banishing ritual, with him driving the spirits back to the underworld in a similar manner to how Perseus uses the head of Medusa as protection. I wonder if the old man could be representing some kind of wise elder like a priest, given the spiritual nature of the constellation. The use of a scary head as protection reminds me of carrancas, which are sculptures of figureheads, still commonly used here to be put outside homes for protection from evil eye or evil spirits.

Zumbi (1927) by Antônio Parreiras.

Zumbi dos Palmares is like our Perseus. And death can show as much about life as the birth. The exalted full Moon just garantees his impact and immortality. It formed an exact square to Mars in Leo, after separating from a trine with Jupiter in Virgo — nicely symbolizing a story about a community blessed with abundance, intelligence and skill coming to war with the colonial forces. Because this isn't merely about one man becoming a hero, especially when we're talking about a full Moon. Quilombo dos Palmares was the largest quilombo, and Zumbi wasn't the sole responsible for its success while it lasted. The community is also in this story told by this chart. Every november we remmember not only Zumbi's death, but also Quilombo dos Palmares' power, and we remmember the strength of the collective and people's power to revolt.

Slavery was abolished (on paper) in 1888, on May 13th, a day of Sun conjunct Algol, which became another national holiday, but we don't really celebrate that day, especially not as much as we celebrate Zumbi.

To finish, I should say we also have songs dedicated to Zumbi, so here's a favorite from an artist who's a big Saint George/Ogun devotee: