#su-crystallization

1. What theme is currently or will soon be active in your life?  King of Wands 2. How will this theme be supported or blocked? Hierophant 3. What role, archetype, or theme can you keep in mind to grow and evolve over this cycle? Knight of Cups 4. What theme was active in recent times that led to the present?  Page of Swords 5. What theme, role, or archetype will get me through this in a status quo sort of way? 6 of Cups 6. How will these themes resolve at the opposite moon phase? 2 of Pentacles 7. What hopes and fears are playing out over this cycle? 3 of Cups 8. How will the environment impact you this cycle? The Emperor 9. What themes are prominent in your mental landscape this cycle? The Lovers 10. How will this cycle resolve, and begin the next journey? The Chariot

After a time of recognizing mental disarray, the path you were walking no longer served you. The decision was made to change this, and you are actively defining your new reality even as you create it. Focus on what comes into your life naturally, rather than what is there but perhaps precariously balanced. Doing so will draw in relationships that expand and fill you, rather than draining you and toppling your stability. round the moon’s fullness, there is an opportunity for expansion of security through connection. The work that will have been done to that point will provide discernment as to whether this expansion is through or from another.

Emotional stability is a very prominent theme this cycle. Consider how instability in that area affects you and others. The environment around you is supportive in a firm way. Interactions will touch on things deeper than usual, and these places within are where you can generate your power and focus from. Love is very much on your mind, and sparks are slowly gathering to ignite the fires of passion. This journey will prepare you to be a warrior for your desires, what you believe to be right in the world and worth fighting for. Around the moon’s next darkness, an opportunity will arise to choose the path that will let you actualize that. Take it quickly, and know that there is a way to integrate seemingly exclusive desires going forward.

Changed for the better. 

A re-draw of my very first fan gems Flourite and Carborundum then (era 1) and now (era 3) in honor of the series finale of the show that has had such a positive influence on so many of us. 

*Trigger warning*: What follows is a heart felt personal story with mention of suicide. Please do not proceed with reading if this makes you uncomfortable. There is a happy ending though. 

For myself personally this show was a way for me to connect with my sister who’s life long struggle with severe mental illness made making a positive connection difficult (not for lack of trying I might add). After a particularly hard few years I almost lost her on three separate occasions. The memories I have from those times finding her and frantically getting her to hospital haunted me and made picturing a bright future for her painful and nearly impossible to imagine. She shut out so many of us and held resentment for me for being the one who wouldn't let her go. I felt the need to fight for her life when she could not which to her at the time, and through the lens of mental illness, just came across as me bring aggressive and unfair.   

She went without talking to me for a long time. After some time in recovery however she began to open up again little by little to those around her. I was the last on the long list but patiently awaited the day she would feel okay around me again. 

Then one day I heard her laughing from another room. I cannot tell you how quickly tears came to my eyes. I peaked in to try and see what was making her so happy, a cartoon of happy chubby boy with a pink dot on his stomach. Immediately I searched for what it was and so my love of Steven Universe was born. 

We started talking again. We started laughing together again. It became the bridge between us. The lessons it taught of self acceptance and growth, of recognizing your differences and celebrating them instead of being ashamed helped her see some value in herself again. The queer inclusion made me feel more accepted. Knowing it’s creator worked together with her own sibling to create something so positive and moving while still being able to reach audiences beyond its target demographic only added to my adoration of it. 

To this day she still struggles, I still struggle, but now we do it as a team, together.  Now we can laugh together, now I can picture her future more clearly. Now she is able to let herself grow.

I just wanted to say a proper thank you to Rebecca Sugar and all of the @crewniverse for helping me build that bridge. 

Forever grateful and forever changed (for the better)

I was thinking about why the music in the SU movie hit me so hard. Especially the diamond/ Spinel harmonies near the end.

Then I remembered my mother used to be in a quartet and that’s where the tsunami of nostalgia came from. 

I wanted to share a bit of that feeling with you all so here is a cover they did of tears from heaven. My mom is the lead in this one. 

My entry for @boringartist fusion contest. Congrats on 5000+ followers. ^_>_^

So the gem fusion on top is my official entry and the second one is just a bonus I did for fun (is was so hard to choose just one to try). 

Fusion one: Water Opal! A fusion of 2 of @boringartist ‘s gems (Rose pearl and Green Sapphire ) and my Aquamarine. 

Water opal is an unlikely fusion between a high class gem, a rebel and a home-world loyalist. She/ they has the appearance similar to that of a mythic seraph angle thanks to her wigs and many eyes. Like the opal of amethyst and pearl she has extreme inner peace, unlike their opal she has a very sharp clarity of mind thanks to the balance of her components. Her sapphire eye looks into the future and past of the gem before her, her aquamarine eyes represent her analytic mind and her pearl eyes make moral judgment. She is the prefect fusion to deliver balanced justice. She is a giant compared to other gems and uses the scythe of her Rose pearl component. Like the giant computer “deep thought” from Hitchhikers Guide to the galaxy Water opal would most likely spend most of her time meditating still on one question, long enough for vines to grow on her and the passing civilizations to think she is but a statue of an old god.   

Edit: *My hand slipped* 

Bonus fusion: Bi-colour tourmaline, a fusion of @boringartist ‘s colour shift sapphire and my Orange  Kyanite.

Fun facts: Bi tourmaline makes for an excellent navigator thanks to one of her components being a pilot and one having future vision. She has the classy but adventurous attitude. She is also very adept at finding lost things (treasure, the lost city of Atlantis etc) She would most likely end up getting involved with space pirates at some point in her existence.