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a lot of fascinating "esoteric" historical figures were actually travelers- paracelsus, john dee, giordano bruno, cornelius agrippa, the third hermes, i think this speaks quite strongly to the strength of peregrine (foreign, wanderer, traveler) planets. you're not really at home anywhere but the things you can see, learn, and witness are still pretty remarkable even with the difficulty of a planet not being at home.

welp i see people didn’t understand my point, so let me nuance a bit. women are allowed to have their interests, i never said anything about women- fashion is still a craft, so is makeup, and art, and everything inbetween. i know plenty of people whose interests are artistic, they know their fashion history, if it’s makeup, they know about techniques and formulas, and what works best for different skin types, etc- they have nuanced, and informed opinions about these topics. what i’m talking about is the flaunting of WEALTH. do you see the late stage capitalist nightmare we’re in? do you see how many people get famous purely because they have “glamorous”, rich lives? because they fit the “beauty” standard, yes i’m talking both women and men, anyone really. that is no longer going to be an aspirational ideal. we need people that contribute to society- we need people with SKILLS, with NOVEL IDEAS to get us out of this dystopian hell hole. im talking about the flaunting of wealth in general, the ability to earn millions bc an algorithm deemed you worthy enough for clout, while millions starve and struggle.

a meditation on the Buddha, temporality, and the cosmos. made a few typos, but that’s fine, cuz typos are definitely IN for 2026. full excerpt here (typo free): On the day before the Buddha’s enlightenment, he ponders on the existence of a single leaf. He realizes that everything is contained within this one leaf - life, death, time, space, being and not being. Everything wouldn’t exist if it did not also not exist. I’m starting to realize that one of the essential laws of the universe is change. As an astrologer, this couldn’t be more clear to me, and I see the Buddha’s meditation on the pippala leaf reflected beautifully in the cosmos. The planets are in constant motion, ever changing, ever moving towards the next degree. Even the slowest planet of them all, Saturn, will also eventually move, slowly, with determination. I think at times we tend to hold on to our most difficult feelings, letting them cloud our perception, and then creating our realities brick by brick from our feelings of despair. Then we think we must be doomed forever. But that’s not in the essence of life, for things to be permanent. Isn’t that beautiful? To see God’s mercy in the moving of time, in the fact that we can not hold anything with too much of a hardened grip, for what we love, we must let go.

i say this with the deepest of respect, every person is able to “mirror” and reflect, which is part of human nature. i think this comes from a deep misunderstanding of the elements, and not knowing about temperament/the humors. i think it’s pretty crazy to outright state that only “water signs” are capable of a very naturally occurring psychological experience. i highly recommend reading On the Heavenly Spheres for a scholarly understanding of these traditional concepts. they do not function exactly within the scope of modern psychology, which i assume OP is most likely referring to. i say this with due kindness. also, wouldn’t Venus represent reflection via its rulership over empathy, kindness, and fraternity? the Venus glyph is literally a mirror, and rules over air and earth, although it does exalt in water! we must remember what is a quality shared by all humans (Ficino writes about this in his De vita), versus what is astrological. remember, astrology-as-psychology doesn’t appear entirely as we know it until the renaissance, and wholly as we see it now, until the late 1800’s, and especially into the 1950’s and 60’s. this way of viewing astrology, as per OP, is actually a relatively brand new invention. nothing wrong with that! just doesn’t capture astrology in its entirety (: