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Serena🪞🧿✨

@alethianstrata.bsky.social
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Multidisciplinary systems thinker ⚙️ 🧠 Exploring patterns that connect mind, culture, nature, and meaning. Often going on about internal multiplicity. 🏛 More: beacons.ai/AlethianStrata

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Jazz, The Hierophant. @cherished-stardust.bsky.social · 4h
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Nyx✫ @seancefiction.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
allovv the night to fold you in its starry sigh…✨ ! | | | ! / ! \ \ ☆ \ ! ☆ ☆
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Arp Bot 🤖 @arpbot.bsky.social · 7h
Hubble Space Telescope image of Arp 26, also known as M101 or the Pinwheel Galaxy. This image shows a section of the galaxy, with over 3000 bright clusters of hot, young, blue stars. Credit: NASA, ESA Source
An arc of blue points makes a rough backwards C shape on the black background of space. These points are hot, young stars or star clusters. Interspersed within the blue points are red points, which are cooler stars. Near the edges of the arc are hazy areas of nebulosity.
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Serena🪞🧿✨ @alethianstrata.bsky.social · 6h
I swear to fucking god. 😂
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Serena🪞🧿✨ @alethianstrata.bsky.social · 7h
If I had a bigger forehead I’d probably get this tattooed on it. 😂
To be very clear:

I am not using masculine and feminine as synonyms for men and women. I am not speaking about gender identity. I am referencing two different modes of energetic organization that all people, regardless of their sex or gender identity, move through. Masculine energy, organizes around direction, action, pursuit, structure, clarity and containment. Feminine energy, organizes around receptivity, openness, atmosphere imagination, surrender expansion and relationship to the unknown.
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dawn of the debb @handle.invalid · 01/10/2026
I don't have to be dead to haunt a motherfucker
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Serena🪞🧿✨ @alethianstrata.bsky.social · 8h
Soft, we’re standing by the lantern light. Every key now in my hands. The path is just terrain, unmapped— constellations overhead. #Poetry #SkyPoet #Hekate #MythicPoetry
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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
John William Waterhouse (1847-1917) British “ Envious Circe” 1892 Oil in canvas 180 x 37 cm Art gallery of South Australia. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
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Serena🪞🧿✨ @alethianstrata.bsky.social · 9h
This isn’t my personal reality, but I’ve talked to many women who have felt this way, also. It is such a monumental, self-sacrificing task, and the fact that you continue to do it with care and love, to the best of your ability, is incredible. You deserve all the good things. 💕
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Serena🪞🧿✨ @alethianstrata.bsky.social · 10h
Logic is what happens when you take feelings out of it. People are cruel because of something they’re feeling, and we don’t really prioritize emotional development at any collective level. It doesn’t make logical sense. But unfortunately, it often makes emotional sense. :/
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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 23h
Zdzisław Beksiński, "The Tables"
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Serena🪞🧿✨ @alethianstrata.bsky.social · 12h
I fed it my name— the roaring mountain launched me: no ashes, just wings. #VSS365 #Poetry #Senryu
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Serena🪞🧿✨ @alethianstrata.bsky.social · 12h
Have you ever wished someone would bequeath you a blueprint for understanding how #attention and #desire organize your experience of being human—so you could make sense of the machinery and participate more meaningfully in your own reality? Well, I have excellent news!✨ #Consciousness #Unconscious
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Desire: A Guide to the Internal Mechanism Organizing Your Experience
How unconscious desire becomes lived reality—and how consciousness can participate
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Serena🪞🧿✨ @alethianstrata.bsky.social · 15h
I write because the version of me who writes and the version of me who later reads and understands what I've written are not the same. Writing is the clearest mirror I have for who I am, what I think, what I believe, and what I truly want. I'm talking to myself. ✒️🪞 #Pretendpanel #WritingProcess
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Béa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 16h
"Emotions need your direct involvement. They don’t need to be felt forever, or obsessively, but just long enough to have their say. When they know that you’ve really got the message, they disappear. If you don’t get the message, however, they stick around and wreak havoc." ~Raphael Cushnir
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Serena🪞🧿✨ @alethianstrata.bsky.social · 16h
Thank you so much! 🥹💗 Yes, exactly. Tarot cards are excellent for this because they give symbolic form to internal energetic organization. Once you understand the relationships between the cards, it becomes an architecture you can move through from the inside.
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Menestune @menestune.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
My lovely wife discovered the cutest mushroom family living in a tree cave. So I discovered her discovering it. #love #tree #pnw #Seattle #fungi #fungifriends #photography #mushrooms #nokings
Photo of my wife taking a photo with her phone of a tree with a crevice grown in it that is filled with a little spate of mushrooms.
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Serena🪞🧿✨ @alethianstrata.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
#Manifestation #ThoughtJournal
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Serena🪞🧿✨ @alethianstrata.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
My internal experience is intense as fuck pretty much all the time, so I don’t think about it much. But this last full moon must’ve been extra brutal, with a slooow decompression period. I noticed the waning gibbous tonight and felt desperate for the new moon because that energy would feel nice. 🌚
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Serena🪞🧿✨ @alethianstrata.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A visual story about a very cool sky, told through photos and video taken within the same hour, three months ago. ☁️ It was so cool. I still think about it all the time. #vss365
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Serena🪞🧿✨ @alethianstrata.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
15 has cornered us all into watching a Minecraft ARG. The boys are PHYSICALLY INCAPABLE of staying quiet. They keep making the most pedantic arguments in the universe over minute details in the story, talking through the whole thing. 15 is threatening to end the bloodlines. 🤣😂
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Serena🪞🧿✨ @alethianstrata.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The thing about editing mode is that it does not provide nearly as much dopamine as creative mode... and it takes so. much. longer. I need sugar, head pats, or a cool $50 mil. I'm not picky. 😂 #WritersLife #Editing #WIP
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Alt: ya'll got anymore of that dopamine
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Béa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Being conscious gives you the chance to change yourself, if you want to. When you are conscious, your ego can choose your actions. It is up to you to continue acting as you were acting or to change yourself.~Roberto Lima Netto, Juliana Lima Netto, The Jungian Bible
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Maria Popova @mariapopova.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The courage to be yourself – Virginia Woolf on how to hear your soul www.themarginalian.org/2023/09/12/v...
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The Courage to Be Yourself: Virginia Woolf on How to Hear Your Soul
“Beyond the difficulty of communicating oneself, there is the supreme difficulty of being oneself.”
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Serena🪞🧿✨ @alethianstrata.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I fully believe that it is possible to be all of these things. But discerning and serving that which is worthy is going to be the best way to stabilize the other two. I think the important thing is that you cannot allow yourself to believe that it comes at the expense of the others. Find a way.
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Béa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Longing is what turns us inside out until we find the sun and the moon and stars inside.~Peter Kingsley
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sanctorium.bsky.social @sanctorium.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“ … the thing with October is, I think, it somehow gets in your very blood. Unapologetically. Almost ruthlessly.” Anne Sexton
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Philosophy Bits @philosophybits.com · 01/10/2026
““No” and “yes” are short words requiring long thought.” — Baltasar Gracián, The Art of Worldly Wisdom
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Serena🪞🧿✨ @alethianstrata.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The haunted IMAX feature in my brain appears to be broken, and that’s… fine, honestly. 😂 #Dreams
Very specific image happening in my head while my eyes are closed, attempting to sleep.

It’s a beautiful cartoon-style drawing, very FernGully-esque.

Two mice swimming side-by-side, their tails stuck out of the water, carrying daisies in their mouths.

They’re swimming in beautiful blue, sparkling water, doing laps around a large rock.

It’s not from anything that I know of. That is just what brain has randomly generated as my pre-sleep screensaver.

Honestly, it’s so much more normal than usual, and somehow that’s what makes it interesting to me. 😂
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Serena🪞🧿✨ @alethianstrata.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Doesn’t it frighten you— how no one ever seems real? Watch them— running an internal script on a loop. Disturbed. Distressed. Disoriented. And you can’t deviate— or flinch— without startling them out of their nightmare. #VSS365 - Loop #Poetry #SkyPoem
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Jazz, The Hierophant. @cherished-stardust.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“The lips of wisdom are closed, except to the ears of understanding.” - The Kybalion (1908)
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Béa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Your consciousness is actually experiencing your mental model of reality, not reality itself.~Michael Singer
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Schrödinger's C. @pisiku.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"There is another world, but it is in this one." ~ Paul Éluard
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Grid @isbergillustration.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Hey, Uh. What's... What's With That Guy? They Okay, You Think? #illustration
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Serena🪞🧿✨ @alethianstrata.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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RoseRed @thebookishgardener.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🖌️ Paul Evans “Autumn Evening,” 2024 #art #painting #artist
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Serena🪞🧿✨ @alethianstrata.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I’m just a crazy man on a milk crate, yelling at people who don’t care, but… 😂 #ThoughtJournal #CulturalCritique #SystemsThinking #PoliticalPsychology
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There is not a single person who is organized around politics who is psychologically well right now.

Whether this was consciously designed or simply emerged from the incentives involved, the result is the same: two major political parties and their surrounding media ecosystems keep the general population too frightened and psychologically destabilized to mount an effective response to anything.

It functions as brilliant psychological warfare.

Everyone who thinks they are doing the absolute most to make people aware of the atrocities, from either side, is essentially cognitively curb-stomping the people around them.

They believe they are mobilizing people by keeping the atrocities visible. Meanwhile, they are helping maintain a population too frightened and cognitively overloaded to develop the stability, personal agency, and sustained attention required to build power and do something about it.
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Serena🪞🧿✨ @alethianstrata.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
#ThoughtJournal #Psychology #SystemsThinking #Fear #EmotionalRegulation
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By the way, this isn’t something that you, me, or anyone can just overcome with more discipline or intellect, except by learning to stay calm enough to widen our field of perception again.

Fear, as a function, alerts us to danger and narrows our attention to the things that seem relevant to solving the problem directly in front of us.

That doesn’t mean the information we perceive through fear is false. It means fear gives us a tightly cropped image of reality, emphasizing whatever might help us survive the immediate threat while screening out information that does not seem relevant.

That cropped image may be exactly what saves us in an emergency.

But complex problem-solving requires us to step back far enough to recover the information that fell outside the frame.

If you want to be the kind of person who solves complex social problems, you have to learn to be in a measured relationship with your fears.
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Serena🪞🧿✨ @alethianstrata.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
#ThoughtJournal #SystemsThinking #SocialPsychology #CulturalCritique
So many of the world’s complex problems persist precisely because we try to solve them superficially, using “common knowledge,” without examining the underlying mechanisms that continue producing the same results across different social groups.

If you came up with a solution to a complex problem primarily because you were afraid of something, it’s probably not a very good solution in the grand scheme of things.

It will sound good and obvious to other people who are scared of the same things you’re scared of. But to people who do not share that fear, it will likely seem extreme in some ways and reductive in others.

Fear can alert us to danger, but it cannot be permitted to govern complex problem-solving.
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Serena🪞🧿✨ @alethianstrata.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Bored of book editing. Feeling ranty. 😂 #ThoughtJournal #Philosophy #Relationships #SocialPsychology
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Béa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Meeting the shadow in ourselves is disquieting because it tears holes in our masks. It causes us to act irrationally and feel ashamed, embarrassed, unacceptable, regretful—and to quickly deny responsibility for what we said or did.~Connie Zweig
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Serena🪞🧿✨ @alethianstrata.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The thing I loved about the first draft was that it was concise, easy to follow, atmospheric, and a bit airy. I was genuinely stunned that I could create that, because I am usually very excited to explain things with as much detail and information as possible... 😂🧵 #WritingProcess #AMWriting #WIP
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Serena🪞🧿✨ @alethianstrata.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The nice thing about this book shifting between essays and poetry is that when essay editing burns me out, poetry is waiting with a different excruciating process at a slightly different intensity. So I can abuse my brain longer before the brain-melty becomes undeniable. It’s fine. 😂
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Ilana Glazer in Broad City: Thats Fine Its Okay
Alt: Ilana Glazer in Broad City: Thats Fine Its Okay
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Serena🪞🧿✨ @alethianstrata.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Oh, hello, livewire... Pressure has been building in some area of your life. There may be a strong impulse to act, speak, decide, confront, explain, chase, or figure something out immediately. I'm getting obsessive rumination vibes. If this is you, let's talk... 🧵 #WitchSky #Tarot
The Wild Unknown Tarot Deck spread: Son of Swords, nine of swords, 6 ot cups
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Serena🪞🧿✨ @alethianstrata.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Heaven and Hell collided, and in the fracture we were born. Alien consciousness caught between bone and star. In the flames, we are purified— and then bastardized into existence. becoming something else entirely, somehow still only animal. #VSS365 #SkyPoet #Consciousness #CreationMyth
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Serena🪞🧿✨ @alethianstrata.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"You live your life, you go in shadows. You'll come apart, and you'll go blind. Some kind of night into your darkness colors your eyes with what's not there." #MusicSky
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Blonde Maze - Fade Into You (Mazzy Star Cover)
YouTube video by Blonde Maze
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Béa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“For the hero, fear is a challenge and a task, because only boldness can deliver from fear. And if the risk is not taken, the meaning of life is somehow violated, and the whole future is condemned to hopeless staleness, to a drab grey lit only by will-o’-the-wisps.~CG Jung, Symbols of Transformation
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Serena🪞🧿✨ @alethianstrata.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Let it bloom, and let it perish. Let the flames purify and devour you. This experience wasn’t designed to feel safe. It’s a demanding world, forcing you to know, and grow, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘨𝘰— without hesitation. #VSS365 #Poetry #ThrowbackPoem
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Serena🪞🧿✨ @alethianstrata.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I spent several excruciating hours editing Chapter 7: 𝘐𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯. I'm sure I rewrote (overwrote) the essay at least four times. 😂 Eventually, I realized it needed to become two essays. So now, Chapter 8 will be called 𝘍𝘢𝘪𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘐𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴. Here’s an excerpt. ✒️✨ #WIP #AmWriting #NonFiction #BookSky
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Philosophy Bits @philosophybits.com · 28/09/2026
“The conceptions of times past draw us toward dying — toward disintegration. The conceptions of the future — drive us toward living forms — to incorporation, the action of assimilation. (1/2)
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