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gem @starlookergem.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

I, personally,, don’t trust spiritual practitioners than seem incapable of shutting up

anthony ☊ @anthonastro.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Boundaries reveal people. If someone feels the need to proclaim their truth instead of receiving yours, then they're entitled, manipulative and asymmetric to the situation. It’s shitty to use someone else’s courage to communicate their needs as an excuse to centre yours.

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anthony ☊ @anthonastro.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

The nastiest, most opportunistic time to proclaim your pent-up resentment is when someone places a boundary with you.

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anthony ☊ @anthonastro.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

I used to be someone who valued preserving the good in a connection, even if it was falling apart. I've learnt that with some, this is a fool’s errand. People will gladly destroy you in order to avoid themselves, and in doing so, they obliterate all that you believed they were.

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anthony ☊ @anthonastro.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Boundaries aren't destructive FYI. Things can end gracefully with a slow fade, a delicate appreciation for what a connection means whilst acknowledging that it isn't sustainable. Destruction is intentionally distorting someone else’s character. Rewriting the narrative in rage.

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anthony ☊ @anthonastro.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Some people can only survive by destroying a dynamic and everything that it means. They can't face an outcome that forces prolonged self-witnessing, so by destroying what you meant to them, they also destroy the accountability that comes from their behaviours.

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anthony ☊ @anthonastro.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Being blocked by someone after they sent a heartfelt half-sat-in apology that they couldn't stay faithful to is a badge of honour for your own self-respect.

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anthony ☊ @anthonastro.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

the only way to tell what is and isn't aligned with you is to stop interfering one way or the other.

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anthony ☊ @anthonastro.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

mutual effort breeds the creation of intimacy

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anthony ☊ @anthonastro.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

It's tough to remain aligned with the work, but what's worth a gram in discomfort is worth a ton in self-respect.

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anthony ☊ @anthonastro.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Eclipses are good for that - as are cazimis.

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anthony ☊ @anthonastro.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Moving into the city centre tomorrow. Feels like an entire era of my life is ending. Not sure how to feel, but exhaustion probably cuts it.

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anthony ☊ @anthonastro.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

In Virgo Decan 3, we have a choice. Either strive to hold onto attentive perfection, keeping all the moving party together in perfect unity. Or allow what's left to run its course. Use the waste to guide your next steps. Empty expectations. Dismantle perfection.

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anthony ☊ @anthonastro.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

In Pisces Decan 3, we have a choice. Either hold onto the illusion long enough for it to destroy you. Or kill the illusion and see things for what they are, finding the faith to begin again.

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anthony ☊ @anthonastro.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

In Gemini Decan 3, we have a choice. Either to remain in nervous confusion, surrendering to its possibilities and quelms. Or to take decisive, resolute action. One that forces the situation to a conclusion.

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anthony ☊ @anthonastro.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

getting ill again friends, gonna take some time off to recover. stay safe, stay happy, stay healthy and remember, you've got this

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anthony ☊ @anthonastro.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Have a beautiful eclipse season friends! =)

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anthony ☊ @anthonastro.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Something for Venus Retrograde. About love.

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anthony ☊ @anthonastro.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Aries as a sign isn't one for intentionality. It’s all or nothing, but it isn't strategic. I'm sure there's more to your chart than your Aries Moon, but I wouldn't at all attribute what I'm saying to Aries. If anything, it’s Aries placements that have taught me why this is necessary.

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anthony ☊ @anthonastro.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Not at all, I'm sorry. Aries moon is known for impulsivity.

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anthony ☊ @anthonastro.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Ily genie! :) it is calm as heck on here :)

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anthony ☊ @anthonastro.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

The final decan of Gemini is associated with Praxidike, the goddess of judicial punishment, or vengeance. Some ancient astrologers believed that this decan held with it the fate of judgement day. This is because they considered the world to be a Cancer Rising (Thema Mundi)

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anthony ☊ @anthonastro.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

I hypothesise that if the ascendant is ruled by a 12h placement, then the individual will only feel truly ‘seen’ by a partner who has their DSC ruler placement (in the other person’s chart) aspecting their own chart ruler.

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anthony ☊ @anthonastro.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

The rules of the synastry game change quite drastically when someone’s chart is ruled by a 12h placement.

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anthony ☊ @anthonastro.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Barack and Michelle Obama’s synastry is interesting because on the surface it seems unorthodox, but then you realise that he’s ruled by a 12h Saturn at 26° Capricorn with a Leo (Sun-ruled) DSC. Michelle’s Sun is at 25° Capricorn. She illuminates the person that nobody sees.

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anthony ☊ @anthonastro.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Before and after; ruled by Mercury in Leo 🎹

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anthony ☊ @anthonastro.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Not every interaction is deep or major, but it doesn't make them insignificant. Our little chats in the morning, her remembering my order, they all meant something. It’s also a reflection on the passage of time. Just how much of it has passed, how much has been overcome.

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anthony ☊ @anthonastro.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

There's a woman who has served me coffee every morning at my local station for two years. I started getting coffee there during a shit time. It made me feel happy that she’d remember my order and make it the second I walked in. She told me she's going back to Hong Kong today.

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anthony ☊ @anthonastro.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

The beginning is written in the end.

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anthony ☊ @anthonastro.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

It’s okay to feel like shit. Feel it in your body, feel it in every part of you. This is what this eclipse is. It’s acknowledging that many things can exist at the same time. You can love people and lose them. You can care but also be hurt. You can relish it all and gently let go

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anthony ☊ @anthonastro.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

This is a moment of purification, we eradicate the remnants of an old way so that we may wholeheartedly step forward into the new. It’s okay to wish that you could have done things differently, spoken the unsaid and changed the way that others showed up, but only up to a point.

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anthony ☊ @anthonastro.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

This eclipse is a moment of release, especially for mutable risings. It’s an acknowledgement of the pain, the hurt, the surrendering of what you once held onto for so long. It’s the reality that things didn't turn out the way you wished they would, and you can do no more. Let go.

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anthony ☊ @anthonastro.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Angular Malefic: Bad things come, they’re present and they’re a part of you Succedent Malefic: Bad things are given to you, you give others bad things Cadent Malefic: Bad things are in the shadows, following you where you can't see them, they exist in your unresolved tendencies

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anthony ☊ @anthonastro.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Angular Benefic: Good things come and more, but it’s your role to manifest them. Succedent Benefic: Good things come and they'll be rewarded to you Cadent Benefic: Good things come in unexpected ways when you most need them

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anthony ☊ @anthonastro.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

At first, I was just gonna retort that it’s the stellium in my 7h but then I saw she has Venus in early Aqua and moon in late Gemini lmfao

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anthony ☊ @anthonastro.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

I also do have a lil crush on her lmfao

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anthony ☊ @anthonastro.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

The Olympic swimmer Yusra Mardini left Syria due to the war in August 2015, during the Venus Rx in Leo, her 1st house. She moved to Germany. Now, after nearly 10 years, she's returned to Syria for the first time during the Venus Rx in Aries, her 9th house.

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anthony ☊ @anthonastro.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Cardinal signs are certain in the beginning, solid in the middle and unsteady in the end. Fixed signs are unsteady in the beginning, certain in the middle and solid in the end. Mutable signs are solid in the beginning, unsteady in the middle and certain in the end.

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anthony ☊ @anthonastro.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

For the amount of indecisiveness and uncertainty that mutable signs hold, the final decan of each sign (Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, Pisces) holds a terrifyingly decisive and tantalizingly final ending.

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anthony ☊ @anthonastro.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

This is why the 7th is also heeded as the ‘setting place’. The place where the Sun reaches the horizon, the place of death and old age. This is the declining light, the last time that the life force of the ascendant is reflected before the object ceases to operate.

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anthony ☊ @anthonastro.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

If the 1st house is an object, the 7th is how that object is reflected. Therefore, the 7th is far more than just a house of relationships, it’s the concept of ‘otherness.’ It’s a question of direct visibility. If something is not reflected, does it actually exist?

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anthony ☊ @anthonastro.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

What if reflection itself has an essential nature, acting as an extension of the object? Perhaps perception is always a collaboration between the inherent qualities of something and the reflection it projects. To me, this is the dynamic between the 1st and 7th houses.

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anthony ☊ @anthonastro.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

It’s important to note that the 7th is still our space. It’s angular, it’s something of us. Whilst people embody that house in our lives, it’s only because we give them the tools to. Mars in the 7th for example, they only have the axe because you gave it to them.

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anthony ☊ @anthonastro.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

If someone has a hostile 1st house, then it becomes like a torture room in the back of the house. No matter who you bring in, they’ll make it there eventually. On the flip side, a hostile 7th may make it less likely for people to show up at the door, but they find warmth inside

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anthony ☊ @anthonastro.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

The 7th is a liminal space, it’s where we go to meet others. It’s how we make them feel, it’s the energy they then assume in our lives. But the 1st is our own space. It’s how we feel about ourselves. It’s where we lead others after they've entered and explored the 7th.

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anthony ☊ @anthonastro.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

100% this! But even relationships feels too separate of a word imo. In my eyes it’s literary a liminal space, it’s a part of us that gets projected and then flipped around. There can be no self without the space that surrounds us, there can be no light without the protrusion of it.

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anthony ☊ @anthonastro.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

So, the Descendant plays a vital & pivotal role in how we relate, engage and interact with others - and also ourselves. It’s the energy we step into when dealing with others. Our first house is the place they’re left in. They enter through the 7th and arrive in the 1st.

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anthony ☊ @anthonastro.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

But projective identification involves reversing the roles. You make others quite literally feel how you feel about yourself, and you then step into the way you make others feel. In this way, this is a unilateral reversal of the Ascendant-Descendant axis. Flipping the script.

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anthony ☊ @anthonastro.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

My therapist was talking with me about projective identification. It got me thinking about the Ascendant-Descendant axis. Our 1st house is who we are but also how we feel about ourselves, the 7th is how we feel about others and how we make them feel.

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