My Therapist Asked Me To Create Something “motivating” So I Made These.

‚The Apotheosis of war‘

Vereshchagin

– „To all great conquerors, past, present and to come“

Hiroshi Yoshida.

Omg I love Donnie Darko! But I could never quite understand the ending. You know I reckon he’s either an aqua sun with a Scorpio moon or maybe a Scorpio with a Capricorn moon

Oooou!!! I love these placements you guys are giving him! And it was such a sublime film! I adore the symbolism! I feel like what he really wanted in the end was to die so that’s why out of any moment he could’ve chosen he chose to be in his room when the engine fell into his room! I think that’s a big reason behind the smile at the end!

And an aqua sun with a Scorpio moon makes so much sense! I think he was a cancer rising with Aquarius stellium in his 8th house which to me explains his obsession with death and concepts of intimacy

If you’re suicidal the rules of what’s good for you change. If you’re in a state so bad that you want to discontinue your own life, anything that will make you want to live is good. Even if in other situations it would be seen as unhealthy, shameful, childish or obsessive, if it’s going to make you want to live for a bit longer it’s the correct choice. For instance, self harm is bad, but, if it’s the choice between that and wanting to die? Allowed. Skipping all work/chores/studies and spending a day in bed or bath or or the floor would usually be frowned upon, but if you’re suicidal? The right choice! Dropping anything that makes you want to live less is a good choice, and completely avoiding anything that makes you die is great. It doesn’t matter if everyone thinks you’re avoidant or lazy or irresponsible, fuck them, you’re fighting for your own life here, and they’re interfering. Their opinions can take a hike.

Only thing that is still not okay is trying to control someone else with how you feel. Making suicide threats to someone, making them feel as if your life is in their hands now, still not okay, not permitted. But anything else goes. Your life continuing is worth more than anything in the world being done, and more important than any social rules being obeyed.

a gentle reminder that you’re not untalented, dumb or slow just because you’re learning. be patient with your progress. let yourself be a beginner.

Setting up a birdhouse in the spring. Photo by Valery Shustov (1969)

I saw a recent ask about soulmates, and I was wondering, how do I know if my current partner is my soulmate? Is it okay if she isn't?

Signs that Someone is Your Soulmate

Your heart skipping a beat is not one of them.

1) The mutual benefit is balanced.

Imagine that a young woman is in a relationship with a rich old man. She needs him to pay for her tuition, rent, car, bills and clothes. He needs her for sex. The mutual benefit is not balanced. She would starve without him. But he, with all his money, could easily replace her with another just as pretty. They are not soulmates. They cannot be.

2) There is elemental compatibility.

If Water is the dominant element in your natal chart, and your boyfriend is Earth-dominant, that is a major sign that he is your soulmate. The compatible elements are: Water and Water, Earth and Earth, Water and Earth, Air and Air, Fire and Fire, and Air and Fire. Everything else is not.

3) Fixed energy dominates both of you.

This is in relation to the previous point. If you are Fire-dominant, and your wife is Water-dominant — Fire and Water being incompatible — this negativity can be overridden by mutual Fixed energy dominance. If you are a Leo dominant and she is a Scorpio dominant, there is still a big possibility that you are meant to be. This is because Fixed signs share the ideals of loyalty and stability.

4) Your skills are on par with each other’s.

If a man is a famous actor, and his husband does not work under the spotlight, but is a successful real estate broker, then their skills are on a similar level. Neither fame nor income is the criterion, but the level of reputation in their respective fields. There will never be a huge disparity between two halves of the same soul.

5) Neither of you has an ounce of fear.

Not of death, disease, failure, suffering or poverty. Such fear is present in all of us at some point. But fear of the other person’s cruelty or infidelity. Countless people in relationships stay loyal not out of love but out of fear of being found out. And countless more live in fear that their partner is betraying them behind their back. When either is present, you are with the wrong person.

6) Their touch does not feel foreign.

When kissing or making love, their body will feel like an extension of yours. Sexual or not, their every touch and embrace will be a true comfort to you. The body often acts as a mirror of the soul. If your souls are halves of one, your bodies will feel it too.

7) More than love, respect is shared.

Butterflies in your stomach, or romantic love as we know it, is just chemicals in your brain. That is why lovers are replaceable. Because the same chemical reaction can be triggered by different people. Our brain, and therefore our heart, do not really know the difference. But respect is a conscious choice made by our soul. Someone who can earn our full respect is likely to be the right one.

This list is a mixture of socio-economic, astrological, intellectual and emotional circumstance. But at the end of the day, you will simply know if they are the one.

womanhood is just

*crying in a forever 21 dressing room* *fighting with your mom and realizing she has a lot of trauma* *listening to mitski* *drinking diet soda* *reading that margaret atwood quote over and over again* *erratically cutting your own hair for no reason* *staring in the mirror until you stop looking like a person* *getting hit on by a man old enough to be your grandfather* *fantasizing about being a disembodied entity* *screaming* * thinking about being lobotomized*

The Jewish people of Uzbekistan photographed by Gueorgui Pinkhassov

“The term Bukharan was coined by European travelers who visited Central Asia around the 16th century. Since most of the Jewish community at the time lived under the Emirate of Bukhara, they came to be known as Bukharan Jews. The name by which the community called itself is “Isro'il” (Israelites). 

The appellative Bukharian was adopted by Bukharan Jews who moved to English-speaking countries, in an anglicisation of the Hebrew Bukhari. However, Bukharan was the term used historically by English writers, as it was for other aspects of Bukhara. 

Bukharan Jews used the Persian language to communicate among themselves and later developed Bukhori, a Tajik dialect of the Persian language with small linguistic traces of Hebrew. This language provided easier communication with their neighboring communities and was used for all cultural and educational life among the Jews. It was used widely until the area was “Russified” by the Russians and the dissemination of “religious” information was halted. The elderly Bukharan generation use Bukhori as their primary language but speak Russian with a slight Bukharan accent. The younger generation use Russian as their primary language, but do understand or speak Bukhori.

The Bukharan Jews are Mizrahi Jews and have been introduced to and practice Sephardic Judaism. 

The first primary written account of Jews in Central Asia dates to the beginning of the 4th century CE. It is recalled in the Talmud by Rabbi Shmuel bar Bisna, a member of the Talmudic academy in Pumbeditha, who traveled to Margiana (present-day Merv in Turkmenistan) and feared that the wine and alcohol produced by local Jews was not kosher. The presence of Jewish communities in Merv is also proven by Jewish writings on ossuaries from the 5th and 6th centuries, uncovered between 1954 and 1956.”