A Text That Would Change My Mood Is Needed.

Perfect Blue

Satoshi Kon, 1997

It’s official - we’re headed to do science on the Sun! ☀️

At 11:03 p.m. EST on Sunday, Feb. 9, Solar Orbiter, an international collaboration between the European Space Agency and NASA, launched aboard United Launch Alliance’s #AtlasV rocket for its journey to our closest star. The spacecraft will help us understand how the Sun creates and controls the constantly changing space environment throughout the solar system. The more we understand about the Sun’s influence on the planets in our solar system and the space we travel through, the more we can protect our astronauts and spacecraft as we journey to the Moon, to Mars and beyond. More here. 

Image Credit: NASA Social participant, Jared Frankle

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“The Pianist” (Roman Polański, 2002).

I’m a cis-gender man which basically means that, when I was born, the doctor went “It’s a boy!” and when I was old enough to understand I agreed with him.

The thing is, I don’t know why I feel like a man.  I was teased and bullied for it a lot when I was little.  I’ve never had stereotypically American male interests.  I never cared about sports or cars or guns.  I was more interested in music and cooking and the arts.  I’ve always been emotionally in tune and sensitive, even when I did my best to suppress my emotions to survive a childhood of abuse from other children.

It’s not physical either.  I don’t feel like a man because I have a penis or a beard.  If you put my brain in a robot body or any other body, my essence would still feel male (I assume).  I literally can’t imagine what being any other gender would feel like, since I feel so acutely male.

I think that’s why the concept of being transgender always made sense to me.  I’m a man.  I don’t have any bloody clue why I feel like a man, but I don’t feel that it’s tied to my body or my interests or the way that I’ve been treated.  I feel like a man because of something beyond that.  Something ephemeral.  So, why couldn’t others feel the same?  Why couldn’t a person who’s been misidentified as a girl feel like a boy for the exact same nebulous reasons that I do?

And, since gender really doesn’t make any sense to me anyway, why couldn’t there also be people who feel as if they don’t have one?  Or who flow across genders like a ship on a map?

Are there people out there whose sense of their own gender is inseparable from their physical form?  If you put those people into robot bodies or, simply, other physically different bodies, would their gender identity also swap?  If so, why?  Are they actually more lost in their gender identity than I am and they need to hone in on the physical in order to anchor themselves?

Why do people feel like they are the gender that they are?

The 9th House and Our Time in College

Sun in the 9th- It’s the golden years, the best time of your life

Moon in the 9th- Finds where they belong

Mercury in the 9th- Finds answers to their questions

Venus in the 9th- Finds their love or sees others in love

Mars in the 9th- Finds out their true desires

Jupiter in the 9th- It’s time to get wild, have some fun and make friends

Saturn in the 9th- It’s time to get serious, gain some responsibility

Uranus in the 9th- Becomes an actual genius or quits altogether

Neptune in the 9th- Still dreaming about what they want to do and be

Pluto in the 9th- Time to be reborn

Signs in the Houses 🌌

Aries ♈︎:

this is an area of life where you are competitive and self-motivated, willing to take a risk and step into the unknown

Taurus ♉︎:

in this area of life, you can show pragmatism, commitment, and persistence. you let things develop in their own time and lean towards patience and endurance

Gemini ♊︎:

this is an area where you apply logic rather than emotion. here is where you are curious or where you need continual change and mental stimulus

Cancer ♋︎:

this area of your life may form a sanctuary, a place of safety away from the world. you seek to protect and defend the matters of that house

Leo ♌︎:

this area of your life will be close to your heart, a place where you can shine and develop your creativity. you invest personal energy here and want to be loved

Virgo ♍︎:

this area of your life will probably run like a well-oiled machine - or at least you would like it too! here, you seek to establish order and method

Libra ♎︎:

this is an area of life to which you bring elegance and tact. here, you are good at sharing or working in tandem with someone else

Scorpio ♏︎:

this area of your life is subject to cyclical processes of crisis, elimination, and renewal. here, you go to the depths and are disinclined to compromise

Sagittarius ♐︎:

in this area of life, you hear the call to adventure; this is a part of you that invites exploration and where you feel a more exciting world awaits

Capricorn ♑︎:

here, you show maturity and seek respect from others. you act pragmatically, with an eye to material gain. you work with purpose and apply a clear sense of structure

Aquarius ♒︎:

you are likely to approach this area of your life from an alternative or highly individual perspective, forming your own ideas and flouting conventions

Pisces ♓︎:

a lens of imagination is brought to this area of your life. here, you might be inspired to acts of devotion or find your best strategy is to follow your intuition

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you’ve done enough

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*