Observations Aside.... It's Such A Treat To The Eyes 👀 😍

Mercury Nakshatras & Manipulation

Manipulation (n) 1. “to manage or utilize skillfully.”

Mercury represents skill, precision, accuracy and overall the ability to craft one thing into another.

In Tarot, the Magician card is closely tied to the planet Mercury. Depicted on the card is a man fully supplied with the tools he needs to create infinitely.

Without Mercury, the material world would not exist as it does now. Mercury Nakshatra Natives often function as the “Magician” archetype becoming extremely skillful & successful at the material world.

ASHLESHA 🐍

These natives are skilled at manipulating the masses. Given the lunar rulership here, the Moon traditionally represents the mind and masses. It’s evident that the “hive mind” exists prominently in society, and Ashlesha natives often have a influential hand at crafting the current thoughts, ideas, trends and philosophies people follow or agree with in a mental sense. Often contributing to controlling the hive mind itself. They’re extremely persuasive and adept at verbal & non verbal communication. They can often persuade the masses to believe and listen to what they are saying, no matter what it is. Given the snake symbolism present in this Nakshatra, they tend to have hypnotic speech and articulation, usually entrancing people through communication. Their words tend to have an impact directly on other’s nervous system, which connects to the poison bite of a snake. They’re extremely skilled at psychology and prying into the minds of others. Due to this, they can manipulate even the strongest minds, hence why their intellectual influence is often seen in a global scale. It’s widely known they are skilled at manipulating the opposite sex through seduction as well. Mental strategy is one of these native’s greatest talents. Arguably one of the most popular books on mental strategy: “The 48 Laws Of Power” is written by an Ashlesha Moon native, Robert Greene. Many well known politicians, actors, speakers, authors have a primary Ashlesha placement. Since the Moon represents women, they often tend to be good at manipulating women or being influential in concepts and literature relating to women. These natives are often responsible for trendy lingo, popular terms, pop culture, and originating concepts people debate over on the internet daily. Without Ashlesha, the framework of modern media & pop culture probably wouldn’t exist as it does.

JYESTHA ☂️

Jyestha natives are skilled at manipulating the material world. They tend to be dominant, competitive and persistent. Although some natives keep these traits hidden, at their core they strive for achievement and success. They have a strong seed of desire planted within and are good at motivating themselves towards achievement. Paired with the Mars rulership of the sign Scorpio, there’s an evident ruthlessness they have with pursuing their goals. They use their sheer will power to create the reality they want for themselves, not stopping until they achieve it. They are usually seen at the top of their field or craft, dominating their competition. They’re also skilled at psychology, and can persuade and manipulate others through their words and actions. Additionally, with this Mars Rashi rulership, they’re skilled at manipulating their physical body and often excel at sports, pilates, yoga, breath work etc. They’re able to consistently push past their limit physically, mentally and psychologically. Someone known as “the greatest” in their field was NBA player, Michael Jordan, who has Jyestha Moon. We’ve also witnessed Jyestha Ascendant native, Kim Kardashian amass large wealth for herself due to her ability to manipulate her image and reputation, and consequently manipulate the masses through her impact in the media. These natives don’t quit until they win, and with the inherent dominance within them, they dominate their own weaknesses and turn them into strengths. They usually amass a lot of wealth for themselves due to their effort and insatiable appetite for success and victory. They manipulate they’re own skill set until produces results for them and in general know how to manipulate their surroundings to work in their favor.

REVATI 🥁

These natives are skilled at manipulating reality itself. If the concept of manifestation had a mascot, it would be Revati. These natives are inherently removed from reality energetically. They tend to be detached and unreachable, where they are able to see everything from an outsider’s perspective. They can often feel like aliens themselves. But it’s only from the outside perspective where we can create reality right in front of us. Being the last Nakshatra, they are adaptable and changeable to any surrounding. With the adept ability to be all things to all people. They see reality from a Birds Eye view, in a way that’s almost impossible to see without having this Nakshatra as a primary placement. Revati is the playful trickster that plays with reality for fun, testing limits and boundaries, toying with it all. To them everything in life is malleable, through this belief they do seemingly impossible things. But to the Revati native, they’re fully aware that anything is possible, and we have the power to create anything we put our minds to. Given the Jupiter rulership of the sign Pisces, these natives have a profound sense of faith and belief. Almost blindly so. But with faith being a key ingredient in the formula of manifestation, these natives use it to their advantage. Many manifestation coaches, spiritual guides, and authors/bloggers that talk about manifesting have prominent Revati in their chart. They generally have a powerful influence in spiritual and creative industries. Similar to Ashlesha, they help shape the trends of the collective consciousness.

📝In conclusion, Mercury is one of the most influential planets over the material world, and through these Nakshatras we can see Mercury’s influence manifest in various different ways. But the commonality is that these energies most prominently help to influence, shape, sculpt and manipulate reality as we know it now.

Do you ever wonder if the Idol you like is actually a misogynist because the sexism in Korea is so bad they now even have an anti-feminist president and every 1,8 days a woman dies through a sexual crime and korean women have literally formed a movement in which they boycott any kind of relationship with men regarding sex, dating, marriage and if southkorean men don't change the whole population is gonna be down by HALF by 2100 because women also refuse do procreate and have children and it's absolutely not possible that every member of every boygroup you like is unproblematic in this regard or are you ignorant?

About planetary maturity

In Vedic astrology, the concept of planetary maturity, or Graha Pakvata (sansk.), refers to the specific age at which each of the nine planets reaches its full potential and begins to influence the native's life with greater clarity and strength. Once a planet attains maturity, it becomes more capable of interacting productively with other natal and transit planets. Such planets are considered "wiser," better equipped to counter malefic influences and mitigate negative effects.

It is important to note that changes after a planet matures do not happen suddenly. These changes unfold gradually, over the course of a year or even several years, after the planet reaches its full potential. However, if a planet is particularly significant in a natal chart, its mature effects will be more noticeable, both physically and emotionally.

Traditionally, the most important planets to consider are:

The Moon and the ruler of the Moon

Lagnesha (the ruler of the Ascendant, or Lagna)

Planets occupying the 1st house (where Lagna is located)

Important note: If, say, two planets are in conjunction and are located within 15 degrees of each other, the planet that matures earlier will be held back until the second reaches its maturity age as well. For example, if Venus and Rahu are within a 15-degree orb in a chart, even if Venus is strong and well-placed, you can expect the person to experience unstable relationships or a lack of desire to settle into marital life until Rahu reaches maturity (the maturity ages of each planet and the lunar nodes are listed below).

Estimated maturity ages of the planets according to Jyotish:

Jupiter: 16 years — by 16, a person begins to understand moral principles, distinguish between good and bad, and typically get a secondary school education. Jupiter, being the planet of expansion and wisdom, fosters further education and a deeper understanding of life. By this age, a person is no longer a child.

Sun: 22 years — Following Jupiter's maturity, the Sun reaches maturity at 22, bringing self-awareness and a sense of ego and individuality. People at this age begin to seek their place in society and explore their life purpose.

Moon: 24 years — When the Moon matures, emotions become more stable and grounded compared to the emotionally turbulent teenage period , particularly in water signs (Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces). This period is especially noticeable for young females, as many enter into their first serious relationships.

Venus: 25 years — Venus’ maturity brings a more practical and grounded approach to love and relationships. Romantic affairs become more meaningful, and this is often the time when some individuals settle into long-term commitments or marriage.

Mars: 28 years — By this age, Mars stabilizes. People learn to manage impulsiveness and aggression, replacing bold, impulsive actions with more thoughtful decision-making. They also become more competitive and are better at taking calculated risks.

Mercury: 32 years — At this stage, individuals become more analytical and practical in life. They gain better control over their finances, start businesses, or pursue higher education. Daily communication becomes more purposeful and refined.

Saturn: 36 years — One of the most critical ages in life, Saturn’s maturity marks the end of any lingering childhood attitudes. Real adulthood begins, where life philosophy, karma, career, and societal roles become established. If Saturn is prominent in a chart, significant life changes often happen around this time.

Rahu: 41 - 42 years — Rahu, symbolizing material desires, generally brings material success by this age. By 42, a person has typically achieved a certain level of wealth and understands their true desires in life.

Ketu: 47 - 48 years — Ketu's maturity leads to spiritual development and detachment from material concerns. By this age, individuals start focusing on spiritual growth, introspection, and deeper understanding. This period marks a shift toward spiritual realization and inner peace.

Respectively, the astrological houses where these planets are located begin to deliver their maximum results after the planets reach maturity.

This....hits home.🥺

091024 / 11.07 p.m.

"I gave you $10,

he gave you $20,

you felt that he was better just because he gave you more,

but he had $200 and all i had was $10"

9th and 12th Houses - How Far is Foreign?

An insight, that adds to depth of understanding of Astrology through diving into Vedic resources is the change in perception between the 12th and the 9th house.

In popular Astrology circles, both of these houses are commonly associated with foreign lands. However, as you explore the meaning of these houses more, you begin to understand them deeper in polarity with their opposite.

The actual house of foreign, far away travel (or relocation, depending on the chart) is the 9th house. That is because the 9th house is the opposite of the 3rd house.

Say you are European, and you lived your whole life in Europe, and you travelled around different European countries to explore the continent. This is the 3rd house. It is the expansion beyond your local home country into exploring its nearest cultural environment, and at the end of such a pilgrimage, you end up with a personal understanding of your individual, cultural identity, which moves you to its emotional interpretation in the 4th house.

But then lets say you travel or move from Europe to Asia, either of the American continents, Australia…take your pick. This is the activation of the 9th house. Because you are no longer exploring just the back yard of a culture with a certain degree of similarity, you are entering a completely new physical world.

This is why houses 9, 10 and 11, and 12th to an extent, are found in charts of famous people. You need to be able to participate in an energy, an idea, that is going to spread into foreign lands to truly be famous. This applies even if we’re talking about online success, which is the way people get recognition nowadays. Otherwise, you are at best a local singer on your continent or your country’s music festival. There is nothing wrong with that of course, as many people love to contribute to their community and they’re happy doing so, but it’s still an accurate observation. You need to be able to go far away, not strictly physically but energetically, to touch a variety of people from many cultures.

You might wonder, how does the 12th house fit into this? Clearly, it’s part of the whole 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th house group, so it should also rule foreign lands. But the 12th house is actually more than that. The 12th house rules a fantastical, foreign idea, that might not necessarily be grounded in the immediate physical, but is nevertheless energetically real and can be accessed from anywhere. It’s the idea of the collective emotional consciousness, that may not have the most quick and obvious material manifestation but is nevertheless a very real thing existing within this Universe.

Up until the 11th house, through 9th and 10th, we are dealing with more or less tangible ideas regarding foreign lands. Let’s say in the 9th house you relocated to a completely foreign culture, in the 10th house you found a way to tangibly join the most prominent physical environment of the world through that culture, in the 11th house you met some of the most prominent, affluent people in the world. I don’t have any 11th house planets, but to give you an idea of how it works, my husband has Venus conjunct Mars in the 11th house, we live in the Las Vegas area, and he plays sports and is casually friendly with some of the wealthiest people in the world, who own successful businesses, own several properties across the world, and spend a lot of their time either making a lot of money or travelling the world, or both. We are not one of those people, but it should give you an idea of what the 11th house is. It’s the creme de la creme of the physical world. I don’t personally interact much with these people, as they are my husband’s friends, not mine, and I don’t play sports with them, but I have a deep awareness of how advanced socially and financially this particular group is, having travelled to many poorer parts of the world. There are people in this world, starving, so in comparison to them, the 11th house society is the top 1% of 1%.

You might think, well, the 11th house is everything, so how can the 12th house be more? The 12th house is more because it sells something even the 11th house people can’t resist, it sells the ultimate fantasy.

In the 12th house we move on to people so wealthy, they barely even interact with others. We move to intangible concepts, physical areas and objects, that provoke people to spend obscene amounts of money simply due to some idea. The 12th house is not just real foreign travel like the 9th house, it is the embodiment of the realisation of all fantasies. That is why Venus is so happy in the 12th house, because it enjoys the ultimate idea of fantastical luxury.

The foreign area that we travel to in the 12th house is not this globe, it is deep inside us. By the time we realise all our fantasies in the 11th house we can feel tired, or even jaded. But in the 12th house we are stimulated to all of our secret, hidden desires being provoked and coming true. This can be done not only within our home, within our room, but completely within our minds. Those, who are successful in the 12th house are those, who made those fantasies concrete enough to realise them and live within them.

What if you could taste and smell the finest perfume created on this planet from purely natural oils? What if you could touch the finest fabrics, created in corners of the world you never even dreamed of? What if you could live this dream, every day, surrounded by an infinite kaleidoscope of the pinnacle of perfection achieved by our planet until this time? “What if?” is the exotic, “foreign”, “far away” dream of the 12th house, and a well realised 12th house is a dream come true.

To offer up an example, in the last few years, youtubers living in rural areas from all over the world have popped up on the internet, offering videos from their seemingly idyllic life. That is the definition of the 12th house fantasy, devoid of the actually reality of having to take the 9th house physical pilgrimage of travelling to rural China and enduring all the difficulties involved with facing the reality of such a location. It may seem idealised, yet the source material for filming is real, so while it may be distant from the viewers geographically, while it may cost the locals a lot of work, it is nevertheless part of an actual, existing reality.

This dream, that can seem excessive to a mundane mind, becomes even clearer in the context of the 12th house’s polarity, the 6th house. The 6th house is the tough battle of dealing with the ugliness and conflict of this world. That is the reality of this physical world for most of us, we get up every day and deal with conflicts, that we have in front of us. It is exhausting, and so the 12th house is everything that heals and soothes the pain of any conflict that ravaged us in the 6th house. It’s the world offering no resistance, it’s all boundaries being breached. After all, in our dreams, or fantasies, we want everything to be perfect and smooth.

Ironically enough, the karaka of the 12th house is Saturn. As someone with significant 12th house influence, it is pretty clear to me why. In order to have only the finest dream come true, to really live in a beautiful fantasy, one actually needs to do a lot of research, be picky, critical and have background expertise and know-how. Otherwise, even as just a consumer, you would be easily fooled, hoodwinked into a fake product, or end up overpaying on something, that is not worth the money you invest into it. Scrutiny of Saturn is necessary for our fantasies to be smooth. It is not something, that is given to us that easily. Saturn also rules isolation, and if the 9th house is foreign, the 12th house is the pinnacle of remote. The 9th house is what is foreign and exciting to us, mentally and physically, but the 12th house represents the most remote corners of both the physical world, and our minds.

This is why the 12th house is the furthest away from the 1st house, our basic, natural, physical life. Because the furthest thing on this planet is not just a foreign continent, it’s a journey inside our minds and emotions, the ability to blend discernment and internal surrender to divine perfection, that leads to manifestation. It is the full depth of untapped potential on the very bottom of our subconscious, a research and response to all collective energetic resources available on the planet, a gold mine waiting to be explored, exploited, and enjoyed. And it is tapping into this gold mine, that has the power to tempt, seduce, and attract people from all around the world into directing their energy towards us, even if we’re physically just sitting in our room, far away from them.

The cost of betraying one's self

For the last three years, I've felt like I had to relearn who I was, relearn lessons that were imbued upon me from childhood (through self-reflection as an adult), I've had to relearn societal rules (through awkwardly fubbling through social interactions), and whether I even want to abide by these social rules or not. More and more, I start understanding my past self and accepting her after years of rejecting and being embarrassed of her, as I come back into myself. But I feel like I began navigating this rebirth in the wrong manner.

I approached it in a manner in which I believed there were objectively a right and wrong way of doing "life", in part due to having befriended certain people that thought that who I was, how I thought and how I sought to navigate the world were wrong because it did not make sense to them, but also by accepting and internalising their critiques instead of recognising them as very strong subjective opinions. While I could be very stubborn, I also had a porous mind. I feel like it is in my nature to be attracted to anyone who wants to bestow me with any new knowledge or different perspectives that I can mull over, being a mrigashira native. The only issue was that instead of giving me new perspectives, they belittled and ridiculed my thought processes. And I knew that they were opinions to begin with, but the more I recognised that the world around me agreed with them, the more I started to question whether how I perceived the world around me was "correct".

I watched a video by Claire Nakti that spoke about people copying you/stealing your destiny, and she gave an analogy that went along the lines of, "when you decide to take in information that someone else has discovered, instead of eating the fruits of knowledge that they consumed, you end up eating the excrement of the people who ate the fruit" (I said it in a far my crass manner but you get the gist of what I'm saying). Not only do you not take in the full knowledge or wisdom, but you will also often misinterpret what you are hearing and seeing, and subsequently impose these incorrectly understood lessons and ideas onto your life, and potentially others, because you have not made sense of these lessons from your own point of view, nor attained the wisdom, through experience, attached to these lessons. But not only that, you end up not living out your own destiny by attempting to steal another's. This is probably why incredibly wise people are usually portrayed as very old in media. Someone that has lived that long has had many many experiences but also the time to learn and wisen due to them.

I'm not going to speak on this too much because ultimately, you could always just go watch Claire's video for more information on Ketu and Rahu, and it's relation to making sense of the world with the knowledge you came into the world with, and also your own acquired wisdom that one gains as you navigate the world. Going back to my own personal story, I will not say whether my friends interpretations of the world were "correct" or "incorrect", or whether now that I'm in a different state of mind, I agree with them. What I will speak on is the danger of betraying oneself in the pursuit of really anything. For me, it was the pursuit of social acceptance and assimilation into spaces that may not have been for me and in spaces, that I myself may not have wanted to be in, if I were being honest with myself.

We all likely have friendships in which we have much in common with our friends, and also differ in many ways from. I've always wonder why I had friendship groups in which we differed in many ways, and this always fascinated me, and I could never make sense as to why our friendships worked. Maybe I enjoyed these friendships because they always had people with differing ideas to that of my own that made me really "think" and question my own view points, that's these friendships were stimulating, as I am a person that loves to question. My friendship with these two particular friends hinged on a shared love of similar music and interests as most friendships do but differed in how we perceived the world greatly. Instead of agreeing to disagree, my friends sought to change my perspective through belittling, triangulation, and bullying. I recognised that I wasn't happy in the friendship, but I stayed in that relationship, longer than I should have, due to fear of being alone. COVID came around, and I thought I would spend the year 2020 "fixing" myself, as many other people sought to do. I threw myself into a ton of psychology content so I could psycho-analyse myself and effectively learn where I needed to improve in myself and my approach to my interpersonal relationships. What made the whole process near impossible, is that I was dealing with a severe case of moral perfectionism, in which I thought that the times in my past in which I had caused harm to people, were like blemishes on my being that I could never get rid of, like they would haunt me for my entire life, and would never be able to separate myself from having been that person. You can't move on from past versions of yourself if you think you'll always be tethered to them. Also, trying to take in all this knowledge, that didn't resonate with me at the time, was also incredibly overwhelming, but also useless, and I could never incorporate what I learnt effectively into my life, because it did not come naturally to me. I honestly blame myself for having bought into the ideas surrounding cancel culture, because if you're not willing to forgive and allow someone to move on with their lives after having made past mistakes, how can you do that for yourself?

I also really got into astrology, so I could learn how to read my birth chart with the sole purpose of understanding what my flaws and shortcomings were in this lifetime so I could correct them. I had spent a great deal of my adolescence being bullied by age-mates and even past friends and I think these experiences also informed this idea that there had to be something fundamentally wrong with me to have experienced all of it, and that if I could dig into myself and expel it from my being, I could subsequently be treated better by the world.

Slight sedgeway from the video, but I want to say that once, I was speaking to my mom, and I asked her if I should change my approach on a specific situation I was experiencing, and she told me not to allow people to change who I am, meaning don't allow other people's behaviour towards you change who you are, and how you would react to a situation. By allowing someone to influence your behaviour, or "matching their energy", you're giving someone else power over yourself, and how you would actually react to a situation if you were being your authentic self, which could be a big price to pay for simply wanting to stroke your ego. Also, when you have to answer for your behaviour or words, you'd feel a lot more confident in your past actions by actually believing in what you've done and said, instead of it coming from a place of fear, in some cases, or ego.

So, getting back to trying "to fix" myself; in trying to do so, I think I experienced the actual death of my mind and soul. I should mention that I have always had a habit of ridding myself of the past to make way for who I want to be in the present (I'm not sure if this is due in part to my heavy pluto influence in my chart), example, I always liked getting rid of old art because I had discovered a different art style. And so my nature of always wanting to start completely anew or on a clean slate had ultimately bit me in the ass, because in my bid to "fix myself", I found that I had rid myself of everything about my being; my personality, my opinions, my temperaments, the things I cared about, the things that drive me.

I really didn't know who I was or what I believed in. I had no idea what kind of person I was even trying to work towards being because I sought to destroy the foundations, that I had taken years, leaving me with no real basis to start with but also leaving me an empty shell or husk.

I spent a year and a half in a state of derealisation and depersonalisation. I existed in a state of limbo. When you experience depersonalisation and derealisation, it's like being underwater. You can't process information as well. I honestly don't know how I got through my third year in that state. You're never really present, and even when you perceive things going on around you, you sense these things, but sometimes you don't really process them in your mind. It's like the saying, "going through one ear and out the other." I think it's relevant to mention that I had no hobbies and I found that I struggled listening to new music, in fact I found myself wanting to listen to music that my dad would play when we were children, almost as a form of comfort, but also (and this ties back to the whole premise of this post) as if I had regressed to being a child again. When I came out of that state, I found that I had to relearn a lot of things, that I most likely knew before but just couldn't remember, almost like I was starting over again, from the beginning.

And by the way, this is not a sob story. I knowingly betrayed myself by being in a relationship with people who I knew did not truly like or accept me for who I was but I unknowingly betrayed my soul by completely destroying the growth that I had made up until I would said my 19th year. And why I mentioned Claire Nakti's video earlier is because ultimately, what I would like you take away from this message, is that on the one side, there is a lot to learn from others, but in your pursuit of knowledge, make sure that even when you seek to learn from others, that their messages resonate with you, so as not to be led astray. Also, become comfortable with walking the path less travelled, especially when it resonates with you. I was so set on being accepted that I completely neglected the voice that told me that the ideas being imposed onto me didn't resonate with me, that I didn't actually like the people I desperately wanted to approve of me, that who they were was not who I wanted to be, nor wanted to be associated with anyway. Essentially, if you've ever been through what I've been through, my advice to all of us, actually really for anyone, is to worry less about whether you're getting it "right", and to worry more about whether it feels right to you.

Subsequently, making this discovery also made me wonder how I would raise my children, like would I act as a guide or assistant. Growing up, my parents furiously imposed their beliefs onto us as children, which I subsequently rejected, not only because it didn't make sense to me at the time, but also because I needed to gain my own understanding to really develop these beliefs for myself. And so the way I think I'll go about parenting my children, is to gently advice them, so they would be more accepting of the advice but also try to ensure that I'm giving them these lessons in a manner that they can understand and make sense of for themselves, and not be frustrated when they decide to make decisions that go against my advice because ultimately, people learn better from experience than being told what to do, especially children. Life isn't a test, it's an experience, you're allowed to fuck up, you're allowed to become a different person overnight, don't rush the process, because ultimately, the destination will be there when you finally get there.

It almost feels like I am having a similar experience to Bella Baxter from 'Poor Things', in the sense of discovering the world, one' s self, how the world reacts to me and how I subsequently react to the world, anew. The only difference being that I had a detailed understanding of my past self, that made my relearning of myself and the world staggered, as I desperately attempted to cling onto who I once was, once I realised that I had completely destroyed the version of myself that I loved and respected. In pursuit of social acceptance and really, self-acceptance, I had completely forgotten how much had gone into me being who I was and how hard I had worked to become that person. Bella Baxter had the advantage of not having any reference for who she was "meant" to be. The friends she met on the boat and in France liked her for her uniqueness. It makes me very cognisant of the saying, "When you attempt to be like someone else, you're robbing the world of yourself." It's very true. So, while I would never advocate for complete isolation, I would say, try to process things on your own, without outside opinions or potential influences.

Greetings! @makingspiritualityreal

I always gain a lot of knowledge from the posts you write. Despite reading a lot about atmakaraka, I haven't come across any data regarding debilitated atmakaraka. I'm hoping you can help me with this.

Debilitated Atmakaraka

I will now say something that may be potentially controversial, but I think atmakaraka and amatyakaraka are overrated.

Technically, according to classic theory, having a debilitated planet as your atmakaraka means you're working with difficult karmas relative to your most automatic daily expression. But even a debilitated planet can function well, it will just be unusual. That is because there are many factors that decide the planet's strength, like Shad Bala. The planet can be in a good house even if it's in a debilitated sign. It can form a neech bhang and get its debilitation cancelled.

To give you an example, my Mercury technically shouldn't be doing well in Sagittarius, because it's in a debilitated/detrimented/fallen sign however you call it, but it's my highest scoring shadbala planet. It's in a good house, Vic di Cara even formed a theory that Mercury does best in the 2nd house, supported by a decent Venus. My astrology software ranks it as my highest scoring planet. A sign of debilitation is not all there is to it.

All you can tell for sure is that the expression of that debilitated planet will be less traditional and straightforward. But focusing on the concept of atmakaraka itself for too long is not the best way to get chart accuracy, when planetary scoring yields much more accurate results.

One of the things I magically manifested in November 2019 was $300 with a citrine necklace I bought in Venice beach in LA

I was thoroughly looking through my belongings multiple times for something that was missing, and when I checked my purse later, I found $300 inside of it and didn’t go to work or receive money from anywhere

Citrine is connected to your solar plexus chakra which is connected in Sun in Vedic Astrology and Venice is connected to Venus

Sun rules my 11th house of financial gains and Venus rules my 8th house of sudden windfalls and both are placed in my 1st house in Libra

Buying this citrine necklace in Venice Beach unintentionally casted a spell and activated houses related to money

Not to mention I had a flight that week which activated my 11th lord Sun in Swati of Libra as Swati is connected to flying and aviation

November is also the 11th month of year when the 11th house activates

the male gaze distorts reality

started watching movies again (just don't like movies really) and one thing that surprised me was how the male gaze isn't just about staring at hot naked ladies, but how it distorts reality. the male gaze creates 'people' and 'situations' that simply don't exist.

the biggest example to me is the femme fatale. the devious woman using her sexuality as a weapon. whether the trope is a blonde bimbo bubblingly bouncing her boobs, or a sophisticated older brunette casually letting the strap fall off her shoulder and threatening to reveal her bust, they are different incarnations of the same concept. the women are knowingly using the sexual desire of men against them.

i watched a particularly egregious example where a group of women were sent to seduce a group of men, hanging off their shoulders, caressing their chests, with the promise of further sex if they came to another room. the true purpose was to humiliate them by getting them to disrobe in front of other people.

when i was a kid watching these scenes, i was convinced that this was a real thing women did - there were women out there who knowingly used their sexual appeal to get men to do things they otherwise wouldn't. it had to be such a recurrent trope for a reason, right? it even shows up in movies for children - remember the hot pink pegasus seducing hercules's pegasus?

but as an adult, i find myself confused watching these scenes. i've never seen anything like this happen. i've never met someone who says they do things like this. it's one thing to be flirty and dress in a sexually attractive way to get free drinks, but it's quite another to be so sexually forward to 'deceive' and 'trap' men. not to mention, it's... dangerous. if the man even believes he's being deceived, he can turn violent. it's a foolish move.

maybe the only real life example I can think of is honeypots. but honeypots are actual spies, trained by governments, and spies are selected to have less empathy than the average human being. do we really think that among untrained women there are so many seductresses with the skill of trained spies?

"what about sex workers/prostitutes?" while the honeypot spy is employed by a government agency, prostitutes are paid by the very people they are "seducing." prostitutes have to put on an act - they need to pretend to be the sexually active and perpetually horny woman men both want and fear. but most prostitutes are not like this; they are in it because they need money fast, not because they think fucking strange men for pay is a sexy and desirable career path (fun fact - read the diary of madam pompadour, the most famous courtesan and the embodiment of aristocratic seductress, and you will find she actually did not like having sex with the king and dreaded it. not even our real life courtesans can live up to our fantasies.)

the entire idea of a woman using her sexuality against men is simply a male fantasy - and the flipside is that it's a male anxiety, too.

men wish that women would approach them and find them desirable and initiate sexual intercourse with them, without the men having to do any of the work. there's nothing inherently wrong with fantasizing that a hot person finds you so special and hot that they want to have sex with you right away. men and women of all sexual orientations entertain these secret fantasies.

but then, there's the fear - "what if these hot women are actually only pretending to be interested in me, to get something from me? and i'm too horny to think straight and i actually give it to them?!" and that is the male anxiety, that for a moment, they actually end up losing the upper hand. despite the fact that such a situation is actually pretty rare in real life (I asked several male friends if they had personally or second-hand encountered such a situation in real life, and none could say they had), it is a common trope in fiction. it is especially lascivious in film, where the seduction before the fall can be portrayed in softcore porny ways.

"this is a foolish idea, everyone knows fiction and reality are separate." well, we know they are separate, but do you know which parts? if you don't already know the facts of the situation beforehand, how can you tell when fiction is lying to you and when it's drawing from reality? do you think the young, sexually inexperienced kids watching disney's hercules know that 'seductresses' aren't a common threat when we watch this scene? or will they learn and think "ok, a thing that happens in grownup life is that hot ladies seduce men, and you gotta watch out for them!" what basis does a child or even a teenager have to know this is false? especially when this is a common trope?

"women are sexually available and active - and deceitful" is a harmful trope. when you read about the ancient greeks stereotyping that women are lustful, they don't mean it in an "aww shucks, these girls just love having sex!" kinda way, they mean it in a "women are unfaithful and will use any means to get dick, including taking advantage of their hotness" way (this is why 'whore' is the ultimate insult for women). because if this trope were real, then it would be dangerous, wouldn't it? honeypot spies are dangerous for this reason. luckily for us, it is not real, but the male anxiety surrounding it continues. the male desire/anxiety around it informs porn tropes about 'punished sluts'. it informs incel tropes about the 'cock carousel'.

and this is what i mean when i say the male gaze distorts reality. it fabricates, out of whole cloth, a person that does not exist in any meaningful way - a woman who seduces men while demanding no emotional involvement, who is eager and willing at all times, who can turn the very desire for her existence against those men to get what she wants. she is not repulsed by or afraid of the men she pretends to be attracted to. before, we had to content ourselves with art and novels glorifying this false woman, but film allows her to exist in flesh and blood. cast a real woman, have her speak words and move her body in ways dictated by a man, and suddenly she appears much more real. grow up with enough of these, and even women writers can start to think these "seductresses" are real people. she can try to reclaim her and turn her into a badass boss babe, or she can condemn her as immoral and pathetic, but the deception is complete - the argument is no longer about whether this woman exists (she does not), but about whether she is justified in her ways. the female writer does not realize she was nursed on the male gaze for years, and it will take serious seeing with her own eyes to realize what is the real world and what is male fantasies and fears.

Fame degrees does not just mean your going to be famous!!!

So there’s a lot of information going around about 29° 17° and 5°, which are all Leo degrees. And while I think they have the potential to bring you fame they definitely do not mean you are destined to be famous. I think people say this to catch your attention, but there are probably lots of people in the world who have 29°. I will say though that wherever you do have these degrees will give you recognition. 5° might be temporary recognition something that catches your eye, 17° would be something that catches your eye and attention, but 29° is how people will remember you. I have Leo moon in 29° and I would say lots of people recognize me as someone who is very bold and sensitive with their feelings, and often times my feelings are on display.  I also have 29° cancer Mars and I feel like I am very recognized as someone who cannot stand up for myself. Now that being said you can be famous off of this degree a friend of mine from high school has 29° Leo sun and she is now a pop artist. It’s not just going to happen to you though, you would have to put in the work.  the 29th° is some thing that really catches peoples attention. Sun in the 29th° you might be recognized for who you are, moon in the 29th° you could have a famous family or your feelings could be very prominent. Mercury in the 29th° is someone whose words linger in peoples minds.