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‘You’re only given one little spark of madness.
You mustn’t lose it’ —Robin Williams
⚡️MARS OPPOSITE URANUS ⚡️
🕯️MATCHBOX TAROT @anushaalamgir
#3cardspread #sun #magician #world

‘You’re only given one little spark of madness.
You mustn’t lose it’ —Robin Williams
⚡️MARS OPPOSITE URANUS ⚡️
🕯️MATCHBOX TAROT @anushaalamgir
#3cardspread #sun #magician #world
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Venus in Libra reminds us that in “Choice” there is also “Rejection”—Saturn exalts in this sign to teach us the weight of such decisions. Choose wisely. Measure 7 times— then CUT!
for this week’s
WATER CLOSET CONFESSIONAL:
a COMPOSITE of choices—1st House:
Venus in Libra on ASC
& Saturn/Pluto in Scorpio
“I do want truth—
it,
yours,
mine—
all of it…
truth is not cruel
or “ugly”.
yet the intent of words can be cruel and ugly at times…
but truth—
truth is always beautiful
cathartic…
no matter how much it may sting.
your truth makes me sad and reveals depths of hurt that make me question the reality of many things…
“real” or “not real”
forever pulling at my heart strings…
affirming painful half-truths
the unsaid
buried too long in our cobwebbed corners.
perhaps you are right and the cruelty is mine.
but I am not sorry for my truth…
or the steep conversations
and actions
that upheld my integrity.
and I will never be sorry for loving…
to remove “sorry” and “I love you” leaves me with only a cut out heart-tongue.
and wishes…
and i wish you many many beautiful, kind, sweet things…
i wish you the knowledge of your value and inherit worthiness…
and genuinely how much happier you will be without “romantic” me.
safe journeys (my friend?).”
words: @rae.creational.wyrding
…come share your secrets with us
in the…
WATER CLOSET 🌊
LINK IN BIO 🔱

Venus in Libra reminds us that in “Choice” there is also “Rejection”—Saturn exalts in this sign to teach us the weight of such decisions. Choose wisely. Measure 7 times— then CUT!
for this week’s
WATER CLOSET CONFESSIONAL:
a COMPOSITE of choices—1st House:
Venus in Libra on ASC
& Saturn/Pluto in Scorpio
“I do want truth—
it,
yours,
mine—
all of it…
truth is not cruel
or “ugly”.
yet the intent of words can be cruel and ugly at times…
but truth—
truth is always beautiful
cathartic…
no matter how much it may sting.
your truth makes me sad and reveals depths of hurt that make me question the reality of many things…
“real” or “not real”
forever pulling at my heart strings…
affirming painful half-truths
the unsaid
buried too long in our cobwebbed corners.
perhaps you are right and the cruelty is mine.
but I am not sorry for my truth…
or the steep conversations
and actions
that upheld my integrity.
and I will never be sorry for loving…
to remove “sorry” and “I love you” leaves me with only a cut out heart-tongue.
and wishes…
and i wish you many many beautiful, kind, sweet things…
i wish you the knowledge of your value and inherit worthiness…
and genuinely how much happier you will be without “romantic” me.
safe journeys (my friend?).”
words: @rae.creational.wyrding
…come share your secrets with us
in the…
WATER CLOSET 🌊
LINK IN BIO 🔱
...
Mercury 0° Sagittarius square Saturn 0° Pisces
DAILY DOSE—November 9, 2023:
Mercury moves into Sagittarius now and we are newly armed with the capacity to speak the blunt truth of any matter. Mercury in Jupiter’s day sign is philosophical and outspoken and prone to zeal. Here we are aiming the arrow towards truth and greater understanding.
The initial square to heavy Saturn may cool the usual hotheadedness of Mercury in mutable fire, activating a self-censorship or restraint that is anathema to the Sagittarius free spirit. The application is in using a “proper alignment” filter to check in and see if what you’re about to pop off about, is actually true. If so then go for it!
We need Mercury in Sagittarius’ brashness to keep us in check.
art: @unknown
words: @paetratauchertastrology
To work with Paetra visit: PaetraTauchertAstrology.com
👁️LINK IN BIO

Mercury 0° Sagittarius square Saturn 0° Pisces
DAILY DOSE—November 9, 2023:
Mercury moves into Sagittarius now and we are newly armed with the capacity to speak the blunt truth of any matter. Mercury in Jupiter’s day sign is philosophical and outspoken and prone to zeal. Here we are aiming the arrow towards truth and greater understanding.
The initial square to heavy Saturn may cool the usual hotheadedness of Mercury in mutable fire, activating a self-censorship or restraint that is anathema to the Sagittarius free spirit. The application is in using a “proper alignment” filter to check in and see if what you’re about to pop off about, is actually true. If so then go for it!
We need Mercury in Sagittarius’ brashness to keep us in check.
art: @unknown
words: @paetratauchertastrology
To work with Paetra visit: PaetraTauchertAstrology.com
👁️LINK IN BIO
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Venus enters Libra
DAILY DOSE—November 8, 2023:
Mercury’s day wants us to focus on healing self and others especially as Lady Venus enters Libra, her home sign of Cardinal Air! May we all rejoice, as she loves to be home and will bless us with social graces and an attitude of and aptitude for fairness.
After the natural reclusion of Venus in Virgo (and her long Leo RX journey), we tumble forward into the mix again, engaging with others now. Although the entrance into this intimacy may be a little verklempt thanks to the quincunx to Saturn at 0° Pisces, honor the wisdom gained through it, then shake it off when this aspect loosens up in a few days.
Mercury trine Pluto gives us x-ray capacity to see anyone’s true nature and to read between the lines at the ingress of this transit.
During this almost month-long Libra passage, Venus will encounter the South Node, oppose Chiron as well as make a square to Pluto, so there is big relationship medicine coming our way this month in the form of work around old patterns, self-worth, and control issues.
art: @ebaumsworld.com
words: @paetratauchertastrology
To work with Paetra visit: PaetraTauchertAstrology.com
🔱LINK IN BIO🔱

Venus enters Libra
DAILY DOSE—November 8, 2023:
Mercury’s day wants us to focus on healing self and others especially as Lady Venus enters Libra, her home sign of Cardinal Air! May we all rejoice, as she loves to be home and will bless us with social graces and an attitude of and aptitude for fairness.
After the natural reclusion of Venus in Virgo (and her long Leo RX journey), we tumble forward into the mix again, engaging with others now. Although the entrance into this intimacy may be a little verklempt thanks to the quincunx to Saturn at 0° Pisces, honor the wisdom gained through it, then shake it off when this aspect loosens up in a few days.
Mercury trine Pluto gives us x-ray capacity to see anyone’s true nature and to read between the lines at the ingress of this transit.
During this almost month-long Libra passage, Venus will encounter the South Node, oppose Chiron as well as make a square to Pluto, so there is big relationship medicine coming our way this month in the form of work around old patterns, self-worth, and control issues.
art: @ebaumsworld.com
words: @paetratauchertastrology
To work with Paetra visit: PaetraTauchertAstrology.com
🔱LINK IN BIO🔱
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Venus 28° Virgo trine Pluto 28° Capricorn & Mercury 25° Scorpio trine Neptune 25° Pisces
DAILY DOSE—November 6, 2023:
questions to ask yourself as the uncomfortable truths of the earth/water oppositions become ripe for review under today’s earth/water trines:
*How often are we asked inside an intimate relationship—
“please DON’T hate that person for me?”
*Now inquire within yourself and your immediate surroundings— how often are we asked
explicitly or implicitly—
“please don’t love/connect with that person, it hurts me!”
*What does it mean to pause and collectively reflect on the confounding truth of how easily/often we actually encourage hate over the risk of vulnerability…
*Why is more love and connection often deemed the most dangerous and “threatening” thing to our sense of safety in intimate bonding?
While the oppositions of last week had us integrating different “ELEMENTS” who share the same “MODE” and “POLARITY” — trines share “ELEMENT” & “POLARITY” but not “MODE”.
Within the confines of astrological grammar this aspect is considered “harmonious”, however it still requires we mix separate ingredients together for integration. As you explore the complex relational questions above— keep this in mind.
Review all the ways you have learned to re-route yourself or change your “mode of action” to gain the attention of what you desire.
art: @shejtano
words: @rae.creational.wyrding
To work with Rae visit: theWITCHwaycafe.com
🦇LINK IN BIO🦇

Venus 28° Virgo trine Pluto 28° Capricorn & Mercury 25° Scorpio trine Neptune 25° Pisces
DAILY DOSE—November 6, 2023:
questions to ask yourself as the uncomfortable truths of the earth/water oppositions become ripe for review under today’s earth/water trines:
*How often are we asked inside an intimate relationship—
“please DON’T hate that person for me?”
*Now inquire within yourself and your immediate surroundings— how often are we asked
explicitly or implicitly—
“please don’t love/connect with that person, it hurts me!”
*What does it mean to pause and collectively reflect on the confounding truth of how easily/often we actually encourage hate over the risk of vulnerability…
*Why is more love and connection often deemed the most dangerous and “threatening” thing to our sense of safety in intimate bonding?
While the oppositions of last week had us integrating different “ELEMENTS” who share the same “MODE” and “POLARITY” — trines share “ELEMENT” & “POLARITY” but not “MODE”.
Within the confines of astrological grammar this aspect is considered “harmonious”, however it still requires we mix separate ingredients together for integration. As you explore the complex relational questions above— keep this in mind.
Review all the ways you have learned to re-route yourself or change your “mode of action” to gain the attention of what you desire.
art: @shejtano
words: @rae.creational.wyrding
To work with Rae visit: theWITCHwaycafe.com
🦇LINK IN BIO🦇
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Samhain Saturn Station👁️🖤🕯️
For Josh:
You died four years ago..
Mostly I maintain happiness and fullness that you were here with us for as long as you were.
But then from the sacred place burrowed eternally inside this body that held your precious body until you joined us. From some well spring of life the deep cries arise again..the bone drenched emptiness of your absence, there is nothing but your absence and I collapse grabbing the tiny urn with your ashes before I fall …clutching my homeopathic dose of you, the 6’ 3” powerful body of you, a life time of building houses, furniture, fixing stuff, snowboarding like a maniac in epic conditions making the world more beautiful, more vibrant with everything you touched.
I get up off the floor eventually and join the land of the living.
You were not murdered at a music festival nor held hostage by your government’s enemies ..I did not pull your body from the rubble. I return to this moment and watch Al Jazeera’s bureau chief in Gaza hold the shrouded body of his grandchild and touch his dead wife’s face with the sorrow of the ages with his dead son and daughter somewhere nearby..
I get up to return and to remember to practice the wholesome joy that keeps me going…happiness will return as I engage wholeheartedly in this life again, as you always did..
Get back up, keep going, as you would do….
words: @plumbmary
art: @indigo.degaia
WATER CLOSET CONFESSIONS🌊
LINK IN BIO🔱

Samhain Saturn Station👁️🖤🕯️
For Josh:
You died four years ago..
Mostly I maintain happiness and fullness that you were here with us for as long as you were.
But then from the sacred place burrowed eternally inside this body that held your precious body until you joined us. From some well spring of life the deep cries arise again..the bone drenched emptiness of your absence, there is nothing but your absence and I collapse grabbing the tiny urn with your ashes before I fall …clutching my homeopathic dose of you, the 6’ 3” powerful body of you, a life time of building houses, furniture, fixing stuff, snowboarding like a maniac in epic conditions making the world more beautiful, more vibrant with everything you touched.
I get up off the floor eventually and join the land of the living.
You were not murdered at a music festival nor held hostage by your government’s enemies ..I did not pull your body from the rubble. I return to this moment and watch Al Jazeera’s bureau chief in Gaza hold the shrouded body of his grandchild and touch his dead wife’s face with the sorrow of the ages with his dead son and daughter somewhere nearby..
I get up to return and to remember to practice the wholesome joy that keeps me going…happiness will return as I engage wholeheartedly in this life again, as you always did..
Get back up, keep going, as you would do….
words: @plumbmary
art: @indigo.degaia
WATER CLOSET CONFESSIONS🌊
LINK IN BIO🔱
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Sun 10° Scorpio opposite Jupiter 10° Taurus
DAILY DOSE—November 2, 2023:
By Jove today is "Day of the Dead" and we have reached the midpoint of Jupiter’s retrograde journey through Taurus. Among other things this means that Jupiter is the closest it ever gets to earth.
This axis is the sign of life and death and is suffused with optimism and good luck, which is a good timing as Planet Earth could use some help.
Adding extra flavor to the heroic energy of this week is Venus at 23° Virgo approaching an opposition to Neptune at 25° Pisces and the Moon in Cancer opposite Pluto 28° Capricorn (There will only be six more of these until we graduate from Pluto in Cap in 2024. Don’t waste these deep digging transits as they come!).
Oppositions are by nature allopathic meaning we use “otherness” as treatment. Yet, the natural astrological opposition is an axis, meaning they share MODE & POLARITY. Indicating that the importance is on blending the two ELEMENTS involved.
With these three pairings gazing deeply into one another through the EARTH/WATER axes we may feel pulled into the nostalgic depths of longing. Wondering when to float and when to ground. Searching for the right balance that allows us to feel safe, loved, and held.
What is your “real” vs your “ideal” right now and what actions do you have the power to take in this moment to bring them into closer alignment?
In a world that feels overwhelmingly chaotic and brutal our personal magical practices are more important than ever and our joy must be louder than the destruction.
art: George Zoritch
words: @paetratauchertastrology & @rae.creational.wyrding
To work with Paetra or Rae visit: PaetraTauchertAstrology.com or theWITCHwaycafe.com
&
WATER CLOSET CONFESSIONS @ theNeptuneUnderground.com🔱
LINKS IN BIO👁️

Sun 10° Scorpio opposite Jupiter 10° Taurus
DAILY DOSE—November 2, 2023:
By Jove today is "Day of the Dead" and we have reached the midpoint of Jupiter’s retrograde journey through Taurus. Among other things this means that Jupiter is the closest it ever gets to earth.
This axis is the sign of life and death and is suffused with optimism and good luck, which is a good timing as Planet Earth could use some help.
Adding extra flavor to the heroic energy of this week is Venus at 23° Virgo approaching an opposition to Neptune at 25° Pisces and the Moon in Cancer opposite Pluto 28° Capricorn (There will only be six more of these until we graduate from Pluto in Cap in 2024. Don’t waste these deep digging transits as they come!).
Oppositions are by nature allopathic meaning we use “otherness” as treatment. Yet, the natural astrological opposition is an axis, meaning they share MODE & POLARITY. Indicating that the importance is on blending the two ELEMENTS involved.
With these three pairings gazing deeply into one another through the EARTH/WATER axes we may feel pulled into the nostalgic depths of longing. Wondering when to float and when to ground. Searching for the right balance that allows us to feel safe, loved, and held.
What is your “real” vs your “ideal” right now and what actions do you have the power to take in this moment to bring them into closer alignment?
In a world that feels overwhelmingly chaotic and brutal our personal magical practices are more important than ever and our joy must be louder than the destruction.
art: George Zoritch
words: @paetratauchertastrology & @rae.creational.wyrding
To work with Paetra or Rae visit: PaetraTauchertAstrology.com or theWITCHwaycafe.com
&
WATER CLOSET CONFESSIONS @ theNeptuneUnderground.com🔱
LINKS IN BIO👁️
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