Indigo Ray Astrology Inquiry

09/01/2025

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A Bee Sting That Could Make A Big Difference

09/01/2025

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🎵 “I’m Just an Executive Order” is a biting political parody inspired by the classic Schoolhouse Rock! jingle “I’m Just a Bill.” But this time, the cheerful...

08/25/2025

I am sad and distraught about the decimations the Trumpocalypse is wreaking on millions of people, not just in America but all over the world.

No atrocity on American soil can ever compare to the double genocide at the core of this country's origins. But Trump's Reign of Terror is just getting started, and it's already third on the list of America's Most Evil Atrocities.

What can I personally do in response to the ghastliness?

I can refuse to let despair colonize my imagination. I can safeguard my capacity for wonder and keep training my eyes to notice the everyday rebellions of beauty—the fox trotting through the alley at dusk, the kids painting sidewalks into cathedrals with chalk. I can align myself with networks of care, mutual aid, and joyful defiance. I can amplify voices that the Trumpocalypse seeks to silence.

I can make art, music, and ritual that strengthen the spirits of my allies. I can conspire to turn grief into songs and fury into strategies. I can study history to remind myself that tyrannies always fall, though often at great cost—and that liberation requires stubborn love as much as it does resistance.

I can donate money to grassroots groups defending the vulnerable. I can volunteer my time with local activists who are protecting immigrants, voting rights, reproductive justice, and the climate. I can check in on friends who feel isolated, making sure no one fights despair alone.

I can write letters to editors, call legislators, and show up in the streets with my body and my sign. I can teach, mentor, and pass on skills of resilience to younger allies. I can vote, organize, and stay alert—not just for the next election, but for the long, ongoing work of keeping democracy alive.

I can sharpen my rage into a luminous sword instead of letting it corrode into despair. I can name the Trumpocalypse for what it is: a death cult, a con of cruelty, a desecration of everything tender and wild. I can refuse its gravitational pull by being louder in my love, bolder in my solidarity, rowdier in my refusal.

Most of all, I can keep my own soul from becoming a miniature Trumpistan, polluted with cruelty and numbness. Instead, I will be a living sanctuary, an ecosystem of refusal and tenderness, a trickster priest of rowdy hope.

Image: from my unpublished Tarot deck

08/15/2025

11/22/2022

APOD: The Butterfly Nebula from Hubble (2022 Nov 21)
Image Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble; Processing: William Ostling
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap221121.html

Explanation: Stars can make beautiful patterns as they age -- sometimes similar to flowers or insects. NGC 6302, the Butterfly Nebula, is a notable example. Though its gaseous wingspan covers over 3 light-years and its estimated surface temperature exceeds 200,000 degrees C, the aging central star of NGC 6302, the featured planetary nebula, has become exceptionally hot, shining brightly in visible and ultraviolet light but hidden from direct view by a dense torus of dust. This sharp close-up was recorded by the Hubble Space Telescope and is processed here to show off remarkable details of the complex planetary nebula, highlighting in particular light emitted by oxygen (shown as blue), hydrogen (green), and nitrogen (red). NGC 6302 lies about 3,500 light-years away in the arachnologically correct constellation of the Scorpion (Scorpius). Planetary nebulas evolve from outer atmospheres of stars like our Sun, but usually fade in about 20,000 years.

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11/21/2022

APOD: Blood Moon, Ice Giant (2022 Nov 11)
Image Credit & Copyright: Ryan Han
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap221111.html

Explanation: On November 8 the Full Moon turned blood red as it slid through Earth's shadow in a beautiful total lunar eclipse. During totality it also passed in front of, or occulted, outer planet Uranus for eclipse viewers located in parts of northern America and Asia. For a close-up and wider view, these two images were taken just before the occultation began, captured with different telescopes and cameras from the same roof top in Shanghai, China. Normally very faint compared to a Full Moon, the tiny, pale, greenish disk of the distant ice giant is just to the left of the Moon's edge and about to disappear behind the darkened, red lunar limb. Though only visible from certain locations across planet Earth, lunar occultations of planets are fairly common. But for this rare "lunar eclipse occultation" to take place, at the time of the total eclipse the outer planet had to be both at opposition and very near the ecliptic plane to fall in line with Sun, Earth, and Moon.

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