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It's difficult to read people's intentions in this forum, especially for me. I did take your response to me as defensive and felt like I needed to back off. When you write such a powerful piece it's difficult, for me anyway, to just ignore. Especially when there is much I recognize and have dealt with in my life. Coming across with a simplistic reply doesn't feel right either. You have to decide what it is you want to achieve with your writing. Dave would have some nice little response to you that never came across as threatening. Sure miss his presence, no?

Your interpretation was correct, I was telling you that my recent post was in keeping with the theme. It irked me a little, in the sense that I disagreed with but I also remembered that I have felt my personal blogs are a bit inappropriate here too,

But I didn’t feel offended at you so much. I don’t really see disagreements as anything serious or personal if that makes sense.

I don’t miss DS. (Edit: And I mean that in the nicest way because I adore him). As soon as I saw he had been online and it was verification he was still alive basically. Also, my tarot spread told me he was stressed but ok, so I worried less then too. People can come and go as long as I know they’re ok I don’t worry.
 
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You have participated in astrology threads that many have enjoyed and learned how astrology works. This has been your community for a long while and you bring a very unique perspective that would be missed.

Thanks. I’ve been wanting to study horary seriously for ages and might make it a New Year’s resolution to finally do it, so I would use the forum for that still if I do that. But I do feel my thread is too personal for this forum. It does feel inappropriate at times.

Edit: just thought of something, my reply to you was the equivalent of a cat hissing.
 
Hahaha. The guy I was writing about jsut tried to call me, quite a few times. I didn’t recognise his voice at first. He said he is in a really bad place. I told him not to call me ever again as the friendship is over but I did advise him to message a mutual friend who I know will support him.

Well done Poohbear. :)
 
Hahaha. The guy I was writing about jsut tried to call me, quite a few times. I didn’t recognise his voice at first. He said he is in a really bad place. I told him not to call me ever again as the friendship is over but I did advise him to message a mutual friend who I know will support him.

Well done Poohbear. :)
Old energy out, new energy in. Well done, indeed! 😀
 
Old energy out, new energy in. Well done, indeed! 😀

Thank you ☺️ it really does feel like a shedding of skin. Some pain had to happen for growth to occur, but the pain hasn’t been too bad.

I love setting boundaries!! 😃

#boundariesftw

I was reminded of the Major Arcana spread we both did on the Tarot thread. The future was Judgement if I recall. Very shedding of skin there too.
 
Thank you ☺️ it really does feel like a shedding of skin. Some pain had to happen for growth to occur, but the pain hasn’t been too bad.

I love setting boundaries!! 😃

#boundariesftw

I was reminded of the Major Arcana spread we both did on the Tarot thread. The future was Judgement if I recall. Very shedding of skin there too.
I think people with strong Neptune energy especially needs to pay attention to boundaries so they can direct their dreams into manageable and meaningful pursuits. Working on that Maths course might just be the ticket. :) For me, learning to sew and design clothes helped keep the idea of boundaries close in mind.
 
I think people with strong Neptune energy especially needs to pay attention to boundaries so they can direct their dreams into manageable and meaningful pursuits. Working on that Maths course might just be the ticket. :) For me, learning to sew and design clothes helped keep the idea of boundaries close in mind.

Yes that’s a good point because Maths is all about logic etc etc, so it’s a nice bit of synchronicity happening.

Sewing does sound grounding. And a very handy skill to have.

Tbh, I also really want to study horary seriously. I’ll wait until after the Math's course is done first, which is May time.
 
It's difficult to read people's intentions in this forum, especially for me. I did take your response to me as defensive and felt like I needed to back off. When you write such a powerful piece it's difficult, for me anyway, to just ignore. Especially when there is much I recognize and have dealt with in my life. Coming across with a simplistic reply doesn't feel right either. You have to decide what it is you want to achieve with your writing. Dave would have some nice little response to you that never came across as threatening. Sure miss his presence, no?

You made a very good point and thank you for explaining it to me to allow me to understand. I too would find it difficult to know what to say to someone who is pouring their heart out.

I really appreciate your comments and friendship.

I have both Daddy and Mummy issues but at least with men, I feel more comfortable but with female friendships, there is a warmth and a camaraderie, a sense of ‘in it together’ that is just an amazing comforting feeling, that it’s so worth it to work on this blind spot towards women I have.

There has been a lot of female energy on this thread and I want to give a shout out to all women who read this thread, whether you have ever commented or not. It is just a moment of appreciation specifically for what women have to go through.

If any men read this, you can light a candle for women too, that’s cool. We light a candle for you back as well.

It’s just at this moment I really have a sense of appreciation for female energy

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I posted the following meme on the ‘Tantra’ thread because that’s where it really belongs, but I wanted to post this one here to kind of tie in what the meaning or purpose behind me posting about my feelings’ is.

I don’t do it for a specific purpose, it’s literally just a way for me to blow off steam, but I was reading these memes the other day about CPTSD, and it made sense why the recent rants helped me to process everything.

By talking about what I fear, whether it is about myself or other people, I can then learn to accept those things, like things I don’t like about myself, or help to recognise patterns in other people, that help me judge them less, have life energy for them, or even decide when a boundary is what is needed.

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Just for some background about what CPTSD is, it is short for ‘complex’ post traumatic stress disorder.

The lady says that most people are misdiagnosed with ADHD, who actually have this instead.

I’ve never been diagnosed with ADHD, or anything, but I think that is only because I was naturally good at English, from reading so much when I was a little girl, that my grades were good enough to allow me to slip under the net, amongst other reasons. My natural instinct when I speak with people, is to be as responsive and pleasant as I can, so I don’t come across like I have CPTSD on first impressions.

But I have suffered with CPTSD, and lost years’ of my life through a fog of confusion and a short-attention span, and my love of reading books was lost, because I was always too much in survival mode constantly to relax.

It was not all bad, I instead turned to trying to understand myself and others, in order to help me navigate a big scary world as a little traumatised girl and that has led me to having above average self-awareness and empathy for others.

My physical body has showed symptoms of having had to carry this trauma around with it, so I have IBS etc.

Another lady on IG wrote about how the body carries trauma. She called it Somatic healing. Upon a quick research, Somatic healing is a popular concept, but I’ve only just came across it. Our bodies carry and store trauma; our body’s are like our very own Mother Earth’s and it is up to us to nurture it and love it.

Interesting thinking of the Earth personified into a sentient soul. And so earthquakes and tsunami’s are the Earth’s way of cleaning itself - our body gets ill because of our stored traumatic emotions and we need to heal our body too from the trauma.

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Please see the Tantra these for more of a focus on healing but this is a good reminder that spilling my soul has roots in healing, and can direct anyone inspired to do so on their own healing journey.

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I don’t normally ‘do’ politics but I am posting this here to create awareness in understanding what is happening with the genocide in Gaza.

@thetraumaeducator explained what is happening from a trauma perspective. That is, there is a collective trauma occurring within the country of Israel due to the holocaust of the Jews in WW2.

Due to the trauma remaining unhealed, the collective people have the mindset of a victim, but the actions of a perpetrator.

A template has been created by @humanitiproject on instagram, where you can copy and paste the link they provide on their page, and send it to your local MP. Or if you are outside of the UK, your local politician and then you can tweak the template to your country.

I really do not get involved in politics. By supporting the end to the genocide in Gaza, does not mean you condone the Hamas October 7th attack. It means supporting healing and the end of trauma for everybody.

Please copy and paste the below template to send to your local MP. Or alternatively, please visit @humantiproject who created the link.

Here is the link to the template, or you can visit the @humanitiproject page on instagram directly.

 
Also, I have been a few posts recently about Gone With The Wind.

I made no mention of the racial undertones in the book and movie because it is not about that to me, but a romance story and trauma story. However, I have been watching movie again, and it dawned on me, that the depiction of slavery displayed on the screen could be triggering for some. And then, perhaps, my posts about GWTW, which made no mention of the racial undertones, triggered some people of colour too.

I thought by not mentioning the racial undertones, it would show that was not what GWTW was about for me, but then, my silence could also trigger someone of colour to think that my silence was a passive acceptance of it.

So if anyone has been triggered by my posts about GWTW, I want to just say a quick word about it, and all I want to say is, that I recognise that the racial undertones exist and hold space for those who may be triggered by it.

I am not going to stop posting about GWTW, but I wanted to give time and space for any trauma that is not my own.
 
You made a very good point and thank you for explaining it to me to allow me to understand. I too would find it difficult to know what to say to someone who is pouring their heart out.

I really appreciate your comments and friendship.

I have both Daddy and Mummy issues but at least with men, I feel more comfortable but with female friendships, there is a warmth and a camaraderie, a sense of ‘in it together’ that is just an amazing comforting feeling, that it’s so worth it to work on this blind spot towards women I have.

There has been a lot of female energy on this thread and I want to give a shout out to all women who read this thread, whether you have ever commented or not. It is just a moment of appreciation specifically for what women have to go through.

If any men read this, you can light a candle for women too, that’s cool. We light a candle for you back as well.

It’s just at this moment I really have a sense of appreciation for female energy

🕯️
In memory of two women who made the most innocent gestures to show support. When I was in Junior HS. and being bullied by a black female, another black female approached me and took my hand and said "I'm sorry this is happening to you". That is all she said and I never saw her again but remember her always.

Another woman was my sister-in-law who stood by me in a church during a wedding ceremony. I had announce sexual abuse weeks before, and she took my hand. That's it but I remember her always. They are the only ones to show such kindness. Other women in my life condemned and rejected me but knowing those who step up and support me, stand shoulders above and keep me believing in women's friendship when it shows it's self to be sincere.
 
In memory of two women who made the most innocent gestures to show support. When I was in Junior HS. and being bullied by a black female, another black female approached me and took my hand and said "I'm sorry this is happening to you". That is all she said and I never saw her again but remember her always.

Another woman was my sister-in-law who stood by me in a church during a wedding ceremony. I had announce sexual abuse weeks before, and she took my hand. That's it but I remember her always. They are the only ones to show such kindness. Other women in my life condemned and rejected me but knowing those who step up and support me, stand shoulders above and keep me believing in women's friendship when it shows it's self to be sincere.

That’s lovely. I know what you mean about the simple acts of kindness that stand out.

When I was younger my ‘Aunt May,’ who was not really my Aunt but was just a good friend of my Gran’s, she was the lady who knitted me a blanket when I was a baby, that I still have and sleep with to this day!

I think I was a quiet child and misunderstood from an early age. I remember visiting a sea aquarium with my gran, brother and sister, and Aunt May, and I just have this memory of her reaching out to hold my hand and I took it, and it made me feel so much less anxious. I would have been about 4/5/6/ish.

Another memory I have, it’s not about women specifically, because the words came from a man of pensioner age, but there were also some lady pensioners around who were privy to it. I was very young, late teens or early 20’s, and it was one of the first times I was at the supermarket and doing the food shop by myself and I was a bit overwhelmed.

I was getting a bit flustered what to do with the shopping bags and trying to put the shopping trolley back and getting even more flustered because there was a queue of elderly people behind me. The old man just quietly said, ‘take your time,’ and that’s what I did and I was not flustered anymore and I remember that next time until I no longer felt the supermarket was a big deal. :)
 
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I just wanted to post the chart of a guy I have mentioned recently - the one who I was dating this Summer and he got back with his ex but she’s been violent towards him.

I’ve been talking to his Mum. I had originally messaged the number to ask it to stop calling me because I knew it was him. But his mum replied so he had been using her mobile. I’m really glad I spoke to her - I’ve been really worried about him being in a violent relationship, even though I have also called off the end of the friendship by putting down a boundary. But if I’ve been worried, it’s nothing like the worry I can feel coming from his Mum via text :/

I’ve found out more info too. When she hit him with an iron over the head, it wasn’t the first incident of violence. About a month before, she had pushed him down the stairs and he hurt his legs and had to be signed off for 2 weeks. He had only just received a new contract for a promotion at work, he was so chuffed when he got this news! He was still dating me when it happened, but due to having to take time off during the probationary period, they let him go.

Then, 2 weeks after he ended up in hospital with a head injury, she hit him over the head again. I don’t know what with if anything, but enough he needed stitches in hospital again and his Uncle tried to get him to press charges.

You can imagine how his Mum is feeling, knowing that he is back at his gf’s house in what is essentially a ticking time bomb to death.

I am genuinely worried about him too. I have known him for years and I know him inside out - he clung to his Mother and he clung to me. He is desperate for love and love’s female company. It can be seen in his chart - natal Saturn in his 5th house. He’s just had his Saturn return too (not that he’s suddenly grown up).

When I first saw his chart a few year’s ago, transit Pluto was still at the beginning of his 4th house conjunction. I saw all the planets it would have to pass through the 4th house I thought to myself, ‘he could die.’

I have survived a monumental plethora of Pluto transits before. It nearly killed me. I don’t know how I survived it, but I did. I missed out on normal life during school year’s especially, but do you know what Pluto gave me in return? An appreciation of life and death that you don’t see in many people. I lost everything - and to people that have lost everything and have came out the other side - they have an emotional intelligence and an empathy that is the most beautiful gift you can bestow unto somebody. It’s an automatic levelling-up in terms of spiritual wealth.

In fact, a marker to an emotionally intelligent/spiritual person, I have found, is an early death experience. Something happened in their childhood that brought them close to death, and it stays with them. It doesn’t always bring spiritual intelligence. Well, not cares about spirituality like I do and they prefer more tangible meaning’s, but if that’s the case, it gives them a tenacity for whatever goal they have because they are fighting having already died. I guess it removes a slight fear of death in some people, or a life-or-death type of determination in others.

It took me years to gain emotional intelligence. I was given an appreciation for life and death by Pluto, which gave me a deepness that wasn’t readily understood or even seen. The lesson towards emotional intelligence came gradually, like the effects of Pluto’s lessons reverberated long after the actual transit had passed and, in fact, it was only year’s later, I could look back at that phase or decade of my life and go, ‘wow, I see the lesson and the gift now.’ Before, I was simply just recovering from the trauma of it.

Now, not many people will enjoy a Pluto transit. I can’t say nearly dying is enjoyable myself but oh boy, the rawness of being stripped bare of all that no longer serves you and having to fight for your life? It’s frigging cool!

This thread has been the consequence of another Pluto transit. Basically, when I was left heat broken by my neighbour who cheated on me, and I was studying part-time at university, whilst also working 40 hours a week in a job where the management was playing a game of chess with me, not to mention the cooking and housework solely by myself. Well, needless to say, I started drinking extra stormy coffee. And I started taking an anti-histamine because the pressure was unreal. It’s the type fight where you need to sustain yourself for a long time because you’re in it for the long haul. That’s why I’ve never felt defeated or depressed because I like the fight 😂

Anyway, back to my friend, so, given my experience of Pluto transits, I am aware of how potent they can be. I love trying to guess the future even though it is impossible to guess (especially with my limited astrology knowledge), but my guess is - somebody is going to die. It could be my friend, maybe his gf picks up another household object and decided to do the housework on his head again, maybe she dies, maybe his mum dies, hell, maybe I die, because I am a significant woman to him also.

Just look at his chat though - transit Pluto is exactly in the middle of his Mars-Sun conjunction, and because Venus is part of this stellium, it’s also causing him to have these issues with a violent woman, and Pluto isn’t even directly on the Sun-Venus conjunction yet.

Given how quickly his relationship with her has become toxic, it simply cannot go on for much longer, but that doesn’t mean it won’t be on-off for years. I can see them separating and possibly, maybe, as the years pass and Pluto passes through his Sun and Venus, maybe there is a transformation and they both decide to become sober? That would mean he had been able to save her because, I think, she will be dead or in prison within 5 years and that’s just going by her self-destructive behaviour.

I want my friend to live and I worry for him. But I also think he needs to grow up and I am quite happy to not get involved or make any attempts to try to talk some sense into him. I am happy and guilt-free to keep ignoring him. I would not speak so crudely to his mum, because she is worried sick, but a part of me believes in the process and is quite happy to see him knock himself out by his own stupidity. Because, my dear friend is an incredibly selfish and immature boy-man. Maybe that is his Pluto-NN conjunction making him so selfish, or maybe the effects of transit Pluto has turned him dark and selfish out of pure fear.

I have empathy for the girl too, she is a victim of trauma who is now acting like the perpetrator. I have empathy for them all but what I also have is a belief in the process. I am happy to see him suffer for his own good.

If anyone has any guesses as to what the outcome would be from his Pluto transits I would be happy to hear it, even if entirely different from my own. My own prediction is that someone will physically die and I hope it’s not my friend and I hope it is a spiritual death, but I think someone may die. The writing is on the wall, so it’s entirely possible.

I just wanted to add that the Sun is going to conjunct Pluto in a matter of days. A luminary often kickstarts a significant event from an outer planet. It’s a little worrying, but not half as worried as his poor mum sitting at home by herself is. I said I will visit her soon. We have a lot in common right now.

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I really like quincunxes. I just think they are potent. I am reading about his Moon-Neptune quincunx from astrology king. I do like this website.

‘Finding the right balance between sharing your emotions and protecting them is critical. Between serving others and sacrificing your emotional requirements. Between relaxing socially with a drink or two and becoming an alcoholic or between celebrity and scandal.

This perfect balance becomes more accessible to reach through age and experience. More important, however, is trust and belief in yourself. You can be skeptical without being paranoid and give of yourself emotionally without being used or abused.’

https://astrologyking.com/moon-quincunx-neptune/

I just want to add that, despite my focus on this guy, it is only because things are so insanely intense in his life right now because of his Pluto transits. I am still moving away from any friendship or contact with him. 👌🏻
 
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