another poem for Grace
Thousands of years of star tracking
All coming down to you
Scrunching your nose at where that
Red, ugly man stills in the lion
and saying, "Ew."
--Us, realizing he'll be right on our Sun and Midheaven
astrology
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I got ID'ed as male by three separate cis men strangers in the last three days and then I just got ma'amed by a service worker after coming up in a line of all cis women. I am truly male with men and female with women.
Mars in Cancer: Grieving a Mother Wound
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TRANSitional Astrology: Electional Astrology or Thoughts on Divine Timing
A few weeks ago, my podmate J reached out to me because he needed my astrological know-how to settle on an interview time. This interview was a Really Big Deal. One of the things J and I initially bonded over other than our trans masc identities was that we are
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My hair has taken a beating my entire life so I am particularly protective over it. I was born in the 1990s with curly Jewish hair. It was assumed to merely be wavy because it wasn't until a few years ago when curly hair care reached peak awareness