Yabestpal_Joe
@yabestpal.bsky.social
32, he/him, Art, Astrology, Vajrayana, Theurgy. All that is stolen must be returned.
You're here! Feel the light of these words reach your eyes. You're here!
You're here! Feel the light of these words reach your eyes. You're here!
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1 like one random image from my digital grimoire
December 7, 2025 at 7:45 AM
1 like one random image from my digital grimoire
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I have 3 graduate degrees. I've been practicing meditation for 5 decades, with 50-some intensive retreats of between 5 and 40 days' length. And yet an almost embarrassingly simple experience which can come up when I'm sitting that I really welcome is the realization—
*this is really happening*
*this is really happening*
December 5, 2025 at 3:38 AM
I have 3 graduate degrees. I've been practicing meditation for 5 decades, with 50-some intensive retreats of between 5 and 40 days' length. And yet an almost embarrassingly simple experience which can come up when I'm sitting that I really welcome is the realization—
*this is really happening*
*this is really happening*
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December Astro Map ✨
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December 2, 2025 at 5:00 AM
December Astro Map ✨
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I need to start saying “H-E-Double hockey sticks” to keep my profile spiritually pure.
@yabestpal.bsky.social has swears! They've used 5 profanities in their last 644 posts.
🥇 "hell" (3 times)
🥈 "damn" (1 times)
🥉 "shit" (1 times)
🥇 "hell" (3 times)
🥈 "damn" (1 times)
🥉 "shit" (1 times)
November 30, 2025 at 12:24 AM
I need to start saying “H-E-Double hockey sticks” to keep my profile spiritually pure.
I can’t remember the last time I swore on line can you help @profanity.accountant ?
November 30, 2025 at 12:08 AM
I can’t remember the last time I swore on line can you help @profanity.accountant ?
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Happy thanksgiving to all who celebrate!
I’m grateful I’ve been able to follow and chat with ya’ll about dharma, astrology, magic and politics.
I pray for all your continued health and success through every season, thanks for sharing your life here!
😌🙏
I’m grateful I’ve been able to follow and chat with ya’ll about dharma, astrology, magic and politics.
I pray for all your continued health and success through every season, thanks for sharing your life here!
😌🙏
November 27, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Happy thanksgiving to all who celebrate!
I’m grateful I’ve been able to follow and chat with ya’ll about dharma, astrology, magic and politics.
I pray for all your continued health and success through every season, thanks for sharing your life here!
😌🙏
I’m grateful I’ve been able to follow and chat with ya’ll about dharma, astrology, magic and politics.
I pray for all your continued health and success through every season, thanks for sharing your life here!
😌🙏
Happy thanksgiving to all who celebrate!
I’m grateful I’ve been able to follow and chat with ya’ll about dharma, astrology, magic and politics.
I pray for all your continued health and success through every season, thanks for sharing your life here!
😌🙏
I’m grateful I’ve been able to follow and chat with ya’ll about dharma, astrology, magic and politics.
I pray for all your continued health and success through every season, thanks for sharing your life here!
😌🙏
November 27, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Happy thanksgiving to all who celebrate!
I’m grateful I’ve been able to follow and chat with ya’ll about dharma, astrology, magic and politics.
I pray for all your continued health and success through every season, thanks for sharing your life here!
😌🙏
I’m grateful I’ve been able to follow and chat with ya’ll about dharma, astrology, magic and politics.
I pray for all your continued health and success through every season, thanks for sharing your life here!
😌🙏
I’m currently summoning a sleep portal from this sea to another (waiting at the airport for my redeye flight)
November 26, 2025 at 6:26 AM
I’m currently summoning a sleep portal from this sea to another (waiting at the airport for my redeye flight)
A mundane astrology prediction I’m willing to stand on
Feb 20-Mar 6
-Geopolitical event occurs in Russia that changes the worldwide perception of the nation and will have a profound effect on the governance of Russia itself
Feb 20-Mar 6
-Geopolitical event occurs in Russia that changes the worldwide perception of the nation and will have a profound effect on the governance of Russia itself
November 23, 2025 at 12:59 AM
A mundane astrology prediction I’m willing to stand on
Feb 20-Mar 6
-Geopolitical event occurs in Russia that changes the worldwide perception of the nation and will have a profound effect on the governance of Russia itself
Feb 20-Mar 6
-Geopolitical event occurs in Russia that changes the worldwide perception of the nation and will have a profound effect on the governance of Russia itself
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There's a Sufi story in which a seeker is knocking on the door of God's house, and they knock and knock and knock.
Finally, the door opens.
And the seeker realizes — they've been knocking from the inside.
🙂 🙏
Finally, the door opens.
And the seeker realizes — they've been knocking from the inside.
🙂 🙏
“Where is the door to God?
In the sound of a barking dog,
In the ring of a hammer,
In a drop of rain,
In the face of
Everyone
I see.”
- Hafiz
In the sound of a barking dog,
In the ring of a hammer,
In a drop of rain,
In the face of
Everyone
I see.”
- Hafiz
November 22, 2025 at 2:12 AM
There's a Sufi story in which a seeker is knocking on the door of God's house, and they knock and knock and knock.
Finally, the door opens.
And the seeker realizes — they've been knocking from the inside.
🙂 🙏
Finally, the door opens.
And the seeker realizes — they've been knocking from the inside.
🙂 🙏
Happy mars moon transit day to me
November 21, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Happy mars moon transit day to me
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I might have popped off with the ace of hearts
November 20, 2025 at 2:36 AM
I might have popped off with the ace of hearts
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Modern Phoenix
November 20, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Modern Phoenix
I might have popped off with the ace of hearts
November 20, 2025 at 2:36 AM
I might have popped off with the ace of hearts
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I found a such a huge mushroom I had to try and match it’s aura
November 14, 2025 at 2:19 PM
I found a such a huge mushroom I had to try and match it’s aura
Ignore the squeaky wheel and the when the noise stops the cart will too
November 14, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Ignore the squeaky wheel and the when the noise stops the cart will too
It is a simple joy to recognize something.
Movies and games take advantage of that all the time, but it goes deeper than nostalgia; it's the foundations of everything you think you know.
Recognition is the basis of all that thinking, and it's so wonderfully simple and profound
Movies and games take advantage of that all the time, but it goes deeper than nostalgia; it's the foundations of everything you think you know.
Recognition is the basis of all that thinking, and it's so wonderfully simple and profound
November 11, 2025 at 12:53 AM
It is a simple joy to recognize something.
Movies and games take advantage of that all the time, but it goes deeper than nostalgia; it's the foundations of everything you think you know.
Recognition is the basis of all that thinking, and it's so wonderfully simple and profound
Movies and games take advantage of that all the time, but it goes deeper than nostalgia; it's the foundations of everything you think you know.
Recognition is the basis of all that thinking, and it's so wonderfully simple and profound
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This race could very easily be decided by challenged ballots. Use this link to track your ballot, and remind your friends and family to do the same: info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/...
November 10, 2025 at 9:08 PM
This race could very easily be decided by challenged ballots. Use this link to track your ballot, and remind your friends and family to do the same: info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/...
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It is tough to talk to someone about astrology's real, extremely tangible utility, because there are actually a lot of good reasons to be skeptical of it from the jump.
astrology can be very hard to talk about with the majority of people (often including other astrologers!) because both its study and practice is deeply intertwined with epistemology, aka how we know what we know and to what extent we can know it. plus, metaphysics, history, and translation!
November 10, 2025 at 4:27 AM
It is tough to talk to someone about astrology's real, extremely tangible utility, because there are actually a lot of good reasons to be skeptical of it from the jump.
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... and, in association with khthoniaa's post just now ...
![Plotinus knows his suggestion that Nature is contemplation might not be easy to understand. So he starts his treatise with the suggestion that we look at that idea playfully. Here are the opening lines:
Suppose we said, playing at first before we set out to be serious, that all things aspire to contemplation and direct their gaze to this end—not only rational but irrational living things, and the power of growth in plants, and the earth which brings them forth—and that all attain to it as far as possible for them in their natural state....
Then are we [too] now contemplating as we play? Yes, we and all who play are doing this...
And it is likely that, whether a child or an adult is playing or being serious, one plays and the other is serious for the sake of contemplation, and every action [praxis] is a serious effort towards contemplation; ... voluntary action ... springs from the desire of contemplation ... the earth itself, and trees, and plants ... we can relate what the earth makes and produces to its activity [energeian] of contemplation, ... Nature, which ... has no power of forming mental images or reasoning, has contemplation in itself and makes [poiei] what it makes [poiei] by contemplation....
Plotinus says Nature itself is contemplation and that it is by contemplation that Nature makes what it makes. The word he uses for “makes” is a form of the word poien, which can also mean “to do” or “to produce” or “to create.” Our words “poem” and “poet” and “poetry” come from that Greek word poien.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gp3ps5sbvhaw4psrhu6nfvzt/bafkreib6ewhhlcklhddd2rhdzfxruhetem4dauoifr5ws6hgbvtbvrdruy@jpeg)
November 7, 2025 at 7:57 PM
... and, in association with khthoniaa's post just now ...
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It's pretty weird to be alive. More weird to be aware of it.
November 7, 2025 at 1:38 AM
It's pretty weird to be alive. More weird to be aware of it.