your core users are people who have already demonstrated a willingness to abandon a more popular social media site for another, in the most part for disliking the politics of the people who run it. write this on a big whiteboard somewhere in the office

It will not just be love and light and enlightenment. He will crack the sky and electrify you if need be. He will make you feel fear just to force you to confront it. Not for the practice of courage, but for the joy of triumph. YOU NEED TIME TO PREPARE.

Hippolytus called both Pisces and Sagittarius quick-tempered. Abu Ma’shar talks about Jupiter’s victory over wicked ones. Justice and righteousness are part of Jupiter to its core, but that justice requires wrath. Don’t ask Jupiter to change you unless you’re ready for that.

Especially for Jupiter, do y’all know how he moves? It’s paternity. It’s the kind firm hand that lifts your chin AND the booming voice that commands you to stand up. Thunderbolts. The roar of the lion. The force which draws esteem. Never forget the heat of Jupiter.

Many of you simply want to slap a soul into a necklace and throw it on. That might work, but how will you know? Have you given the spirits time to show you how they will move you when the time comes? How will you know that you got the money or the power or focus from the talisman?

Also, a physical vessel, especially one you could use in its amuletic form, rather than trying to ensoul it, will have its own energy, its own asé. To ensoul it is to repurpose it, to some degree. That shift must be gradual, devotional. There must be preparation.

And I say this as Black and Indigenous and an astrologer and so many other things. Stop acting surprised. Start acting like you’ve internalized all those books you said you read in 2020.

And on the back end, yall need to be producing community. Y’all need to be pooling whatever resources we have left. Even if you fix this shit now, it’ll be temporary. BECAUSE THEY DONT LIKE YEEEWWWWWW AND THEY WILL STARVE YOU OUT

Also, the whole “OMG THEYRE BEING RACIST TO BLACK PEOPLE IN THE MILITARY” thing is so forced. Girl, YES, the place that stole a bunch of Africans and tortured them for four centuries DOESNT LIKE YOU. It doesn’t matter how many brown people you kill abroad. It’s lifelong beef fren.

Exactly. And every time, we’re expected to beat around the bush so yt people and grifters don’t get their feeling hurt.