the moon
hi! to everyone who’ve asked if my newsletter is still a thing….it is! hello again. but i will say, heading into my substack account is like being forced into a party full of punishers. my algo is wackadoodle. who are all these people and why are their posts and opinions being surfaced to me? i mean, this undoubtedly says something about ME more so than anything/anyone else, but on that note, i don’t particularly like the “social media”-ness of this plat and i wish substack would turn that down. should i quit substack?
anyway, onto moon shit. three days before the harvest moon (or chuseok, iykyk) i had a session with jakov, the serbian astrologer, recommended to me by a bunch of fellow writer-editor gals whom i trust. at first, i was skeptical, but then it turned into a deeply moving and informative hour.
here are a few snippets and/or secrets he shared with me:
“My approach is way more therapeutic and psychological and practical than it is esoteric.”
“what I try to understand and decipher are these energies we absorb at the moment of birth, and that’s the birth chart. It’s just the screenshot of the sky at the moment of our birth above the place where we’re born.”
“Okay, so Gemini with pisces Rising and Cancer Moon. Okay. Oh wow. What a nice chart. I’m usually approached by people with messed up charts so I am always kind of surprised, positively surprised when I open up a chart and it’s like just a deeply unproblematic chart.”
“the first thing I see is this immense, beautiful, warm energy that you have. But what I also see at second glance is your incredible lack of superficiality in your chart, which sounds like a compliment, but it is not.”
“you have the best possible placement of Jupiter in your chart. People with this placement of Jupiter often believe that they have a guardian angel because it’s almost a fantastical, borderline crazy amount of protection and good luck.”
“You’re both in your head and in your feelings. That’s the problem with having a pisces rising against cancer moon.”
“you have the skillset of an extrovert, but actually emotionally and spiritually, you are an introvert. You get overwhelmed with the world.”
“your chart is really interested in all formats of love, and you are curious about finding out what love can trigger in you. a love that you give and get from an animal is also one of those that are on a waiting list for you. maybe 10 years from now, you would really benefit from getting a dog. I recommend a dog and not a cat because of the instant and obvious beauty of emotional connection with a dog.”
“Saturn doesn’t want you to feel the joy of sexual encounters. you’re so afraid to lose control there. And it is strongly recommended that you do. allow yourself to be the Tasmanian devil that you are.”
LOL ok so our convo really went places, and I had a LOT to think about. one thing that really struck me is this notion of LUCK. jakov kept reiterating that i’m an extremely fortunate person, which is not WRONG considering all the ways i still get to live comfortably in my apartment and in this expensive ass city, even when i’ve only made like $25k this absolutely wretched year… but idk, i haven’t been able to shake this feeling of how deeply unlucky i’ve been in so many aspects of my life. so much of it is money-based. why do i correlate luck with money? can i break out of this mindset? will my luck ever come back? i guess this birth chart reading was a gentle reminder that i do, in fact, still have a bunch of blessings to count (great friends, great gains on my lifts, etc), and i shouldn’t dismiss those.
and then two days later, the harvest moon happened, so i decided to keep the moon shit going. allison sent me a guide to her manifestation/intention setting ritual, which I actually juuuuust completed like 30 mins ago, where I printed out a cal and wrote down goals on actual dates for the new moon (which starts today, oct 21) through the full moon on nov 5. i love setting micro, short-term goals bc it helps you stay realistic and reasonable about what you can accomplish.
if you’d like to book a sesh with jakov the serbian astrologer, he’s reachable via WhatsApp. it was $130. he’s so great and he plays the cello! on the call, he’ll ask you for your birth details: the date, location, and time of birth.
free stuff
does anyone want this nearly brand new laptop that’s useless to me, or know of someone who can jailbreak a work computer? i used this machine for a freelance job last year that [redacted entertainment company] sent me, and after my contract ended last dec i tried returning it but no one seemed to care at [redacted entertainment company]. it’s been sitting untouched in my living room for almost a year. i don’t remember any passwords. if you know of a way to get in, i guess you can have it.
i also bought this brand new no-drill pull-up bar from a guy on craigslist who kept me waiting for 40 mins in fucking bushwick, only to find out that my walls are too thick and this bar won’t latch on, so i’m getting rid of it. i paid $15 for it and i would like to resell for that much, but if you reeeeally can’t pay for it and want a pull-up bar, i’ll give it to you. super easy to assemble. i ended up getting a diff pull-up bar. i still can’t do a proper pull-up (the goal is ONE pull-up) but i’ve been using the bar to hang from, which still activates the back shoulders and stuff. the lats i think? i think hanging packs your lats. at first i could only hang for like 10 seconds before my grip surrendered, but honestly within a week’s time, i was able to hang for 40 seconds. you should try it out. bodies are incredible.
<3,
j