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poets born under each sign, part II: MOONS

Aries: Virginia Woolf

I belong to quick, futile moments of intense feeling. Yes, I belong to moments. Not to people.

Taurus: Hans Christian Andersen

She laughed and danced with the thought of death in her heart.

Gemini: T.S. Eliot

Ah, but we die to each other daily.
What we know of other people
Is only our memory of the moments
During which we knew them. And they have changed since then.
To pretend that they and we are the same
Is a useful and convenient social convention
Which must sometimes be broken. We must also remember
That at every meeting we are meeting a stranger.

Cancer: Henry David Thoreau

And if she faintly glimmers here,
And paled is her light,
Yet always in her proper sphere
She’s mistress of the night.

Leo: James Joyce

As I am. As I am. All or not at all.

Virgo: William Wordsworth

“What occupation do you there pursue?
This is a lonesome place for one like you.”
Ere he replied, a flash of mild surprise
Broke from the sable orbs of his yet-vivid eyes.

Libra: Anne Sexton

I was
the girl full of talk of coffins and keyholes.

Scorpio: Shel Silverstein

This town grows old around me.
I cannot say I did not hear
That sound so haunting hollow—
I heard, I heard, I heard it clear…
I was afraid to follow.

Sagittarius: Lewis Carroll

I can’t go back to yesterday because I was a different person then.

Capricorn: Anaïs Nin

I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.

Aquarius: Margaret Atwood

You think I’m not a goddess?
Try me.
This is a torch song.
Touch me and you’ll burn.

Pisces: Percy Shelley

The fountains mingle with the river,
And the rivers with the ocean;
The winds of heaven mix forever
With a sweet emotion;
Nothing in the world is single;
All things by a law divine
In another’s being mingle—
Why not I with thine?

Cordyceps fungi is a common ingredient in Chinese herbal
medicines. In general, mushrooms wouldn’t seem like an obscure
ingredient, however, this particular mushroom grows from the bodies of
insects. If a spore lands on an insect, it can infect it. The fungus
then grows within the body, using the internal organs as a food source.
Eventually, the fungus rips out of the insect, distributing more spores.

The Witches’ Alphabet, also known as the Theban Alphabet,
has long been used by practitioners of sorcery to encode their
writings. The oldest surviving book containing the Theban Alphabet is
Johannes Trithemius’ Polygraphia, c.1518. This exerpt
explains how Trithemius learned of the alphabet from a pre-existing book
on magick, now lost to time, which he attributes to Peter d’Abano:

“Sequitur aliud alphabetum Honorii cognomento Thebani, cuius
ministerio suas in magicis fatuitates abscondit, sicut Petrus de Apono
testatur in suo maiore libro quarto.“

Here follows another alphabet of Honorius surnamed the Theban, and
the use thereof is for hiding the foolishness of his magic, as Petrus de
Abano testifies in his greater fourth book.

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Composer Jim Wilson has recorded the sound of
crickets and then slowed down the recording, revealing something
amazing.

The crickets sound like they are singing the most angelic
chorus in perfect harmony. Though it sounds like human voices,
everything you hear in the recording is the crickets themselves.

The recording contains two tracks played at the same time: The first
is the natural sound of crickets played at regular speed, and the second
is the slowed down version of crickets’ voices.


“I discovered that when I slowed down this recording to
various levels, this simple familiar sound began to morph into something
very mystic and complex… almost human.”


In a never-before-seen phenomenon, a fish commandeered the body of a
jellyfish for protection. Although it is common for fish to swim through
jellyfish tentacles to avoid predators, this particular defense
mechanism has never been seen before.

You can watch the full video here: [x]

“I
came across this fish (presumably a juvenile trevally) while snorkeling
along Double Reef on Guam in 2013. The fish swam in and out of the
crown of the jellyfish multiple times over the course of several
minutes. The fish was able to steer the jellyfish as it swam inside,
often turning away from me as I followed. It has been postulated that
the fish is using the jellyfish as a shield to protect itself as it
swims in open waters.”

Oxana Malaya was a Ukrainian feral child who was found in 1991. A
normal, healthy baby, her parents had abandoned her at the age of
three, so Oxana took refuge in a shed with dogs, where she bonded with
them and adapted to their way of life. Since Oxana was raised by the
dogs for most of her life, she exhibited dog-like behavior such as
growling, barking, walking on all fours, and crouching like a dog. When
social workers found her at the age of 8 and tried to rescue her, they
had difficulties overcoming the protective dogs. Oxana was eventually
transferred to a foster home for mentally disabled children and was
subjected to years of specialized therapy and education to address her
behavior and social issues. Her dog-like behavior was taught to be
subdued and has since learned to speak fluent English, though she
remains intellectually impaired.