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dorjepadma

@heartastrology.bsky.social

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Heart Astrologer, Buddhist, artist, father of four, tea master, and a 32º AF&AM. Not all views I post here are my own. Some belong to a wild Tanooki spirit. books open @ www.heartastrology.com regular astro thought pieces @www.dorjekirsten.substack.com

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dorjepadma @heartastrology.bsky.social · May 30

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dorjepadma @heartastrology.bsky.social · 1h

I was born in NM, up by Taos. Do you like NM?

dorjepadma @heartastrology.bsky.social · 1h

I am all in on the Mariners! Even after the beat down last night.

dorjepadma @heartastrology.bsky.social · 1h

Word will get zesty as we approach Mercury and Mars conjunct in Scorpio on 10/18. That Scorpio tail can sting, is the venom poison or medicine? Depends on the circumstances!

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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · Dec 5

I've been researching the idea of Unconditional Universal Basic Income since 2013. Here's a collection of findings I've compiled from various UBI experiments and studies of cash transfer programs around the world.

This will be a VERY LONG and ongoing thread focused entirely on empirical evidence. 🧵

OBSERVED EFFECTS OF UBI

No significant reduction in labor supply (38 studies meta-analysis)

Increased self-employment (301%) and part-time employment (17%)

Slight decrease in alcohol and tobacco use (31 studies meta-analysis)

New mothers extend their maternity leaves

Birth weights improve due to better maternal nutrition

Graduation rates and educational outcomes improve

Hospitalization rates decline (8.5%)

Crime goes down (15%–42%) especially illegal hunting (95%)

Domestic violence decreases (30%–51%)

Trust increases (13% in politicians | 6% in other people)

Home ownership rates increase (17%–26%)

Food security increases as does consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables

Improved cognitive functioning (43%) and personality traits (31%)

Savings go up, debts go down

Source: scottsantens

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dorjepadma @heartastrology.bsky.social · 19h

It was the truth serum injected into me by Homeland security four hours ago speaking. It is a long story, but basically they were asking me if I knew any green frogs.

I told them I had never done Ayahuasca. Which is true.

#portlandliving

dorjepadma @heartastrology.bsky.social · 19h

I mean that it is not stressful for most of the game, but can be during the last three minutes. If is a far more casual and light hearted watch than Football.

Until the end.

dorjepadma @heartastrology.bsky.social · 20h

Now that the Mariners are looking like they could win everything for the first time in my entire life, I can kind of see the appeal of baseball.

dorjepadma @heartastrology.bsky.social · 20h

Now that the Mariners are looking like they could win everything for the first time in my entire life, I can kind of see the appeal of baseball.

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dorjepadma @heartastrology.bsky.social · 20h

I am talking about the Mariners people. The Mariners.

dorjepadma @heartastrology.bsky.social · 20h

Well, I am just going to have to have myself another beer.

dorjepadma @heartastrology.bsky.social · 20h

Well, I am just going to have to have myself another beer.

dorjepadma @heartastrology.bsky.social · 22h

🐸 In Tigard representing PDX and Frog Nation here.

dorjepadma @heartastrology.bsky.social · 1d

Evidence is building they think where Bush went wrong was "democracy", full stop.

dorjepadma @heartastrology.bsky.social · 1d

No Kings march and protest? Why that sounds exactly like Mercury and Mars (authentic voice of defiant rights) conjunct in Scorpio Trine Jupiter in Cancer (the People) and Saturn Retrograde in Pisces (clueless authoritarianism) on the 18th of October.

dorjepadma @heartastrology.bsky.social · 1d

This man is clueless about erotic folk magic, its history, and its suppression under state and church dogmas of control, and in turn casts aspersions on others as being ignorant.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

I went to Marina Abramović’s erotic, explicit new art show – and there was an awful lot to take in | Adrian Chiles

The ‘grandmother of performance art’ and I both have Slavic roots. But I didn’t recognise any of her 14th-century Dalmatian fertility rites – and neither did my mum, writes Adrian Chiles

www.theguardian.com

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dorjepadma @heartastrology.bsky.social · 1d

If one absent mindedly glosses over this point of delineation it can cause confusion between the astrologer and their client.

amani 🦢 @thejovenary.bsky.social · 1d

Reminder that houses sometimes show things happening to people in your life instead of you personally

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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 1d

FROGS OVER FASCISTS!

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m.youtube.com/watch?v=bw5z...

A Message From The Frog Resistance

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

m.youtube.com

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dorjepadma @heartastrology.bsky.social · 1d

Mercury conjunct Mars in Scorpio revelation.

Harry Dunn @libradunn1.bsky.social · 1d

Is anyone really surprised by the racism running rampant in the young republican group chat? The future just imitating the current 😕🥴

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

dorjepadma @heartastrology.bsky.social · 1d

Seeing folks posting about the Hamas Israel peace deal as a signature of Venus entering Libra, but looking at Mars and Mercury in back stabbing Scorpio ... I am not sure this story is over.

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dorjepadma @heartastrology.bsky.social · 1d

ACA is the Durian of bills.

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dorjepadma @heartastrology.bsky.social · 1d

After about 12 one transforms into a tech bro, and none of us want that for you.

dorjepadma @heartastrology.bsky.social · 2d

So did Baker Mayfield

dorjepadma @heartastrology.bsky.social · 2d

The elephant foot of Hitlerism, the type of toxicity that would kill an ordinary human after 3 to 7 days of exposure

dorjepadma @heartastrology.bsky.social · 2d

The most I ever calculated at Alki was how many beers I could drink from a beer bong and still be able to walk, now I spend my days trying to convince my children not to do such silly things with out much success.

dorjepadma @heartastrology.bsky.social · 2d

I invite you to test your fortune against their fates. The world series will occur within the context of a Grand Water Trine, which to my biased delight seems a good omen for a man whose youth was spent in Seattle.

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dorjepadma @heartastrology.bsky.social · 2d

I want you all to know that J is the 10th letter of the alphabet and Mercury was at 10º Scorpio today.

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dorjepadma @heartastrology.bsky.social · 2d

This is an evil and dark thread, one that does nothing to dispel the myth that Reptilians rule the earth, subduing us all through intoxicating substances that keep us in a state of constant hallucination.

Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · Sep 10

#FAMILYPORTRAIT

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