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azadirachta-indica.bsky.social
neocolonial malcontent chic
@azadirachta-indica.bsky.social
Making a history for a post-historical self.

✨ Artist, diviner, spiritworker. Seeking root in the stars and flora 🌿

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Currently closed for tarot consultations.
Having a bit of a Venus conj. Antares problem: trying to constructively channel my emotional pressure* into a sketch, but holding myself back from worrying the piece too much

*rats are getting into my kitchen, mosquitoes won't let me draw in peace without having a net on

#ArtSky #WitchSky #WIP
December 9, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Have re-committed to art (as praxis, not just a fuzzy concept) this Mercury retrograde. Am still refining my aesthetic, so I'm trying out covering the styles I like particularly

And sketching local flora has reintroduced me to some *very* interesting folks 🗡️ 🎼 💐 ✨

#ArtSky #WitchSky #Herbalism
November 27, 2025 at 5:29 AM
I'm so sorry I completely forgot to reply to this! this week has been a rollercoaster, and not a fun one 🙃 this was what I'd found, and boy oh boy did this manifest! even right now, I realise I'm working through stuff with the combined energy of these three. I had to really sit with the Two of Air —
September 13, 2025 at 3:11 PM
oh buddy 🫂 I'm on a much-needed first vacation of my life ever and have been largely off-internet, but I saw this a couple of months ago and had saved it.
August 6, 2025 at 2:51 AM
current mood: Venus and Saturn, the underrated power duo of the sky, and the gravitative metamorphic brilliance of the Earth

#WitchSky #Flora
May 24, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Vega was conj. the IC when I began this. Fucked up the scaled placement of the stars here; but the great thing about learning under the stars, I've found, is that you're allowed to fumble and be imprecise. Learning to fail and resurge with grace is such a challenge, and a mercy.

#WitchSky #ArtSky
April 24, 2025 at 2:51 AM
I found Sirius glimmering in the west-southwest tonight, alone in a rather overcast sky ramping up the humidity. Felt like they'd like to be included here.

Checked the chart for when I began drawing this, and what do you know? Sirius was two degrees off from the ASC.

#ArtSky #WitchSky
April 19, 2025 at 5:05 PM
I get that the US is supposed to be vested with great responsibility as a global superpower, etc., but these posts seem so... laughable to me?

Don't get me wrong: I understand the sentiment here. But the subtext is insidiously racist, and the people who post and repost really oblivious to it.
March 31, 2025 at 4:22 PM
I was too sick, too tired the last two days to do this, but I decided to really get down to it this morning. And I'm glad I did.

I could use some words re: The Hermit?
March 15, 2025 at 4:58 AM
I was referring to this one!
March 13, 2025 at 8:22 PM
I don't love having my nose to the grindstone. (Who does?!) But I do love building a world together with and for my loves.
March 11, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Sustenance for myself so I live to see another spring as beautiful as this one, if not more so. Shared resources with and gifts for my friends: the humans I laugh and cry and love with, the other-than-human kin that tell me stories and give us strength.
March 11, 2025 at 6:44 PM
I get dispirited when I remember that my professional writing has become mostly an effort to make money these days. It's hard to truly enjoy anything with so much pressure on.

But then I think about why I need that dough.
March 11, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Without downloading any new pics, describe your gender ~

(I'd written a 5k-word essay three years ago about gender in this film + Wong Kar-Wai's filmography; but these two continue to live rent-free in my head.)
March 10, 2025 at 10:15 AM
One useful way of not letting perfectionism impede my creativity, I've found, is reminding myself that I'm only scrambling for perfection because I don't yet know what I personally want to see. And until I've figured it out, I'm allowed to wreck things a bit.

#QueerArtist #ArtSky #Sketch
February 22, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Right the next morning after this Antares-led epiphany, I found the chili pepper that I'd left on the plant to ripen, and been awaiting for weeks on end, has taken on a streak of bright vermilion within the rich toothsome green. This morning, I found it's ripened all the way.
February 12, 2025 at 5:07 AM