Venus - Blog Posts

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🧡 Sailor Moon redraw of Minako/Sailor Venus first appearance in celebration of her birthday recently

Venus at the Edge

Credits: NAOJ, JAXA, NASA

WAIT!!!

You know those certain vegans that make their pets eat vegan food? 

Cuz they're under the delusion that dogs n cats n stuff like that can survive off of plant food fine even tho that's very not true? 

What do those people think about carnivorous plants like venus fly traps and stuff?

What does an animal-eating-plant do to their psyche when they can’t even handle an animal-eating-animal???

Lachrymorose

Seconds away from crying

This Hoover Dam of an eyelid is doing a good job

But it’s seconds away from breaking

All these tears dammed up inside could make Lake Lachrymose,

Leeches, Aunt Josephine and all

That was until she took the fall...

Tears on a cliff

Stacked up on a penny

About to spill over the thin edge

My hot tears

Have the potential

To set this place on fire

I know that

If I were to let them tumble down

They would burn my flesh with streams of lava

Droplets from the sun

Rain from Venus

This salt water is boiling within

Like tears from Rappaccini’s daughter

I am on my own

For I am poison

But I refuse to let them fall

Like pieces of hell

Raining from the ceiling

#TBT 1799: James Fergeson shows the path of Venus relative to the Earth via Groovy Lab in a Box STEM for Kids 💡#GroovySparks 💡 💡 https://www.groovylabinabox.com/path-of-venus-relative-to-earth/ #Venus #Earth #planets #solarsystem #spirograph #circles #mathart #animation #geometry #geometricart https://www.instagram.com/p/B2TSgS2AaCV/?igshid=1jkv8jn2k5m0e

#beautiful #moon and #venus tonight #❤️

This sky orb is not an edit, it’s the clearest picture of VENUS ! The Venus planet (infrared) looks like a chaotic dawn or sunset sky. Images: July 2024, Japanese Akatsuki space probe (for real, not from Naruto: Akatsuki means “DAWN”).

I once wrote a series of short stories that was basically just sensory descriptions of what it would be like to walk around on every planet, moon, and celestial body I had heard a description of. I later remembered that stories have to have plots and feebly attempted to introduce some actual events happening, but mostly I just wanted to write flowery descriptions of walking around on other planets (and moons and space rocks, etc) because, like... just imagining being on their surfaces is so deeply mind blowing. There are molten magma rivers on Venus, and lakes of liquid methane on Saturn’s moon Titan, and Jupiter’s moon Europa is covered in an ever-cracking miles-deep ice-crusted ocean, and I just wanted to walk around in all of those places, just walk around and see them. 

This is a fantastical accumulation of photos and it’s astonishing to realize how many places we have pictures of like this, as if we’re really there--places where we sent something and that thing of ours, at least, was really there. 

On the other hand, funnily enough, these pictures also prove Doctor Who’s assertion that a significant portion of the universe bears a striking resemblance to a quarry in Wales. 

dude seeing these Mega high quality images of the surface of mars that we now have has me fucked up. Like. Mars is a place. mars is a real actual place where one could hypothetically stand. It is a physical place in the universe. ITS JUST OUT THERE LOOKING LIKE UH IDK A REGULAR OLD DESERT WITH LOTS OF ROCKS BUT ITS A WHOLE OTHER PLANET? 

my natal chart x

命盘 means natal chart in mandarin 🤪

Ep. 8 Planets - HD and the Void

Eight planets in the solar system or nine? I go into depth with nine because I grew up with Pluto. The first five planets are visible to the naked eye but how did we find Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto? What are we doing to still learn about our close...

Earth is a super special world. It has life on it, and getting conditions just right so that life will survive is an incredibly difficult task. Other planets and other moons in our solar system may look like they could have life on them, but it just didn’t happen.

Life on other planets is for a different episode, though. In this one, I’m talking about what we can see on our close neighbors, the eight (maybe seven?) planets in our solar system. Learn how they were discovered, what naming conventions we use for them and their moons, how to differentiate between them, and what probes we’ve sent out to learn more about them. Also enjoy snippets from the lovely orchestral suite written for each planet by Gustav Holst! It’s the longest episode so far but I promise it’s worth it.

There’s a timeline below the cut in addition to the other resources because hooboy did I mention a lot of people. I may also put together a timeline of probes... But that’s for another podcast. Maybe the next podcast! Let me know what you think I should research by messaging me here, tweeting at me at @HDandtheVoid, or asking me to my face if you know me in real life. And please check out the podcast on iTunes, rate it or review it if you’d like, subscribe, and maybe tell your friends about it if you think they’d like to listen! Also below the cut are my sources, music credits, vocab list, and the transcript. I mention a book, a play, a poem, and a few works of art, and I quote an astronomy book in this episode so if you want to see that written down, those sources are there as well.

(My thoughts for the next episode were spectroscopy, auroras, or probes through the ages. Let me know by the 21st and I’ll have the next podcast up by July 31!)

Glossary:

auroras - a light display that occurs when a magnetosphere is sufficiently disturbed by solar wind that charged particles scatter into the upper atmosphere and lose their energy.

magnetosphere - an invisible barrier that surrounds a celestial objet. It is often generated by the movement of the liquid metal core of the object. Around a planet, it deflects high-energy, charged particles called cosmic rays that can either come from the Sun or, less often, from interstellar space.

prograde - when a planet spins from east to west.

retrograde - when a planet spins from west to east.

sol - a unit of time measuring one Martian day, or 24 Earth-hours and 40 Earth-minutes. The immediately previous Martian day is called yestersol.

transit of Mercury/Venus - when a planet passes in front of the Sun.

Script/Transcript

Timeline of people mentioned

Nicolaus Copernicus, Polish (1473-1543)

Tycho Brahe, Danish (1541-1601)

Galileo Galilei, Italian (1564-1642)

Johannes Kepler, German (1571-1630)

Simon Marius, German (1573-1625)

Pierre Gassendi, French (1592-1655)

Giovanni Cassini (also known as Jean-Dominique Cassini), Italian/French (1625-1712)

Christiaan Huygens, Dutch (1629-1695)

William Herschel, German/English (1738-1822)

Johann Elert Bode, German (1747-1826)

Caroline Herschel, German/English (1750-1848)

Johann Franz Encke, German (1791-1865)

John Herschel, English (1792-1871)

William Lassell, English (1799-1880)

Urbain Le Verrier, French (1811-1877)

Johann Galle, German (1812-1910)

John Couch Adams, English (1819-1892)

Edouard Roche, French (1820-1883)

Heinrich Louis d’Arrest, German (1822-1875)

Asaph Hall III, American (1829-1907)

James Clark Maxwell, Scottish (1831-1879)

Giovanni Schiaparelli, Italian (1835-1910)

Percival Lowell, American (1855-1916)

Eugène Antoniadi (also known as Eugenios Antoniadis), Greek (1870-1944)

Gerard Kuiper, Dutch/American (1905-1973)

Clyde Tombaugh (1906-1997)

Sources:

Who discovered each planet via Cornell University

The mathematical discovery of Neptune and Pluto via University of St. Andrews, where my mom’s boyfriend’s son graduated last year! Mad props, Henry!

Holst’s The Planets via the Utah Symphony

More on Holst’s suite, including music files

Chronology of solar system discovery

MESSENGER information via John Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

Auroras via NASA’s Themis mission

Magnetospheres via NASA, which has a tumblr! You should follow it! Good stuff.

Curiosity rover via NASA

‘Canali on Mars’ debacle via NASA

Mariner 9 via NASA

Origin of ‘yestersol’ and Martian day-length via A Way With Words

Richard Bram: “Superlatives are inadequate; words fail. Look. Think. Be in awe.”

Images of Mars through the years via The Telegraph

Mars-One mission to colonize Mars

Names of all the planet’s moons and their significance in mythology, last updated in 2013 and questionably reliable but from what I know of mythology—and I do know more than most—it’s not too far off.

Table of moons of various planets

Jupiter via NASA

Jupiter moon name facts via NASA

The Galilean Moons of Jupiter via University of Colorado at Boulder

Saturn’s moons via Phys.org

Cassini mission website

Saturn overview via NASA

Saturn’s moon Titan via NASA

Ethane via PubChem

Methane via EPA

Neptune’s moons via Space.com

What is Pluto via NASA

Pluto Overview via NASA

“Dwarf planets may provide the best evidence about the origins of our solar system.”

New Horizons mission via NASA

Pluto and our designations for planets are mentioned very briefly in this Oatmeal comic. I liked it.

Sobel, Dava. The Planets. Viking: NY, 2005.

“But tides raised by the Sun in the planet’s molten middle gradually damped Mercury’s rotation down to its present slow gait” (34).

“Light and heat always hit Mercury dead on, while the north and south poles, which receive no direct sunlight, remain relatively frigid at all times” (35).

“Venusian clouds comprise large and small droplets of real vitriol—sulfuric acid along with caustic compounds of chlorine and fluorine. They precipitate a constant acid rain, called virga, that evaporates in Venus’ hot, arid air before it has a chance to strike the ground” (61).

“…Neptune, where the voices of a female choir, sequestered in a room offstage, are made to fade out at the finale (with no sacrifice in pitch) by the slow, silent closing of a door” (165).

Holst: “Saturn brings not only physical decay but also a vision of fulfillment” (165).

“They occupy a nearby region of perpetual fragmentation known as the Roche zone, named for the nineteenth-century French astronomer Edouard Roche, who formulated the safe distances for planetary satellites” (172).

“It's near twin, Neptune, reveals a more complex beauty in subtle stripes and spots of royal to navy blue, azure, turquoise, and aquamarine” (200).

“This outlying population offered Pluto a new identity—if not the last planet, then the first citizen of a distant teeming shore” (214).

Van Gogh, Vincent. Starry Night (June 1889). 

—. Road with Cypress and Star (May 1890). 

—. White House at Night (June 1890). 

Shakespeare, William. A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1605).

Pope, Alexander. “The Rape of the Lock” (1712). (It’s a mock-epic satiric poem about stealing a lock of hair, not physical rape)

Duane, Diane. Wizards at War. Harcourt Trade Publishers: San Diego CA, 2005.

Intro Music: ‘Better Times Will Come’ by No Luck Club off their album Prosperity

Filler Music: The Planets (1918) by Gustav Holst, performed by the London Symphony Orchestra in 2003.

Outro Music: ‘Fields of Russia’ by Mutefish off their album On Draught

Fibonacci you crazy bastard….

As seen in the solar system (by no ridiculous coincidence), Earth orbits the Sun 8 times in the same period that Venus orbits the Sun 13 times! Drawing a line between Earth & Venus every week results in a spectacular FIVE side symmetry!!

Lets bring up those Fibonacci numbers again: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34..

So if we imagine planets with Fibonacci orbits, do they create Fibonacci symmetries?!

You bet!! Depicted here is a:

2 sided symmetry (5 orbits x 3 orbits)

3 sided symmetry (8 orbits x 5 orbits)

5 sided symmetry (13 orbits x 8 orbits) - like Earth & Venus

8 sided symmetry (21 orbits x 13 orbits)

I wonder if relationships like this exist somewhere in the universe….

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Goddess/planet Venus otherkin stimboard

Reblogging these because A: I think I’m clever and I laughed way too hard making these and B: I got to show them to my dad which like never happens, so it’s a big day!

Astronomy Lines Pt. 2

Made some wallpapers featuring the disaster twins because Venus is one disaster of a planet 😆

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Magnanimous, unconquer’d, boistrous Mars, In darts rejoicing, and in bloody wars Fierce and untam’d, whose mighty pow'r can make The strongest walls from their foundations shake: Mortal destroying king, defil’d with gore, Pleas’d with war’s dreadful and tumultuous roar: Thee, human blood, and swords, and spears delight, And the dire ruin of mad savage fight. Stay, furious contests, and avenging strife, Whose works with woe, embitter human life; 10 To lovely Venus, and to Bacchus yield, To Ceres give the weapons of the field; Encourage peace, to gentle works inclin’d, And give abundance, with benignant mind. –The Orphic Hymn to Mars Venus & Mars Talon Abraxas m/j

Astronomy Lines Pt. 2

Made some wallpapers featuring the disaster twins because Venus is one disaster of a planet 😆

Vênus

Siren

Vicki Starr

Goddess of Love

Agents of Atlas

Captain ‘Witch’ Wheeler. Privateer for SUN-RA Tradeing Co.  Captain of Cyclops 8, a fusion powered super-plane that’s based in the Venus cloud tops. Sabotaging fuel carriers, and protecting populous balloon cities in the high wind belts. 

(some older sketch I made of her from awhile back. and idea for a comic or animation. SFW, maybe...)

I am diseased. I have a stomach flu. Hope I’m not your patient zero

trying smth new, but its still looks like smth old

Zara Larsson Amazing Dance offical video

Zara Larsson Venus offical video

𝓥𝓮𝓷𝓾𝓼 𝓲𝓷 𝓐𝓻𝓲𝓮𝓼

Lady Gaga // Judas.

Rihanna // Love On The Brain.

Kehlani // Gangsta.

Melanie Martinez // Carousel.

The 1975 // Somebody Else.

”The photos are not mine”

𝕬𝖗𝖎𝖊𝖘

FEMME FATALE - Fire Signs

ARIES

Sexy, stubborn, dangerous and independent, this man eating femme is a blazing type of soul with a touch of macho in her personality. They feel bored with routine, desiring some adventure in life, a cause, something to fight for in the world.  Her femininity is fuelled by her courage and passion to live. The Aries femme is the heroine; fearless and intelligent - she knows how to stand out from the crowd. Just like the light, she can illuminate. The Mars-Ruled femme fatale always want things to go the way she desires. These femmes cast their love spell with an unmatched heart and eyes that say “I dare you”, she will leave behind anyone who doesn’t take her up on that challenge. She will make love until she can’t anymore, dance until she can’t anymore and be passionate until her last breath. 

LEO

In ancient times, the Lion (Leo) was held in total awe and admiration and given deep respect for its power and authority. Being close to the Leo femme is like reliving a sunshine day. She is like the golden days of summer that make the sea sparkle like jewels warming and lighting the world up. She shows off a goddess-given authority and powerful inner spirituality. She makes a cult of beauty - her own. The ultimate sex symbol - an enchantress with much more sexual power than she herself can manage, the zodiac’s Helen of Troy. 

SAGITTARIUS

Dangerous to bore, Sagittarius women are every bit the zodiacs wild vixen. This femme can put any man on edge with her reckless wild side. She is hard to keep track of: first she’s here, then she’s there - full of bounce and good cheer, the Saggitarian femme has a sunny disposition capable of putting a smile on even the most miserable of souls. The Femme Fatale of the Jupiter-ruled are savage, lustful and unrestrained, but also possessing a mysterious wisdom, perception and understanding of life, far greater than the ordinary man. 

She's stupid, who let her sign for Earth mission.

Finally setteled on one re-design for the Venus spy i was roleplaying as since 2019-18? on jeja.pl meme site. And my friend asked me to again draw the dream his brother had about them in maid dress and brain-controlling snail on head .

I used to draw them every month heh :p Down part was supossed to be more alieny since the start, but i never designed it before. Overall new design is more Venus worldbuilding and story heavy then for silly drawings, but personality stays the same, the drama-loving dumbass who seriously shouldn't work at the research station with soft spot for human humor.

some discarded concept sketches, the first thing i knew was to remove eyes since they are useless for species living only in caves. I decided to go with ability to walk in all directions as the main goal insted mashing earth creatures together..

<image link image> skeleton ghost shrimps were a cool inspiration.

And we think time zones can be confusing!

Transit of Venus in 2012

Credit: NASA / SDO

Venus and Neptune

Venus and Neptune are quite similar in more than a few ways, but they are also vastly different. Likely the first thing you think of when correlating these two planets is love. They both dictate love in certain ways. But the kind of love they influence is entirely different. Venus is how you act in love and the kind of casual dating you like. It’s when you’ve loved someone for maybe a year or a few, but Neptune? Neptune is long lasting, unconditional love. I almost want to say that it is true love. Now, I don’t want to put it as Venusian love is more trivial than Neptunian love, but it is more common than Neptunian love. You know you are feeling Neptunian love when you know you can’t possibly fall out of it. Of course, Neptunian love may sometimes be worse, it can make you co-dependent or not really see your partner for all they truly are and all their flaws. 

Another thing you may think of when correlating these two is art. Though the difference between these two planet’s influence when it comes to art is more clear than when it comes to love. Venusian influence over art is that of what kinds of art you find beautiful, what art attracts you. But Neptunian influence over art is the kind of art you create, your imagination, it’s what you use art for. To put it simply, Venusian art is the kind you like experiencing while Neptunian art is art of your own creation. 

Then, what people might graze over when it comes to these two is desire. Venusian desire is the kind of desire as to things you want or experiences you want. Things you are passionate about that you desperately need to have. But Neptunian desire is the kind of “perfect world” you want. It is your idealized version of everything. You may find that achieving something of Venusian desire has much more of a short-term gratification than achieving something of Neptunian desire. 

Finally there is the correlation between these two planets and kindness. Venusian kindness isn’t really pure genuine kindness. It is one of charm, a natural charisma. But that’s all it is, a personality trait. Neptunian kindness on the other hand is one of self-sacrifice for the betterment of someone else. It is going out of one’s way to help another. It is giving their all to show genuine kindness from the bottom of their heart. While both are pleasant to experience and very true, Neptunian kindness seems to be a more evolved version of Venusian kindness. Although of course Neptunian kindness could end negatively with a martyr-complex.

Having any aspects between these two planets (especially major aspects) can make it so the the lines between these different types are blurred. For example aspects between Venus and Neptune could result in someone idealizing their partner and may up constantly daydreaming about them when they should be focusing on other things, even if they have only been dating for a relatively short amount of time. They’d also likely show a very Neptunian kind of kindness around their partner. It could also make for a person who has good artistic tastes and is very in-touch with their own aesthetic. They’d likely either be described as sweet or charming, but also a bit delusional. They may have unrealistic expectations for their life and may incorrectly feel as if getting those Venusian desires will be equivalent to those Neptunian desires.

Mars/Venus: Instincts + Attraction

Your rising sign can be used in addition to your Mars sign (and house placement), as Mars rules the first house. These represent an archetype you often find yourself gravitating towards whether it be situations or people who embody these themes, you also tend to embody them yourself.

I am instinctively drawn towards…

Mars in Aries: Freedom, action, adventure, self discovery. Mars in Taurus: Security, nature, beauty, leisure, whatever reflects my values. Mars in Gemini: Variety, wit, communication, language, facts, intellectualism. Mars in Cancer: Nurturing, being nurtured, nostalgia, comfort, home. Mars in Leo: Self-expression, theatricality, glamour, romance, fun. Mars in Virgo: Self-improvement, analysis, humility, perfectionism. Mars in Libra: Relationships, aesthetics, diplomacy, sophistication, fantasy. Mars in Scorpio: Intensity, power, sex, the morbid, hidden or occult. Mars in Sagittarius: Truth, philosophy, religion, other cultures, academia. Mars in Capricorn: Wisdom, discipline, social status, authority. Mars in Aquarius: Genius, science, groups, rebellion, the unconventional. Mars in Pisces: Spirituality, sacrifice, sensitivity, isolation, escapism.

Your descendant and 2nd house can be used in addition to your Venus sign and house placement, as Venus rules both the 2nd and 7th house. The Taurus or 2nd house side of Venus represents an archetype you value while the Libra/7th house side represents what you often attract into your life through others.

I tend to value or attract people who are…

Venus in Aries: Invigorating, courageous, competitive, selfish, bullying, naive. Venus in Taurus: Dependable, artistic, beautiful, stubborn, possessive, greedy. Venus in Gemini: Clever, talkative, curious, intellectual, immature, dishonest. Venus in Cancer: Nurturing, gentle, domestic, needy, moody, irrational. Venus in Leo: Confident, fun, creative, romantic, egotistical, attention-seeking. Venus in Virgo: Health-conscious, helpful, analytical, humble, critical, anxious. Venus in Libra: Polite, charming, elegant, flaky, co-dependent, unstable. Venus in Scorpio: Powerful, perceptive, deep, manipulative, destructive. Venus in Sagittarius: Profound, cultured, optimistic, arrogant, blunt, foolish. Venus in Capricorn: Ambitious, disciplined, wise, repressed, intolerant. Venus in Aquarius: Friendly, unique, rebellious, detached, unpredictable. Venus in Pisces: Compassionate, poetic, imaginative, lacking boundaries, delusional, fragile.

Venus rules over aesthetic sense and these include matters like song & melody, beauty and anything to do with the arts… signs affiliated with Venus can posses artistic gifts; Taurus, Libra and Pisces (exalt) have the vision of Venus and thus an “eye for beauty.” They are very in-tune with music, fashion, art and dance. They may enjoy and appreciate things like participating in art museums, fashion displays, orchestras, music studios, or stage productions of plays

Neptune and moon are fantasy dreams and mystical imagination, Cancer and Pisces are drawn to things like film, photography, illustration, painting, captivating performances and magical writing themes where these mediums become outlets to their vivid concepts

The sun and Leo have ascendancy over the broad idea of creativity as a whole, through self expression, Leo is the Performer and can flourish in any kind of performing arts such as music, dancing, acting and singing. Any planet in the 5th house (ruled by Leo/sun) can show different ways one expresses themselves, this is the house of creative self-expression through what you, the maker, brings to existence

Creations in the 5th house are not limited to artistic perception, for instance mercury in the 5th could make for someone with writing as a personal interest pertaining to the sign it is found in. e.g mercury in Leo in the 5th could like theatrical script writing perhaps, or mercury in Scorpio in the 5th could like dark, mysterious and soulful writing content perhaps in the form of poetry. Expressions are flexible and vary per combination..

When these expressive planets aspect each other the creative essence is powerful and enthralling, like moon contacting Neptune becomes the magician alchemist where their dreams are solidified and brought to life, or Venus contacting sun causes the identity to revolve around such matters and the solar flares flow through Venusian mist, creating heavenly works and spectacular images directly from the spirit