Andrew B. Watt

Hymn to Sirius A hymn to the star Sirius, located at 14° Cancer 05' (tropical zodiac), one of the Behenian stars and an important star in astrological, astronomical and navigational history.

Hymn to Sirius

A hymn to the star Sirius, located at 14° Cancer 05' (tropical zodiac), one of the Behenian stars and an important star in astrological, astronomical and navigational history.

Leo II Sun: The Laurel Wreath August 1-12, 2025 are the days when the Sun passes through Leo II, "The Laurel Wreath" -- a season of athletic achievement and success through dedicated effort. What are you putting your efforts toward achieving?

Leo II Sun: The Laurel Wreath

August 1-12, 2025 are the days when the Sun passes through Leo II, "The Laurel Wreath" -- a season of athletic achievement and success through dedicated effort. What are you putting your efforts toward achieving?

I'm sure I've heard it before, but I hadn't really actively remembered it before now. This time I gave it, its actual performance length. It's a cool song.

Now I know it.

I tend to think this is true of most astrologers — and Julius Firmicus Maturnus agrees with me: astrologers are priests of the Most High Gods, and what they do is firstly in service to them.

Worth it!

Another path to fame and recognition in the world. Huh.

Do you want to hear white opinions constantly? Cishet opinions? Neurotypical? Want to never hear a diverse thought in your life? Do you want to never see art which reflects the life of a marginalized human being?

Then AI is the tool for you. For me, that sounds like hell. Fuck off with that. 7/7

Leo II Sun: The Laurel Wreath August 1-12, 2025 are the days when the Sun passes through Leo II, "The Laurel Wreath" -- a season of athletic achievement and success through dedicated effort. What are you putting your efforts toward achieving?

Leo II Sun: The Laurel Wreath

August 1-12, 2025 are the days when the Sun passes through Leo II, "The Laurel Wreath" -- a season of athletic achievement and success through dedicated effort. What are you putting your efforts toward achieving?

Why must my fellow Americans always compare this to making a pie on a sterile counter with fresh ingredients, instead of a very messy fermenting 250+ year-old sourdough that's (currently) out of control? We don't get to start from scratch -- we have to feed our neighbors with what we have.

Hymn to Sirius A hymn to the star Sirius, located at 14° Cancer 05' (tropical zodiac), one of the Behenian stars and an important star in astrological, astronomical and navigational history.

Hymn to Sirius

A hymn to the star Sirius, located at 14° Cancer 05' (tropical zodiac), one of the Behenian stars and an important star in astrological, astronomical and navigational history.

And winning a Senate seat requires ten or fifteen or twenty candidates working together down ballot, and advancing the same agenda and objectives at local, state, and federal elections, pooling money, and sharing resources, networking opportunities and mailing lists. Which is... a political party.

A candidate can't do that "on their own merits" without showing they can solve their neighbors' problems as an elected official at local, county, and state level, before trying for a national office.... and persuading LOTS of people to work with them.

I appreciate the thought, Mary — but the nature of political campaigning in the US currently requires assembling a coalition of roughly 275,000 people and $10million+ just to win one House seat.

At least we don't have to worry about the Governor-General firing the prime minister, right?

There's definitely a movement afoot to rewrite the constitution... but the effort comes nearly entirely from the Right, from people who gush unironically about authoritarian ideals and a system more favorable to corporate interests. And that seems bad.

A friend of mine pointed out recently that (ancient) Roman law often pointed to a given law as "the ideal to be aimed for" rather than "the minimum standard"; while (ancient) Germanic law reversed that: the law was the bare necessity of what you MUST do.

We'd need an equally arduous process to amend the Constitution to make it easier for populous states like California or Texas to divide into multiple states without getting most of the other states to agree to that division.

The Senators problem is a challenging one, no question. We'd need a Constitutional Amendment to change the number of senators — and unequal representation wouldn't stand a chance.

I'm not sure if we'd be better off with an "independent central federal elections commission" like Australia... but I know that we have to build better systems so politicians don't continue to choose their voters, rather than voters choosing their politicians.

I forget which state in the middle north-west refused to enter the Union until their right to continue to let women vote in state elections was approved by Congress... but many of those states used to be deeply Progressive, and they pushed Congress farther left for a long while.

It's ironic, too -- many of the upper western states (the Dakotas, Wyoming, Montana) had been rugged, wild and difficult places until Women arrived... who set up schools, paid for well construction, established towns, and championed statehood.

And let's face it — a lot of places in the US became states because we wouldn't face the problems of slavery before 1860, and because we wouldn't face the problems of white supremacy after 1877.

No way were those six groups going to cede authority over elections to some central group that initially only got to set tariffs (income tax came in 1913, very late!) — and later states wanted the same powers as other states already had.

American politics was born in an era of deep distrust of central authority... and with at least six major cultural regions that deeply distrusted each other (New England, New York-New Jersey, Pennsylvania-Maryland-Delaware, Virginia, the Carolinas, and Georgia).

Adding seats to Congress is a change in the 1929 Congressional Apportionment Act — cross out 435, replace with 871. And it makes a much larger Electoral College automatically.

i admit, adding Puerto Rico and DC and Guam and American Samoa, et al, as states with full voting rights is a heavier lift. I want it — you do too — but harder to win approval for that based on existing laws for admitting states.

Let’s see ‘em try to gerrymander when there are 870 seats (and you need 486 of 970 to win the Electoral College).

I’m looking for a Democratic camp Aug platform to double the number of seats in Congress by revising the 1929 Act that fixed the number of seats at 435. The current act artificially - criminally - underrepresents urban voters.

Being favorable to animals is one of the powers or secrets of magicians, as listed in the Arbatel, I believe. Maybe Arnemancy will confirm that (is he not on here??).