#esoteric research

[psychotaxonomy]

The Average Face of Each Zodiac Sign

The average faces for each zodiac sign calculated using Midjourney's AI to aggregate images of public figures of diverse ages with Sun/Moon/Rising and/or 3+ inner planet stelliums in each zodiac sign.

I attempted to assemble as much ethnic diversity as I could, though quality data is often lacking on people traditionally marginalized by Western history, so more work is needed on that front. Some images represent a "racial average" of 1 of each White, Black, Latinx, East Asian and West Asian appearing-averages, in efforts to make a universal standard.

Others are simply an average of the entire database.

Others are averaged by visual "types". For instance, Cancer stellium women with Gemini-Scorpio as a secondary influence seem more prone to appear in historic databases than any other sort of Cancer stellium, and are visually very identifiable. So much so that I created a category for this combination of signs amid "standard Cancer".

These averages are continually being updated as new data comes in. Each image references ~15-20 individuals whose natal chart uniquely reflects a stellium (3+ significant chart aspects) in the given sign. In most instances, gender is based on assigned sex at birth.

Referencing data gathered by friends at the Astrofaces Project and the user-submitted database at Astroseek.com, I've been able to check my averages of renowned public figures sourced in the Astrodatabank & Astrotheme databases to determine the accuracy/legitimacy of each visual average.

Notes:

You may not resemble your sun sign, because another sign may predominate your chart. Visit a site like Astro-charts.com to make a free chart & see which sign is most dominant in your chart. For maximum accuracy, you will need correct birth time & place in addition to birth date. Appearance seems to be most astrologically influenced by Sun sign, Rising sign (1st house / Ascendant), and Moon, but also by concentrations of the same sign in inner planets such as Mercury, Mars, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn. Outer celestial bodies like Uranus, Neptune & Pluto, which are said to have generational significance rather than individual significance in most cases, due to their very slow (years long) rotations around the sun.

#astrology #astrology chart #natal charts #zodiac faces #astro faces #astrology faces #phenotypes #phenotypes in astrology #faces of signs #zodiac signs visualized #portraits of each zodiac sign #zodiac portraits #midjourney ai #midjourney #facial averaging technology #esoteric research #offbeat research projects

[great-and-small]

Tarantula: May I have a coke please

Waitress: All we have is Pepsis is that okay?

*Tarantula sweating nervously*: Y-you have what

#hoping there is like one Tarantula Hawk researcher out there to appreciate this one #esoteric biology jokes #Pepsis #tarantula hawk #memes #bugs #bugblr

[nostabaile]

An Illustration of a green lion devouring the sun from an Alchemical and Rosicrucian Compendium (1760).

a common alchemical image, it is a metaphor for aqua regia 🜆 (a solution of nitrohydrochloric acid) consuming matter (such as gold, symbolised by the sun ☉).

#history #alchemy #research #art #illustration #reference #hermeticism #esoteric

[chillsncharms]

What’s a cryptid from where you are?

#cryptid #urban legends #witchblr #occult #occulltism #esoteric #arcane #researchers #supernatural #paranormal #myths #mythology and folklore #mythology #folklore #lore #witchcraft #ghosts #cryptozoolologist

[mortemcatabasis]

first art of 2024 was a hefty redesign for an old oc, guaranteed 70% more strange and offputting or your money back

#digital art #ref sheet #oc: eeni #alien #monster #i got this thing from krem back..... 2017? they were a esoteric freak worm up 4 free n then i redesigned it more boring #which is frankly unforgivable so now its this #it doesnt have a backstory but i have an alien research facility concept rattling in my skull atm i might shove em into as a researcher

[find-me-in-hell]

just read the summary/snippet thing about tmp, why are we in manchester suddenly

#'The Magnus Institute was an organisation dedicated to academic research into the esoteric and the paranormal based out of Manchester' #IS THAT SO #tmp #the magnus protocol

[mamath]

Hey I just wanted to give you a heads up that when I was checking my own username in the haveibeentrained search engine to see if it was used to train AI art models without my consent, I saw your watercolour triceratops pop up for a sec. Just wanted to make sure you were aware <3

yeah, i've noticed a few other pieces on there too. :( I think anything I had uploaded to Deviantart at the time of scraping is now in the Laion training data, so maybe like a hundred works.

TBH I'm so beyond caring haha... The only thing that will have an impact on AI stuff is extremely high level litigation and even that will only affect the behaviour of large companies with actual legal risk based in countries that care. Hobbyist AI folks training their open source model on a home PC will continue to use the Laion data set however they wish. It's already escaped academic containment. Unfortunately I think the whole AI ethics debacle ultimately puts good-will for academic research in the toilet.

#i guess esoteric research has always been beholden to corporate and military for funds so it's not like this is new #just unfortunate #sometimes living in a time of technological upheaval is a bit rough???? #like i'm glad i'm not dealing with a world war so things could be worse but man #anyway i try not to think about this stuff bc it's so wibbly woobly as to be meaningless for the time being #ask box

[bidonica]

Btw funniest thing to happen in Snake Eater after "I need you EVA............ Because I can't fly the WIG" was finding out, amidst the very poignant and emotional events of the finale, that "Big Boss" isn't a nickname they gave Snake on the field but an actual official title bestowed by the US President. I fell off my chair

#bidonica plays the metal gears #metal gear solid 3 #snake eater #Sends me that kojima has like insights and stuff about geopolitics it's not like he's oblivious or skips on research #but he also treats the political institutions like fantasy lore #see also how in death stranding 'president' is this sort of esoteric and possibly hereditary title #reminds me of how nge used biblical themes #like 'yes it's all very cool and interesting i'm going to do what i want with these toys'

[dandelionsandderivatives]

getting real annoyed by the lack of hard data about Alderaan's star online

#the fun thing about star wars is that there's almost always lore about whatever esoteric subject you're researching #the weird thing about star wars is that no nerd has spent hours calculating Alderaan's orbit and finding out if its sun is main-sequence #star wars #fanfiction #writing

[hplovecraftmuseum]

A framed drawing in ink depicting a scene from Lovecraft's masterful tale, THE SHADOW OVER INNSMOUTH. The story was the basis for a fairly interesting movie adaptation called DAGON. The Esoteric Order of Dagon was also the name of an early organization of Lovecraft aficionados which included many of the pioneers of Lovecraft related writers, fan mag publishers and critics. These individuals were the very core of the first underground Lovecraft fan base of the 1970s. Some members formed a direct link between the origional 'Lovecraft Circle' and the new Avant-garde of Lovecraftian research. (Exhibit 200)

#lovecraft #the esoteric order of dagon #lovecraft fandom #the new wave of lovecraft research.

[provider-of-guardians]

How do you come up with characters’ names?

Ngl, I often go with the first thing that comes to mind XD I remember I used to look up names for specific meanings and I'd use whichever one had a meaning I was looking for and a vibe I like. Others just pop into my head and I go "yeah that sounds right" (Like Elysia, and pretty much all the fauns really)

#thinking about all my OC's names now #Elysia Amelia Nutmeg Gerston Julius Bellshir Pytron Bramble Heather Hibiscus Lavender Thistle Cypress Cypress Malan Dexter Matt Serena Drak #these ones just all came to mind for the most part #(my DM made up Drexxel) #also Rufus (Elysia's brother) was one I just thought up - I forgot Elysia's mom's name unu #SYLVANA THAT WAS IT #I don't remember if I looked that up or just made it up fjlfjdla #Poppy (Malan) Rosemary and Orsoyla had a bit more research put into them #Alex and Jason were based on Alex Hirsch and Jason Ritter cause they were the Dipper Clones #(I know that's esoteric just bear with me) #Oxnard was just a case of 'this name I remember from Hamtaro is severely underappreciated so I'm gonna use it cause this guy has spots' XD #oh yeah and Silas Maren and Cassia - Elysia's other younger siblings #I looked those ones up too lol #sorry I got very ramble-y here XD #provider of ramblings #corbusherpestidae

[starsandwriting]

Ok gonna be honest i was kinda ambivalent since the announcement of the magnus protocol but now knowing that its AN AU???? Dude im so excited for march im chewing at the bars of my enclosure thinking about that synopsis

#tma #tmagp #im gonna have to go back and tag this whole saga.....sigh #myar #THE MAGNUS INSTITUTE WAS AN ORGANISATION DEDICATED TO ACADEMIC RESEARCH INTO THE ESOTERIC AND PARANORMAL #based out of MANCHESTER ENGLAND #BURNED TO THE GROUND IN 1999 #THEY WERE NO SURVIVORS!!!!!! #chewing and gnawing #caps cw

[tortoisesshells]

12, 18, and 31 for the fic writing asks! :)

12. Do you outline your fics? If yes, how detailed are your outlines? How far do you stray from them?

I do, and some of the outlines get pretty detailed, but to badly paraphrase Moltke the Elder: no plan (my painstaking, elaborate notes) survives contact with the enemy (Microsoft Word, and perhaps, me). The first outline for Customs and Duties was about four chapters and. uh. The most recent outline has me finishing in thirty-seven. Willingly or not, I tend to go off-road pretty frequently.

18. Do you enjoy research? Which fic of yours required the most research?

Answered here! I will add that anything I've written for 1899 also has tended to involve a lot of research, but at least I knew something about late 19th century steamships/transatlantic travel before throwing myself in the deep end.

31. Do you use a beta reader/editor?

@theonlyredcar gets first pass at Customs chapters when she has time & both she & @vimeswasright have been invaluable for helping me work through the plot, such as it is. Anything else I write is pretty thoroughly unbeta-ed.

no beta we die like james norrington etc.

Fanfiction Writing Asks!

#thank you kind friend!!! #honestly? research is the best part of fic writing. there is no better feeling than cracking my knuckles; #and diving into the most esoteric bullshit imaginable. i'm reading the puritan sermons on seafaring. what is my life. #ask meme #polkaknox talks

[eyeoftheheart]

#Manly P. Hall #Esoteric Philosophy #Perennial Philosophy #Of the Universe and its Laws #Philosophical Research Society #Spotify

[potuzzz]

Foreign university student is doing research on tulpas 😎 she interviewed me a few months ago. And now is going to animate a condensed version of our experiences??? 👀

#ouija #tulpa #tulpamancy #ouija board #demon #demons #entity #chaos magick #imaginary friend #research #esoterism #animation #storytime #stories #possession #exorcism #exorcist #insanity #guardian angel #university

[jojotier]

thinks about ilocano dave strider for the sole reason that 'anak' means 'son' so it just constantly sounds like his consorts are almost but not quite chanting 'son? son? son? son?? son-'

#dave strider #homestuck #sorry if my ilocano isn't quite accurate jhbkjn its harder to find resources on the language than tagalog #the research i must do for my own webcomic brings me to ever more esoteric places and yet #in the back of my mind #he is always there #son....