An agency spokesman warned that “unprecedented levels of heat” were being seen in some areas.
More than 22,000 people have been taken to hospital with heat stroke, nearly half of them elderly, officials say.
On Monday, the city of Kumagaya reported a temperature of 41.1C (106F), the highest ever recorded in Japan.
The heatwave shows no sign of abating, forecasters say.
In central Tokyo, temperatures over 40C were also registered for the first time.
The Japan Meteorological Agency warned that temperatures of 35C or higher would continue until early August.
“We are observing unprecedented levels of heat in some areas,” spokesman Motoaki Takekawa said, adding that the heatwave was “a threat to life and we recognise it as a natural disaster”.
In Ibaraki prefecture, north of Tokyo, a 91-year-old woman was found collapsed in a field and later pronounced dead in hospital. In nearby Saitama two elderly women were found dead in their homes.
With less than half of Japan’s public schools equipped with air conditioning, government spokesman Yoshihide Suga said the summer holidays could be extended to protect pupils.
“As a record heatwave continues to blanket the country, urgent measures are required to protect the lives of schoolchildren,” he told a news conference on Tuesday.
The public is being advised to drink plenty of water, to use air conditioning and to rest often.
People in some cities have taken part in an event known as uchimizu, or “water ceremony” – pouring or sprinkling cold water on to the hot pavements in an attempt to cool them.
The heatwave closely followed torrential rain that caused severe flooding and landslides in the west of Japan.
If only we knew what was likely causing these extreme weather conditions. I guess scientists are too busy wasting time and money on fake research to figure it out. idk
There’s a huge fire in Greece and I can see on tv how hellish it is. They don’t know if everyone is safe and they just said that the children’s camps have been evacuated, I can see animals running frantically around, so many trees burnt, more than a hundred houses destroyed and the fire is constantly spreading. It’s so windy and there are at least three different outbreaks (it’s probably arson). I can see the residents running to save themselves, the tv reporter is begging the tv anchors to run as well, the firefighters are backing up… it’s terrifying.
And of course no one on tumblr will spread the news and raise awareness because were just a lil’ European countries who cares if we’re burning am I right? We’re not the US about to lose free internet after all
Only good enough for them when they want to take a fucking vacation.
Please, everyone reblog. Keep us in your thoughts (and prayers, if that’s your thing). The rain stopped. There are new outbreaks. They are afraid that there have been human casualties as well. The fire is spreading!
There is at least one confirmation for a human casualty as of now according to SKAI (not the best news source tbh but still)…
@lover-healer-empress you are absolutely right.
I’m watching Alpha and they just reported that. There are also some Danish people whose fate is unknown.
I can’t even be salty about people not reblogging atm. I’m just terrified and heartbroken. I’m just watching the news and I feel sick in my stomach. I hope there won’t be any more casualties.
I had no idea about this fire. The ones in California are always all across the news but I really wasn’t aware of the situation in Greece. This sounds really horrible!
I do hope that the fires can be put out before there’s even more death and destruction.
I think that they’ve managed to control most of the fires. But we keep finding bodies..
There were 8 different outbreaks all over Greece last I read, so we’ve asked for international help. Hopefully this nightmare will end soon 😦
update: More than 53 people died.
The air is polluted. Hundreds of houses got burnt. 150 adults are in the hospital suffering from burns nd breathing problems and 11 of them are cannulated. Good thing is, 16 kids from the people who survived the fire are in no danger.
Greece 2017:
The government approves a bauxite mining plan in the area of Kineta.Local residents start a protest against it because it will destroy their forest and pollute the area.
Greece 2018:
A wildfire tears the area.Forests,properties,houses are burned out.At the same time a second wildfire takes place in the west Attica.More than 50 people are dead and 150++ injured.
And that’s just an another excuse for politicians to blame one another while noone is willing to take the blame.
Greece sacrifices people for one more time.
How many times have we seen the same play? Year after fucking year.
We see it all the time. They burn everything down and then sell it out.
Για ποσο ακομα; Αμαν πια, αμαν!!!
I took this picture yesterday. The sky had turned orange due to the fires miles away
If you want to help here is a bank account to donate to for the victims of Rafina-Pikermi :
Piraeus Bank
Bank account number: 5186092291418
IBAN: GR20 0172 1860 0051 8609 2291 418
Name of the recipient: ΔΗΜΟΣ ΡΑΦΙΝΑΣ – ΠΙΚΕΡΜΙΟΥ(aka the name of the municipality)
This post contains useful information about astrology. It can be used for both beginners and more advanced people who wants to look over the basics. This is Astrology 101. It’ll help you get started out with astrology, and will provide you with basic knowledge, tips, pictures, help, and useful links.
If you’re wondering about anything, feel free to ask me, and I’ll answer!
Tip! If you’re wondering about anything, ask an astroblog. I’ll link my favourites down below. Don’t ask them to read your whole birthchart or to explain everything (unless they say they can) but ask them specific questions. And remember to shower them in the love and gratitude they deserve.
Why should you look into astrology?
Astrology can help you through anything in life. It can answer all your questions. It can help guide you. Exactly at the time you were born, all the planets and stars where lined up. And they all sent universal energy to you. Astrology and your birthchart is the blueprints you were born with. Your chart is the pavement, and the ground you stand on. The machine you were built into. It is the potential and the possibilities you have. What you chose to do with it is up to you. Which flowers you plant in the ground is your choice. How you’ll upgrade your machine is up to you.
How to start:
If you’re interested in astrology. First, you need to find out your chart. And for that, you need your birth date, place, and time. If you don’t have the time, you won’t have the possibility to look as deep into it as you might want to, but it’s better than nothing!
Here are some places you can calculate your birth chart. The first one is the most accurate.
Now that you have your chart. Make sure you have your chart drawing, a list of which Signs and degrees your Planets are in, a list of which Houses your Planets and Signs are, and a list of your aspects.
Here is Marilyn Monroe’s chart which I made at astro.com:
Picture 1:
Picture 2:
In picture nr. 1 is her: Natal chart drawing, planets in the signs, degrees (exmample Sun 10 degrees Gemini. The degree is between the Planet and the Sign), the aspects, and the houses. But I reccommend looking for your houses in picture 2 instead with the tables. It’s easier to understand.
In order to recreate picture nr. 2 with all the tabels and details, click on:
Saturn minimizes everything it’s in contact with. Suppression and control. Authoritive, and leading.
Uranus is rebellion, originality, uniqueness, the genuis, bizarre.
Neptune is the subconsciousness, 6th sense, imagination, fantasy, and dreams.
Pluto is transformation. Being reborn, rising from the ashes. Magnetism. Being obsessive.
Aspects:
The aspects is how the planets interact with each other within you, and how they affect each other. Like a bunch of marbles or dominos. One starts moving, and then all the others starts too!
If you’ve done all this now, I recommend looking into your minor aspects too.
Find out if there’s anything unusual about your chart. Any stelliums or interceptions. Stelliums are when there are 3-4 or more Planets in a House or Sign. Interceptions are when a Sign is enclosed within a house. When it jumps over that Sign at the list of Signs in the Houses.
Now that you know the basics, you can go ahead and continue to explore the astro-world! Find out more about your chart, look at other peoples’ charts, try synastry, vedic, vertex, draconic, persona charts, etc. Now that you have a solid footing, the rest is a lot easier. Let the inner curiousity for knowledge lead you into new areas of deeper and more interesting astrology!
I wish I could add more, but I could only add 50! Check them out! These are some of the blogs I follow + some of my mutuals. They all post creative and helpful content, and they all are talented and astonishing people. They are all angels so give them a follow and some love!
As hard as it is right now, try to be patient with the energy unfolding. Trust that by the end of August you will be in a place of new found wisdom and clarity. This transit is not easy, but it is necessary in order to get to where we are going.
do tell me more about this lunar eclipse what’s up w it
Astronomically it’s a big deal because it’s going to last for a few hours, which is a lot longer than most eclipses last (plus it’s a blood moon!) but in a spiritual/astrological sense, it’s important because during a lunar eclipse, we essentially experience an entire moon cycle in the span of one day. The moon will be completely full, New, and full again within the eclipse. A lot of people may be experiencing a ton of tension in their lives right now; overly intense emotions, feeling lost or out of touch with their lives, meaningless drama and conflict with friends and family, or just a general sense of “nothing is right and everything is falling apart.” This is because right now, the universe wants to push and burn through all of the stagnant, unused, pent up energy being held within our lives. This eclipse won’t just start a new chapter, but for many of us it will begin an entirely new way of life. We’re clearing out the old to make room for an incredible array of new things to come! At the start of the leo season, we’re gearing up to leave behind what no longer helps us, and beginning to search for and find what will. If you’ve been wanting to quit an addiction, leave a relationship, change career paths or take up an intimidating new passion, this is the time to do it! If you’ve been waiting for a sign to do something big and bold, the full moon and it’s eclipse will provide a great wave of change on which to do so. That’s just what I’m feeling anyways
Welcome to the big show! Can you feel that tension building up, Tumblr? On Friday the 27th, kicking off the last weekend of July, the stars and planets have conspired to create the longest lunar eclipse of the 21st century! That’s right, it’s gonna be 3 hours and 55 mins of crazy eclipse energy! 1 hour and 42 minutes of which will stain our beloved Luna a bloody crimson. That’s because this time, the moon is plunging straight through earth’s shadow, and not just lightly grazing us.
This event won’t be visible in the Northern Hemisphere but
those in Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia, and New Zealand will get to
enjoy seeing it. Either way, the gravity off this event will be felt
worldwide, and so I encourage every magic practitioner out there to use
this energy while the energy is going hot.
Speaking of hot, let’s talk about those fiery astrological details!
First off, it’s a total lunar eclipse. It’ll be occurring in the
South Node. This means our eclipse will focus around themes of emotional
endings, baggage from the past, reminders of what we’ve already done
and have been through, and (like Saturn) decreases
possibilities. However, these possibilities were never meant to be! Ya
know, unless you can travel time 😉 People will also be revealing their
true colors as a lunar eclipse tears away all magic or psychological
glamours to reveal the ugly truth.
On the same night as the eclipse, our planet will pass between the Sun and planet Mars. This will put Mars at opposition with Earth, placing the warrior planet right next to the lunar eclipse! This Mars opposition is the best we’ve had since 2003, so it’ll be super bright, and visible. Think of that poignant symbolism! Mars is firing up the moon with the fires of it’s passion. And the moon is thusly transformed, becoming the same red as Mars itself. So with all that in mind, I can tell this is gonna be a spicy boi.
Our tempers untempered will be at peak YIKES. Mars is retrograding in the sign of Aquarius adding seething frustration or fury to the mix with our inability to take action and live our truest ideals, thus chaining our self-expression. Mars and the Moon will be present in the same sign-so again, there’s that symbolism of our unexpressed passions firing up our emotions. Mars will also be squaring Uranus so that frustration might become so inflamed that we want tear it all down. Ourselves, our way of lives, and those we think are holding us back from true self-expression. Sun opposition Mars will cause us to wanna fight externally when the battle is really inside ourselves and our own perceptions. We could risk projecting our emotional demons onto others fully convinced they’re the ones with an issue. Mars conjunct the moon lends impulsiveness, passion, or instinct to our emotions.
Mercury will be back at it with it’s shit again the day BEFORE the eclipse. That’s on the 26th. So already, we’re kinda getting boned by the stars here. And it’ll be in self-orientated, charismatic, and lead diva Leo. Ever the trickster, Mercury is fooling us into really believing in our own bullshit to the effect of having us acting like pompous jackasses to each other if our ego is challenged. We might get a little caught up in our own opinions, overreact, and say some really awful things. But perhaps these were things that have been brewing on the back burner of your heart for quite some time. Sometimes it takes getting into a heated scream match with someone who’s been taking advantage of you and asserting yourself to realize who you really are. And what you’re really about. So Mercury’s job in this retrograde is to loosen your lips so as to start some really important dialogues about Self as opposed to others.
The sun is in Leo in it’s 4th degree. And the moon is in Aquarius who’s also in it’s 4th degree. Again, we’re confronted with the ideas of our little picture and humanity’s bigger picture and what we choose to value.Do we stick to our little box of stuff or join into the large oceans of the collective? We might be challenged to quit playing certain roles in people’s lives or even quiting our own roles in our own lives to heed to the call of the future. Personal revelations will abound during this eclipse. It’s possible that these revelations will lead you to quiting an old way of life and stepping into a fresh, new one. Mercury retrograde is helping us with verbalizing what this Leo sun and Aquarius moon in four degrees is trying to show us: what roles we play with ourselves, what roles we play in other people’s lives, and what roles no longer fit who we’ve become since the solar eclipse last summer.
Venus in Virgo along with Venus trine Pluto will have us picking over the details of all our relationships and questioning whether they are healthy, loving connections worth our emotional intensity and efforts. So underlying this hot anger and feeling chained to relationships that no longer serve, is the overwhelming need to feel appreciated for who we are by our friends and lovers. And if we aren’t appreciated, what’s the point of staying in these old, and broken roles? Venus wants to be recognized for the things Venus does for the people Venus loves. And so do you, I bet.
The Sun is Quindecile Pluto who is also Trine with Venus atm so the implication here is that no matter how much you hide, the sun will place a spotlight on the shadowy underbelly of your relationships. Sun opposition Mars causes you to fight with said relationships so as to establish your stake in them or eliminate enemies in your metaphorical bed.
Just be careful if the fight is valid or just stuff you’re reading into because Neptune is retrograde in Pisces causing all sorts of illusionary, victimizing, escapist bullshit that probably sounds really good to Mercury retrograding in Leo. Maybe the problem isn’t with how others are or aren’t treating you…but how you’re treating yourself. And maybe all it takes is letting that self-depreciation and self-obsessiveness go? Give into the flow of the bigger picture? The good thing about Neptune retrograde is the call to finding your inner spirituality and Oneness with the Multi-verse. There’s gonna be a huge wave of new seekers or people initiating into deeper magics.
Jupiter in Scorpio is chillin’ over there expanding those underworld vibes that has us looking at our dark sides and that of humanity while Pluto retrograding in Capricorn has us wound tight to destroy the authorities that are controlling you and placing you in any kind of bondage. Demanding you take action while also making you face having to give up what’s keeping you locked up. Saturn in the same sign as Pluto has us paying our karmic debts or living up to responsibilities we’ve avoided. Probably a lot of people right now are considering.going to/going back to rehab or some sort of intense therapy, reaping actions that they’ve sowed for awhile now, realizing they’re in an abusive relationship of some sort, having health issues, or planning to overthrow a government. Or more personally and micro-cosmically, you might be overthrowing your own shadow-self and it’s control over your actions by releasing old patterns and karmic debts made in this life and those of the past.
Amongst all this chaos, we have our saving grace: Saturn Trine Uranus. It will take all this conflict and fire and relationship conflict and give it a harmonious resolution. Saturn Trine Uranus is the best blend of working within the rules of a structure or relationship and finding new ways for everyone to feel appreciated. It’s the perfect blend of stability and innovation and often it takes the form of finding new ways to do old things. So if you have to quit smoking again, quit interacting with certain people again, quit trying to control the outcomes out of your control, or finally doing what you need to in order to gain your freedom of expression again, try approaching it at a different angle than your usual. Maybe stand on top of your head and see the world upside from a fresh perspective and listen to what Future You has to say about your role in the world.
So to summarize: We’re analyzing our inner/external relationships because some of them might not be good for us anymore. And we’re being called to move into the future with more self-awareness and freedom to express who we are on an intrinsic level.We’re gonna take action to make this happen. No more sitting around. And we’re probably gonna fight and or scream loudly. Aka. We’re not gonna take it! No, we ain’t gonna take it! We’re not gonna take it anymore!
As a witch and an avid coffee lover, I felt like its time for some frappuccino magick (and some suggested stones you can pair with them)!
A little disclaimer – No, I am not being paid to post this or anything… I just really like coffee. 😊
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Caramel – Bring some sweetness into your day! Caramel is sticky and sweet, so drink some to attract positivity and comfort to stick with you throughout the day! You could also drink it while you’re studying to help things stick in your brain. Pair with sodalite.
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Chai Creme – Don’t you mean the perfect spiced up love potion in coffee form?? This frappuccino uses a spicy chai tea which contains black tea, cardamom, cinnamon, ginger, clove, star anise, and pepper aka your perfect blend of passion, charm, courage, lust, and aphrodisiacs.. *wink wink*. Pair with garnet.
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Cinnamon Dolce – On the go? Pairing cinnamon, coffee, and sugary goodness is great for boosting your energy! Relaxing? Who doesn’t love a warm cinnamon-y sugar feeling? You can also use this beverage to bring peace and relaxation! Pair with carnelian / blue lace agate.
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Coffee – Coffee is fantastic for mental clarity and grounding. If you’re having one of those days, get some coffee and go for a walk. Take advantage of the boosted alertness to enjoy nature, clear your mind, and overcome any internal blockages. Pair with hematite.
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Cotton Candy – (Does not contain caffeine) This vanilla and raspberry frappuccino is perfect for two things: peace and love. Vanilla’s calming aroma paired with this fruit of patience encourages peace of mind. On the other hand, vanilla’s loving vibrations paired with raspberries’ fidelity give you a perfect romance drink. (Raspberries are also used with pregnancy spells which is great because it is also caffeine free!) Pair with moonstone.
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Green Tea –
Matcha green tea is great for healing! It boosts immunity, reduces bad cholesterol, promotes healthy cell growth, is high in antioxidants, and helps you to relax if you are tense. When drinking, you can see your beverage cleansing and detoxing with every sip you take. Pair with bloodstone.
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Java Chip and
Mocha – One word: chocolate. These two frappuccinos are practically the same thing except one has chocolate chips in it, so I’m going to group them together. Chocolate is all about love and friendship, and people often give or receive chocolate as rewards. Pair it with a self-love bath and indulge. You deserve it! Pair with rhodonite.
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Midnight Mint – How about a minty sweet cleanse? Mint is all about protection and cleansing, and when paired with chocolate brings a little positivity with it. Mint is also great for breaking spells, hexes, and jinxes, so if you’re feeling a bit wary, go grab yourself a drink! Pair with black tourmaline.
☕ Pumpkin Spice – The perfect drink around Samhain to give you all your favorite fall spices in one! Pumpkins are fantastic for bringing some money your way especially when paired with the other spices in your PSF. On top of that, pumpkins are great for divination. Tarot readings in Starbucks, anyone? Pair with aventurine.
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Strawberries & Creme – (Does not contain caffeine) Strawberries are very similar to raspberries correspondence wise. This drink is great for innocent or platonic love and happiness! Pair this drink with a friendship spell, or just grab one with your best bud. Pair with rose quartz.
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Vanilla Bean –
(Does not contain caffeine)
Vanilla is always known for its amazing aroma! This drink is fantastic to drink for positivity, whether for yourself, or paired with a spell for others or your home. Pair with amethyst.
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White Chocolate Mocha – I love white chocolate for glamour! Just like regular chocolate, it brings positivity, but white chocolate has a sweeter and lighter taste to it. Drink this in the morning to give yourself some boosted confidence and self-positivity for the day! Pair with selenite.
Added note: You can always switch out regular milk for almond milk! Almond milk is great for wisdom, prosperity, fruitfulness, and healing.
astrology is real, witchcraft is real, magic is real, dreams whisper about the future sometimes, miracles happen and soulmates exist! and thats the tea!
and the moon loves you and watches over you every night! run n tell that!
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