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bookmark_borderWhen You’re a Scorpio AND a Sagittarius

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So in Western astrology, I am a Sagittarius. In Vedic, I am a Scorpio. Both make a whole lot of sense to me, but lately I’m starting to see more of my Scorpio side come out. For example, my career – sun in the 10th house with a Midheaven in Scorpio. Scorpio is naturally at home in the 8th house – the house of sex, death and transformation. I’ve been working in the adult entertainment industry for more than 16 years now, and I’ve become more secretive and mysterious about my life (a Scorpio trait) even though I’m still in public spaces (social media).

What is western astrology?

Western astrology is a system of divination and psychological analysis based on the tropical zodiac, the 12 signs, and planetary positions. It traces its roots back to ancient Babylon and Hellenistic Egypt, focusing heavily on individual personality traits, inner psychology, and life experiences. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]
Core Concepts
  • Tropical Zodiac: Anchored to Earth’s seasons rather than fixed star constellations, starting with Aries at the spring equinox.
  • The Natal Chart: A map of the sky at the exact time and location of a person’s birth, used to analyze character and life tendencies.
  • Sun Signs: Popularly used to describe a person’s core identity based on the position of the Sun during their birth month.
  • Planets, Houses, and Aspects: Planets represent distinct drives, houses represent specific life arenas, and aspects show how planets interact with each other. [1, 2, 3, 7, 9]
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What is vedic astrology?

Vedic astrology, also known as Jyotish (the “science of light”) or Hindu astrology, is an ancient Indian system that maps the positions of stars and planets to understand a person’s karma, life path, and destiny. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
Core Concepts
  • Sidereal Zodiac: Unlike Western astrology (which uses fixed seasons), Vedic astrology uses the actual, observable constellations in the sky, creating a shift of about 23 to 24 degrees in the zodiac signs.
  • The Birth Chart (Kundli): A map of the sky at your exact time and place of birth, divided into 12 houses representing wealth, health, career, and relationships.
  • Nakshatras: A specialized system of 27 lunar mansions that track the moon’s path to offer deeper, more personal insights into your mind and emotions.
  • The Dasha System: A unique timeline used to predict when specific planetary periods will happen and shape events throughout your life. [11, 12]

If you’d like to explore further, let me know: Do you want to know your Vedic sign compared to your Western sign?Would you like to learn how the dasha planetary periods work?Tell me how you want to proceed!

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What is sidereal astrology?

Sidereal astrology is a star-based system that maps the zodiac using the actual physical locations of constellations in the sky. It differs from Western tropical astrology by accounting for the Earth’s slow wobble, known as the precession of the equinoxes. Because of this shift, a person’s sidereal zodiac sign is usually about 24 to 25 degrees—or roughly one full sign—behind their tropical sign. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

 

How It Works
  • Star Alignment: Uses visible constellations along the path of the sun (the ecliptic) as a permanent background map rather than anchoring to the changing seasons.
  • Ayanamsa: Relies on mathematical correction systems—such as the popular Lahiri ayanamsa—to sync the starting point of the zodiac with specific reference stars like Spica.
  • Real-Time Astronomy: Matches what you would see if you pointed a telescope at the sky and checked which constellation a planet is physically sitting in. [4]
Major Traditions and Differences
  • Vedic Connection: Forms the core foundation of Vedic astrology (Jyotish) from India, as well as several ancient Babylonian and Egyptian systems.
  • Tropical Contrast: Tropical astrology fixes 0 degrees Aries to the spring (vernal) equinox and tracks Earth’s seasons, meaning it grows out of alignment with the actual physical stars over long spans of time.
  • Sign Shifts: If you are a late-degree sign in Western tropical astrology (like a late Aries), your sidereal chart will typically place you in the previous sign (such as Pisces). [3, 4]

If you would like, let me know your birth date and I can help you figure out what your sidereal sign might be compared to your regular Western sign.

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bookmark_borderVideo: Don’t Be A Content Creator in 2026

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Not that I have any time to do this (unless I get let go from my job like she did) but this sums up perfectly why I don’t want to be a content creator. Besides, my Midheaven in Scorpio prefers not to be seen too much while my Sagittarius sun keeps me creative but inconsistent and my Libra moon makes me indecisive about what kind of content to make and post. Sigh…seriously, it’s a neverending cycle.

I really admire Cities By Diana‘s (I’m sorry babygirl – I wish I could describe your style better) dark humor, satire and commentary on trying to survive in California and her cute-brainrot style of video graphics & editing skills very much and so I had to post this.

bookmark_borderMyspace Neon Dream 2008 and Beyond

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In between rage cleaning the house while listening to Metallica’s Orion on repeat, I stumbled upon a gif with my custom graphics; it was a repeating background of my first tiger tattoo, a scanned drawing of my angel bunny and a rose I traced over a real photo in Photoshop that I would use for Myspace (IYKYK) back in the early 2000’s. I honestly don’t even know how I did this but of course, I animated it. I also looked through the layers and found an old screenshot and a customized contact box, lol.

Customizing my Myspace profile was how I started to learn web design; because I was so obsessed with my profile looking original, I would always tinker with the custom CSS code so I can make it look however I wanted. And then I would make a custom background and someone would steal it. Good times, lol.

I really miss blogging and reading my friends’ thoughts. I miss Roxy and the OTP crew.

bookmark_borderSherm > Liber Amicorum > GRI

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08-29-2025: apparently I am reminiscing hard and appreciating my own hand lettering skills. My goal was to add more tags to posts but this one came up.

Edit: it’s 2021 and they have created an L.A. Graffiti Black Book, but it’s currently sold out.

07-08-2015: I made this for the Getty Research Institute in 2012. Explore the book here.

bookmark_borderVideo: James with Mika & Miriya

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Lol I’m super proud of this video that I edited on the desktop version of CapCut – James doesn’t like to show his face (we both have our Midheaven in Scorpio) which actually presented a fun challenge for me to put an emoji on his face while motion tracking it. Mind you, I’ve never really played with CapCut (only on my phone for Tiktok) but it was such a pain to edit on my phone so luckily CapCut offers a desktop version of their mobile app.

Anyways, if you’d like to follow my 2 British Shorthair cats’ Instagram it’s @mika_miriya_bsh

Here’s an in-depth read about Scorpio Midheaven: https://www.lovetoknow.com/life/astrology/scorpio-midheaven-careers-persona-purpose

bookmark_borderMagick is Real

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Sometimes there are no words to explain how magick works in my life…so I just create.

I wanted to put a watermark on this but that would’ve been dumb, taking away from the beauty of this repeating animated symbol.

I don’t know what to call this symbol, I’ve seen it so many times in magickal works. I saw it on a tarot deck that I own and in the Psychonaut Field Manual. Since this PDF was shared with me for free, I figured I would share it with you because the original link seems to be missing.

bookmark_borderSHERMGRAFIK Website Screenshots

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It used to be so fun, challenging and also frustrating building websites; I was so obsessed about how mine looked and I was constantly tweaking it. The site was built in HTML via Dreamweaver, I was using iframes and tables to align elements. At the time, everybody was doing it that way.

Then WordPress came out.

All this reminiscing came about because I was thinking about Futura 2000’s website around 2004 when I started learning web design.

His website stood out to me because it was very experimental and out there. Everybody was using Flash to make their website graphics interactive.

However, I didn’t learn how to code actual HTML until 2014.

So yeah, before I switched to Save the Savages – Shermgrafik was my first ever domain.

Want to take a trip down www memory lane? You can see old versions of websites at Internet Archive.

bookmark_borderYou’ve Been Banned or Suspended from Social Media. What To Do?

Posted on by savethesavages

Or: you work in the adult entertainment industry and now you’ve been banned or suspended from social media. Most likely for good. This is my current situation, since last year August 2020 on Twitter.

What do you do next? How the heck do you even promote your content now?

First let me say that I am not a sex worker but I can relate to this as I am an internet marketer who promotes adult entertainment. Both things tend to be intertwined as there wouldn’t be adult entertainment without sex workers. Even if it is just “virtual” I have to at least know wtf I’m talking about in order to market it effectively. I’ve been in this industry for 10 years.

So before I lose my train of thought here are some suggestions that might help you promote your services in a whole different way:

+ Create your own property. Make sure you pick a web hosting company that allows adult XXX themed sites. Once your website is up and running, post good content and SEO the heck out of it. You will start to get organic traffic in no time. Even if you have to describe yourself in ridiculously obvious ways (ex: dark haired, brown skin, heavily tattooed big booty fat girl or whatever), do it anyway because that is exactly how people tend to search.

+ Buy your own traffic. You can build your own audience by doing so.

+ If you really need to get back on social media, maybe it’s best to get a new phone or a new computer. Or both. I know that I can’t get back on because of my devices. They pretty much know who I am. So if I were to get back on, I would have to get a new phone or a new computer. And post normal shit like a regular person and not do anything that might get me banned.

The sad thing is, even if you didn’t do anything wrong – there’s still a good chance you might still get banned. This is the world we live in now.

+ Pay others to promote you or do some kind of barter. I know spending money to promote doesn’t sound so great. Which is why the first two options are the best one, I think.

+ Find other online communities to hang out in. Nobody likes being promoted or advertised to, so it’s best to build relationships with your prospects.

+ Thinking large here than just trying to join another online community but maybe you can collaborate with like-minded individuals to create a whole new platform. I have been thinking for a while now that the adult entertainment industry – whether they’re small or large players – need their own social media platform, a place online where we could hang out and post all the adult content we wanted. Instead of trying to mingle with mainstream entertainment, those who want to actually be there would come and sign up.

I know most of these suggestions don’t sound good because you have to spend money before you can see a return on investment.

Why did I get suspended anyway? I don’t really know but supposedly I violated their terms. Also when you work for a company that deals with adult content and provides adult entertainment services, there’s always competition. So there’s a high chance that someone didn’t like that we were promoting so much and started reporting or flagging us so we would be out of the picture.

Unfortunately, that’s part of the business; when people see you as competition they’ll find a way to eliminate you.

If it can happen to someone like me who is an absolute nobody, then I’m sure sex workers will be next (if it isn’t already happening). I mean, just look at Instagram’s new TOS. And how right-wing conservatives targeted Pornhub.

Expect more of this to happen so don’t get attached to your social media accounts. But also know that adult traffic will not go away. There’s so much you can do with it. But you’ll have to be okay with spending money.

* I didn’t know what photo to add to this post, so here’s a test image of a candy text effect in Photoshop. I use it a lot for my adult graphics. This is the tutorial I followed.