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The Nodes have to do with karma, past lives, life lessons, what we need to leave behind, and new behaviors we need to take on. North Node is where we are headed and South Node is what we need to leave behind. 

North Node 

Aries North Node: Focus on developing the self - confidence in the self, a distinct identity, learning to express the self, building a healthy ego, separating the self from others, and finding courage within “the self”.

Taurus North Node: Finding security in their world by finding security in themselves. There is a journey to create stability in their life. Strength comes from endurance and determination.

Gemini North Node: To find an inner truth by discovering others’ truths. To communicate clearly and connect honestly. Know this person’s “truth” and perspective can change a LOT throughout life while on their journey to find what is real to them.

Cancer North Node: To first learn to care, protect, and nurture the self so they can take care of others. There is an emphasis on helping others but in the beginning they are going to have to learn to help themselves.

Leo North Node: Themes revolve around bravery, generosity, and honor. To “follow your heart” is a theme here too. Empowering one’s self and empowering others is a path for this individual. Needs to learn that everything they do must come from a place of love and openness.

Virgo North Node: On the path to help and serve others without expecting reward or recognition in return. To learn to be humble in generosity and helpfulness.

Libra North Node: To learn how to love others and take care of them - but even more of an emphasis is learning to be an equal with others. To learn how to give and take fairly. How to compromise and to cooperate.

Scorpio North Node: About self-mastery and learning how to use power, manipulation, and influence for good. Has a strong connection with overcoming fears, control issues, and self-destructive tendencies.

Sagittarius North Node: Is on the path for knowledge. While Gemini is looking for a self truth the Sagittarius North Node is looking for exterior truth in beliefs, character, science, philosophies.

Capricorn North Node: On a path to learning self-discipline, controlling their world and destiny, and self-authority. Is on a mission to learn to listen to their own wants, needs, and inner voice rather than those who have authority OR even those they highly trust and respect.

Aquarius North Node: Is on a path to help humanity and to take on humanitarian traits. To leave negative emotions and attachments behind to find healthy detachment and intellectual balance. To approach others with equality, acceptance, and respect.

Pisces North Node: To learn the meaning of unconditional love. To tap into the human condition and to help others on a spiritual level. To heal and to help. Also must learn to shed guilt or shame and learn to forgive.

*Aquarius and Pisces North Node tend to both be grouped into “a path to enlightenment”. It may be Aquarius moves people forward on a collective level, Pisces to heal and to show on an individual level.

South Node 

Aries South Node: Needs to leave the ego, intentional selfishness, and possibly unintentional self-centered mindset behind. Must learn to team up with others, to give, and to relate.

Taurus South Node: To leave behind materialism, jealousy, possessiveness, and unhealthy attachments. To rely on the security within rather than anything external. To develop self-faith to explore the unknown.

Gemini South Node: To leave behind things such as gossip, impatience, and lack of understanding. On a mission to solidify beliefs, to become more honest, and maybe to open their mind.

Cancer South Node: To leave behind unhealthy attachment and emotions. Whereas the North Node is about caring for the self then others, here it is focused on caring for others first and then learning how to take care of the self. To hone in on self-nurturing and self-protection.

Leo South Node: To leave behind pride, entitlement, and the ego’s attachments. Learning how to be more open and generous. Might have to surrender power and authority. There are conflicts between heart and head, with the Aquarius North Node, their path is more about learning to follow logic and objectivity.

Virgo South Node: Must leave behind unrealistic or unhelpful criticism. The quest for perfection is futile and they must learn this. To learn tolerance, acceptance, and taking on understanding discernment rather than harsh judgment exist here. 

Libra South Node: Leave behind the tendency to lose ones self in a relationship, sacrificing their needs for others, and over compromising. To learn that compromise should have purpose rather than be impulsive, ideally it should benefit both parties. 

Scorpio South Node: To leave behind heavy emotions from the past - usually involving trauma, maybe abuse, or intense drama. To leave behind grudge-holding, paranoia, fixed emotional biases, control out of fear, and possessiveness.

Sagittarius South Node: Leave behind biases or over concern from beliefs and philosophies. Learn to live and let live. Becoming more open minded and tolerant is a theme but there is a greater focus on living rather than preaching - actions speak louder than words.

Capricorn South Node: To leave behind control, to let go. May have to leave behind authoritative tendencies, learn to deal with the unexpected or instability.

Aquarius South Node: Leave behind separation and over focus on individuality to where they MUST be different, reevaluate rebellious behavior, and learn to move towards relating and being part of the collective. Here is one who stands on their own with ease but must learn to join others.

Pisces South Node: To leave behind heavy, negative emotional attachments as well as possible victim/martyr behavior. To balance emotional intelligence and intuition with logic and rationality. To take on personal responsibility, to create boundaries, to leave behind assumptions.

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Remember in 1993 when Jurassic Park was like…the end all, be all of special effects?

not gonna lie that still looks intimately real

I’m still somewhat convinced that someone sold their soul to create the special effects in Jurassic Park because that shit is over 20 years old and it still really, really holds up, better than the stuff in a lot of current movies, even.

Fucking witchcraft, man. 

fucking look at this shit though

Literally see this post flying around with a few different responses added to the bottom each time so I’ll say it for this one myself:

THEY ACTUALLY BUILT A GIANT MASSIVELY DETAILED FUCKING ANIMATRONIC T-REX FOR ALL OF THIS THAT’S WHY THE EFFECTS ARE SO GOOD. CAUSE IT AIN’T CGI. AND IT AIN’T GUY IN A COSTUME. IT’S A BIG FUCKING ROBOT DINOSAUR. AND EVERY PART IS DESIGNED TO MOVE. IT COST LIKE HALF THE BUDGET OF THE FILM.

amazing

And they had the film it in small increments, especially in the outdoor scenes, because the rain fall kept soaking into the ‘skin’ of the rex and would slow down and mess up its movements. So they would stop filming and have a crew out there drying off this massive, fake dinosaur, and then they’d start filming again until it was too wet. Repeat until the end of the scene.

They used animatronics and detailed costumes for most if not all of the dinosaurs in the first movie.

The triceratops for instance, was also animatronic.

And the raptors were dudes in suits. I shit you not.

One of my favorite anecdotes I’ve read on tumblr is how the t-rex robot from Jurassic park would malfunction while it was drying out. How did it malfunction, you might wonder?

Motherfucker randomly started moving.

So apparently if you were on the jp set you would sometimes hear people screaming bloody murder even though they were all well aware that it was a giant animatronic puppet and wouldn’t actually, you know, eat them.

(link to said post about malfunctioning t-rex)

Did not know this, had to reblog for awesome movie history insights.

So, I knew about the animatronics bit but I did not know the raptors were guys in suits and the malfunctioning t-rex sounds terrifying.

And i just googled malfunctioning t-rex and was not disappointed. Apparently in order to put the skin on over the steel frame a guy had to crawl inside the t-rex while it was turned on and glue the skin down. And if somebody turned the t-rex off or the power went out the guy in the t-rex stood a very real chance of getting mangled and killed by the hydraulics.

So of course, the power goes out.

And this guy is still in there gluing the skin down.

Apparently the way to survive getting sheered to death by huge sheets of metal while you’re inside a giant t-rex robot is to curl into a ball and hope for the best.

And this guy hoped for the best and got it.

Some other people on stage pried open the t-rex jaws and glue guy crawled out of its mouth and was totally okay.

This is getting better and better.

I think they only had like 6 minutes of CGI

I’m just waiting for the T-Rex to come to life and leave its stand.

@spinosaurus-the-fisher is this the kind of content you love?

Realism comes at a cost, it seems.

i mean ok but why has nobody posted this:

It’s a three piece raptor suit.

Old movies had the best special effects

The thing about this that gets my special effects nerd going is the fact that EVERY single dinosaur was sculpted by artists based on the current existent archeological evidence of the time.

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Even better than that, this movie ADVANCED our best understanding of dinosaurs at the time.  They were blowing out a budget bigger than anything Hollywood had ever seen, and along with employing almost the last hurrah of incredible physical FX, they had a bank of those newfangled digital SFX computers.  Nobody’d ever really created convincing dinosaurs in a movie before.  It’d all been stop-motion animation, and even when the models were exquisitely crafted, you could just tell there was something OFF about them.  Spielberg wanted THE BEST DINOSAURS EVER, and he figured on using the cutting edge of digital modeling and animation technology to build them for him.

So they got hold of some of the best paleontologists they could find and said, “We want you guys to take this tech that your labs could pretty much never afford and use it to build us the most realistic, accurate dinosaur models the world has ever seen.”

The paleontologists knew an opportunity when it bit them in the ass.  They plugged in everything they knew about dinosaurs, all the skeletons and their best guesses about soft tissue and all that.  And when they’d created those dinosaur models, they had the computer start moving them as they realistically would with anatomy like that.  One guy took a look at those walking t-rexes and velociraptors (really utahraptors, but whatevs, fam), and he said, “Wait a minute, I’ve seen movement like that before.”

He called up film of a chicken walking.  Everyone in the room said, “Holy shit.”

Prior to 1989, the idea that birds were descended from dinosaurs existed–we knew about archaeopteryx, we knew there was some minor connection there–but the idea that DINOSAURS LIVE IN THE MODERN WORLD AND THEY ARE CALLED BIRDS was not pre-eminent.  Jurassic Park changed our scientific understanding of dinosaurs.

That paleontologists’d be Kevin Padian. Who is awesome.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Padian

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