#literally living my spiritual life dawg

[twistedastrology]

🪐 my take on the outer planets 🪐

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saturn is constantly given a bad rap just because it does its job- saturn's placement in your chart isn't always a bad thing- it can signify difficulties in that area of your life, yes, but it can also tell you what you have unwavering resolve in (especially if you're saturn ruled or saturn is positively aspected)

for example, my saturn is in my 1st house in leo (cancer rising) and I've seen people say that saturn in the 1st house can indicate a fear of growing old or being lonely, whatever- my personal experience with this placement is, ask anyone that knows me and they will tell you i am fucking petrified of losing myself- losing my mind, losing who i am and dying early are my worst fears (dreams in which im dying are NOT the best ive ever had 😮‍💨)

but as a result of this, i know myself SO well. i do think saturn in the 1st house can indicate issues with finding yourself IF it's afflicted, which mine isn't (thank god 💔💔💔)

im also very scared of growing out of touch with the world around me- dont get me wrong, i love being a hermit, but if im ever that old man that can't understand trends or whatever and is overly cynical of younger generations... dawg- take me the fuck out 😕

uranus i LOOOOVEEEEE and i think it stands for so much more than just rebellion- my uranus has a LOT of power in my chart (so does my neptune but they're in mutual reception 😮‍💨) because my moon is cusped (1° pisces, but i feel both pisces and aquarius influence 💔), and it and my mercury im pretty sure are why i think backwards as fuck- (fun fact, my mercury is FIRMLY direct but it likes to act like it's in retrograde 💔💔💔💔)

but!! more interestingly, i have a very specific mental process where whenever im goin thru it, i cant stay goin thru it for a while- if my brain is fucked up for a little too long and i start getting pissed about it, my uranus takes over and legitimately propels me through the pain in almost an instant. i could be going through something for weeks and once i start getting pissed about it or legitimately bored of it, the next day it's like nothing ever happened BUT i still learned from it

ofc I have to do something to trigger that effect, which is where my mars in cancer comes in and i do a workout to tap into the physical catharsis and BOOM, go to bed and wake up the next day a new man 🙏🙏🙏 god bless 🙏🙏🙏

neptune Ok i am not entirely sure what made whoever said neptune is the higher octave of venus think that but I've never been able to see it. this might be controversial as hell but neptune is the higher octave of the moon to me and jupiter is the higher octave of venus. THAT BEING SAID-

neptune is an absolutely fascinating planet to me lately and im not sure why- i do have a couple transit aspects with it right now but ive wanted to write about it literally all day now- U KNOW i might love it so much bc it's in my 8th house actually that would make sense- ANYWAY-

neptune to me is the source of all the visions from god i get, especially my creative ones- (source: it came to me in a vision from god.) the moon is a very creative placement in my opinion (i have a WILDLY different idea of the moon that i can go over in another post), so neptune follows a similar current, but neptune is higher creativity, higher emotion, etc- it's the planet of spirituality and the absolute depths of our subconscious, like to the point of past lives, that's the kinda shit neptune fucks with

but because it's also the higher octave of the moon, to me it can absolutely represent addictions and vices, everything garbage- personally, my neptune isn't very afflicted at all but i also have a major lack of earth in my chart so i Do find myself experiencing classic neptune-based paranoia sometimes- fuck dude i went neurotic for a week at one point, that was some serious neptune delusion- But my uranus/saturn pulled me back from it, because like i said, saturn makes me petrified of losing myself, so those two joined forces like "ya this shit ain't cool actually take it out back and shoot it"

i might make a post on specifically neptune stuff soon and/or right after this bc the hyperfixation is hyperfixating 💔💔

pluto i FUCK with because it's such a soul searchy planet (my 8th house is very active so ofc i fuck with pluto) in the darkest ways and i love that shit- jonathan davis has his pluto in a fucking mastery degree (29° virgo) and i am to this day like 😦 over it- and it makes SO much sense for him to have PLUTO of all planets in a mastery degree- and i have mine in 26° sag so like im not that far behind... 💔

but dude that's mastery of some SERIOUS transformative powers- that's mastery of the wildly darker shit in life and that is so fucking tight to me- i value that kinda stuff more than anything dude- probably why korn is my fav band (been listening to them as i write this 😭😭)

one thing abt pluto that i DONT agree with tho, and this is more of a scorpio thing BUT i know everyone loves to say scorpios are the sexy signs but dawg... it's cancers... i swear 2 god it's cancers- i will write an entire fucking post on cancers and why i HATE everyone's interpretations of them bc everyone's like "cnanncers are cRYBbaueiis and tHyeyre the most emOtIknal siGnsns 💔💔💔" Bro. Bro. Bro dont do me like that for the love of god. that shit made me hate my rising sign for SO long and also not relate to it!!!! then i started doin my own research and found out "Oh fuck nvm im totally a cancer"

BUT if you look at pluto like the actual God- nowhere in his mythology (that I read anyway- i could be wrong i dont wanna act like i know everything) does it say anything abt him ruling over sex or sumn like that- but everyone says pluto rules over sex!!!!!! Where!!!!!!!!!!! dawg they said he was a god of abundance bc he ruled over the underworld and gems and stuff were found underground 😭😭😭

i do think pluto fucks with taboo shit though But back in the ye olden days when astrology was being developed, sex was not taboo at all, that's a new development that i think uranus fucks with more because uranus is a very future focused planet in my humble opinion

i could definitely keep writing but i think this is already a novel SO- to specify tho, this is all my opinion of the planets, ive read PLEEEEEENTY of books and stuff so by no means do i not know how this shit works, but my uranus makes me rip everything apart and make my own take so 💔

#astrology #astro observations #astro community #outer planets #saturn #uranus #neptune #pluto #astrologer #space

[nyesnwavy]

“Pain Free”

i’ve gone this long without you

forced myself to forget what it felt like to feel you near me

so why the fuck are you back

in my brain living rent free

i want to love you and be in love with you

but are you even truly ready to let us really be?

maybe you’ll realize i’m more than worth it all

and you’ll return, balanced, “i’ll hold you sweet thing”

but if you don’t ever return ..

so much love and beauty lost too easily

if what we have is gone

i’ll be forced to assume this was a “get me through this temporary period of life” fling

but if you do i’ll lean into the fact that when we’re together , we literally add so much to each other’s form of happy.

i know you watch me radiate from a distance

yea, i peeped

hope we give each other another go round

i will love you the right way this time- you know… surpassing endlessly

let me do that

it’ll be another one of our spiritual teams good deeds

but for now, either exit my fucking brain

or pour into me please

show me what it seems like you may be implying

cus dawg, i’m no longer playing games or fucking around. that’s a need.

take some time and water yaself,

so we can repot and plant some more seeds

let the wind carry us away and pollinate

maybe .. even start a family?

let me stop getting ahead of my self before there’s tears and we force each other to bleed

but you get the point tho right?

let’s talk, express. and work this shit out

so we can for once live aside one another.. absolutely pain free.

-nye-

[365dailyaffirmations]

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[tripping-on-assid]

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So I want to come back to this every once in a while because I think it’s great to document my life and things that are important to me. So I’ve been talking about usually what has been going on with my life, but I haven’t really talked about the shit I think about. One things I love about the Tumblr platform is the fact that everything is organized in such an elegant manner that you can really express yourself as an individual. So I would like to do that. I might start doing that, using this account as a place to put my pictures, music taste (even though I already HAD a blog for that), photos I find interesting, music reviews...I don’t know. I just really want a place secluded from everyone I know and have a place to reallllly retreat from. Anyways, one thing that has been going on for the past few weeks is that I’ve been really focusing on becoming a better person. Legit. And it’s honestly working out pretty fucking well. I think I dabbled in this concept in my last post but, I think it all started with finally picking up and trying to learn the guitar. I bought a Yousician account to learn the guitar and I’ve been kicking ASS on it. It is a very good app for beginners, and I know like 5 chords already, so that’s very cool. Unfortunately, I lost my debit card again and had to cancel my subscription for the time being so I haven’t really been guitaring lately, however I have been Jordan Petersoning, and I don’t know...I just really love that man. I told you I had a remarkable acid trip on my last post I believe, I took about 350 mics while watching Jordan Peterson’s 4th lecture in his biblical series “Adam and Eve and the emergence of consciousness”...absolutely astounding. One of the best trips I’ve ever had. Come up was clean. I remember just being very calm and confident on the comeup, I was also not really hallucinating, it was much more of a mind-fuckedupness rather than much visuals. Granted I know if I focused on the visuals more and not my thoughts, I knew I could’ve had a much more visually enhancing experience, which may have been better for me, to go with the flow, however, I had an aim that this trip I wanted to sort out my life, and wow did I... during one part of the trip I told journey how much I loved psychedelics and the reason for that was because it changed my mind on a lot of things. It got real deep dawg.

Journey kept interrogating me on why I loved psychedelics to the point where I think Sigmund Freud would be proud of the therapy progress me and Journey made that night. I broke down crying and actually think I had some childhood regression shit go on because I was hunched over and started saying “sorry sorry sorry Im sorry” to journey when I started crying. It felt like she was going to beat me up. And like holy shit, that was such an eye opener...because i dont know, I always felt very feminine, and I think i still am very feminine. Mainly because I never had a stable father figure in my life..my dad was addicted to pain killers (even though he was the greatest dad aside from his addiction), my ex stepdad (during my childhood) was paranoid, bulimic, and a tyrannical son of a bitch who exploited and emotionally abused me and my mom for quite a while. HE certainly played a major part of my regression since I always felt so...useless around him. Then my mom’s ex boyfriend just never really tried to get close to me. Not only that but because my mom was my main caretaker, she never really let me try a lot of masculine things. I was interested in Karate and she never let me went cuz she was scared I would get injured. I wanted to play football but I had to substitute for flag football. I just never really had much expression for my masculinity...and that fucked me up physically and mentally. Not to mention it made me very susceptible to bullying, which Id like to say I was apart of from like, 4th to 7th grade. Mannnn, that shit was rough. Shit is getting me very depressed that I found all that out but, hey, that was one of the biggest things I learned on that trip. And that analysis really made me look into myself much deeper in a lot of aspects, but not only that, but I’ve been trying to better myself with telling the truth, and trying to live the best life I can.

That trip was very profound and led me to really getting into Jordan Peterson’s biblical lectures much more. Im currently on #10 out of 15 and they have been nothing but beneficial and so intriguing. The way he sets out the bible with his speech is astounding, and has led me to trying to “develop a relationship with god” which is an abstract ideal rather than something literal. And I’d like to clarify if ANYONE aside from me decides to ever read this is that I do NOT subscribe to a religion, though Jordan’s lectures were on the bible, I certainly believe that if there is a metaphysical reality out there, it is much more richer, diverse, and greater than any religion can try to conceive wtf is going on. Either way, I would say that I am spiritual. Nonetheless, this thing of “developing a relationship with god” has really been working out for me. I found out that two of my coworkers at chickfila also like Jordan Peterson and are also very intelligent and open minded as well. And thEYD LIKE TO BE MY FRIENDS! dude thats so cool. But aside from that, me and journey are doing great, and Im falling in love with her more and more everyday. Idk, Im tired of writing and dont know much to write about, soooo till next time tumblaaa

[christaindaily]

For anyone who has ever seen Big Daddy Weave live, you know what I mean when I say it is far from your normal concert experience. With a true passion for seeing people set free from their sin and brokenness through a relationship with Christ, the band puts together a powerful night of worship and incorporates a special time of prayer at the conclusion of every show, where they invite the crowd to come up and receive prayer. As they gear up for the Set Free Tour this fall with special guests We Are Messengers and Micah Tyler, we caught up with BDW's Mike Weaver at a show in North Carolina to talk about his expectancy for the tour and the importance of ministry on the road. Let's talk fall tour. Tell us about the heart behind the Set Free Tour and why you're looking forward to these nights. So this is the second leg of the Set Free Tour. We did all spring long with Zach Williams and We Are Messengers and it was beautiful. Now we're picking back up where we left off. The idea of "Set Free" is that the Lord says, "who the Son sets free is free indeed" and "you shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free."  But here's the deal--what we've been learning the last few years is just that we know so many things about what Jesus gave us, we have a knowledge of what He gave us but we don't really walk in that reality very often. So I think, inasmuch as we are set free, and it was once and for all, there's this process for us now to learn how to walk in what it is He finished.  When He stretched His arms out, He said "it is finished." The reality of Heaven, the reality of the Kingdom is complete in Him and what He has done, but for us, we're like, "That's amazing, but how do you have it?" So there's this lifelong process of learning how to really receive and walk in what it is that's available to us in the cross.  That freedom that He talks about; how do we walk free? How do we live free? That's a process for all of us and so hopefully today I'm walking more free than I was yesterday because hopefully I'm receiving more of Him. But what that costs us is the old us, because you can't receive something if you're holding something else. That process is sometimes not fun to our physical selves, but there's life on the other side of that when we learn what it is to die to ourselves and really have what it is that He bought for us. For you guys, this is more than just a show; it's ministry. The whole night is ministry-focused, but especially when you close the night by praying with your audience. How did that get started and why is that so important to you to continue? About six or seven years ago, around 2010, we were just burned out. I was at a place in my life where I was just kind of finished and I told a friend one day, just out of frustration, "Sometimes I just want to shut down everything at the end and just pray for people. Forget about the music, forget about songs and just pray for people." And he goes, "Mike, you should do that." I was like, "Aw, dude, I was just talking big; I didn't really mean it." But I held this guy in such high esteem that my pride actually wouldn't let me not do it that night. So it came to that time and I see him sitting out there. I said, "We're all hurting from different stuff, so if you got stuff that you brought in here, we'd love to just stand in agreement with you." I just went down there by myself, not really expecting anybody to move around, ready to move on to the next song, honestly. But then people started coming and it caught me so off guard, but when we just began to agree together with them... I mean, God began doing things in them, but God began doing things in us.  The very next night, we did it again and I remember getting ready backstage, I was literally washing my hands in the restroom, and the Holy Spirit says, "They're out there. They can't have children. They've tried and they feel like I've forgotten them. Tell them I've not forgotten about them and they are loved and that I'm going to touch them." And there were three of them! At first I thought I was going crazy, like, washing my hands, God? But then He just started to move and every night for the next months after that He would just say these things and they were always there.  At first it was just me going out, then it was me and the rest of the opening band coming out. Then it was me and the opening band and J-Dawg, then Jeremy came down, then we were all down there and left poor Joe up there with his keyboard just keeping everybody appeased. Even the ones who weren't coming down, it was like there was still this thing happening to them.  It's not the traditional "if you want to be saved" kind of thing, but it was just dealing with specific things. God was changing us as we were allowing Him to concern us with others and that was a beautiful thing. So now it continues. It kind of has grown and morphed and it's a little bit different every night, but we've seen some pretty amazing things and the stories after the fact of God doing incredible things.  So you've already talked about Micah Tyler and We Are Messengers a little bit, but how important is it for you guys to find people to come on the road with you who have that same heart for ministry? It's essential. But it's crazy, sometimes even the ones that have that heart are a little bit nervous about that part of it. Like, do you have to have some kind of special gift? No man, you just have to allow Him to fill your heart with compassion for other people. You don't have to be a spiritual giant--and thank God, because I wouldn't be included--but really just have a heart for God. I remember when BB, our drummer, first joined the band. He came from a completely different background and he had never been around anything like that. He was praying for people and I remember one night I finally asked him, "BB, what are you praying over these people?" He goes, "Honestly, Mike, I don't think I really know how to do this very well so I've just been asking God to give me the words to say over them." I was just like, "Good job, BB! I need to make sure that I'm doing that too."  That's really all it is, man. We're all in this together. We're all in the same boat. There's not a hierarchy of you being more saved than somebody else. You know what I mean? We all still hurt, we all still go through things. We need each other. I love that God loves to use people. That would have never been in my plan because I give up on all of us so quick, but He uses people in the lives of other people and He's real pleased with that. What's the coolest story that you have from that prayer time during the show? Man, there are so many. There are some crazy ones. There are ones that I went home and told my friends and my friends acted weird toward me for a little while. Ha!  J-Dawg prayed for this dude one night, and the Lord uses him in a powerful way. He prayed for this guy who had come to the show and his kidneys had been failing. He had a third kidney surgically implanted in him to try to give his other kidneys a rest and instead of that happening, his kidneys failed and this third kidney was operating at only about 25 percent, so he was really sick.  It was crazy because they prayed that night, and Jay heard back about a week later that the guy had actually been touched. He called Jay on the way home from the doctor and said the doctor told him he had three 100 percent working kidneys. They actually put him on a reverse donor list to give back one of the kidneys. Only Jesus can do that. There are stories of people who--gosh, this one lady. She came up one night and it wasn't even during the prayer time; it was after the show. She was just talking about the song "Redeemed" and she said, "I was held captive in a basement for about a year. I just got involved with the wrong people and this guy kept me in his basement for a year. After some of the most terrible moments of my entire life, there was a radio down there and I would turn it on to Christian radio and hear the song 'Redeemed.' After these things that were threatening to define the rest of my life, God would remind me who I am."  As I was completely flabbergasted in that moment, she reaches down in her pocket and she pulls out this huge nail and said, "I carry this around in my pocket so when the devil tries to tell me who I am, I remind him what's been done for me. I can't necessarily forget about what's been done to me, but I don't have to spend the rest of my life holding that against the guy." So she wrote him a letter in prison, forgiving him. It was the most incredible story and those are just God doing His thing because He loves people.       Is there a moment in your live set, other than the prayer time, that you look forward to every night?The other thing I enjoy is we get to share on behalf of World Vision. As a musician, I guess you ought to have some sort of musical moment--and there are plenty of those--but I think for us, the music has really just become a vehicle for communication. World Vision and sharing on behalf of these children--whose faces literally haunt us--we are literally haunted by their faces have become some of my favorite parts. It's my favorite thing to sit down with the people there and to share about what we've seen in the world and God's heart for the world. I love those times the best.You're always praying for people, but how can people be praying for you in this season as a band?Just that we would not operate out of what we have done before, because I think the most dangerous thing for me is finding something that works and then you just want to do that thing. We just need to hear from the Lord; we need to be open to what He says. Just that we would continue to be led, because when we stop doing that, there's a stagnation that happens wherever we go. People aren't going to receive life that way, and that's what we want--for people to receive the life that Jesus has. The only way they can receive it is if we walk in that life, not just out of something that we did before. SOURCE: newreleasetoday.com

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God Did What?! Timeline

I can’t believe that it has almost been a year since my first trip to Rwanda! I have been meaning to post about all of the updates in my life but as life goes, this blog kept falling to the end of my to do list.  To say that it has life changed, is a major understatement and God has been in the midst of it all. As I sit and read through all of my posts, I am in awe of how beautifully God has orchestrated this past year. My reflections, revelations, and journaling about this experience has infiltrated into every part of my life. My frientor (friend/mentor) made me realize how easy it is to forget about all of the amazing things God does in our lives, so I’ve decided to make a timeline. 

Here’s my God Did What?! Timeline (catchy title, right?):

June 2015: A friend recommended the book, Kisses from Katie, that sparked my missional heart and introduced me to what a truly radical life looks like.

July 2015: Feeling a little lost in my faith and thinking that a mentor would help. So, I prayed (a little) to see if God would reveal someone.

August 2015: My amazing, God-fearing friends, Ty and Terri Schenzel, passed away in a tragic car accident – shaking me to my core. But, this reconnected me with Ann. Apparently, God had laid me on Ann’s heart in June to read the book Anything but she felt hesitation to reach out. Then during the memorial, it clicked and she randomly gave me this book (literally so random, but of course I went with it). And what do you know? A frientor (friend/mentor) appeared.

September 2015: Started reading Anything, and immediately prayed the theme prayer of the book: “God I give you my everything, so you can do ANYTHING.” Some people may think it was too soon, but the radicalness of it all made my heartstrings flutter. After that prayer is where God really began to show up and flex his muscles.

November 2015: Go to a Citylight missional meeting with a friend and only circle the Imana Kids Rwanda trip (out of dozens listed). Really didn’t know why, but it interested me the most at the time. So, I prayed about it, again just a little (see a pattern? God was faithful even when I wasn’t, thank goodness).

December 2015: Reading 1 Corinthians 14 & 15 and out of the blue verse 58 said, “GO TO AFRICA.” It was the weirdest, coolest, clearest moment I have ever had while reading the Bible. (It really says, “Be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the word of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.”) So, I signed up and BAM, going to Rwanda.

January 2016: Met with Ann a few times and boy, did God align our stories (details for another day ). Finally finished the book, Anything, and find out that was written because of the story in Kisses from Katie. WHAT?! Andddd, she adopted her little Rwandan boy from the same orphanage as Kara and Ryan (founders of Imana Kids). Talk about a God lightning bolt!

February-June 2016: God faithfully provides for the trip, both financially and spiritually.

July 2016: IMANA KIDS MISSIONS TRIP TO RWANDA (Please see all other blog posts for more information)

August 2016: Go back to the office (as a Corporate Event Planner) and feel so discontent about the career. Start praying about this stirring in my heart, and He reveals teaching!

Teaching History: I have always felt the desire to teach but always thought it would be later in life to teach about my experiences in the corporate world. But during my time in Rwanda, I lead and taught some of the Bible lessons to the kids and it made a lasting impression. After praying about this desire, God began to show up. My roomz and I were watching my favorite movie, Freedom Writers, and I started bawling. Right at the beginning – an emotional wreck with nonstop crocodile tears. So, through the tears, I emailed College of Saint Mary’s about their education program (the only accelerated master’s program for teaching). BAM. An email first thing in the morning with all of the information to enroll.

September 2016: Get accepted into the Masters of Arts in Teaching (MAT) program at CSM. (Just like that!)

October 2016: Fearfully tell my current employer that I decided to switch career paths, and they were SO supportive. It’s crazy but I literally felt angels around me during that meeting with my bosses.

November 2016: Confused why God implanted this passion for Rwanda, but is leading me towards an 18-month program in Omaha. Classes are every Saturday so the idea of traveling was nonexistent. But WAIT, I have the entire month of July off. Why you ask? Because God wants me to go back to Rwanda, duh.  Well actually, to work on my ESL practicum. Just another confirmation lightning strike from our ever-loving, merciful Father.

January 2017: School begins! And I LOVE it. Like, really.

March 2017: My time at planitomaha ends. It was bittersweet to leave all those amazing people, but I knew it was God’s plan.

February 2017: Ryan and Kara inform me about the Go Be Love Leaders training in order to start leading mission’s trips. Work, school, and now this? It was crazy, but I knew God was behind it so I said YES!

March 2017: Go Be Love Leadership Training in Nashville (LOVE that city). I really had no idea why I was there. I loved Imana Kids and only Imana Kids. There was no way I was going anywhere but Rwanda for Imana Kids… But during the training, the Rwanda coordinator found out that I was becoming a teaching and said a ministry, Hope Haven Rwanda, had just reached out to GBL requesting teachers to come to Rwanda. What?! Who me?! God, you sly dawg, you. Plus, with my additional time in Rwanda, I could to take a day to tour their facilities.  Again, so cool.

May 2017: Find out that my family friends are neighbors with the founders of Hope Haven Rwanda. Just in case I forgot how detail-oriented God is…BAM.

June 2017: Today, sitting on my porch at the lake. Reminding myself of all the amazing things God has done. Preparing my heart for next month. Remembering that I am always a missionary for Christ, not just in Rwanda. Praying for constant surrendering of my heart, mind, and soul.

So, there it is! My life in a nutshell. In conclusion (my new Language Arts teacher is coming out), God is good. All the time. Seriously. These past few years have been the unimaginable. For so long I tried to do it my way, thinking that I knew best or what I did would bring me closer to God. God was just sitting there, with His arms open wide, patiently waiting for me to give up the reigns and let him take over. And seriously, it is WAY better than anything I have every experienced.

I want to end with encouragement. I know that life is crazy and controlling. Our world tells us that we can do it all ourselves. But this is not our life to live, God has something so big and incredible for each person that says, “Yes.” That’s all, just a simple yes and He takes over. Don’t let the steps in front of you take you away from the entire journey of life. In comparison to eternity, this life is a small sacrifice to give. And, why wouldn’t you?! These past few years have been more fulfilling than the past 20+ years, and its ALL because of my ever-present Abba Father.

“So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.” 2 Corinthians 4:18

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Top 50 Albums of 2016

Despite all the ways 2016 was terrible (Brexit, the Syrian humanitarian crisis, extremist violence worldwide, Donald Trump, the deaths of so many of our heroes), one area where 2016 was a success was in terms of the quality of music released. Many of this year’s best albums were a direct response to the state of the world, some angry, some resolved, and some comforting. And others just allowed us to tune it all out and get lost in the sounds. Here is my 2016 year in review. 

Best Soundtrack/Score: Stranger Things Soundtrack (Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein)

Best Soundtrack/Compilation: Jack White - Acoustic Recordings: 1998-2016 (runner up goes to Carly Rae Jepsen for Emotion Side B, which is catchier than any b-sides record should be)

Best Live Album: (It was probably that massive Kate Bush box set, but I didn’t listen to that yet, so let’s go with...) Lissie - Live at Union Chapel

Best EP: Dan Mangan - Unmake

Worst Comeback Attempt: Blink-182 - California

The Carly Rae Jepsen Emotion Award for Most Bangers for your Buck: The Weeknd - Starboy (runners up: Kaytranada - 99.9% and Ariana Grande - Dangerous Woman)

And, my top 50 albums of the year (out of the 134 I listened to)

50 - 41

50. Savages - Adore Life 49. Sarah Neufeld - The Ridge 48. Loretta Lynn – Full Circle 47. Låpsley - Long Way Home 46. Kendrick Lamar – Untitled.Unmastered 45. Crystal Castles - Amnesty (I) 44. Car Seat Headrest – Teens of Denial 43. James Blake - The Colour in Anything 42. Swans - The Glowing Man 41. Swet Shop Boys - Cashmere

40 - 31

40. Mitski – Puberty 2 39. Laser - Night Driver 38. PJ Harvey - The Hope Six Demolition Project 37. River Tiber - Indigo 36. Dolly Parton - Pure & Simple 35. Jessy Lanza - Oh No 34. Drake – VIEWS 33. Angel Olsen – My Woman 32. Gord Downie -  Secret Path 31. Andy Shauf -  The Party

30 - 21

30. Santigold - 99¢ 29. Wintersleep -  The Great Detachment 28. Michael Kiwanuka -  Love & Hate 27. Majid Jordan - Majid Jordan 26. Blood Orange – Freetown Sound 25. Rihanna - Anti 24. Danny Brown -  Atrocity Exhibition 23. Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool 22. Lissie - My Wild West 21. Alicia Keys - Here

20 - 11

20. Run the Jewels – Run the Jewels 3 19. Pup - The Dream Is Over 18. Case/Lang/Viers - Case/Lang/Viers  17. Kanye West - The Life of Pablo 16. Kaytranada - 99.9% 15. Hannah Georgas - For Evelyn 14. A Tribe Called Red - We Are the Halluci Nation 13. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Skeleton Tree 12. Solange - A Seat at the Table 11. The Weeknd - Starboy

10 - 01

10. Anohni – Hopelessness

“I wanna burn the sky, I wanna burn the breeze / I wanna see the animals die in the trees / Ooh, let’s go, let’s go, it’s only four degrees”

Lines like “Let me be the one…you choose from above,” sound painfully romantic until they come in a song about drone warfare. And that’s only one example of the way Anohni’s Hopelessness blends the beautiful and the horrific. The album reads as the love letter to state-sanctioned violence (geopolitical, environmental, physical) that most of us won’t admit we’re living. Ahnohni’s dizzy croons over blissful electronics are more beautiful than something called “Hopelessness” has any right to be. 

09. A Tribe Called Quest - We Got It from Here... Thank You 4 Your Service

“You bastards overlooking street art / Better yet, street smarts, but you keep us off the charts / So motherfuck your numbers and your statisticians / Fuck y’all know about true competition?”

This never-expected final album from ATCQ exemplifies the phrase, “rolling in their graves,” like a legend resurrected (literally, in the case of Phife Dawg, who appears here posthumously) by a dark present. Making explicit reference to the campaign rhetoric of Donald Trump (even going as far as to sample the Oompa Loompa song from Willy Wonka), the album was timed as a middle finger to a candidate expected to lose. That he won makes it is a necessary balm to the political lesions of the next term. Effortless and full of life, We Got It… shows a group that feels like they never left at all. Legends never die.  

08. Leonard Cohen -  You Want It Darker

“I heard the snake was baffled by his sin / He shed his scales to find the snake within / But born again is born without a skin / The poison enters into everything”

The opening title track on Leonard Cohen’s final album feels prescient, a potent exploration of God and death from a poet who saw both on the horizon. “Hineni, Hineni, I’m ready my Lord,” he sings wearily, but it feels ambivalent. Shit, who wouldn’t be? The instrumentations from Cohen’s son Adam act as a guide for Cohen’s minimalist vocals, here at their most powerful and tired. The blending of romance and religion, the physical and the spiritual are classic Cohen. “I’m leaving the table / I’m out of the game” he says on “Leaving the Table.” You can’t help imagine him tip that iconic fedora with a subtle grin on the way out. You Want It Darker is a stellar album to cap off an unassailable legacy. 

07. Thrice - To Be Everywhere Is to be Nowhere 

“Would you stay with me / if you thought the war was over / and everything made right? / Would you still believe in us? / And would your love for me grow colder / with no one left to fight?”

Thrice’s first album in five years after announcing an indefinite hiatus in 2012 couldn’t have come at a better time. Steeped in politics and apocalyptic imagery, TBEITBN recalls some of the band’s best work while sounding like a perfect encapsulation of the tumult and fear of the past 18 months. With songs about drone bombing, whistleblowing, and foreign policy, this is an album wholly concerned with the state of geopolitics today, though not without its songs of love and hope, however tenuous. It is a blues-rock-meets-post-hardcore manifesto exploring reluctant complicity in state-sanctioned terror, abuse of power, and the fear of self-destruction. All of this with the tight creative energy of a band of best friends who have played together for almost two decades. 

06. David Bowie - Blackstar

“Just like that bluebird / oh, I’ll be free / Ain’t that just like me?”

It is difficult to separate Blackstar from David Bowie’s death, because the album was calibrated and timed so much to be a part of it, a final confrontation to mortality and the legacy of fame. For the first few days it almost felt like his alleged death might be part of some grand performance art piece — that’s so Bowie. A year later Blackstar feels, as it should, like a David Bowie album, full of cryptic imagery, bewildering lyrics, inspired musical flourishes, and emotional resonance. “Blackstar” is the best Radiohead song of the year, jazz inflections and unexpected absurdist turns of lyrical phrase demand repeated, concentrated listening, and the haunting “Lazarus” perfectly  denotes the way in which Bowie’s consistent reinvention has made him an artist outside of time and beyond death. “Everybody knows me now,” he sings on Lazarus. And they always will. 

05. White Lung - Paradise

“I’ve got a basic need / Kiss me when I bleed / They say I split my pride in two / when I became a bride for you / But what do they know?” 

 As deliriously melodic and powerful a punk rock racket as you’ll ever find, Paradise finds Vancouver’s White Lung sharpening their skills and their teeth. Mish Barber-Way’s vocals are more refined but no less sneeringly powerful as she spits over meticulously-arranged and elegantly-produced instrumentations that average under 3 minutes in length. Clocking in at 28 minutes, “Paradise” is the tightest and most purposeful rock record of the year, which is impressive considering how deeply the record explores the body horror inherent in being a woman in a patriarchal society. 

04. Frank Ocean - Blonde

“You showed me love / Glory from above / Regard, my dear / it’s all downhill from here.” 

 Frank Ocean’s long-anticipated follow up to Channel Orange is a challenging first listen, less immediate and more thoughtful than its predecessor. “RIP Trayvon. That nigga look just like me,” Ocean sings on the album opener “Nikes,” a disarmingly down-tempo number whose bittersweetness creeps up and sets the tone for a contemplative and deeply personal album of tonal lethargy and spare instrumentations. References to “pink and white” skies and “black and yellow” streets are prescriptive: this is an album for the fading days of summer, the fading hours of the day, when a twilight drive brings pains of nostalgia and regret to light. 

03. Beyonce - Lemonade

“They say true love’s the greatest weapon / to win the war caused by pain / But every diamond has imperfections / But my love’s too pure to watch it chip away”

Lemonade is the stuff of great drama, a kitchen sink story by way of an epic as it spins out a relationship story without a neat conclusion. It is a master-work of rage and heartbreak and, ultimately, hope, blind as it may be. But that pain is more alive for how Lemonade makes the personal political. This is about more than just Beyoncé and Jay Z, it is about fathers making their daughters tough and setting them up to be betrayed by men just like them. It is about survival and resilience in a world that doesn't care about you. It is a testament to the vision and production that Lemonade mines so many disparate genres (pop, blues, country, r&b, reggae) yet feels so cohesive. Beyoncé was a career milestone, a pop album about the thrills and joy of marriage, but Lemonade is transcendent, a genre-defying album about betrayal and the challenges of marriage as a metaphor for the ways relationships of all kinds destroy and sustain us. 

02. Tanya Tagaq - Retribution

“Sacrifice / Our blood goes back into the earth / In. Out. Womb. Core.” 

 If Mother Earth groaned in pain on Tanya Tagaq’s 2014 album, Animism, then she delights in the destruction of humanity on Retribution, an album that finds the Inuk throat singer croon with a trickster’s smirk that “Gaia likes it cold.” Here, at her most metal, she asserts that “the retribution will be swift” if humanity continues down a path of ecological devastation. Her most sonically-diverse album in vocal and collaborative terms (featuring producer Jesse Zubot’s haunting strings, Christine Duncan and the Element Choir, a cover of Nirvana’s “Rape Me” and a collaboration with rapper Shad), Retribution is a career milestone and the most stunning work of Indigenous art of the year. 

01. Chance the Rapper - Coloring Book

“I don’t make songs for free, I make ‘em for freedom.”

Coloring Book plays like the kind of album that could only have been written by someone experiencing the life-changing miracle of childbirth for the first time. Gospel choirs and horns back an album of ebullient joy that in sound and title suggests a blank space full of possibility. The religious fervor of Chance’s unabashed positivity was just what we needed in 2016. Chance’s desire to “give Satan a swirlie” reminded us not to take ourselves too seriously while fighting evil, and “All Night” might be the year’s hardest banger this side of Drake’s “One Dance.” Coloring Book was like a big hug in the face of a cruel year, an invitation for us all to be with family, to remember the good times and to help one another through the bad. By the time the album closes with the refrain “are you ready for your blessings; are you ready for your miracle?” it feels like both a challenge and a plea. Bring on 2017.

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