Embodied Astrology

Embodied Astrology explores astrology through a queer, somatic lens. In this episode, Renee offers an Aries Season overview with an emphasis on the significations and possibilities of the asteroid Ceres in its opposition to the Aries New Moon and placement on the cardinal cross as Aries Season begins. 

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JOIN ASTROLOGY & ACTIVISM with Karlyn Bradley & Renee Sills: In this 5-week series, we’ll work with our natal charts and the offerings, potentials, and cautions of current transits and the upcoming eclipses. Join us live or follow along with the recordings at your own pace 

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Karlyn Bradley and Renee Sills join to discuss their upcoming workshop series Astrology & Activism, which begins March 21st. Nodding to their charts and upbringings, Karlyn and Renee each share their activist roots and what continues to motivate their work in the world. They explore accountability, relational repair, and community care as important activist work. Renee posits that astrology (and Saturn, in particular) shows us that there is a unique role for each of us to play in the reimagining and reshaping of our world. And Karlyn reminds us that all roles are needed, no matter the size or scale.

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Karlyn Bradley (they/them) is a Black, Fat, Queer, Femme, with degrees in Political Science and Gender and Women's Studies from the University of Arizona. Karlyn is a scholar, theorist, community organizer, artist and educator. They have been able to use and expand their knowledge of Intersectional Feminist Theory to create programming that educates and empowers folks around topics of Race, Gender, Sexual Orientation and Power Dynamics. Their studies in Political Science and Gender and Women’s Studies at The University of Arizona have also shaped and influenced their ability to understand, critique and analyze policy through a critical race feminist lens.

In 2021, they used their skillset to found The High Priestess Consulting Company LLC (HPCC), which aims to help individuals, communities and organizations develop their understandings of systemic, political and social challenges through the use of workshops and trainings. The HPCC specializes in helping people connect with their own power, just like the high priestess in the Tarot, we remind people of the things that we have always known intuitively and facilitate coming back to ourselves and reconnecting with that power.

When they are not doing Community work Karlyn likes to hang out with their friends, eating and cooking a good meal, watching movies. They also like to work on their Podcasts Beneath The Surface. Writing poetry, drawing, living their dream as an Amateur Top Model and watching Scandal. Karlyn is Southern California born currently residing in Tucson, Arizona which is the ancestral lands of the Tohono O’Odham and Pascua Yaqui People.

Contact Karlyn: [email protected]

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In this fluid conversation, Sherri Taylor and Renee Sills share their hopes and predictions for Saturn’s upcoming ingress into Pisces. The two feel into the supportive embrace of gravity, the lubricating possibilities of Pisces, and swap stories of the generous and juicy sides of Saturn this transit may see us reclaim! Sherri’s four-part workshop series with Embodied Astrology, Gravity & Grace - A Mythopoetic Inquiry Into Saturn, begins March 7, 2023.

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SHERRI TAYLOR is a mystic, dream worker/walker, end-of-life doula, and writer.  She is deeply and passionately interested in the “being” of being human. An apprentice to Spirit, Sherri is happiest when serving her community by curating spaces where people can claim themselves as Beloved and are in profound contact with the expansiveness of their own humanity. She is guardian of the soulstudiolab and Black Womxn's Dream Lab. After completing Master’s and Doctoral degrees in Clinical Psychology Sherri committed to an "education of the heart.”

She has engaged in ongoing personal inquiry into contemplative and mystic traditions, mediumship, divination practices, traditional astrology, and dream work as spiritual exploration and liberatory practice. Her learning has been through formal course work, personal study, and direct experience. All of Sherri’s life experiences have provided a sturdy container in which to develop, hold, and grow her ancestral medicine and spiritual gifts. She is called to offer these in the service of love, justice, belonging, and community for the highest good of all concerned.

Sherri’s website: https://soulstudiolab.org

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This episode dives into the emotional, psychosomatic, and collective  energetics of Pisces and offers interpretations for Pisces Season’s transits and lunar phases in 2023 with suggestions for accessing the benefits and working with the challenges personally and relationally through this time. Some of the main themes include:

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Read the transcript of this Pisces Season Overview here

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GRAVITY & GRACE: A Mythopoetic Inquiry Into Saturn in Pisces with Dr. Sherri Taylor

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Embodied Astrology welcomes Junauda Petrus back to the podcast for a conversation about her journey with astrology and its importance in shaping her writing and characters; her upcoming workshop series with Embodied Astrology; creative inspiration through the mutable signs; and some ideas about what Saturn’s form building and shape-making influences might bring during its transit in Pisces 2023-2026.

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JUNAUDA PETRUS is a writer, a soul sweetener, runaway witch, and performance artist of Black-Caribbean descent, born and working on unceded Dakota land in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Her work centers around pleasure, wildness, queerness, Black-diasporic-futurism, ancestral healing, sweetness and liberation. Her first YA novel, The Stars and The Blackness Between Them received a Coretta Scott King Honor Award. She is the co-founder with Erin Sharkey of Free Black Dirt a Black, experimental healing art collective.  She is a Jerome 2021-2022 Artist Fellow in Literature. She is currently working on several projects including her second novel Black Circus, writing a puppet show and adapting her first book into a feature film.

Her forthcoming illustrated book, Can We Please Give the Police Department to the Grandmothers is available for pre-order now.

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Welcome back to the Embodied Astrology podcast! 

We’re relaunching monthly overviews with Renee Sills this Aquarius Season. We hope you enjoy this episode! Timestamps are below for easy navigation through this 3-part episode. 

0:00-24:37: Welcome back! A re-introduction from Renee and a developmental overview of the Embodied Astrology project and timeline.

Aquarius rules connective tissues and conduits for information. It is associated with technology, innovation, invention, and The Future. As The Water Bearer, Aquarius is also a symbol of the flow of energy between humans – the ways that information shapes emotions, beliefs, actions, and “reality.” Aquarius’ archetype demands our participation in the life experience but also invites us to awaken to the potentials for choice within this realm. It forces confrontation with the rigidity and violence of humanity’s ideas, as they’ve evolved over the forces of time, dominance, and control. It asks us to ask deeper, to consider our own compliance, investigate our options, and identify and embody alternatives to the status quo. 

This is a season to make micro-adjustments with intention. Small (and large) changes now, will amplify exponentially when we commit to them. In the midst of a world experiencing devastating violence, environmental and human calamity, and unnecessary compounding harm, there are still so many reasons to continue. There is a revolution underway. Creative brilliance is blossoming in the spaces of resistance. It is happening everywhere, in everyone. Though nothing is guaranteed and chaos is inevitable, the next decades also bring the option of powerful progressive change as increasing numbers of people stand up, speak out, and shift. 

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Thank you Ari Nason for preparing notes for me to reference and for your work with MPD150.

Embodied Astrology’s 2023 keynote presenter is writer, vocalist, sacred scholar and artivist Amber McZeal, who has been studying and practicing astrology for over 20 years and will be facilitating the opening ritual for the Embodied Astrology’s yearly program. 

Amber utilizes sound therapy and guided somatic imagery to engage the knowledge of the body within an interactive and liberatory arts practice. In 2018, Amber launched her organization, Decolonizing the Psyche, where she weaves somatic praxis with Afro-Indigenous spiritual technologies and social justice, and deep decoloniality in effort to end oppression and create more humane social relationships. Amber holds an M. A. in Somatic depth psychology and Ph. D. in Community, Liberation, Indigenous, and Ecological depth psychology.

2023 Opening Ritual with Dr. Amber McZeal

“As the Gregorian calendar's 2023 begins, we find ourselves having navigated multiple pandemics, witnessed countless political & cultural shifts, while many of us are still reshaping personal & collective life in the wake of these. On January 8th, I am delighted to host an opening ritual with the Embodied Astrology community where we'll explore theories of change from an archetypal depth perspective. This workshop weaves astrology, depth psychology, and African archetypal approaches to cultivate new visions for the upcoming year. We'll explore transits within a decolonial framework, engage embodiment practice, and cultivate rituals to help guide and shape our individual and collective trek into the new year.”

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This episode is released with Venus’ conjunction to the Sun and square to Pluto in Capricorn, just a few days before the beginning of Scorpio Season and a new moon and solar eclipse in Scorpio. My guest Indira Allegra and I talk about themes of being swallowed and reborn, claiming personal power, and transforming fear.

Indira Allegra is a social psychopomp accompanying people, places and non-human beings through cycles of death, memorial and regeneration. Their projects, performances and installations draw from an investigation of inner space, animism and the ritual, relational and performative aspects of weaving. Allegra's combination of past experiences as a sex worker, sign language interpreter, domestic violence counselor and yoga instructor allow them to work with the tension of human and nonhuman experience as creative material. Their work has been featured in ARTFORUM, Art Journal and Emergency Index Vol. 8 among others. Allegra has been the recipient of numerous awards including the United States Artists Fellowship, Burke Prize, Gerbode Choreographer Award and the Art Matters Artist2Artist Fellowship.

Indira will be facilitating a two-part Scorpio Season workshop with Embodied Astrology called Beyond Domination: Kink in the Glow of Vesta. Beyond the binary of master and servant or top and bottom, there is devotion. Join us for an electric workshop as we establish parameters for consensual play where partners pleasure each other as an offering to the larger archetypal energies they are each devoted to. Whether you are a devotee of emotional intimacy, slippery spontaneity or just the joy of learning itself - there is a satisfying kink for you lit by the glow of Vesta. Click here for more information and registration

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Michelle and Ramon Gabrieloff-Parish make up Once and Future Green, consulting, facilitating, and providing education for community groups, governments, universities and philanthropies working on climate and environmental justice. As partners (married since 2000) and individuals , Michelle and Ramon both bring creative, communal approaches deeply rooted in spirit and ancestral traditions. 

In this episode, Michelle and Ramon talk with me about the lineages they come from and the visions they have for their work and the world. I get their insight as storytellers, mystics and astrologers into our current moment and the potentials we can find in times of breakdown and crisis. 

Michelle and Ramon will be offering a guest workshop with Embodied Astrology on August 21: Aligning the Layered Self: Ancestral Inheritance and Leadership. Find more information and register here

Michelle Gabrieloff-Parish is an ethnofuturist mama and ecotopian dreamer preoccupied with ancestors, art, environmental justice and Earth (re)becoming a paradise. Seeking eco-cultural regeneration, and illuminating connections between sustainability and social justice, nature and art, Michelle brings over 20 years of experience in environmental justice. She’s a student and teacher of permaculture and ecological design. She is a former US State Department BoldFood fellow (Uganda) and served as a US delegate for the Colorado River in San Luis del Rio Colorado, Mexico. Michelle facilitates and consults for frontline communities, philanthropies and governments to forward community-driven planning and solutions with transformative anti-oppression and ecological design tools through the OnceAndFutureGreen.com . She is a poet, currently featured at Meow Wolf Denver, a wife, and mother of three. 

Ramon Gabrieloff-Parish is a life long star gazer, Afrofuturist philosopher, practicing astrologer, social artist and creative ceremonalist. His current project is to utilize the many outer planetary alignments of the 2020's as catalysts for imaginal, collaborative and institutional transformation. In his day job as a chair of Naropa University’s Interdisciplinary Studies department he focuses in the intersections of equity and sustainability through courses on food and environmental justice. He also teaches foundations in contemplative learning and theory, emboidment, social identity, and conflict transformation. Ramon is committed to community, cultural and cosmic regeneration, through his consulting work with Once and Future Green and with organizations like Golden Bridge, Youth Passageways and recently as board chair of Frontline Farming

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Join me for a Cancerian conversation with two of my favorite magical thinkers – Junauda Petrus-Nasah and Kadie Henderson – where we talk about music, sensuality, violence, the erotic, the speculative, and all things Cancerian.

Junauda Petrus-Nasah is a writer, a soul sweetener, runaway witch, and performance artist of Black-Caribbean descent, born and working on unceded Dakota land in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Her work centers around pleasure, wildness, queerness, Black-diasporic-futurism, ancestral healing, sweetness and liberation. Her first YA novel, The Stars and The Blackness Between Them received a Coretta Scott King Honor Award. She is the co-founder with Erin Sharkey of Free Black Dirt a Black, experimental healing art collective.  She is a Jerome 2021-2022 Artist Fellow in Literature. She is currently working on several projects including her second novel Black Circus, writing a puppet show and adapting her first book into a feature film. Learn more at www.junauda.com and follow her on IG @junauda

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Kadie Henderson is an amazing, multi-talented astrologer and friend of mine and Junauda. They are also the Synthesis Space Research Resident Fellow for Embodied Astrology. In her work, Kadie uses astrology and their creative practice to synthesize workshops and experiences that help folks engage with the totality of being human. Follow Kadie on IG @kadiesmiles_

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