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In this episode, regenerative beekeeper Ang Roell talks with us about how bees teach us about consensus, planning to thrive and the parallels between bee health + human health within our current agricultural system.

We discuss / 

*Their lineage + family history of beekeeping
*The complexity of collaborating directly with the natural world to earn a living
*White folk’s cultural displacement of heritage + assimilation of whiteness
*The role of bees in ecosystems + why they are necessary
*How bees were brought to the US and became part of our agricultural system
*The parallels between the health of bees + the health of humans in our current moment
*Why bees don’t need saving
*How we confuse consumerism with a solution
*The connection between identity, resilience + place
*The importance of meeting basic needs + collaborating to survive + thrive
*How bees model consensus + planning to do better
*Their proposal for a regenerative beekeeping school to re-skill folks for their own bee practices

If you enjoyed the episode, also check out:
//Bees hold Sacred Time w/ Alysia Mazzella
Self-Care as Social Justice w/ Anana Harris Parris
Sovereignty + Responsibility w/ MaryGrace Allerdice

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In today's episode, I share about the upcoming penumbral lunar eclipse in Gemini on November 30 and Mercury's entrance into Sagittarius. These transits bring us an invitation to further embody our minds, go to the trouble and give thanks to life for life.

I discuss /
*Lunar eclipse in Gemini
*Bringing our minds back into our bodies
*Mercury entering Sagittarius
*Radicalizing our dreams
*Going to the trouble
*Channeled message for next two week cycle
*A poem

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Last week’s episode with Alysia Mazzella
Episode talking about the Sun in Sagittarius
Video on nodes in Gemini + Sagittarius

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 “Orchard”, poem by H.D.
Modernist Women Poets Anthology
The Books of Earthsea by Ursula le Guin

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Today I am joined by Alysia Mazzella --  a traditional beeswax candlemaker and the author of Fourfold the Oracle, an oracle deck she created based on natural cycles of four. She is also the co-founder of Backland Gardens a project in upstate New York focusing on skill shares, education + self-sustainability.

WE DISCUSS /
*How she got into candle making -- a process that grew from a personal practice, honoring sacred time + a desire to be as close to nature as possible
*A historical narrative on human relating with bees and honey
*How bees model working relationships for social sustainability
*How having a livelihood directly related to bees orients her relationship to value and work
*Finding ethical, respectful, reciprocal ways of working with nature
*How bees teach her how to run her business
*Why local economy + purchasing from people you know is important for sustainability
*The benefits of beeswax candles compared to candles from other materials
*Why buying soy candles is supporting climate change
*Alysia’s personal practices with candles to hold sacred time
*The special spectrum of light from beeswax candles + how it interacts with our bodies

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Mapping our Roles in Social Change Ecosystems (.pdf)
Honeyland documentary. Watch on Hulu.
Rotten: episode on fraudulent honey importation . You can also read this article.
Bliss, book by Peter Carey
Conflict is not Abuse, book by Sara Schulman
Farming While Black, book by Leah Penniman

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In this episode, I discuss some of the major astrological transits over the next couple weeks including Mars stationing direct, Scorpio New moon, Venus entering Scorpio + the Sun entering Sagittarius.

I DISCUSS / 

• Jupiter conjunct Pluto
• Mars stations direct
• Scorpio New Moon
• Venus entering Scorpio
• Sun entering Sagittarius
• Channeled message for the next couple weeks
•  A poem

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When the Light was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through, 
A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry

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In this episode, feminist writer + educator Amelia Hruby shares about breaking up with diet culture, learning to love herself, her new book Fifty Feminist Mantras and the non-neutrality of technology and social media.

WE DISCUSS

• The process of re-visiting her writing and working on a new edition of her book
• Learning from our past selves and using the process of review to evaluate our growth
• Re-aligning with cyclical growth and slowing down
• Her healing journey from diet culture and how feminist principles helped her embrace embodiment
• How she has been practicing rest and learning to trust her own flow instead of pushing past resistance
• How to be on your phone and not hate everything — her thoughts on the pros and cons of interacting through social media
• How technology is not a neutral tool
• The pressure social media puts on everyone to be an aspiration and/or a personal brand

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In this episode, I share from writings by Octavia Butler + Mary Oliver to help us unfold the astrological weather for the next couple weeks.

I discuss:

• Samhain + Taurus Full Moon conjunct Uranus
• Mercury square Saturn
• Mercury stationing direct
• Re-orienting towards that which sustains life

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Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler
Twelve Moons by Mary Oliver

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Mimi is a Taiwanese Canadian, a shamanic intuitive and founder of CEREMONIE. Mimi works with a blend of modalities including core shamanism, plant spirit healing, ancestral wisdom, dream work, chaos magick, and other Chinese esoterics and divination practices.

We talk about the concept of “wu” in Chinese culture and its likely implications in our concept of “woo” or “woo-woo.”  We also get into some things that we’ve been observing with wellness culture --  the chief of which is the problem with approaching spirituality and spiritual practices from a “fast-food” perspective.  We discuss how to relate with grace and respect to practices that are not directly a part of our biological lineage and the braiding that’s inviting us to remember older ways of  being in connection to the place where we are and the land that we’re on.

WE DISCUSS

• Her journey of learning to trust her intuition and accepting it as a gift
• How she connects to her ancestral line through food
• Her strong connection to the lunar calendar 
• The concept of “wu” in Chinese culture and its likely implications in our concept of “woo” or “woo-woo”
• The difficulty with our modern emphasis on specialization and how that differed from earlier ways of being 
• The problem with approaching spirituality and spiritual practices from a “fast-food” perspective
• How to relate with grace and respect to practices that are not directly a part of our biological lineage
• What braiding we can do with returning to previous ways of relating to the world and modern innovations
• How she is learning to mother herself in new ways

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MIMI /
Ceremonie website
Ceremonie IG
Open Minds Performance website
Open Minds Performance IG
Susun Weed's podcast

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In today's episode, I share about the upcoming Libra New Moon and the Sun moving into Scorpio. I also talk about the importance of being awake in this time, connecting to surrender + resilience and (of course) dragons.

I also discuss:
*Libra New Moon
*Sun square Pluto
*Sun square Saturn
*Sun moving into Scorpio
*What does awake mean and not mean
*Moving from control to inner sovereignty
*How to pull out of the arena of reactivity
*A tale of dragons
*Seeing the value in in-between
*A poem
*A channeled message for the next 2 weeks

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Workshop for Attention
"When the World as We Knew It Ended" by Joy Harjo

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In today's episode, Andréa Ranae Johnson, founder of Whole Self Liberation, joins me to talk about centering relationship in our movement towards liberation. We also talk about divesting from the narrative of activism as suffering and why it's important to motivate ourselves beyond simply not causing harm. 

We also discuss:

• How she found herself on this path from a young age
• How she accepted what felt like a calling
• How we can intersect our lives with justice regardless of who we are 
• The practice of honoring herself and the work of personal liberation 
• Bridging the need to have resources and also work towards new systems 
• Centering relationship in liberation work
• How it’s not enough to only orient around not doing harm
• How being nice is different from being loving
• Understanding the difference between creation and destruction
• Why we need to emphasize the creative process in order to stay open to possibilities
• The liberation school that she’s building

If you enjoyed the episode, check out:
Episode 32 w/ Michael J Morris: Pleasure + Staying with the Trouble
Episode 26 w/ Mary Grace Allerdice: Why We Shouldn't Bypass Money
Episode 34 w/ Mary Grace Allerdice: The story of closing my business and why the how is just as important as the what or the why


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Andrea's website
Whole Self Liberation website
Andrea's IG: @andrearanaej
Whole Self Liberation IG: @wholeselfliberation
Barbara J Love quote on liberatory consciousness
Jenn McCabe, CEO of Lead, Gather, Relate

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In this episode, I'll talk about some of the astrological highlights for the next couple weeks as well as share a channeled message for this part of the month. I also discuss:

• *Full Moon in Aries
• *Venus moving into Virgo
• *Mercury opposing Uranus
• *Sun opposing Mars
• *Mercury stationing retrograde in Scorpio

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