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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