An ode to listening, the possibility of extra-terrestrial life and what that has to do with humanity’s current crises. It’s become a bit of a philosophy for me. Tread gently.

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Diana Rose Harper + mary grace walk you through the upcoming astrology for November 2022, including the Total Lunar Eclipse in Taurus, the New Moon in Sagittarius and Jupiter stationing direct.

Diana is an astrologer, tarot reader, energy worker, writer, and educator, with a history of being a bodyworker & rare books research assistant. Diana Rose has written quite a bit for HausWitch’s community page, served as one half of the Rosebud Tarot, contributed an article on the ethics of astrological prediction to WIRED, and has been featured in many podcasts from The Astrology Podcast to Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness. Three times, she’s been a lecturer at NORWAC and we are so excited to have her on the podcast here today.

we discuss —

• Venus, Sun + Mercury opposing Uranus
• Venus, Sun + Mercury square Saturn
• Total Lunar Eclipse in Taurus
• Venus, Sun + Mercury trine Jupiter Rx
• Venus, Mercury + Sun enter Sagittarius
• Jupiter stations direct!
• Mars Rx trine Saturn (2nd time!)

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Episode w— Jess Rimington on Economic Imagination

Episode w— Emily Prentice on Creating with the Underworld

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Diana Rose Harper’s website

Diana’s IG

Diana’s Twitter

Diana’s Patreon

Mentioned in the episode—

Fish People documentary on Water Bear

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mary grace kicks off our dark houses mini-series by talking about the 8th house — what are some of its most common meanings + significations and how to work with it.

we discuss —

• What are astrological Houses?
• What are the dark houses? + why are they called that?
• What are some of the meanings of the 8th house?
• Is it “bad” if I have a planet in the 8th house?
• What does this terrain + topics invite me into?

LINKS

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Episode w— Alkistis Dimech + the occulted body

Episode on The Abundance

Episode on Honoring our Death Seasons

Episode on Creating with the Underworld

Mentioned in the episode—

For the Wild episode w— mycologist Giuliana Furci

Article on Venus Retrograde

Dark Nights of the Soul, book by Thomas Moore

Tao Te Ching, translated by Ursula K. LeGuin

Book an astrology consultation.

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Next-economy strategist + practitioner Jess Rimington joins us today to talk about the power of imagination to transform work and economies. Her new book Beloved Economies is a beautiful and visionary co-creative undertaking that brings together powerful research that shows us 7 Practices that help us redesign our economic world.

Jess Rimington is a small-business practitioner and next-economy strategist focused on ethics and methodologies of post-capitalism.  She is the co-author of Beloved Economies: Transforming How We Work which offers readers an imagination-expanding vision of work and seven practices as a springboard for changing how we work. Jess served as co-director of the Beloved Economies research initiative, learning alongside more than sixty organizations and companies that were boldly breaking out of business as usual and generating forms of success that audaciously prioritized well-being, meaning, connection, and resilience. Prior, Jess served as managing director of a post-capitalist, narrative change initiative called  /The Rules and executive director of a cross-cultural, education collective rooted in principles of pedagogy of the oppressed. She is an activist, painter, and dancer who loves tending to plants for food and medicine.

we discuss —

• What isn’t working about work right now
• What belovedness has to do with economics
• Other kinds of wealth besides financial + why our economy needs to include them
• Why changing the economy isn’t about choosing an “-ism”
• Why imagination is an essential component to this very needed change
• The 7 practices of a beloved economy + who is doing them really well

LINKS

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Episode on How to Work Shorter

Episode w— Lauren Haynes

More about our guest —

Beloved Economies website

Beloved Economies podcast

Beloved Economies, order the book!

Email [email protected] to host or attend a salon!

Jess Rimington’s website

Mentioned in the episode—

RUNWAY

Creative Reaction Lab + Antionette Carroll

Concordia

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Today, mary grace walks you through the highlights of Shorter, a book all about how to work smarter, better and less.

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we discuss —

• The problem of overwork + burnout, and some of the thinking that fuels that behavior (even when you work for yourself!)
• The possible benefits of shorter working hours
• The difference between flexible hours + shorter working hours
• How attention, focus + productivity are social, not just individual
• Shorter work asks for quality hours instead of quantity hours
• Why leadership + ownership is an essential ingredient to better work

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Episode w— Kalpana Arias

Episode w— Octavia Raheem

Burn Out + Water Medicine

Mentioned in the episode—

*Shorter*, book by Alex Soojung-Kim Pang

*Emergent Strategy*, book by Adrienne Maree Brown

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Charm Torres + mary grace guide you through the upcoming astrology for October 2022, including : the Full Moon in Aries, Partial Solar Eclipse in Scorpio, Jupiter’s final return to Pisces and Mars stationing retrograde in Gemini.

Charm Torres is a professional astrologer, tarot reader and writer. She intends to support people to connect with their agency by offering nuanced and collaborative astrological narratives of her clients' lived experiences. Charm is a contributor and has been featured in the CHANI App, CUSP, Chatelaine, BBC, Global News Online, NFLUX Magazine, and Beside Online Magazine. She utilizes astrology and tarot as storytelling and remedial tools to understand human life in its various cycles and assist people in mobilizing their healing and goals. As an ancient wisdom system, Charm believes astrology can support humans in living life with reverence, grace and humour.

we discuss —

• Mercury stationing direct in Virgo
• Pluto stations direct
• Full Moon in Aries
• Mercury re-enters Libra
• a new Venus cycle
• Saturn stations direct
• Partial Solar Eclipse in Scorpio
• Jupiter re-enters Pisces
• Venus, the Sun + Mercury enter Scorpio
• Mars stations retrograde
• more💫

LINKS

If you enjoyed the episode, check out —

Astrology Forecast for September 2022

Creating with the Underworld w— Emily Prentice

More about our guest —

Charm’s website

Charm’s IG @charmastrology

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Today, we’re diving deep into the Underworld to see what tools, teachings + resources it has for us in all seasons of life. Emily Prentice joins us to talk about the inevitable change the Underworld brings us, how our creative practices can be a practice for embracing joy and what is and is not our responsibility as mere mortals.

Emily Prentice is an artist and facilitator living in Elkins, WV. Through The Center for Underworld Studies, she organizes and edits a monthly zine called Mycelium Mag. She also facilitates Art & The Underworld, a community of explorers who delve into the below through their creative practice. Emily is a proponent of anti-hierarchy and non-linearity, and she believes every human can access the generative energy of the underground. All we need to do is dig deep.

we discuss —

• What is the Underworld? Is it always about mythology, or sadness + death?
• How the infinite and the temporal are intertwined
• How we can think more sustainably and with a millennial perspective when considering our pace, productivity + impact
• Embracing the temporality and infinity in the things that you make.
• Art practice as a mortality practice
• How the Underworld reminds us to embrace joy in the Now
• Our responsibility to notice the world
• The Underworld as a teacher for relinquishing constant progress
• What Underworld archetypes we lean on the most
• Community care makes the underworld possible + hopeful

LINKS

If you enjoyed the episode, check out —

Episode on Healthy Attachment to Creative Callings

Episode on Honoring our Death Seasons

More about our guest —

Emily’s website

Emily’s IG @underworldstudies

Mentioned in the episode—

• Quote by Toni Morrison
• Underland, book by Robert McFarland
• The sound of a black hole

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What does it mean to connect with the natural world? This episode with herbalist + astrologer Sarah Corbett guides us into a story where humans are the stewards, caretakers and community of all beings around us and offers simple steps to make our way back to that reality.

Sarah Corbett is a clinical herbalist, non-diet nutritional therapy practitioner, and traditional astrologer who is passionate about helping others come into relationship with the natural world. She is the founder of Rowan + Sage, where she shares handcrafted astrologically-aligned herbal products, works with clients in her clinical practice, and guides others on their plant path through educational programs and mentorship. Sarah’s work weaves together the old ways with the new to create powerful, evidence-based offerings that bring forth ancestral herbal wisdom with a touch of magic and mysticism.

we discuss —

• how language shapes our view of the world
• what is an animist worldview?
• how plants can help us connect to the more-than-human world
• the role of humans in shaping the world, not just destroying it
• how growing plants helps us heal

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Episode w— Asia Suler

Episode w— Mimi Young

Episode w— Langston Kahn

More about our guest —

Rowan + Sage website

IG + Twitter handle @rowanandsage

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Connecting with Plant Spirits, blog post

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Artist Erin Palovick introduces you to a Sound Walk — how to do it, where it comes from and why does it matter? You’ll hear curated sounds from her collected listening and a series of prompts so you can go out into the world and perform + relate to your own.

erin palovick is a multimedia artist who focuses on togetherness. her practice situates itself at the intersection of performance, installation, and research.

she experiments with a wide variety of materials and immaterials as a way to learn and unlearn, complicating frameworks and goals to listen out for a multitude of awarenesses. she works along themes of embodied perception and what it means to care.

palovick received her BFA from Georgia State University in 2010 and is currently an MFA candidate at the University of Illinois at Chicago.


If you enjoyed the episode, check out —

Episode on The Abundance

Episode on Interstellar Listening

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Erin’s website

Erin’s IG @erinpalovick_art.design

Mentioned in the episode—

Dr Ayana Elizabeth Johnson

The Living Mountain, book by Nan Shepherd

Pauline Oliveiros + Deep Listening

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Ari Felix + mary grace guide you through the upcoming astrology for September 2022, including : the Full Moon in Pisces, New Moon in Libra, Mercury’s retrograde and tracking Venus’ journey through Virgo.

Ari is a multidisciplinary philosopher and Seer dedicated to being in sacred relationship with the Planetary Ancestors (including the earth). Through their grief literate and trauma informed practice, they’ve supported shapeshifters and worldbuilders in creating self-love and spiritual freedom for over a decade.

we discuss —

• Mercury opposite Jupiter Rx
• Venus enters Virgo
• Mercury stations retrograde
• Full Moon in Pisces
• Sun enters Libra - Equinox
• New Moon in Libra
• Venus enters Libra
• more💫

LINKS

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Episode on The Abundance

Episode w— Kalpana Arias

More about our guest —

Ari’s website

Ari’s substack

Ari’s IG @saltwater.stars

Mentioned in the episode—

Check out the Cosmic Calendar — your monthly astro companion

“A Study through Homes”, poem by Ae Hee Lee

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