Imani Talks Astrology

Let's talk about the growing pains of embodying new ways of relating to others. The big questions are: what comes with newness? what do we need to nurture newness. How do we have a hand in the welding of our own transformation? If we are in control of how we heal, what are our training wheels?

We talk new moon, mercury rx and other aspects in the sky! Enjoy.

Things Mentioned In This Episode:

Congratulations Mayelyn, our giveaway winner! She shared this amazing poem "Essay on Craft" by Ocean Vuong which, you can read and listen to here. 

amb's post about 45 & C*v*d for a honest semi-wholesome little chuckle

Bad Feminist by Roxanne Gay (for a first time read or re-read)

Amanda Ellis - Graphic Smokey Quartz, Needing Stabelisers, Karma, Physical Healing and Facing. "It" just the first maybe 5-7 minutes

Beyond Survival : Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement

Pro-tip: getchu a library card if you can so you can loan these books for $free.99 and Am*z*n out of its coin. 

We talk about Libra season! How do we hold and balance multiple truths? How do find balance in conflicting ways of existence? How are we meant to be purveyors of love in justice in a moment of extreme resistance, in the presence of hate and injustice? I don't know, but this is what we can begin to figure out together. We'll see what the Moon cycle shows us. 

I forgot to expound upon the tripartite soul, and will talk about this in a newsletter!

Things mentioned in this episode: (I may have forgot a few things let me know)

Radical Love: Teachings from the Islamic Mystical Tradition by Omid Safi

Check out the amazing work of my friend Sanam Emami at The Omi Collective and follow them on IG @theomicollective and her personal page is @samiijoon

ACCEPTING SUBMISSIONS FOR A GIVEAWAY (Click here for details)

Let's talk a bit about this Virgo season in relation to perfectionism, creating more possibilities, and non-linear/iterative solutions.  I'll also cover today's Mars-Saturn square,  the upcoming oppositions between Venus in Cancer and the three planets in Capricorn, as well as some other good stuff.

As promised here are the things mentioned in the podcast:

The Characteristics of White Supremacy Culture

Emergent Strategy by adrienne maree brown

"Queer Astrological Technologies, Live from the 2020 AMC!" from How to Survive the End of the World Podcast

Venus in Cancer: Love is Lifeforce by yours truly. 

This week will make us very uncomfortable! As the Moon will take us for a ride in the final week of Cancer season. With Mars meeting up with Chiron, as well as the Sun opposing Jupiter AND Pluto; we have an opportunity to deepen our allegiance to your values on an emotional level. To. truly embody our values of liberation, justice and healing in a way that will radiate beyond our individual experience. As beautiful as that sounds, it requires us to examine our relationship to privilege and power in the existing structures. We have to let go of being seen as a good person and seek how we. can embody our values for the good of all. How can we break free if we can't name how we've benefited and choose to resist that way of existing?

Referenced in this episode:

Pods and Pod Mapping Worksheet

Letting Go of Innocence by Prentis Hemphill

I-Ching Hexagram 27

My shiny new Patreon is here

Octavia's Parables Episode 1 (Not mentioned but was inspiring and references the Octavia Butler quote last week. Hint, its a podcast 😇)

Here is a lil gift for everyone. Here is the guided meditation from the Jupiter/Pluto conjunction webinar I hosted back in April.

Here is the slideshow with all the symbols I mention throughout the meditation.  Get a journal and something to write with. Find yourself a seat or somewhere to lay down to complete this meditation. Please do not complete this meditation while operating machinery.

For sound quality, I would recommend wearing headphones. 

Background noise: Solfeggio Frequency 417Hz - heals & balances the sacral, removes negative thoughts and behavior patterns

“When vision fails 

Direction is lost.

When direction is lost 

Purpose may be forgotten.

When purpose is  forgotten

Emotion  rules  alone.

When  emotion  rules alone,

Destruction...destruction”

This is this week's quote from Octavia Butler's Parable of the Talents, Volume 2.  So much of this year is about vision. How we view the past, present and future. We are asked to embrace non-linear time for we seek something that no one person can conceptualize. We all co-create and the puzzle pieces cannot form something cohesive. Some of the pieces will not exist for decades and some are waiting to be retrieved as they are carried by ancestors. But when we are blinded by rage and anger of the present, we cannot hear and we cannot act in alignment with the future.  This Lunar Eclipse pushes us into an uncomfortable position where we see we are not only accountable to ourselves. Although each of us matters, our needs and thoughts do not supersede those of the collective. It's time to abandon hyper-individualism. There is not just one truth, one narrative. No one. truth or narrative is forever. We must let our physical and emotional inheritance. serve. their. purpose and then let them go. How is this possible when we hold on tight because we fear the future is out of control? Are we able to find solace in the only truth which is change.

"All that you touch

You Change.

All that you Change

Changes you.

The only lasting truth

Is Change.

God

Is Change."

- Octavia Butler

Work referenced this week:

AliceSparklyKat Mars in Aries

Marcella Kroll Spell

Rob Brezny - Imaginal Hygiene

adrienne maree brown article "a word for white people,  in two parts"

God is Change: Octavia Butler Immersion (not an ad, just something that may interest folx)

"Who are were your people?" This is a question Ella Baker asked people she met. Critical in the Civil Rights Movement, Baker believed housing was a human right and was a champion for community-based health care solutions. Perfect person to bring us into Cancer season right? Where all we know is home and to learn not only what a physical home is, but what it means to feel at home with yourself. The emotional resilience the future requires, the need for us to identify our people.  This is a season of ancestry, where the building of the future requires that we know our lived experience and our ancestral memory. The traditions we consciously and unconsciously recreate each generation. If we are to build a future where we are all free, we have to be willing to see why we aren't; and what remnants of the past serve and hinder this mission. We will talk Mercury Rx, Cancer season and this weekend's eclipse.

About Ella Baker

How to Survive the End of the World Podcast episode with Alexis Pauline Gumbs

Eroc Arroyo-Montano on FB, post was on June 9th

Eroc on Irresistible Movements (Healing Justice Podcast)

This week we will cover the highly anticipated Venus Retrograde which will span from May 13th until June 25th. We will examine how this transit will impact our money, relationships,  self worth, appearance and most importantly, our values. We will briefly cover this week's Last Quarter Moon as well as retrograding Saturn and Jupiter.  The sky is slowing down over this next month and some of the more intense themes of the Full Moon will echo into the coming months as we resolve some of these themes during these retrogrades.

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