Kent and Wonder discuss the documentary The Remarkable Life of Ibelin using the untimed birth charts of both the director, Benjamin Ree, and his subject, Mats Steen. Themes that emerge are living with a fatal degenerative disease, living a secret life, the power of connection and community to heal, and the power of new technologies […]

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Wonder and Kent discuss the documentary, Eternal You, which tracks new and emerging technologies designed to keep our loved ones with us beyond death, thereby carving out whole new peaks in the uncanny valleys left by our digital footprints. Emerging themes include the modern preoccupation with sanitizing death, the resulting lack of rituals we have […]

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Kent and Wonder discuss the documentary, Love Machina, which tracks the fantastical dreams of billionaire, Martine Rothblatt, as she creates an AI based on the life and likeness of her beloved wife, Bina, in a bid at immortality. Emerging themes include feats of engineering genius, romance, extreme wealth, human repulsion for mortality, and what is […]

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Wonder and Kent discuss the innovative participatory experience, Being (the Digital Griot), which features an AI run on datasets from Black communities, theorists, poets, and activists. Being leads community discussions designed to both challenge and unify. Emerging themes include prioritizing lineage and attribution in large language models, decolonization, affirmations, challenging group discussions, and the importance […]

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Kent and Wonder discuss the documentary And So It Begins using the untimed birth chart of one of the major protagonists of the film, Nobel Peace Prize winning journalist, Maria Ressa. Emerging themes include what it takes to risk your life as a journalist to uncover systemic corruption as well as the tenacity and presence […]

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Wonder and Kent discuss the documentary Igualada using politician Francia Marquez’s untimed birth chart. Emerging themes include charismatic politicians able to speak directly to the people, the efforts of such a leader attempting to overturn entrenched systems of power, and the enduring appeal of those willing to lay their life on the line for their […]

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Wonder and Kent discuss the documentary DIG! XX using the untimed birth charts of the two protagonists, musicians Courtney Taylor-Taylor and Anton Newcombe. Themes that emerge center around friendship which spurs both healthy and unhealthy competition and how both coming of age and being artists fan the flames of such competitions. Additionally Kent and Wonder […]

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Wonder and Kent discuss the episodic documentary series, ConBody vs Everybody, a series that follows Coss Marte as he creates a fitness enterprise, ConBody, based on workouts he developed while incarcerated. Emerging themes include exile and reintegration, friends as family, and the power of witness and acknowledgment in healing. Astrologically this relates to the 1st, […]

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Kent and Wonder discuss the documentary Union, the story of the Amazon Labor Union, using the untimed astrological charts of its founder, Chris Smalls. Striking themes that came up were the overthrowing of an old, established guard, and the startling emergence of a potential new order and what it takes to get a collective mass […]

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Wonder and Kent discuss the documentary The Times of Harvey Milk using politician and activist Harvey Milk’s timed birth chart. Themes that emerged were the power of community organizing to make a difference, sometimes well beyond your own community. They also discuss the danger inherent in doing this kind of work when you stand for […]

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