This Erotic Timeline

Venus has disappeared into the light of the sun, and the Venus retrograde story reaches its turning point. This episode treats grief as a skill: one most of us were never taught, one warmongers know how to weaponize, and one that actually moves the story forward.

We explore Scorpio season’s arrival through two scorpion myths: Tiamat’s grief-monsters in the Enuma Elish, and the scorpion Gaia sends after Orion. Along the way we get to data centers, freshwater, and what it could mean to reassign the monster. The astrology covers Venus square Pluto, the Sun opposite Chiron and square Black Moon Lilith, the Venus cazimi at 0° Scorpio, Mercury stationing retrograde, and a Taurus full moon square Pluto.

Keywords: Venus retrograde, Venus cazimi, Venus square Pluto, Mercury retrograde, Scorpio season, Taurus full moon, Chiron in Aries, Black Moon Lilith, Inanna, Ereshkigal, Descent of Inanna, kur-jara, gala-tura, Tiamat, Enuma Elish, scorpion-people, Gilgamesh, Artemis, Orion, Gaia, grief, radical acceptance, Honorable Harvest, data centers, freshwater, open-source AI, evolutionary astrology, queer astrology

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References

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00:00 When The God of Love Goes Missing

In this week of the Ephemeris series we explore this week’s skies which are full of generosity. With friendly aspects to Jupiter and Saturn, we get structure to our drive. We focus on Saturn’s aspects to Mars and Athena, so we go to Saturnalia: the Roman festival when Saturn’s wool-bound feet were untied and the household hierarchy flipped for a week. Was that ritual a memory of a golden age, or a pressure valve that kept an enslaving empire running? We follow the Roman telling where Saturn, overthrown by Jupiter, builds a world without hierarchy from exile. Then we ask what it would take to schedule our own disruptions, by our bodies and the land instead of the state’s calendar.

Astrology for Oct 12–18: a rough Scorpio Moon, Vesta square Ceres, the Sun-Jupiter sextile, Pluto stationing direct in Aquarius, Mars trine Saturn and Athena, Chiron square Juno, Saturn conjunct Athena, the First Quarter Moon in Capricorn, and Venus retrograde sextile Black Moon Lilith.

Content warning: brief mentions of slavery, sexual violence, and mythological violence (castration, child-eating).

Keywords

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References

Saturnalia (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturnalia

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00:00 Liberation The Imagination Has To Stretch Fore

Venus stationed retrograde in Scorpio on October 3. This week we tell, in full and from a translation of the primary text, the Sumerian myth astrologers have come to pair with Venus retrograde: the Descent of Inanna. Inanna crashes her grieving sister's underworld in full regalia, grabs her throne, and dies. Two gender-nonconforming professional grievers made from fingernail dirt bring her back, not by fixing anything, but by mirroring her sister's pain. We follow how the story sorts everyone by how well they grieve, then turn that lens on the AI panic and how civilization tends to send things to the underworld so it doesn't have to grieve.

Astrology for October 5–11, 2026: Mercury conjunct Venus retrograde in Scorpio, a Leo Moon on Jupiter and the South Node, the Libra New Moon with Venus square Mars, and the Sun square Ceres. Grief is a full-bodied skill. This week, we’re remembering to practice.

Content warning: death and grief, ritual self-laceration in mourning, references to eugenics and racism, discussion of AI extinction risk, explicit language.

Keywords

Venus retrograde, Venus retrograde in Scorpio, Inanna, Descent of Inanna, Ereshkigal, Sumerian mythology, grief, grief work, mourning, gala priests, kurgarra, third gender, queer mythology, trans history, Libra New Moon, Venus square Mars, Mercury conjunct Venus, Ceres, evolutionary astrology, weekly astrology, AI panic, AI and race, eugenics, scapegoat, shadow work, parts work, This Erotic Timeline, Ephemeris Series

References

The myth

Gala, kurgarra, and third gender

The AI news

Intelligence and eugenics

Nuanced conversations about AI

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00:00 Hungry Ghosts Walking Around

This is the last episode before a season break. This episode is all astrology, no dexcent, so you've got this month's important transits before this podcast goes quiet for a month. At the center of this month’s astrology we explored one question: what if relationship is allowed to actually change you, instead of just managing you or completing you? That question runs under a range of powerful transits that build toward Venus’s fiercely relational retrograde station in Scorpio on October 3.

This episode also digs into Libra's real origin story: a Babylonian equinox image, a Greek scorpion's claws, and Julius Caesar's 46 BCE reinstallation of the scales as dictatorial PR, backed by his own court reforms and Augustus's marriage and adultery legislation. That history gets set against Ma'at's older model of justice, decided by the more-than-human ecosystem rather than falling exclusively to human judgment, and the episode asks what Libra could still become if it stopped serving contracts and started serving kinship.

Content warning: discussion of Roman legal enforcement of gender roles, including compulsory marriage, criminalized adultery, and laws restricting bodily autonomy (castration bans); brief references to US racialized violence and civil rights history.

Keywords: Libra, astrology, Venus retrograde, Roman history, Julius Caesar, Augustus, Ma'at, Egyptian mythology, precession of the equinoxes, Jupiter-Saturn conjunction, Sassanian astrology, kinship, gender history, love, relationship, transit forecast

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REFERENCES

Babylonian and Greek Libra constellation history

Precession of the equinoxes

Caesar's calendar and court reforms

Venus ancestry myth, Temple of Venus Genetrix, the comet

Manilius and "Rome founded under Libra"

Augustus's marriage and adultery legislation

Maiestas (treason) law expansion

Vestal Virgins

Castration laws

Ma'at and the weighing of the heart

Venus retrograde and racialized tension patterns

CHAPTER MARKERS

00:00 — Love, Before The Contract

01:49 — One Month Off, Full Circle First

04:25 — The Calm Before The Climb

05:17 — Monday 8/31: Building In The Ruins Of Empire

10:45 — Tuesday 9/1: Tenderness As Strategy

12:39 — Friday 9/4: The Story That's Outlived Its Use

14:24 — Thursday 9/10: Virgo New Moon, The Day Four Thresholds Open

20:42 — Saturday 9/12: Soaked In Collective Static

21:36 — Sunday 9/13: The Epiphany After The Fog

22:08 — Monday 9/14: The Marginalized Parts Want A Stage

23:03 — Tuesday 9/15: The Underworld Runs Through The Heart

24:35 — Thursday 9/17: Who Gets To Just Be

26:16 — Friday 9/18: Working Through Mental Blocks To Intimacy

27:07 — Monday 9/21: Big Ideas Need Humility

28:13 — Tuesday 9/22: Undoing Rome's Claim On Libra

34:13 — Divinity, Manufactured

38:34 — Taking The Scales Back

48:27 — Friday 9/25: Soft Focus, No Decisions

49:13 — Saturday 9/26: Aries Full Moon, The Full Circle Points At Venus

54:34 — Sunday 9/27: A New Identity To Play With

55:31 — Tuesday 9/29: Say The Honest Thing

56:15 — Wednesday 9/30: Permission To Go Where You're Not Supposed To

56:57 — Saturday 10/3: Venus Retrograde, Love Turns To Face The Underworld

1:01:50 — Summary: Letting Relationship Change You All The Way Down

This week's episode explores how moving through time doesn’t have to be a choice between counting precisely and crossing thresholds creatively, it's both at once. Bali runs two entirely different calendars side by side, one pure arithmetic, one built for ritual, and together they show what it actually takes to build a portal precise enough to hold you when you cross it: dawn walks to the sea, offerings at the crossroads, monstrous effigies built and burned, and a full day when the entire island, tourists included, goes completely silent.

In the astrology section we close out eclipse season with Thursday’s a Pisces full moon lunar eclipse squaring the disruptor Uranus in Gemini, alongside a Mercury cazimi burning off old stories. We trace Pisces back to the myth of Typhon, the chaos monster born, in some tellings, through Aphrodite's own desire, and to Aphrodite and Eros's escape into the Euphrates as two fish tied together at the tail, set against Inanna, Aphrodite's fiercer Mesopotamian predecessor, who walked into the underworld with her eyes open.

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Mythology:

Chapter Markers

00:00 — The Portal and Its Measurements

02:14 — Welcome Back, Fellow Earthlings

03:40 — Buckle Up: Eclipse Number Two

04:00 — Monday: Lilith's Loudspeaker

05:57 — Tuesday: Mercury Comes Home

09:13 — Wednesday: Just Moon Weather

09:54 — Thursday: Pisces Lunar Eclipse — the Typhon, Fish, and Walking Through Thresholds

22:34 — Friday: Taste the Story

23:45 — Saturday: Let It Fall Open

24:27 — Sunday: Into the Rumble

25:20 — Side Eyeing Tourism for Fun Inquiry

27:06 — Descent Begins: Bali’s Ritual Use of Their Calendars

30:19 — Melasti: Walking to the Water

31:25 — Tawur Kesanga: Offerings at the Crossroads

32:34 — Pengerupukan: Give the Monster A Body

34:35 — Nyepi: The Island Goes Silent

37:40 — Ngunalatri: Minus One Night

40:21 — Pawukon and Watugunung, Broken Keeper of Time

46:03 — Gift Economies — Never Showing Up With Two Long Hands

48:39 — Pacifying the State: One Supreme God, On Paper

51:01 — Cultural Tourism, Its Price, and Bali Offering Boundaries

58:03 — Reflection Questions

No Cheat Code: What A Brilliant Calendar Didn’t Escape

This episode goes looking for a calendar that watches the sky instead of doing math, and finds one still running in Iran today. But it turns out an observational calendar doesn’t give us an escape hatch from state violence: the episode traces Iran's Solar and Lunar Hijri calendars from Zoroastrian kingship through the Arab conquest, a mathematician-poet's 1079 calendar reform, and a 1925 nationalist restoration that came bundled with ethnic violence. The throughline: even the most accurate calendar in the world still gets used to decide who counts, and the episode closes by turning that question on gender, capitalism, and what it means to resource oneself under capitalism.

The astrology section covers the interim week between eclipses, moving into Virgo season, including Persephone's harvest myth and Astraea's departure from earth. This episode also announces a season break that will begin in September.

Content warning: discussion of state violence and ethnic persecution, including 20th-century campaigns against Kurdish and other minority communities in Iran, and references to ongoing discrimination.

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Keywords: Iran, Solar Hijri calendar, Lunar Hijri calendar, Nowruz, Zoroastrianism, Sassanian Empire, Omar Khayyam, Rumi, calendar reform, Reza Shah Pahlavi, ethnic discrimination, Kurdish rights, moon sighting, Islamic calendar, timekeeping, colonialism, capitalism, gender, Tyson Yunkaporta, Lewis Mumford

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00:00 — No Cheat Code

This week we’re stepping into the portal of Eclipse Season. In honor of that we explore the mythology behind the nodes of the moon, which get called the head and tail of a dragon. It turns out that name comes to us by way of a very circuitous journey. Chasing a question about where that dragon story came from, this episode traces it through the Sassanian Persian empire's centuries-long project to recover a culture scattered by Alexander's conquest, a project that never reached completion but built something real anyway. Along the way: Zoroastrian astronomer priests, the word "magic," a currently open research question at the Max Planck Institute, and a turn toward what's happening to Iran right now.

Astrologically, we're inside eclipse season proper, a New Moon Solar Eclipse in Leo on the South Node, sitting in a grand fire trine with Athena, Vesta, and Black Moon Lilith. Expect the full week's transits, the Vedic myth of Rahu and Ketu, and an honest look at where evolutionary astrology's own stories about the nodes actually come from.

Keywords: nodes of the moon, Rahu and Ketu, dragon mythology, Sassanian Persia, Zoroastrianism, eclipse astrology, evolutionary astrology, cultural hybridity, Iran, cultural recovery and restoration, Avesta, magi and magic, Nowruz, cross-cultural mythology, karma and the lunar nodes, Dane Rudhyar, Jeffrey Wolf Green

REFERENCES

Persia, Sassanian restoration, Zoroastrianism

The nodes, the dragon, transmission history

Rahu, Ketu, Vedic mythology

Evolutionary astrology

Present day / Iran

Mars in Cancer / protection framework

CHAPTER MARKERS:

00:00 Coming For Our Credentials

01:29 Welcome & Grounding Ritual

02:38 Faultlines Are the Map

05:05 Monday: Another Delulu Is the Solulu Day

07:07 Tuesday: The Lookout Principle

11:07 Wednesday: A Moment of Silence Before the Swallowing

11:55 The Dragon With No Name Yet

15:55 The Poison Comes First: Shiva’s Blue Throat

19:01 Tattle Tales and an Eternal Grudge

23:39 The Eclipse Pushing You To The Biggest Version of Yourself

26:19 Thursday: Aftercare Weather

26:52 Friday: Earned Boring Hours

27:20 Saturday: Find You a Mountaintop

28:46 Sunday: Mundane Date Energy

30:08 Descent Begins: A Pig in the Mud

33:54 How Western Astrologers Borrowed A Myth

35:48 Once Upon a Conquest

39:36 Magi, Magic, and the Fire Keepers

43:00 The Dragon’s Muddy Origin Story

45:20 Evolutionary Astrology’s Impure Interpretation

48:42 Deeper Than Oil

51:19 One of Twenty-One

54:18 Reflection Questions

This episode traces the time scarcity we inherit through the mechanical clock. We explore histories of the mechanical clock from its first tower in 1330s Milan built by an excommunicated family staging a political flex, through Richard Arkwright's 1771 factory gates and into the American South of the 1830s, where enslavers added pocket watches to the whip as another tool of torture control. The through-line: every system built to own someone's time has a specific, traceable hand behind it, no matter how invisible that hand gets made to look. Along the way: Frederick Douglass's own pride in owning his first watch, Hazel Carby's critique of how his freedom narrative erased his wife Anna Murray Douglass's role in his escape, and a personal reflection on what that same kind of erasure costs us all.

On the astrology side, it's a relatively low-key, transitional week ahead of eclipse season: Chiron stations retrograde in Taurus, a last quarter moon asks what you're gripping too tight, and Venus comes home to Libra, making it easier to shine in relationships. Tuesday gets a full retelling of the Lilith myth: Adam's first wife, made from the same dust, who names her own cage out loud and then flees so she can build worlds.

Content warning: descriptions of chattel slavery, including violence and control tactics used against enslaved people

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References:

Keywords: mechanical clock history, time scarcity, invisible hand, Richard Arkwright, Milan clock tower, Visconti family, chattel slavery, Mastered by the Clock, Frederick Douglass, Anna Murray Douglass, Hazel Carby, Watch Night, Lilith mythology, Alphabet of Ben Sira, Chiron retrograde Taurus, eclipse season astrology, Bayo Akomolafe, Francis Weller, Black feminist critique, wage labor history

00:00 The Hand That Wound the Clock

This episode traces the Gregorian calendar back to its violent, contempt-laced origins — starting with Constantine's 325 CE letter instructing Christians to date Easter independently of Judaism because he believed Jews were "afflicted with blindness of soul," and ending with Pope Gregory XIII, who celebrated the 1572 St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre of French Protestants a decade before "fixing" the calendar. The throughline: every timekeeping system covered here was built to correct a wrong its architect couldn't tolerate — and that wrong stayed lodged inside the fix, dilating with time instead of resolving.

The astrology section covers a Leo Sun in dialogue with an outer-planet configuration, building to a fierce Aquarius Full Moon — Jupiter cazimi, Pluto and Juno in tight conjunction — read through the myth of Zeus, Ganymede, and Hera: a story about who fawns to power, who refuses, and what it costs either way.

Content warning: discussion of mass killing (the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre, several thousand deaths), and quoted historical antisemitic rhetoric (Constantine's 325 CE letter to the churches), presented in historical context, not endorsed.

References

Keywords: Gregorian calendar, Julian calendar, Council of Nicaea, Constantine, Pope Gregory XIII, Easter, Quartodeciman controversy, antisemitism, St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre, Huguenots, Aquarius Full Moon, Jupiter cazimi, Ganymede, Hera, Juno, fawning trauma response, astrology, calendar reform, colonialism, religious violence, timekeeping

CHAPTER MARKERS

00:00 The Calendar’s Emotional Architecture

01:27 Grounding Ritual

02:43 The Week Wants Us To Get Personal With It

03:26 Monday: Who's Gonna Blink First

05:09 Tuesday: Know Thyself, Scars and All

05:58 Wednesday: Aquarius Full Moon

10:44 Aquarius and The Story of Ganymede

13:52 Fawning Like a Motherfucker

17:46 Thursday: Chaos Wants to Cooperate

18:21 Friday: Tend What You Love, Dreamily

18:52 Saturday: Good Girl Meets Feral Prophet

19:34 Sunday: New Beginnings Are Perpetual

20:12 Ground Time, Body Time, Mysterious Time

21:24 Hungry to Jump Timelines

23:19 Rabble-Rousing, Jesus-Loving Christians

26:28 Constantine Getting Off Jewish Time

29:35 Immortality Was the Excuse

31:32 How the Gregorian Calendar Spread Like a Disease

38:55 Slaughter of the Huguenots

41:48 The Seed of the Whole System

46:04 Scuttling Sideways and Backward

49:48 Review Questions

The frightened body is fast — cortisol floods you, and it doesn't care what time it is, it just says move. This week we ask what actually constitutes a warrior's timing, and find an uncomfortable answer: the too-quick inflamed response and the frozen, collapsed one are the same failure. Both are a body that has lost its ability to perceive the opening in time. So we go looking for people who survived the unsurvivable, and land on capoeira — an Afro-Brazilian martial art built under enslavement and prohibition, disguised as a dance. We sit with the ginga (readiness as perpetual motion, the opposite of bracing), malícia (deception as the intelligence of those who can't afford to be seen), and the berimbau, whose player watches the game and calls the opening for you. Because the community calls the moment. You don't find it alone. We corroborate with kairos, the Greek word for right timing rooted in archery and weaving, and with Musashi, who wrote in 1645 that bodies collapse when their rhythm becomes deranged — which posed the question: what if empire is nothing but the transfer of bad timing into our bodies.

Astrologically: Leo Season opens with the Nemean Lion, whose pelt no weapon could pierce, and Hercules, who wore it until it killed him. Mercury stations direct in Cancer, Saturn stations retrograde, and the lunar nodes shift into the Aquarius-Leo axis, turning the whole collective toward each other. Plus a Libra First Quarter Moon that wants a decision.

Content warning: discussion of trauma and the freeze/collapse response, gendered and racialized violence, slavery, and death.

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References:

References:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJHPCN-9Owk +

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dx-yJnJmnmo 

Keywords: capoeira, malícia, ginga, berimbau, kairos, hyōshi, Miyamoto Musashi, warrior timing, hypervigilance, freeze response, tonic immobility, defense cascade, post-traumatic chronodisruption, circadian rhythm, cortisol, Leo season, Nemean Lion, Hercules, lunar nodes, Mercury direct, Saturn retrograde, collective liberation, Combahee River Collective, Afrofuturism, trans survival, somatics

Chapter Markers:

00:00 — A Threat and a Tuesday

02:24 — The Week Is a Banger

02:45 — Monday: Feral Fairy Godmothers

04:15 — Tuesday: The Scales Insisting on Tipping

06:03 — Wednesday: Leo Season’s Lion Takes the Sky

11:13 — The Only Thing That Pierces the Pelt

14:34 — It Grows Out of Your Own Paw

16:46 — Thursday: Mercury Goes Direct

17:59 — Friday: Shoot Your Shot

18:38 — Saturday: Gazing at the Horizon

19:14 — Sunday: Saturn Turns Inward, the Nodes Shift

22:23 — Warriors for Each Other

24:10 — Descent: A Warrior's Timing

26:06 — The Body Under Threat

27:37 — When Speed Becomes the Cage

29:38 — The Inflamed and the Frozen Are the Same Failure

31:06 — Enter Capoeira

34:09 — The Ginga: Never Still

35:18 — Malícia: The Intelligence of the Unseen

37:23 — The Berimbau Calls the Opening

39:34 — No One Holds the Rhythm Alone

42:25 — Kairos, Musashi, and Empire's Bad Timing

48:47 — Readiness Is Rhythm

52:41 — Reflection Questions