This Erotic Timeline

This week's sky is tectonic and tender — a Cancer New Moon conjunct Mercury retrograde, a rare outer planet harmony between Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, and Jupiter, and an invitation to sink into what the body already knows. The astrology section moves through Ubuntu philosophy, the cost of self-protection, and what it actually means that a person is a person through other persons.

The descent finally gets precise about the body's clock. Inside your hypothalamus sits the suprachiasmatic nucleus — roughly 10,000 to 20,000 neurons conducting a circadian symphony across every organ. But every single cell is also running its own 24-hour clock gene show: proteins building up through the day, turning themselves off at night, getting chopped up and recycled in the dark. That rhythm traces back to some of the oldest single-celled organisms on earth. And when empire overrides it — through Daylight Saving Time, or a fascist dictator's political clock adjustment that Spain still hasn't reversed — the body registers it as assault. We close through the Hellenistic lens of day and night sects, and an invitation to remember how to respect the dark.

Keywords: circadian biology, suprachiasmatic nucleus, clock genes, Daylight Saving Time health effects, Franco Spain Portugal circadian study, desynchronization, Ubuntu philosophy, Kairos Chronos, day and night sect astrology, Cancer New Moon 2026, Mercury retrograde Cancer, Uranus Neptune Pluto 2026, colonial timekeeping, body and time, This Erotic Timeline podcast, evolutionary astrology, somatic astrology

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References:

Chapter Markers

00:00 — The Clock That Predates You

Capitalism needs you to believe that commitment without guaranteed success is stupid. That's not an accident — that's the design. This week's Mercury Cazimi at 20 degrees of Cancer burns that story clean and asks a different question: what would you fight for even if failure was guaranteed? To answer it, we go looking through Cancer's mythology — a Babylonian turtle, an Egyptian scarab, a Greek crab who clawed at Hercules' feet from a swamp and got stepped on — and find the same image every time. A creature that survives by going sideways, going underground, moving through what everyone else avoids.

For the descent, it's Mercury retrograde, so we do revision work. Thirteen weeks in, we go back through the load-bearing moments of what This Erotic Timeline has actually been saying — about desire, attention, grief, timekeeping, embodiment, Caesar, maroon communities, and the body's insistence on running on its own clock no matter whose calendar gets imposed on it. The argument is more coherent than it started. This episode is the map.

References:

Rumi, "The Guest House." Translation by Coleman Barks.

Keywords: Mercury cazimi Cancer 2026, Cancer mythology crab constellation, Karkinos myth Hercules Hydra, commitment and failure astrology, Venus Virgo inner critic, Neptune retrograde Aries, Last Quarter Moon Aries, circadian rhythm colonial timekeeping, This Erotic Timeline podcast, evolutionary astrology, IFS somatic astrology, body and time, Daylight Saving Time history, Caesar Julian calendar, New Orleans Black survival, Mardi Gras Indians

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CHAPTER MARKERS

00:00 — Open: What Would You Fight For If Losing Was Guaranteed

01:18 — Welcome & Grounding Ritual

03:44 — Monday: The Hard Shell of the Seed (Sun square Saturn)

05:33 — Tuesday: In Due Time, Keep Training (Neptune stations retrograde, Last Quarter Moon)

07:55 — Wednesday: Productive Friction, Then Exhale

08:49 — Thursday: The Inner Critic Gets Political (Venus enters Virgo, Mars trine Juno)

13:43 — Friday: Oh, I Remember You (Venus trine Chiron, South Node)

16:01 — Saturday: Grief Is Not a Threat to Outmaneuver (The Guest House)

18:31 — Sunday: The Muddy Mythology of Cancer

23:13 — Karkinos: The Crab Who Tried Anyway

26:00 — The Question Mercury Is Burning Clean

28:30 — Transition: Thirteen Weeks, One Argument

29:58 — Clip: Time Organizes Reality (Episode 0)

31:08 — Clip: Urgency Disconnects Us From Presence (Episode 1)

33:37 — Clip: Deep Time Theory On The Human Attention Span (Episodes 3)

36:17 — Clip: Oil Economy Crumpling Deep Time (Episode 4)

37:38 — Clip: The Body Is The Matrix (Episode 5)

40:20 — Clip: Your Body’s Been Time Traveling All This Time! (Episode 6)

43:23 — Clip: Hours That Breathe, Then a Single Atom (Episode 7)

46:11 — Clip: Low Tech Timekeeping & The Incense Clock (Episode 8)

48:27 — Clip: Caesar Rewrote Time and Mythology At The Same Time (Episode 9)

50:47 — Clip: Empire’s Attempts to Write Black And Indigenous Survival Out Of The Future (Episode 10)

53:54 — Clip: What Clock Is Your Body Actually Running On? (Episode 11)

55:27 — Ending: The Show's Project, Stated Plainly

58:30 — Reflection Questions & Outro

This week's astrology is big — a Full Capricorn Moon, Mercury stationing retrograde conjunct Jupiter, and Jupiter entering Leo for a year — and the descent follows a thread that starts with a personal grievance and ends somewhere darker: the full history of who’s been taking the time from our sleeping bodies, and how it got corporate. From William Willett's 1907 pamphlet to wartime Germany to St. Paul Minnesota's 1965 clock rebellion to the National Confectioners' Association lobbying Daylight Saving Time into November for candy sales, this episode traces the lineage of time as a site of domination — and asks what it would mean to reclaim it.

Plus: the Jamestown colonial identity thesis, Mars conjunct Uranus on America's 250th birthday, Jupiter square Chiron and the cost of visibility, and a teaser for next week's descent into what the body actually knows about living at the wrong time.

Keywords: daylight saving time history, circadian rhythm disruption, William Willett waste of daylight, Mars conjunct Uranus July 2026, Jupiter enters Leo 2026, Mercury retrograde Cancer 2026, Full Moon Capricorn June 2026, Jamestown colonial identity, Twin Cities time rebellion 1965, bodily autonomy and time, this erotic timeline podcast, evolutionary astrology, IFS somatic astrology, America 250th birthday astrology

References:

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00:00 — Candy Companies Stole Your Sleep

01:17 — Welcome + Grounding Ritual

02:40 — Monday: Little Gods in Fleshsuits

03:57 — Mercury Goes Underground

06:02 — How Do You Want to Use Power?

11:21 — Tuesday: Jupiter Enters Leo — Stop Shrinking

13:22 — Wednesday: The Cost of Being Seen

14:55 — Thursday–Friday: Desire Walks In Unannounced

15:49 — Saturday: Combustible Birthday of a Troubled Empire

20:01 — Jamestown and the Art of Domination

24:53 — Sunday: Power Moves Cleanly

25:58 — Your Body Needs Its Own Clock

27:54 — The Descent: What’s Up With Daylight Saving’s Time

29:57 — William Willett’s Personal Obsession

31:28 — At 2am. When Nobody Could Fight Back.

32:25 — Wartime Clocks

34:53 — The Twin Cities Refuse the Clock

37:20 — 7-Eleven, Candy Makers, and Timelines for Hire

42:44 — The Price of Desynchronization

44:01 — What Clock Is Your Body Actually Running On?

45:55 — Summary + Reflection Questions

Someone called New Orleans a terminal patient this spring. This episode is a response to that. We move through the week's astrology — a Monday of loud, reclaimed desire; a Tuesday of water-body listening; a Thursday of foggy ego-honoring; a Sunday where devotion, strategy, and want finally stop contradicting each other — and then descend into what New Orleans actually knows. About mud. About swamps. About migration. About what it means to build relationships sideways in a place the empire keeps trying to write into nonexistence.

This is an episode about blackness as an operating system, about maroon communities and racial ambiguity as resistance technology, about why a city below sea level might know more about the future than anywhere else on earth. It closes with Toni Morrison and the reminder that all water has a perfect memory — which means, on some level, so do we.

Content warning: discussion of the transatlantic slave trade, enslavement, anti-Black violence, and white supremacy.

References:

Keywords: New Orleans, astrology, blackness, maroon communities, Homer Plessy, Mardi Gras Indians, Bulbancha, climate crisis, Louisiana, Sylvia Wynter, Toni Morrison, fugitivity, migration, mud, swamp, Venus in Leo, Cancer season, This Erotic Timeline

Music by Charmie Chandler - https://www.instagram.com/charmie_chandler/

Our favorite audio editor ever Chantal Defelice - https://chantaldefelice.com/ + ig @chantaldefelice

CHAPTER MARKERS

00:00 — Water Has a Perfect Memory (opening)

Caesar remade the Roman calendar and dedicated a temple to a domesticated goddess in the same year. This episode traces what those two moves have in common and what they cost us.

The astrology this week is all Venus: sparking with Uranus on Monday, dreaming with Neptune on Tuesday, and facing Pluto's underworld directly on Wednesday. The descent follows Venus's warrior origins across Sumerian and Babylonian mythology, through the Greco-Roman tradition that stripped her of darkness, and into the moment Caesar consolidated time and mythology simultaneously — removing ordinary people's ability to verify reality from the inside out. The episode closes on what it looks like to stop reaching for the hollow archetypes Caesar left us with when conflict or strong emotion occurs, and start following our darker emotions all the way back to where they came from.

Content warning: brief discussion of conflict and harm in community spaces, sexual violence language in communities (mentioned without graphic detail).

Keywords: Venus opposite Pluto, Chiron enters Taurus, summer solstice, Caesar Julian calendar, Inanna Ishtar warrior goddess, archetypes victim predator, community accountability, erotic astrology, mythology, timekeeping.

CHAPTER MARKERS

00:00 — Open: The Math Belongs to Whoever's in Charge

REFERENCES:

Caesar's calendar reform:

Caesar and Venus Genetrix:

Inanna/Ishtar as warrior-lover:

The Inanna → Ishtar → Astarte → Aphrodite → Venus transmission:

Mary HK Choi Subway Take:

Please note: The episode reverses Inanna and Ishtar at one point — Inanna is Sumerian, Ishtar is Akkadian/Babylonian. Corrected here for the record.

This week's astrology centers on Mercury in Cancer squaring a lineup in Aries (Vesta, Saturn, Athena) — a week-long tension between careful speech and urgent action, tended feeling and imperfect forward motion. Venus conjuncts Jupiter in Cancer for one of the sweetest moments of the summer. The myth of Chrysomallus the golden ram anchors Wednesday's pile-on in Aries. Venus enters Leo opposing Pluto, setting up a month of tension between adolescent joy and the forces that desecrate it. Sunday brings a New Moon in Gemini that requires a sense of humor.

In the descent: a global tour of low-tech timekeeping devices — the Egyptian clepsydra, the incense seal clocks of Song dynasty China, the Ethiopian Ge'ez calendar and clock (including the complexity of Ethiopia as a nation state and the history of internal colonialism toward the Oromo people), and the Marshall Islands stick charts of Micronesia. None of these devices try to control time. They're all just paying attention to it.

Links

Interactive Colonial Timekeeping Timeline — https://effortless-bavarois-314f8a.netlify.app/

References

Apollodorus, Library Book I — https://www.theoi.com/Text/Apollodorus1.html

Chapters

00:00 — Opening

Something was lost in the rounding. A matriarch. A month. An hour that used to breathe with the seasons. This episode goes looking for all of it. The astrology section opens a summer-long invitation — Mercury in Cancer through August, with a retrograde built in — to understand and differentiate from the things that nurtured you. The week's maternal theme runs through Hera/Juno, whose pre-Hellenic story as a pilgrimage goddess and matriarchal mother got compressed into the jealous wife of Zeus by the same cultural machinery that rounded down the lunar calendar. The descent moves into ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt to ask why Western timekeeping uses 12, not 13 — and finds that both numbers have body bases and cosmic bases, just different ones: one from the skeleton, one from the trading hand. The episode ends in 1967, when the second was officially decoupled from astronomical movement and handed to a cesium atom. Transits covered: Mercury into Cancer (retrograde June 29–July 23), Sun trine Juno, Mars square Juno, Uranus conjunct Ceres, Ceres square the Nodes, Neptune sextile Ceres.

Key sources: Karl Kerenyi on Hera's pre-Hellenic origins; Sylvia Wynter on colonial language and humanization; Anishnaabe, Haudenosaunee, and Cree turtle calendar traditions; NIST published history of atomic timekeeping; Victor Warring on grief and the erotic (rewilderos.com); Alexis Pauline Gumbs, ed., Revolutionary Motherhood.

CHAPTER MARKERS:

00:00 — Opening

Episode Description:

This week we’re talking about language as armor, language as weapon, and language as time travel.

Jane Goodall spent 60 years figuring out what makes humans different from chimpanzees. Her answer: we can speak of things that are absent — the past, the future, ideas that don't exist in any room we're standing in. I explore how whoever gives you the words gets to give you the time.

This episode traces what happens when someone uses that power against you — and what it takes to get your timeline back.

On the astrology side: a Sagittarius Full Moon asking where your hard-won knowledge actually belongs, Athena as feminist sleeper agent, Vesta making way for ecstatic chaos, and the Arachne story as a case study in truth-telling strategy. Plus Mars square Pluto, Ceres entering Gemini, and a week that wants you to get strategic about how you apply what you know.

Content warning: sexual trauma.

References:

Music by Charmie Chandler

Keywords: astrology podcast, Sagittarius full moon May 2026, epistemology and trauma, language and power, Jane Goodall human language time travel, Athena Arachne myth, Vesta asteroid astrology, sleeper agents mythology, knowledge production, sexual trauma healing, somatic healing, Michelle Alexander injustice system, IFS astrology, Mars Pluto square May 2026, Ceres Gemini 2026, this erotic timeline

TIMESTAMPS

00:00 — Cold open: how do you know what you know?

00:54 — Welcome + grounding ritual

01:48 — Astrology of the week

02:33 — Monday May 25: Squaring up with the dark

04:46 — Tuesday May 26: Athena — feminist sleeper agent

09:02 — Vesta — the invisible hearth keeper who made way for ecstatic chaos

11:18 — Thursday May 28: Ceres enters Gemini — talk about the grief

13:04 — Sunday May 31: Sagittarius Full Moon — how do you apply your hard-won knowledge?

15:16 — Athena and Arachne: a case study in truth-telling

21:03 — Midway: Jane Goodall, language, and time travel

23:27 — Descent: the word epistemology and what it cost me

31:00 — Leaving academia, learning to walk on the ground

38:06 — Survivors of sexual abuse and the power institutions don't want us to have

41:17 — Holy shit! your body has been time traveling all this time

45:50 — What this podcast is actually for

49:01 — Weekly recap + closing questions

Your body is not a vehicle. It's a timekeeping system. This week, the sky is moving slow enough for you to hear it.

Episode 5 moves from a beautiful week of astrology —Mars into Taurus, Venus into Cancer, and a Uranus cazimi asking which kind of revolution we're committed to— into a descent on the Mayan timekeeping practices that have been changing how I understand what time is, where it lives, and why the body might be the best calendar any of us has ever had.

The descent takes us into the Cholq'ij (K’iche' Maya) or Tzolk'in (Yucatec Maya) —the human-level calendar— and the sacred math behind it: 13 major joints in the human body, 20 digits, and a 260-day cycle that corresponds to human gestation, the growth cycle of corn, and beyond. We also go into the Mayan concept of najt, a single word for space and time together, because in this system, they cannot be separated; and we discuss the 2012 myth and what actually happened. Also discussed: how in the Mayan creation story, humans were made to be timekeepers, and what it might mean that our experience of time is generated from inside the space of our own body.

I share what I learned from Solveig Barrios of the Mayan Wisdom Project, founded with her late father, the renowned Mayan elder Carlos Barrios. From Celene, my guide at the Museo Regional de la Costa Oriental in Tulum. From Javi, my guide with the Sian Ka'an Community Tours. And from the Popol Vuh, which tells us that humans were created for a specific purpose: to keep the days.

I also talk about why the Maya never "mysteriously disappeared" — and what their era of ecological collapse and eventual mindset renovation has to say to us in this particular moment in history.

Sources and links:

CHAPTERS

00:00 — Opening: your body is not a vehicle, it's a timekeeping system

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Saturday's Taurus New Moon arrives conjunct Mercury, the asteroid Ceres, and the fixed star Algol (the Demon's Head) at the exact moment the International Energy Agency is calling the current oil disruption the greatest energy security crisis in recorded history. Their recommendation: work from home. Slow down. Minimize travel.

Sound familiar?

This episode covers the full Ceres and Persephone myth as a map for collective grief, why Thursday's Mercury and Ceres cazimis are an invitation to cut new deals with your own shadow, what Algol and the Morningstar have to do with disrupting hierarchies right now, and why Persephone eating the pomegranate seeds was not a mistake. Plus: the grief curriculum we've been inside since 2020, what oil has to do with ancestral time, and a brief loving return to Blursday, March the fortyteenth of Maprilay.

Keywords: Taurus New Moon 2026, Mercury cazimi May 2026, Ceres astrology, Persephone myth, shadow hunger, pomegranate economy, Algol fixed star, grief and astrology, oil crisis 2026, Strait of Hormuz, IFS and astrology, Eleusinian Mysteries, Mars Chiron Aries, collective grief, energy crisis spiritual meaning

Chapters

00:00 — Opening: the extraction economy and your body

References

Jason Holley — astrologer and depth psychologist, source of the narcissus/narcissism interpretation: jasonholley.net

International Energy Agency, Oil Market Report: iea.org

IEA demand-reduction recommendations: iea.org

Atlantic Council — Webster & I'Anson on oil rationing: atlanticcouncil.org

World Bank Commodity Markets Outlook April 2026: worldbank.org

Washington Post — "It's been six months. Our sense of time is still broken": washingtonpost.com

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross & David Kessler — the five stages of grief: grief.com