Postcolonial Astrology w— Alice Sparkly Kat
Alice Sparkly Kat approaches astrology as an intersectional + political practice, and they want to widen our star thinking so we can build new relationships with astrology, one another + ourselves. Their new book Postcolonial Astrology, serves as a history and toolkit, decoding the planets from a postcolonial perspective, and it's now available for purchase.
we discuss
* how Western astrology is not universal
* intersecting postcolonial thoughts + critical race theory with astrology
* the tension between imagining post-colonialism and creating a false utopia
* Saturn + power dynamics
* magic in our mundane tasks + experiences
* Queer fluidity as its own yearning
* the kinds of stories and epiphanies that show up in sessions with others
* how we mythologize gender
* the idea of Asia + the beginning of the industrial complex
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Ace's IG + Twitter handle @alicesparklykat
Postcolonial Astrology, book by Alice Sparkly Kat
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Ghosts of Darwin, book by Banu Subramaniam
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L I S T E N
We started this season reflecting on the house of the goddess, and now we end where we began — carrying water medicine and the wisdom of Her with us into the summer sun.