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Astrology Consultations as Feminist Praxis
Astrology of Abolition: Pluto as Destruction & Reconstruction
Black Astrologers Rainbow Roundtable
Casting Stones: Ancestral Work in Traditional Astrology
Classtrology
Clerics, Shamans, Medicine Women
Deep Dive Process
Ditching the Gender Binary and Pronouns in Astrology
Embodying Astrological Archetype - Movement Improvisation
Emergent Strategy as a Framework for Astrological Interpretation
Gender, Sect, and Essential Dignities
Gender Remix Roundtable
Grounding into Gaia - Guided Visualization
Guided Meditation on Self Love & Care
Horary Astrology and the Natal Promise
How to Survive Your 20s Using Astrology
How White Gay Male Astrologers Can Be Effective Allies
In Love & Rage: Liberatory Practices & the Planets of the Night
Intergenerational Women Conversation
La Reconquista: The Rise and Fall of White Supremacy 711–2020 AD
Live Script Reading of 'PLUTO'
Living on the Spectrum of Personal Responsibility and Individual Freedoms: Saturn & Uranus
Opening the Closets of the Houses
Our Roles on Earth: Redefining Our Life’s Purpose
POC/Indigenous Roundtable
Psycho-magic Ritual Ushering in the Pluto Return of the United States
Righting the Cardinal Cross
Ritual of Connecting to a Personal Planetary Guardian
Shifting Folklore, Shifting Astrologies
Sylvia vs. Empire: Cancer-Capricorn Axis + Crises in Care & Relations
The 6th and 12th Houses as Sites of Active Resistance
The Fourth Turning: A Non-Astrological Lens on the USA Uranus Return
The Irony of Othering the Other
the zodiac as the reincarnation cycle and the forgotten history of colonialism
Trick, Twist, Terror: Abiding in Mercury's Mystery
Using Astrology and Intuition Towards Social Justice Practice
White Fragility Roundtable
Wholeness and Polarity - Integrating Light and Shadow in Your Natal Chart
Writing Your Birthchart Toward The Next World
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Astrology Consultations as Feminist Praxis
How can astrological practices participate in feminist movements toward justice, liberation, and healing? Drawing on the work of bell hooks, Angela Davis, Kimberlé Crenshaw, the Combahee River Collective, Patricia Hill Collins, and the Healing Justice movement, this presentation will discuss practical and theoretical ways in which working with clients, shaping our consultations, situating our astrology in relation to frameworks and epistemologies emerging from feminist thought and methodologies, and considering our work as a practice of healing can embody feminist values. At a time of global uprisings for justice, it is even more important to ask how our work as astrologers can participate in social movements, and the work of feminist thinkers animates possibilities for how astrology can become a feminist praxis.
Astrology of Abolition: Pluto as Destruction & Reconstruction
LiZhen Wang
Abolition comes from the Latin word meaning to "destroy" and to "go beyond form." In astrology, Pluto destroys human constructs and form in order to initiate us into deeper consciousness. Pluto is now activating in a similar way to 160 years ago, during the first abolition movement in the U.S. — to end chattel slavery. Here's how the abolition movement and astrology of the past can inform the movements of today.
Casting Stones: Ancestral Work in Traditional Astrology
This lecture illustrates using real QTBIPOC stories and natal charts how an astrologer can tap into ancient traditional astrological techniques to help queer clients to access ancestral work. The backdrop of this lecture is a quick dive into a queer take onto the hellenistic principles of the Thema Mundi.
Classtrology
This discussion addresses leftist criticisms of astrology and offers a class analysis of both modern and traditional astrology. It aims to shatter the smokescreens of society surrounding the nature and limitations of astrology, to problematize supernatural capital, to assess the accessibility of astrology through the classes, colors, and sexualities, and to question the exclusion of astrologers from the revolution.
Clerics, Shamans, Medicine Women
The historic role of queer people in native and ancient societies
Deep Dive Process
is an opportunity to share with each other how AStrOLOGY as a practice can dismantle the isms, or reinforce them.
How we practice leads to more domination or liberation.
Come discuss ways we have been othered by astrology
or found ourselves freed from constricting narratives.
This will be an interactive exploration to inspire new ways of deep listening.
Ditching the Gender Binary and Pronouns in Astrology
-Using astrology in a contemporary way to reflect the changes in society and facilitate its evolution.
-How the use of language, myth, and archetype in astrology is a vehicle for social evolution.
-When it's useful to language astrology to reflect a specifically female, fluid, non-binary, or queer-identified experience.
-How to read relationship astrology regardless of gender.
Embodying Astrological Archetype - Movement Improvisation
This participatory workshop invites us to investigate the body as a site for developing intimate relations with astrological archetypes that can then support making meaning of those archetypes. Starting from the premise that the body is a vital source of knowledge and understanding—and challenging centuries of false dichotomies between body and mind or body and spirit—we will engage our moving bodies as processes of activating, feeling, and experiencing the qualities of the elemental triplicities—water, fire, earth, and air—and the seven visible planets and luminaries. As we embody these qualities, we become more available to their presence and significations in our charts, our lives, and our work as astrologers. No previous movement experience is necessary, and the practices can be adapted to a wide range of mobilities and abilities. During this workshop, having a way to take notes during opportunities for reflection is recommended.
Emergent Strategy as a Framework for Astrological Interpretation
Emergent Strategy, by adrienne maree brown, represents a radical framework for organizing relationships and engaging chaos in community with others. With a focus on transformative justice, interdependence, and resilience, the elements of this rich work are multi-faceted & complex, mimicking biological processes and patterns. Applying these elements to the archetypes and patterns of astrology provides innovative ways for us to engage with charts: adaptation instead of remediation, possibility instead of determinism, process instead of prediction.
Gender, Sect, and Essential Dignities
Traditional astrological notions of gender extend to the planets and signs. The beginner soon learns the Moon and earth and water signs are considered "feminine" whereas the Sun and fire and air signs are considered "masculine." Those studying traditional notions of sect also find in the discipline notions of gender in a diurnal-nocturnal polarity. This talk discusses essential dignity and sect and confronts their traditional gender-normative biases via illustrative horoscopes.
Grounding into Gaia - Guided Visualization
Guided Meditation on Self Love & Care
Horary Astrology and the Natal Promise
Your Natal Chart holds the answers to every meaningful Question you can ever pose within the course of your life. A Horary Chart can only reveal the answer to a burning question that has first been triggered in your natal chart. Learn how to follow the Golden Thread from the Horary Moment back to your natal chart and even into your Solar Return chart to see how these three charts fit together and how using this method can make you an all around better astrologer.
How to Survive Your 20s Using Astrology
This lecture provides a deep dive into the themes a person encounters during each year of their twenties by combining outer planetary cycles with the ancient Hellenistic technique annual profections. Hopefully folks in their twenties will leave feeling seen, validated, and inspired on their journey toward their Saturn return, while working astrologers will leave with a better understanding of how to work with their younger clients in this day and age.
How White Gay Male Astrologers Can Be Effective Allies
The trauma white gay men experience can blind us to seeing our own privilege and complicity. Our velvet rage doesn't automatically mean we "get" other forms of oppression. Let's reflect on our personal planets as we strive to become better allies. Does Mercury hold a key about we might listen more? Does Venus reveal more radical ways to love? Does Mars reveal how might fight for justice?
In Love & Rage: Liberatory Practices & the Planets of the Night
An exploration of the night sect, and how our relationships to the planets of the lunar realm can facilitate healing for our most Othered aspects of self and empowerment for marginalized identities.
La Reconquista: The Rise and Fall of White Supremacy 711–2020 AD
The year 2020 contains both a Saturn-Pluto and a Saturn-Jupiter conjunction, a phenomenon not seen in over 1,000 years when, in 710 AD, the world saw Saturn conjunct both Pluto and Jupiter, in Cancer. That time period saw the end of White Christian rule in Spain and the inception of Al-Andalus, the Moorish state; this one marks the end of White Supremacy and the beginning of a new, more equal society bursting forth.
Live Script Reading of 'PLUTO'
"PLUTO" is part of the larger work-in-progress, the musical: "OTHERWORLDLY GIANTS." This play asks the question: What if Pluto & Jupiter came to life and they were queer, people of colour, and survivors? What if they were all at once best friends, sisters, mother & daughter (and daughter & mother), lovers, leaders, and also sworn enemies? This story is for those of us who love the planet, and who strive to remember how to love ourselves. It's about what makes us want to live, and want to die. It's magic and the witch hunt. A revealing and unravelling. The marriage of love and loss, of death and faith.
Living on the Spectrum of Personal Responsibility and Individual Freedoms: Saturn & Uranus
Saturn going on…
If Saturn represents the closet, then Uranus organizes the parade (or at the very least disseminates info about what it means to queer in today’s world and how to be even better in the future). 1940 to 2030 will be covered. The new cycle between these two planets occurs every 46 years.
The intersection of doubt, what others think along the lines of how much do I want to reveal.
Each of us has limits (Saturn). Uranus has us questioning our limits. Including thinking outside the box, Uranus asks ‘what box’? The cyclic relationship between Saturn and Uranus (Eight phases will be covered) can give you the courage to know when to stay in your ‘cyclic lane’ and when to burst out from the seams. Is the cycle waxing (what are you going to do for your community?) Or waning (what does your community ask of you)?
Let Saturn be the tether to the hot air balloon that is Uranus! Saturn (statues) and Uranus (folx bringing them down).
Our Roles on Earth: Redefining Our Life's Purpose
Why are we on earth? Is there a purpose to being here? How do we know what our purpose is? Is it a collective purpose or more individual?
Drawing heavily on the nodal axis of the Moon, Jaliessa Sipress will offer a hypothesis on our individual life's purpose that de-centers binaries of "right" and "wrong." She will also explore the difference between life purpose and "work" under capitalism, the relationship between money, pleasure, creativity and life's meaning and how we can find our own answers in the chart. Jaliessa uses Astrology as a tool for learning and hypothesis but is interested in questioning and troubling the historic uses of "life purpose" in dogmatic and detrimental ways.
Psycho-magic Ritual Ushering in the Pluto Return of the United States
Righting the Cardinal Cross
Mars' extended stay and retrograde in Aries alongside Chiron presents us with a collective opportunity to redevelop our relationship to beneficial and responsible autonomy. Asteroid Goddesses Juno, Pallas Athene, and Vesta stationed across the other cardinal signs challenge Mars throughout this journey to ensure that we consider the transformative elements necessary to course-correct the white supremacy and fragility traditional Mars and Aries energy has embodied and encouraged. "Righting the Cardinal Cross" will explore the relationships between these celestial beings and the potential conversations and revelations that may come to light during this six-month transit and beyond, as well as Ceres' role alongside Neptune in Pisces helping us finalize cycles that are due to be broken.
Ritual of Connecting to a Personal Planetary Guardian
How to safely connect with a personal planetary guardian: for this ritual it is recommended to have a visual representation of your personal natal chart ready, something to drink, something to eat, something to write with and on, possibly pens/pencils in different colors, a candle, incense or burning herbs and a lighter/matches.
Opening the Closets of the Houses
Shifting Folklore, Shifting Astrologies
This talk explores folklore emphasizing Aquarian values of community, justice, solidarity, expression and representation. It discusses an astrological practice shifting away from capitalist notions of self-healing, instead celebrating the political animal aware of their larger context. The talk will also explore the genius journey as distinct from the hero's journey, citing stories reflecting the shift toward communal applications of genius. It will ground this discussion in an analysis of the first Jupiter-Saturn-Pluto lineup in Capricorn since Babylon's birth.
Sylvia vs. Empire: Cancer-Capricorn Axis + Crises in Care & Relations
Looking at Sylvia Rivera and the U.S.’s charts/histories, we’ll discuss how astrologies can be part of decolonial processes by disrupting linear notions of time that shirk accountability by confining harms to “the past,” and in connecting us with legacies of resistance and utopian spaces/moments inspiring us to dream big and act boldly to create the worlds we want to live in. We’ll examine Jupiter’s exaltation, Mars’s fall, Saturn-Pluto, and Venus’s retrograde in Gemini.
The 6th and 12th Houses as Sites of Active Resistance
The 6th and 12th houses are challenging places, but I believe it’s important to recognise why that is. Understanding the 6H requires acknowledging the body as a site of labour under capitalism, while the 12H speaks to the ways we grapple internally - and externally - with oppression and 'otherness'. Naming the significations of these houses as inseparable from structural violence allows us to open up to their potential for resistance through refusal, abolition and radical self-care.
The Fourth Turning: A Non-Astrological Lens on the USA Uranus Return
The US Uranus return approaches, but what could it entail? Perhaps we can look outside the box: historians Neil Howe and William Strauss examined American history through its generations, noting a crisis every four generations, corresponding with Uranus returns. Unpacked here, their model provides a thick framework for imagining the decade ahead, all our roles in resolving inherited traumas and institutional failures, towards actualizing the deferred promises of liberty and justice for all.
The Irony of Othering the Other
The death of George Floyd, and violence against transwoman CeCe McDonald, in Minneapolis/St. Paul MN, a metropolitan area which passed the first law prohibiting discrimination against transgendered people in 1993.
the zodiac as the reincarnation cycle and the forgotten history of colonialism
Colonial imperatives demand disrupting intergenerational knowledge transmission and banishing feminine practices. What parts of astrology have been lost to this erasure? Can we perceive the archetypal language of the zodiac as historical text? Explore the zodiac as an ancient puzzle reverse engineered to reveal the spiral reincarnation cycle. If rich ancestral information lies in astrology, can we use this information to change our present relationship to global white supremacist patriarchal colonialism?
Trick, Twist, Terror: Abiding in Mercury's Mystery
Mercury is commonly considered a queer icon in astrology. Why is this? This talk explores Mercury through a range of mediums: Hellenistic concepts of sect and planetary joys, as well as cross-cultural examples of trickster figures and Mercurial play. Drawing from modern art, indigenous myth, cartoons, and psychology, we attend to Mercury’s many significations, and signifying games. What can astrologers learn from Mercury, the queer god of our craft?
Using Astrology and Intuition Towards Social Justice Practice
As astrologers, we have a responsibility to use our gifts towards collective liberation. Oppression and exploitation limit our ability to live in and embrace our full humanity. In this workshop, we'll be in conversation about using our tools as astrologers to sustain social justice movements, building our practices to incorporate social justice in the day-to-day work, and ways we can adapt and avoid burn-out as we witness how deep injustice can manifest. Healing our communities means healing each other, as well as ourselves.
Wholeness and Polarity - Integrating Light and Shadow in Your Natal Chart
Writing Your Birthchart Toward The Next World
This is a creative writing/energetics workshop focused on engaging with your chart as the manifestation of the highest potential of your life force. Everyone will choose a part of their chart to commune and speak with. This isn't about what you *know* about your chart, this is about letting the highest potential of your chart speak to you and guide you as we collectively engage with the question of "What is my role in a liberated world?" We are no doubt in a moment of upheaval and transition on a global scale, led by Black youth. What does this mean for us personally? How can we engage with our astrological signatures with courage and faith so that we can see the downfall of the US empire in our life times. For all astrological levels.