Welcome everyone. It's so nice to be here with
you. It's wonderful to see your faces
and the little zoom rooms. I also just want to call in the
presence of Janata Petrus, who's one of the facilitators on our
team and she is traveling right now in Zanzibar with her chosen
family and having a wonderful time.
So we here and wasn't able to make it to our meeting, but
we're definitely going to presence her when we share about
what's upcoming and when we send out this recording, we're also
going to be sharing a recording that she made for you.
So this feels like an incredible milestone for me and a really
big turning point. Embodied astrology is going to
be 10 years old in 2024. Yeah, thank you.
It started in 2014 as a total curiosity project for me.
I'm a second generation astrologer.
My mother was an astrologer and also a somatic therapist and
practitioner. So I really grew up with this
language In my late teens and early 20s.
I became obsessed in my own right.
A lot of my childhood. I was like mom, you know, she
was like, you're like that way because of your moon sign.
And I was like, whatever. But then, you know, life
happened and I was like, why are people, why are people?
You know, like, why are people peepling?
I was in a confusing relationship, as I'm sure other
people have had that experience. You know, when you turn into
astrology and then it's like, oh oh, there's some of the
confusion. And I felt so supported in that
experience that it totally drew me in.
And at that time in my life, I was very deeply diving into
studies in mysticism and esoterics and somatic healing
through the lineages of Ayurveda and Yoga and Vedanta, which of
course are completely braided with astrology.
Astrology has been a big part of many elemental medicine
practices. So about 10 years after that, I
started. EA.
Totally. As a curiosity project, just how
do these things come together? Can I play with them?
The podcast started just as a like, OK, this is fun.
I'm going to put something out like my, you know?
Group of four. Friends or something are going
to listen to it. That'll be that.
And 10 years later, here we are. This project has really changed
me. It has brought so much abundance
into my life in so many ways. Working with astrology,
especially working with astrology as an embodied
practice, has been enormously healing for me personally, in my
own you know, traumas and upsets and flailing and failing, you
know, in the human. Experience.
Astrology just continues to be such a a support space for me
and. A.
Couple of years ago in 2020, at the beginning of the pandemic
and everything that happened in that year, EA was already
starting to branch out virtually.
And it it was really intuitive for me at that point to start
inviting other facilitators to do guest workshops.
And my instinct has always been to look for the application and
synthesis of astrology. Where does astrology come in
with other things? As a semantics practitioner and
an artist and a writer and a theater nerd, you know Astro
fits in perfectly with all of those things that really made
sense to me. To apply it there, I'm very
interested in alternative healing and so a lot of my first
guests were people who were thinking about multi dimensional
pathways into healing. I feel myself committed and
learning in the realms of world making and activism and social
and environmental justice. And a lot of my guests are
people or where in our people who are really grounded in those
worlds and leaders there. There have been artists and
educators and social movers of all kinds that have been guests
at EA and. Four of those people.
Are joining me now for a new iteration and a new experiment.
And for me this is something that has been known internally
for the last couple of years, but also something that I've
been trying to figure out how to do.
And I do think that this is very much aligned with what's
happening currently in astrology, especially in the
next year or two, three years, which is a need to decentralize
power and share leadership. We are moving, I I mean I
believe we've already moved out of an age of hierarchical
leadership. It is really not helpful to have
top down power models anymore. It has felt like a a puzzle to
me to figure out how to move from a model that was a really a
creative baby of mine, of something that I was just
working on and it was like my space of exploration, how to
turn that into actually a creative project that was more
about community building. So at the end of last year,
Alicia came on as our community coordinator.
And over the last 12 months, she has been working really closely
with me and with the embodied astrology community.
We've been building out virtual communal spaces, experimenting
with tech platforms that sometimes meet our needs and
sometimes don't, trying to figure out how to organize in
cyberspace and also in our real lives.
And we've been in a process of really thinking and feeling into
how do we Co create something here.
And so our, our, our team GABS, Sherry, Janata, Ramon, we've all
been facilitating at EA now for a couple of years and building
relationships and creating crossover in our conversation.
And I was so honored and excited that these folks all accepted
the invitation to come in as Co creators in the next chapter of
what embodied astrology is going to be.
And so over the last couple of months, we've been in a very
emergent process around envisioning and and dreaming.
What does a program look like that is an emergent experiential
embodied astrology program that can branch into many different
areas of life and that will support our facilitators to
deepen their own research and synthesis.
We invited folks to come in with thesis questions basically or
research directions and to really bring their talents,
skills, what they've been cultivating in their own
interests to the realms of astrology and to help us expand
what astrology can be. So we're really excited to kind
of have you know our version of a think tank of or or something
like that, an emergent space where astrology gets to provide
a container, but a lot can get included and.
Played with here. And a really big priority for us
is also to have Co leadership with our participants and to
Createspace where we are all working together to evolve and
update the language of astrology.
Astrology like any philosophy or religion, as you know some
people feel it a spiritual practice.
Like any language, it needs to evolve.
It has to meet the times and the people who are using it.
Most of us are practitioners of tropical astrology or Western
astrology, which has developed in the same routes as the
Western world. And so it has been very informed
by colonial mindsets, by Christian and and Catholic
perspectives, by empire and imperialism, by male supremacy
and white supremacy, Eurocentric kind of priorities and
capitalism. And we're all interested in
updating the language and approaching it with critical
analysis, allowing symbolism to expand to unfold, to break
forms, researching more deeply into the origin of these myths
and symbols, reclaiming and reacquainting ourselves with
symbolic mythic cosmologies and histories and lineages that may
have been appropriated, erased, or forgotten in the development
of tropical astrology. We're interested in crossover
with other astrological forms. None of us are fundamentalists.
We're all like, this is a symbolic language, This is an
entry point to meeting one another in the realms of
archetype and intuition. And so right now, we are in an
emergent space and we're planning a program that's going
to start with the astrological new year in 2024, so March,
April time with the Aries season or vernal equinox around there.
And we're not working with the calendar year.
So there's no rush to like start at the beginning of 2024.
We're looking at the next couple of months of allowing our
program to continue to build. And in the open house, we're
wanting to share with you all some of our ideas.
And we're also really wanting to invite folks in with questions,
with passions, with longings. We're interested in how you are
wanting to use and be with and be shaped by astrology.
We're interested in what you're interested in when it comes to
community spaces that are doing this kind of multi dimensional
work. And this is all very much
aligned with the astrology of 2024.
And I've been meditating with this astrology for the last two
weeks as I've been starting to record and prepare my 2024 year
head readings. And this has been a year that
I've been looking at for the last several years.
And I've had conversations with everybody on this team about it,
where we're all looking ahead at the Ephemeris and we're like,
whoa bro, what's coming? Like this is a big shift in
2025. All the outer planets are gonna
change signs. We are looking at a coordination
of outer planet energies in the air and fire elements.
There's a lot of symbolism here that could go in so many
different directions. And it will, because that's what
human consciousness does. There are going to be
opportunities for incredible revolution, uprising, evolution
and innovation. There will also be opportunities
to experience the technological control mechanisms of world
powers. There will be opportunities to
experience fascism and fundamentalism even more.
And there are going to be opportunities to experience what
we can learn in times of extreme provocation of survival needs
and how I think many of us Orient towards survival is
actually not what the dominant paradigm would have us believe,
that it's all about self preservation and fighting each
other. I think a lot of people really
Orient towards survival through allyship and alliance building
and community work and creating spaces where there can be
decentralized power and creative collaboration and many
perspectives leading. And that is definitely what we
are committed to and curious about and wanting to bring
astrology into the conversation with.
So I think I'll. Pause there, unless Alicia has
more prompts for me and and I'll turn it back to you.
That's great. Thank you very much.
I would love to hear from each of you what the coming astrology
has been bringing up for each of you individually as you're
thinking about your offerings and thinking about the coming
years. Ramon, out of our group usually
go first. I'm seeing you.
Yeah, if you want to do it. All right, hi everyone.
I think my starting point for these coming years and one of my
starting points in the study and work with astrology is is really
around the outer planets. In my own chart I've got a
Neptune conjunct Sun and a Uranus conjunct moon and a N
node pretty close to Pluto. And so I I think I experienced
the energy of the outer planets in a way that's almost like,
yeah, I almost, I almost have to remember the inner planets.
Like I I think I tend to live a lot of my life and my mind in
sort of like the collective big sort of, you know, sort of
typical Sagittarius big picture stuff.
So that's that's what I've been tracking over the years.
I think I really started to track when Uranus entered Aries
in 2011 and it's station direct. And when it's station direct,
the very night that's when Fukushima happened.
And after that I was like wow, I think this actually maps
something and and not only do I think that the movements of the
outer planets and astrology in general map something, but I
think what I'm I'm really interested in is proactively
working with and like using the the changes as moments to
initiate certain types of activities.
So the phrase that came to me last night is, you know, I'm
thinking of astrology as a calendar for coordinated,
simultaneous, dispersed, interpretive, creative acts.
And that's a mouthful. But basically it's saying like
when certain alignments happen like get with your people and
like check the theme out and then do something with it and
and that that could look a lot of different ways that could be
interpreted a lot of different ways.
But I I'm really thinking about astrology as a calendar for us
to to initiate certain types of activity.
So that'll make more sense in a second.
Am I going to the right direction here should I keep
going and kind of spell out where I I want to go this this
next OK OK. So initially I was asked to kind
of investigate questions around social justice, liberation,
equity and the the take that I'm I'm the way that I'm moving into
that is going to be kind of unique and a lot of the kind of
typical ways and categories and that we're looking at.
I'm I'm sort of going in different directions.
So here are some of the key themes that I'm working with
with a somewhat somewhat of a consciousness of social justice
and and and liberation. I'm generally curious, and I
think this is shared by many of the group about futures with the
outer planets. We can see certain thematic
energies that are arranging themselves in in the future,
right? We can look to the future with
astrology and we can see like thematic arrangements of energy.
So I'm generally interested in futures.
And then specifically, I want to explore new technologies,
artificial intelligence, transhumanism.
And like, how do we look at those from the the angle and the
language of historical People's Liberation movements.
You know what? What does it mean that people
are developing the capacity to reshape the human genome?
What does it mean that Tesla's testing neural link right now?
And you know, what does it mean that, like, people are spending
billions of dollars to try to create machines that can
outthink us? And like who's who's got the
grips on those kinds of powers and how do we kind of with the
same consciousness organizing tools and probably some new
organizing tools of historical People's Liberation movements,
how are we going to encounter these new technologies, this
whole new layer of, you know, the 21st century.
So one of the 1st events we want to do with that.
It's just a kind of simple podcast with Michelle Gabriel
off Paris. She was on camera a second ago
and we've collaborated a number of times and and embodied
astrology and also one of our our colleagues in Denver Co,
Adrian Molina or Molina speaks. He's a musician, poet,
storyteller, rapper and he had a he had a create a beautiful
document in 2011 called build 2020.
You can look it up on Spotify and it's examining a lot of
these same questions around new technologies, corporate control
and corporate productions of future.
So that's happening January 20th or 21st.
That is for the the ingress of Pluto into into Aquarius.
And I think we've already been seeing like we've already been
seeing that energy show up in the world.
A lot of the folks from Google and other folks are starting to
say actually what are we doing? Like what kind of thing are we
creating? They're starting to have their
an itchy conscience about it. So anyway, that's January twenty
20th and 21st date potentially subject to change.
The next thing is approximately April 18th through the 21st and
that is the Uranus and Jupiter conjunction in Taurus Tropical
and something else we've been working with for a couple of
years. We've worked with us on the
Neptune Jupiter conjunction in 2022 as we're creating like a
festival for that conjunction and that festival is going to
take place in physical space at Naropa University.
I see some students and graduates of Naropa University
on the line. What's up?
Y'all that's going to take place at Naropa University in the
physical, and it's also going to have an online component through
embodied astrology. And that's going to be kind of
through working with astrology and also a kind of lens of
Afrofuturism and ancestral futurism, our working titles,
the Electric Black Earth Festival.
And that's kind of working with Taurus, Jupiter, blah, blah,
blah. And and part of our vision there
is like, you know, how do we reclaim this notion of futures
from from big corporates who are saying we got to go to Mars and
all that kind of stuff? How do we have futures that are
embodied, futures that that work with our ancestral wisdom,
futures that don't lose the intelligence that we've gained
from the various people's movements for the last few, 100
years, You know, and futures that are coming from not an
exclusively Eurocentric background and and way of seeing
things. So that's April 18th through the
21st. There'll be real on the ground
stuff and they'll be sort of like these dispersed art prompts
and other things that will be happening through EA Online.
Another one is October 24th, 25th haven't landed exactly on
the day. This is a project that we're all
kind of going to be working on in in a certain way or at least
it's a conversation that we hope to sort of have together and
then see if a if a project develops out of it astrological
strategic visioning. We we like have this idea of of
creating some type of document that that looks at a lot of
major astrological transits between now and and like 2050
say, OK, next 25 years, what are the major transits happening and
how might we kind of use those in relationship to liberation
movements? Right.
So if we've got like right now the transit that's coming up in
the fall or excuse me in the springtime happening at Taurus,
what I get to thinking about there is food justice, food
sovereignty. You know, you've got Jupiter and
Uranus and Taurus, excuse me, should be turning our our
attention towards things of the earth.
And so like looking at those transits for the next 25 years
and trying to create a sort of, you know, iterative guide or, I
don't know, like informational prompts for people who were
involved in social movements. Like, you know, look looking
back at 2020 and the the outer planet transits that happened
there. I mean like if you need any
other kind of proof that something's going on like look
at 2020 and if and if that's any indicator of how the
collective's moving, we should actually have a, A, A, a
dispersed knowledge of the major transits that are going to be
happening in the next 25 years. So that's a project that we're
all going to start this year. I we're I'm inviting, we're
inviting each other to start. I don't want to speak for you
all. So that's like August 24th, 25th
and that's what the, the Jupiter and Saturn square Gemini going
to kind of initiate that conversation there.
And then October 24th through the 27th, it's not necessarily
aligned up with any major transits, but Renee, Michelle
again and myself will be hosting another in person on the ground
embodied Astrology Retreat and that's going to be also in
Colorado at the Eco Dharma Retreat Center.
They'll have, their website will have, will start to publish
information about that retreat in after January 1st.
So look for that, you know what kind of promoted here in
embodied astrology and also in the ecodarma retreat space just
to say to Ecodarma's, they're sort of like a Zen community
that is really looking at how to apply some of the teachings and
methods of Zen, particularly folks like Bernie Glassman's
like Zen Peacemaker order and sort of more of an activist
based in to questions of of of of sustainability and
environmental justice. So anyway, that's kind of how
they hold it and the retreat that we're going to have is
going to be a sort of fundamentals I think and
embodied astrology. But also how do we take some of
what we're learning about our charts and this historical
moment and apply it to try to like change agents if you want
to say. So yeah, it I think people with
any level of astrological knowledge will will benefit from
it. But it's sort of like a
foundational deal that is October 24th through 27th and
then the last thing we're last kind of 2:00-ish things.
We'll do another podcast on November 23rd or 24th as Pluto
reenters, It's going to retrograde back into Capricorn
and then reenter Aquarius, and that's going to continue on this
theme of AI, artificial intelligence, transhumanism.
And we also want to throw in some questions about
psychedelics and the resurgence in Colorado.
There's a wide range of what we're calling psychedelics that
are now legal for personal consumption and also for medical
and therapeutic usage. And you know, there's a push for
similar types of legalizations to happen around the country.
So, you know, I, I, I'm like, wow, like we got VR helmets and
psychedelics about to just spray on us as a society.
I think we should talk about that.
So we'll do another podcast there, details to come.
And and then the final thing with conflict transformation,
haven't quite picked the dates there, but I am really curious
about the potential of astrology to constellate conflicts, right.
It's like it's a complex system. It's not a binary system.
It's not saying you're right, you're wrong.
It's like you have a set of relationships, you have an
organization and there are these conflicts that break out.
How could we use, let's say, if you if you had an organization,
how could we use the birth chart of an organization as a map for
some potential embedded conflicts?
How could we look at the like different parties who are
involved in their birth charts in relationship to one another.
How do we take a problem and three dimensionally sort of put
it out there as a as a as a kind of birth chart or birth moment.
You know who's the Saturn in the problem?
Who's holding the the the structures and the rules.
Who's the unpredictable Uranus in the problem?
Where's the initiative and the the action in the problem?
Where's the Mars at, right. And where?
What are those energies in relationship to one another?
This is all work in progress, but just to give you all an
overview sketch and I think I will stop there unless there's
any questions. Gabs, I would love to to ask you
the same. I know there are so many
exciting things that you've been thinking into for for next year,
and I think people would love to hear them all.
Thank you, Alicia. Yeah, I think a lot.
So I've been thinking a lot in many different things.
I think it's my son Mercury Conjunct in Gemini in the 3rd
house. I think one of the first things
that I'm interested is as Ramon and I feel that pretty much
everyone that is tuned into the transit is the transit of Pluto
and Aquarius and how this is affecting us collectively,
especially in new technologies. I'm also an art visual artist
and photographer, and this year I started this research on
artificial intelligence around gender dissidences.
So I work a lot with trends and gender nonconforming people and
I have a photography project where I interview and photograph
trans folks. So I started this other project,
kind of like trying to investigate what AI understand
of like transgender, the wording and how this is shaping.
Assuming that this is, this is what is stored in the collective
cautious, but also after some time I started using AI for
other reasons and I'm taking artist residency this next year
in Sao Paulo. I'm from Brazil and in the very
South of Brazil, So I'm going to Sao Paulo this year for this
artist residency there. And I'll be investigating a
project that I feel is something that I want to share at embodied
astrology. Like I want to link the the two
things that I'm doing with astrology and this artistic
research that is pretty much. It's very complex for me to
explain. But I'm wondering, like, through
this lens of like, gender, I started questioning like the
fiction about this reality. Thinking about like, you know,
like how baby showers are revealing the expectations that
are falling on a child even before they are born.
And this discussions with AI, what makes us human, the age of
disinformation, fake news, and all of this relationship with
archival photography. So I started questioning like
the limits of post truth, where is true.
I have like I'm going to read some keywords and phrases
because I have to take notes of them, otherwise I just I lose
them in my mind. So I just want to say that this
is very linked to some things that I'm reading today, which is
also feeling that we are so rushed and that we need to have
to like spam time. So queer timing and I can
explain this a bit later. What is real post truth set a
container around time, The past is ongoing and the future is
now. What happens when we are
witnessed by something? What happens when something is
witnessed? Time traveling.
The dissolving of self photography as a way of
questioning realities daydreaming micro movements,
space to be dream lab in slash sanity Co created experiences.
What is time the water is about to break the last breath before
birth turning into a self. But how can we think about the
opposite of this self dissolving as a way of turning into a self
labour already started dilatation is happening before
crowning. Push away and reach for it is OK
to move to a new thing. Birth as trauma.
How the self has been constructed in a modern society.
A goal of not conclusion. Time travelling together.
Merging shift, shifter, transness across time.
Other words, words are possible. They have existed and do exist.
Fluidity. Counterproductive time.
Anyway, the list goes on and on and I can share somewhere this
list, but I feel the main things that I'm working are like time
and time travelling, post truth and reality, collective futurism
and the solving of self, Hospice and modernity, daydreaming,
memory, identity and contradiction.
And the the piece of contradiction is something that
I feel it relates a lot to my chart.
I have many oppositions, including a Neptune moon
opposition that made me feel through my life, that I always
had to choose between one another.
And as a good Gemini, I've been realizing that I can actually
hold both and more. So this is kind of like what I'm
trying to do this year, create something together.
There's this thing about photography too that we are in.
This S Paul B Prasad who says like the cyber surveillance era
where we are self-serve. I don't know the name, the word
for this English, but we are the the surveillance is like us
applying to ourselves. So we have our phones always
with us and we are releasing this data for this, who knows
what you know? And I'm like, how can I talk
about like Hospice and modernity and like building a new future
and criticizing this and at the same time was using all of this
technology, using a camera. And I feel this is kind of like
the contradiction to that I want to hold this year I offered a
workshop one year that was about self partiture.
And I'm seeing some people that took this workshop, self
partiture, using the the angles of a birth chart.
So the AC, the Ascendant descendant, human quality and
with heaven. And it was really fun.
It was like really, really, really fun.
And I wanted to offer something that could use photography, but
I wanted to cooperate together because I've been feeling more
and more that I I just want to gather and and you know, like
listen to other people. And really I think that the
piece of time is very important to me.
I don't know at the same time that I think about the future.
The future doesn't exist. The only thing that exists is
now. So it's kind of like this thing
that I'm that I want to create a container for.
And so during this workshop one of the people that were there
created the self portraits that I that has stayed with me in my
heart and my mind that was like a self parted as the the clock
on the bed table and it was a video like time lapse and it was
so beautiful and they invited this question of the witnessing
of like how non human objects and things witness us.
And I feel this is something that I also want to work this
year anyway. And I'm interested also
something that caught my attention is that we are
entering this year, you know, not the astrological calendar,
but we are entering this year with the Mercury stationing
direct at 22 sage and Mercury will be I think at 18 or 19°
sage at the beginning of 2025. And although you know times of
creation. So we are just celebrating
something that someone said this is the beginning of a new year.
I also feel there's lots of potential to this because so
many minds are tuned and thinking about like the future
together and like setting tensions for the future.
And I've been wondering what, you know, like this degree
means. And I feel like that beginning
and ending the year with all of the transitions that are
happening and kind of like with mercury almost at the same place
feels like suspending the time. It's like we are living a whole
instant in a whole year. And when I was reading about the
Sabian symbol for Sagittarius, the 22°, it's the 23rd degree.
The keynote is cautiously accepting the ways of a new
stage of experience and readiness for the opportunities
it will present. And it talks about that we find
ourselves in a period of transition and in the inside
degree there is like the mentioning of like innovative
paths, cellular awakening, needing to know just how it
feels at the micro levels. And I talked a lot and I and I'm
coming to like I think probably the most important piece of like
why am I thinking about all of this, which is the Neptune
transit through the interactive degree of Pisces, which is the
last degree of Pisces. So Neptune is going to stay
there for I think 5 months during 2024, and since I'm
reading the Sabian symbol, just gonna grab here.
So then Rudyard says that I see 30° is a majestic rock formation
resembling a face idealized by a boy who takes it as his ideal of
greatness and as he grows up, begins to look like it.
So it's about starting a new universe, the latent power in
all the seeds, so the power to produce and guide the growth,
the capacity of self transformation.
And we are discussing a lot in our meetings together about this
dissolving of self. And one of the things that I
read from my keywords and phrases was like how can we
think about the opposite of turning into a self?
Like using the self dissolving as a way of turning into a self.
Anyway, I've I really want to work with all of these energies
and I have some dates that may change, but for now I will start
this conversation in May at the beginning of May, May 4th.
Because of May 2nd, Pluto goes retrograde and then we'll have
some gatherings on July, September, October and November.
And I feel like we'll really use images and photography but also
like writing at the end. I really want us to build a
collective Zing together and I'm very excited for this.
I feel this was something that I wanted to have done in my last
workshop because we had such amazing not only images, but
like people are like really like really attuned to their
discoveries and like reading images and imagining the birth
chart. So yeah, there's a lot.
Thank you, Gabs. Yeah, if anyone hasn't checked
out that series, I learned so much about myself through the
cardinal angles. It was incredible.
I just want to reply to the I can expand more on queer time.
I feel like Sherry should talk a bit about about your offering
and then and if you have more, we have more time, I will expend
more. Otherwise I think it is because
I as a Gemini I I go and I go and I talk a lot and I feel
sometimes Renee can filter a bit more and I feel that Renee was
the one that came up with the term query time.
So I'm also happy if Renee can want to explain more about this
later. I don't think I came up with
that term, 'cause I know I've heard it and I feel like any
queer person. And when I say that, like,
welcome to queer, to queerness. I don't know how people are
defining that these days, but I think that to queer something is
to. Melt its form and let it be
organic and natural and multiplicitous, multi
dimensional and sometimes contradictory.
And Gabs and I had a really stimulating meeting this past
week. Yes, all queers kind of
instinctively know what queer time is, I think, because
querying something is pushing back on the conceptually imposed
limits that human beings have come up with.
And human beings have come up with all kinds of limits for our
experiences, limits on gender, sexuality, love, limits on time.
And as we do the work in our own cohort of breaking away from
calendar time, from the Gregorian calendar time, like we
are also in it, You know, like we, I I'll speak for myself.
I had like a whole anxiety moment.
That I I pulled Alicia. Into right and I was like.
Oh my God, it's the end of 2023. Like, we have to let people know
what's going on for next year. But then everybody's retrograde.
Nobody's ready. We are very much in an emergent
process. And then I was like, oh LOL,
we're not working on astral time like we're not on planetary
time, but we are astral travellers and planetary
devotees, so of course nobody is ready.
And Gabs and I had a conversation this past week with
a a a new friend that we're really excited to bring into the
EA space for a conversation at some point over the year.
Who studies time? And who studies the way that
time has been mapped and encapsulated and thought of in
many different cultures, paradigms and planetarily.
There's so many ways to map time.
In Western culture, we map time on the Gregorian calendar.
There's timing that can be mapped to the sun, timing that
can be mapped to the moon, timing that can be mapped to
Venus and Mercury and Mars and Jupiter and the visible planets,
timing that can be mapped to cycles of growth.
And when we're thinking about querying time, I think one of
the things that we're thinking of is expanding time and also
collapsing time. And Gabs was mentioning these
two different outer planet cycles, Pluto and Neptune, over
the course of 2024, hanging out at the last degrees of their
signs, the 29th degree or 30th degree, depending on how you
count. Which can also be queered, but
it's called the anoretic degree and a lot of their keywords were
in this in between space. I I think probably folks heard
it like this morphing mutating space that especially as we push
into 2025 that. Last degree between Pisces and
Aries is getting real stimulated and there are new concepts of
selfhood and individuality emerging in collective
consciousness and in societal consciousness right now.
And I think a lot of those concepts will be very influenced
by time, ancestral time, Ancestral future, time life
cycle time, time of the era. So yeah, I would, I can.
I also have multiple Gemini, Sagittarius placements and we'll
talk for two hours about queering time.
So I'll just leave it there and pass it on to Sherry, because I
think Sherry's going to pick up these things too.
Hello. So as I'm sitting here I just
think I'm so excited the every time we meet there's like a
series of synchronicities and I'm just like sometimes I feel
like I'm watching something constellate and it makes me so
excited. We really wanted to create an
emergent space, so I have my notes here, but I want to read
you my keywords first because Gabs and I got together one day
and just like keyworded out, my keywords are dissolve, Decay,
Dissipate, Disperse, Collapse, Commune, Conjoin, Chaos,
Creation, Alchemy, Deluge, Nurture, Krone, Primordial,
Ripening, Deep Time, Big history, Kenosis, gnosis,
dreams, prophecy, solitude, grandmother, cynics, Bone,
mother. And then some of the themes that
I have that have been bubbling up.
I don't even want to say I've been thinking because I in the
process of creating this, I just got to tell Y'all I've been
revisited by dreams that I've had like years ago.
And again, just these little synchronicities that make it
feel like I just get to be a host for whatever wants to
happen. And that maybe that's a segue
into. That's really the approach that
I I want to hold this year is one of being a host, providing
enough invisible structure so that the collective that gathers
the third entity that gets created whenever a group gets
together can just have space to move as it sees fit.
And with that said, we're not done with Saturn.
I'm not done with Saturn. Saturn's not done with me.
Saturn's not done with us. Saturn is still in Pisces, And
so I recently left a message for Renee.
I was like, I feel like Saturn is asking us to prepare our
vessels. And that led me to really like
again this idea of time and the future and really querying that,
but also realizing that queer time is the time of the universe
because the universe is changed, the universe is processed,
consciousness is process. I am consciousness.
The self is something greater than any of us can actually
fathom and we make up these stories, right.
So having said that, my offering has gone through several
transitions I would like for one day.
I'll maybe I'll post this, but it involves, of course, this is
the Virgo in me, a braided calendar involving teddy bear,
emojis and all kinds of things. Maybe I'll I'm I'm going to keep
artifacts of my process, I think.
But I actually wanted to start this by really acknowledging the
lineages of my teachers, in no particular order.
Jessica Murray, Juanita Benedicto, Jessica Deruzza,
Diana Rose Bear River. Richard Tarnas, Ray Sapp, Austin
Kabak, Renee Stills. And, you know, the the community
at EA. I feel like I learned so much by
following conversations, by kind of really thinking, coming to
the tee times. It's really kind of expanded and
transformed my own way of understanding, you know, kind of
again, where I see myself as an astrologer.
And I think again, all of us are astrologers.
And I, before I kind of really get into what I'm hoping to do,
I want to situate myself. So I spent a lot of years doing
a lot of formalized education and I got really clear a number
of years ago that I'm absolutely not interested in that anymore.
I'm a Mystic. I'm a contemplative.
I want to learn via direct knowledge.
And it's not that I don't appreciate right tradition, I
do. You know, we all got a Saturn.
I I appreciate tradition. I appreciate appreciate lineage
in that way. And as I think part of what
everyone has been saying like we evolve astrology, right.
And so a quote from Claire Martin and it it kind of started
me on something and it's in from the book it's called mapping the
psyche. Claire writes it is some
sometimes said that the planets have stopped speaking to us
because we have stopped listening to them.
And so my invitation is last year Saturn in Pisces, it was so
much information, it was a lot of breadth, right.
This year Saturn is telling me to go deeper.
So this year is going to be depth oriented practice with
Saturn within the container of the Saturn retrograde cycle.
So it's going to really expand for the entire astrological
year, but be grouped more or less in sort of three, you can
call them. I'm referring to them as
devotional periods because, again, I have learned a lot from
astronomancers, you know, astrological magicians.
And it is about developing a very personal relationship,
right, To really see the face of Saturn, you know, that you're
working with, because that's the other thing, right?
We talk about archetypes, as Renee was saying, the archetypes
that we have for understanding any of the planets have evolved
under patriarchy. You know what I mean?
So that's that's and we, you know, it's up to us to break
them free actually, right. They need us to break them free
and that is at the heart of a participatory universe, right.
So, So yes. So it's going to launch, fingers
crossed, March the 23rd when Saturn enters the pre retrograde
shadow at 12° of Pisces. And here's the other thread.
And here's why. Here's why.
Because the other thread that I I got really kind of entranced
by, especially with this idea of futures, is, you know, spooky
action at a distance, quantum entanglement.
All of this is with an eye to August the 20, August the 20th,
2025, when there is going to be what's called a Talent Triangle
between Neptune and Saturn are going to be conjunct and Uranus
and Pluto are going to be sextile.
Neptune and Saturn and trying each other.
That is a major moment. I feel for something to come in
to existence. You know, Neptune and Pisces is
the ultimate generative energy. Saturn, the meeting of spirit
and matter, energized by the electricity and innovation of
Uranus and the transformative power of Pluto.
Catch you while you can, is what I'm saying.
But we gotta. But you can't.
You know that's a lot of energy. So and Saturn as a
representation of material reality, our physical bodies
our, you know, our ego quote really like how can we engage in
a practice that is so personal and granular.
So this is it, right. So this is, you know, I'm where
it's a grand experiment in quantum entanglement with that
moment in time, right. How what we're doing right now
can actually shape what will occur.
What's possible not for us. But also those are all right the
outer planets like that's the collective and it feels like a
it's just an experiment. I don't know.
But it's coming to me like that. So spooky spooky action at a
distance. Quantum entanglement.
So yes. So it's it's going to talk.
We're gonna have a period through each.
Each devotional period is going to be broken up into reflection,
which is a real deepening into you what what do you have?
You know, like what's going on with you and Saturn?
What's going on, you know, in Pisces, you know, and just kind
of really cultivating that coming up with a question in
allyship. Sometimes you create a petition
to a planetary body, you know, to ask you like, how do for me,
like themes have been coming up about how do I mature my
capacity to offer care to myself and to other people.
Saturn, Saturn can help with that, right?
You know, themes of vulnerability, compassion,
belonging, wisdom, right? We all have the capacity to be
wise, right? That's it has nothing to do with
age. So some of the things we're
going to explore, we'll wait, no.
So there will be a reflective period.
Then there's going to be a curated experience of release.
And I've thought about everything from inviting friends
in to offer, you know, sound baths, writing deep listening,
just let's let's get in, let's get in there right and start to
release. Right.
And that's the process of kinosis, a kind of self
emptying. And that is timed with the
balsamic moon, which is not the new moon, but the dark moon, the
fertile moon, the moon where the seed is in the dark, right in
the earth, doing its thing, incubating, having its own
conversation with the soil. So there'll be reflection,
release and then rest. Then we're going to rest and
that those are going to be moments of communion, right
Again, some of them. And it'll just be like, I've
thought about everything. And we talked to Renee, like,
maybe it'll be a community meal where we just come and eat
together sometimes. Maybe it'll be a movie night.
I have a lot of movies that I could show you know about the
the planets actually and just to have those conversations to
really start to build some connective, build the connective
tissue right of the larger body. OK.
So rest, I mean reflection release and rest and each each
period is just going to proceed just like that until you know so
from March to March, March 2024 to March 2025 explorer
alchemical process archetypes deep time.
I have invited some folks astronomers right who's think
about deep time and think about the space-time continuum you
know and and really sort of like to plant us more firmly in the
universe right. You know, it's this cosmic clock
that we're all kind of a part of.
What is it like? The whole, the whole of
everything anyone knows about human history, if it was put in
a year, is the last 10 seconds of December the 31st, right?
That's all of human history. The cosmos is so much bigger.
And I just wonder what happens when we Orient to, to
understanding ourselves in that way in time, across time, right.
And you know, also I've been studying things about paradigm
shifts, right? And the fact that it's, it's
less about figuring out the future versus discovering the
future, right? It's already here.
It's already here, right? And then then finally, you know
again from the perspective of deep time and cosmology, looking
at what are from astrophysicists and and whatnot, the cosmic
powers of the universe, of which things like seamlessness,
centration, my, a favorite of mine, allurement, right?
Beauty is actually a cosmic power of the universe that
attracts right, attracts communities together with, you
know, like let's put it in perspective, right.
That is the cosmos. Emergence homeostasis.
Cataclysm, right. Cataclysm.
You know, the universe has completely undone itself like
five times. Why do we think that we, why do
we think it's going to be any different for us, you know like,
but how can we like be together in the midst of like cataclysmic
changes and do it, you know, do so with Grace and again more
care anyway synergy, transmutation, transformation,
interrelatedness and radiance. So we'll be exploring a lot
within the a limbic of Saturn's retrograde, but with an eye to a
moment that hasn't happened yet, but that we, you know, are are
cultivating right now. So I'm hoping to see you all
there. I could say more but I'm going
to be quiet because I too am a mercury ruled person and can can
carry on. But right now, the tentative
title for it is Solvay ET Coagula, which is Dissolve and
Congeal. Oh wait, I have to finish with a
quote from somebody, because I think it really sums up what I'm
trying to say here. And this is from Jessica de
Rouza. And, Jessica writes, I guess the
one last thing I want to say is the task of the role of humans
right now in this cosmic love affair of Saturn and Neptune is
finding ways for us to begin to align with spirit and matter
coming together in their reunion.
It's a love affair that transcends each one of our
individual existences, and it's going to happen irrespective of
whether we help it or not. So we can align ourselves in
this teleological unfolding that the cosmos is going through, and
we can become the vessels of embodiment, of incarnating the
Divine through how we live moment to moment and most
importantly, in our relationships to one another.
Or we can remain unconscious and it will happen anyway.
So, you know, thank you. I'm excited.
Thank you, Sherry, Sam says. Wow, largest mic drop indeed.
I'll turn it over to Renee, not only to speak to their
offerings, but also Janata's as Janata Petrus wasn't able to be
here, but is very much a part of the team.
She's currently in Zanzibar and Africa, but we'll be back soon.
So, Renee, I'll, I'll let you speak to some of what Janata's
thinking about as well. Thank you, Alicia.
Thank you, Sherry. Thank you, Gabs.
Thank you, Ramon. Thank you, Michelle.
Nice to see you there. As folks were talking, I was
having a thought, which I have not had before, is a new thought
to me. But it seems kind of obvious now
that it has occurred in my mind, which is that I think a lot of
what we're doing here is creating a kind of contemporary
mystery school. There is a tradition of mystery
schools all over the world. Affiliations, programs, ideas,
processes to help US evolve and facilitate rites of passage.
Rites of passage processes are about going into the unknown and
leaving behind what's familiar. And I have so much reverence and
respect for my astrological teachers and for for the for the
teachers in the past and for the contemporary teachers.
And I really value what is being offered through programs like
Kepler or Astrology University. Lots of astrologers have
programs that they're offering right now.
But what I can say about the embodied astrology space is that
we are not practicing fidelity to form.
And that's actually our strength that you know, we we are devoted
students and we will be bringing in technique and lineage and
method. But more than that, what we're
inviting is experiential, playful, transformative process
with this work. And in that way it is a very
queer space. And Sherry and I have had a lot
of conversations about planetary devotional practices, planetary
allyship, and in my practice over the course of of my own
evolution with it. I've gone from being a student
that really wants to learn the math, the method, how is this
working? Like give me the give me the
fundamental components and details of it to a practitioner
that I could take it or leave it.
A lot of the time, I trust that the chart is a body and that it
is a portal, and actually that we are all deeply intuitive,
psychic perhaps, and that astrology is one way that we can
access that field and that that field is expansive.
It doesn't, actually. It's not contained in linear
time. And this, this lineage, this
practice of astrology is as old as human civilization, and all
of the ancestors of this work played with it.
And part of the trauma, I think, of Western modernity is loss of
playfulness and a real allegiance to like authorship
and knowing and answering right and having a kind of formalized
way and across the board. Everybody at EA is not
interested in investing more in that and I just feel really
grateful to be held in a community of cosmonauts and and
embodied explorers. And I'm really calling that in
terms of who's going to participate with us, that
that's, you know, we are inviting you to come in and feel
with us and explore and imagine and let these practices
stimulate you into your own transformation and meaning
making. And I think that's a great segue
to talk about Janata Petras, who has studied astrology since she
was a teenager. She's in her 40s now.
It has really shaped her perspective.
She and I have had a lot of conversations about astrology
and how it supported us, especially for our adolescence
and young adulthoods. Some of you might be familiar
with Janata's book The Stars and the blackness between them.
If anybody is looking for an amazing young adult fiction
book, I highly recommend reading.
This book was super healing for my inner adolescent self in in
what in so many of what the examples were that should not
have brought forward in terms of liberated love, communal love,
romantic love, friend love, family love.
And throughout that book she weaves in astrology and that was
actually where we first connected.
We found each other on the Internet and we were like you.
And since then our conversations have unfolded.
So last year in 2023, Janata facilitated a four part series
called Artistic Alchemy. Mutable the The Mutable Magic
Magic of the Mutable Science for Social, Creative and Satisfying
Artistic Process in Life or something like that is a long,
very mercurial title. And so we met near the new Moon
in every mutable season and Junata invited us into the
mutable placements and immutable intelligences in our chart.
We got to be inspired by her playlist and her chart examples
and the artist that she brought in to really consider how
mutability can support us in our creative world, making and
explorations and also practices. I was so inspired by those
sessions with her, and I know a lot of people also were.
They were very deep community spaces.
I felt like they were big support spaces for a lot of us,
kind of working through our own, you know, creative process,
which sometimes can be a block, sometimes can feel really
overwhelming, sometimes can be isolating.
So that was a chance to really come together and share space in
very generative ways. So this year we're really
excited to be welcoming Janata back, and Sherry's going to be
holding the dark moon and Janata's going to be holding the
full moon spaces. And so somewhere around the full
moon, Janata will be joining us and she is interested in
bringing in a couple different themes into her gatherings.
And like all of us, what what's coming through her is emerging
now. So we're very much in a in
process moment of presenting to you what what we're going to be
doing or the kind of directions we're headed.
So as of right now, what we know that Janata is really interested
in working with is continuing creative support space.
So you in your creative process and life are invited to bring
your projects, your curiosities, your questions.
And she wants to have support space for for creatives, for
creative making, but also for creative beingness.
Janata's also been talking a lot about bringing in astrology to
support relationships and to be thinking about the different
forms that relationships take. Relationship to self,
relationship to family, parent, child relationship, teacher,
student relationship, and inside of love and inside of queerness.
How do we navigate relationship? Monogamy, polyamory, asexuality,
multi Emory. You know, there are so many
different ways that people love and care for one another and are
responsible to each other and accountable to each other.
And astrology is enormously supportive for relationship
mapping. And she's interested as well in
exploring different ages and so using astrology to jump through
time and especially to be in conversation with our child
selves, adolescent selves. She's been talking about
rewilding as a practice and process.
And there may be more. We, all of us are also in
conversation with people outside of EA.
So Sherry mentioned bringing in some astronomer guests.
I mentioned the potential guest Gabs and I might bring in the
time. Researcher Janata has talked
about guests that she's bringing in.
Ramona and Michelle are going to be working with Adrian, so we're
excited to be braiding and weaving together inside of EA
and outside of EA. So when we share the recording
for today, we'll also share a video that Janata shared with us
and her ideations at the moment. And then hopefully we'll also be
having another open house sometime in January.
Right now our idea is to have our launch and kind of
registration open by the end of January and most of our programs
beginning most of the program beginning in March and April.
To clarify also in case folks are wondering, we're really into
options, if you if you haven't already picked that up, we're
really into options. And so there are going to be
options to drop into individual sessions for a lot of us.
Some of us are going to be grouping our sessions into
different segments like Sherry was talking about these
different kind of groupings of I forget how you termed that in my
mind right now, Sherry, But and there will also be an option for
folks who really want to dive in with us to do the whole program.
And the whole program will probably be something around
twice a week offerings once everything is is collected
somewhere between one, one and two times per week, multiple
times a month that you can, yeah, navigate.
Our course constellations. We're all weaving with each
other. So even though everybody has
their own interests and quite different offerings, we're
definitely in conversation with each other and thinking about
how does this create a coherent gestalt.
So with that, I'll talk a little bit about my direction this
year. I am really excited to be
returning to bodywork and somatic practice as an emphasis.
I taught movement for for 20 years, almost 15 years,
facilitating what some people could call yoga.
Sometimes I called it yoga, sometimes I called it other
things. I worked a lot in my training,
with accessibility and adaptable practices, working with folks
coming from all different kinds of body experiences.
My interest was how do we find healing, liberation, and
spiritual communion in our bodies, regardless of their
shape, their size, their momentary capabilities,
etcetera? That work brought me into the
realms of social justice. Doing work with with many
different bodies quickly, you know, provoked me to ask the
questions of like what are, what are other forms of access that
people have, and what are the larger structures that are
creating conditions for bodies to be emerging and evolving
inside of. And as a person who is deeply
invested in my own path of liberation, I have to be
invested in yours and in ours. And I think that this is kind of
like the timeless seeking that many of us feel ourselves
invested in, that we are deeply desiring our own freedom and our
own happiness. And understanding that freedom
and happiness for anyone is absolutely intertwined with
freedom and happiness for all and the interrelationships and
reciprocity that humans have with the more than human realm
and our environmental components that are not separate from our
bodies. Now over the last 10 years
building EA, my focus has been a lot on astrology and studying
astrology, teaching astrology, mapping astrology.
And in that time I found myself getting more heady than I like
to feel. And last year I started a new
class that in Pisces season of 2023 called Somatic Space.
Some of you may have encountered that weekly class where my
practice has been to explore astrology as a somatic score,
which is something that I've thought a lot about as a
concept. But to really kind of put that
into practice, like how do we navigate astrology through
movement, through visualization, through meditation?
And how could I, as a facilitator, create a space
where bodies are welcome regardless of their ability,
social location, physical location, etcetera?
How do these practices translate across distance and difference?
That's a question I'm still asking.
Definitely not one that I have any kind of solid answer for,
but a real curiosity. So in 2024, I'm excited to
continue with somatic space just as a weekly class.
It's a drop in class. Anybody can come anytime.
If you sign up for the full program, you'll get access to
that. I'll also be continuing Tea
Time, which is a monthly gathering where we get together
and just talk about astrology. In the current moment in 2024,
the space will change a little bit.
Over the last few years it has been a space where we've done
chart work with the group and have invited folks to share
their charts and kind of feel into what's happening for
individuals. In 2024, we're going to shift a
little bit and let it be a space where we can gather and explore
collective astrology more so than individual astrology.
And it will be a a kind of spill out for my monthly horoscope
spaces. And I'm just curious in
astrological research, like, how is this feeling for you all?
What are people noticing and following the news, right?
Following our own personal lives, our relational
experiences. Astrology is working all the
time, and Tea Time is a place where we get to share how it's
working in our lives and explore how it might be described and
worked with. A couple years ago I offered an
intensive, I believe in 2021 called Your Chart is a Body, and
that was my first attempt at conveying astrology in the way
that it makes sense to me. And how it makes sense to me is
hard to articulate because I identify as a clairsentient,
intuitive. And so folks might be familiar
with the Claire's like clairaudience, clairvoyance,
these are psychic channels that everybody has.
I believe that all beings are connected with each other on the
Psychic Friends Network. Whether our connection is stable
or expansive has a lot to do with, I think, our innate
beingness, our charts. But definitely with.
The ways that we've been raised and what we have been encouraged
to know about ourselves, and we do not live in a world where
intuition is thing is the thing that you know, dominant culture
believes in. And we're certainly not
encouraged to cultivate intuitive sensitivity with
ourselves or with one another. Being raised by a somatic
astrologer who was a therapist was such a gift.
And I give thanks to my mother, Dee Moulton, and the work that
she did as a human being and practitioner and parent to allow
me to really develop my own intuitive practices.
And I've had many other teachers that have been part of of that
evolution for me. But the way that I read charts
is highly intuitive and most of my chart readings and that
includes the horoscopes that I do as well as private clients or
when I work with groups. Most of my chart readings, I
don't actually start with the meaning making of astrology.
I don't look at a chart and go, OK, who's the chart ruler?
Where is it? What are the aspects go into
essential dignity or anything like that, which is a lot of
what you'll learn when you learn traditional astrology.
That is not my approach or my practice.
What occurs for me is bodily sensation.
I look at a chart. I feel into the chart shape, the
the planets start to stimulate my body parts.
I become overwhelmed by sensation.
And then I talk about the sensation.
And I've experienced repeatedly and consistently that what I'm
saying is resonating for people and I often have no idea.
As I'm saying at what I'm talking about, I'm like, whoa.
OK, this is what I'm feeling. I'm just going to give voice to
it and it's like, here you go. And then I hear people's
stories. I hear what they were, what is
being stimulated for them. I learned at the beginning of my
client practice that if I spend time preparing before I go to
meet a client and I get in my own head about, oh, this thing
or that thing, I'll start making up stories.
I'll be like, oh, yeah, you know, they did this and then
they did that, and then this thing is happening, and then
I'll meet them. And none of that is what's going
on. My practice is about preparing
my vessel. I study astrology every single
day. I'm constantly reading about it.
I'm learning techniques and methods.
I really value them. But when I come to do the work
of astrology, what is most impacting and important for me
is presence. And cultivating embodied
presence is a practice. So your chart is a body was my
first attempt to to teach this as an approach and as a method.
And the challenge of it is that there is no formal meaning
making that I'm doing. So I'm not interested in saying,
oh, Mars is about anger. What I'm interested in is what
does Mars stimulate as Physiology?
And when you feel into the archetypes of Mars and the many
associations that you may have gathered from this symbol, what
emerges for you from your own lived experience and biography
in your social location and body?
How do you get to experience Mars?
How do you get to experience Venus?
It's going to change for everybody depending on who they
are, what their body looks like, where they were raised, what the
context are, what age they are right, who they're around in
that given moment. So I'm really interested in the
potentials of what happens when we learn new ways of
communicating and expanding curiosity and perception.
A very deep question for me as a human being is how do we expand
our perceptual awareness? And when it comes to the human
realms, there is such deep lack of perceptual awareness so
frequently. And Ramon was talking about
working with conflict mapping, which is something that I'm very
interested in as well. I experienced consistently that
astrology helps expand conflict in a productive, helpful,
healing way. And what I mean by that is that
conflict often times collapses into polarized binaries.
People are dug in with their heels on their stance, their
point of view. They think they're right.
They they have their own experience, and they are right
about their own experience, right?
But their own experience is a tiny drop in the ocean, and
there's so much else that's happening.
And when we have technologies and practices that allow us to
extend our consciousness in different directions, then we
can build context for what's happening.
We can come into different awareness of other others points
of view and lived experiences. We can expand our own awareness
about our own experience, which is often, you know, encapsulated
in a particular moment or fixed identity.
There's so much creativity that then becomes possible in the
space of differences and that is something that I'm really
curious about, really interested in and wanting to promote.
So in 2024 I'll be continuing with your chart as a body.
This is the first time since 2021 that I've picked that work
up again in a formal way and I'll I'll be inviting folks to
work with your chart as a body. It's a stand alone offering at
this point. It's a collection of videos,
guided meditations, worksheets. This year I'll be expanding the
the worksheets and offering new content, but really holding
space for us to do the work of reading charts together and
putting this into practice. And so your chart as a body will
be a monthly meeting space. There will be an asynchronous
virtual component to it. And this is where we're going to
be doing a lot of the work of the kind of fundamentals of
reading charts. I'm not going to be working with
specific transits this year in my own self.
I'm not going out into like my own associations.
Like, wow, how are we going to work with Mars?
How are we going to work with this?
What I want to do is build a field where you all can do that
together, and where we can build new vocabulary and expand the
symbolism that we're working with and together that we can
also cultivate and elevate in intuitive capacity, build our
clearsentience. So I'll be doing that weekly
with somatic space, monthly with your chart as a body, and then
in another form with tea time, where we can come together in in
conversation. Yeah, beyond that I'm really
excited, Like, so excited. It keeps me awake at night
thinking about it to be in person this We've been virtual
for years now and there have been like a couple of in person
moments. In 2022 we got to have a brief
touch in with with Ramon at Naropa for the Jupiter Neptune
Convergence and this year I'm excited to go back to Naropa
back to Boulder in April for the Uranus Jupiter Convergence.
I'm also excited to be collaborating with Ramon and
Michelle in October at the Eco Dharma Retreat.
And Sherry and I have talked about Co facilitating a retreat
on the West Coast sometime in the summer or fall.
And I know how much happens in somatic space and in the
workshops like we have really expansive, transcendent
experiences. People are elevated in their
consciousness. It's like something happens in
those spaces and we're just on zoom when we get in person that
is going to get the volume turned up so loud.
My favorite place to be is in workshop intensive retreat space
with human bodies. The frequency that we build
together is profound, and when we get to do this work of a
tuning with big archetypal collective and planetary
energies, so much gets channelled in.
And so I'm really excited to experience that more.
And I'm also really excited to be in communal space with folks
who I know, like I know a lot of the people who come to EAA
little bit, not a a lot of you. I don't know a lot about you,
but I know a little bit. And I know enough to know that
the folks who are drawn to EA are coming with a lot of
different kinds of skills and wisdoms and intelligences and
talents. And when we get together, so
much happens that is really deeply integrative and healing
and educational. And yeah, I I just, I'm kind of
like anticipating and waiting for those spaces because I am
longing for them so much in my own life.
The last thing I'll say is a quote that I pulled out from
James Burgess, who has done a really beautiful work on the
Sabian symbols. And I believe that this was a
quote for, and I could be wrong here.
So I'm not entirely sure, but I believe that this was a quote
for 10° of Libra, which is one of the sites of eclipses in
2024. Knowledge is a living thing, and
all living things have investment in their future.
Really loved that knowledge is a living thing, and all living
things have investment in their future.
I really feel myself as a as a channel and conduit and deeply
devoted servant of universal force and planetary
intelligence. It is anything that I would ask
for, everything that I would ask for to be made an instrument for
knowledge to continue to know itself.
And I think that's what we do with astrology.
I think that's what we do with somatic practice.
I think that's what we do with art and poetry and mysticism,
and I think that's definitely what we do with activism and
community work. So yeah, I'll pause there and
just say that I'm really hopeful to be able to spend time with
you all and to meet you and share space virtually and in
person. And I hope to, you know, be
offering things with embodied astrology that speak to you and
to your interests and longings.