Aligning the Layered Self: Ancestral Inheritance and Leadership with Michelle and Ramon Gabrieloff-Parish

Michelle and Ramon Gabrieloff-Parish make up Once and Future Green, consulting, facilitating, and providing education for community groups, governments, universities and philanthropies working on climate and environmental justice. As partners (married since 2000) and individuals , Michelle and Ramon both bring creative, communal approaches deeply rooted in spirit and ancestral traditions.  In this episode, Michelle and Ramon talk with me about the lineages they come from and the visions they have for their work and the world. I get their insight as storytellers, mystics and astrologers into our current moment and the potentials we can find in times of breakdown and crisis.  Michelle and Ramon will be offering a guest workshop with Embodied Astrology on August 21: Aligning the Layered Self: Ancestral Inheritance and Leadership. Find more information and register here Michelle Gabrieloff-Parish is an ethnofuturist mama and ecotopian dreamer preoccupied with ancestors, art, environmental justice and Earth (re)becoming a paradise. Seeking eco-cultural regeneration, and illuminating connections between sustainability and social justice, nature and art, Michelle brings over 20 years of experience in environmental justice. She’s a student and teacher of permaculture and ecological design. She is a former US State Department BoldFood fellow (Uganda) and served as a US delegate for the Colorado River in San Luis del Rio Colorado, Mexico. Michelle facilitates and consults for frontline communities, philanthropies and governments to forward community-driven planning and solutions with transformative anti-oppression and ecological design tools through the OnceAndFutureGreen.com . She is a poet, currently featured at Meow Wolf Denver, a wife, and mother of three.  Ramon Gabrieloff-Parish is a life long star gazer, Afrofuturist philosopher, practicing astrologer, social artist and creative ceremonalist. His current project is to utilize the many outer planetary alignments of the 2020's as catalysts for imaginal, collaborative and institutional transformation. In his day job as a chair of Naropa University’s Interdisciplinary Studies department he focuses in the intersections of equity and sustainability through courses on food and environmental justice. He also teaches foundations in contemplative learning and theory, emboidment, social identity, and conflict transformation. Ramon is committed to community, cultural and cosmic regeneration, through his consulting work with Once and Future Green and with organizations like Golden Bridge, Youth Passageways and recently as board chair of Frontline Farming . . . . Find more information on becoming a member of the Embodied Astrology workshop and community spaces here  GET THE 2022 YEAR-AHEAD READINGS FOR YOUR SUN/RISING SIGN   LEARN HOW TO READ CHARTS with my online class series, Your Chart is a Body - an introduction to embodied chart reading where you’ll learn to identify, interpret, and synthesize the three main components of an astrology chart: signs, planets, aspects, and houses all through an embodied, somatic lens.  Do you love this work? Share it with your friends and family :) Leave a tip!