Beginning Again: Embodied Astrology for Aquarius Season (January 20-February 19, 2023)

Welcome back to the Embodied Astrology podcast!  We’re relaunching monthly overviews with Renee Sills this Aquarius Season. We hope you enjoy this episode! Timestamps are below for easy navigation through this 3-part episode.  0:00-24:37: Welcome back! A re-introduction from Renee and a developmental overview of the Embodied Astrology project and timeline. 24:37-54:55: Astrology in collective context. Looking at the influences of Capricorn and Aquarius. 54:55-end: Aquarius Season overview. Key transit dates, timing, and interpretations.  Aquarius rules connective tissues and conduits for information. It is associated with technology, innovation, invention, and The Future. As The Water Bearer, Aquarius is also a symbol of the flow of energy between humans – the ways that information shapes emotions, beliefs, actions, and “reality.” Aquarius’ archetype demands our participation in the life experience but also invites us to awaken to the potentials for choice within this realm. It forces confrontation with the rigidity and violence of humanity’s ideas, as they’ve evolved over the forces of time, dominance, and control. It asks us to ask deeper, to consider our own compliance, investigate our options, and identify and embody alternatives to the status quo.  This is a season to make micro-adjustments with intention. Small (and large) changes now, will amplify exponentially when we commit to them. In the midst of a world experiencing devastating violence, environmental and human calamity, and unnecessary compounding harm, there are still so many reasons to continue. There is a revolution underway. Creative brilliance is blossoming in the spaces of resistance. It is happening everywhere, in everyone. Though nothing is guaranteed and chaos is inevitable, the next decades also bring the option of powerful progressive change as increasing numbers of people stand up, speak out, and shift.  —  CLICK HERE FOR EMBODIED ASTROLOGY CLASSES & WORKSHOPS CLICK HERE FOR EMBODIED ASTROLOGY MONTH-AHEAD READINGS FOR ALL 12 SIGNS Defend the Atlanta Forest  Direct donation link to the Atlanta Solidarity Fund  Stop Cop City Site MPD150 Abolitionist Toolkit https://www.theviolenceproject.org/about-us/ https://abcnews.go.com/US/guys-guns-men-vast-majority-americas-gun-violence/story?id=79125485 https://www.healthdata.org/acting-data/gun-violence-united-states-outlier https://www.statista.com/statistics/476456/mass-shootings-in-the-us-by-shooter-s-race/ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jan/06/us-police-killings-record-number-2022  -- Thank you Ari Nason for preparing notes for me to reference and for your work with MPD150. I learn so much from my partner Ayanna Drakos- historian and scholar of Black Feminism and conduit of tender-hearted wisdom. Conversations and friendships with several of this year’s EA faculty continue to support me in thinking through many of these issues and illuminating their dimensions: Dr. Amber McZeal; Sherri Taylor; Indira Allegra; Junauda Petrus, Karlyn Bradley; Bridgette Hickey; Michelle and Ramon Gabrieloff- Parish; Ced Clearwater and Gabz 404. Gratitude and acknowledgement to Bayo Akomolafe, Janice Lee, Resmaa Menakam, Alnoor Ladha, and Carlin Quinn for teaching and modeling post-capitalist possibility and somatic abolitionism.