Sleeper Agents: Epistemologies of Survival

Episode Description: This week we’re talking about language as armor, language as weapon, and language as time travel. Jane Goodall spent 60 years figuring out what makes humans different from chimpanzees. Her answer: we can speak of things that are absent — the past, the future, ideas that don't exist in any room we're standing in. I explore how whoever gives you the words gets to give you the time. This episode traces what happens when someone uses that power against you — and what it takes to get your timeline back. On the astrology side: a Sagittarius Full Moon asking where your hard-won knowledge actually belongs, Athena as feminist sleeper agent, Vesta making way for ecstatic chaos, and the Arachne story as a case study in truth-telling strategy. Plus Mars square Pluto, Ceres entering Gemini, and a week that wants you to get strategic about how you apply what you know. Content warning: sexual trauma. References: Jane Goodall, "What Separates Us from Chimpanzees?" TED 2003 Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow (2010) Audre Lorde, "The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House," Sister Outsider (1984)\ Music by Charmie Chandler Group space, 2nd and 4th Mondays 5:30pm CT: sign up here Book sessions: calendly.com/amaliathecoach   Keywords: astrology podcast, Sagittarius full moon May 2026, epistemology and trauma, language and power, Jane Goodall human language time travel, Athena Arachne myth, Vesta asteroid astrology, sleeper agents mythology, knowledge production, sexual trauma healing, somatic healing, Michelle Alexander injustice system, IFS astrology, Mars Pluto square May 2026, Ceres Gemini 2026, this erotic timeline   TIMESTAMPS 00:00 — Cold open: how do you know what you know? 00:54 — Welcome + grounding ritual 01:48 — Astrology of the week 02:33 — Monday May 25: Squaring up with the dark 04:46 — Tuesday May 26: Athena — feminist sleeper agent 09:02 — Vesta — the invisible hearth keeper who made way for ecstatic chaos 11:18 — Thursday May 28: Ceres enters Gemini — talk about the grief 13:04 — Sunday May 31: Sagittarius Full Moon — how do you apply your hard-won knowledge? 15:16 — Athena and Arachne: a case study in truth-telling 21:03 — Midway: Jane Goodall, language, and time travel 23:27 — Descent: the word epistemology and what it cost me 31:00 — Leaving academia, learning to walk on the ground 38:06 — Survivors of sexual abuse and the power institutions don't want us to have 41:17 — Holy shit! your body has been time traveling all this time 45:50 — What this podcast is actually for 49:01 — Weekly recap + closing questions