This Erotic Timeline

Amalia Scott Jančič

This Erotic Timeline is a weekly podcast for people who have started to suspect that the timeline they were handed is costing them something they can't always name yet. This podcast is about time. Not the kind you can measure, but the kind that moves through your body whether you cooperate with it or not. Hosted by Amalia — astrologer, counselor, coach, committed hopeful disciple of the impossible— each episode does two things: it covers the week's astrology with the mythological depth it deserves, then descends into history, grief, embodiment, and whatever that week is actually asking for. We've traced how Caesar stole the lunar calendar, what New Orleans' mud and maroon communities know about the future, what Venus looked like before the patriarchy took her teeth, and much more. The premise tries to stay simple. The implications get really big. Because it turns out: there is a timeline made of clocks and conquest, and there's a timeline your body has been keeping all along. This show is a slow spiral back into the one your body never forgot.

  1. 4d ago ·  Bonus

    Ephemeris 6 :: Nov 9–15 :: Sure Babe, Send Me To Hell

    Episode description Venus and Mercury both station direct on Friday the 13th, and this episode asks what it actually costs to climb back out of the underworld and how we might make a feminist time warp of it. In the ancient story of the Descent of Inanna, the price for coming back up from the underworld is a substitute and your grief. We follow Inanna as she finally mourns the man she sent below in her place, and how this time she might be loving every second of it. From there we look at grief as erotic capacity, through Audre Lorde, and at kink as the consensual container that lets us reach for what we’ve been too afraid to want. Astrology for November 9–15: Mercury retrograde sextile Black Moon Lilith, Uranus trine Juno, Venus retrograde sextile Mars, Jupiter and then Mars conjunct the South Node in Leo, the double direct station (plus a Hermaphroditus Day), and the Mars-Jupiter conjunction. We close with a look ahead to Mars retrograde in January, and news about the Patreon and the upcoming course, Astrology for Ancestral Intelligence. Book a session - https://www.amaliathecoach.com/ Music by Charmie Chandler - https://www.instagram.com/charmie_chandler/ Our favorite audio editor ever Chantal Defelice - https://chantaldefelice.com/ + ig @chantaldefelice References Inana’s Descent to the Nether World (ETCSL translation) Excerpt from the Alphabet of Ben Sira 78: Lilith Ovid, Metamorphoses Book IV (A.S. Kline translation) Hermaphroditus Salmacis (fountain) Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde (Open Library) Phantom Thread Keywords: Venus retrograde, Mercury retrograde, Venus direct, Mercury direct, Friday the 13th, Descent of Inanna, Ereshkigal, Dumuzi, Lilith, Black Moon Lilith, Juno, Hermaphroditus, South Node in Leo, Mars conjunct Jupiter, grief, kink, Audre Lorde, erotic, queer astrology, trans astrology, evolutionary astrology, weekly horoscope Chapter markers 00:00 Friday the 13th, Couldn’t Have Scripted It Better 01:32 Welcome & Grounding Ritual 03:02 A Refreshing Week 03:29 Monday: Give Your Exiles Pen and Paper 05:10 The OG Runaway Bride Gets the Mic 06:15 Tuesday: Venus Meets Her Man 06:57 Came for the Funeral, Took the Throne 10:34 Phantom Thread Recap 13:31 Kink Is Never Just About Sex 14:53 Even Gods Gotta Grieve 16:37 Wednesday: Dethroning, Not Banishing 18:41 Thursday: Read the Fine Print 20:20 Friday the 13th: A Feminist Time Warp 23:15 Happy Hermaphroditus Day 26:23 Saturday: Somebody’s Climbing Back on the Throne 27:33 Sunday: War God and King, Shoulder to Shoulder 29:59 Mars in the Shadows, Blue Tsunami Rising 31:19 Time to Gather Again 32:58 Summary + Reflection Questions

  2. Nov 2 ·  Bonus

    Ephemeris 5 :: Nov 2–8 :: Unlearning Apocalypse

    This week’s Ephemeris is about the stories we tell around endings, and the fights we carry because of them. With a Mercury cazimi in Scorpio, we get suspicious of inherited apocalypse narratives and pull apart instinct from intuition. We reread the Tower of Babel as an ending that made a whole world of languages. Then, under a Scorpio New Moon square Mars, we trace the word war back to roots meaning confusion, and ask which fights we’d be proud to carry, which are only pride, and why aiming at institutions works better than burning ourselves down on individuals. Astrology: Leo Moon on the south node, Virgo Moon square Uranus, Mercury cazimi, Venus retrograde sextile Jupiter, Pluto conjunct Juno (Hera’s older roots and her defiance of Zeus), Athena square Black Moon Lilith, Libra Moon conjunct Venus retrograde, and the Scorpio New Moon square Mars. Content warning: strong language; war and genocide; references to sexual violence in myth; harm and survivorship. References Genesis 11:1–9, the Tower of Babel war (Online Etymology Dictionary) The Iliad (Butler translation) Inana’s Descent to the Nether World (ETCSL) Orion (Theoi) Scorpius, the Giant Scorpion (Theoi)   Keywords: astrology, Ephemeris, weekly horoscope, Mercury cazimi, Mercury retrograde, Scorpio New Moon, Mars in Leo, Venus retrograde, Juno, Hera, Pluto in Aquarius, Black Moon Lilith, Athena, Tower of Babel, apocalypse, AI, war, etymology, grief, queer astrology Book a session - https://www.amaliathecoach.com/ Music by Charmie Chandler - https://www.instagram.com/charmie_chandler/ Our favorite audio editor ever Chantal Defelice - https://chantaldefelice.com/ + ig @chantaldefelice   Chapter markers 00:00 Our Word for Not Understanding 01:20 Welcome & Grounding Ritual 02:43 Week Overview 03:05 Monday :: Let the Self-Concept Shift 05:22 Tuesday :: A Habit Cracks Open 06:13 Wednesday :: Heart of the Sun 07:18 Over the Doomsday Story 09:16 Instinct vs. Intuition 13:12 Babel Was an Ending Too 18:59 Thursday :: Juno Goes Underground 21:17 Plan vs. Chaos 22:17 Friday :: No Rush 22:44 Saturday :: Don’t Text Your Ex 23:24 Sunday :: Seeds of War 24:49 War Means Confusion 26:59 Which Fights Are Yours 29:42 Note to Survivors 32:06 Summary + Reflection Questions

  3. Oct 26 ·  Bonus

    Ephemeris 4 :: Oct 26–Nov 1 :: Your Underworld Is Not a Mine

    This week’s Ephemeris asks how to move through our own underworlds without strip-mining them. Pluto takes its name from Plouton, the wealth-giver, so with the Scorpio Sun squaring Pluto in Aquarius we look at extraction, technology, and the survival skills that count as underground wealth. Then we meet Hermes in the Homeric Hymn: a newborn who invented the lyre and fire-sticks, stole his brother’s cattle, curbed his own appetite to make an offering to the gods, and lied about all of it with a straight face. We ask: when is a trick theft, and when is it art? Astrology: Sun square Pluto, Mars trine Vesta, Venus retrograde opposite Chiron (with Ereshkigal and the grievers from the Descent of Inanna), Sun sextile Black Moon Lilith, Mercury retrograde square Mars, Venus retrograde trine the North Node, a Cancer Moon on Halloween, and a Last Quarter Moon in Leo on the first day of Dia de Los Muertos, with Neptune sextile Juno. Keywords: astrology, Ephemeris, weekly horoscope, Mercury retrograde, Venus retrograde, Scorpio season, Pluto in Aquarius, Hermes, Homeric Hymn, trickster, Inanna, Ereshkigal, grief, capitalist extraction, Halloween, Dia de Los Muertos, Last Quarter Moon, Leo, mythology, queer astrology Book a session - https://www.amaliathecoach.com/ Music by Charmie Chandler - https://www.instagram.com/charmie_chandler/ Our favorite audio editor ever Chantal Defelice - https://chantaldefelice.com/ + ig @chantaldefelice References Homeric Hymn to Hermes (Evelyn-White translation) Plato, Cratylus 403 Inana’s Descent to the Nether World (ETCSL) Inanna, Queen of Heaven and Earth (Wolkstein & Kramer) Radical Non-Completion with Bayo Akomolafe (Becoming the People)     Chapter markers 00:00 Tricks Steeped in Wisdom 01:15 Welcome Ritual & Grounding 02:44 Week Ahead Plotlines 03:05 Monday :: Touching Treasure Respectfully 05:15 Plouton, the Wealth-Giver 07:09 Taurus-Slow with Poison in the Air 09:31 Tuesday :: Fire Tending Fire 11:32 Wealth Gets Wealthier When It Moves 12:42 Wednesday :: Love Meets the Wound 16:49 Thursday :: The Crab Outgrows a Shell 17:54 Friday :: A Trickster’s Identity Revision 18:31 Born in a Cave at Dawn 21:57 A Bald-Faced Lying Baby 23:18 How a Baby Gets Leverage 25:05 A Guest in Mars’ House 26:13 The Feint and the Fake-Out 31:08 Saturday :: Grandmas Coming Through the Veil 33:0 Sunday :: Curtain Call 36:09 Summary + Reflection Questions

  4. Oct 19 ·  Bonus

    Ephemeris 3 :: Oct 19–25 :: Reassign the Monster

    Venus has disappeared into the light of the sun, and the Venus retrograde story reaches its turning point. This episode treats grief as a skill: one most of us were never taught, one warmongers know how to weaponize, and one that actually moves the story forward. We explore Scorpio season’s arrival through two scorpion myths: Tiamat’s grief-monsters in the Enuma Elish, and the scorpion Gaia sends after Orion. Along the way we get to data centers, freshwater, and what it could mean to reassign the monster. The astrology covers Venus square Pluto, the Sun opposite Chiron and square Black Moon Lilith, the Venus cazimi at 0° Scorpio, Mercury stationing retrograde, and a Taurus full moon square Pluto. Keywords: Venus retrograde, Venus cazimi, Venus square Pluto, Mercury retrograde, Scorpio season, Taurus full moon, Chiron in Aries, Black Moon Lilith, Inanna, Ereshkigal, Descent of Inanna, kur-jara, gala-tura, Tiamat, Enuma Elish, scorpion-people, Gilgamesh, Artemis, Orion, Gaia, grief, radical acceptance, Honorable Harvest, data centers, freshwater, open-source AI, evolutionary astrology, queer astrology Book a session - https://www.amaliathecoach.com/ Music by Charmie Chandler - https://www.instagram.com/charmie_chandler/ Our favorite audio editor ever Chantal Defelice - https://chantaldefelice.com/ + ig @chantaldefelice   References Inana’s Descent to the Nether World (ETCSL translation) Enuma Elish, Tablets I–III The Babylonian Creation Story (Enuma Elish), study guide The Epic of Gilgamesh, Tablet IX Skorpios: The Scorpion (Theoi) Aratus, Phaenomena (Theoi) Guidelines for the Honorable Harvest, from Braiding Sweetgrass Combining Science and Traditional Ecological Knowledge Making AI Less “Thirsty” Ukrainian Drones Hit Sberbank Data Center After Yandex Attacks (Moscow Times) Intelligence per Watt: Local AI Efficiency (The Batch) OLMo: A Truly Open LLM (Allen Institute for AI) This Home Coder Built Free, Open-Source Versions of Photoshop, Lightroom and Premiere Venus in 2026 (Obliquity SkyEye) Venus at Inferior Conjunction (EarthSky)     Chapter markers 00:00 When The God of Love Goes Missing 01:20 Welcome + Grounding Ritual 04:09 Monday :: What Glitters, What Stinks 05:39 Tuesday :: Naked at the Last Gate 09:06 The Art of the Crouch: Radical Acceptance 09:59 Wednesday :: The Wound Wants an Audience 11:58 Thursday :: The Exiles Come Knocking 13:21 Friday :: Scorpio Season Enter Humbly or Not at All 17:12 Tiamat :: A Mother in Grief 19:49 Grief’s Monsters Reassigned 21:14 Data Centers on Apsu’s Body 24:10 Artemis, Orion, and the Worst Brag in Myth 27:22 Opposite Ends of the Sky 28:52 The Cazimi :: Killed with a Glance 31:45 Saturday :: The Messenger Goes Down 32:31 Oh My Heart, Oh My Liver 35:54 Sunday :: Venus Exhales into Libra 37:26 Taurus Full Moon :: Desire Gets a Riverbed 42:17 Summary and Reflection Questions

  5. Oct 12 ·  Bonus

    Ephemeris 2 :: Oct 12–18 :: Unbind Your Own Feet

    In this week of the Ephemeris series we explore this week’s skies which are full of generosity. With friendly aspects to Jupiter and Saturn, we get structure to our drive. We focus on Saturn’s aspects to Mars and Athena, so we go to Saturnalia: the Roman festival when Saturn’s wool-bound feet were untied and the household hierarchy flipped for a week. Was that ritual a memory of a golden age, or a pressure valve that kept an enslaving empire running? We follow the Roman telling where Saturn, overthrown by Jupiter, builds a world without hierarchy from exile. Then we ask what it would take to schedule our own disruptions, by our bodies and the land instead of the state’s calendar. Astrology for Oct 12–18: a rough Scorpio Moon, Vesta square Ceres, the Sun-Jupiter sextile, Pluto stationing direct in Aquarius, Mars trine Saturn and Athena, Chiron square Juno, Saturn conjunct Athena, the First Quarter Moon in Capricorn, and Venus retrograde sextile Black Moon Lilith. Content warning: brief mentions of slavery, sexual violence, and mythological violence (castration, child-eating). Keywords astrology, weekly horoscope, Saturnalia, Saturn mythology, golden age, Roman religion, Jupiter, Rhea, Titanomachy, Athena, Mars trine Saturn, Saturn conjunct Athena, Pluto direct, Pluto in Aquarius, Sun sextile Jupiter, cazimi, Vesta square Ceres, Chiron square Juno, First Quarter Moon in Capricorn, Venus retrograde in Scorpio, Black Moon Lilith, liberation, collective care, resistance, desire, evolutionary astrology, queer astrology Book a session - https://www.amaliathecoach.com/ Music by Charmie Chandler - https://www.instagram.com/charmie_chandler/ Our favorite audio editor ever Chantal Defelice - https://chantaldefelice.com/ + ig @chantaldefelice References Saturnalia (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturnalia Macrobius’ Saturnalia, Book One (free, Internet Archive): https://archive.org/details/macrobius-saturnalia-book-01-english-1969 Virgil, Aeneid Book VIII (free, Poetry in Translation): https://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Latin/VirgilAeneidVIII.php Hesiod, Theogony (free, Theoi): https://www.theoi.com/Text/HesiodTheogony.html Apollodorus, The Library, Book 1 (free, Theoi): https://www.theoi.com/Text/Apollodorus1.html   Chapter markers 00:00 Liberation The Imagination Has To Stretch Fore 01:45 Welcome & Grounding Ritual 03:52 Monday: Knives, Whetstones, and Moody Molecules 05:13 Tuesday: Respect the Goo 06:28 Wednesday: Turn the Burner Down to a Simmer 07:41 Thursday: The First Green Shoot 09:36 Pluto Is Done Reviewing 11:08 Friday: Fertile Saturn Action 11:51 A God With His Feet Tied Up in Wool 15:10 The Golden Age Was Built in Exile 16:29 Planting When the Frost Has Passed, Not When a King Says So 18:00 Just Enough Reprieve 19:17 Stop Waiting for the Empire to Unbind Your Feet 20:43 Plan to Be a Bitch! 21:41 Saturday: Reviewing the Seeds We Planted While Starving 22:37 Sunday: Liberation Across Generations 25:14 Put Your Weight Behind Your Words 26:34 Summary + Reflection Questions for the Week Ahead

  6. Oct 5 ·  Bonus

    Ephemeris 1 :: Oct 5–11 :: Grief Is a Skill

    Venus stationed retrograde in Scorpio on October 3. This week we tell, in full and from a translation of the primary text, the Sumerian myth astrologers have come to pair with Venus retrograde: the Descent of Inanna. Inanna crashes her grieving sister's underworld in full regalia, grabs her throne, and dies. Two gender-nonconforming professional grievers made from fingernail dirt bring her back, not by fixing anything, but by mirroring her sister's pain. We follow how the story sorts everyone by how well they grieve, then turn that lens on the AI panic and how civilization tends to send things to the underworld so it doesn't have to grieve. Astrology for October 5–11, 2026: Mercury conjunct Venus retrograde in Scorpio, a Leo Moon on Jupiter and the South Node, the Libra New Moon with Venus square Mars, and the Sun square Ceres. Grief is a full-bodied skill. This week, we’re remembering to practice. Content warning: death and grief, ritual self-laceration in mourning, references to eugenics and racism, discussion of AI extinction risk, explicit language. Keywords Venus retrograde, Venus retrograde in Scorpio, Inanna, Descent of Inanna, Ereshkigal, Sumerian mythology, grief, grief work, mourning, gala priests, kurgarra, third gender, queer mythology, trans history, Libra New Moon, Venus square Mars, Mercury conjunct Venus, Ceres, evolutionary astrology, weekly astrology, AI panic, AI and race, eugenics, scapegoat, shadow work, parts work, This Erotic Timeline, Ephemeris Series References The myth Inana's Descent to the Nether World (ETCSL, Oxford) Inana and Iddin-Dagan (ETCSL, Oxford) Gala, kurgarra, and third gender Masculinities and Third Gender, Ilan Peled (free open-access book) The powerful gender-diverse courtiers and religious leaders of ancient Mesopotamia Evidence for Trans Lives in Sumer The AI news Anthropic researcher resigns, warns AI companies are "gambling with our lives" (Fortune) Anthropic researcher's resignation sends warning about the dangers of AI development (PBS NewsHour) Intelligence and eugenics Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities: Eugenics (Frontiers in Public Health) Nuanced conversations about AI Why I Don't Panic About AI, Shae O. AI, Humanities, and the Future of Work, Shae O.'s Substack AI Expert Reveals The Exploitation Behind AI Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR)   Chapter markers 00:00 Hungry Ghosts Walking Around 01:48 Welcome + Grounding 02:15 Intro to the Ephemeris Series 04:34 Great Excuses For Mythology 05:16 Monday: The Crown’s First Fitting 06:12 Tuesday: Drenched in Desire 08:49 The Descent of Inanna: She Set Her Mind on the Great Below 11:15 Let a Man Come, Let Him Come 13:43 Seven Gates, Seven Garments 16:11 A Coup in Hell 17:43 Fingernail Dirt, Professional Grievers 19:05 Oh, Your Heart 20:24 Sending A Substitute Down 22:44 Unpacking How The Story Sorts Us by Grief 26:52 The Monster We Make: Unpacking the AI Panic 34:07 Wednesday: Genius Isn't IQ 34:29 Thursday: The Exile Needs a Mirror 35:04 Friday: Dark Moon Hush 35:12 Saturday: Libra New Moon’s Two Mirrors 37:05 Venus Square Mars: Stink Eyes and Efficient Fighting 39:58 Sunday: What You Hand Over at the Gates 41:05 Summary and Reflection Questions

  7. Aug 31

    s1e20 Love Before It Got Written Down: A Season Finale on Libra, Justice, and Venus Retrograde

    This is the last episode before a season break. This episode is all astrology, no dexcent, so you've got this month's important transits before this podcast goes quiet for a month. At the center of this month’s astrology we explored one question: what if relationship is allowed to actually change you, instead of just managing you or completing you? That question runs under a range of powerful transits that build toward Venus’s fiercely relational retrograde station in Scorpio on October 3. This episode also digs into Libra's real origin story: a Babylonian equinox image, a Greek scorpion's claws, and Julius Caesar's 46 BCE reinstallation of the scales as dictatorial PR, backed by his own court reforms and Augustus's marriage and adultery legislation. That history gets set against Ma'at's older model of justice, decided by the more-than-human ecosystem rather than falling exclusively to human judgment, and the episode asks what Libra could still become if it stopped serving contracts and started serving kinship. Content warning: discussion of Roman legal enforcement of gender roles, including compulsory marriage, criminalized adultery, and laws restricting bodily autonomy (castration bans); brief references to US racialized violence and civil rights history. Keywords: Libra, astrology, Venus retrograde, Roman history, Julius Caesar, Augustus, Ma'at, Egyptian mythology, precession of the equinoxes, Jupiter-Saturn conjunction, Sassanian astrology, kinship, gender history, love, relationship, transit forecast Book a session - https://www.amaliathecoach.com/ Music by Charmie Chandler - https://www.instagram.com/charmie_chandler/ Our favorite audio editor ever Chantal Defelice - https://chantaldefelice.com/ + ig @chantaldefelice REFERENCES Babylonian and Greek Libra constellation history Wikipedia, MUL.APIN — free. Zibanitu ("the scales") Ian Ridpath, Star Tales: Libra — free. Greek "Chelae" (claws) Ian Ridpath, Star Tales: Scorpius Precession of the equinoxes Paul Vitols, "The Age of Pisces 101" Caesar's calendar and court reforms Wikipedia, Constitutional reforms of Julius Caesar Wikipedia, Lex Aurelia iudiciaria Venus ancestry myth, Temple of Venus Genetrix, the comet Wikipedia, Temple of Venus Genetrix Perseus / Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, Ludi Victoriae Caesaris Wikipedia, Caesar's Comet Ramsey & Licht, reviewed in Bryn Mawr Classical Review 1997.08.07 Ovid, Metamorphoses Book 15 (Brookes More translation), Theoi Classical Texts Library Nandini Pandey, "Caesar's Comet, the Julian Star, and the Invention of Augustus" \ Manilius and "Rome founded under Libra" Confirmed via Ian Ridpath's Star Tales: (above). Manilius, Astronomica: "Italy belongs to the Balance, her rightful sign. Beneath it Rome and her sovereignty of the world were founded.”   Augustus's marriage and adultery legislation Oxford Classical Dictionary, "Lex Iulia de Maritandis Ordinibus" UNRV Roman History, "The Julian Marriage Laws" Wikipedia, Lex Papia Poppaea Maiestas (treason) law expansion Wikipedia, Law of maiestas Vestal Virgins Plutarch, Life of Numa, ch. 10, cited via World History Encyclopedia, "Vestal Virgin" Castration laws Cambridge Core, "Ne Spadones Fiant: Domitian's Emasculation Ban," Classical Quarterly Ma'at and the weighing of the heart Ancient Egypt Online, "Negative Confession (Spell 125, Book of the Dead)" Egypt Museum, "The Weighing of the Heart Ceremony" Venus retrograde and racialized tension patterns Exoteric Astrology (blog), "Venus Retrograde: Cycles of Injustice"     CHAPTER MARKERS   00:00 — Love, Before The Contract 01:49 — One Month Off, Full Circle First 04:25 — The Calm Before The Climb 05:17 — Monday 8/31: Building In The Ruins Of Empire 10:45 — Tuesday 9/1: Tenderness As Strategy 12:39 — Friday 9/4: The Story That's Outlived Its Use 14:24 — Thursday 9/10: Virgo New Moon, The Day Four Thresholds Open 20:42 — Saturday 9/12: Soaked In Collective Static 21:36 — Sunday 9/13: The Epiphany After The Fog 22:08 — Monday 9/14: The Marginalized Parts Want A Stage 23:03 — Tuesday 9/15: The Underworld Runs Through The Heart 24:35 — Thursday 9/17: Who Gets To Just Be 26:16 — Friday 9/18: Working Through Mental Blocks To Intimacy 27:07 — Monday 9/21: Big Ideas Need Humility 28:13 — Tuesday 9/22: Undoing Rome's Claim On Libra 34:13 — Divinity, Manufactured 38:34 — Taking The Scales Back 48:27 — Friday 9/25: Soft Focus, No Decisions 49:13 — Saturday 9/26: Aries Full Moon, The Full Circle Points At Venus 54:34 — Sunday 9/27: A New Identity To Play With 55:31 — Tuesday 9/29: Say The Honest Thing 56:15 — Wednesday 9/30: Permission To Go Where You're Not Supposed To 56:57 — Saturday 10/3: Venus Retrograde, Love Turns To Face The Underworld 1:01:50 — Summary: Letting Relationship Change You All The Way Down

  8. Aug 24

    s1e19 How To Open A Portal In Time: Pisces, Bali, and the Art of Making Thresholds

    This week's episode explores how moving through time doesn’t have to be a choice between counting precisely and crossing thresholds creatively, it's both at once. Bali runs two entirely different calendars side by side, one pure arithmetic, one built for ritual, and together they show what it actually takes to build a portal precise enough to hold you when you cross it: dawn walks to the sea, offerings at the crossroads, monstrous effigies built and burned, and a full day when the entire island, tourists included, goes completely silent. In the astrology section we close out eclipse season with Thursday’s a Pisces full moon lunar eclipse squaring the disruptor Uranus in Gemini, alongside a Mercury cazimi burning off old stories. We trace Pisces back to the myth of Typhon, the chaos monster born, in some tellings, through Aphrodite's own desire, and to Aphrodite and Eros's escape into the Euphrates as two fish tied together at the tail, set against Inanna, Aphrodite's fiercer Mesopotamian predecessor, who walked into the underworld with her eyes open. Book a session - https://www.amaliathecoach.com/ Music by Charmie Chandler - https://www.instagram.com/charmie_chandler/ Our favorite audio editor ever Chantal Defelice - https://chantaldefelice.com/ + ig @chantaldefelice References: Mythology: Hesiod, Theogony — Perseus Digital Library: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0130 Hyginus, Fabulae 197 — Theoi.com: https://www.theoi.com/Text/HyginusFabulae4.html Ovid, Fasti 2.457ff — Perseus Digital Library: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0071 "Hesiod's Typhon and the Many-Mouth Topos," Society for Classical Studies: https://classicalstudies.org/hesiods-typhon-and-many-mouth-topos Inanna's Descent to the Underworld, Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature (Oxford): https://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/section1/tr141.htm Bali's calendars: "Decoding the Pawukon Calendar: Bali's Cycles and Symbolism," NOW! Bali: https://www.nowbali.co.id/decoding-the-pawukon-calendar-balis-cycles-and-symbolism/ "Balinese saka calendar," Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balinese_saka_calendar "Old Javanese calendar" (on the Saka calendar's 14th-century arrival via the Majapahit kingdom), Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Javanese_calendar "Balinese Calendars," Murni's in Bali: https://www.murnis.com/culture/balinese-calendars/ The Nyepi sequence — Melasti, Tawur Kesanga, Pengerupukan, Nyepi: "Bali's Melasti Purification Ceremony: Taken to the Sea," NOW! Bali: https://www.nowbali.co.id/melasti-island-wide-purification/ "Bali: Hindus hold Tawur Agung Kesanga ceremony" (five-elements/Panca Maha Bhuta offerings at the Catus Pata crossroads), ANTARA News: https://en.antaranews.com/news/276252/bali-hindus-hold-tawur-agung-kesanga-ceremony "Ogoh-ogoh," Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogoh-ogoh Ogoh-ogoh and Nyepi footage, YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_8hNKJ8Y-g "Pecalang," Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pecalang "Bali observes 'Nyepi,' a day of silence, enforced by patrol guards (pecalang)," Al Arabiya English, March 2025: https://english.alarabiya.net/News/world/2025/03/29/bali-observes-nyepi-a-day-of-silence-enforced-by-patrol-guards-pecalang- Hari Saraswati: "Understanding Hari Saraswati, Bali's Day of Knowledge," NOW! Bali: https://www.nowbali.co.id/saraswati-day-celebration-knowledge/ 1959 religious recognition and its legal weight: "Parisada Hindu Dharma Indonesia," Wikipedia (on the 1959 formation of Parisada Hindu Dharma Bali and state recognition): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parisada_Hindu_Dharma_Indonesia "Indonesia's Pancasila," fact sheet, U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (on the monotheism requirement): https://www.uscirf.gov/sites/default/files/2021%20Factsheet%20-%20Indonesias%20Pancasila.pdf "The Absence of No-Religion Option in Resident and Family ID Card Questioned," Constitutional Court of the Republic of Indonesia: https://en.mkri.id/news/details/2024-10-21/The_Absence_of_No-Religion_Option_in_Resident_and_Family_ID_Card_Questioned "Legal certainty for native-faith followers regarding marriage registration," International Journal of Law: https://www.lawjournals.org/assets/archives/2019/vol5issue5/5-4-68-256.pdf Tourism history and the present day: "Appraisal of the Bali Tourism Project," World Bank report (Suharto-era tourism master plan, hotel investment): https://documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/865071468283777424/pdf/multi-page.pdf "First tourism sector funding for Indonesia approved," World Bank timeline: https://timeline.worldbank.org/en/timeline/eventdetail/2281 Picard, M. "Balinese identity as tourist attraction," Tourist Studies (on the 1971 Seminar on Cultural Tourism and the coining of pariwisata budaya): https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1468797608099246 "We expect respect: Bali cracks down on naughty tourists with strict new rules," Euronews (March 2025 code of conduct, deportation figures): https://www.euronews.com/travel/2025/07/02/we-expect-respect-bali-cracks-down-on-naughty-tourists-with-strict-new-rules "Bali Foreign Tourists Reach 6.3 Million in 2024, Deportations on the Rise," The Bali Times: https://www.thebalitimes.com/headlines/bali-foreign-tourists-reach-6-3-million-in-2024-deportations-on-the-rise/ Keywords: Pisces, lunar eclipse, Typhon, Aphrodite, Eros, Inanna, Mercury cazimi, Bali, Nyepi, Pawukon, Saka calendar, Watugunung, Saraswati, ogoh-ogoh, gift economy, cultural tourism, threshold, portal, ritual   Chapter Markers 00:00 — The Portal and Its Measurements 02:14 — Welcome Back, Fellow Earthlings 03:40 — Buckle Up: Eclipse Number Two 04:00 — Monday: Lilith's Loudspeaker 05:57 — Tuesday: Mercury Comes Home 09:13 — Wednesday: Just Moon Weather 09:54 — Thursday: Pisces Lunar Eclipse — the Typhon, Fish, and Walking Through Thresholds 22:34 — Friday: Taste the Story 23:45 — Saturday: Let It Fall Open 24:27 — Sunday: Into the Rumble 25:20 — Side Eyeing Tourism for Fun Inquiry 27:06 — Descent Begins: Bali’s Ritual Use of Their Calendars 30:19 — Melasti: Walking to the Water 31:25 — Tawur Kesanga: Offerings at the Crossroads 32:34 — Pengerupukan: Give the Monster A Body 34:35 — Nyepi: The Island Goes Silent 37:40 — Ngunalatri: Minus One Night 40:21 — Pawukon and Watugunung, Broken Keeper of Time 46:03 — Gift Economies — Never Showing Up With Two Long Hands 48:39 — Pacifying the State: One Supreme God, On Paper 51:01 — Cultural Tourism, Its Price, and Bali Offering Boundaries 58:03 — Reflection Questions

See All (27)

5
out of 5
19 Ratings

About

This Erotic Timeline is a weekly podcast for people who have started to suspect that the timeline they were handed is costing them something they can't always name yet. This podcast is about time. Not the kind you can measure, but the kind that moves through your body whether you cooperate with it or not. Hosted by Amalia — astrologer, counselor, coach, committed hopeful disciple of the impossible— each episode does two things: it covers the week's astrology with the mythological depth it deserves, then descends into history, grief, embodiment, and whatever that week is actually asking for. We've traced how Caesar stole the lunar calendar, what New Orleans' mud and maroon communities know about the future, what Venus looked like before the patriarchy took her teeth, and much more. The premise tries to stay simple. The implications get really big. Because it turns out: there is a timeline made of clocks and conquest, and there's a timeline your body has been keeping all along. This show is a slow spiral back into the one your body never forgot.

Information

  • Creator
    Amalia Scott Jančič
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    27
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Copyright 2026 All rights reserved.
  • Show Website
    This Erotic Timeline

You Might Also Like