Embodied Astrology with Renee Sills Renee Sills

Embodied Astrology explores astrology through a queer, somatic lens. In this episode, Renee offers an Aries Season overview with an emphasis on the significations and possibilities of the asteroid Ceres in its opposition to the Aries New Moon and placement on the cardinal cross as Aries Season begins. 

References cited include:


The Flowering Wand: Rewilding the Sacred Masculine by Sophie Strand
Love & Rage: The Path of Liberation through Anger by Lama Rod Owens
Joyful Militancy: Building Thriving Resistance in Toxic Times by carla bergman and Nick Montgomery  



FIND YOUR ARIES SEASON-AHEAD READINGS FOR SUN/MOON/RISING SIGNS HERE



JOIN ASTROLOGY & ACTIVISM with Karlyn Bradley & Renee Sills: In this 5-week series, we’ll work with our natal charts and the offerings, potentials, and cautions of current transits and the upcoming eclipses. Join us live or follow along with the recordings at your own pace 

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Karlyn Bradley and Renee Sills join to discuss their upcoming workshop series Astrology & Activism, which begins March 21st. Nodding to their charts and upbringings, Karlyn and Renee each share their activist roots and what continues to motivate their work in the world. They explore accountability, relational repair, and community care as important activist work. Renee posits that astrology (and Saturn, in particular) shows us that there is a unique role for each of us to play in the reimagining and reshaping of our world. And Karlyn reminds us that all roles are needed, no matter the size or scale.

MORE INFO & REGISTRATION FOR KARLYN & RENEE’S WORKSHOP SERIES HERE

Karlyn Bradley (they/them) is a Black, Fat, Queer, Femme, with degrees in Political Science and Gender and Women's Studies from the University of Arizona. Karlyn is a scholar, theorist, community organizer, artist and educator. They have been able to use and expand their knowledge of Intersectional Feminist Theory to create programming that educates and empowers folks around topics of Race, Gender, Sexual Orientation and Power Dynamics. Their studies in Political Science and Gender and Women’s Studies at The University of Arizona have also shaped and influenced their ability to understand, critique and analyze policy through a critical race feminist lens.

In 2021, they used their skillset to found The High Priestess Consulting Company LLC (HPCC), which aims to help individuals, communities and organizations develop their understandings of systemic, political and social challenges through the use of workshops and trainings. The HPCC specializes in helping people connect with their own power, just like the high priestess in the Tarot, we remind people of the things that we have always known intuitively and facilitate coming back to ourselves and reconnecting with that power.

When they are not doing Community work Karlyn likes to hang out with their friends, eating and cooking a good meal, watching movies. They also like to work on their Podcasts Beneath The Surface. Writing poetry, drawing, living their dream as an Amateur Top Model and watching Scandal. Karlyn is Southern California born currently residing in Tucson, Arizona which is the ancestral lands of the Tohono O’Odham and Pascua Yaqui People.

Contact Karlyn: kbradley1224@gmail.com

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In this fluid conversation, Sherri Taylor and Renee Sills share their hopes and predictions for Saturn’s upcoming ingress into Pisces. The two feel into the supportive embrace of gravity, the lubricating possibilities of Pisces, and swap stories of the generous and juicy sides of Saturn this transit may see us reclaim! Sherri’s four-part workshop series with Embodied Astrology, Gravity & Grace - A Mythopoetic Inquiry Into Saturn, begins March 7, 2023.

MORE INFO ON & REGISTRATION FOR SHERRI’S EMBODIED ASTROLOGY WORKSHOPS HERE

SHERRI TAYLOR is a mystic, dream worker/walker, end-of-life doula, and writer.  She is deeply and passionately interested in the “being” of being human. An apprentice to Spirit, Sherri is happiest when serving her community by curating spaces where people can claim themselves as Beloved and are in profound contact with the expansiveness of their own humanity. She is guardian of the soulstudiolab and Black Womxn's Dream Lab. After completing Master’s and Doctoral degrees in Clinical Psychology Sherri committed to an "education of the heart.”

She has engaged in ongoing personal inquiry into contemplative and mystic traditions, mediumship, divination practices, traditional astrology, and dream work as spiritual exploration and liberatory practice. Her learning has been through formal course work, personal study, and direct experience. All of Sherri’s life experiences have provided a sturdy container in which to develop, hold, and grow her ancestral medicine and spiritual gifts. She is called to offer these in the service of love, justice, belonging, and community for the highest good of all concerned.

Sherri’s website: https://soulstudiolab.org

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This episode dives into the emotional, psychosomatic, and collective  energetics of Pisces and offers interpretations for Pisces Season’s transits and lunar phases in 2023 with suggestions for accessing the benefits and working with the challenges personally and relationally through this time. Some of the main themes include:


The Pisces New Moon and Virgo Full Moon and their aspects
Saturn in Pisces
Venus in Aries
Mars square Neptune

LISTEN/READ - PISCES SEASON-AHEAD HOROSCOPES FOR YOUR SUN/RISING/MOON SIGNS & Sign up for EA newsletter

Read the transcript of this Pisces Season Overview here

inspirations/gratitudes/citations:


Leonard Cohen, “Anthem”
Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Dub & Undrowned
Ruth Gendler, The Book of Qualities
The Dirt Gems Plant Ally Oracle Deck

I hope to see you for Embodied Astrology’s upcoming and ongoing programming! All of our events are offered by sliding scale and all events are recorded if you can’t attend live

GRAVITY & GRACE: A Mythopoetic Inquiry Into Saturn in Pisces with Dr. Sherri Taylor
ASTROLOGY & ACTIVISM: Karlyn Bradley & Renee Sills
ARTISTIC ALCHEMY - Engaging the Magical Wisdom of the Mutable Signs for Soulful & Meaningful Artistic Practice & Life: With Junauda Petrus
EMBODIED ASTROLOGY SOMATIC SPACE: Mondays with Renee Sills



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Embodied Astrology welcomes Junauda Petrus back to the podcast for a conversation about her journey with astrology and its importance in shaping her writing and characters; her upcoming workshop series with Embodied Astrology; creative inspiration through the mutable signs; and some ideas about what Saturn’s form building and shape-making influences might bring during its transit in Pisces 2023-2026.

MORE INFO & REGISTRATION FOR JUNAUDA’S EMBODIED ASTROLOGY WORKSHOPS HERE

JUNAUDA PETRUS is a writer, a soul sweetener, runaway witch, and performance artist of Black-Caribbean descent, born and working on unceded Dakota land in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Her work centers around pleasure, wildness, queerness, Black-diasporic-futurism, ancestral healing, sweetness and liberation. Her first YA novel, The Stars and The Blackness Between Them received a Coretta Scott King Honor Award. She is the co-founder with Erin Sharkey of Free Black Dirt a Black, experimental healing art collective.  She is a Jerome 2021-2022 Artist Fellow in Literature. She is currently working on several projects including her second novel Black Circus, writing a puppet show and adapting her first book into a feature film.

Her forthcoming illustrated book, Can We Please Give the Police Department to the Grandmothers is available for pre-order now.
Follow Junauda on IG @junauda
website: www.junauda.com

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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. 

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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 

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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.




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