Star Gays: The Queer Astrology Archives Podcast Elly Higgins

Aries Season came in swinging with eclipses and a Mercury retrograde but science fiction writer and literary/social critic Samuel Delany is an excellent example of embodying Aries boldness and urgency that we can look to in this astro mess. Astrologer Elly Higgins discusses Delany’s Aries Sun and Rising, his Mars in Gemini, and Moon in Libra using Delany’s conception of Contact and Networking as a guide.



Then we use annual profections and solar return charts to assess some important high points and low points in Delany’s life.

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Read my blog post on the Lunar Eclipse in Libra



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Theme music written and produced by Elly Higgins and bobbie.



Thanks so much for listening!

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Samuel Delany’s Chart: https://www.astro.com/astro-databank/Delany,_Samuel_R.



Sources Used:

https://www.publicbooks.org/samuel-delany-on-capitalism-racism-and-science-fiction/



https://www.novembermag.com/content/samuel-r-delany



https://www.cca.qc.ca/en/articles/issues/31/figuring-territory/88705/on-making-contact



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQ7qoN7jaT8 (outWrite 1993 “lets get this started” quote)



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRx-ZWM6vlk&pp=ygUNc2FtdWVsIGRlbGFueQ%3D%3D (Stars in His Pocket - On being a “sex radical”)



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DnKnU7-zt8&pp=ygUNc2FtdWVsIGRlbGFueQ%3D%3D (Delany reads introduction to Times Square Red, TImes Square Blue)



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6kc-0Qg6oQ (Delany on growing up in Harlem, Delany on Dhalgren)



https://www.samueldelany.com/new-yorker-profile



https://www.samueldelany.com/timeline

Pisces season is coming to a close but Star Gays is back to discuss the astrology of Pisces Prince: Pier Paolo Pasolini!

Host Elly Higgins discusses the prominence of the filmmaker and writer's Venus in Pisces as well as his Moon in Taurus. Examining themes around language and place through the third house, this episode dives deep into the Piscean ocean.

This episode is meant to be listened to in tandem with the bonus episode on Italian culture and language so be sure to check that one out before you listen to this one!

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Theme music written and produced by Elly Higgins and bobbie.
Thanks so much for listening!

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Pasolini's Chart: https://www.astro.com/astro-databank/Pasolini,_Pier_Paolo



Sources Used:

https://www.ilcenacolosf.org/italian_culture/pier-paolo-pasolini/

https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/1088-pasolini-mamma-roma-and-la-ricotta

https://www.proquest.com/openview/9970b92c39433097679d72b51c3ff7ea/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y

https://academic.oup.com/screen/article/63/2/182/6632954

https://scrapsfromtheloft.com/movies/pasolini-and-homosexuality/

https://www.e-flux.com/journal/126/458846/pasolini-and-the-queer-revolution-in-beirut/

https://www.artforum.com/features/a-cinema-of-poetry-the-films-of-pier-paolo-pasolini-214625/

https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/512-salo-a-cinema-of-poetry

https://matthewsalomon.wordpress.com/2008/03/04/pasolini-supplica-a-mia-madre-prayer-to-my-mother/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eirKFZBkUA0 (Love Meetings Trailer)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElSfBz8kreQ (Mama Roma clip)

For Pisces season, student of cultural history and language Gabriella Higgins joins host Elly Higgins to discuss Italian filmmaker and poet Pier Paolo Pasolini. Pasolini was a gay, Catholic, Marxist who was committed to the preservation of Italian regional dialects. In our conversation, Gabriella provides critical context for understanding Pasolini in the cultural and political context of mid 20th-Century Italy. This bonus episode of the podcast dives deep into the relationship between regional dialects, culture, and language politics. Be sure to subscribe so you don't miss the next episode of Star Gays which will dive deep into Pasolini's birth chart!
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Theme music written and produced by Elly Higgins and bobbie.
Thanks so much for listening!



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The first audio clip is from Teorema and the second audio clip is from Accattone to demonstrate different Italian dialects.

Aquarius season is here and in this episode of Star Gays, film critic Caden Mark Gardener joins host Elly Higgins to talk about filmmaker Kenneth Anger. Anger's 1947 film Fireworks is thought to be the first narrative gay film in the United States. Anger made almost 40 short films, exploring themes of desire, homoeroticism, and the occult. He was a follower of Aleister Crowley, an outsider in Hollywood, and he was born on an Aquarius New Moon.
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You can preorder Caden's book here!
Caden's instagram: @corpsesfoolsandmonsters / @corpsesfoolsandmonstersthebook
bluesky: @cadenmarkgardner
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Please like, rate, review and subscribe to Star Gays. You can find me on twitter @ehastrolgy, instagram @ellyhigginsastro, and on my website ⁠⁠stargaysastrology.ghost.io⁠⁠. Please consider becoming a supporting member of the podcast via my website if you appreciate the work I'm doing. Your support would allow me to dedicate more time to the podcast. Theme music written and produced by myself and ⁠⁠bobbie⁠⁠.
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Kenneth Anger's Chart: https://www.astro.com/astro-databank/Anger,_Kenneth

Sources:
https://vestoj.com/a-conversation-with-kenneth-anger/
https://glreview.org/article/kenneth-anger-director-fireworks-at-sixty/
https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/8165-kenneth-anger-magic-is-what-you-make-it
https://hyperallergic.com/824326/kenneth-anger-trailblazing-experimental-filmmaker-dies-at-96/
https://www.bentclouds.com/films/kustom.html
https://www.anothermag.com/art-photography/3567/kenneth-anger-on-the-occult
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsjMYcKPux8&t=262s (Kenneth Anger Interview)

Happy new year! In 2024, Star Gays will be following the sun as it transits through the signs of the zodiac. Each month I will feature a Star Gay who has their sun in the sign of the season and to start us off we're going to talk about Capricorn goat Susan Sontag.



Sontag was a novelist, cultural critic, and public intellectual. Sontag embodied Capricorn's serious, determined, and melancholic nature. Her Capricorn and Virgo stelliums worked together to give her a sharp tongue and biting wit. In this episode we really break down the archetypes of Capricorn and Virgo.

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Susan Sontag's Chart: https://www.astro.com/astro-databank/Sontag,_Susan

Sources:


Sontag Interview with Chris Lydon (all audio clips from this interview)
Reborn, Journals and Notebooks: 1947-1963 - Susan Sontag
Against Interpretation - Susan Sontag
Notes On Camp - Susan Sontag
Regarding the Pain of Others - Susan Sontag
Finding Fact From Fiction
How Susan Sontag Taught Me to Think
Notes on Sontag
⁠Misunderstanding Susan Sontag⁠
Remembering Susan Sontag's Final Days
Sontag Timeline

In this special bonus video episode of Star Gays, I walk through my process for rectifying Susan Sontag's chart and make an argument for her rising sign and birth time!

Using Zodiacal Releasing, a Hellenistic timing technique, to divide her life into chapters, we analyze a couple possibilities for rising signs for Capricorn Susan Sontag.

This episode is an addendum to the main episode on Sontag's life and work!

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