Stars and Stars with Isa

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Stars and Stars with Isa

Stars and Stars with Isa is the podcast where we look to the stars above with the stars below. Each week our host and astrologer, Isa Nakazawa, sits with the most talented artists and thinkers of our time to read them their birth chart and discuss their life’s purpose and why they love, create, and walk the world the way they do.

  1. 5 DAYS AGO

    Danez Smith: Leo Sun, Libra Moon, Sagittarius Rising

    As an award-winning poet, writer, and performer, Danez Smith’s words are always right on time. This year they released their latest poetry collection BLUFF, calling out the dualities and contradictions alive in all of us, including themself. As one reviewer wrote, they demonstrate that we all contain “protest and police, cowardice and commitment, money and kindness, looting and food drives.” Isa Nakazawa sits down with Danez to talk about how their Leo Sun keeps them grounded in childlike wonder of the world, while their Sagittarius rising drives their endless curiosity.

    36 min

  2. OCT 15

    Jahi Sundance: Capricorn Sun, Virgo Moon, Cancer Rising

    DJ, producer, and musician Jahi Sundance’s Cancer Rising allows him to build sonic and emotional worlds for his listeners. His Cancer’s sensitivity balances his more angular earth placements in the house of Gemini, which Isa Nakazawa says could make the birth chart of a “con artist.” But Jahi is anything but as his star map also provides equilibrium. Isa catches up with Jahi at the Blue Note Jazz Festival, and together they discuss how his Capricorn Sun and Virgo Moon have steered him through the business of being a working artist – helping him to build stability where none exists.

    30 min

  3. OCT 8

    Karla Cornejo Villavicencio: Cancer Sun, Sagittarius Moon, Libra Rising

    Karla Cornejo Villavicencio is the award-winning author of two books: her nonfiction debut, The Undocumented Americans, and her latest, a novel called Catalina. Catalina follows a Latine senior at Harvard who feels stuck between the opportunities an Ivy League diploma offers and the limiting realities of being undocumented in America. Though Catalina may be loosely autofiction, Karla deftly gives her readers what they think they want, while, as she says, ‘making them regret it.’ Isa Nakazawa sits down with Karla to discuss how her Cancer sun shines through in her ability to write storylines that reflect a more honest and messy set of realities.

    36 min

  4. OCT 1

    Prentis Hemphill: Sagittarius Sun, Scorpio Moon, Aquarius Rising

    A writer, therapist, and political organizer, Prentis Hemphill moves through the world with the intensity, depth and the tenderness of their Scorpio moon. Host Isa Nakazawa spoke with Prentis shortly after the publication of their deeply moving book “What It Takes to Heal.” The book is full of the learnings from their time as Healing Justice Director at Black Lives Matter Global Network and from their own life-- from childhood to parenthood. With a questing, playful Sagittarius sun and a rhizomatic rebellious Aquarius Rising, Prentis lives out their star map in all of its generative abundance.

    38 min

  5. SEP 24

    Raveena Aurora: Libra Sun, Aries Moon, Cancer Rising

    From making history as the first Indian woman to perform at Coachella to revitalizing the Desi-futurist genre across three studio albums, Raveena Aurora blends the intensity and devotion she pours into her career with an intuitive softness only an Aries moon and Cancer rising can stir together. Raveena’s music is deeply connected to her past and future memories, which she nurtures through ancestral channeling, meditation, and a strong bond with her family. The love Raveena Aurora offers her community is characteristic of a Libra sun, ruled by Venus, the planet of love and value. She joins host Isa Nakazawa to discuss visions of her future child, reinventing the pop genre, and the intergenerational wisdom offered by heartaches.

    33 min

  6. SEP 17

    Maria Hinojosa: Cancer Sun, Pisces Moon, Virgo Rising & Special Isa Interview

    For our six-month anniversary, we’re bringing you a special edition of Stars and Stars with Isa! The one and only award-winning journalist Maria Hinojosa interviews our host, Isa Nakazawa, on her lineage of Aquarians, how she developed her gift for astrology and the risks of astrology. Isa shows us how we are in charge of our own lives and destinies and how we can use astrology to enhance and understand ourselves in a changing world. Isa also reads Maria Hinojosa’s chart. Together they see how Maria’s Virgo Rising and Cancer Sun inform her ability to tell the stories that really matter.

    31 min

  7. SEP 10

    Peyton Dix: Taurus Sun, Libra Moon, Virgo Rising

    For the writer, podcaster and social strategist Peyton Dix, diving into the messy corners of the internet feels like second nature. Her work centers on Black and queer stories with, as she says, “the occasional sprinkle of internet mess.” As co-host of the podcast “Lemme Say This” with best-friend Hunter Harris, she takes the pulse of today’s cultural zeitgeist. With a double-dose of earth energy in her Taurus sun and Virgo rising, Peyton opens up to host Isa Nakazawa about her struggle to receive rather than provide for others, and how this showed up in her childhood. Isa also reveals how Peyton’s flirtiness (she has a running joke of being “for the streets”) and almost Leo-like energy is characteristic of her Libra moon.

    37 min

  8. SEP 3

    Nella Rojas: Scorpio Sun, Capricorn Moon, Scorpio Rising

    Nella Rojas is a Latin Grammy winning singer and songwriter whose music is a fusion of folk sounds from her home country of Venezuela, with flamenco, jazz, and pop. Her powerful voice mesmerizes listeners with its fierce energy. Her latest album, “En Otra Vida,” honors the sounds of Latin American musical giants across ten covers and guides listeners on a journey to the origins of her inspirations and rediscovering the reasons she chose to become a singer. With Mars in Libra, Nella exudes the sociability and charm of an air sign in her personal life. The influence of Aries, from her Scorpio Sun and Rising signs, infuses her stage presence adding to the many dualities informing who she is. Isa Nakazawa sits down with Nella to discuss how her chart guides her with determination and also strives for security, love, and desire.

    30 min
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Stars and Stars with Isa is the podcast where we look to the stars above with the stars below. Each week our host and astrologer, Isa Nakazawa, sits with the most talented artists and thinkers of our time to read them their birth chart and discuss their life’s purpose and why they love, create, and walk the world the way they do.

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