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, and what Venus looked like before the patriarchy took her teeth. 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 is a timeline your body has been keeping all along. This show is a slow spiral back into the one your body never forgot.

  1. 9h ago

    e15 Seed of the System: Constantine, Gregory, and the Calendar That Tried to Outrun Death

    This episode traces the Gregorian calendar back to its violent, contempt-laced origins — starting with Constantine's 325 CE letter instructing Christians to date Easter independently of Judaism because he believed Jews were "afflicted with blindness of soul," and ending with Pope Gregory XIII, who celebrated the 1572 St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre of French Protestants a decade before "fixing" the calendar. The throughline: every timekeeping system covered here was built to correct a wrong its architect couldn't tolerate — and that wrong stayed lodged inside the fix, dilating with time instead of resolving. The astrology section covers a Leo Sun in dialogue with an outer-planet configuration, building to a fierce Aquarius Full Moon — Jupiter cazimi, Pluto and Juno in tight conjunction — read through the myth of Zeus, Ganymede, and Hera: a story about who fawns to power, who refuses, and what it costs either way. Content warning: discussion of mass killing (the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre, several thousand deaths), and quoted historical antisemitic rhetoric (Constantine's 325 CE letter to the churches), presented in historical context, not endorsed. References Constantine's Letter to the Churches respecting the Council at Nicaea First Council of Nicaea — Wikipedia Arian controversy — Wikipedia Easter controversy — Wikipedia Inter gravissimas — Wikipedia Gregorian calendar — Wikipedia Adoption of the Gregorian calendar — Wikipedia Calendar (New Style) Act 1750 — Wikipedia St. Bartholomew's Day massacre — Wikipedia Sala Regia (Vatican) — Wikipedia Religion in ancient Rome — Wikipedia Persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire — Wikipedia Pliny the Younger on Christians — Wikipedia Solar Hijri calendar — Wikipedia   Keywords: Gregorian calendar, Julian calendar, Council of Nicaea, Constantine, Pope Gregory XIII, Easter, Quartodeciman controversy, antisemitism, St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre, Huguenots, Aquarius Full Moon, Jupiter cazimi, Ganymede, Hera, Juno, fawning trauma response, astrology, calendar reform, colonialism, religious violence, timekeeping   CHAPTER MARKERS 00:00 The Calendar’s Emotional Architecture 01:27 Grounding Ritual 02:43 The Week Wants Us To Get Personal With It 03:26 Monday: Who's Gonna Blink First 05:09 Tuesday: Know Thyself, Scars and All 05:58 Wednesday: Aquarius Full Moon 10:44 Aquarius and The Story of Ganymede 13:52 Fawning Like a M**********r 17:46 Thursday: Chaos Wants to Cooperate 18:21 Friday: Tend What You Love, Dreamily 18:52 Saturday: Good Girl Meets Feral Prophet 19:34 Sunday: New Beginnings Are Perpetual 20:12 Ground Time, Body Time, Mysterious Time 21:24 Hungry to Jump Timelines 23:19 Rabble-Rousing, Jesus-Loving Christians 26:28 Constantine Getting Off Jewish Time 29:35 Immortality Was the Excuse 31:32 How the Gregorian Calendar Spread Like a Disease 38:55 Slaughter of the Huguenots 41:48 The Seed of the Whole System 46:04 Scuttling Sideways and Backward 49:48 Review Questions

  2. Jul 20

    e14 Warrior Time: Capoeira, Cortisol, and Who Holds The Beat

    The frightened body is fast — cortisol floods you, and it doesn't care what time it is, it just says move. This week we ask what actually constitutes a warrior's timing, and find an uncomfortable answer: the too-quick inflamed response and the frozen, collapsed one are the same failure. Both are a body that has lost its ability to perceive the opening in time. So we go looking for people who survived the unsurvivable, and land on capoeira — an Afro-Brazilian martial art built under enslavement and prohibition, disguised as a dance. We sit with the ginga (readiness as perpetual motion, the opposite of bracing), malícia (deception as the intelligence of those who can't afford to be seen), and the berimbau, whose player watches the game and calls the opening for you. Because the community calls the moment. You don't find it alone. We corroborate with kairos, the Greek word for right timing rooted in archery and weaving, and with Musashi, who wrote in 1645 that bodies collapse when their rhythm becomes deranged — which posed the question: what if empire is nothing but the transfer of bad timing into our bodies. Astrologically: Leo Season opens with the Nemean Lion, whose pelt no weapon could pierce, and Hercules, who wore it until it killed him. Mercury stations direct in Cancer, Saturn stations retrograde, and the lunar nodes shift into the Aquarius-Leo axis, turning the whole collective toward each other. Plus a Libra First Quarter Moon that wants a decision. Content warning: discussion of trauma and the freeze/collapse response, gendered and racialized violence, slavery, and death. 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: References: Greg Downey, Learning Capoeira: Lessons in Cunning from an Afro-Brazilian Art (Oxford, 2005) — free to borrow: https://archive.org/details/learningcapoeira0000down Matthias Röhrig Assunção, "Capoeira: From Slave Combat Game to Global Martial Art," Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History (2019) — https://oxfordre.com/latinamericanhistory/display/10.1093/acrefore/9780199366439.001.0001/acrefore-9780199366439-e-293 Smithsonian Folkways, Capoeira Angola from Salvador, Brazil (Mestre Moraes / GCAP, 1996) — https://folkways.si.edu/capoeira-angola-from-salvador-brazil/world/music/album/smithsonian Capoeira video links — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJHPCN-9Owk + https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dx-yJnJmnmo  Kozlowska, Walker, McLean & Carrive, "Fear and the Defense Cascade: Clinical Implications and Management," Harvard Review of Psychiatry (2015) — full text, free: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4495877/ Miyamoto Musashi, The Book of Five Rings (1645) — free to borrow: https://archive.org/details/bookoffiverings0000miya_g5e4 and free to listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4zM1oup0m0  R.B. Onians, The Origins of European Thought about the Body, the Mind, the Soul, the World, Time, and Fate (Cambridge, 1951) — on kairos — free to borrow: https://archive.org/details/originsofeuropea0000rich The Combahee River Collective Statement (1977) — full text, free: https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/combahee-river-collective-statement-1977/ Keywords: capoeira, malícia, ginga, berimbau, kairos, hyōshi, Miyamoto Musashi, warrior timing, hypervigilance, freeze response, tonic immobility, defense cascade, post-traumatic chronodisruption, circadian rhythm, cortisol, Leo season, Nemean Lion, Hercules, lunar nodes, Mercury direct, Saturn retrograde, collective liberation, Combahee River Collective, Afrofuturism, trans survival, somatics   Chapter Markers: 00:00 — A Threat and a Tuesday 02:24 — The Week Is a Banger 02:45 — Monday: Feral Fairy Godmothers 04:15 — Tuesday: The Scales Insisting on Tipping 06:03 — Wednesday: Leo Season’s Lion Takes the Sky 11:13 — The Only Thing That Pierces the Pelt 14:34 — It Grows Out of Your Own Paw 16:46 — Thursday: Mercury Goes Direct 17:59 — Friday: Shoot Your Shot 18:38 — Saturday: Gazing at the Horizon 19:14 — Sunday: Saturn Turns Inward, the Nodes Shift 22:23 — Warriors for Each Other 24:10 — Descent: A Warrior's Timing 26:06 — The Body Under Threat 27:37 — When Speed Becomes the Cage 29:38 — The Inflamed and the Frozen Are the Same Failure 31:06 — Enter Capoeira 34:09 — The Ginga: Never Still 35:18 — Malícia: The Intelligence of the Unseen 37:23 — The Berimbau Calls the Opening 39:34 — No One Holds the Rhythm Alone 42:25 — Kairos, Musashi, and Empire's Bad Timing 48:47 — Readiness Is Rhythm 52:41 — Reflection Questions

  3. Jul 13

    e13 A Clock in Every Cell: Circadian Biology, Fascist Clocks, and the Timekeeping That Predates Empire

    This week's sky is tectonic and tender — a Cancer New Moon conjunct Mercury retrograde, a rare outer planet harmony between Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, and Jupiter, and an invitation to sink into what the body already knows. The astrology section moves through Ubuntu philosophy, the cost of self-protection, and what it actually means that a person is a person through other persons. The descent finally gets precise about the body's clock. Inside your hypothalamus sits the suprachiasmatic nucleus — roughly 10,000 to 20,000 neurons conducting a circadian symphony across every organ. But every single cell is also running its own 24-hour clock gene show: proteins building up through the day, turning themselves off at night, getting chopped up and recycled in the dark. That rhythm traces back to some of the oldest single-celled organisms on earth. And when empire overrides it — through Daylight Saving Time, or a fascist dictator's political clock adjustment that Spain still hasn't reversed — the body registers it as assault. We close through the Hellenistic lens of day and night sects, and an invitation to remember how to respect the dark. Keywords: circadian biology, suprachiasmatic nucleus, clock genes, Daylight Saving Time health effects, Franco Spain Portugal circadian study, desynchronization, Ubuntu philosophy, Kairos Chronos, day and night sect astrology, Cancer New Moon 2026, Mercury retrograde Cancer, Uranus Neptune Pluto 2026, colonial timekeeping, body and time, This Erotic Timeline podcast, evolutionary astrology, somatic 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: Bonmatí-Carrión, M.A., et al. (2022). "Living at the Wrong Time: The Societal Pressure of Chronodisruption." Biology, 11(8), 1130. https://www.mdpi.com/2079-7737/11/8/1130 American Academy of Sleep Medicine position statement on permanent standard time: https://aasm.org≈ Bechtel, W. (2024). Hierarchy or Heterarchy of Mammalian Circadian Timekeepers? Journal of Biological Rhythms. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11613639/ NIH National Institute of General Medical Sciences. Circadian Rhythms fact sheet: https://www.nigms.nih.gov/education/fact-sheets/Pages/circadian-rhythms Nakajima et al. (2005). Reconstitution of Circadian Oscillation of Cyanobacterial KaiC Phosphorylation in Vitro. Science, 308(5720), 414–415. Chapter Markers 00:00 — The Clock That Predates You 01:37 — Grounding Ritual 02:47 — Astrology of the Week: Tuning Forks 03:06 — Monday: Love Rewiring Itself 04:46 — Tuesday: Cancer New Moon 05:22 — Family Is a Tentacled Beast 06:46 — The Outer Planet Harmony 07:43 — Ubuntu and the Translation Problem 11:19 — The Cost of Self-Protection 12:32 — Wednedsay: Unpack and Play 13:12 — Thursday: All Moon Weather 13:34 — Friday: The Ripple in Spacetime 14:56 — Saturday: The Body Already Agrees 16:20 — Sunday: Words Become Acts 18:43 — The Body's Ancient Story 21:07 — The Descent: What Is the Body's Clock? 23:45 — The Master Conductor 27:21 — Kairos and Kronos in Every Cell 30:06 — A Clock in Every Cell 33:57 — When Empire Fiddles With the Clock 39:32 — Day and Night Sect 43:02 — Mercury Crosses the Line 45:01 — Summary and Reflection Questions

  4. Jul 6

    e12 The Crab Who Tried Anyway: Commitment, Failure, and the Anti-Hero Model for Collective Care

    Capitalism needs you to believe that commitment without guaranteed success is stupid. That's not an accident — that's the design. This week's Mercury Cazimi at 20 degrees of Cancer burns that story clean and asks a different question: what would you fight for even if failure was guaranteed? To answer it, we go looking through Cancer's mythology — a Babylonian turtle, an Egyptian scarab, a Greek crab who clawed at Hercules' feet from a swamp and got stepped on — and find the same image every time. A creature that survives by going sideways, going underground, moving through what everyone else avoids. For the descent, it's Mercury retrograde, so we do revision work. Thirteen weeks in, we go back through the load-bearing moments of what This Erotic Timeline has actually been saying — about desire, attention, grief, timekeeping, embodiment, Caesar, maroon communities, and the body's insistence on running on its own clock no matter whose calendar gets imposed on it. The argument is more coherent than it started. This episode is the map. References: Pseudo-Hyginus, Astronomica (Poetica Astronomica), 1st–2nd century CE. English translation available via theoi.com: theoi.com/Text/HyginusAstronomica.html Rumi, "The Guest House." Translation by Coleman Barks. Keywords: Mercury cazimi Cancer 2026, Cancer mythology crab constellation, Karkinos myth Hercules Hydra, commitment and failure astrology, Venus Virgo inner critic, Neptune retrograde Aries, Last Quarter Moon Aries, circadian rhythm colonial timekeeping, This Erotic Timeline podcast, evolutionary astrology, IFS somatic astrology, body and time, Daylight Saving Time history, Caesar Julian calendar, New Orleans Black survival, Mardi Gras Indians 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 — Open: What Would You Fight For If Losing Was Guaranteed 01:18 — Welcome & Grounding Ritual 03:44 — Monday: The Hard Shell of the Seed (Sun square Saturn) 05:33 — Tuesday: In Due Time, Keep Training (Neptune stations retrograde, Last Quarter Moon) 07:55 — Wednesday: Productive Friction, Then Exhale 08:49 — Thursday: The Inner Critic Gets Political (Venus enters Virgo, Mars trine Juno) 13:43 — Friday: Oh, I Remember You (Venus trine Chiron, South Node) 16:01 — Saturday: Grief Is Not a Threat to Outmaneuver (The Guest House) 18:31 — Sunday: The Muddy Mythology of Cancer 23:13 — Karkinos: The Crab Who Tried Anyway 26:00 — The Question Mercury Is Burning Clean 28:30 — Transition: Thirteen Weeks, One Argument 29:58 — Clip: Time Organizes Reality (Episode 0) 31:08 — Clip: Urgency Disconnects Us From Presence (Episode 1) 33:37 — Clip: Deep Time Theory On The Human Attention Span (Episodes 3) 36:17 — Clip: Oil Economy Crumpling Deep Time (Episode 4) 37:38 — Clip: The Body Is The Matrix (Episode 5) 40:20 — Clip: Your Body’s Been Time Traveling All This Time! (Episode 6) 43:23 — Clip: Hours That Breathe, Then a Single Atom (Episode 7) 46:11 — Clip: Low Tech Timekeeping & The Incense Clock (Episode 8) 48:27 — Clip: Caesar Rewrote Time and Mythology At The Same Time (Episode 9) 50:47 — Clip: Empire’s Attempts to Write Black And Indigenous Survival Out Of The Future (Episode 10) 53:54 — Clip: What Clock Is Your Body Actually Running On? (Episode 11) 55:27 — Ending: The Show's Project, Stated Plainly 58:30 — Reflection Questions & Outro

  5. Jun 29

    e11 Little Gods on the Wrong Clock: The 2am Heist, Wartime Clocks, and Timelines for Hire

    This week's astrology is big — a Full Capricorn Moon, Mercury stationing retrograde conjunct Jupiter, and Jupiter entering Leo for a year — and the descent follows a thread that starts with a personal grievance and ends somewhere darker: the full history of who’s been taking the time from our sleeping bodies, and how it got corporate. From William Willett's 1907 pamphlet to wartime Germany to St. Paul Minnesota's 1965 clock rebellion to the National Confectioners' Association lobbying Daylight Saving Time into November for candy sales, this episode traces the lineage of time as a site of domination — and asks what it would mean to reclaim it. Plus: the Jamestown colonial identity thesis, Mars conjunct Uranus on America's 250th birthday, Jupiter square Chiron and the cost of visibility, and a teaser for next week's descent into what the body actually knows about living at the wrong time. Keywords: daylight saving time history, circadian rhythm disruption, William Willett waste of daylight, Mars conjunct Uranus July 2026, Jupiter enters Leo 2026, Mercury retrograde Cancer 2026, Full Moon Capricorn June 2026, Jamestown colonial identity, Twin Cities time rebellion 1965, bodily autonomy and time, this erotic timeline podcast, evolutionary astrology, IFS somatic astrology, America 250th birthday astrology References: Willett, William. The Waste of Daylight. London, 1907. Full text: webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/willett.html — also held at the Library of Congress: loc.gov/item/15009617 Downing, Michael. Spring Forward: The Annual Madness of Daylight Saving Time. Shoemaker & Hoard, 2005. — the definitive popular history of DST; available at most libraries Wikipedia, "Daylight Saving Time" — overview with citations on Germany 1916, the Clorox/7-Eleven coalition, and the 2007 extension: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time Reynolds Center for Business Journalism, "The Stakeholders of Daylight Saving Time": businessjournalism.org/2020/10/the-stakeholders-of-daylight-saving-time Today I Found Out, "How Candy Pumpkins and Halloween Helped Change Daylight Saving Time" — includes the 1985 candy pumpkins on senators' chairs story: todayifoundout.com/index.php/2012/10/how-candy-pumpkins-and-halloween-helped-change-daylight-saving-time Churchill, Winston. "A Silent Toast to William Willett," 1934. Hillsdale Churchill Archive: winstonchurchill.hillsdale.edu/willett-daylight-savings "'The Waste of Daylight': Rhythmicity, Workers' Health and Britain's Edwardian Daylight Saving Time Bills." Social History of Medicine, Oxford Academic, 2022: academic.oup.com/shm/article/35/2/422/6376036 Donegan, Kathleen. Seasons of Misery: Catastrophe and Colonial Settlement in Early America. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. Publisher page: pennpress.org/9780812223774/seasons-of-misery Nice Try! Season 1, Ep. 1: "Jamestown: Utopia for Whom." Hosted by Avery Trufelman. Curbed / Vox Media, May 2019. Available on all podcast platforms. Encyclopedia Virginia, "First Anglo-Powhatan War (1609–1614)": encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/first-anglo-powhatan-war-1609-1614 Gilder Lehrman Institute, "Jamestown and the Founding of English America": gilderlehrman.org/history-resources/essays/jamestown-and-founding-english-america 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 — Candy Companies Stole Your Sleep 01:17 — Welcome + Grounding Ritual 02:40 — Monday: Little Gods in Fleshsuits 03:57 — Mercury Goes Underground 06:02 — How Do You Want to Use Power? 11:21 — Tuesday: Jupiter Enters Leo — Stop Shrinking 13:22 — Wednesday: The Cost of Being Seen 14:55 — Thursday–Friday: Desire Walks In Unannounced 15:49 — Saturday: Combustible Birthday of a Troubled Empire 20:01 — Jamestown and the Art of Domination 24:53 — Sunday: Power Moves Cleanly 25:58 — Your Body Needs Its Own Clock 27:54 — The Descent: What’s Up With Daylight Saving’s Time 29:57 — William Willett’s Personal Obsession 31:28 — At 2am. When Nobody Could Fight Back. 32:25 — Wartime Clocks 34:53 — The Twin Cities Refuse the Clock 37:20 — 7-Eleven, Candy Makers, and Timelines for Hire 42:44 — The Price of Desynchronization 44:01 — What Clock Is Your Body Actually Running On? 45:55 — Summary + Reflection Questions

  6. Jun 22

    e10 What a Sinking City Knows: Mud, Swamps, Migration, and Water’s Perfect Memory

    Someone called New Orleans a terminal patient this spring. This episode is a response to that. We move through the week's astrology — a Monday of loud, reclaimed desire; a Tuesday of water-body listening; a Thursday of foggy ego-honoring; a Sunday where devotion, strategy, and want finally stop contradicting each other — and then descend into what New Orleans actually knows. About mud. About swamps. About migration. About what it means to build relationships sideways in a place the empire keeps trying to write into nonexistence. This is an episode about blackness as an operating system, about maroon communities and racial ambiguity as resistance technology, about why a city below sea level might know more about the future than anywhere else on earth. It closes with Toni Morrison and the reminder that all water has a perfect memory — which means, on some level, so do we. Content warning: discussion of the transatlantic slave trade, enslavement, anti-Black violence, and white supremacy. References: The Guardian article (May 2026): https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/04/new-orleans-sea-levels-relocation-climate-crisis Nature Sustainability perspectives paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-026-01820-z The Lens NOLA community response: https://thelensnola.org/2026/05/06/new-orleans-climate-relocation-response/ Homer Plessy / HNOC: https://hnoc.org/publishing/first-draft/homer-plessy-and-black-activists-who-fought-segregation-all-way-supreme Juan San Maló / 64 Parishes: https://64parishes.org/entry/juan-san-malo New Orleans Historical, San Malo Maroons: https://neworleanshistorical.org/items/show/1403 Free People of Color / 64 Parishes: https://64parishes.org/entry/free-people-of-color Bulbancha / New Orleans Historical: https://neworleanshistorical.org/items/show/1641 Sylvia Wynter — see No Human Involved and related interviews Toni Morrison water/memory quote — from a 1987 lecture, widely cited Keywords: New Orleans, astrology, blackness, maroon communities, Homer Plessy, Mardi Gras Indians, Bulbancha, climate crisis, Louisiana, Sylvia Wynter, Toni Morrison, fugitivity, migration, mud, swamp, Venus in Leo, Cancer season, This Erotic Timeline 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 — Water Has a Perfect Memory (opening) 00:57 — Welcome to the Timeline (opening ritual) 02:03 — Summer: All Info Is Good Info (seasonal grounding) 03:41 — Monday: Be Loud, Be Cringe, Be Fierce (Venus/Juno/Libra Moon)07:14 — Tuesday: Shut Up and Listen (Sun trine North Node) 08:45 — Wednesday–Thursday: Murk and Fog and a Spark (Scorpio Moon / Venus-Saturn trine) 11:35 — Friday–Saturday: Pick Your Battles, Slow Down (Vesta/Athena, Mars-Jupiter) 13:47 — Sunday: They're Just You (Mars into Gemini / Venus fire trine) 15:25 — Midway: Someone Called My Girl a Terminal Patient 17:34 — The Language Is a Choice (Guardian article analysis) 20:55 — What This Place Knows Is Black (thesis) 23:08 — Mud Is Black as F**k (bodies are wilder than the categories they gave us) 27:35 — Swamps Are Black as F**k (maroons, St. Malo) 30:41 — Migration Is Black as F**k (indigenous land memory, Mardi Gras Indians) 43:18 — The River Remembers (Morrison close + reflection questions)

  7. Jun 15

    e9 Venus Before They Took Her Teeth: What Your Rage Is Actually Made Of

    Caesar remade the Roman calendar and dedicated a temple to a domesticated goddess in the same year. This episode traces what those two moves have in common and what they cost us. The astrology this week is all Venus: sparking with Uranus on Monday, dreaming with Neptune on Tuesday, and facing Pluto's underworld directly on Wednesday. The descent follows Venus's warrior origins across Sumerian and Babylonian mythology, through the Greco-Roman tradition that stripped her of darkness, and into the moment Caesar consolidated time and mythology simultaneously — removing ordinary people's ability to verify reality from the inside out. The episode closes on what it looks like to stop reaching for the hollow archetypes Caesar left us with when conflict or strong emotion occurs, and start following our darker emotions all the way back to where they came from. Content warning: brief discussion of conflict and harm in community spaces, sexual violence language in communities (mentioned without graphic detail). Keywords: Venus opposite Pluto, Chiron enters Taurus, summer solstice, Caesar Julian calendar, Inanna Ishtar warrior goddess, archetypes victim predator, community accountability, erotic astrology, mythology, timekeeping. CHAPTER MARKERS 00:00 — Open: The Math Belongs to Whoever's in Charge 01:24 — Welcome & Arrival Practice 03:19 — Monday: Desire Gets a New Idea of Itself (Venus sextile Uranus) 05:06 — Tuesday: How Do You Want to Feel? (Venus trine Neptune, Saturn conjunct Vesta) 06:37 — Wednesday: The Teeth in Love's Mouth (Venus opposite Pluto) 11:42 — Mary HK Choi’s Case for Grudges 15:05 — Friday: Chiron Enters Taurus — A New Wound to Study 17:20 — Saturday & Sunday: Quiet Day, Then the Solstice 20:01 — Transition: An Archetype Remembering What It Used to Be 21:05 — The Descent: Ya Boy Caesar and the Calendar 29:08 — The Temple, the Goddess, and the Genealogy Rewrite 31:05 — The Story Caesar Chose to Control 33:17 — The Strongman Gets Violence, the People Get Venus 35:53 —How The Same Move Got Made on Our Inner Lives 38:30 — What We Reach For When We're Hurt 41:36 — Follow It All the Way Back   REFERENCES: Caesar's calendar reform: Primary ancient sources: Suetonius, Life of Julius Caesar (available free at penelope.uchicago.edu); Cicero, Letters to Atticus (references the Year of Confusion); Cassius Dio, Roman History Caesar and Venus Genetrix: Wikipedia — Temple of Venus Genetrix: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_of_Venus_Genetrix Inanna/Ishtar as warrior-lover: World History Encyclopedia — Ishtar: worldhistory.org/ishtar Penn Museum / Oracc — Inanna/Ishtar: oracc.museum.upenn.edu/amgg/listofdeities/inanaitar Hymn to Inanna by Enheduanna — Oxford ETCSL (scholarly translation, full text): etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/section4/tr4073.htm Enheduana.org on Inanna enheduana.org/the-hymn-to-inana The Inanna → Ishtar → Astarte → Aphrodite → Venus transmission: Sugimoto, David T. (ed.), Transformation of a Goddess: Ishtar — Astarte — Aphrodite, Academic Press Fribourg, 2014 — partial text at archive.org/stream/TransformationOfAGoddess World History Encyclopedia — Astarte: worldhistory.org/astarte Wikipedia — Inanna: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inanna Mary HK Choi Subway Take: Subway Takes with Kareem Rahma — @subwaytakes on Instagram Please note: The episode reverses Inanna and Ishtar at one point — Inanna is Sumerian, Ishtar is Akkadian/Babylonian. Corrected here for the record.

  8. Jun 8

    e8 What the Crab Knows: The Sideways Scuttle, Water Clocks, and Backbone Swells

    This week's astrology centers on Mercury in Cancer squaring a lineup in Aries (Vesta, Saturn, Athena) — a week-long tension between careful speech and urgent action, tended feeling and imperfect forward motion. Venus conjuncts Jupiter in Cancer for one of the sweetest moments of the summer. The myth of Chrysomallus the golden ram anchors Wednesday's pile-on in Aries. Venus enters Leo opposing Pluto, setting up a month of tension between adolescent joy and the forces that desecrate it. Sunday brings a New Moon in Gemini that requires a sense of humor. In the descent: a global tour of low-tech timekeeping devices — the Egyptian clepsydra, the incense seal clocks of Song dynasty China, the Ethiopian Ge'ez calendar and clock (including the complexity of Ethiopia as a nation state and the history of internal colonialism toward the Oromo people), and the Marshall Islands stick charts of Micronesia. None of these devices try to control time. They're all just paying attention to it.   Links Interactive Colonial Timekeeping Timeline — https://effortless-bavarois-314f8a.netlify.app/ Group Space Co-Design Poll — https://lively-marzipan-dfc058.netlify.app/ Join Group Space on Monday June 8 (free with code: IFWECANDREAMITWECANBUILDIT) — https://calendly.com/amaliathecoach/new-meeting?back=1&month=2026-06 Book a session — https://www.amaliathecoach.com/ Music by Charmie Chandler - https://www.instagram.com/charmie_chandler/ References Apollodorus, Library Book I — https://www.theoi.com/Text/Apollodorus1.html Hyginus, Fabulae — https://www.theoi.com/Text/HyginusFabulae1.html Clepsydra of Karnak — https://egypt-museum.com/clepsydra-of-karnak/ Royal Museums Greenwich, dragon fire clock — https://www.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/rmgc-object-212049 Ancient Origins, incense clocks — https://www.ancient-origins.net/artifacts-ancient-technology/incense-clocks-0017419 Time in Ethiopia — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_Ethiopia Foreign Policy, Ethiopia and internal colonialism — https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/07/14/ethiopia-must-end-internal-colonialism-or-it-will-fall-apart-like-yugoslavia/ Smarthistory, Marshall Islands navigation chart — https://smarthistory.org/chart-marshall/   Chapters 00:00 — Opening 00:57 — Welcome & grounding ritual 02:18 — Announcements: timeline tool, Group Space 03:55 — Astrology: week overview 04:35 — Monday June 8: Mercury square Vesta, last quarter moon in Pisces 07:30 — Tuesday June 9: Venus conjunct Jupiter in Cancer 11:24 — Wednesday June 10: Chrysomallus and the pile-on in Aries 17:19 — Thursday June 11: Moon in Taurus square Pluto 17:56 — Friday June 12: Uranus square the nodes 19:37 — Saturday June 13: Venus enters Leo 22:30 — Sunday June 14: New Moon in Gemini 26:23 — Descent: low-tech timekeeping around the world 28:49 — The Clepsydra 32:04 — The Incense Clock 34:13 — The Ethiopian Ge'ez Calendar & Clock 38:09 — The Marshall Islands Stick Charts 40:42 — Summary & closing reflection questions

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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, and what Venus looked like before the patriarchy took her teeth. 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 is 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
    16
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Copyright 2026 All rights reserved.
  • Show Website
    This Erotic Timeline

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