Embodied Astrology With Renee Sills

This is your month-ahead horoscope for Aries for Taurus season 2023. To listen to this horoscope on our website or read the audio transcript, please visit⁠⁠ ⁠embodiedastrology.com/horoscopes⁠⁠⁠

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  https://community.embodiedastrology.com/c/astrology-and-activism-info/ *** If you’ve enjoye

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

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 Cl

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

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 20

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 confronta

Embodied Astrology’s 2023 keynote presenter is writer, vocalist, sacred scholar and artivist Amber McZeal, who has been studying and practicing astrology for over 20 years and will be facilitating the opening ritual for the Embodied Astrology’s yearly program. Amber utilizes sound therapy and guided somatic imagery to engage the knowledge of the body within an interactive and liberatory arts practice. In 2018, Amber launched her organization, Decolonizing the Psyche, where she weaves somatic praxis with Afro-Indigenous spiritual technologies and social justice, and deep decoloniality in effort to end oppression and create more humane social relationships. Amber holds an M. A. in Somatic depth psychology and Ph. D. in Community, Liberation, Indigenous, and Ecological depth psychology. 2023 Opening Ritual with Dr. Amber McZeal Sunday, January 8 1-3PM Pacific/4-6PM Eastern (recording available) $25/$50/$75 sliding scale (scholarship available) “As the Gregorian calendar's 2023 begins, we find ourselves having n

This episode is released with Venus’ conjunction to the Sun and square to Pluto in Capricorn, just a few days before the beginning of Scorpio Season and a new moon and solar eclipse in Scorpio. My guest Indira Allegra and I talk about themes of being swallowed and reborn, claiming personal power, and transforming fear. Indira Allegra is a social psychopomp accompanying people, places and non-human beings through cycles of death, memorial and regeneration. Their projects, performances and installations draw from an investigation of inner space, animism and the ritual, relational and performative aspects of weaving. Allegra's combination of past experiences as a sex worker, sign language interpreter, domestic violence counselor and yoga instructor allow them to work with the tension of human and nonhuman experience as creative material. Their work has been featured in ARTFORUM, Art Journal and Emergency Index Vol. 8 among others. Allegra has been the recipient of numerous awards including the United States Arti

Michelle and Ramon Gabrieloff-Parish make up Once and Future Green, consulting, facilitating, and providing education for community groups, governments, universities and philanthropies working on climate and environmental justice. As partners (married since 2000) and individuals , Michelle and Ramon both bring creative, communal approaches deeply rooted in spirit and ancestral traditions.  In this episode, Michelle and Ramon talk with me about the lineages they come from and the visions they have for their work and the world. I get their insight as storytellers, mystics and astrologers into our current moment and the potentials we can find in times of breakdown and crisis.  Michelle and Ramon will be offering a guest workshop with Embodied Astrology on August 21: Aligning the Layered Self: Ancestral Inheritance and Leadership. Find more information and register here Michelle Gabrieloff-Parish is an ethnofuturist mama and ecotopian dreamer preoccupied with ancestors, art, environmental justice and Ea

Join me for a Cancerian conversation with two of my favorite magical thinkers – Junauda Petrus-Nasah and Kadie Henderson – where we talk about music, sensuality, violence, the erotic, the speculative, and all things Cancerian. Junauda Petrus-Nasah 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. Learn more at www.junauda.com and follow her on IG @junauda

Kirah Tabourn is an astrologer, educator & creative consultant who is passionate about facilitating accessible astrological education, programing & community within the field. She is the founder of The 11th House which is both a community for astrology enthusiasts to connect and a platform for emerging astrologers to share work they're passionate about. She teaches workshops about synthesizing traditional astrology techniques, hosts a podcast called The Strology Show, and is the co-founder of the love-focused horoscope & compatibility app, CUSP. To learn more about Kirah and her astrology offerings, check the show notes and please visit thestrology.com and follow Kirah on Instagram @thestrology *** If you’ve enjoyed this episode, please share it with your friends and networks. Your tips and donations sustain the production of this work. Thank you!  Find more guest conversations here.  Get free monthly horoscopes and stay tuned in with the earth, skies and planets by signing up for one em

It’s June, it’s GEMINI SEASON, it’s PRIDE, and I’m so delighted to be bringing you this very special 2-part episode of Embodied Astrology with two of my favorite queer colleagues and angels on earth, Gabz Tosi and Kadie Smiles. PART 1 ~ Gabz is a trans/nonbinary, Brazilian artist and Gemini Sun who is the founder of Ser Trans, a project that documents and shares stories and portraits of trans people in Brazil. Gabz’s website  Ser.Trans Get an astrology reading, photoshoot, or print and enter your name to the raffle to win an Embodied Astrology chart reading with me :) DONATE TO GABZ’S FUNDRAISER HERE Follow Gabz on IG @gabz404 @ser.trans PART 2 (starts at 42:38) ~ Kadie Smiles is a Sagittarius Rising, Gemini Descendent and a fabulously queer storyteller and host of the Erotic Embodiment Podcast. Kadie is also a grief worker, doula, sex educator, erotic embodiment guide and astrologer. Kadie’s website (go here to sign up for readings and doula services) Kadie’s Patreon  The Erotic Embodiment Podcast

Mercury’s second retrograde in 2022 is May 10-June 3.⁣ The degree where Mercury will station direct (and where its retrograde shadow begins) is 26 Taurus. This is the degree of last November’s first eclipse in the current set of Taurus/Scorpio eclipses. It’s also the degree where the sun will be on May 15’s upcoming total lunar eclipse. ⁣ Mercury forms three sextiles with both Jupiter and Pluto over the course of its retrograde and shadow. The symbolism of this retrograde and its eclipse connections speak to needs to undo, reimagine and retell myths that have solidified as truth; deconstruct and reconstruct significant forms, relationships, and projects; and work with creative breakage, scavenging, and assemblage while endings and transitions demand new variables and outcomes. ⁣ Rose Blakelock and I have teamed up for a 2-part process with this astrology that involves repatterning relationships with opportunity and gain, meditations on messages coming through the specifics of your natal chart, and a scavenger

Ev’Yan Whitney is a sexuality doula®, sex educator, and sensualist. Since 2011, their work has focused on decolonizing, unshaming, and liberating sexuality at the intersection of identity, trauma healing, pleasure, and embodiment. Ev'Yan is the author of Sensual Self: Prompts and Practices for Getting in Touch With Your Body, a self-guided journal that will help you prioritize your pleasure and come home to yourself through your senses. They also host a beloved podcast of the same name For more about Ev'Yan work, go to evyanwhitney.com and follow them on Instagram @evyan.whitney. This episode is offered with love, following April 30’s new moon and solar eclipse in Taurus. In this episode, I’m talking with Ev’yan about embodiment and technology, the evolution of sensual and sexual identities, nonbinariness and asexuality, feminism and sexuality, and of course, astrology! We’ll be considering all of these themes in relation to current astrology and EvYan’s natal chart. . . . For more erotic and sensua

Michelle Cassandra Johnson is an activist, social justice warrior, author, anti-racism consultant and trainer, intuitive healer, and yoga teacher and practitioner. This episode is offered with love, following April 16’s full moon in Libra which was trine with Saturn and square to Pluto. In our conversation we explore Michelle’s chart and talk about the work of maintaining connections between our spiritual selves and our human bodies. Michelle shares from her experience as an energy worker and healer, intuitive, witch, activist and guide around how to anchor in our heart’s wisdom in times of stress and overwhelm; how to build resilience and connection in relational spaces; and how to navigate and attend to the wounds and dislocation of white supremacy culture. For more information on Michelle or to find out about her books, events, and other upcoming offerings check the show notes or go to https://www.michellecjohnson.com/ If you’ve enjoyed this episode, please share it with your friends and networks.  Y

Join me for a special episode with my dear friend and Embodied Astrology’s Synthesis Space Research Resident, Kadie Henderson. Kadie is a Black, Queer, Lesbian Houston native. She is most precious about the care she brings to herself and others. Through deep listening to the world and stars,  Kadie extends care through her performance, education, astrology and doula services. In this episode we discuss the Aries New Moon on March 31 and the upcoming lunar cycle that brings us into Taurus Season and ECLIPSE SEASON! Learn more about Kadie at kadiehenderson.weebly.com and follow Kadie on IG @kadesmiles Embodied Astrology is ch-ch-changing! Make sure to sign up today for free/by donation to the horoscope membership and you’ll also get access to exclusive content including astro-updates, live talks and Q&A events, and opportunities to schedule individual readings with me. Become a member of the Embodied Astrology workshop and community spaces: https://www.embodiedastrology.com/join More information

BEGINNING NEXT MONTH (ARIES SEASON) EMBODIED ASTROLOGY HOROSCOPES WILL ONLY BE AVAILABLE FROM EMBODIEDASTROLOGY.COM AND WILL NO LONGER BE DISTRIBUTED ON STREAMING PLATFORMS. Make sure to sign up today for my free/by donation monthly horoscope membership and you’ll also get access to exclusive content including astro-updates, live talks and Q&A events, and opportunities to schedule individual readings with me. These horoscopes are month-ahead forecasts for each sign for Pisces Season in 2022. Pisces Season is February 18-March 20, 2022 Want to read instead of listen? Find the WRITTEN TRANSCRIPTIONS at: https://www.embodiedastrology.com/horoscopes More info and registration for PISCES SEASON WORKSHOPS   https://www.embodiedastrology.com/workshops 2022 YEAR-AHEAD READINGS FOR YOUR SUN/RISING SIGN   https://www.embodiedastrology.com/expanded-readings-for-sun-rising-signs BECOME A MEMBER   Subscribe to my monthly workshops & join the Embodied Astrology virtual community space https://ww

BEGINNING NEXT MONTH (ARIES SEASON) EMBODIED ASTROLOGY HOROSCOPES WILL ONLY BE AVAILABLE FROM EMBODIEDASTROLOGY.COM AND WILL NO LONGER BE DISTRIBUTED ON STREAMING PLATFORMS. Make sure to sign up today for my free/by donation monthly horoscope membership and you’ll also get access to exclusive content including astro-updates, live talks and Q&A events, and opportunities to schedule individual readings with me. These horoscopes are month-ahead forecasts for each sign for Pisces Season in 2022. Pisces Season is February 18-March 20, 2022 Want to read instead of listen? Find the WRITTEN TRANSCRIPTIONS at: https://www.embodiedastrology.com/horoscopes More info and registration for PISCES SEASON WORKSHOPS   https://www.embodiedastrology.com/workshops 2022 YEAR-AHEAD READINGS FOR YOUR SUN/RISING SIGN   https://www.embodiedastrology.com/expanded-readings-for-sun-rising-signs BECOME A MEMBER   Subscribe to my monthly workshops & join the Embodied Astrology virtual community space https://w

BEGINNING NEXT MONTH (ARIES SEASON) EMBODIED ASTROLOGY HOROSCOPES WILL ONLY BE AVAILABLE FROM EMBODIEDASTROLOGY.COM AND WILL NO LONGER BE DISTRIBUTED ON STREAMING PLATFORMS. Make sure to sign up today for my free/by donation monthly horoscope membership and you’ll also get access to exclusive content including astro-updates, live talks and Q&A events, and opportunities to schedule individual readings with me. These horoscopes are month-ahead forecasts for each sign for Pisces Season in 2022. Pisces Season is February 18-March 20, 2022 Want to read instead of listen? Find the WRITTEN TRANSCRIPTIONS at: https://www.embodiedastrology.com/horoscopes More info and registration for PISCES SEASON WORKSHOPS   https://www.embodiedastrology.com/workshops 2022 YEAR-AHEAD READINGS FOR YOUR SUN/RISING SIGN   https://www.embodiedastrology.com/expanded-readings-for-sun-rising-signs BECOME A MEMBER   Subscribe to my monthly workshops & join the Embodied Astrology virtual community space https://w