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  • e20 Love Before It Got Written Down: A Season Finale on Libra, Justice, and Venus Retrograde

    e20 Love Before It Got Written Down: A Season Finale on Libra, Justice, and Venus Retrograde
    2026/08/31
    This is the last episode before a season break. This episode is all astrology, no dexcent, so you've got this month's important transits before this podcast goes quiet for a month. At the center of this month’s astrology we explored one question: what if relationship is allowed to actually change you, instead of just managing you or completing you? That question runs under a range of powerful transits that build toward Venus’s fiercely relational retrograde station in Scorpio on October 3. This episode also digs into Libra's real origin story: a Babylonian equinox image, a Greek scorpion's claws, and Julius Caesar's 46 BCE reinstallation of the scales as dictatorial PR, backed by his own court reforms and Augustus's marriage and adultery legislation. That history gets set against Ma'at's older model of justice, decided by the more-than-human ecosystem rather than falling exclusively to human judgment, and the episode asks what Libra could still become if it stopped serving contracts and started serving kinship. Content warning: discussion of Roman legal enforcement of gender roles, including compulsory marriage, criminalized adultery, and laws restricting bodily autonomy (castration bans); brief references to US racialized violence and civil rights history. Keywords: Libra, astrology, Venus retrograde, Roman history, Julius Caesar, Augustus, Ma'at, Egyptian mythology, precession of the equinoxes, Jupiter-Saturn conjunction, Sassanian astrology, kinship, gender history, love, relationship, transit forecast 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 Babylonian and Greek Libra constellation history Wikipedia, MUL.APIN — free. Zibanitu ("the scales")Ian Ridpath, Star Tales: Libra — free. Greek "Chelae" (claws)Ian Ridpath, Star Tales: Scorpius Precession of the equinoxes Paul Vitols, "The Age of Pisces 101" Caesar's calendar and court reforms Wikipedia, Constitutional reforms of Julius Caesar Wikipedia, Lex Aurelia iudiciaria Venus ancestry myth, Temple of Venus Genetrix, the comet Wikipedia, Temple of Venus GenetrixPerseus / Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, Ludi Victoriae CaesarisWikipedia, Caesar's CometRamsey & Licht, reviewed in Bryn Mawr Classical Review 1997.08.07Ovid, Metamorphoses Book 15 (Brookes More translation), Theoi Classical Texts LibraryNandini Pandey, "Caesar's Comet, the Julian Star, and the Invention of Augustus" \ Manilius and "Rome founded under Libra" Confirmed via Ian Ridpath's Star Tales: (above). Manilius, Astronomica: "Italy belongs to the Balance, her rightful sign. Beneath it Rome and her sovereignty of the world were founded.” Augustus's marriage and adultery legislation Oxford Classical Dictionary, "Lex Iulia de Maritandis Ordinibus"UNRV Roman History, "The Julian Marriage Laws"Wikipedia, Lex Papia Poppaea Maiestas (treason) law expansion Wikipedia, Law of maiestas Vestal Virgins Plutarch, Life of Numa, ch. 10, cited via World History Encyclopedia, "Vestal Virgin" Castration laws Cambridge Core, "Ne Spadones Fiant: Domitian's Emasculation Ban," Classical Quarterly Ma'at and the weighing of the heart Ancient Egypt Online, "Negative Confession (Spell 125, Book of the Dead)"Egypt Museum, "The Weighing of the Heart Ceremony" Venus retrograde and racialized tension patterns Exoteric Astrology (blog), "Venus Retrograde: Cycles of Injustice" CHAPTER MARKERS 00:00 — Love, Before The Contract 01:49 — One Month Off, Full Circle First 04:25 — The Calm Before The Climb 05:17 — Monday 8/31: Building In The Ruins Of Empire 10:45 — Tuesday 9/1: Tenderness As Strategy 12:39 — Friday 9/4: The Story That's Outlived Its Use 14:24 — Thursday 9/10: Virgo New Moon, The Day Four Thresholds Open 20:42 — Saturday 9/12: Soaked In Collective Static 21:36 — Sunday 9/13: The Epiphany After The Fog 22:08 — Monday 9/14: The Marginalized Parts Want A Stage 23:03 — Tuesday 9/15: The Underworld Runs Through The Heart 24:35 — Thursday 9/17: Who Gets To Just Be 26:16 — Friday 9/18: Working Through Mental Blocks To Intimacy 27:07 — Monday 9/21: Big Ideas Need Humility 28:13 — Tuesday 9/22: Undoing Rome's Claim On Libra 34:13 — Divinity, Manufactured 38:34 — Taking The Scales Back 48:27 — Friday 9/25: Soft Focus, No Decisions 49:13 — Saturday 9/26: Aries Full Moon, The Full Circle Points At Venus 54:34 — Sunday 9/27: A New Identity To Play With 55:31 — Tuesday 9/29: Say The Honest Thing 56:15 — Wednesday 9/30: Permission To Go Where You're Not Supposed To 56:57 — Saturday 10/3: Venus Retrograde, Love Turns To Face The Underworld 1:01:50 — Summary: Letting Relationship Change You All The Way Down
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  • e19 How To Open A Portal In Time: Pisces, Bali, and the Art of Making Thresholds

    e19 How To Open A Portal In Time: Pisces, Bali, and the Art of Making Thresholds
    2026/08/24
    This week's episode explores how moving through time doesn’t have to be a choice between counting precisely and crossing thresholds creatively, it's both at once. Bali runs two entirely different calendars side by side, one pure arithmetic, one built for ritual, and together they show what it actually takes to build a portal precise enough to hold you when you cross it: dawn walks to the sea, offerings at the crossroads, monstrous effigies built and burned, and a full day when the entire island, tourists included, goes completely silent. In the astrology section we close out eclipse season with Thursday’s a Pisces full moon lunar eclipse squaring the disruptor Uranus in Gemini, alongside a Mercury cazimi burning off old stories. We trace Pisces back to the myth of Typhon, the chaos monster born, in some tellings, through Aphrodite's own desire, and to Aphrodite and Eros's escape into the Euphrates as two fish tied together at the tail, set against Inanna, Aphrodite's fiercer Mesopotamian predecessor, who walked into the underworld with her eyes open. 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: Mythology: Hesiod, Theogony — Perseus Digital Library: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0130Hyginus, Fabulae 197 — Theoi.com: https://www.theoi.com/Text/HyginusFabulae4.htmlOvid, Fasti 2.457ff — Perseus Digital Library: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0071"Hesiod's Typhon and the Many-Mouth Topos," Society for Classical Studies: https://classicalstudies.org/hesiods-typhon-and-many-mouth-toposInanna's Descent to the Underworld, Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature (Oxford): https://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/section1/tr141.htm Bali's calendars: "Decoding the Pawukon Calendar: Bali's Cycles and Symbolism," NOW! Bali: https://www.nowbali.co.id/decoding-the-pawukon-calendar-balis-cycles-and-symbolism/"Balinese saka calendar," Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balinese_saka_calendar"Old Javanese calendar" (on the Saka calendar's 14th-century arrival via the Majapahit kingdom), Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Javanese_calendar"Balinese Calendars," Murni's in Bali: https://www.murnis.com/culture/balinese-calendars/ The Nyepi sequence — Melasti, Tawur Kesanga, Pengerupukan, Nyepi: "Bali's Melasti Purification Ceremony: Taken to the Sea," NOW! Bali: https://www.nowbali.co.id/melasti-island-wide-purification/"Bali: Hindus hold Tawur Agung Kesanga ceremony" (five-elements/Panca Maha Bhuta offerings at the Catus Pata crossroads), ANTARA News: https://en.antaranews.com/news/276252/bali-hindus-hold-tawur-agung-kesanga-ceremony"Ogoh-ogoh," Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogoh-ogohOgoh-ogoh and Nyepi footage, YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_8hNKJ8Y-g"Pecalang," Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pecalang"Bali observes 'Nyepi,' a day of silence, enforced by patrol guards (pecalang)," Al Arabiya English, March 2025: https://english.alarabiya.net/News/world/2025/03/29/bali-observes-nyepi-a-day-of-silence-enforced-by-patrol-guards-pecalang- Hari Saraswati: "Understanding Hari Saraswati, Bali's Day of Knowledge," NOW! Bali: https://www.nowbali.co.id/saraswati-day-celebration-knowledge/ 1959 religious recognition and its legal weight: "Parisada Hindu Dharma Indonesia," Wikipedia (on the 1959 formation of Parisada Hindu Dharma Bali and state recognition): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parisada_Hindu_Dharma_Indonesia"Indonesia's Pancasila," fact sheet, U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (on the monotheism requirement): https://www.uscirf.gov/sites/default/files/2021%20Factsheet%20-%20Indonesias%20Pancasila.pdf"The Absence of No-Religion Option in Resident and Family ID Card Questioned," Constitutional Court of the Republic of Indonesia: https://en.mkri.id/news/details/2024-10-21/The_Absence_of_No-Religion_Option_in_Resident_and_Family_ID_Card_Questioned"Legal certainty for native-faith followers regarding marriage registration," International Journal of Law: https://www.lawjournals.org/assets/archives/2019/vol5issue5/5-4-68-256.pdf Tourism history and the present day: "Appraisal of the Bali Tourism Project," World Bank report (Suharto-era tourism master plan, hotel investment): https://documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/865071468283777424/pdf/multi-page.pdf"First tourism sector funding for Indonesia approved," World Bank timeline: https://timeline.worldbank.org/en/timeline/eventdetail/2281Picard, M. "Balinese identity as tourist attraction," Tourist Studies (on the 1971 Seminar on Cultural Tourism and the coining of pariwisata budaya): https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1468797608099246"We expect respect: Bali cracks down on naughty tourists with strict new rules," Euronews (March 2025 code ...
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  • e18 No Cheat Code: What A Brilliant Calendar Didn’t Escape

    e18 No Cheat Code: What A Brilliant Calendar Didn’t Escape
    2026/08/17
    No Cheat Code: What A Brilliant Calendar Didn’t Escape This episode goes looking for a calendar that watches the sky instead of doing math, and finds one still running in Iran today. But it turns out an observational calendar doesn’t give us an escape hatch from state violence: the episode traces Iran's Solar and Lunar Hijri calendars from Zoroastrian kingship through the Arab conquest, a mathematician-poet's 1079 calendar reform, and a 1925 nationalist restoration that came bundled with ethnic violence. The throughline: even the most accurate calendar in the world still gets used to decide who counts, and the episode closes by turning that question on gender, capitalism, and what it means to resource oneself under capitalism. The astrology section covers the interim week between eclipses, moving into Virgo season, including Persephone's harvest myth and Astraea's departure from earth. This episode also announces a season break that will begin in September. Content warning: discussion of state violence and ethnic persecution, including 20th-century campaigns against Kurdish and other minority communities in Iran, and references to ongoing discrimination. 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: Encyclopaedia Iranica, "Calendars" — free access, academicEncyclopaedia Iranica, "Nowruz ii. In the Islamic Period" — free access, academicEncyclopaedia Iranica, "Fiscal System ii. Sasanian" — free access, academicavesta.org, "Zoroastrian Religious Calendar: Month Names" — free accessavesta.org, "Angels: Zoroastrian" — free accessExploring Khayyam, "Quatrain 31" — free access, philological detail on the calendar-reform quatrain's composite sourcingThe Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, FitzGerald 5th edition, full text — free accessIran International, "Why Khamenei's clerics look for the crescent moon" — free access, journalismLewis Mumford, Technics and Civilization, "The Monastery and the Clock" excerpt (PDF) — free accessWikipedia, "Kharaj" — free access, general overview, not primary scholarshipOn Barak, "Outdating: The Time of 'Culture' in Colonial Egypt," free PDF on Academia.eduTyson Yunkaporta, Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World, Goodreads pageIranWire, "'They have dehumanized us': Minority rights violations during the 'Woman, Life, Freedom' movement in Islamic Republic Iran" Keywords: Iran, Solar Hijri calendar, Lunar Hijri calendar, Nowruz, Zoroastrianism, Sassanian Empire, Omar Khayyam, Rumi, calendar reform, Reza Shah Pahlavi, ethnic discrimination, Kurdish rights, moon sighting, Islamic calendar, timekeeping, colonialism, capitalism, gender, Tyson Yunkaporta, Lewis Mumford 2. CHAPTER MARKERS 00:00 — No Cheat Code 01:50 — Welcome + Grounding Ritual 08:06 — The Season Break Reveal 12:03 — Ongoing Portal of Eclipse Season 12:28 — Monday: Yes-Man Energy meets Ancient Poison 15:00 — Tuesday: Cornered and Rambunctious 15:49 — Wednesday: Not During Eclipse Season, Bitch 16:42 — Thursday: Dreaming Big 17:18 — Friday: Grow Up and Follow Through 18:54 — Saturday: Virgo Season Begins 21:34 — Virgo as Astraea 26:19 — Sunday: Creaky Old Knees 29:20 — Descent Begins: Remember Caesar's Math? 31:07 — The Calendar Council 34:53 — The Fingerprint of a Reality Observed 38:04 — The Man Who Fancied He Saw the Moon 43:10 — Four Hands, Thirteen Hundred Years 44:11 — The Glow That Could Run Away 48:29 — A Calendar Designed by a Poet 50:53 — Old Names, New Violence 52:09 — The People With the Most Accurate Calendars 54:47 — No One Can Tell My Body 58:19 — Why Am I Doing This? 01:02:13 — Reflection Questions
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  • e17 A Dragon With Many Mothers: On the Hybrid Roots of Eclipse Mythology

    e17 A Dragon With Many Mothers: On the Hybrid Roots of Eclipse Mythology
    2026/08/10
    This week we’re stepping into the portal of Eclipse Season. In honor of that we explore the mythology behind the nodes of the moon, which get called the head and tail of a dragon. It turns out that name comes to us by way of a very circuitous journey. Chasing a question about where that dragon story came from, this episode traces it through the Sassanian Persian empire's centuries-long project to recover a culture scattered by Alexander's conquest, a project that never reached completion but built something real anyway. Along the way: Zoroastrian astronomer priests, the word "magic," a currently open research question at the Max Planck Institute, and a turn toward what's happening to Iran right now. Astrologically, we're inside eclipse season proper, a New Moon Solar Eclipse in Leo on the South Node, sitting in a grand fire trine with Athena, Vesta, and Black Moon Lilith. Expect the full week's transits, the Vedic myth of Rahu and Ketu, and an honest look at where evolutionary astrology's own stories about the nodes actually come from. Keywords: nodes of the moon, Rahu and Ketu, dragon mythology, Sassanian Persia, Zoroastrianism, eclipse astrology, evolutionary astrology, cultural hybridity, Iran, cultural recovery and restoration, Avesta, magi and magic, Nowruz, cross-cultural mythology, karma and the lunar nodes, Dane Rudhyar, Jeffrey Wolf Green REFERENCES Persia, Sassanian restoration, Zoroastrianism Encyclopaedia Iranica — Astrology and Astronomy in IranEncyclopaedia Iranica — Nowruz i. In the Pre-Islamic PeriodEncyclopaedia Iranica — DēnkardEncyclopaedia Iranica — Alexander the Great ii. In Zoroastrian TraditionKepler College Research Library — Astrology of the Sassanian and Islamic Empires (300–1200 CE)The Persian-Toledan Astronomical Connection and the European Renaissance, arxiv.orgSacred Texts Archive — The Zend Avesta, Introduction (trans. Darmesteter) The nodes, the dragon, transmission history Natural Magick Co-op — The Nodes in AstrologyWikipedia — GochihrWikipedia — Lunar NodeMax Planck Institute for the History of Science — New Perspectives on the Symbolism of the Eclipse Dragon (jawzahr) Rahu, Ketu, Vedic mythology Wikipedia — SvarbhānuRajesh Kochhar — Comets in Ancient India, arxiv.orgHindu Blog — Symbolism of Ketu Navagraha: The Headless Serpent Evolutionary astrology School of Evolutionary AstrologyAstrology University — What Is Evolutionary Astrology? Present day / Iran The Hill — Trump says Iran would be "wiped off the face of this earth"Harvard Carr-Ryan Center for Human Rights — "A Whole Civilization Will Die Tonight"Britannica — Iran: Ethnic Groups, Languages, Religions Mars in Cancer / protection framework Wikipedia — Tyson YunkaportaWikipedia — Sand Talk CHAPTER MARKERS: 00:00 Coming For Our Credentials 01:29 Welcome & Grounding Ritual 02:38 Faultlines Are the Map 05:05 Monday: Another Delulu Is the Solulu Day 07:07 Tuesday: The Lookout Principle 11:07 Wednesday: A Moment of Silence Before the Swallowing 11:55 The Dragon With No Name Yet 15:55 The Poison Comes First: Shiva’s Blue Throat 19:01 Tattle Tales and an Eternal Grudge 23:39 The Eclipse Pushing You To The Biggest Version of Yourself 26:19 Thursday: Aftercare Weather 26:52 Friday: Earned Boring Hours 27:20 Saturday: Find You a Mountaintop 28:46 Sunday: Mundane Date Energy 30:08 Descent Begins: A Pig in the Mud 33:54 How Western Astrologers Borrowed A Myth 35:48 Once Upon a Conquest 39:36 Magi, Magic, and the Fire Keepers 43:00 The Dragon’s Muddy Origin Story 45:20 Evolutionary Astrology’s Impure Interpretation 48:42 Deeper Than Oil 51:19 One of Twenty-One 54:18 Reflection Questions
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  • e16 Big Hands, Little Alibi: The Hands That Made Your Time Scarce

    e16 Big Hands, Little Alibi: The Hands That Made Your Time Scarce
    2026/08/03
    This episode traces the time scarcity we inherit through the mechanical clock. We explore histories of the mechanical clock from its first tower in 1330s Milan built by an excommunicated family staging a political flex, through Richard Arkwright's 1771 factory gates and into the American South of the 1830s, where enslavers added pocket watches to the whip as another tool of torture control. The through-line: every system built to own someone's time has a specific, traceable hand behind it, no matter how invisible that hand gets made to look. Along the way: Frederick Douglass's own pride in owning his first watch, Hazel Carby's critique of how his freedom narrative erased his wife Anna Murray Douglass's role in his escape, and a personal reflection on what that same kind of erasure costs us all. On the astrology side, it's a relatively low-key, transitional week ahead of eclipse season: Chiron stations retrograde in Taurus, a last quarter moon asks what you're gripping too tight, and Venus comes home to Libra, making it easier to shine in relationships. Tuesday gets a full retelling of the Lilith myth: Adam's first wife, made from the same dust, who names her own cage out loud and then flees so she can build worlds. Content warning: descriptions of chattel slavery, including violence and control tactics used against enslaved people Book a session - https://www.amaliathecoach.com/ Music by Charmie Chandler - https://www.instagram.com/charmie_chandler/ Audio edited by Chantal Defelice - https://chantaldefelice.com/ + ig @chantaldefelice References: Galvano Fiamma's chronicle of the Milan clock, corroborated via Lapham's Quarterly, "In 1339, the clock strikes for the Duke of Milan"First Mechanical Clock Tower — Milan, ItalyMark M. Smith, Mastered by the Clock: Time, Slavery, and Freedom in the American South (UNC Press, 1997)Benjamin Franklin's "time is money" and its 1719 predecessor, via Quote InvestigatorFrederick Douglass, "The Story of My First Watch" (1894)Hazel V. Carby, Reconstructing WomanhoodAlphabet of Ben Sira, Lilith passage, via Jewish Women's ArchiveBayo Akomolafe, These Wilds Beyond Our Fences — quote corroborated via The MarginalianFrancis Weller on primary vs. secondary satisfactions, from The Wild Edge of Sorrow — concept covered in this interview, The Sun Magazine Keywords: mechanical clock history, time scarcity, invisible hand, Richard Arkwright, Milan clock tower, Visconti family, chattel slavery, Mastered by the Clock, Frederick Douglass, Anna Murray Douglass, Hazel Carby, Watch Night, Lilith mythology, Alphabet of Ben Sira, Chiron retrograde Taurus, eclipse season astrology, Bayo Akomolafe, Francis Weller, Black feminist critique, wage labor history Chapter Markers: 00:00 The Hand That Wound the Clock 02:33 Welcome & Grounding Ritual 03:31 Whispers Before the Time Warp 03:54 Monday: Slow Down and Check Your Work 06:24 Tuesday: Lilith Names the Cage and Becomes a World-Builder 13:59 Wednesday: What You're Holding Too Tight 18:19 Thursday: Venus Comes Home 20:00 Friday: The Cost of Your Tender Spots 21:34 Saturday: Giggly by Day, Feral by Night 22:06 Sunday: Say the Real Thing Out Loud 25:57 The Descent: How Did I Get Trapped In Time Scarcity? 28:44 The Clock That Outranked the Church 35:30 Wage Labor Based Time Scarcity on the Factory Floor 37:18 Whose Hand Gets to Hide in Owning Bodies’ Time 40:14 Watches Used as Instruments of Torture over the Enslaved 46:09 Watching the Clock for Freedom: Watch Night 48:58 The Measure of a Real Person: A Watch 50:57 The Hands Frederick Douglass Left Out: Anna Murray Douglass 52:28 Erasure and Freedoms That Hide In The Dark 56:46 Time, A Muddy, Viscous Puddle 01:01:01 In Summary, All the Hands Are Traceable 01:03:58 Reflection Questions
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  • e15 Seed of the System: Constantine, Gregory, and the Calendar That Tried to Outrun Death

    e15 Seed of the System: Constantine, Gregory, and the Calendar That Tried to Outrun Death
    2026/07/27
    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 NicaeaFirst Council of Nicaea — WikipediaArian controversy — WikipediaEaster controversy — WikipediaInter gravissimas — WikipediaGregorian calendar — WikipediaAdoption of the Gregorian calendar — WikipediaCalendar (New Style) Act 1750 — WikipediaSt. Bartholomew's Day massacre — WikipediaSala Regia (Vatican) — WikipediaReligion in ancient Rome — WikipediaPersecution of Christians in the Roman Empire — WikipediaPliny the Younger on Christians — WikipediaSolar 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 Motherfucker 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
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  • e14 Warrior Time: Capoeira, Cortisol, and Who Holds The Beat

    e14 Warrior Time: Capoeira, Cortisol, and Who Holds The Beat
    2026/07/20
    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/learningcapoeira0000downMatthias 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-293Smithsonian Folkways, Capoeira Angola from Salvador, Brazil (Mestre Moraes / GCAP, 1996) — https://folkways.si.edu/capoeira-angola-from-salvador-brazil/world/music/album/smithsonianCapoeira 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/originsofeuropea0000richThe 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
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  • e13 A Clock in Every Cell: Circadian Biology, Fascist Clocks, and the Timekeeping That Predates Empire

    e13 A Clock in Every Cell: Circadian Biology, Fascist Clocks, and the Timekeeping That Predates Empire
    2026/07/13

    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

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    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
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