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

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

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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/15009617Downing, Michael. Spring Forward: The Annual Madness of Daylight Saving Time. Shoemaker & Hoard, 2005. — the definitive popular history of DST; available at most librariesWikipedia, "Daylight Saving Time" — overview with citations on Germany 1916, the Clorox/7-Eleven coalition, and the 2007 extension: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_timeReynolds Center for Business Journalism, "The Stakeholders of Daylight Saving Time": businessjournalism.org/2020/10/the-stakeholders-of-daylight-saving-timeToday 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-timeChurchill, 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/35/2/422/6376036Donegan, Kathleen. Seasons of Misery: Catastrophe and Colonial Settlement in Early America. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. Publisher page: pennpress.org/9780812223774/seasons-of-miseryNice 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-1609-1614Gilder 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
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