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This Erotic Timeline

This Erotic Timeline

By: Amalia Scott Jančič
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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.

Copyright 2026 All rights reserved. Social Sciences
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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
    Jun 29 2026
    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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    50 mins
  • e10 What a Sinking City Knows: Mud, Swamps, Migration, and Water’s Perfect Memory

    e10 What a Sinking City Knows: Mud, Swamps, Migration, and Water’s Perfect Memory
    Jun 22 2026

    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 Fuck (bodies are wilder than the categories they gave us) 27:35 — Swamps Are Black as Fuck (maroons, St. Malo) 30:41 — Migration Is Black as Fuck (indigenous land memory, Mardi Gras Indians) 43:18 — The River Remembers (Morrison close + reflection questions)
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    48 mins
  • e9 Venus Before They Took Her Teeth: What Your Rage Is Actually Made Of

    e9 Venus Before They Took Her Teeth: What Your Rage Is Actually Made Of
    Jun 15 2026

    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.
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    47 mins
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