Episodes

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

    e8 What the Crab Knows: The Sideways Scuttle, Water Clocks, and Backbone Swells
    Jun 8 2026

    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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    45 mins
  • e7 What Got Rounded Down: Hera, the Lunar Calendar, and Hours That Breathe

    e7 What Got Rounded Down: Hera, the Lunar Calendar, and Hours That Breathe
    Jun 1 2026

    Something was lost in the rounding. A matriarch. A month. An hour that used to breathe with the seasons. This episode goes looking for all of it. The astrology section opens a summer-long invitation — Mercury in Cancer through August, with a retrograde built in — to understand and differentiate from the things that nurtured you. The week's maternal theme runs through Hera/Juno, whose pre-Hellenic story as a pilgrimage goddess and matriarchal mother got compressed into the jealous wife of Zeus by the same cultural machinery that rounded down the lunar calendar. The descent moves into ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt to ask why Western timekeeping uses 12, not 13 — and finds that both numbers have body bases and cosmic bases, just different ones: one from the skeleton, one from the trading hand. The episode ends in 1967, when the second was officially decoupled from astronomical movement and handed to a cesium atom. Transits covered: Mercury into Cancer (retrograde June 29–July 23), Sun trine Juno, Mars square Juno, Uranus conjunct Ceres, Ceres square the Nodes, Neptune sextile Ceres.

    Key sources: Karl Kerenyi on Hera's pre-Hellenic origins; Sylvia Wynter on colonial language and humanization; Anishnaabe, Haudenosaunee, and Cree turtle calendar traditions; NIST published history of atomic timekeeping; Victor Warring on grief and the erotic (rewilderos.com); Alexis Pauline Gumbs, ed., Revolutionary Motherhood.

    CHAPTER MARKERS:

    00:00 — Opening 00:47 — Grounding ritual 01:56 — Week overview: a gentler sky, themes for all summer 02:25 — Monday: Mercury enters Cancer / what do we mean by mothers 07:54 — Tuesday: Mars squares Juno / Hera before she was a wife 14:19 — Wednesday through Sunday 19:27 — Midway: algorithms operate in time 20:06 — Descent begins: orienting the project / colonial time 21:23 — In the tradition of Sylvia Wynter / Patois as genius breakage 25:47 — Why 12? Ancient Sumeria’s lunar calendar 28:23 — 12 and the body: Babylonian hand-counting 30:27 — Two algorithms for the same reality 30:38 — The turtle shell: Anishnaabe, Haudenosaunee, Cree lunar calendars 34:45 — Rounding down: 12 vs 13 and the menstruating body 36:38 — Egyptian hours that breathe with the seasons 37:47 — 1967: the cesium atom takes over from the stars 41:16 — Recap and closing questions
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    46 mins
  • e6 Sleeper Agents: Epistemologies of Survival

    e6 Sleeper Agents: Epistemologies of Survival
    May 25 2026

    Episode Description:

    This week we’re talking about language as armor, language as weapon, and language as time travel.

    Jane Goodall spent 60 years figuring out what makes humans different from chimpanzees. Her answer: we can speak of things that are absent — the past, the future, ideas that don't exist in any room we're standing in. I explore how whoever gives you the words gets to give you the time.

    This episode traces what happens when someone uses that power against you — and what it takes to get your timeline back.

    On the astrology side: a Sagittarius Full Moon asking where your hard-won knowledge actually belongs, Athena as feminist sleeper agent, Vesta making way for ecstatic chaos, and the Arachne story as a case study in truth-telling strategy. Plus Mars square Pluto, Ceres entering Gemini, and a week that wants you to get strategic about how you apply what you know.

    Content warning: sexual trauma.

    References:

    • Jane Goodall, "What Separates Us from Chimpanzees?" TED 2003
    • Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow (2010)
    • Audre Lorde, "The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House," Sister Outsider (1984)\

    Music by Charmie Chandler Group space, 2nd and 4th Mondays 5:30pm CT: sign up here Book sessions: calendly.com/amaliathecoach

    Keywords: astrology podcast, Sagittarius full moon May 2026, epistemology and trauma, language and power, Jane Goodall human language time travel, Athena Arachne myth, Vesta asteroid astrology, sleeper agents mythology, knowledge production, sexual trauma healing, somatic healing, Michelle Alexander injustice system, IFS astrology, Mars Pluto square May 2026, Ceres Gemini 2026, this erotic timeline

    TIMESTAMPS

    00:00 — Cold open: how do you know what you know?

    00:54 — Welcome + grounding ritual

    01:48 — Astrology of the week

    02:33 — Monday May 25: Squaring up with the dark

    04:46 — Tuesday May 26: Athena — feminist sleeper agent

    09:02 — Vesta — the invisible hearth keeper who made way for ecstatic chaos

    11:18 — Thursday May 28: Ceres enters Gemini — talk about the grief

    13:04 — Sunday May 31: Sagittarius Full Moon — how do you apply your hard-won knowledge?

    15:16 — Athena and Arachne: a case study in truth-telling

    21:03 — Midway: Jane Goodall, language, and time travel

    23:27 — Descent: the word epistemology and what it cost me

    31:00 — Leaving academia, learning to walk on the ground

    38:06 — Survivors of sexual abuse and the power institutions don't want us to have

    41:17 — Holy shit! your body has been time traveling all this time

    45:50 — What this podcast is actually for

    49:01 — Weekly recap + closing questions
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    52 mins
  • e5 13 Joints, 20 Digits, 260 Days: Mayan Timekeeping, Ecological Collapse, and Changing Your Mind

    e5 13 Joints, 20 Digits, 260 Days: Mayan Timekeeping, Ecological Collapse, and Changing Your Mind
    May 18 2026
    Your body is not a vehicle. It's a timekeeping system. This week, the sky is moving slow enough for you to hear it. Episode 5 moves from a beautiful week of astrology —Mars into Taurus, Venus into Cancer, and a Uranus cazimi asking which kind of revolution we're committed to— into a descent on the Mayan timekeeping practices that have been changing how I understand what time is, where it lives, and why the body might be the best calendar any of us has ever had. The descent takes us into the Cholq'ij (K’iche' Maya) or Tzolk'in (Yucatec Maya) —the human-level calendar— and the sacred math behind it: 13 major joints in the human body, 20 digits, and a 260-day cycle that corresponds to human gestation, the growth cycle of corn, and beyond. We also go into the Mayan concept of najt, a single word for space and time together, because in this system, they cannot be separated; and we discuss the 2012 myth and what actually happened. Also discussed: how in the Mayan creation story, humans were made to be timekeepers, and what it might mean that our experience of time is generated from inside the space of our own body. I share what I learned from Solveig Barrios of the Mayan Wisdom Project, founded with her late father, the renowned Mayan elder Carlos Barrios. From Celene, my guide at the Museo Regional de la Costa Oriental in Tulum. From Javi, my guide with the Sian Ka'an Community Tours. And from the Popol Vuh, which tells us that humans were created for a specific purpose: to keep the days. I also talk about why the Maya never "mysteriously disappeared" — and what their era of ecological collapse and eventual mindset renovation has to say to us in this particular moment in history. Sources and links: The Mayan Wisdom Project: https://www.themayanwisdomproject.com/Museo Regional de la Costa Oriental, Tulum (INAH): https://inah.gob.mx/museos/museo-regional-de-la-costa-orientalSian Ka'an Community Tours: https://siankaantours.com.mx/Creation Story of the Maya / Living Maya Time (Smithsonian NMAI): https://maya.nmai.si.edu/the-maya/creation-story-mayaLiving Maya Time — The Calendar System (Smithsonian NMAI): https://maya.nmai.si.edu/mayaThe rattlesnake, the Pleiades, and tzab / Susan Milbrath research via Mexicolore: https://www.mexicolore.co.uk/aztecs/flora-and-fauna/rattlesnakeVenus synodic period and Mayan calendars: https://journalofmathematicsandculture.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/venus-synodic-period-jmc-final-10-1.pdfChichen Itza and the Venus cycle (National Geographic): https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/chichen-itza-venus-cycleA New View on Maya Astronomy (Maya Exploration Center): https://www.mayaexploration.org/pdf/A%20New%20View%20on%20Maya%20Astronomy.pdfMaya Decipherment (epigraphy and scholarship): https://mayadecipherment.com/Ajchich1 (Mayan calendar daykeeping blog): https://ajchich1.blogspot.com/Breaking the Maya Code (documentary): https://vimeo.com/ondemand/115559Delulu is the Solulu: https://www.tiktok.com/@resego_mojela/video/7269354134472576261 https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/delulu/photosMusic by Charmie Chandler: https://www.instagram.com/charmie_chandler/ CHAPTERS 00:00 — Opening: your body is not a vehicle, it's a timekeeping system 00:47 — Grounding ritual 02:30 — Monday May 18: Mars into Taurus + Venus into Cancer. The exhale 05:47 — Interoception: your body reading its own signals and reporting back 07:49 — Tuesday May 19: Venus sextile Mars + Mercury square the nodes (your words are at a crossroads) 09:49 — "Truth that comes from inside the body is like fucking fertilizer for the space around it" 11:04 — Friday May 22: Uranus cazimi — the biggest day of the week 12:05 — The mythology: Ouranos, Cronus, Zeus — power transferred, not transformed 13:47 — Prometheus and the freak frequency: handing power down instead of hoarding it up 17:44 — Transition: the imagination as departure lounge, and why the body has to be the anchor 18:50 — "The body isn't just a vehicle. The body is the matrix." 21:45 — Descent begins: Mayan timekeeping, and complex feelings about sharing 29:01 — The Cholq'ij / Tzolk'in: 13 joints, 20 digits, 260 days — the human-level calendar 36:07 — The Popol Vuh: humans were created to "keep the days" 43:32 — "They never disappeared. They just changed their mindset." TAGS mayan timekeeping, tzolkin calendar, cholq'ij, mayan wisdom project, najt space time, 260 day calendar, human body calendar, interoception, uranus cazimi, prometheus astrology, freak frequency, astrology may 2026, mars taurus, venus cancer, gemini season, popol vuh, keep the days, mayan geocosmovision, sian kaan, tulum mayan ruins, ecological collapse mindset, IFS internal family systems, embodied time, erotic timeline podcast
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    50 mins
  • e4 From Oil to The Pomegranate Economy: On Shadow Hunger, Grief, and Cutting New Deals

    e4 From Oil to The Pomegranate Economy: On Shadow Hunger, Grief, and Cutting New Deals
    May 11 2026

    Saturday's Taurus New Moon arrives conjunct Mercury, the asteroid Ceres, and the fixed star Algol (the Demon's Head) at the exact moment the International Energy Agency is calling the current oil disruption the greatest energy security crisis in recorded history. Their recommendation: work from home. Slow down. Minimize travel.

    Sound familiar?

    This episode covers the full Ceres and Persephone myth as a map for collective grief, why Thursday's Mercury and Ceres cazimis are an invitation to cut new deals with your own shadow, what Algol and the Morningstar have to do with disrupting hierarchies right now, and why Persephone eating the pomegranate seeds was not a mistake. Plus: the grief curriculum we've been inside since 2020, what oil has to do with ancestral time, and a brief loving return to Blursday, March the fortyteenth of Maprilay.

    Keywords: Taurus New Moon 2026, Mercury cazimi May 2026, Ceres astrology, Persephone myth, shadow hunger, pomegranate economy, Algol fixed star, grief and astrology, oil crisis 2026, Strait of Hormuz, IFS and astrology, Eleusinian Mysteries, Mars Chiron Aries, collective grief, energy crisis spiritual meaning

    Chapters

    00:00 — Opening: the extraction economy and your body 01:12 — Welcome & grounding 02:41 — Astrology of the week ahead 04:01 — What is a cazimi? Burning down to the bone 05:42 — The story of Ceres: innocence, obsession, and the narcissus flower 07:26 — The hole opens: Persephone's descent 15:12 — Mercury arrives: the psychopomp at the wall 17:45 — The pomegranate seeds: she was so hungry 20:37 — What grief generates: agriculture, the Eleusinian Mysteries, the gifts of fallow seasons 23:53 — Why these cazimis, why now: the deals you've cut to live with your pain 26:05 — Algol, Lucifer, and the Morningstar: big disruptions of power 31:50 — Stop being precious 33:36 — Midway: the binding was also the becoming 35:37 — The Descent: Blursday, the IEA, and the grief curriculum since 2020 47:10 — Closing: questions to plant this New Moon

    References

    Jason Holley — astrologer and depth psychologist, source of the narcissus/narcissism interpretation: jasonholley.net

    International Energy Agency, Oil Market Report: iea.org

    IEA demand-reduction recommendations: iea.org

    Atlantic Council — Webster & I'Anson on oil rationing: atlanticcouncil.org

    World Bank Commodity Markets Outlook April 2026: worldbank.org

    Washington Post — "It's been six months. Our sense of time is still broken": washingtonpost.com

    Elisabeth Kübler-Ross & David Kessler — the five stages of grief: grief.com
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    50 mins