I’m joining #dignitybabes astrologers on social media in exploring the collective myths (stories/theories) that support the traditional structure of astrology. note: the following is a life-time long personal storyline + complex concepts I am trying to summarize to contribute to a meta discourse so forgive any oversimplifications & feel free to ask questions. this is just the beginning of more I’ll be sharing on these topics this year.
for a long time I rejected hellenistic & traditional astrology because I didn’t really understand it but more-so, having to contend with the questions of fate & free-will scared me. coming from my context of abuse & lack of agency, I refuted anything that seemed to remind me of that powerlessness. I also was running away from how whiteness imposes structure & hyper-intellectualism even as I was running into how whiteness as hyper-individualism informed my spiritual & political praxis.
so I leaned deeply into prioritizing free-will & agency. I still center that in my practice, but I also recognize where my religious & patriarchal conditioning of false responsibility for other people & everything around me was prohibiting me from accepting that sometimes shit is just shitty. enter concept: it’s not my fault. this doesn’t mean it can’t be composted or transmuted but that possibility also doesn’t change that it just exists as is.
learning traditional astrology over the past few years & deciding to integrate it into my practice has helped me understand how structure is what supports freedom. it’s allowed me to engage with free-will more playfully & with fate more respectfully. the concept of essential dignities (what’s available to a planets needs based on the sign it is in) is a brilliant example of how accepting nuance & challenges can be generative rather than limiting.
it also presences the questions: how do we maintain our dignity while interacting with the ways oppressive constructs sneak into our practices (no matter the school of thought)? how do we integrate ancient wisdom while updating it with decolonial preferences? how do we maintain our dignity while interacting with the complexity of fate & free-will?
I think we maintain our dignity by accepting the response-ability to be aware & inquisitive about how we’ve internalized binaries, hierarchies, & supremacies. we maintain our dignity by understanding the origins of schools of thought & letting time talk to us through history. we maintain our dignity by questioning, discerning, & disseminating aged wisdoms. we maintain our dignity through an accountability of care that makes room for growth, truth, & the willingness to learn. we maintain our dignity by choosing to honor lineages & choosing curiosity over control. we maintain our dignity by reclaiming our power, sovereignty, & humility as cultivators and students.
I have learned & continue to learn so much about the false separation between the personal, political, & spiritual. my life is designed around intentionally reconciling those false separations aka healing. I am grateful for lineage like mine that supports these learnings. to name some: my Afro-Indigenous ancestors, Turtle Tank Freedom School, queer Black radicals, Grace Lee Boggs, adrienne maree brown, & the many known & unknown to me astrologers who have preserved this timeless tool.
live on jupiter
if you have Instagram, you can watch a live talk I did on my personal experience with Jupiter in sagittarius. if you don’t have IG, this is something I will continue writing about or…
during the live I mentioned the subscriber only group session on Jupiter in sag I’ll be offering this month. we’ll overview what Jupiter in sag was up to for each rising sign, share experiences, & gather wisdom. this process is essential for improving our Jupiter in capricorn experience. these calls are casual & intimate. if you are subscribed to the horoscopes, expect your invitation to this soon/you’ll be able to watch the replay. if you aren’t subscribed but interested, check out the details here.
I mentioned linking Turtle Tank / School for Radical Purpose , so you can check them out & maybe discover for yourself why I’m so grateful.
to all those forever in the learning curves—onward.
oxo
ari
the pleasure planet gets capricorn action
Venus is a Pleasure Planet. in capricorn, the pleasure comes from clear containers, intentional devotion, & stable investments. Venus in capricorn has moved away from Jupiter, is near the south node, then will be close to Saturn & Pluto. Venus wants to know where the love is so capricorn can respect it as sacred or move on accordingly.
Jupiter hopefully brought some clarity & direction for relationships/resources even if in the form of a rude awakening. the south node wants you to implement strategy skills of integrity & release defaults of self-harm. Saturn wants you get real, be true, stay devoted to quality over quantity. Pluto wants you to light quantification & qualifications from a sick system on fire & sweep the ashes out the way.
responsibility is the ability to respond. this is what the capricorn action wants to increase—not the pressures of fear, guilt, obligation or oppressive commitments. but it’s not easy.
the work comes in here. it usually requires a massive amount of de-conditioning to CHOOSE pleasure with substance, to craft clear containers, to get what’s in the way of being able to respond to your own life OUT. the thing is that it also takes an enormous amount of TIME. the medicine for the bruises or fuel for the long run is grace & gentleness.
if you need saltwater support under these stars, I got you. book me if you emoceanal.
oxo
ari
the transition from Jupiter in sagittarius to capricorn
Jupiter enters its year in capricorn on December 2.
while there are common collective themes, everyone’s experience of Jupiter in sagittarius has been different depending on their chart. Jupiter in capricorn is such a big fucking deal because it intensifies the Saturn-Pluto-South Node work (restructuring paradigms) we’ve been doing there. Jupiter in sagittarius, wherever it showed up & out for you, may have been so much more about stretching imagination, visions, & experimenting than actual outcomes. that changes with Jupiter in capricorn. learning curves become opportunities for actualization (these don’t always glitter, sometimes they feel heavy) & concrete outcomes.
execution, implementation, the devotion of purposeful discipline.
to prep for what this next year wants to bring you it’s helpful to review the changes/lessons that Jupiter in sagittarius bestowed, in addition to becoming aware of the direct impacts Jupiter will make for you while in capricorn. let’s do this together! in a reading we can review what Jupiter in sagittarius was for you, cover the major aspects Jupiter in capricorn will make in your chart, & get clear on what you need to streamline towards. more importantly, get clear on whatever it is YOU need to be able to move forward with self-trust, feeling supported by the multiverse.
I’ll be sharing personal reflections (Jupiter in sag blew up my 5th house of identity security & pleasure!) & more insight on this transition later this month. of course the horoscopes will include notes on this & I may even do a January 2020 subscriber only support call for capricorn season.