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LGBTQ&A

Chani Nicholas: Doesn't Care If You Hate Astrology

LGBTQ&A

Jeffrey Masters

Society & Culture

4.7703 Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2018

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Chani Nicholas talks about why astrology is a tool for healing, and says that if astrology doesn't resonate with you...that's totally OK. Chani describes her own struggles with the legitimacy of her work, the changing perception and experience of astrology, and what our current president's birth chart says about him. Never miss an update! Sign up for our (short!) newsletter at www.LGBTQpodcast.com Join GLAAD's #AmpYourVoice campaign and make sure your voice is heard this election year. Click here to take the pledge to vote. LGBTQ&A is hosted by Jeffrey Masters and is part of The Advocate Magazine.

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0:00.0

From The Advocate magazine, I'm Jeffrey Masters, and this is LGBTQ and A.

0:09.5

Last week, Sonia Passy was here, and this week I thought we'd put out this interview that we did with Chani Nicholas, who is Sonia's wife.

0:17.3

Talking to them, you see how they fit together in life, but also with their work, which goes

0:22.3

hand in hand in really interesting and unique ways.

0:25.6

Chani is an astrologer, as you probably know.

0:28.5

She's one of the queer community's favorite astrologers, and she describes how astrology

0:33.5

can be used as a tool for healing.

0:36.3

She is not a fortune teller, as she says.

0:38.3

That is not what astrology is about.

0:39.9

But it is something that can help guide our lives and really help inspire a sense of awe.

0:46.4

So we talk about that as well as about our current president's birth chart.

0:50.8

And what that reveals about him, I found especially interesting.

0:56.0

So that is coming up. If you enjoy the interview, please take a second and subscribe to the podcast. Subscribe, rank us five stars,

1:02.2

leave a comment. When you do those things, it is the biggest way you can help our show grow. Thank you

1:08.0

for that. All right, without further ado, here's Chaney.

1:17.1

Okay. Okay. Let's get to it. Let's do it. A big reason why I like your work and why I think

1:21.3

a lot of people like it is because it's so inclusive and intersectional. And I think that for

1:27.2

an ancient art, you really make it feel

1:30.2

current. Is that something that you hear a lot? Yeah. I hear that there, I don't know about

1:38.5

the current piece, but that it brings true for folks. I think I say current because sometimes

1:43.8

you read astrology and it's like a good thing

1:46.1

will happen in the future.

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