Finding Your Feet: A Saturnian Conversation with Alua Arthur
Embodied Astrology
Embodied Astrology
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🗓️ 11 June 2024
⏱️ 51 minutes
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In this conversation, Sherri Taylor talks Saturn in Pisces wisdom with Alua Arthur, a death doula and author, from her book Briefly, Perfectly, Human: Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real About the End. They discuss topics such as the sociopolitical context of death and dying, the distinction between care and love, the importance of lessons learned from limitations and failure, and what it means to surrender to your purpose.
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| 0:00.0 | And so you write, to adapt as central to the human experience, humans are masters at navigating the unknown and adapting to new circumstances, even though we often do not give ourselves credit. |
| 0:11.0 | Change is the God that we must bow to. Each new day that |
| 0:16.2 | we get to wake up we greet a reality that wages a war of attrition against our |
| 0:20.8 | expectations. Life doesn't go the way we want. |
| 0:24.0 | D. Ideas fail. |
| 0:26.0 | People change their minds. |
| 0:27.0 | Governments get overthrown. |
| 0:29.0 | Babies won't nap. |
| 0:30.0 | Psychadelic trips end with potential for inpatient treatment. Our hearts get broken. Psych even as we struggle and resist. |
| 0:43.3 | Learning to adapt introduces us to the new self time and time again. |
| 0:49.2 | The new self is one we never imagine, |
| 0:52.0 | someone who has integrated all that has come before. |
| 0:55.0 | When we arrive at this new place we are able to say today I am here. Oh, no, no, no, no, |
| 1:15.0 | you, |
| 1:17.0 | Oh, no, |
| 1:18.0 | Oh, no, |
| 1:19.0 | Oh, |
| 1:20.0 | Oh, Oh, |
| 1:21.0 | Oh, Hi, Stargazers. My name is Sherry Taylor, and I am a guest faculty with Embodied |
| 1:31.6 | Astrology this year hosting a astrological year-long series on the medicine of Saturn. |
| 1:39.7 | It's a devotional offering. And today my very special and beloved guest is Aluwa Arthur. Aluwa is a death |
| 1:50.3 | Dula recovering attorney and the founder of Going with Grace, a death-dula training |
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