Grounded in Limitlessness: Mutable Magic & Astrology for Creativity with Junauda Petrus

Embodied Astrology

Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 10 February 2023

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Embodied Astrology welcomes Junauda Petrus back to the podcast for a conversation about her journey with astrology and its importance in shaping her writing and characters; her upcoming workshop series with Embodied Astrology; creative inspiration through the mutable signs; and some ideas about what Saturn’s form building and shape-making influences might bring during its transit in Pisces 2023-2026.

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JUNAUDA PETRUS is a writer, a soul sweetener, runaway witch, and performance artist of Black-Caribbean descent, born and working on unceded Dakota land in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Her work centers around pleasure, wildness, queerness, Black-diasporic-futurism, ancestral healing, sweetness and liberation. Her first YA novel, The Stars and The Blackness Between Them received a Coretta Scott King Honor Award. She is the co-founder with Erin Sharkey of Free Black Dirt a Black, experimental healing art collective. She is a Jerome 2021-2022 Artist Fellow in Literature. She is currently working on several projects including her second novel Black Circus, writing a puppet show and adapting her first book into a feature film.

Her forthcoming illustrated book, Can We Please Give the Police Department to the Grandmothers is available for pre-order now.
Follow Junauda on IG @junauda
website: www.junauda.com

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0:00.0	Nobody knows how to swim that deep. You got to be born there. Gills fast into your
0:07.2	ribs and the watery placenta of Neptune. You only dream when you are awake. Everything so ancient it is happening in the future. To survive on this earth, we escape into ourselves, hide in plain sight, finding solace in vice and lovers.
0:27.8	No light, no air, no need.
0:31.9	All this is a dream anyway. Mystery is only the ancestors know how to swim to the bottom of.
0:38.0	Bioluminescence is deep sea melanin. Flashing wisdom in your own skin, sparks of Cosmos in the depth of your
0:47.3	watery dark. When an ancestor is coming back to the earth, old ladies dream of fish swimming through lakes of Remember and Forget.
0:57.0	And they catch the babies like Fisherwomen on the starlit sea of San Colpa. That was Pise's season, read by Janata Petrus, from her book, The Stars and
1:11.5	the Blackness Between Them.
1:13.2	Hello, my name is Renee Sills.
1:16.4	I'm the host of Embodied astrology, and Junata Petrus is my guest for this episode.
1:21.2	Janata is a creative activist, writer, playwright, and
1:25.5	multi-dimensional performance artist. Her work centers around black wildness,
1:30.2	futurism, ancestral healing, sweetness, spectacle, and shimmer.
1:35.4	She is the author of the Stars and the Blackness between them.
1:39.0	Winner of the 2020 Coretta Scott King Honor Book Award and a forthcoming illustrated book, can we please give
1:45.6	the police department the grandmothers?
1:48.7	Janata is also facilitating an upcoming series of workshops with embodied astrology that centers on creative
1:54.9	exploration and development with the supportive astrological inspiration of the
1:59.2	mutable signs. This series of meetings takes place with the new moons of the mutable seasons over four Sundays this year.
2:07.0	On February 19th for Pisces season, June 18th for Gemini season, September 17th for Virgo season, and December 17th for Sagittarius season.
2:18.9	In this series we will have space to play and heal in our work through artistic activations inspired by the mutable
2:25.6	quartet. You are invited to devote your participation to the initiation of a new project,
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