LIFE EATS DEATH - A Mercury Retrograde Special Episode with Rose Blakelock & Renee Sills
Embodied Astrology
Embodied Astrology
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🗓️ 10 May 2022
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Mercury’s second retrograde in 2022 is May 10-June 3. The degree where Mercury will station direct (and where its retrograde shadow begins) is 26 Taurus. This is the degree of last November’s first eclipse in the current set of Taurus/Scorpio eclipses. It’s also the degree where the sun will be on May 15’s upcoming total lunar eclipse.
Mercury forms three sextiles with both Jupiter and Pluto over the course of its retrograde and shadow. The symbolism of this retrograde and its eclipse connections speak to needs to undo, reimagine and retell myths that have solidified as truth; deconstruct and reconstruct significant forms, relationships, and projects; and work with creative breakage, scavenging, and assemblage while endings and transitions demand new variables and outcomes.
Rose Blakelock and I have teamed up for a 2-part process with this astrology that involves repatterning relationships with opportunity and gain, meditations on messages coming through the specifics of your natal chart, and a scavenger hunt that will lead you to deconstruct and reconstruct a significant area of your life that’s ready for innovation.
We invite you to enjoy this episode as a guided meditation and writing practice and also to JOIN THE WORKSHOP SERIES where you will learn a lot more about the astrology of this retrograde and how to work with your own natal chart to make the best use of this cycle. We will be holding a listening space on June 13 for folks to share, show, and tell about how they worked with this process.
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This special episode is a scavenged soundscape produced by Rose (who is also a composer and musician) with excerpts from our workshop and other sounds Rose found and made. Rose was inspired by and has included quotes from Trickster Makes This World, by Lewis Hyde.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to a very special episode of Embodied |
| 0:05.2 | astrology. My name is Renee Sills. I'm a consulting astrologer and |
| 0:09.8 | embodiment guide. I'm interested in the ways astrology can support and expand our perspectives and |
| 0:15.6 | conversations around art, healing, politics, relationships, and life in general. |
| 0:20.9 | Today's episode was made in collaboration with a dear friend and colleague of mine, Rose Black, |
| 0:27.8 | along with being an amazing astrologer in the co-host of the Big Dyke Energy Podcast, |
| 0:32.7 | an astrologically oriented take on queer culture |
| 0:35.6 | and pop culture. |
| 0:37.2 | Rose is also a musician and composer. |
| 0:39.7 | And she's arranged and produced this episode |
| 0:42.0 | from excerpts she scavenged from the recording of a recent |
| 0:45.2 | workshop we co-facilitated called Life Eat's Death. |
| 0:49.6 | Our workshop in this episode both explore the terrain of Mercury's retrograde cycles. |
| 0:55.0 | Mercury symbol is often associated with tricksters, travelers, cycle pomps, |
| 1:00.0 | and other figures that easily traverse between realms of seen and unseen, known and unknown. |
| 1:06.4 | Coyotes, crows, and mycelium are just a few of the life forms Mercury's archetype includes. When we observe these beings we might be amazed by their cunning, |
| 1:16.4 | intelligence, communications, and abilities to thrive in conditions of resistance and oppression. |
| 1:25.0 | Mercury goes retrograde three times a year. |
| 1:28.0 | A retrograde cycle refers to a period of time |
| 1:31.0 | when from our viewpoint here on Earth a planet appears to pause in its forward |
| 1:36.0 | orbital trajectory and then reverses back to a previous point during which it will also |
| 1:41.3 | transition from being visible in the morning just before the sun rises |
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