Permission for Pleasure with Junauda Petrus-Nasah & Kadie Henderson
Embodied Astrology
Embodied Astrology
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 28 June 2022
⏱️ 105 minutes
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Summary
Join me for a Cancerian conversation with two of my favorite magical thinkers – Junauda Petrus-Nasah and Kadie Henderson – where we talk about music, sensuality, violence, the erotic, the speculative, and all things Cancerian.
Junauda Petrus-Nasah 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. Learn more at www.junauda.com and follow her on IG @junauda
FIND JUNAUDA’S BOOK, The Stars and the Blackness Between Them
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Kadie Henderson is an amazing, multi-talented astrologer and friend of mine and Junauda. They are also the Synthesis Space Research Resident Fellow for Embodied Astrology. In her work, Kadie uses astrology and their creative practice to synthesize workshops and experiences that help folks engage with the totality of being human. Follow Kadie on IG @kadiesmiles_
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| 0:00.0 | Cancer season, season of Yamaya, our bottomless dark, deep wet healer, warrior of our waters and conductor of our tides. |
| 0:19.2 | The moon shines on you. |
| 0:21.2 | You are floating on her waters. She is pleasure immersive and she soaks you to |
| 0:27.0 | heal and rocks you to sleep. She is the constellation of the armored warrior of water and sand. |
| 0:36.1 | She protects softness. |
| 0:38.1 | She is a shell thing that scamper away and hide and protect. |
| 0:47.7 | Protecting the pearl of sacred sensuality, a mango seed, an intuitive lover, the heavy and healing waters of your motherlands, and eternal shades of the mother. and That poem was Cancer Season by Janata Petras Nessa, from her book The Stars and the Blackness between them. |
| 1:15.0 | Hello and welcome to Embodied Astrology. My name is Renee Sills. |
| 1:20.0 | I'm a consulting astrologer, astrology teacher, and somatic educator. |
| 1:25.0 | I'm interested in exploring the ways we can use astrology as a technology to deepen our |
| 1:30.8 | understandings of art, process, politics, each other, and the world we live in. |
| 1:36.0 | Join me for conversations with guests that center life and living through the lens of astrology. |
| 1:42.0 | I'm recording this introduction on June 28, |
| 1:45.5 | 2022 and it's a new moon in cancer that is conjunct Black Moon Lilleth, square to Jupiter in Aries, |
| 1:52.2 | and trying to Vesta in Pisces. |
| 1:55.2 | This new moon upholds the power of the feminine to transform, survive, thrive, and birth new |
| 2:00.6 | worlds. |
| 2:02.0 | It asks us to reckon with the power of ferocity and devotion. |
| 2:06.7 | My guest for this episode are Janata Petrus NASA and Katie Henderson. |
| 2:11.5 | We recorded this episode on the Solstice, June 21st, 2022. |
| 2:17.0 | Janata is a writer, Soul Sweetener, Runaway Witch, and Performance Artist of black Caribbean descent. |
| 2:24.0 | She is the author of the Coretta Scott King Honor Award winning |
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