A lot of astrology out there, it's kind of used to serve people in power.

Only more recently has it been reclaimed by people who are queer, who are people of color

and practicing for each other.

Alice Sparkleycat, who goes by the name Ace, is an astrologer and the author of the fascinating

book, Post-Colonial Astrology, reading the planets through capital, power, and labor.

Now living in Brooklyn, they moved from Junzhou, China to a small town in Iowa when they

were 5 years old.

To get a sense of what Ace is all about, here is the last paragraph of their website's

bio.

Quote, because astrology is so much about the audacity of believing in the wrong things of

spiritualizing with humor and magi-king politically, it is a worthy antidote to the everyday gaslighting

that race, gender, and class violence use to warp us psychically.

My mission with astrology is this, to take back the language of the cosmos from capitalism

and supremacy, and to use it for the creation of communities of care.

For our episode, we will discuss these ideas and learn more about what astrology has done,

and the potential for what it can do, if we are willing to break it down and rebuild.

Again.

Hi Ace, thanks so much for coming on and talking to us all about astrology.

Yeah, thanks for having me.

I'm really excited, I was listening to your previous episode of astrology, too, it

sounds really interesting.

Yeah, I think that we're going to have a lot to talk about, for sure.

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