LEO SEASON PART 1: Royal Reversals and A Meaningful Conversation with Possibility

You are getting your Leo season content in 2 parts this season. In this episode Cory delivers the August 2024 forecast and shares a treatise on Mercury retrograde which is prominent in the astrology of August. Yes, things are busting loose and feel out of control...because they are. Chaos is a natural phase in the process of change. Real change does not arrive in neatly manageable packages that make everyone comfortable. If that happens to occur, chances are that the only thing we’re changing is the packaging. Chaos aids in the pulling up of structures by their roots. There is not a polite way to do this. There is grace, however, in letting go of outworn structures, processes, and perspectives, and allowing for movement. When we don’t allow for movement and being in right relationship with each other and our environment on a regular basis we can experience change as cataclysmic. Life will clear the path for movement in a very forceful way if we can’t do it for ourselves. August’s astrology is definitely in conversation with July’s astrology, asking and answering, “what can be built with new tools and new designs?” and “WHY are we attatched to the things we can’t let go of?”

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Transits covered:
Mercury retrograde in Virgo-Leo
Mercury’s cazimi
Full moon Aquarius
Mercury’s squares to Uranus
Jupiter’s square to Saturn
Sun and Venus’ ingress into Virgo
Venus’ outer planet alignments in late August
Venus’ ingress into Libra

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Cancer Season (embarking on Leo season): From Safe Spaces to Brave Spaces

Today’s episode begins with an embodied conversation about the sign of Cancer with Marléne Ramirez-Cancio, artistic director of Brooklyn Arts Exchange, tarot practitioner, process doula, and arts educator and activist on many fronts. In the second segment of today’s show, Cory takes us through the major (and explosive) transits of Cancer season, as well as sharing a sneak-peek of the entire month of July. That segment starts around the 1hr/22min mark. There are two extraordinary full moons in Capricorn during Cancer season that pull in Neptune and Pisces so consistently that towards the end of the show Cory keeps referring to that second full moon in Capricorn as the full moon in Pisces. This gaffe is actually quite emblematic of the whole Saturn-Neptune situation! In Cory’s conversation with Marléne, they explore and expand on the more familiar archetypes of Cancer. They also talk about their personal experiences working in the arts as educators, collaborators, and facilitators.

Other topics include:
Matriarchal archetypes
What does it mean to incubate
How safety and care enable risk-taking
What is a “process doula?”
Inter/multigenerational sources that create identity
Marginalized identities in art spaces
Restoring, reclaiming, and developing Latinx culture
Marléne’s tarot deck and practices
Live analysis of Marléne’s Mercury in Cancer placement
Cultural iconography
Bodily intuition

In the second part of the show Cory shares the transits of Cancer season. She asks us to think about how, in the name of the illusion of safety and protection, we create false others to protect ourselves from.

Marlène Ramírez-Cancio is a Puerto Rican cultural producer, artist, and educator based in Brooklyn, New York. As Artistic Director of BAX/Brooklyn Arts Exchange, a multigenerational arts organization nurturing creative expression and artistic process, she creates spaces of inquiry and praxis for artist-led initiatives. Since 2008, she has directed EmergeNYC, an incubator and affinity network for socially engaged artists to develop their creative voice, explore the intersections of art and activism, and connect to a thriving community of BIPOC, migrant, and LGBTQIA+ practitioners.

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Gemini Season (featuring Jupiter in Gemini)
Fragmentation, Synthesis, Narratives, and So Much Information.

In this episode of The Cosmic Dispatch Cory Nakasue is joined by Camille Michelle Gray, Mandee Sheeler, and shea in the catskills to slice, dice, and reconfigure the many working parts of Gemini season.

Topics discussed:
The interplay of narrative, truth, fact, and information.
Faith and the questions that upend it.
Thought-energizers and thought-stoppers.
Rehashing dominant narratives, confirmation bias, and propaganda.
How conflicting elements depend upon each other.
The radicalizing of Jupiter.
Mercury as psychopomp, trickster, and interlocutor.
Jupiter’s 1-year tenure in Gemini from the perspective of the tarot.
Pedagogues and devil’s advocates...and so much more!

Everyone in this discussion has Gemini placements, and they all describe the myriad ways they work with Gemini in their personal lives and in the work they do.

Transits covered:
Sun enters Gemini 5-20
Full moon Sagittarius, Venus-Jupiter conjunction, and Venus enters Gemini 5-23
JUPITER ENTERS GEMINI 5-25
Mercury enters Gemini 6-3
**APOLOGIES: In the swirl of discussion, we skipped the new moon in Gemini on 6-6. It’s conjoined with Venus and Square Saturn

BIO: Camille is an astrologer, musician, writer, civil servant from Washington, D.C. To her, Astrology is a marriage of the human condition with the cosmic condition. As above, so below. As below, so above. Over several years, she has seen hundreds of clients and has built a practice that celebrates that connection to the cosmos. Her consults are steeped in the soulful concepts & archetypal poetry of Evolutionary Astrology & are informed by the technical & traditional techniques of Hellenistic Astrology. www.camillemichellegray.com -https://www.instagram.com/millymichelle/

BIO: shea (all pronouns) is a queer artist, tarotist, intuition facilitator, pleasure activist, organizer + contemplative. From 2010-2019, they lived in full-time residential training at a zen buddhist monastery, where they did a lot of meditation + liturgical training and experienced the joys + challenges of communal religious living. They are the author + illustrator of Tarot as Questions + offer 1:1 tarot consultations, workshops, online + in-person circles + study groups.

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