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.

https://www.instagram.com/mujerquepregunta
https://www.marleneramirezcancio.com/
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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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Taurus Season 2024 featuring The Jupiter-Uranus Conjunction

Breaking Free and Liberating Power

In this episode of The Cosmic Dispatch Cory Nakasue and Nate Speare cover the major transits of Taurus season. They give special treatment to one of the biggest transits of 2024, the Jupiter-Uranus conjunction. Disruptive change, rebellion, and power to masses are discussed at length, as well as experiential reflections on the sign of Taurus.

In the second part of the show, Nate and Cory discuss Nate’s work with astro-erotics, a course informed by archetypal psychology, astrology, bodywork, psychomagic and theatre/performance art. He has an upcoming workshop! They weave in Taurus themes of sensation, pleasure, and embodied knowledge.

In the third part of the show they are joined by Mandee Sheeler and the three of them discuss their Taurus placements and the experience of having Uranus and Jupiter transit them. As usual, Mandee shares Taurus-themed audience questions which produce some really deep meditations on astro consultations, Chiron, and the ego’s need to attach to “good” or “bad” outcomes.

Transits covered include:

The sun’s ingress into Taurus 4-19

Jupiter-Uranus conjunction 4-20

Multiple aspects to Pluto 4-21 through 5-17

Full moon Scorpio 4-23

Mercury’s station direct 4-25

Taurus ingresses: Venus 4-29, Mercury 5-15

Mars conjoins Neptune 4-29 and enters Aries 4-30

New moon Taurus 5-7

Uranus conjunctions: 5-13 sun and 5-18 Venus**

**There is also a Jupiter cazimi that takes place on 5-18 as well, that we did not cover. Apologies. There is so much going on in the sky! But May 18th is a day to circle on the calendar. Astro nerds, check it out!

Nate on IG: https://www.instagram.com/weird.astro.body/
Nate’s website: https://mythopoeticastrology.com/
Nate's Astro-Erotic's Quiz: https://w0e1gv8pcyi.typeform.com/to/KBp1dZQ0

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