In this week of the Ephemeris series we explore this week’s skies which are full of generosity. With friendly aspects to Jupiter and Saturn, we get structure to our drive. We focus on Saturn’s aspects to Mars and Athena, so we go to Saturnalia: the Roman festival when Saturn’s wool-bound feet were untied and the household hierarchy flipped for a week. Was that ritual a memory of a golden age, or a pressure valve that kept an enslaving empire running? We follow the Roman telling where Saturn, overthrown by Jupiter, builds a world without hierarchy from exile. Then we ask what it would take to schedule our own disruptions, by our bodies and the land instead of the state’s calendar.

Astrology for Oct 12–18: a rough Scorpio Moon, Vesta square Ceres, the Sun-Jupiter sextile, Pluto stationing direct in Aquarius, Mars trine Saturn and Athena, Chiron square Juno, Saturn conjunct Athena, the First Quarter Moon in Capricorn, and Venus retrograde sextile Black Moon Lilith.

Content warning: brief mentions of slavery, sexual violence, and mythological violence (castration, child-eating).

Keywords astrology, weekly horoscope, Saturnalia, Saturn mythology, golden age, Roman religion, Jupiter, Rhea, Titanomachy, Athena, Mars trine Saturn, Saturn conjunct Athena, Pluto direct, Pluto in Aquarius, Sun sextile Jupiter, cazimi, Vesta square Ceres, Chiron square Juno, First Quarter Moon in Capricorn, Venus retrograde in Scorpio, Black Moon Lilith, liberation, collective care, resistance, desire, evolutionary astrology, queer astrology

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References

Saturnalia (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturnalia Macrobius’ Saturnalia, Book One (free, Internet Archive): https://archive.org/details/macrobius-saturnalia-book-01-english-1969 Virgil, Aeneid Book VIII (free, Poetry in Translation): https://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Latin/VirgilAeneidVIII.php Hesiod, Theogony (free, Theoi): https://www.theoi.com/Text/HesiodTheogony.html Apollodorus, The Library, Book 1 (free, Theoi): https://www.theoi.com/Text/Apollodorus1.html

Chapter markers

00:00 Liberation The Imagination Has To Stretch Fore 01:45 Welcome & Grounding Ritual 03:52 Monday: Knives, Whetstones, and Moody Molecules 05:13 Tuesday: Respect the Goo 06:28 Wednesday: Turn the Burner Down to a Simmer 07:41 Thursday: The First Green Shoot 09:36 Pluto Is Done Reviewing 11:08 Friday: Fertile Saturn Action 11:51 A God With His Feet Tied Up in Wool 15:10 The Golden Age Was Built in Exile 16:29 Planting When the Frost Has Passed, Not When a King Says So 18:00 Just Enough Reprieve 19:17 Stop Waiting for the Empire to Unbind Your Feet 20:43 Plan to Be a Bitch! 21:41 Saturday: Reviewing the Seeds We Planted While Starving 22:37 Sunday: Liberation Across Generations 25:14 Put Your Weight Behind Your Words 26:34 Summary + Reflection Questions for the Week Ahead