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This Erotic Timeline

This Erotic Timeline

Written by: Amalia Scott Jančič
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This Erotic Timeline is a weekly podcast for people who have started to suspect that the timeline they were handed is costing them something they can't always name yet. This podcast is about time. Not the kind you can measure, but the kind that moves through your body whether you cooperate with it or not.

Hosted by Amalia — astrologer, counselor, coach, committed hopeful disciple of the impossible— each episode does two things: it covers the week's astrology with the mythological depth it deserves, then descends into history, grief, embodiment, and whatever that week is actually asking for. We've traced how Caesar stole the lunar calendar, what New Orleans' mud and maroon communities know about the future, and what Venus looked like before the patriarchy took her teeth.

The premise tries to stay simple. The implications get really big. Because it turns out: there is a timeline made of clocks and conquest. And there is a timeline your body has been keeping all along. This show is a slow spiral back into the one your body never forgot.

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  • Ephemeris 2 :: Oct 12–18 :: Unbind Your Own Feet

    Ephemeris 2 :: Oct 12–18 :: Unbind Your Own Feet
    Oct 12 2026

    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

    Book a session - https://www.amaliathecoach.com/

    Music by Charmie Chandler - https://www.instagram.com/charmie_chandler/

    Our favorite audio editor ever Chantal Defelice - https://chantaldefelice.com/ + ig @chantaldefelice

    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
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    30 mins
  • Ephemeris 1 :: Oct 5–11 :: Grief Is a Skill

    Ephemeris 1 :: Oct 5–11 :: Grief Is a Skill
    Oct 5 2026

    Venus stationed retrograde in Scorpio on October 3. This week we tell, in full and from a translation of the primary text, the Sumerian myth astrologers have come to pair with Venus retrograde: the Descent of Inanna. Inanna crashes her grieving sister's underworld in full regalia, grabs her throne, and dies. Two gender-nonconforming professional grievers made from fingernail dirt bring her back, not by fixing anything, but by mirroring her sister's pain. We follow how the story sorts everyone by how well they grieve, then turn that lens on the AI panic and how civilization tends to send things to the underworld so it doesn't have to grieve.

    Astrology for October 5–11, 2026: Mercury conjunct Venus retrograde in Scorpio, a Leo Moon on Jupiter and the South Node, the Libra New Moon with Venus square Mars, and the Sun square Ceres. Grief is a full-bodied skill. This week, we’re remembering to practice.

    Content warning: death and grief, ritual self-laceration in mourning, references to eugenics and racism, discussion of AI extinction risk, explicit language.

    Keywords

    Venus retrograde, Venus retrograde in Scorpio, Inanna, Descent of Inanna, Ereshkigal, Sumerian mythology, grief, grief work, mourning, gala priests, kurgarra, third gender, queer mythology, trans history, Libra New Moon, Venus square Mars, Mercury conjunct Venus, Ceres, evolutionary astrology, weekly astrology, AI panic, AI and race, eugenics, scapegoat, shadow work, parts work, This Erotic Timeline, Ephemeris Series

    References

    The myth

    • Inana's Descent to the Nether World (ETCSL, Oxford)
    • Inana and Iddin-Dagan (ETCSL, Oxford)

    Gala, kurgarra, and third gender

    • Masculinities and Third Gender, Ilan Peled (free open-access book)
    • The powerful gender-diverse courtiers and religious leaders of ancient Mesopotamia
    • Evidence for Trans Lives in Sumer

    The AI news

    • Anthropic researcher resigns, warns AI companies are "gambling with our lives" (Fortune)
    • Anthropic researcher's resignation sends warning about the dangers of AI development (PBS NewsHour)

    Intelligence and eugenics

    • Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities: Eugenics (Frontiers in Public Health)

    Nuanced conversations about AI

    • Why I Don't Panic About AI, Shae O.
    • AI, Humanities, and the Future of Work, Shae O.'s Substack
    • AI Expert Reveals The Exploitation Behind AI
    • Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR)

    Chapter markers

    00:00 Hungry Ghosts Walking Around 01:48 Welcome + Grounding 02:15 Intro to the Ephemeris Series 04:34 Great Excuses For Mythology 05:16 Monday: The Crown’s First Fitting 06:12 Tuesday: Drenched in Desire 08:49 The Descent of Inanna: She Set Her Mind on the Great Below 11:15 Let a Man Come, Let Him Come 13:43 Seven Gates, Seven Garments 16:11 A Coup in Hell 17:43 Fingernail Dirt, Professional Grievers 19:05 Oh, Your Heart 20:24 Sending A Substitute Down 22:44 Unpacking How The Story Sorts Us by Grief 26:52 The Monster We Make: Unpacking the AI Panic 34:07 Wednesday: Genius Isn't IQ 34:29 Thursday: The Exile Needs a Mirror 35:04 Friday: Dark Moon Hush 35:12 Saturday: Libra New Moon’s Two Mirrors 37:05 Venus Square Mars: Stink Eyes and Efficient Fighting 39:58 Sunday: What You Hand Over at the Gates 41:05 Summary and Reflection Questions
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    45 mins
  • e20 Love Before It Got Written Down: A Season Finale on Libra, Justice, and Venus Retrograde

    e20 Love Before It Got Written Down: A Season Finale on Libra, Justice, and Venus Retrograde
    Aug 31 2026
    This is the last episode before a season break. This episode is all astrology, no dexcent, so you've got this month's important transits before this podcast goes quiet for a month. At the center of this month’s astrology we explored one question: what if relationship is allowed to actually change you, instead of just managing you or completing you? That question runs under a range of powerful transits that build toward Venus’s fiercely relational retrograde station in Scorpio on October 3. This episode also digs into Libra's real origin story: a Babylonian equinox image, a Greek scorpion's claws, and Julius Caesar's 46 BCE reinstallation of the scales as dictatorial PR, backed by his own court reforms and Augustus's marriage and adultery legislation. That history gets set against Ma'at's older model of justice, decided by the more-than-human ecosystem rather than falling exclusively to human judgment, and the episode asks what Libra could still become if it stopped serving contracts and started serving kinship. Content warning: discussion of Roman legal enforcement of gender roles, including compulsory marriage, criminalized adultery, and laws restricting bodily autonomy (castration bans); brief references to US racialized violence and civil rights history. Keywords: Libra, astrology, Venus retrograde, Roman history, Julius Caesar, Augustus, Ma'at, Egyptian mythology, precession of the equinoxes, Jupiter-Saturn conjunction, Sassanian astrology, kinship, gender history, love, relationship, transit forecast Book a session - https://www.amaliathecoach.com/ Music by Charmie Chandler - https://www.instagram.com/charmie_chandler/ Our favorite audio editor ever Chantal Defelice - https://chantaldefelice.com/ + ig @chantaldefelice REFERENCES Babylonian and Greek Libra constellation history Wikipedia, MUL.APIN — free. Zibanitu ("the scales")Ian Ridpath, Star Tales: Libra — free. Greek "Chelae" (claws)Ian Ridpath, Star Tales: Scorpius Precession of the equinoxes Paul Vitols, "The Age of Pisces 101" Caesar's calendar and court reforms Wikipedia, Constitutional reforms of Julius Caesar Wikipedia, Lex Aurelia iudiciaria Venus ancestry myth, Temple of Venus Genetrix, the comet Wikipedia, Temple of Venus GenetrixPerseus / Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, Ludi Victoriae CaesarisWikipedia, Caesar's CometRamsey & Licht, reviewed in Bryn Mawr Classical Review 1997.08.07Ovid, Metamorphoses Book 15 (Brookes More translation), Theoi Classical Texts LibraryNandini Pandey, "Caesar's Comet, the Julian Star, and the Invention of Augustus" \ Manilius and "Rome founded under Libra" Confirmed via Ian Ridpath's Star Tales: (above). Manilius, Astronomica: "Italy belongs to the Balance, her rightful sign. Beneath it Rome and her sovereignty of the world were founded.” Augustus's marriage and adultery legislation Oxford Classical Dictionary, "Lex Iulia de Maritandis Ordinibus"UNRV Roman History, "The Julian Marriage Laws"Wikipedia, Lex Papia Poppaea Maiestas (treason) law expansion Wikipedia, Law of maiestas Vestal Virgins Plutarch, Life of Numa, ch. 10, cited via World History Encyclopedia, "Vestal Virgin" Castration laws Cambridge Core, "Ne Spadones Fiant: Domitian's Emasculation Ban," Classical Quarterly Ma'at and the weighing of the heart Ancient Egypt Online, "Negative Confession (Spell 125, Book of the Dead)"Egypt Museum, "The Weighing of the Heart Ceremony" Venus retrograde and racialized tension patterns Exoteric Astrology (blog), "Venus Retrograde: Cycles of Injustice" CHAPTER MARKERS 00:00 — Love, Before The Contract 01:49 — One Month Off, Full Circle First 04:25 — The Calm Before The Climb 05:17 — Monday 8/31: Building In The Ruins Of Empire 10:45 — Tuesday 9/1: Tenderness As Strategy 12:39 — Friday 9/4: The Story That's Outlived Its Use 14:24 — Thursday 9/10: Virgo New Moon, The Day Four Thresholds Open 20:42 — Saturday 9/12: Soaked In Collective Static 21:36 — Sunday 9/13: The Epiphany After The Fog 22:08 — Monday 9/14: The Marginalized Parts Want A Stage 23:03 — Tuesday 9/15: The Underworld Runs Through The Heart 24:35 — Thursday 9/17: Who Gets To Just Be 26:16 — Friday 9/18: Working Through Mental Blocks To Intimacy 27:07 — Monday 9/21: Big Ideas Need Humility 28:13 — Tuesday 9/22: Undoing Rome's Claim On Libra 34:13 — Divinity, Manufactured 38:34 — Taking The Scales Back 48:27 — Friday 9/25: Soft Focus, No Decisions 49:13 — Saturday 9/26: Aries Full Moon, The Full Circle Points At Venus 54:34 — Sunday 9/27: A New Identity To Play With 55:31 — Tuesday 9/29: Say The Honest Thing 56:15 — Wednesday 9/30: Permission To Go Where You're Not Supposed To 56:57 — Saturday 10/3: Venus Retrograde, Love Turns To Face The Underworld 1:01:50 — Summary: Letting Relationship Change You All The Way Down
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    1 hr and 6 mins
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