Tapping into the political power of magic and astrology for
social, community, and personal transformation.
In a cross-cultural
approach to understanding astrology as a magical language, Alice
Sparkly Kat unmasks the political power of astrology, showing how it
can be channeled as a force for collective healing and liberation.
Too often, magic and
astrology are divorced from their potency and cultural contexts:
co-opted by neoliberalism, used as a force of oppression, or
distilled beyond recognition into applications that belie their
individual and collective power. By looking at the symbolic and
etymological histories of the sun, moon, Saturn, Venus, Mercury,
Mars, and Jupiter, we can trace and understand the politics of
magic–and challenge our own practices, interrogate our truths, and
reshape our institutions to build better frameworks for communities
of care.
Fearless, radical,
and fresh, Sparkly Kat’s Postcolonial Astrology ushers in a new
wave of astrology revival, refusing to apologize for its magickism
and connecting its power to the spirituality and politics we need
now. Intersectional, inclusive, and geared towards queer and POC
communities, it uses our historical and collective constructs of the
planets, sun, and moon to re-chart our subconscious history, redefine
the body in the world, and assert our politics of the personal, in
astrology and all things.