Postcolonial Astrology: Reading the Planets through Capital, Power, and Labor

Fearless, radical, and fresh, Postcolonial Astrology scrutinizes astrology as a political practice and asks: If astrology is a language, whose language is it? Astrologer Alice Sparkly Kat cuts into the idea that Western cosmology is universal, interrogating the seven traditional planets in Western astrology through etymology-coming from the Latin word etumos, meaning "truth." 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. If there is truth in etymology-in history-then we can challenge our own practices, examine our assumptions, and reshape our institutions by asking how magic is accounted for. Intersectional, inclusive, and geared toward queer and BIPOC communities, Postcolonial Astrology uses our historical and collective constructs of Venus, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn, the Sun, and the Moon to rechart our subconscious history, redefine the body in the world, and assert our politics of the personal-in astrology and all things.