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

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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.


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  • Home
  • ABOUT PRS
    • Manly P. Hall >
      • Manly Hall, A Personal Perspective
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    • PRS Board & Staff
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      • Lecturer-in-Residence Mitch Horowitz
      • Scholar-in-Residence Devon Deimler, Ph.D.
      • Writer-in-Residence Mandy Kahn
      • Musician-in-Residence Marina Pacowski
      • Artist-in-Residence Lani Trock
      • Artist-in-Residence Dustin Wong
      • Artist-in-Residence Elizabeth T. Vazquez
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    • Mona Lisa
    • Nahuatl Poem
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    • The Signature Editions
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      • Mitch Horowitz
      • Dr. Obadiah Harris
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      • Gift Cards
    • Tarot, Oracle, and Affirmation Decks
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