Wandering Stars: Yes, Virginia, Jupiter Is Real
Every week, professional astrologers and Taurus suns Ada Pembroke and Kyle Pierce get together for 60 minutes of off the cuff astrology talk.
In this episode we talk about how we came to astrology... despite some very deep reservations.
Even when Jupiter and Uranus leave Taurus, we will need some people to continue wearing lead shoes. Some of us need to visit the cemeteries, keep the physical archives, and relish the smell of the good earth in spring. We need people who will remember that we need to eat physical food sometimes, that we can’t live on data and air.
As a Taurus, I suppose one of those grumpy, earthy people is going to be me.
Taurus is an uncomfortable place for Mercury in the modern world because it is forced to slow down. So, how do we cope?
In this conversation, we talk about what it’s like living with the nodes of the moon in Taurus and Scorpio, especially when the nodes are transiting those signs.
How much are your values and your freedom worth to you? How much do you have to be paid to give them up?
In his Book of Earth, Steven Forrest talks about the Taurus need to get your peace foot forward. I have been learning about that first hand during Taurus season this year.
The digitization of human connection during the pandemic has created a situation where having Taurus-like relationships that put individual embodiment needs over the dictates of a society that rewards a strictly virtual existence can be a revolutionary act.
As an astrologer, I feel like I should cringe at the injustice when I read harsh critiques of the discipline, but I don’t. I remember what my first real encounter with astrology was like, and I marvel that I ever came to take astrology seriously at all.
Ada Pembroke
Ada Pembroke is a kitchen-table astrologer from the Oregon Coast. She's the founder of the Narrative Astrology Lab, and the author of The Gods of Time Are Dead. Find her on Substack and Instagram (@adapembroke).