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Item specifics
- Condition
- ISBN
- 9781623175306
- Book Title
- Postcolonial Astrology : Reading the Planets Through Capital, Power, and Labor
- Publisher
- North Atlantic Books
- Item Length
- 8.5 in
- Publication Year
- 2021
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.9 in
- Genre
- Body, Mind & Spirit, Social Science
- Topic
- Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Folklore & Mythology, Astrology / General
- Item Weight
- 15.6 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.5 in
- Number of Pages
- 336 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
North Atlantic Books
ISBN-10
1623175305
ISBN-13
9781623175306
eBay Product ID (ePID)
6038425285
Product Key Features
Book Title
Postcolonial Astrology : Reading the Planets Through Capital, Power, and Labor
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Folklore & Mythology, Astrology / General
Publication Year
2021
Genre
Body, Mind & Spirit, Social Science
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
15.6 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2020-042293
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
"The author...helps readers understand [astrology] as a magical, political, and intersectional language with a rich history that extends beyond Western ideologies." -- Publishers Weekly "Alice Sparkly Kat asks us one of the most important questions that can be asked of any profession: Can we make astrology responsible for its impact thus far and into the future? It's a necessary interrogation and the only way to truly show how much we love and care for this ancient art and much-needed practice." --Chani Nicholas, author of You Were Born For This "As a student of astrology for over a decade, I am incredibly moved by the audaciousness, the humor, and the sublime realness of this book. It's a book that strikes a challenge: How do we move forward dislodging ourselves from the cruel machinations of white supremacy and colonization? How do we claim ourselves for our bright, collective future? I saw myself in this book, and it was a bold, timely reckoning!" --Faria Róisín, author of Like a Bird "Many people do astrology, and some of them know from where the tradition emerged. But very few rigorously consider how and why the language of astrology has developed in relation to power. With a critical eye and expansive research, Alice Sparkly Kat examines the historical significance of astrology's symbols to trace an alternative genealogy of modern Western astrology. This important work is crucial to a discipline as steeped in tradition as astrology is; without a deep consideration of history, how can we create space for new astrologies to root and take hold?"--Banu Guler, Founder & CEO of Co - Star "Alice Sparkly Kat's Postcolonial Astrology does something immensely paramount: its sweeping analyses rip off the togas worn by Western astrology's planetary gods that Rome appropriated from the Greeks. Sparkly Kat shows how their loosely woven fabric drapes nothing but White privilege created at the expense of stolen land and the labor of people of color for millennia. In their book, there is no lapsing into trying to track astrology's depths through the jungles of Jung's putative collective unconscious. No awestruck adoration of Western astrology's masquerade of itself as a path toward transcendence, a map for the evolution of consciousness, or a gateway for freedom from the tortures of our supposed ids, egos, or superegos. Instead, Sparkly Kat stays rooted in a body of critical theory and postmodern analysis to expose Western astrology, as an "anachronistic archive" and a myth-making machine more for racism and maintaining Whiteness at the expense of the poor and people of color. Yet, Sparkly Kat doesn't commission the reader to discard all Western astrology's borrowed and tattered notions. They instead direct us to look at the shredded heap of its motley meanings as just one important story that can indeed be told differently. We can learn to connect the dots of astrology's fabled constellations of motley meanings, assembled with blood and burglary, in ways that create a canopy of heaven that includes all peoples of Earth and leaves us whole and restored."--Samuel F. Reynolds, MA, CAP ISAR, NCGR-III
Dewey Decimal
133.5
Synopsis
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., 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., 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. Book jacket.
LC Classification Number
BF1708.1.K38 2021
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