Aquarius Season 2024, featuring Pluto in Aquarius

Pisces Season 2024: Personalizing the Co-Presence of Saturn and Neptune in Pisces

Some alternative titles for this episode included: “The Wisdom in the Suck,” “You’re Over it Because it’s Over,” and “Reality and Illusion: Two Great Tastes That Taste Great Together.” All joking aside, this Pisces season is a murky, heavy wall of fog, with the crackling energy of disruption trying to break through.

Today, Cory is joined by astrologers Mandee Sheeler and Jillian Sweeney to talk about the ways that the big transits of the season might register in our personal lives. This episode is especially good for anyone with personal planets or angles in Pisces, people with strong Saturn-Neptune signatures, and people with strong Aquarius-Taurus signatures.

Topics discussed:

• Saturn/Neptune conjunctions to natal suns/moons in Pisces
• The Saturn-Neptune story for the next two years
• Transposing the traditional significations of Saturn and Neptune
• Fact, Dis(Illusion), and Projection
• Overwhelm, Malaise and Entropy
• Emotional Engulfment and Self-Parenting
• The Organic-Synthetic, the Human-Machine, and Sustainable Designs for the future/collective

Transits covered:

• Full moon Virgo 2/24
• Mercury Cazimi triple conjunction w/ Saturn 2/28
• Venus conjoins Mars Aquarius 2/22
• Aquarius Venus square Taurus Jupiter 2/24
• Aquarius Mars square Taurus Jupiter 2/27
• Aquarius Venus square Taurus Uranus 3/3
• Aquarius Mars square Taurus Uranus 3/9

Cory Nakasue: on Instagram - www.astrologybycory.com
Mandee Sheeler: on Instagram - www.mandeesheeler.com
Jillian Sweeney: on Instagram - www.jillian-sweeney.com

BOOKS MENTIONED:

Tao: The Watercourse Way - Alan Watts

Days of War, Nights of Love

OTHER RECOMMENDED BOOKS:

The Astrological Neptune and the Quest for Redemption - Liz Greene 

Saturn: A New Look at an Old Devil - Liz Greene 

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Aquarius Season 2024, featuring Pluto in Aquarius: Outsider Culture, The Interconnected/Fragmented Mind, Relationship Anarchy ...and more.

Hey Everybody, I’m excited to share this incredibly Aquarian conversation I had with Anastasia Wasko earlier this month. I felt that I had to put SOMETHING together for this milestone Aquarius season, and I think we found ways in, out, around, and through all of the exciting transits of the next four weeks.

We talked outsider culture, marginalization, decentralization, peer pressure, being the asshole in the room, dissenting, distance, objectivity, and how distance and objectivity can lead to greater care for ALL humans, an Aquarian take on mental health, parapsychology, psychosynthesis, neurodivergence, the interconnected mind, relationship anarchy, extended cognition, technology, media, Uranus, Saturn, and what happens when your license plate reads “UFO GIRL”

Transit coverage includes:
Sun-Pluto conjunction in Capricorn and their ingress into Aquarius 1/20
Mercury-Pluto conjunction 2/5
Mars-Pluto conjunction 2/14
Venus-Pluto conjunction 2/17
Full moon Leo (opposite Pluto, square Jupiter) 1/25
New moon Aquarius (square Uranus) 2/9

It’s an Aquarius season for the books! And speaking of books, Cory’s are open! She’s beginning booking for March. Please book through her website.

This conversation is up on The Cosmic Dispatch YouTube channel and on all streaming platforms in podcast version.

More about Anastasia:

Anastasia Wasko is a writer, editor, and transpersonal guide from the New York/New Jersey area and currently living in northeastern Alabama. Her BA is in Transpersonal Psychology from Sofia University (former Institute of Transpersonal Psychology). She is currently exploring psychosynthesis in the masters program at The Institute of Psychosynthesis in London, England.

Anastasia’s fiction and creative non-fiction writing have appeared in Space Cowboy’s Simultaneous Times podcast, Thrive Global, and in Journal of Exceptional Experiences. Her debut work of autofiction SevenThirteen was self-published in 2003. Her subsequent autofiction works Meta Work was released in 2021 and KiezKucker in 2024.

Anastasia has spent several years working on Mindfield, the official publication of the Parapsychological Association. She wrote about parapsychology and psychosynthesis for Paranormal Ruptures: Critical Approaches to Exceptional Experiences (edited by Dr Jacob Glazier) and released by Beyond The Fray Publishing in 2023.

She focuses on helping individuals explore their relationship with the world beyond the ego so they can be more present, joy-filled, and fulfilled in their human experience. She is an energy worker (flowing Centaur energy) and has consulted charts in the evolutionary astrology style for years. Anastasia has studied Ayurveda and yoga culture with Dr. Vasant Lad and other teachers across the globe.

More about Anastasia, her services, and books: https://anastasiawasko.com/

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This impromptu, casual discussion is an attempt to encapsulate the many features of the dramatic eclipses of October. No script, no notes, no plan. Just two people pulling at the many threads of the Aries-Libra and Taurus-Scorpio axes. Cory and Mandee are officially taking a break from regularly scheduled programming but wanted to touch base regarding this month’s extraordinary astrology.
Topics include:
Solar eclipse Libra, October 14 (south node Libra, Mars in Libra, opposite north node Aries conjunct Eris, square stationaryPluto in Capricorn)
The Aries-Libra axis and new series of eclipses
Venus in Virgo ruling the eclipses of October after her transformative retrograde journey through Leo
Lunar eclipse Taurus, October 28
Mars and Mercury in Scorpio opposite Jupiter in Taurus October 28
Review of the Taurus-Scorpio series of eclipses (2021-2023)

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S2E37 New Moon Virgo (Farewell Episode)

Today is Cory's last Radio Kingston show! This winter The Cosmic Dispatch will be available on all streaming platforms and on YouTube. In today's episode Cory covers this week's new moon in Virgo and Mercury's station direct in Virgo. Cory's guest is Luke Simon, founder of North Node Space in Kingston, breath work and yoga practitioner, and author of Venus Juice. They talk about mysticism, retrograding planets, the building of community, and much more.

Connect with Luke Simon:
https://www.northnode.space/
https://www.instagram.com/lukesimon_mystic/
https://www.instagram.com/northnode.space/

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S2E36 | Venus Stations Direct: Relationship as Act of Creation

Today Cory is joined by sex/relationship coach and author Myisha Battle. They talk about the relationship issues that came up in their client work during Venus' retrograde. Topics include new rules, triangulation, passion vs. stability, weaponized therapy-speak, autonomy and more!

At the top of the show Cory shares a monthly overview for September and breaks down the transits for the week. This week's transits include: Venus' station direct, Jupiter's station retrograde, Jupiter's trine to Mercury and the sun, and Mercury's inferior conjunction to the sun.

Myisha’s website: myishabattle.com
Myisha’s book: https://www.sealpress.com/titles/myisha-battle/this-is-supposed-to-be-fun/9781541602212/
Myisha on social: @MyishaBattle

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In this episode Cory collaborates with multidisciplinary artist and diviner Jillian Sweeney on the astro-weather for the week which includes a full moon in Pisces (a super blue moon). They also continue this season's deep dive into the archetypes of Virgo and Pisces. Jillian brings in Virgo-Pisces teachings from the I-Ching and tarot. Other transits discussed in this episode include: Mercury retrograde, sun opposite Saturn, Mars' entrance into Libra, and Uranus' station retrograde. 

Note from Cory: this episode contains much magic and helpful tools for dealing with the uncertain and intangible.

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Today, Cory Nakasue takes through the dazzling and exacting astrology of the week. We say good-bye to a Leo season that explores one type of passion, and we welcome a Virgo season that invites a different kind of passion. Cory also dives into the archetypes of Virgo that are less talked about: the medicine/poison maker, the auto-erotic, the hermetic task-master, and the consort of god. Major transits discussed include: Venus' square to Jupiter, Mars' opposition to Neptune, the sun's entrance into Virgo, Mercury's station retrograde, and the sun's opposition to Saturn. It's a busy week!

We also hear some Leo-to-Virgo inspired songs from: the Black Keys, The Bangles, The Rolling Stones, Bananarama, Echo and the Bunnymen, Bill Withers, Faith No More, and Sinead O'Connor.

Listen to the playlist on YouTube!

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shea in the catskills fills in for Cory Nakasue on today’s episode of The Cosmic Dispatch. shea introduces themselves + their work, + then invites Jody Hojin Kimmel into conversation about art practice. Hojin is a teacher in the Mountains & Rivers Order of Zen Buddhism + focuses her teachings on the creative process. They discuss the art practice, the connection between creativity + spirituality, + the creativity inherent in practice itself.

Mentioned in this episode:

• Zen Mountain Monastery
• Jody Hojin Kimmel
• Tarot as Questions: the book
• shea in the catskills: events, Study Tarot Series, 1:1 readings + workshops
• The Ritualists podcast

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shea in the catskills fills in for Cory Nakasue on today’s episode of The Cosmic Dispatch. shea introduces themselves + their work, + then invites Mary Kerns to talk about the oracle deck she published last year: The Flowers Are Speaking. They also talk about the book Mary is currently writing about the million year love story between humans and flowers, and how we evolved together—all because the flowers fell in love with us. They talk tarot, working with the dead + what’s grabbing their attention in these times.

Mentioned in this episode:

• Mary Porter Kerns’s The Flowers Are Speaking Substack
• Tarot as Questions: the book
• shea in the catskills: events, Study Tarot Series, 1:1 readings + workshops
• The Ritualists podcast
• Perdita Finn’s Take Back the Magic classes + book
• Suzette Clough’s Visual Medicine

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shea in the catskills fills in for Cory Nakasue on today’s episode of The Cosmic Dispatch. shea introduces themselves + their work, + then invites Aurora Brush to talk about founding Kingston’s Cosmic Dog House Press—an independent, community-forward publisher specializing in risograph printing, zines, and book-making. Aurora + shea discuss their collaboration on shea’s first book, Tarot as Questions, as well as art practice, riso printing + what’s grabbing their attention in these times.

Mentioned in this episode:

• Tarot as Questions: the book
• shea in the catskills: events, Study Tarot Series, 1:1 readings + workshops
• The Ritualists podcast
• Cosmic Dog House Press
• Content Launch for Cosmic Dog House Press (free tarot readings with shea!):
  Friday, August 4, 5:30-8:30pm at Blackbird Infoshop
• 3-card readings (discounted for full-time Town of Shandaken residents!):
  Saturday, August 5 at the Phoenicia Festival of the Arts

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