In this mini-episode, Shaunga speaks about a GRIEF THAT DEFINES YOU and offers a break-down of what you can expect when you sign up for her new 6-class series called “THE REVOLUTIONARY HEART: Principles of Love & Advocacy for Grievers, Dreamers, Storytellers and Time Keepers.”
In the process, she gives you a little astrology lesson on what it means to make friends with death (ie the planet PLUTO), and the power of walking/rolling with the true spirit of Grief and Rage aka Love and Advocacy as our Center and Totality.
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Read the episode transcript below:
Greetings Good Listeners, Shaunga here. Multiverse Historian, Death Surgeon, Open Heart Surgery Storyteller, ShowRunner of the Ancestors Writers Room.
In this video I want to tell you about the series that I am hosting called Revolutionary Heart, Between October 13 – November 19 2024 for grievers, dreamers, storytellers and time keepers.
This is a new part of the Collective Artist FUN(d)RAISER I’ve been hosting since the beginning of August. Instead of going for three months, from August to October, like I originally planned, I’ve now extended this campaign until the end of December. In the middle I’ve added a series of 6-classes in October and November.
What are the six classes about? You can look at our website, link in the show notes for a detailed break-down, but briefly:
In Class One, I’ll be taking you through my practise in Decolonizing Astrology, we’ll be studying the Quantum Architexture of your first breath, ie that’s how the birth chart in my decolonizing astrology practise, and I’ll even be doing some “hot seat” readings for folks who want their birth chart read by me in front of the group.
Class Two is called Unlocking Ancestral Dreaming. I’ll take you through my process of not just Dream Interpretation, but regarding the dream world as another place where our life is happening, and inviting that extra lives, into more meaning for our lives.
In other words, we’ll be studying and decoding our dreams as sites of personal and planetary healing. Again we’ll end with some HOT SEAT readings where some folks can bring forward their dreams and together we can unlock the extra layers of meaning.
Class Three is called Break-Ups that Define You: we’ll be looking at intimacy and relationship conflict from a lens of Ancestor Healing, ie what are the Ancestral Dynamics that converge and break-open in intimacy. And I’m really grounding this in the Call to Cross-Cultural Ancestral Solidarity in our freedom movements, which is most powerfully conjured in intimacy.
Class Four, your inner Multiverse Historian will get to nerd out here, this one is called: “From the Diaries of a time Keeper as we explore many different layers of Ancestral and Quantum Time. Including looking at how to dismantle the power the Capitalism Time has over us, and most importantly, protect our Linear Time, and the Linear Time of our Earth and her whole body, and everyone in it, and the Earth’s birth right to experience and complete her full orbit.
In Class Five, I’ll take you through my experience of uncovering the ANCESTRAL ROOTS of burlesque and queer performance art, as an artistic energetic healing practise, or rather more accurately, energetic surgery. So that’s what I do. When we are able to do this work collectively and safetly, under the guidance of someone who knows what they’re doing. This kind of work has power in our freedom movements that we have not yet tapped into on a large scale. It has the power to not just make the end of genoicde in our lifetime inevitable, but also de-escalate military violence right now. That’s a very special class to me, I’ve really wanted to get this work out there. I’m gonna share more about my practise with it, and why I feel this work is so urgent and necessary yesterday, but we’ll settle for immediately.
Class Six is called “Animal Communication for the Revolution.” This one is truly my heart, and we’ll be speaking about the heart and soul lessons our animal companions offer us in life, loss and after-life. I’m so excited about the HOT SEAT readings in this class, as I will be offering animal communications for some folks who are living through that kind of loss. This thing that I’m offering has been a long time coming. For those willing, I will speak to your beloved animal in spirit, for the purpose of connecting and healing the grief, and mostly for the purpose of uncovering deeper layers of your planetary purpose, your specific expression of love and advocacy. In my practise and experience, our animal companions are some of our biggest accomplices and allies and friends on that journey. So we’re gonna let the animals speak in this class. It’s going to be so powerful, whenever they speak it’s life changing. Not just for those who are receiving the readings, and me giving them, but for everyone who are witnessing. I believe that for this whole series.
So those are the six classes. There will be a couple more fun events, get togethers that I want to gather together in December. There’s Ancestor Karaoke we’ll do one night. And we’ll do a movie night another night. Where I can talk to you more about my practise in working with fictional characters as Ancestors, we’ll talk to fictional characters as Ancestors. That’s a more fun, integration thing, cuz it’ll be December. We need that – we definitely need that at the end of this year, right?
That will be available just for VIP BACKSTAGE PASS members. I’ll tell you about that at the end of this video.
So those are the main six classes I’m offering in this campaign. And, each of those classes will be centered around my offerings and my studying of Magical Reality TV for the Revolution, which is what this whole campaign centers around.
So: we’ll be doing some amazing story and script studies, that give us a way in to the deeper conversations, and into to the self study, global and multiverse study.
So, go to the website to get all the details, but in this video give a little introduction kind of the underlying energetic themes running through the series. On that end I want to say is this…
Wicked Witch of the West, who is…okay the West is Grief.
Everything we’ll be studying is a lot of fun, I want to make clear that this series is for our most dedicated GRIEVERS. That’s why there is so much fun, and so much joy. That’s why this is for dreamers, artists, storytellers and humans who can’t do anything with their time on the planet, but find a way every day to honour life.
Because that’s what you have to do when you’re a Griever. And that is what Grief is, and where it will take you if you let it.
I said in an earlier podcast episode, the one called, “Have You Ever Been Loved the Way You Really Want to be Loved?” I’ll link below if you want to check out the full episode.
At one point I ask: do you know what House Pluto lives in your birth chart? The houses are our 12 different areas of life, and the planet of Death lives in one of those houses, for you, for everyone. That means, there is an area of life where you are called to continually die repeatedly. In this area of life, more than any other, you will die and die and die here.
Pluto lives in my 11th house of friendship, social circles, community. That is an area of life that has died over and over again for me. Often, it’s an area of life we feel powerless and we feel like it’s happening to us. Sometimes there are elements of truth to that, and the deeper truth is this is the area of life that we are called to transform ourselves, and thus the entire environment. We can’t stop transforming our relationship to this area of life no matter how much we try and resist or avoid or run away. We can’t stop transforming ourselves here until we get to the heart of something. We’re tryna get to something, we’re tryna get to a core. That’s what Pluto does – spirals.
For some of us, once we get to the core, or the Revolutionary Heart of the Matter, that means we’ve done it, and we’ve entered a new phase of life, a new chapter, where instead of constantly dying in and out of it, you’re dying with it now. You don’t stop dying here. But you have a different relationship with Death here.
In the house of friendship, that means I’m no longer experiencing friendships that I’m constantly dying and growing in and out of. Now I’m at home with friends that I can die with, rebirth with, grow with, live with.
Whatever house that is for you, look up the 12 different houses in astrology – the house of money, house of home and family, house of physical health and daily living, relationships, career, spirituality, etc.
Once you get to the heart of the matter, you’re in deep friendship with it now. And that’s how you get there, you choose to be a friend. Now you’re dying and living in partnership with it.
I said in this episode, whatever house you have Pluto, she shows you exactly how ugly life can get. Which why we feel, and it’s true, sometimes things are being done to us, we experience injustice here. She knows you how ugly it can get. And wherever you have Pluto, she can show you just how good life can get in that exact same spot. How beautiful, how blooming, if you let her. She’s the planet of Death, so she understands life better than anyone.
She’s the ugly one. She understands beauty better than anyone.
So, this is who I am as a storyteller, an artist, an entertainer, a healer, a teacher and a space holder. Often the feedback I get from people who really connect to my stories, they say things like – you made me laugh, you made me cry, you made me gasp, you made me scream, you made me confront my own complicity, then I felt peace within myself, you broke my heart then you put it back together, all in a span of a few minutes. That’s my storytelling.
That is who Pluto is when you’re her friend. So I want to make this clear to those who join, or who’s thinking about joining this series, whatever we are talking about at any given moment, even if it’s silly and fun, which it often is – Gemini. Or when it’s serious and political, which it often is, Scorpio Rising…Sagittarius Moon. Or when it’s an adventure through the multiverse, Sagitarrius Moon… Make no mistake, it’s always about My Grief. My Grief is never not present in anything I say and do. Honestly, everything I offer is drenched in my White, Hot Rage.
And sometimes I forget that. I forget that everyone can feel it, no matter what I’m doing, even if they don’t know what it is, they can feel it. Sometimes, a lot of times, I really forget that. I’m like, why am I getting these reactions, or non-reactions. I didn’t say anything controversial, and I didn’t say anything at all. I didn’t have to. It’s because everyone can feel my grief and rage no matter what, it’s the loudest thing about me. It’s the most hidden in plain sight, and it’s the only reason why someone would choose to come closer to me, or further away.
I’m sharing this about myself, because I know it’s true for many, many, many who are Death Walkers and Grievers.
The deeper I’ve gone into my Ancestral Healing journey, the more I’ve become those two things, Grief and Rage, in totality.
The more I cannot be anything else. Because the deeper I’ve gone in my Ancestral Healing journey, the more I’ve found the true spirit of Grief and Rage, which is my Love and my Advocacy.
I am my Love and my Advocacy, in Totality. That’s the only reason why anyone would come closer to me, or further away. The only reason why I would yes to someone over there, and no to someone over here, when on the surface they might look the same. But this one doesn’t respect my Love and my Advocacy which I do extend out and also to myself.
Or, our grief and rage is just incompatible right now, it’s not compaitble music, doesn’t sound good together, and maybe that’ll be true for the rest of our lives, and we’re not supposed to be close right now, nobody is right or wrong.
Either way, This Is Me. You either can hang with it or you can’t. You either respect it or you don’t. You’re either happy to be in collaboration and friendship with it, or you’re not.
At the end of the day, my Grief and my Rage knows who it wants to spend its time with, and so does yours. And I think, I don’t know if there’s anything more important than that.
If you look at the class description, what I said on the website, those who join this series with me, you’re like what am I getting out of this, what am I getting?
Sorry, the spiritual coaching paradigm just came in, and I’m like – here are the outcomes I’m gonna promise you!
The main thing we’re doing together, what you’ll get out of it, we’re looking for something that is already available to us. We are apprenticing, and practising and coming home to a place of resonance in our personal bodies, personal lives, and on and in the planet itself.
We are learning to sit here in this place that I call the HEART OF A BROKEN HEART WHICH IS UNBROKEN.
That’s what you’re doing here. You’re learning to sit here. You’re deepening and strengthening your ability to sit here and to move from here and to make all your choices from here. Because when we are here, that energetic resonance inside of a heart of a broken heart which is unbroken. That is who and how we need to be today, to continually birth and die into the freedom we long for on the planet and with each other. Not next time. In our lifetime.
This place, the heart of a broken heart which is unbroken, that’s where we find the true spirit of our grief and rage, where we keep finding it again and again.
That’s why you’re joining this series. For those of you who are joining, that’s why. Because you know more than anything else, you need to fucking sit there. You long to sit here, and have that be okay. You have to sit there. The Universe won’t let you do anything else. And you can’t just sit – you have to move. When you move, you have to move from this place. The Universe won’t let you move from or in any other way.
Right here, this place, within the day, within time. Is where you need to be to weep, rejoice, dance. This is where you destroy and create worlds.
This is where you fall in love. This is where you rise from, it’s how you rise. This is where you root down and open up. This is where you meet your music. This is the poetry that changes the world.
This is where you come out of your shell. Where you bellow and expand your range. Where you Wail like a Whale. Where you’re seen and heard for who you really are, and that version of you is appreciated here. Is respected and well received here. his is what and how you give back, what and where you return. This here is what is freely offered to you.
This is where I sit as I state my name, SHAUNGA, where I celebrate my 40 years of service, forward and backward.
Lastly, before you sign up for this series, make sure you take a look at the larger over arching campaign. That’s the podcast: Otherworldly Giants the Divination Channel.
And I want to tell you about this VIP BACKSTAGE PASS, where you get exclusive podcast episodes, some of the most powerful aspects of my stories and healing that I only want to share with an Inner Circle, including some Spicy Erotic Storytelling. Just saying.
With a Backstage Pass, you can also get paid a commission for any friends and referrals you bring into this world. So make sure you check out all the website links.
To recap: beyond listening to the podcast, there are 3 ways you can participate in this campaign:
1) become a VIP Backstage Pass member and get all the added perks, get paid that commission; 2) sign up for this 6-class series and workshop this material with me; or 3) you can do both.
If you’re thinking about signing up for the class series, I encourage you to also think about also becoming a VIP Backstage Pass member, as I’ve put these two offerings in a little bundle.
When you get the bundle, you are signing up to receive the full experience of this campaign, and all the medicine it has to offer. So you get the community connection, and you get 5-months of extra content shared between August to December. That is how I really want to offer you a full and complete meal, basically. In December it all culminates in our season 2 finale!
Listen. Because I know what’s coming…nobody else knows, but I know what’s gonna happen in the finale and the episodes that lead up to. I’m just telling you ahead of time, like…okay, you know the feeling when you’re following a story, and then the episodes start hitting you really hard, and then the finale happens and you’re like OH MY GOD I NEED TO PROCESS THIS WITH SOMEONE AND I DON’T KNOW WHO TO TALK TO. MY MIND IS BLOWING.
Do yourself a favour, get yourself the bundle. Set yourself up for success. Pre-emptive self-care, that’s what we call that. So you’ll have a space to process everything, with the creator of the show, bonus, and get all the behind the scenes stuff, and secure a front row seat for all the magic that will unfold. I’m just saying. Trust me. Just get the bundle.
Alright that’s it for now. Until next time. Be brave! Be a Giant. And sign up for the mailing list if you wanna do that.