Wowweee how about that timeline collapse for the end of Pluto in Capricorn huh???
Who else is feeling it??
For those who are in a life long apprenticeship with ongoing Soul Retrieval and Ancestral Retrieval – this is the Gift and Responsibility of the Planetary Healer, Cosmic Earth Steward, and Ancestral Artist in Craft and in Life.
When we Heal and Retrieve deep into our Celestial, Ancestral and Communal Memory, we Re-member a visceral experience of what it meant to live and co-create within Thriving Communities.
Remember, communities are only thriving when everyone is well taken care of, including our non-human relatives.
Communities are only thriving when every individual in their specific purpose and expression is loved up on, understood, and nurtured as inherently sacred and necessary.
Communities are only thriving when we know the community as one dynamic, breathing organism, an ecosystem in which everyone has personal functioning medicine, and every unique path is protected by the whole.
The life path of Ancestral and Soul Retrieval is not solely a glamorous one during this period of Great Awakening (though I personally will indulge the glamour whenever I can) – because when you remember things and see things that others don’t know or see, we are punished in a culture that is afraid and violent toward things we don’t understand.
Or…we are afraid and violent toward those things because we DO understand them.
We understand these things, they bring Death. They bring change, they bring transformation at the bone deep level.
In a culture that doesn’t teach skills to be present and in love with the Great Mystery – we attack.
The work of Ancestral and Soul Retrieval is Crazy Making. I will continue to say that I use the word “crazy” often and intentionally, as a way to honour my lived experience with Crazy, and many of my Ancestors who lived with Crazy…
AND, the ways that our Ancestral Gifts are too often violently pathologized and criminalized, sometimes diagnosed with things that aren’t right for us, and sometimes unnecessary institutionalized, when really maybe we just needed to find Ceremony.
(I’m not one of those “purist” spiritual people either, by the way, in that I don’t dismiss the need for many folks to interact with western medicine and the medical industrial complex. I’m an advocate for Sovereignty, above all else. This is a whole ‘nother conversation.)
Point being, if I had not found aligned spiritual community and trusted spiritual teachers and peers, I would really not be okay right now.
So, it’s Crazy Making – the work of Retrieving Liberating Ancestral, Soul and Communal Memories in a not-so-liberated culture/society/paradigm.
You’re holding and experiencing so much freedom in your body, mind, energy field, while also trying to function and survive the “real” world…and ALSO stewarding MASSIVE energetic, physical, spiritual evolution in a body trying to recalibrate and integrate and find some sort of equilibrium that is designed SPECIFICALLY for these times…
We’re Re-Membering and Experiencing Freedom and Thriving IN a society that is only JUST BEGINNING to wake up and understand what the hell is really going on, never mind how to protect one another, never mind how to be good to each other through the process…
It’s dangerous as fuck, and don’t you forget it.
But…I know Pluto. She is more Dangerous than Danger.
As many of us know, Pluto’s 15 year chapter in Capricorn is fully coming to a close and moving into Aquarius on November 19 (that’s tropical astrology).
Like any Death Portal, this time period is full of incredible pain, discomfort, confusion, and literal life-and-death tension and conflict.
Specific to THIS Death Portal, in THIS particular time-space-dimension, it’s filled with incredible injustice, bold truth telling, and violent heartache.
We’re seeing it in the world, and experience it in our personal lives.
I’ve been saying this to some friends: I find the Medicine deep in my Communal Memory.
I sit still here, in the work of Ancestral, Soul Retrieval, and I come into One Body with my Communal Memory.
My Ancestors are showing me what it was like in Thriving Communities, when all of us came together to close a cycle.
Millions of small communities, and the global community as a whole, we came together, to assist the Closing of Eras and Chapters.
When I remember this, I feel what an honour it truly is. I feel such an immense gratitude for life. A celebration that also grieves – we will never have this moment again, we won’t.
Protect it. Pour Water and Honey on it. Sing to it. Listen to it. Just be there.
Every minute counts. When you’re here, every minute is a beautiful dedication to a collective act of closure.
When you apprentice Death Portals – you know how precious EVERY SINGLE MOMENT IS in this space, and all you want to do is give something, anything, to EVERY SINGLE MOMENT.
It’s the Grief and Love spilling over. Spilling over so entirely over everything this Chapter has seen, and held, what it brought into death and into life.
It’s the only thing you can do in this space. Is just…try. Try to make an offering to EVERY SINGLE MOMENT, as best as you can, as best as you can, as best as you can. Just, try.
What does your Communal Memory tell you about what it meant for us to collectively close HUGE chapters, eras and cycles? How did you and your beloved Ancestors do it?
Each of us on this life path are Stewards of this closing, especially in the next three weeks. Honour it, my friends. Honour it.
The over spilling of grief and love, a waterfall spilling over a giant, smooth rock.
A rage of ribbons dancing, re-igniting our Creative Fire…birthing deeper commitments, more precise and secure definitions and practices of ADVOCACY.
Advocacy, like, what do you REALLY believe in, in your soul, in your spirit?
What do you BELIEVE in, so hard that you will protect with your life, lose your reputation over if need be, and fight not just for its survival but it’s thriving?
Put forward your advocacy with truth, heart and sincerity.
In this closing, each of us in our own way, are closing major personal chapters, ending big relationship patterns (probably generational), releasing ghosts, addictions, worn out habits, cycles and protocols, and we sure as hell are releasing the energy of COMPLACENCY.
That’s one thing I feel and know is dissolving most clearly in the collective – and also put under fire for those who refuse to confront it. We are releasing COMPLACENCY, COMPLACENCY, COMPLACENCY.
We just can’t meet who we are in this moment, without also releasing complacency. Thus we must also release many comforts that come with it, that we’ve built security blankets in and around, over long stretches of time.
But we can’t come home to such rage, creative fire, grief, truth, authenticity and love, and still be complacent.
We can’t settle for “good enough” in one area of life like we used to without throwing everything else we want into imbalance and frenzy.
I said this in back in December 2023 – It Turns Out It Was About Friendship All Along.
Sure, that complacency is keeping you comfortable, but is it bringing you JOY? It’s what you always do, but is it actually the SINCERE FRIENDSHIP that you crave to experience in all aspects of your life?
We are releasing and ending so much in our personal lives right now, and I want us to remember our connection with the Earth and the Cosmos.
What you are ending isn’t just an individual closure, it is a ritual deeply weaved with what our planet herself is also closing, and what her friends who orbit with her are also closing. Those friends of hers are continually in awe of her impossible beautiful, her generosity, and talent. These are friends who recognize her gift, and instead of taking advantage of that gift, they vow to protect it.
(Did you know that in many social circles outside of our cute little solar system, our Planet Earth is very widely known? Far across the galaxies, in fact, she is known as “the famous one” and thus sometimes “the hated one.” Sometimes she’s “the crazy one” and sometimes…”the honoured one.” Ask a Multiverse Historian how she knows.)
So remember: whatever you are closing in your personal life, you are also ASSISTING the planet and our little-cosmic-neighborhood-that-could with the closing of this monumental chapter in our solar system.
That’s what I know from Retrieving deep within my Communal Memory. That all of our personal closings are offered and understood as SERVICE WORK.
Don’t you forget it. This is Planetary Service Work.
I know Pluto, very well, I do.
I wrote a whole ass play about her, did you know?
That was in 2019, a decade into my career as an astrologer who read birth charts for a living, and also who worked as a theatre artist in queer, trans, BIPOC, survivor disabled communities.
It’s not often you find someone who is so deeply apprenticed in BOTH astrology AND queer, ancestral, ceremonial theatre.
(Hey if there’s someone else who holds and alchemizes both these realms of genius, PLZ SAY HAI KTHX!)
The result is you get someone who writes a play called PLUTO, which weaves deeply Ancestrally Retrieved Plutonian technologies into the entire script, character arcs, plot AND structure (THAT’S FORM = CONTENT = EXPERIENCE FOR MY WRITER NERDS)
…A story about Pluto’s ongoing, shape-shifting “Frenemy” relationship with Jupiter, as they traverse multiple dimensions and realities.
It’s not just a play, though. Why? Because, I’m a Death Surgeon.
(That’s different than Death Doula. We’ll talk about it later.)
It means my plays aren’t just plays, they are sacred sites of personal, collective transformation and Ancestral Becoming.
My stories do in fact volunteer themselves often, as sacred sites for my dearest loved ones to transition, become, and evolve as Ancestors.
It’s an incredible Gift, Responsibility, Heartbreak, and Honour.
But…that’s another story.
For now I’ll say – you can read a little bit about PLUTO THE PLAY HERE but that’s not the only reason why I know her.
I also have Pluto in the 29th degree of Libra in my birth chart. And, I’m a Scorpio Rising, that means Pluto is my CHART RULER (according to modern astrology).
Your chart ruler is the BOSS of your entire chart. My first astrology teacher, Julia Beyer, said the Chart Ruler is like the President or Prime Minister of your world. (Eeehmmm fascism not included…sometimes.) The Chart Ruler determines the big overarching nature of your life. It determines society as a whole.
To have a planet in the 29th degree of anything means you have a planet sitting in the “DEGREE OF FATE.”
Think about what it means to have someone important sit there, nestled (un)comfortably in the very last degree of life before it transitions.
The Degree of Fate represents the ACCUMULATION of EVERYTHING that planet in that sign has learned, experienced, gathered, held, shattered, ALL the lessons one can learn, it all sits here, right here.
It’s a tipping point, right? You’re about to spill over, and you also can’t let go because it’s not time yet.
Yeah, that’s what it’s like. When you have a planet sitting in the DEGREE OF FATE, it’s an area of your life where you are AAAHH I’M GONNA COLLAPSE I CAN’T HELP BUT OPEN UP AND SPILL OVER….but also…I can’t let go.
Because it’s not time yet.
The Degree of Fate is a particular kind of crazy. What it means to…see everything, forward and backward.
(Did I mention that MY NAME IS SHAUNGA AND I AM CELEBRATING 40 YEARS OF SERVICE, FORWARD AND BACKWARD!!)
That’s probably why I had to write a play about PLUTO, because that’s really the only thing you can do when you’re sitting here.
You can’t help but spill over, and you have to hold on, you cannot move, not just yet…what do you do?
You can either:
A) go mad, seriously
B) you can write it all down
That’s what I did. The second one, thankfully.
I wrote it all down.
So believe me, when I say, I Know Her.
Pluto.
I know her grief and her dancing rage. I know what makes her divine. I know the precious thing she holds in her home in the core of the Earth. (And I know her annoying neighbour who lives there too.) I know what an honour it is to stand next to her.
To just sit here with her, now, and help her close this chapter.
After all, it is Her Chapter to Close.
I want you all to remember that.
THIS is PLUTO’S chapter to close.
I know the rawness in her heart. The wounds still bleeding.
I know the justice she will never receive in certain circles and paradigms.
I know that she is learning to break the 4th wall.
She is learning to pry her attention away from the crowd of townspeople sing-screaming at her:
“SHE’S A WITCH SHE’S A WICKED WITCH SHE’S AN UGLY, UGLY MONSTTEERRRR”
As painful as it is, she is learning to twist her head around…she is learning to break the 4th wall, and look forward, out toward us, her fans, instead.
Just look right ahead of you. Right there, my beloved. Your adoring audience. It’s right there.
The entire auditorium (something as big as broadway, but not quite broadway) cheering for you, YES standing ovation on a Thursday afternoon matinee! 20-year legacy and all.
You know that? I swear they were here the whole time. They gleefully sat through this grand 3-act structure, witnessing you, rooting for you, for the ENTIRETY of Pluto in Capricorn, the last 15 years, all of it.
You were here on stage, living this story out. The one where you tried so hard to do something good, repeatedly, and it just kept blowing up in your face. The one where you made peace with becoming the villain.
There you were, for 15 years, living it out. Thinking this story was the only one.
Thinking this story is the only one that’s…”real.”
There you were, floating around in your cute little bubble of cute little astrology readings, illuminated by stage lights and pulled around by puppet strings. You thought the dream was the sky, when it was really only the Ground.
They were here the whole time. I swear it. I know it. A room full of boisterous, miraculous, sincere friends.
All they want is to love you well, and wisely.
Look ahead. Look at the life spilling over, waterfalls tumbling over smooth rocks and rivers remembering how to heal themselves.
FIELDS of flowers who just can’t WAIT to give you your crowns.
Flowers, who cannot thank you enough for pulling them up from underground into the light when they thought their medicine was no longer wanted by the collective.
You told those flowers a different story, and they not only did rise, THEY BELIEVED YOU AND BELIEVED IN YOU, they did not just hear and feel you dancing from hundreds of miles away, they remembered you as you were remembering yourself, and thus they remembered who they really want to be, too.
These Flowers are SING-SCREAMING YOUR NAME and spilling over with high, high praise. For no other reason than because you have DAMN WELL FUCKING EARNED IT.
And, for no other reason than because of who you are.
You came into the world already having earned it – don’t you know? That is what you are remembering to remember.
PLUTO. She has her name written all over this, did you forget?
PLUTO. Do you know her?
It’s her name written all over this.
Remember it.
PLUTO.
I Know Her.
And, I’m honoured to call her my friend.
SELF STUDY, GLOBAL STUDY,
MULTIVERSE STUDY
Did you know that we were in the womb of Pluto in Capricorn 18-20 years ago, when Is-not-real began escalating genocide in Palestine with targeted attacks on Gaza? Palestine has been experiencing genocide for more than 100 years, but when Pluto in Capricorn began, we really began to see a focused attacked on Gaza.
For today’s study question I want you to go back, re-read and reflect on the part where I said Pluto will never be able to receive justice from certain circles.
BUT, if she looks forward, and learns how to BREAK THE 4TH WALL… (that’s a theatre/film thing by the way)…she finds strength, community, and support bigger and better than anything she could have imagined.
What do you make of this? Where does it take you? How does this help us think about the major global injustice we are currently witnessing?
HEY TKARONTO!!!
I am delighted and over the moon to be HOSTING THIS AMAZING QUEER PERFORMANCE SHOWCASE at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre on Sunday November 10 2024. Some amazing queer, BIPOC artists will be gracing the stage and we’ll be raising funds for a Free Palestine. Come through if you’re in the area!
This will be the first time I’m SETTING FOOT ON AN ACTUAL STAGE SINCE FEBRUARY 2020 HOLY SHIT!!! I have been a total hermit for the last 5 years, (that is saying a lot of you look at what I said in the last post about being a Leslie Knope Steamroller when it comes to how often I used to perform).
But, I’m honoured to come back on stage for an event like this. Performer line up will be released soon, follow @onethreadweaves on IG.
While my burlesque stage name for the last 13 years has been Scorpio Rising, she is having a good long nap. And I’ll be introducing my new burlesque stage persona to you, known as none other than…
I AM PLUTO’S CHILD (!!!) AND I AM CELEBRATING 40 YEARS OF SERVICE, FORWARD & BACKWARD
