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Postcolonial Astrology: Reading the Planets through Capital, Power, and Labor by Alice Sparkly Kat
anajonessy's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
informative
reflective
medium-paced
4.75
Content Warnings
Moderate: Violence
caseygoesoutside's review against another edition
3.0
Had to stop reading about a third of the way through; clearly well researched and certainly on an important topic, but I did not find it very engaging and I found it frustrating that the author (in my opinion, this could be personal) seemed to avoid the question of, “now what?” I was looking for “This is a problematic thing. Here’s what to do or how to think about it instead,” but there was very little of that. And for the record, I did skim the rest of the chapters and the conclusion to see if there was any of that, but I found very little. Good book I’m sure, just a bit too dense and did not answer the questions I was looking for.
megan_prairierose's review against another edition
To be honest I didn't finish this book but I didn't want to give it a bad review. This book just showed me that I only have a cursory knowledge of astrology and this book was way above my level of understanding. I would recommend this book to people who are really into astrology.
sailormercury's review against another edition
5.0
Leaving my first and only review to say that this book is so smart and loving and is absolutely required reading. It means everything to me as a Mexican an herbalist who is living in the U.S. empire, and benefitting institutionally and economically from the destruction of my homelands, culture, and communities. Using astrology as a storytelling device to talk about empire, capital, and power, Alice Sparkly Kat reveals the devastating cost of the West’s humanist projects of colonialism, nationalism, and modernity. It implicates astrology in this, as the history of astrology is also the history of empire, and the history of white people (whose history is made by brown people).
It’s definitely dense, but I was screaming with every single chapter because she was as citing all the writers that have been most influential to my healing and art practice. It’s truly a beautiful offering done with great love for this earth, our ancestors, and those in struggle against the empire(s).
In response to all the white astrologers being silly and and proving her entire point on here, if you’re a practicing astrologer then the topics in this book are the most important thing you need to know about what you do. Anyways, as Khalil Gibran said, “never argue with the once born”.
It’s definitely dense, but I was screaming with every single chapter because she was as citing all the writers that have been most influential to my healing and art practice. It’s truly a beautiful offering done with great love for this earth, our ancestors, and those in struggle against the empire(s).
In response to all the white astrologers being silly and and proving her entire point on here, if you’re a practicing astrologer then the topics in this book are the most important thing you need to know about what you do. Anyways, as Khalil Gibran said, “never argue with the once born”.
btterswtt's review against another edition
challenging
informative
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
4.0
sbattaglia2's review against another edition
challenging
informative
reflective
tense
slow-paced
4.5