Hi, thanks for being here. Tomorrow is the first day of Scorpio season. I didn’t want to write my usual astro season post with takeaways from this past month — I wanted to write a little about the escalating genocide in Palestine instead. You can still find an overview of Scorpio season’s upcoming astrology at the end of this newsletter though, and I hope you’ll read through to the end.
Free Palestine 🇵🇸
The recent news and images out of Gaza are absolutely devastating. I am grieving the immense, ongoing loss of life and the widespread destruction of Palestinian homes and land that’s happening now, and that’s been happening for the past 75 years. I’m writing to express solidarity with those living under and resisting Israeli colonization, as well as with those marching and speaking out worldwide about these atrocities.
I don’t know everything — I have much more to learn — but I’ve known enough for a while now to know that Palestine should be free. I know that this is not a complicated situation. The occupation should end, Palestinian people should be able to return to their land, and the settler-colonial state of Israel should cease to exist. I know enough to say the genocide must end.
I don’t have a large platform here or on social media but I’m seeing that Palestinians are asking folks to speak up, so it feels important to say these things as a white person and as someone living in the US. It feels especially important to do so here on Substack because searching “Palestine” on the site shows just how much “both sides” or outright pro-Israel content that writers are publishing here. (I share some pieces in support of Palestine that I’ve found on here below.)
It feels important to speak up too because of my — our — complicity in the latest escalation of genocidal violence as a taxpayer in the US. One of the many deplorable misuses of US tax money is several billion dollars each year in direct funding for the Israeli military. And now Biden wants to send them another 14 billion, more than the amount they’ve received from the US in the past four years combined. It’s terrible and so fucked, for lack of better words, to know we’re financing an apartheid state and to watch in real-time as American-made bombs hit Palestinian homes, schools, and hospitals — so many of which are much older than the regime that’s bombing them.
All of this is enraging and so, so heartbreaking. I’m trying to direct these emotions into action and education, and I would encourage the same. There are a lot of ways to show solidarity with Palestinian resistance right now. Our voices, our work, and our hope are all so important. May the Palestinian people know peace and freedom, and may the global uprising bring an end to this and to all settler-colonial states.
Here are some pieces from Substack that I’ve found helpful and moving:
And some tweets:
Scorpio season astrology: Oct 23rd - Nov 22nd 🌠
Oct 23rd - Scorpio season starts ♏ 12:21 pm eastern
Oct 28th - Full moon & lunar eclipse in Taurus 🌝 4:23 pm
Nov 5th - Daylight savings time ends 🕯️ 2 am
Nov 8th - Venus → Libra ♎ 4:31 am
Nov 10th - Mercury → Sagittarius ♐ 1:25 am
Nov 13th - New moon in Scorpio 🌚 4:27 am
Nov 18th - Mars cazimi (conjunction with the sun) in Scorpio 🌞 12:41 am
Nov 22nd - Sagittarius season starts 🏹 9:03 am
Thank you for reading. I hope you’re taking care, staying engaged, and hanging in there through this eclipse season.
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Here’s a piece I’m especially proud of that I wrote this past month:
And here’s the previous astro season post: