A Lunar Day Love List: Easy, Fun Things You'll Want to Know About
Exhibitions, Podcasts, Sleep Secrets, and LAMPS (!!)
Normally the Love Lists come out on Fridays (the day of Venus, goddess of love) but I couldn’t quite swing it last week so today it’s coming to you on a Monday, the day of the moon! In any case, I think you’re going to love these offerings, have a look!
The King of Cups Between the Worlds podcast episode is finally out!
The King of Cups brews a potent medicine. Drinking it will change you.
This King is a trance inducer, a seducer, mixer of poisons and medicines. When the King of Cups appears in your life, you are about to encounter the Mysteries. You may feel confused, inspired, turned on, transformed, besotted. You will become wiser, more relational. Your life will change.
It took us a while to get this episode out bc I’ve been swamped with coursework and our producer Carolyn Pennypacker Riggs is a busy artist and mother, but it’s finally here!
Tune in to learn more about the power of this king as we chat with our special guest Brian Cotnoir: writer, alchemist, artist and award-winning filmmaker. His books include On Alchemy, Alchemy: The Poetry of Matter, Practical Alchemy: A Guide to the Great Work, Alchemical Meditations, On the Quintessence of Wine and the Emerald Table.
See you beneath the waves, and between the worlds!
Fahira Roisin’s Ghosts, Lamps, and Writing
I’m a big fan of Fahira Roisin’s writing (subscribe to her Substack). She’s a poet, an activist, an artist. I recently bought one of her lamps because a) I needed a new lamp, and b) I’m slowly trying to make it so that everything in my home, everything I own, is made by someone I know whose hands are making good things in the world. Roisin is a champion of Palestine, a cannon ball through the wall of the Wellness Industrial Complex, and a writer of great sensitivity and heart. You won’t regret falling down her rabbit hole.
I want to see this exhibition of Medieval Astrology at the Getty this fall…
There’s a show coming up at the Getty Museum this October that “reveals the mysteries of medieval astrology as it intersected with medicine, divination, and daily life in the Middle Ages.” Ummm, hello?? Sign me UP!
In the meantime, I adore how even the traditionalist Getty Museum is hoping on the astrology bandwagon and doing a monthly horoscope for the readers of their website. It’s super cute and nerdy. Here’s a sample:
“Cancer season was believed to be a good time for fighting and mowing. But a bad time for planting trees, building new houses, or anything to do with fire,” advises [medieval curator, Larisa] Grollemond.
So feel free to prune your garden or play a few games of Multiversus but wait until after July to build that shed out back... or burn your existing one down.
Have a look for yourself here.
Expensive Bedtime Lamps and their Slow Stories - A Sleep App Review
So for those of you who’ve ever experienced any mid-life hormonal changes (IYKYK) you may be able to commiserate with my sudden insomnia. I’ve always (mercifully) been a good sleeper, but in the past year I find myself tossing and turning, unable to get to sleep, sleeping lightly when I do, and feeling exhausted when I wake up in the morning (making it hard to get out of bed). Which is why I was seduced by this expensive and complicated sleeping app/bedside lamp.
Here’s a pic of the new overpriced lamp at my bedside:
Now I know I’m being kind of snarky about this lamp/app combo… but I’m actually mentioning it to you here because I like it (I wouldn’t bother telling you about it otherwise). It helps you set up a bedtime and wake up routine that are actually really fun. I look forward to mine every night, and I AM sleeping better.
The APP is a bit confusing and I find myself battling to figure it out a fair bit (or maybe I’m just becoming an elder who can’t open PDFs or whatever) but it makes up for it in the fun lighting options, the sound of rain and whales and mountain wind, and gentle four minute breathwork routines that play automatically when you wake up in the morning before you even get out of bed.
If that sounds appealing to you, you should try it! And good news for people who feel like they can’t spend $169 on an alarm clock right now, the app is frustrating enough that I bet if you look on Craigslist you can find it for a discount!
In the meantime, here’s the website: https://www.hatch.co/
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