{"id":18027,"date":"2021-06-07T00:05:26","date_gmt":"2021-06-07T07:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=18027"},"modified":"2021-06-07T00:05:26","modified_gmt":"2021-06-07T07:05:26","slug":"woke-mysticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2021\/06\/07\/woke-mysticism\/","title":{"rendered":"Woke Mysticism"},"content":{"rendered":"

     It is increasingly clear that the so-called \u201cscientific\u201d ideology of the Left is little more than a form of magical thinking<\/a> and with religious fever<\/a> masquerading as reason<\/a>. Sometimes they make it clear that they believe that magic is real<\/a> and just a non-White \u201cway of knowing.” Such is the case of the \u201cserious study\u201d (LOL) of intersectional \u201canti-colonialism\u201d as applied to\u2026 astrology<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhen Alice Sparkly Kat, a queer Chinese Brooklyn-based astrologer, started studying the planets in the early 2010s, there were few books about astrology, let alone ones by people of color. Last year, while teaching astrology to Cantonese- and Mandarin-speaking elders, she began to receive a lot of questions: Why is the West so central in astrological discussions and study, and what are its limitations? These conversations are what inspired them to write Postcolonial Astrology: Reading The Planets Through Capital, Power, and Labor.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn their new book, Alice Sparkly Kat interprets the stars through history, politics, and postcolonial theory. Throughout their nuanced and intricate analysis, astrology becomes a way to break political and social norms: A look at the relationship of Mars and Venus complicates gendered power dynamics, while a study of the sun becomes a history of surveillance culture and the politics of who gets to be seen. While some might be hesitant to view astrology as political, Postcolonial Astrology encourages readers to study the stars so that they can better understand their own values, views, identities, and desires for the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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“I’m in your Zodiac, colonizing your astrology!”<\/p><\/div>\n

     But some astrology is a tool of Whiteness<\/a> or something\u2026<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s hard to spot when it\u2019s talking about emotional stuff so often, but there\u2019s a lot of astrological stuff that feels right wing. The ideas of naturalizing gender and manifesting wealth that I write about in the book are conservative. But obviously a lot of people use astrology to break free of those kinds of constraints, so it really depends on how you practice it.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

     The most ridiculous part is where \u201cthe binary ge4ndr system is very Western\u201d and then cites how some planetary body is considered feminine in one culture or masculine in the other while ignoring the fact that \u201cgender\u201d related aspects in those non-Western beliefs is also\u2026 binary. Heck, even the Yin\/Yang symbolism is a binary with feminine and masculine aspects. \u00a0 Ironic, then, that the non-binary view is the Whitest view of them all.<\/p>\n

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