Star Gays: The Queer Astrology Archives Podcast

In this Scorpio season episode, Elly is joined by artist, teacher, and astrologer Aryn Scanlon to talk about the astrology of Scorpio icon, Robert Mapplethorpe. In this episode we look at some of Mapplethorpe's most famous and most controversial works of art and talk about his Scorpio Sun, Mars, and ascendant!

Join us in the Living Room Archive! (https://stargaysastrology.ghost.io/living-room-archive/) for a live discussion about Mapplethorpe's astrology. Plus get access to the backlog of live recordings and thoughtful discussions of queer art, astrology, and ancestors! By becoming a member of the Living Room Archive...

Star Gays is back with astrologer and artist Duna Haller to talk about disco queen and Virgo icon Sylvester! Sylvester's music and life has been such a huge inspiration for us both that we created a zine about it! In this episode we talk about the creation of the zine, why physical media really matters right now, and what about the astrology of this moment rhymes with Sylvester's rise to disco queendom!

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Astrologer Elly Higgins is joined by Joey Cannizzaro to unpack the overlap in language between modern BDSM culture and Hellenistic Aspect Doctrine. We use the charts of artists Bob Flanagan, Samuel Delany, Kathy Acker, and David Wojnarowicz to make sense of these aspects and their relationship to queerness and BDSM! There is a video version of this conversation on YouTube - which has visual aids for understanding the aspects!

Joey is teaching a creative writing course at Kepler College using the ideas presented in this video...

Star Gays is back to round out Libra season with an episode all about the philosophy and life of theorist and philosopher Michel Foucault.

Join host Elly Higgins in uncovering Foucault's ideas around power, sexuality, and knowledge through his Libra Sun, Aquarius Moon, and Scorpio Rising.

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Virgo season is here so it's time to get into the details!

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Host Elly Higgins is joined by astrologer Duna Haller to discuss disco legend Sylvester! Known for his hit song You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real) and incredible falsetto singing, Sylvester left an undeniable mark on disco. Elly and Duna talk about Sylvester's gender bending style, the role of his 11...

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For our Leo season episode, host Elly Higgins discusses novelist, essayist, and civil rights activist James Baldwin! Born 100 years ago, Baldwin’s writing on race and sexuality feels as contemporary today as when it was published. Baldwin exemplified his Leo Sun through his capacity to shine light on his own experiences.

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Happy Capricorn Full Moon!

On the eve before a full moon in Capricorn in 1969, the Stonewall Rebellion began in Greenwich Village, NY. Now arguably the most famous moment in queer history, Stonewall would spark major changes for the queer community.

This Cancer season episode gets into what happened on the night of June 28th, what are the different stories around Stonewall that get told, and what in the astrology can help us understand the myth and importance of Stonewall as the birth of the gay liberation (or gay rights...

Two episodes for Gemini season? It is the sign of the twins after all!

To celebrate one whole year of Star Gays (and pride!), host Elly Higgins is joined by Jordan and Brook of the gay astro podcast Gemidyke Rising to discuss Dyke TV, a public access television show from the 90s whose motto was to Incite, Subvert, Provoke, and Organize for lesbian visibility and survival. Dyke TV was a variety show about all aspects of lesbian life that grew out of the Lesbian Avengers, with segments like 'Dyke Dish', 'Ann Northrop Mouths Off...

Star Gays is ringing in a beautiful New Moon in Gemini with a very special episode - the one year anniversary of Star Gays. Astrologer Michael J Morris joins host Elly Higgins to discuss trans activist and writer Lou Sullivan. Sullivan is thought to be the first publicly identified gay transgender man and his work and advocacy has helped to define our current understandings of gender and sexuality, removed barriers in accessing transgender medical care, and laid the ground work for trans peer support groups to flourish.

In this episode Michael and Elly discuss...

As Taurus season wraps up, Star Gays is back to talk about Barbara Hammer: an important voice in lesbian and experimental filmmaking. Astrologer Elly Higgins talks about Hammer’s relationship to the politics of abstraction, the queerness of experimental form, and the importance actively engaging an audience. We use the work of Dr. Ali Olomi and Kira Ryberg to discuss the bounds and decans of Taurus and get into the details of the fixed earth sign.

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Aries Season came in swinging with eclipses and a Mercury retrograde but science fiction writer and literary/social critic Samuel Delany is an excellent example of embodying Aries boldness and urgency that we can look to in this astro mess. Astrologer Elly Higgins discusses Delany’s Aries Sun and Rising, his Mars in Gemini, and Moon in Libra using Delany’s conception of Contact and Networking as a guide.

Then we use annual profections and solar return charts to assess some important high points and low points in Delany’s life.

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Pisces season is coming to a close but Star Gays is back to discuss the astrology of Pisces Prince: Pier Paolo Pasolini!

Host Elly Higgins discusses the prominence of the filmmaker and writer's Venus in Pisces as well as his Moon in Taurus. Examining themes around language and place through the third house, this episode dives deep into the Piscean ocean.

This episode is meant to be listened to in tandem with the bonus episode on Italian culture and language so be sure to check that one out before you listen to this one!

For Pisces season, student of cultural history and language Gabriella Higgins joins host Elly Higgins to discuss Italian filmmaker and poet Pier Paolo Pasolini. Pasolini was a gay, Catholic, Marxist who was committed to the preservation of Italian regional dialects. In our conversation, Gabriella provides critical context for understanding Pasolini in the cultural and political context of mid 20th-Century Italy. This bonus episode of the podcast dives deep into the relationship between regional dialects, culture, and language politics. Be sure to subscribe so you don't miss the next episode of Star Gays which will dive deep into Pasolini's birth...

Aquarius season is here and in this episode of Star Gays, film critic Caden Mark Gardener joins host Elly Higgins to talk about filmmaker Kenneth Anger. Anger's 1947 film Fireworks is thought to be the first narrative gay film in the United States. Anger made almost 40 short films, exploring themes of desire, homoeroticism, and the occult. He was a follower of Aleister Crowley, an outsider in Hollywood, and he was born on an Aquarius New Moon. ---------------------------------------------------------- You can preorder Caden's book here! Caden's instagram: @corpsesfoolsandmonsters / @corpsesfoolsandmonstersthebook bluesky: @cadenmarkgardner ---------------------------------------------------------- Please like, rate, review and subscribe to Star Gays. You can...

Happy new year! In 2024, Star Gays will be following the sun as it transits through the signs of the zodiac. Each month I will feature a Star Gay who has their sun in the sign of the season and to start us off we're going to talk about Capricorn goat Susan Sontag.

Sontag was a novelist, cultural critic, and public intellectual. Sontag embodied Capricorn's serious, determined, and melancholic nature. Her Capricorn and Virgo stelliums worked together to give her a sharp tongue and biting wit. In this episode we really break down the archetypes...

In this special bonus video episode of Star Gays, I walk through my process for rectifying Susan Sontag's chart and make an argument for her rising sign and birth time!

Using Zodiacal Releasing, a Hellenistic timing technique, to divide her life into chapters, we analyze a couple possibilities for rising signs for Capricorn Susan Sontag.

This episode is an addendum to the main episode on Sontag's life and work!

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On today's episode of Star Gays: The Queer Astrology Archives Podcast, we are going to do a deep dive into the chart of Marxist feminist scholar/activist Angela Davis. Davis has been a life-long activist and scholar, drawing connections between racism, capitalism, sexism, and abolition. We look to her Taurus rising as well as her Aquarius Sun and Moon to understand Davis' relationship to communism, capitalism, and the structures that create the conditions for oppression and liberation.

Then we use Secondary Progressions to map out the chapters of her life.

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On today’s episode of Star Gays we are doing something a little different. We are going to look at the astrology of an event in queer history - the Compton Cafeteria Riots in San Francisco in 1966. The Compton Cafeteria Riots were an early instance of queer and trans radical response to police harassment and discrimination. They were largely forgotten until historian Susan Stryker found a pamphlet referencing them in the early 2000s. In this episode we look at the larger planetary cycles that correspond with the riots and the events that led up to them. This episode is part on...

Happy Cancer Season! On this episode of Star Gays we are going to do a deep dive into the chart of activist Sylvia Rivera. Rivera was a gay liberation and transgender rights activist as well as community organizer in New York City in the years immediately following the Stonewall riots. We talk about Sylvia’s Cancer Sun and the archetype of the mother, we look at her Sun Uranus conjunction as both revolutionary and divisive, and we explore how that Mars-Saturn-Chiron T-square tells a painful but important story. (And more!!) Please subscribe to and rate the show! Thanks for listening! Yo...

David Wojnarowicz was one of the most influential artists of his generation. He was a painter, photographer, writer, and HIV/AIDS activist who lived and worked in the East Village until his death from AIDSrelated complications in 1992. In this episode we’ll look at David’s astrology to see how his 12th house Sun, Libra rising, and exalted Jupiter created the conditions for his passionate, righteous art to thrive while his Aries Moon and Capricorn Mars caused some problems in his personal life. David’s Birth Chart to follow along: https://www.astro.com/astro-databank/Wojnarowicz,_David Sources: Weight of the Ea...