Celebrating Emmalea’s upcoming class THIS SATURDAY by uploading my very first RU Podcast episode with her. Enjoy!
Join us for WE MUST NOT TALK ASTROLOGY! Saturday, March 7th. We will be meeting online for 2 hours beginning at 11AM NYC (8AM Vancouver/ 4PM London/ 17:00 Stockholm/ 18:00 Beirut) on Saturday, March 7th. MORE INFO HERE.
This event will be recorded and made available for all those who register.
Rendering Unconscious episode 242.
In this episode, Emmalea and I discuss her ALCHEMY OF THE WORD project, which takes the form of 4 video recordings on the seven original planets and their corresponding metals and alchemical processes through the lens of the creative process. Music by CONTAIN. Sources include ancient, Medieval, and Renaissance alchemists and philosophers (Paracelsus, Basil Valentine, Nicolas Flamel) major western alchemical manuscripts (Rosarium Philosophorum, Donum Dei, Twelve Keys of Basil Valentine, Splendor Solis) as well as artists, writers, poets, and astrologers including Carl Jung, Julia Kristeva, Demetra George, Liz Greene, Emily Dickinson, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Albrecht Durer, Anne Carson, Remedios Varo, and Leonora Carrington.
Also mentioned in this episode: our dear friend Mary Wild; The Lords and the New Creatures by Jim Morrison; creatrix and author Ana Leorne; The Tarot of Leonora Carrington by Fulgur Press; Maison Shehu by Aisha Shehu-Ansell; The Third Mind by Brion Gysin and William Burroughs; Genesis and Lady Jaye Breyer P-Orridge; third mind collaborator Katelan Foisy; Jung’s Studies in Astrology: Prophecy, Magic, and the Qualities of Time by Liz Greene; Black Sun: Depression and Melancholia by Julia Kristeva; The Dream and the Underworld by James Hillman.
EMMALEA RUSSO is a writer and astrologer. She is the author of several books of poetry. Her first novel Vivienne was published by Arcade in 2024. Her new novel The Moon Papers is forthcoming from Arcade and available for pre-order. Emmalea teaches classes independently on art, literature, psychoanalysis, and the occult and works with clients online via her private astrology practice. Follow her at Substack and Instagram.
