What’s up, swimmers? I am home from my travels and trying to come back down to Earth. So, of course, I am kicking things off with a conversation that shoots us back up into the stratosphere 😉.
But first! I wanted to shout out an incredible offering from my friend Nick Kepley, of In Search of Tarot, that’s taking place this June. Early bird registration has closed, but it’s not too late to snag a spot at what’s sure to be an expansive and liberating month.
MEET ME AT THE MARGIN is a month-long virtual conference for queer people who want to reclaim and re-story their innate capacity for ambiguity, paradox, and liminality.
Through a series of eight workshops facilitated by some of today’s most Marginal thinkers, participants explore queerness through the lenses of tarot, astrology, narrative therapy, eco-mythology, archetype, art, and more.
Facilitators include: Charlie Claire Burgess, Amy DiGennaro, Edgar Fabian Frías, Nick Kepley, Jonathan Koe, Elias Lawliet, Sophie Strand, Jaison Perez, Chanti Tacoronte-Perez!
The conference and its mission is also a perfect segue into today’s episode!
It’s a personal kink of mine to expand my understanding and experience of the intersections of magic and queerness, and my guest today absolutely swam in that beautiful soup with me!
Without further delay, I am so so thrilled to bring you this conversation that I had with self-proclaimed love devotee, Shahir Suprasensory!
As I write, I wander, and we write, and we wonder whether we have found the Wise within or without, the Divine Dance that was never lost, but kept on being found, Love.
- Shahir Suprasensory
Shahir Suprasensory (@suprasensoryshahir) is a Queer Muslim Brown Mystic and Love Devotee. They write about everything that inspires them with love: astrology, tarot, mysticism, Sufism, spirituality, spirit guides.
They see love as origin, love as destination, and love as intermediacy, and their magical practices are love portals ~ to share, to create and to embody a more loving world.
I AM FOR ASTROLOGY that elevates the goodness of this world, that rebels against systems of oppression, that remediates fractured parts of ourselves and our connections with others, astrology that weaves our ecosystems and heals our biospheres, that illuminates our dreams - that shifts them our reality, that disrupts power dynamics of society, that reminds us of our agency, that awakens our magick, that enchants our sensations.
- Shahir Suprasensory
Shahir and I met through a Sagittarius Rising community group and have been internet pals ever since! The way that they are able to speak the language of the stars is truly inspiring, and I know that just by listening to them share the ways in which they connect with their many selves through their chart, and also how they weave their astrological knowledge into their other magical practice, you’ll learn so much about what’s possible when committing to a life of faith and love.
Some of my favorite moments include:
“The love mystics of the Sufis... there's always a sense of longing and seeking; trying to be uniting with something, but feeling the distance between you and the universe, God, whatever you want to term it as. But at the same time, feeling the closeness of it.”
“I do feel sometimes [that] periods of endings and beginnings are kind of like moments where we are having a crisis, but also having a rebirth of imagination.”
“It is about the deeper understanding of Cosmic Law. There are certain things that are beyond your power, and it's actually good for you to release that control... from even trying to know it... not in a punishing way. It's kind of just like, it's not your terf. ”
But there really are so many moments of deep magic within. Let me know which moments stood out to you!
If you’d like to connect with Shahir, there are many ways to do so!
SITS 1x16 - Diving Deep with Shahir Suprasensory