Hi, my name is Chris Brennan, and you're listening to The Astrology Podcast.

This episode is episode 259, and I'm recording it with Sam Reynolds on Monday, June 8,

2020, starting at 235. in Denver, Colorado and the topic of our

discussion is the sort of title of this episode is the discussion on

astrology and race in America.

Hey Sam, welcome back to the show. on the astrology podcast.

Yeah, I was thinking that.

Yeah, I think I've been on, yeah, this is fourth or fifth.

Yeah, if you want to count me with the last time I appeared with Ken.

Yeah, which was actually just about almost exactly a year ago now.

That's correct.

All right, so our main topic, of course today, like if you're watching this live right now or not live but in the near future

is going to be about what's going on in the US over the past couple of weeks, which is recently, which was the murder of George Floyd on May 25th and in the resulting protests and discussions, and especially some kind of the

the relevance of this topic to the astrological community.

So I wanted to first start with sort of an opening statement that I had been thinking about and thinking about also and had some input from my last guest who was Dana Rose Harper, but one of the things I wanted to do is just

open by first thing that I wanted to acknowledge just in it of itself the murders of George

Floyd Briona Taylor and other black people at the hands of police and white

vigilantes in over the course of not just recently, but over the course of the past decade. So there's obviously kind of a history of racism and systemic oppression in America that still pervades our society, even if many white Americans don't realize or acknowledge it.

And for me, there's just been a lot of listening and learning over the past couple of weeks

and a lot of discussions in the astrological community as well. But I wanted to provide some coverage of that on the podcast, both to document what's going

on in the country and going on at the present point in time,

but also to help the astrological community learn and grow. So while I've generally attempted to keep the

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