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

Today is Tuesday, July 14th, 2020, starting at 501 p.m. in Denver, Colorado,

and this is the 263 263 episode of the show. In this episode I

may be talking with Bear River about intersectionality and astrology. Hey Bear,

welcome to the show. Thank you for having me, Chris.

It's a pleasure.

Yeah, I'm excited about this episode in this topic.

I've been looking forward to it for a month and a half now.

I saw you give a lecture on this at the Northwest Astrology Conference at the end of May

and we started talking about doing an episode then but it's finally coming together now.

So was that your first time giving a lecture on this topic?

That was first version 1.2, I guess I could say.

Technically I presented the first 15 minutes or so, or about 15 minutes of that content to OPA, the

organization for professional astrology, when they hosted the I

astrologer retreat in Tucson, Arizona back in 2018.

So I spoke to the need for, and it was kind of a call to bring intersectionality.

And by the time I was at the pleasure of speaking and presenting at Norwhack,

I felt like I was more speaking to the wave of intersectionality that had crashed into the astrology world already.

Brilliant, I love that and that actually brings up you have a really interesting background in terms of your astrological studies because you've been more than anybody else I've seen who has come into the community in the past 10 or 20 years like you really have tried to cover all of your bases in terms of education and in terms of studying different types of astrology and focusing on certification and getting some credentials from different schools.

Could you tell me a little bit about your background in astrology

just to like introduce you and your background to my audience?

Yeah, yeah. So like a lot of millennial folks, I started with the internet. I had the pleasure of

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