Kate Carey (formerly Gerson)
@directstationkate.bsky.social
Politics via poetry, planets, & history. Former education reform/ dei leader forced by events to root in previously compartmentalized skillset and offer cosmic context for our moment. There's something here for you. Politics in Retrograde podcast.
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When the Damn Breaks: Minneapolis, the CDC and our Collective Rising Grief
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hi everybody in the blue sky 🙋♀️. This week's episode is up and its about how it's all starting to hit different & how our collective grief is starting to rise and guide us. My #1 aspiration in life is to be your spiritual companion to all things @hcrichardson.bsky.social An old lady can dream 🌱🙂💫🌌🌍
y'all it turns out that the astrology of the last few weeks has been rather feminine and rather divine. It's fun and empowering to peek at it. Come take a moment and celebrate the women. new episode of Politics in Retrograde is out!
When We Draw our Arrow: MTG, Megyn Kelly, Katniss & the End of the Barely Legal Defense
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November 19, 2025 at 1:18 PM
y'all it turns out that the astrology of the last few weeks has been rather feminine and rather divine. It's fun and empowering to peek at it. Come take a moment and celebrate the women. new episode of Politics in Retrograde is out!
new quick episode up this week - reflecting on the role of humanity and compassion as we find our way through this escalation, this rising action - heading towards some climax we can't know and ought not fear because it could mean the defeat of dehumanizing violence and power over.
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September 24, 2025 at 2:22 PM
new quick episode up this week - reflecting on the role of humanity and compassion as we find our way through this escalation, this rising action - heading towards some climax we can't know and ought not fear because it could mean the defeat of dehumanizing violence and power over.
new episode up today - making emotional and spiritual meaning of America's moment as the tension continues to rise.
When Hamilton Hits Different; Trumpocalypse, Murder at Sea, & The Relevance of the Federalist Papers
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September 11, 2025 at 7:35 PM
new episode up today - making emotional and spiritual meaning of America's moment as the tension continues to rise.
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hi everybody in the blue sky 🙋♀️. This week's episode is up and its about how it's all starting to hit different & how our collective grief is starting to rise and guide us. My #1 aspiration in life is to be your spiritual companion to all things @hcrichardson.bsky.social An old lady can dream 🌱🙂💫🌌🌍
When the Damn Breaks: Minneapolis, the CDC and our Collective Rising Grief
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September 4, 2025 at 1:37 PM
hi everybody in the blue sky 🙋♀️. This week's episode is up and its about how it's all starting to hit different & how our collective grief is starting to rise and guide us. My #1 aspiration in life is to be your spiritual companion to all things @hcrichardson.bsky.social An old lady can dream 🌱🙂💫🌌🌍
Neptune is in retrograde! The collective delusion shows more signs of tearing. I'm not saying it's ending today, but it's starting to tear. Just like it did during Neptune's retrograde for Nixon's smoking gun tape, the Pentagon Papers' release, & McCarthys lack of decency downfall!!!!
I can’t believe Murdoch’s Wall Street is Gallant & CBS is Goofus, but here we are
July 18, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Neptune is in retrograde! The collective delusion shows more signs of tearing. I'm not saying it's ending today, but it's starting to tear. Just like it did during Neptune's retrograde for Nixon's smoking gun tape, the Pentagon Papers' release, & McCarthys lack of decency downfall!!!!
If you want a take on the Epstein situation that honors the bravery of the women and even the grace of the bros rethinking in public + a way to think about this with spirit and even hope in mind... try the latest episode of Politics in Retrograde today!
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When the Conspiracy Isn’t a Theory: MAGA, The Epstein Files, and the Powerful Role of the Victims Themselves
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July 18, 2025 at 7:17 PM
If you want a take on the Epstein situation that honors the bravery of the women and even the grace of the bros rethinking in public + a way to think about this with spirit and even hope in mind... try the latest episode of Politics in Retrograde today!
open.spotify.com/episode/0d1X...
open.spotify.com/episode/0d1X...
If you're feeling deflated by all the horrible things they did on our nation's birthday, give my substack a try. It sure isn't spiritual bypassing, but it's an alternative way to look at things with a wider view that you might find encouraging. Let me know if you do:)
Don't Tread on Me
The Cosmic Timer Activated By The Big Beautiful Bill
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July 9, 2025 at 8:06 PM
If you're feeling deflated by all the horrible things they did on our nation's birthday, give my substack a try. It sure isn't spiritual bypassing, but it's an alternative way to look at things with a wider view that you might find encouraging. Let me know if you do:)
Politics in Retrograde! If you're looking for another way to understand their hate codified as law, try this - even if you think astrology is dumb. I'm trying to provide a meta perspective on the national nightmare. hope it helps! new episode out today.
When Shadow Becomes Law: America's $2.4 Trillion Reckoning by Direct Station
On July 4th, America's shadow didn't just get activated—it got $2.4 trillion in funding and the full force of federal law. The ironically (in the Orwellian sense of irony) named "One Big Beautiful Bil...
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July 8, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Politics in Retrograde! If you're looking for another way to understand their hate codified as law, try this - even if you think astrology is dumb. I'm trying to provide a meta perspective on the national nightmare. hope it helps! new episode out today.
If Trump was a portal... herein lies my 4th of July offering to you good people. A meditation on America's reckoning with its demons through its catalystic president, and the real, alive dream of our earned evolution that is written in the stars if not the stripes.
The Crisis that 249 Years Built
A Meditation on America’s Demons and Doorways for the 4th of July
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July 3, 2025 at 10:32 PM
If Trump was a portal... herein lies my 4th of July offering to you good people. A meditation on America's reckoning with its demons through its catalystic president, and the real, alive dream of our earned evolution that is written in the stars if not the stripes.
I can explain the rise of Zohran with astrology. It'll be fun - even if you don't believe.
July 2, 2025 at 7:52 PM
I can explain the rise of Zohran with astrology. It'll be fun - even if you don't believe.
An alternative route for reflection on our nation's birthday: taking a look at its birth chart. I share it with astro skeptics in mind as a vehicle for thinking through the themes of the soup we're in.
When a Country Meets its Catalyst: America's Birth Chart and its Plutonian Passage
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July 1, 2025 at 12:26 PM
An alternative route for reflection on our nation's birthday: taking a look at its birth chart. I share it with astro skeptics in mind as a vehicle for thinking through the themes of the soup we're in.
On Sunday morning Tehran time, about the time the sun hit exactly 90 degrees from Saturn—adding serious gravitational force to an already fiercely potent sky—the United States dropped bombs into three locations in Iran.
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(a thread or a longer version in substack)
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June 25, 2025 at 6:04 PM
On Sunday morning Tehran time, about the time the sun hit exactly 90 degrees from Saturn—adding serious gravitational force to an already fiercely potent sky—the United States dropped bombs into three locations in Iran.
(a thread or a longer version in substack)
open.substack.com/pub/directst...
(a thread or a longer version in substack)
open.substack.com/pub/directst...
If you want an alternative way to look at the news -one that helps you keep your hope on- give my latest episode a try! I decided to look into the astro-political history of the Iran of it all & came up with some answers as to why mass delusion & prophecy are playing such a big bad role in our world
When Prophecy is Weaponized: Unmasking the Holy War Trajectory of the American Empire
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June 24, 2025 at 5:13 PM
If you want an alternative way to look at the news -one that helps you keep your hope on- give my latest episode a try! I decided to look into the astro-political history of the Iran of it all & came up with some answers as to why mass delusion & prophecy are playing such a big bad role in our world
This week's episode is up! I got kind of obsessed with the fun fact that the crypto-corruption masked ball, the Big Bad Bill, Trumps war on Bruce, Bruce's EP loveliness, & Taylor Swift showing up for the Handmaids' vengeance all happened in the same 2 day period while impt stuff was afoot in the sky
When Greed is Gilded: Crypto and the American Bravery of Taylor and Springsteen
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May 28, 2025 at 8:55 PM
This week's episode is up! I got kind of obsessed with the fun fact that the crypto-corruption masked ball, the Big Bad Bill, Trumps war on Bruce, Bruce's EP loveliness, & Taylor Swift showing up for the Handmaids' vengeance all happened in the same 2 day period while impt stuff was afoot in the sky
Please remember that while all this is swirling around us, we have a lot of choices available to us with only uncertainty or insecurity in the way.We can take those opportunities or ignore them. We can be ruined by this chaos or rise to it.We can be leveled by the destruction or build inside of it.
May 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Please remember that while all this is swirling around us, we have a lot of choices available to us with only uncertainty or insecurity in the way.We can take those opportunities or ignore them. We can be ruined by this chaos or rise to it.We can be leveled by the destruction or build inside of it.
New episode is out! “When Nothing Gold Can Stay: Finding Balance in Trump’s America” come co-create a refuge for wellness in the midst of the national nightmare.
May 21, 2025 at 2:26 PM
New episode is out! “When Nothing Gold Can Stay: Finding Balance in Trump’s America” come co-create a refuge for wellness in the midst of the national nightmare.
old white ladies have a part to play in the revolution.
May 14, 2025 at 6:48 PM
old white ladies have a part to play in the revolution.
Leo having Haitian ancestry, imo, is thee most hopeful thing that’s happened on earth in a very long time. I don’t say this as a catholic. I say this as a student of colonialism, the horrors of the church, and the spiritual plane.
May 13, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Leo having Haitian ancestry, imo, is thee most hopeful thing that’s happened on earth in a very long time. I don’t say this as a catholic. I say this as a student of colonialism, the horrors of the church, and the spiritual plane.
America's in the process of disrupting its generational curse -its ancestral curse. You know this concept, right? If you're a descendant of a line where abuse or poverty, substance, harm, suffering has been one of the key arteries that you've inherited & you've decided it stops w me? #americahealing
May 10, 2025 at 10:42 PM
America's in the process of disrupting its generational curse -its ancestral curse. You know this concept, right? If you're a descendant of a line where abuse or poverty, substance, harm, suffering has been one of the key arteries that you've inherited & you've decided it stops w me? #americahealing
Remember that periods of institutional breakdown have historically proceeded periods of rebuilding and reimagining. The current destruction is not the end of the story. It is the first act of the play. If you work in science, education, environmental protection or any field under attack, #SPEAK
May 9, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Remember that periods of institutional breakdown have historically proceeded periods of rebuilding and reimagining. The current destruction is not the end of the story. It is the first act of the play. If you work in science, education, environmental protection or any field under attack, #SPEAK
Ok but why are they breaking everything, right? is it just that they're that neglected child who lives next door in toy story? is it to create the sense of despair that could only be undone via violence or chainsaws? #zerosumgame #socialcommentary #HeatherMcGhee
May 8, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Ok but why are they breaking everything, right? is it just that they're that neglected child who lives next door in toy story? is it to create the sense of despair that could only be undone via violence or chainsaws? #zerosumgame #socialcommentary #HeatherMcGhee
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Tariffs are taxation without representation. We wrote a whole Declaration of Independence about it. Threw tea in the harbor and everything.
May 5, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Tariffs are taxation without representation. We wrote a whole Declaration of Independence about it. Threw tea in the harbor and everything.
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Meanwhile, in Canada…
May 2, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Meanwhile, in Canada…