Is the death of capitalism written in the stars?

When I first was struck with the idea of teaching on anti-capitalist astrology, my immediate reaction was to feel very silly about it. Who the fuck would take something like that seriously? It sounds like a punchline in a comedy routine about the Pacific Northwest.

And yet, the idea wouldn’t leave me. Because astrology is about time, at its core, and I saw the hijacking of time by capitalism as a fundamental diversion from this ancient system of knowledge. A grand distraction: replace the dome of the stars with a different circle covered in different symbols, and thus co-opt something integral to the human experience. Let them eat clocks, or however the saying goes.

Equipped with the knowledge that astrology is a device that describes time, and thus is used for making meaning of what humans have experienced, it was honestly kind of a horrifying realization when I put the dots together that capitalism had successfully co-opted not just certain myths, but the essence of mythology itself. This feels so insidious, and it is, because myths serve to help us make sense of universal human feelings and experiences. By co-opting this, capitalism has effectively convinced a whole lot of people that this economic system is simply reflective of “human nature,” and is thus universal, or the ultimate. Nothing can come after it, because nothing else can accommodate the human spirit of desire and conquest so flawlessly.

I simply call bullshit.

Humans are context-based creatures and our behaviors are dependent upon an innumerable amount of visible and invisible contexts. This adaptability helps us survive, and it’s also the reason why I call bullshit on there even being a singular “human nature” at all. An individual cannot and should not be expected to behave the exact same way within every context. If your house was on fire and you were to walk out of your burning house at the same leisurely pace with which you leave to go for a walk to the park, you’d probably die.

In that case, every single thing you and I do, every behavior we exhibit, takes place within the context of capitalism. But it does not mean that capitalism reflects what humans fundamentally are—there is no monolith. Everything depends on context.

Astrology, under the context of capitalism, is thus turned into a tool for endless self-reflection and self-improvement and self-discovery. Capitalism, through its co-opting of astrology, sells your idealized self back to you as an achievable goal. All you have to do is remediate your debilitated planets! Just spot-treat your astrological placements and extract their negative qualities like you’re playing Operation!

It was this that kept me coming back to an anti-capitalist framing of the planets. I’m not the first person to do this—Alice Sparkly Kat has an entire book examining the planets through capital and power and labor—but I wanted to be someone who brought new depths to the concept.

Thus, my course was born.

When you stop looking to the planets to describe your personality, and begin observing their cycles and the mythologies associated with each planet, you are already doing anti-capitalist astrology.

Is my course for anti-capitalists or astrologers?

My answer is an emphatic yes.

If you’re someone who loves to pull on threads, search for patterns, and dream of a world after late-stage capitalism, then Anti-Capitalist Astrology is for you. It’s not about reading birth charts or predicting the future—it’s about learning from the stars to create the future.

Doors are open now. Lessons begin 10/21.