“There’s a way of being in relationship with the sky and the forms it takes as an astrological chart which helps us to recognise how holographic and cosmological we already are and how to then hear that in our lived life.” Amanda anandita Simon
E228 – Amanda anandita Simon on Astrology, Sensitivity and Collective Shifts // Beckoned by the Stars
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About this interview: How can understanding astrology support us in riding these times? 
This episode brings forth a powerful way of hearing, feeling and seeing the art that astrology is. A deeply misunderstood sacred practice that Amanda is enormously passionate about. As a consulting astrologer, acutonics practitioner and artist, currently studying an MA in Art and Ecology at Goldsmiths University, Amanda anandita Simon brings the poetics of this practice out of the astrological arena into spaces where it can offer and be recognised for its contribution to join other acts of resistance.
“To re-member a living relation with an ensouled cosmos, to restore and restore our dreaming heart and cultivate sensibility to subtlety – the intricacy and specificity present in each thread of our lived life.” Amanda shares.
Together we explore:
:: How to cultivate a bodily awareness that allows us to deeply touch and be touched by the world around us
:: What it means to return to the city after countryside life and how to prevent being overwhelmed by its intensity
:: What Pluto’s recent transition from the Earth-based Capricorn to the Air-focused Aquarius signifies for us
:: How to understand astrology as an art and sacred practice
We hope that you enjoy this episode and that something here really lands for you.
“There’s a way in which it opens you into the dreaming of what’s becoming both of yourself and the world, the time that you live in and the collective as a whole. And that dreaming is so much more fluid and so much more like a wave. It allows you to feel.” Amanda anandita Simon
Amanda grew up on a farm to a Jewish father and a Fijian mother, her lineage of water people are strongly alive in her. Childhood on the farm was living with doors open to animals, smells, elementals, weathers, dirt, labouring, making, fixing ,finding solutions, machines, creatures, weathers of all kinds and more. This living flux and flow of sentience instilled in her marrow that bodily being was vast coursing with powers we pretend to understand, wrapped and woven in a skin suit to facilitate a human journey. This, alongside a less than able parent, peeked heightened acuity to the unseen, unsaid but palpably present. From a young age Amanda felt and lived the edge, was taken by realms of sensation, of affect that were vast and furious yet guides for underworld initiations. Until her mid twenties she felt a very thin string to the world of the living, easily flawed by heightened sensitivities that cut like glass shards. Landing at Oxford University in her late twenties was a time of re-building, finding welcome habitation for taking time with subtitles, the easily overlooked, the depth pulsing through all lived life whether that was within poetic practice, anthropological ethnography or archaeological reflection – these and many more re-vivified, rafted a connection to being and being in the world.
Currently Amanda is an consulting astrologer, acutonics practitioner and artist, currently studying an MA in Art and Ecology at Goldsmiths University where she creates sculptural fields that explore, through encounters, how our sensorium can be architected; constellated become available and receptive to subtlety, to the myriad of relations we are ongoingly made by and with. She has contributed a chapter to a forthcoming book dedicated to the Centaurs; she also has a passion for teaching, supporting people grow relationship with the depth and beauty of the Astrological art through monthly in person Planet Pulse circles, a more involved teaching faculty that mentors astrological foundations and beyond, a busy 1:1 reading practice as well as hosting a weekly Friday forecast live on Instagram. Amanda has built a vibrant collaboration with the East London ethical portal SLC (She’s Lost Control) where she creates, and teaches their astrology foundations course, and as in house astrologer has steered astrological understanding from an identity focused approach towards an ecological and experiential orientation connecting clients with their multidimensional depth. Amanda has also collaborated with landscape gardeners weaving the celestial into the terrestrial, in physical ways, has been a guest speaker for Angharad Wynne; ‘Feather, Fire, Stone and Bone’ and has completed a three apprenticeship in Contemporary Animism with Animate earth which helped grow confidence in the felt and living practice of tracking and tending the web of animacy pulsing through worlds within and without. She has journeyed with Josh Schrei of the Emerald and is an alumni of his year long Mythic body course, has trained in dream tending with Topo Ka and Pacifica university and is currently studying with Louise Livingston’s Heart Sense, Veronica Goodchild’s Mystery school whilst continuing to develop her experiential, relational, soul centred astrological practice with Jason Holley and Brain Clarke. Amanda is also an alumni of Kincentric Leadership’s programme, The Way of Kinship and will be hosting a Kincentric Astrology workshop in February 2025 which is in keeping with her vision, to grow animate astrological awareness beyond the astrological community.
To connect or work with Amanda, visit amandasimon.co.uk
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artwork video: via cosmos Resources and links from this episode:
- Amanda’s Instagram
- Kinship with stars – Kincentric Astrology workshop by Amanda February 2025
- Amanda’s Newsletter
- Amanda’s Monthly Astrology Circle
- Amanda’s weekly Friday forecast – Instagram Live
- Profiles of collaborations & collectives Amanda works with and through
- She’s Lost Control Instagram
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