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a·mal·gam:
From Medieval Latin amalgama (“mercury alloy”), from Arabic اَلْمَلْغَم (al-malḡam, “emollient poultice or unguent for sores”), from Ancient Greek μάλαγμα (málagma, “emollient; malleable material”), from μαλάσσω (malássō, “to soften”), from μαλακός (malakós, “soft”).
amalgam (countable and uncountable, plural amalgams)
(metallurgy) An alloy containing mercury.
A combination of different things. quotations
One of the ingredients in an alloy.
Amalgams of tin and mercury gilded ancient mirrors from the 16th century until the 19th. As metals traditionally associated with the planets Jupiter and Mercury, I named my practice after this phenomenon of metallurgy in deference to my natal conjunction of these two planets ruling the stakes of my chart and their emergent and fractalizing influence on my works in the world. I move in arrays of opposing spheres: corporate america as an R&D chemist, queer abolitionist organizing, observant Judaism, and an eclectic magical practice fed by folk, astrological, and necromantic traditions. When not at my day job or working with clients, I'm a teacher's assistant for Austin Coppock's Fundamentals of Astrology courses. As a graduate of this rigorous three-year program, I love facilitating strong foundations in the science of judging the stars for new cohorts of students.
Born and raised in austin, texas by a magically-operant public school teacher, a black smith, and a fire-fighter, I spent my childhood yearning for a way to get to Middle Earth and fearfully watching for eldritch terrors in the noise of my SETI@home data. My early adulthood was marred by personal crisis fueled, in part, by my dogmatic empirical materialism. During the nadir of this dark night of the soul, I found myself turning towards the stars for guidance, context and comfort. Although surrounded by astrologically fluent people my entire life (I received my first reading on a tape cassette), excavating my birth chart for myself was the first time I felt legible within an established system; given permission and validation to contain multitudes and contradictions, glorious potential and regrettable shortcomings.
Like chemistry, I treasure astrology as a technical discipline which enables direct experience of the ineffable. As my astrological education and spiritual practices have widened, deepened, and gotten weirder, I've found them to be invaluable well springs and jumping-off points for the connection and deconditioning required for an erotic, enchanted orientation to aliveness.
As your astrologer, I'm here to offer my expertise, experience, curiosity, attention, and care to help you get into right relationship with time. My work is dedicated to stirring that which--by our very position within the cosmos--is inherently celestial within ourselves and our spheres. Incarnated and enspirited as children of the divine through the virtues, intelligences, and spirits of the planets and fed by the light of the stars.