“I employ the word ‘cruelty’ in the sense of an appetite for life, a cosmic rigor and impeccable necessity,” wrote Antonin Artaud, a mad Virgo and surrealist, in his work The Theater and Its Double.
At the start of lockdown, I decided on a whim to teach an online class called Cosmic Edges. The class explored the edgy and hidden parts of astrology—planets and zones in the sky that teach us about rough times, madness, derangement, imprisonment, erotics, and making art.
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