Weekly Checklist 3/7/23

This month promises to usher in one of the most profound changes in astrology since any of us have been born. 

For Your Astrological Health:

There is a full moon in Virgo, around the time that Saturn moves OUT OF AQUARIUS AND INTO PISCES and then also Pluto, the planet of revolution moves into Aquarius. So I anticipate changes. Maybe that’s why it’s good to learn from history this week. Check out this delightful astrologer on this very topic:

For Your Historical Health:

I have started to become interested in the Grimke sisters, have you not heard of them? They are a family that set the stage for the civil war. The Grimke family owned hundreds of Black men, women, and children. But they had two pious children, Sarah and Angelina who grew morally outraged of the suffering of hundreds and decided to leave the South. Angelina wrote “Appeal to the Christian women of the South” in 1836. It was the first widely distributed abolitionist work by a southern white woman and was an immediate sensation. For this reason, I want to call attention to an important work that just came out by Kerri K. Greenrich, “The Grimke’s: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family.” We learn of two brothers, who after emancipation, became leaders of the “colored elite” and were associated with the conciliatory Booker T. Washington. This is a monumental work that covers the vast and contradictory expanses of this family and of the American story. I am unable to put this book down. 

Angelina Weld Grimké (February 27, 1880 – June 10, 1958) was an African-American journalist, teacher, playwright, and poet.

For Your Cultural Health:

Beginning in the 1880s and through the 1920s, vaudeville was home to more than 25,000 performers and was the most popular form of entertainment in America. From the local small-town stage to New York's Palace Theater, vaudeville was an essential part of every community. We know, however, little of the black roots. I would recommend this documentary to see the roots of American entertainment, in particular vaudeville, as stemming from black culture post-emancipation. Black performers were forced into minstrel shows that became quite popular and as they moved into vaudeville were forced to wear blackface. This documentary begins a long attempt to reconstruct the true nature of our entertainment. It is a story about black people trying to critique the culture of oppression in which they were trying to make their way. It helps explain some of the travails of people like Michael Jackson. The film honors the work of Bert Williams (November 12, 1874 – March 4, 1922) a Bahamian-born American entertainer, one of the pre-eminent entertainers of the Vaudeville era and one of the most popular comedians for all audiences of his time. He is credited as being the first Black man to have the leading role in a film: Darktown Jubilee in 1914

Blacks and Vaudeville: PBS documentary

For Your Physical Health:

There is something about this doctor on YouTube that is so rich and basic that I have fallen in love with him. His name is Luke Coutinho and he offers many wonderful videos on health that I have already adopted on basic lifestyle changes. He is very psychological and challenges the ideas that are “going on in your mind.” If you want homework he says, “you should engage in introspection…you will understand that many of your thoughts are lies!” He speaks very directly about “Understanding Belly Fat & Weight Loss”

I am also going to follow his “Try My 14-Day Challenge For Better Health And Weight.” . And he’s also super handsome!