Show Notes
Before there were algorithms, there were stars.
The earliest mathematicians were also the earliest astronomers, and the earliest astronomers were also the earliest astrologers. In the 23rd century BCE, the Akkadian astronomer-priestess En Hedu-Anna mapped the night sky through mathematics and observation alone. For most of human history, looking at the sky to create meaning.
In this episode of The Unseen, Claire Belhassine speaks with Judy Suzanne Reis Tsafrir, holistic psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and astrologer, about what ancient wisdom traditions have to offer at this civilisational shift into the new paradigm.
IN THIS EPISODE
Why AI is like taking the internet and making it quantum, and what that means for human consciousness. How soul-based astrology grew out of Judy's psychoanalytic training, and what she calls a sacred blueprint of a person's strengths, vulnerabilities and life mission. The Saturn-Neptune conjunction at zero degrees Aries, a configuration unseen for 6,000 years, and what the dissolution of structures actually feels like from the inside. Why French astrologer André Barbault predicted the 2020 pandemic and called this current moment 'a flowering of humankind'. The rare 2026 planetary configuration, what Judy calls its AI signature The patriarchal legacy of gendering the planets, and what gets lost when we dismiss ancient ways of knowing. What happens to human psychology and intuition as AI reshapes the way we think and relate to each other. Why choice is the thing we always have, even now.
ABOUT JUDY TSAFRIR Judy Suzanne Reis Tsafrir is a board certified adult and child psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, on the faculty of Harvard Medical School and the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute, and teaches and supervises at the Cambridge Health Alliance. After a spiritual awakening in her late forties, she began integrating astrology, shamanism and functional medicine into her practice. She is the author of Sacred Psychiatry: Bridging the Personal and Transpersonal to Transform Health and Consciousness, published by Greenleaf Book Group in 2024. She has a private holistic psychiatry practice in the Boston area.
FURTHER READING Sacred Psychiatry by Judy Tsafrir judytsafrirmd.com André Barbault on planetary cycles and the flowering of humankind En Hedu-Anna, world's first known woman astronomer
ABOUT THE UNSEEN The Unseen is a podcast from Godmothers Studio exploring the women whose ideas, work and imagination shape technology, culture and the world we are building. Every Godmother starts by seeing something the rest of the world cannot yet see.
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This episode was produced by Godmothers Studio and Gianluca Allaria. Presented by Claire Belhassine. Music by Tara Lily. Sound by Kit Proudfoot.
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