23. WATER: Channeling the non-verbal with zaneta sykes of sound art magic

<p>My intention with this latest <em>Moon to Moon</em> episode was to open up a conversation about working with the element of Water in your life and in your magical offering to the world.&nbsp;</p> <p>My honored guest for this effort is Cancer Sun zaneta sykes. I've known zaneta about two years now. We are colleagues as witches who both create in order to serve, and we mutually witness and celebrate one another's growth. For reasons that will be apparent when listening here, I knew that zaneta would be my first choice for a contemplation on Water as soon as I dreamed of having one.&nbsp;</p> <p>zaneta sykes is a sound ritualist, listening educator, and tarot reader living in Brooklyn. At the core of their art is a deep desire to remember how to live in interconnectedness. Whether that is humxns connecting to the land or to one another, they believe sound is a powerful medium for building connectivity. The bulk of their artwork is meditations and sound rituals, where they draw upon memory and weave ritual and sound to create community performance experiences that transform the way participants hear and connect to the world.&nbsp;</p> <p>As with the other elemental episodes in this series, I anchor us into the themes for Water in the introductory solo segment. To jump straight to my conversation with zaneta, please jump to around 29 minutes in.&nbsp;</p> <p>Topics explored on this episode:&nbsp;</p> <p>- Water, fluidity, and receptivity&nbsp;</p> <p>- Water as conduit and its relationship to context&nbsp;</p> <p>- Water, ancestral memory, and understanding where you've been &nbsp;</p> <p>- Our shared Aries Rising with Mars in Cancer placements</p> <p>- Knight of Cups and finding the generative, creative impulse from the "raw spaces" of pain, crying, and sacred rage&nbsp;</p> <p>- Opening realms with non-doing by dropping into deeper listening&nbsp;</p> <p>- Shifting from a Capricornian form of working toward a more non-linear, non-hierarchical Aquarian approach right now, and how that can be scary and exhilarating