Interview with the London Writers Salon, 5/17/2021

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Click on the link below to listen to my interview with the wonderful Lauren McMenemy and the Myth-and -Paranormal group of the London Writers’ Salon

https://www.dropbox.com/s/18hmtm5fkiwk2mt/LWS%20Interview%20.mp4?dl=0

Lauren McMenemy

Howdy @channel: a quick reminder that our next meeting is this coming Monday, 17 May, and we have the honour of grilling our resident astrologer, @Anne Redlich! Anne has spent more than 40 years studying the mythology, psychology, archetypal symbolisms and synchronicity underpinning astrology. She reads charts, yes, but she also uses this knowledge to fuel her own writing practice of poetry and children’s books. Please join us at 6pm UK / 1pm EDT / 10am PDT - all welcome! - and drop any questions you have in advance in this thread. As regulars will know, we keep these sessions fairly loose and audience-led.PS you can learn more about Anne’s work in astrology, psychotherapy and social justice over on her website: https://www.anneredlich.com

Conceptual Art Submission for Mirrors of the Mind at LACPA

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Parts Remaining, A Meditation on the Illusion of Time

in the winter of 2018, the ground outside my local mechanic’s shop caught my eye. It is a lot that three automotive shops share on a corner in the Rogers Park neighborhood of Chicago. Rogers Park has the second largest ethnic population in the U.S., and is a destination for refugees from all over the world. 

Every Sunday morning I would visit the deserted lot and comb the eroding floor for treasures; bits and pieces of once shiny car parts from coveted vehicles, now broken, metamorphosed and decaying like memory fragments dissolving in dreams. I would gather them up and take them home, wash them and leave them. When I felt the impulse, I played with them until they arranged themselves into something that  spoke to me in a meaningful way. Just the way I meditate on the parts of a dream until they come together into something significant regarding past, present and future and the psyche.

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https://www.opaastrology.org/EQUINOXMarch2021CA.pdf

Check out my article; Saturn, Our Great Galactic Teacher in the March 2021 issue of Career Astrologer!

Artist Statement

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Anne makes art as an attempt to illustrate her impressions of personal and collective Psyche. She began showing her visual art pieces and doing performance art around Chicago in 1992. Since then, Anne has continued to write creatively and to make  conceptual art. She has participated in exhibitions around the Chicagoland area including the Art Center of Highland Park, Round the Coyote, Upper and Lower Links, as well as charity auctions.


Anne brings her interest in the Unconscious and the Ironic to her art. She is interested in the human struggle to process and integrate the truth of lived life when it is clouded by dissembled and disavowed narrative versions of reality. As an untrained artist, Anne enjoys the playful experience of working with found objects, drawings and collage.

I made Persephone’s Alchemy as a gift to my late mother. At the time, I was toiling to remember, understand and process the symptoms of intergenerational trauma passed down from grandmother to mother to daughter in my family of origin, as a result of psychological and physical violence perpetrated by grandfathers and fathers. As I look at this piece almost 30 years later, it reminds me of the archetypal dilemmas that have faced women and complicated the relationships between mothers and daughters throughout time. The feminist writer, Andrea Dworkin, illustrated the complexity of the mothers’ task in her book, Intercourse, where she described the brutal cross cultural traditions that fell to mothers and grandmothers in preparing their daughters to become wives and mothers. These rituals include the history of foot binding in Chinese culture, rhinoplasty in Jewish Culture, Female Genital Mutilation across African and Muslim Cultures, etc. I chose this piece for the Mirrors of the Mind Virtual Show in honor of the Me Too Movement with a hope and commitment in my heart to align with the fierce Maternal energy that with love, gentleness and empathy must support our daughters to heal and find their own strength to refuse to accept a world fraught with misogyny, male dominance and sexual harassment.