Hi Friend, my name is DevonSimonne Carlton, and I am a queer, agender femme artist, thinker, and healer working at the intersections of the black radical tradition, resonance, and ancestral wisdom.

Quite frankly, I’m tired. The systems we are surviving don’t work. They aren’t fun and don’t make space for the beauty of duality in existing here on earth. White supremacy, racial capitalism, and colonialism have brought us to a moment where we are encouraged to forget ourselves in order to fuel someone else’s fear. I think it’s high time we witness our deconstruction/decolonization with open arms. The first step? Looking inward first and foremost. By looking inward, we can realize compassion that extends beyond the confines of the systems of oppression we find ourselves in.

I am here to continue the work of waking it up & remembering spirit. I consider this a form of self-recovery work: shedding light, with some curiosity, on the different parts of ourselves that feel closed off to find the way back home.

I’ve studied astrology for 13 years, and in that time, I’ve seen the power of recognizing patterns. I see this study as an invitation for personal transformation to heal the wounds we carry with compassion. Opening myself to this spiritual practice has fundamentally changed my life, and I’d like to share it in collaboration with those open to this possibility.

In my practice, I frequently return to a few questions:

• How do we show up in ways that perpetuate the cycles we hope to leave?

• What skills can we begin to develop to alchemize the guilt & shame that holds us back from ourselves?

• How can we practice accountability in the present to build up our muscles for a liberated future?

This practice is an opportunity to recover the memories of who we are without the systems that bind us. I hope that we can do the work together for what comes when that memory returns.