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Before Katherine of Aragon became Henry VIII's first queen, she was Catalina of Aragon, daughter of Isabella of Castile and Ferdinand of Aragon. Raised in culturally diverse medieval Spain, she embodied sovereignty and wisdom in all she did. Her move to England in 1501 and marriage to Arthur Tudor set into motion the events that would make her one of England's most misunderstood queens.

Come along with us as we explore Katherine's early life, first marriage, and adjustment to English life through history and astrology in Amanda's birthday episode!

Sources

Articles:

• "Catherine of Aragon: Spain's Virgin queen?" by Giles Tremlett (https://tinyurl.com/42e9m6pe)
• "The Death of Arthur Tudor" by Claire Ridgeway (https://tinyurl.com/26my79zr)
• “Did Blood Cause Henry VIII’s Madness and Reproductive Woes?” by Jennie Cohen (https://tinyurl.com/3k5p54fb)
• "Did Catherine of Aragon and Arthur Tudor consummate their marriage?" by Claire Ridgeway (https://tinyurl.com/8eve7hm2)
• “The head that wears the crown: Henry VIII and traumatic brain injury” by Muhammad Qaiser Ikram, Fazle Hakim Sajjad, and Arash Salardini. Journal of Clinical Neuroscience, February 5, 2016. (https://tinyurl.com/3ztpnua7)
• “Katherine of Aragon: England’s First Feminist Queen?” by Daniella Novakovic (https://tinyurl.com/3z7eebyh)
• “The Pregnancies of Katherine of Aragon” by Sarah Bryson (https://tinyurl.com/fpn6mbxx)
• Tudor Life: Katherine of Aragon, September 2017 edition (https://tinyurl.com/3rmawtvt)
• “Tudor Royal Pregnancy - Catherine of Aragon” by Charlotte Daynton, July 7, 2019. (https://tinyurl.com/5n998b9v)
• “Tudor Royal Pregnancy - Elizabeth of York ” by Charlotte Daynton, June 30, 2019. (https://tinyurl.com/mr3xtekh)

Books:

• Catherine of Aragon, Henry VIII's Spanish Queen by Giles Tremlett
• Catherine of Aragon: Infanta of Spain, Queen of England by Theresa Earenfight
• How to Be a Tudor by Ruth Goodman
• Katherine of Aragon, the True Queen by Alison Weir

Digital Media:

• The Six Tudor Queens — Katherine of Aragon with Elizabeth Norton, Historical Royal Palaces Podcast (https://tinyurl.com/45u349cp)

Primary Sources:

• Letter from Cardinal Wolsey to Henry VIII, July 5, 1527 (https://tinyurl.com/ycx8yd86)
• Letter from Eustace Chapuys to Charles V, January 9, 1536 (https://tinyurl.com/2nu3d686)
• Letter from Eustace Chapuys to Charles V, January 21, 1536 (https://tinyurl.com/2nu3d686)
• Letter from Katherine of Aragon to Henry VIII, January 7, 1536 (https://tinyurl.com/mvsd2wnv)

Websites:

• History of Kimbolton Castle (https://tinyurl.com/2ewk8y3u)
• Katherine of Aragon (https://tinyurl.com/yc287suz)

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It's here! Our first Listener's Choice Episode, just in time for the holidays!

Mongolian Princess Khutulun amassed 10,000 horses from wrestling matches in the Mongol Empire. A great great granddaughter of Genghis Khan, she was known for her ferocity and shrewd decisions on the battlefield. She accompanied her father in warfare, gaining the attention of contemporary explorers and chroniclers such as Marco Polo.

Come along with us as we explore Khutulun's authority and women's roles in the Mongol Empire through history and astrology.

Sources

Articles:

• “Chagatai Khanate” by Mark Cartwright, November 8, 2019 (https://www.worldhistory.org/Chagatai_Khanate/)
• “The Khananate of Chagatai” by Brian Parkinson (https://socialsci.libretexts.org/Courses/Mizzou_Academy/World_History_A_B/08%3A_Central_Asia/8.08%3A_The_Khanate_of_Chagatai)
• “Khutulun” by Tia Shah, Girl Museum, August 9, 2018 (https://www.girlmuseum.org/trailblazers-the-age-of-girls-khutulun/)
• “The Wrestler Princess” by Jack Weatherford, September 27, 2010 (https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/wrestler-princess)

Book:

• Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford
• The Secret History of the Mongol Queens: How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued his Empire by Jack Weatherford
• Women in Mongol Iran: The Khatuns, 1206-1335 by Bruno De Nicola

Digital Media:

• “The Tragic Fate of Khutulun: the Mongol Wrestler Princess/Mongolian Princess Documentary” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DZ3kdOO4iU&t=331s)

Primary Sources:

• Jāmiʿ al-Tawārīkh: (Compendium of Chronicles): A History of the Mongols by Rashīd al-Dīn, translated by W.M. Thackston, second edition
• Tārīḵ-e Olǰāytū (History of Öljeitü) by al-Qashani, translated by Derya Örs
• The Travels of Marco Polo recorded by Rustichello da Pisa

Websites:

• AstroPro (https://www.astropro.com/)
• AstroSeek (https://www.astro-seek.com/)

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Onna-bugeisha Tomoe Gozen is as legendary as she is mysterious. Fighting in the Genpei War from 1180 to 1185 CE, she was known for her deadly precision in battle and beauty. While Tomoe disappeared from history shortly after the end of the war, she lives on in myth and the arts.

Come along as we cover Japan's first female samurai through history and astrology.

Sources

Articles:

• "The Amazing Stories of Asahina Yoshihide: Japan’s Hercules” by Cezary Jan Strusiewicz (https://tinyurl.com/y7jwdy7p)
• "From Woman Warrior to Peripatetic Entertainer: The Multiple Histories of Tomoe" by Steven T. Brown (https://tinyurl.com/y3tkwp3r)
• “Japan’s Mugen-Noh: Let the Ghosts Speak and Dance One Last Time” by Yuri Minamide (https://tinyurl.com/jdtjrpdu)
• "The Legend of Tomoe Gozen" by Leah Silverman (https://tinyurl.com/yaxjd2pv)
• "Onna-Bugeisha, the Female Samurai Warriors of Feudal Japan" by Christin Bohnke (https://tinyurl.com/3ujxf7r4)
• "Tomoe Gozen" by Kai Fay (https://tinyurl.com/4f2bya3a)
• "Women Warriors of Early Japan" by Rochelle Nowaki (https://tinyurl.com/36vez64j)

Books:

• A Brief History of Japan by Jonathan Clements
• Heroic with Grace: Legendary Women of Japan by Chieko Irie Mulhern
• Japan before Perry: A Short History by Conrad Totman
• Samurai Women: Forgotten Heroines of Japan by Keiko Morikawa

Digital Media:

• Lady Tomoe, A History of Japan podcast (https://tinyurl.com/6u9zkff7)

Primary Sources:

• Code of the Samurai: A Modern Translation of the Bushido Shoshinshu of Taira Shigesuke by Thomas Cleary
• The Tale of the Heike translated by Royall Tyler
• Tomoe, a Noh play (https://tinyurl.com/2syh6j56)

Websites:

• The Battle of Awazugahara Historic Site Monument of Honor (https://tinyurl.com/mr2z4df8)
• "Tomoe Gozen" (https://tinyurl.com/42t65j9c)
• "Tomoe Gozen, Samurai Warrior" (https://tinyurl.com/mr36bz7d)

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Dikh He Na Bister means "Look and don't forget" in Romani.

Born into a Romani family in Austria, Ceija Stojka was one of the 1.17 million Roma living in Europe circa 1939. At only 10 years old she, her mother, and siblings were deported to Auschwitz Birkenau. A survivor of not only Auschwitz, but Ravensbrück and Bergen-Belsen, Ceija was liberated from the camps on April 15, 1945. At 55, Ceija began to process her pain into art, writing, and activism.

Come along with us as we cover the first Romani woman in Austria to speak out about the Porajmos, the under-told story of the Romani Genocide, through history and astrology.

Please practice self care when listening to this episode.

Sources

Books:

• We are the Romani People by Ian Hancock

Digital Media:

• Ceija Stojka — A testimony of a Roma holocaust survivor (https://tinyurl.com/4jw2a4zu)
• Ceija Stojka film trailer (https://tinyurl.com/5y3cmnhf)
• Hitler's Circle of Evil on Netflix
• Roma Genocide Rememberance Day: For Those Who Lost Their Lives in Auschwitz (https://tinyurl.com/5n93bm6u)
• "to open myself, to scream" - A Musical Portrait Artwork on Roma Artist Ceija Stojka (https://tinyurl.com/tpznyyfh)
• Virtual Exhibition of the Block 13 exhibition on the genocide of the Sinti and Roma at the Auschwitz Museum (https://tinyurl.com/2va7xh3a)
• Women of Ravensbrück: The Forgotten Camp (https://tinyurl.com/3zr9uh3j)

Primary Sources:

• The Green, Green Grass Beneath (https://tinyurl.com/3b4en22b)
• The Memoirs of Ceija Stojka: Child Survivor of the Romani Holocaust by Ceija Stojka, translated Lorely E. French
• Roma Artist Ceija Stojka: What Should I Be Afraid Of? edited by Stephanie Buhmann, Lorely French, Carina Kurta, et. al.

Websites:

• Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum (https://tinyurl.com/2wachx8d)
• "Ceija Stojka" (https://tinyurl.com/3dve9rdd)
• "Ceija Stojka: Biography" (https://tinyurl.com/4vfms627)
• Ceija Stojka International Association (https://tinyurl.com/2n35de6b)
• "Ceija Stojka: A Roma Child in Auschwitz" (https://tinyurl.com/3ruatc7n)
• "Margarete "Ceija" Horvath Stojka" (https://tinyurl.com/3pwsmd89)
• "The Porajmos: The Nazi Genocide Forgotten by the world" (https://tinyurl.com/5yuz62sk)
• "Porajmos: The Roma Holocaust" (https://tinyurl.com/58nx2ahz)
• "We are reclaiming the Sunflower as a Symbol for the Life and Resistance of Roma!" (https://tinyurl.com/2s3cv9pv)

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IT'S ALIVE!!!

Born to a radical philosopher and early feminist, Mary Shelley has been immortalized through her 1818 work Frankenstein. Not only did she invent the genre of science fiction, but she also explored themes of human rights, being unsheltered in the world, and social isolation. Truly embodying 'peak goth', she kept her late husband Percy Shelley's calcified heart in a drawer until her death in 1851.

Come along with us as we discover Mary's intellectual pursuits and personal exploration in a world defined by radical thinking through history and astrology.

Sources

Books:

• In Search of Mary Shelley by Fiona Sampson
• Mary Shelley by Miranda Seymour

Digital Media:

• "10 Shocking Facts About Mary Shelley" (https://tinyurl.com/mr3h4y2a)
• "Frankenstein (1910)" (https://tinyurl.com/zf3v4hw5)
• “Frankenstein by Mary Shelley - the Birth of Gothic Horror” (https://tinyurl.com/5n86kcvc)
• The Frankenstein Files: How Hollywood Made a Monster
• "Mary Shelley" (https://tinyurl.com/256be346)
• "Mary Shelley: A Biography" (https://tinyurl.com/59whrdv4)
• “Mary Shelley and the Creation of Frankenstein” (https://tinyurl.com/58eb6zrz)
• "Mary Shelley: Writing Frankenstein" (https://tinyurl.com/52xtpcua)
• "The Strange, Tragic Life of Mary Shelley" (https://tinyurl.com/yfvdxujz)

Primary Sources:

• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
• The Life & Letters of Mary Wollenstonecraft Shelley, Vol I & II

Websites:

• "Astronomers have determined the exact hour that Mary Shelley thought of Frankenstein" (https://tinyurl.com/2rauz43a)
• “Birthing Frankenstein, Part 2: Earning a Living by Her Pen” (https://tinyurl.com/kuyse7ur)
• "The Death of Shelley" (https://tinyurl.com/myhr4jz4)
• "Famous Bis: Mary Shelley" (https://tinyurl.com/4d6p6kxe)
• "Love & Tragedy - The Stirring Saga of Mary and Percy Shelley" (https://tinyurl.com/4h29nwwn)
• “Manifestations of Trauma and Madness in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein” (https://tinyurl.com/ye2a8bd4)
• “Mary Shelley’s Grief” (https://tinyurl.com/ywetswwh)
• "Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley" (https://tinyurl.com/5fymrum6)
• “Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley: extraordinary mother and daughter” (https://tinyurl.com/5hdtpkum)
• "The Tragic Unsolved Mystery of Percy Bysshe Shelley's Love Child" (https://tinyurl.com/yvrb8scn)

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Society's rules? Who needs them! A queen of reinvention, Lola Montez was a woman ahead of her time. Captivating audiences with her famous Spider Dance, Lola earned admirers, enemies, and more than a few scandals as she conquered Europe, America, and Australia. In her short life, she became a Countess, convinced a king to abdicate, and rubbed elbows with Europe's brightest talent.

Come along with us as we explore Lola's journey to define a life on her terms, no matter the odds, through history and astrology.

Sources

Books:

• Divine Lola: A True Story of Scandal and Celebrity by Cristina Morató
• Lola Montez: A Life by Bruce Seymour
• The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Vol. 1 by Arthur Conan Doyle

Digital Media:

• The Courtesan Who Almost Overthrew the Kingdom of Bavaria - The Story of Lola Montez (https://tinyurl.com/y8vjk49d)
• Lola Montez by Volbeat (https://tinyurl.com/3cejsbxd)
• Lola Montez: Actress, Courtesan, and Adventuress (https://tinyurl.com/4v4ad99j)
• Stuff You Missed in History Class: Lola Montez (https://tinyurl.com/3x3xc7bz)

Primary Sources:

• The Arts of Beauty or Secrets of a Lady’s Toilet with Hints to Gentlemen on the Art of Fascinating by Lola Montez
• Autobiography, Part I & II by Lola Montez

Websites:

• Alexandre Dujarrier (https://tinyurl.com/4z5fybpc)
• Astroseek.com
• From Bavaria to Ballarat: wild times with Lola Montez (https://tinyurl.com/yapnsjsn)
• Home of Lola Montez (https://tinyurl.com/4jjwd9a5)
• Lola Montez (https://tinyurl.com/538ab2e8)
• Lola Montez: Beauty and Song in the Old West (https://tinyurl.com/tkzhx35y)
• Lola Montez Denies Conventions in Her Image by Julia G. Cohn (https://tinyurl.com/57ppu6zh)
• Lola Montez: The Fascinating Life of A Queen of Reinvention (1821-1861) (https://tinyurl.com/4fxva7ja)
• Today In History: King Ludwig I of Bavaria Abdicates His Throne During the Revolution (1848) (https://tinyurl.com/2cs7ey2h)
• The Top Ten Loves of Franz Liszt’s Life by Emily E. Hogstad (https://tinyurl.com/ttjwy3tb)

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On April 12, 1861 the Civil War began. The US Sanitary Commission knew volunteer nurses would be needed for aiding the Union wounded and dead. 27 year old Georgeanna Woolsey was trained as a nurse and wrote extensively on her experiences caring for soldiers during the bloodiest war in American history.

Come along with us as we use Georgeanna's writing as a lens to explore the Civil War, American memory, and gender roles through history and astrology.

Sources

Books:

• American Military History Volume 1: The United States Army and the Forging of a Nation, 1775-1917 by Army Center of Military History
• Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about the Battle of Gettysburg: American Civil War History by E.D. Garner

Digital Media:

• Blood and Glory: The Civil War in Color (Amazon Prime)
• Death and the Civil War (PBS American Experience)
• Greatest Civil War Battles (DVD Set)

Primary Sources:

• Gettysburg address delivered at Gettysburg Pa. November 19, 1863 (https://www.loc.gov/resource/rbpe.24404500/?st=text)
• Letters of a Family During the War for the Union, 1861-1865 by Georgeanna and Eliza Woolsey, 1899
• Pensive on Her Dead Gazing, I Heard the Mother of All by Walt Whitman, 1867
• Three Weeks in Gettysburg by Georgeanna Woolsey, 1863

Websites:

• Abby Howland and J.S. and Georgeanna Woolsey (https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/history/abby-howland-and-js-and-georgeanne-woolsey)
• American Nursing: An Introduction to the Past (https://www.nursing.upenn.edu/nhhc/american-nursing-an-introduction-to-the-past/)
• Astro-seek (https://www.astro-seek.com/)
• The Chaplain Kit: The Online Chaplain History Museum (https://thechaplainkit.com/chaplains/non-combat-ministry/hospitals/civil-war-hospitals/)
• Georgeanna Woolsey: A Day in the Life of a Northern Nurse (https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/georgeanna-woolsey-day-life-northern-nurse)
• Hourly timeline of Gettysburg (https://civilwartalk.com/threads/hourly-timeline-of-gettysburg.171749/)
• Little-known Civil War era collection: The United States Sanitary Commission (https://www.newyorkfamilyhistory.org/blog/little-known-civil-war-era-collection-united-states-sanitary-commission)
• The Nameless Grave---Identifying Civil War Dead (https://bit.ly/47HZekB)
• United States Sanitary Commission (https://bit.ly/4mymDtE)
• Women in Nursing During the Civil War (https://bit.ly/3HCwuzm)

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On July 9, 1553, 16 year old Lady Jane Grey learned she would become Queen after King Edward VI named her as his successor. Lady Jane, known as the 'Nine Day Queen', was later abandoned by her Privy Council as they flocked to Mary I's side. She was held in the Tower of London until her execution at 17 years old on February 12, 1554.

Come along with us as we untangle Jane's life from the succession crisis and martyrdom through history and astrology.

Sources:

Books:

• Crown of Blood: The Deadly Inheritance of Lady Jane Grey by Nicola Tallis
• Foxe’s Book of Martyrs: 246. Lady Jane Grey by John Foxe
• A Hidden History of the Tower of London by John Paul Davis
• The House of Dudley by Joanne Paul
• Innocent Traitor by Allison Weir
• Lady Jane Grey by Hester W. Chapman
• Lady Jane Grey: A Tudor Mystery by Eric Ives
• The Literary Remains of Jane Grey with a Memoir of Her Life by Nicholas Harris
• Making Women Martyrs in Tudor England by Megan L. Hickerson

Digital Media:

• England’s Forgotten Queen: The Life and Death of Lady Jane Grey (Amazon Prime)
• The Execution of Lady Jane Grey (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JirVfl8gsj8)
• King & Queens of England 5/8 - The Tudors (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wB0YSvKHYlg)

Primary Sources:

• Ambassades De Messieurs De Noailles En Angleterre, Vol. 2 by René Aubert Vertot
• Annals of England to 1603 by John Stow
• Anonymous Narrative of Dowager Queen Katherine Parr’s Funeral & Burial in the Chapel of Sudeley Castle
• The chronicle of Queen Jane
• The Education of a Christian Woman by Juan Luis Vives
• Jane’s prayerbook (https://blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2021/02/lady-jane-greys-letters-from-the-tower-of-london.html)
• Letter from John of Ulm to Conrad Pellican, 29 May 1551
• Letter from Ambassadors to Charles V, 10 July 1553
• Letter from Ambassadors to Charles V, 16 August 1553

Websites:

• Astro-seek.com
• Bradgate Park (https://www.bradgatepark.org/)
• Contexts: Women in Power, An Open Companion to British Literature (https://pressbooks.pub/earlybritishlit/chapter/women-in-power-the-tudors/)
• Lady Jane Grey (https://www.tudorsociety.com/lady-jane-grey/)
• Lady Jane Grey: The 'Nine Day Queen' (https://www.hrp.org.uk/tower-of-london/history-and-stories/lady-jane-grey/)
• Lady Jane Grey Reference Guide (https://www.ladyjanegrey.info)
• Syon Park (https://syonpark.co.uk/)

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