Dr. Nicole Rawls
Organizational Death Doula · Cultural Strategist · StoryWeaver
Astrology 100 Course
Learn to work with the energies of your chart before you even get to the planets, signs and houses through a Black Queer Anthropological lens!
SEPTEMBER 23rd
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Dr. Nicole Rawls
My name is Dr. Nicole Rawls and I am a storyteller who comes from a line of storytellers who weave and tell stories in many different ways. As an anthropologist, astrologer and artist, I draw on ethnography, structural analysis, astrology, and creative practices to examine and explore a central question that sits at the heart of my work:
What does it mean to be human outside the colonial project?
I help individuals and organizations navigate the life-death cycle of societal and organizational transitions. In that process, I help people center their humanity through the body and use that embodied knowledge lens to imagine and build more humane structures and systems within the institutions they inhabit.
As an Organizational Death Doula, Cultural Strategist, and StoryWeaver my work spans across organizational and political strategy, leadership advising, ethnographic research, facilitation, cultural assessment, and storytelling. My approach is grounded in over 20 years of experience working across institutions, within communities, and through creative spaces.
At the heart of my practice is Embodied Strategic Dreaming™, a praxis-based methodology I developed to help people turn towards and learn how to work with their first technology - the body - as a way of navigating change. It is a way to work with change instead of relying upon prescribed steps that are resistant to it.
I am the founder of the Embodied Futures Lab and I am also currently completing my first book, Embodied Strategic Dreaming: Parables of a Journey to Self.
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SEPTEMBER CALENDAR OF EVENTS
It is time to tell new stories so we can create the futures we say we want. So it is a time of the storytellers and story weavers to tell and weave new stories for our humanity.
To tell new stories we need to embody our humanity and believe the reality we are in so we can dream and create the societies that can actually hold and support life.
How do we learn to embody the knowledge we have learned?
What does it mean to strategically dream as a way to world-build the societies we say we want to live in?
Can we allow ourselves to play in the dreamscape(s) and bring those dreams into reality?
If we are our ancestors’ wildest dreams, how do we dream WITH them as a liberatory practice?
These are some of the questions I explore in my Patreon, the online arm of my Embodied Futures Lab, as a way to create a space for people to imagine our world differently and then dare to bring those imaginations into reality.
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Yappin w/ the Stars - The Podcast
(LATEST EPISODE)
August 23rd-29th:
Black Astrologers Gettin Free by Cultivating Community Convo
Grab your coffee, grab your tea, grab your weed, grab whatever you need and lets get into the forecast this week.
This week brings a new moon in Virgo, what are you now ingesting for your health? Do you know how to be in service to your body? This new moon will be the first time in over 18 months it will not run into the South node in this Mercury ruled sign, but it will be in a conversation with Mars in Cancer. Care is here, and we are seeing first hand the lack of caring these systems have for our bodies, which demanding more out of us for the state’s benefit. Are you angry enough yet? What are you going to do with those emotions? How do they become a location of strategy making as you start to believe more your reality and not the constructed one force fed to us? The ruler of this new moon will have just moved over into Libra, and the ruler of Libra - Venus - will have just moved over into Scorpio. Best believe the state is coming for the family and will double down in its strategy of protecting its power by controlling the ways the population can mate and create systems of care. So, then again what are you INGESTING now and does it fully satiate your belly? Gender wars are being ignited as a way to test how susceptible the population is to more authoritarian rule. And the focus by the state on marking the body in rigid binary ways of man/woman only serves to feed the mill of bodies the state needs, REQUIRES, in a racial capitalist society. With Lilith at a critical degree in Sagittarius, our belief systems are undergoing a shake up as the Mothers are here and are tired of the ways we don’t know now to take care of ourselves. So this new moon in Virgo is a great one to conjure with, as long as you are fully in your body and know what to do with, and how to feed, it.
This is the weekly forecast for September 6th-12th: New Moon in Virgo - what are you ingesting?
Welcome back to Yappin' with the Stars, the show where I talk about what it means, and takes, for us to become human once again in a world that is tryin to convince us all this is it.
And it is not.
So, lets talk with the cosmos and see what else is possible.
I'm your host and guide, Nicole Rawls — a storyteller who comes from a line of storytellers who weave and tell stories in many different ways, and as an anthropologist, astrologer and artist I work with astrology and ethnography to explore the stories of what it means for us to be human. Cause right now the present is up for grabs, so who is leading the stories that will bring us into our futures?
Every Sunday, we check into the chaos we call society and ask:
What's the cosmos showing us this week?
Where are we being called to move, create, burn, build, OR reflect on.
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For new beginnings to emerge, space must be made. Which means endings have to be honored. My work helps individuals and organizations move through this death process as a way to create new life.
I am an Organizational Death Doula, Cultural Strategist, Anthropologist, and Storyweaver. My work is for leaders, visionaries, artists, and/or organizations who understand that the present is up for grabs, and you/they want to be the ones leading the stories which will lay the foundations for the systems and structures that create our futures.
Using my praxis-based methodology “Embodied Strategic Dreaming” - which integrates structural analysis, embodied intelligence, and cultural context - I help you see the crossroads you are at as an opportunity to write your own story and enact it.
If you are ready and have a budget for 1-on-1 strategic work, book a consultation call and let's begin.
Note: I do not offer a sliding scale or barter for 1-on-1 services at this time.
