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Coach Ames Carpenter (they/them) Community Care Coach 🌱 Creating Space for Social Justice Workers 📢 Neurodivergent-affirming 🧠 Tarot & Astrology 🌙 Imagination Meets Action 🌈 linktr.ee/radicalreimagining

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Radical Reimagining Life Coaching @radicalreimagining.bsky.social · Sep 19

✨ Welcome! I'm Ames Carpenter, and I’m a life coach specializing in:
🌱 Neurodivergent folks
🔥 Supporting activists
🌌 Weaving Tarot & astrology into coaching
🌿 Grounding it all in community care
👉 Follow along for weekly reflections and practices.
#NeurodivergentCoach #CommunityCare #Grounding

Radical Reimagining Life Coaching @radicalreimagining.bsky.social · 7d

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Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · 7d

"Mainstream visibility hasn't helped our community at large. It's actually *more* to our detriment"💥
Miss Major spoke the unvarnished truth until the end, long live her legacy💥 (From MISS MAJOR SPEAKS: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary, Toshio Meronek/Miss Major @versobooks.bsky.social)

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Motherfucker, you brought me here to show the public you care about the gurls and you don't--there's no honesty or transparency in that. And how about let sex workers be sex workers, because whoever's dick they have in their mouth is bound to be a whole lot cleaner than a hidden agenda of some obnoxious gay guy or lesbian who woke up in 2019 and saw a billboard for Pose and thought of calling up their minions: "Maybe we should put a Black person on a float during the Pride parade."

It was really cute when they put Laverne Cox on the cover of Time magazine back in 2014, but I can't help but think, what has that done for the average gurl on the street? Mainstream visibility hasn't helped our community at large. It's actually more to our detriment. The images that the cis people have of the community, they're images that aren't real to the gurls who are barely making a living. It's not real life. It's not keeping us alive. It hasn't slowed the murders, or the abuses.

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 12d

🖥️Most CDC data dashboards are not being updated during the shutdown. Go to your state (or local/county) health department for up to date information on respiratory viruses, food borne outbreaks, and other health information.

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Radical Reimagining Life Coaching @radicalreimagining.bsky.social · 12d

You can schedule a reading with me to find out more. Find my website and calendly in the linktree on my profile.

Radical Reimagining Life Coaching @radicalreimagining.bsky.social · 12d

But there is some support. Venus is in Virgo (loving discernment) and then moving into her own sign of Libra next week. And with Jupiter in Cancer, local care networks are amplified.

Where these show up in your chart may help you understand how you can be involved in change & resistance.

Radical Reimagining Life Coaching @radicalreimagining.bsky.social · 12d

There is great astrological support both for spinning fantasies for yourself and for breaking illusions and having an honest accounting. We have to be incredibly discerning when dealing with these themes.

Radical Reimagining Life Coaching @radicalreimagining.bsky.social · 12d

If change is not only possible but inevitable, how do I want to shape my actions? What do I need to learn? Who do I need to talk to? (Hint: marginalized folks have been dealing with fascism for centuries.) And what are my strengths and weaknesses going forward?

Radical Reimagining Life Coaching @radicalreimagining.bsky.social · 12d

Whether you like astrology or not, there is a lot of synchronicity to the issues and themes we're living out today. These reflections give us a chance to ask, if these are the worldwide themes that are present, how do I want to engage?

Radical Reimagining Life Coaching @radicalreimagining.bsky.social · 12d

These three are slow outer planets, so we're going to see the effects taking place over time.

That means there is still time and opportunity to change how you engage in community. How you challenge yourself both in your political analysis and your inner contradictions.

Radical Reimagining Life Coaching @radicalreimagining.bsky.social · 12d

The 3 planets are sextiling each other; Uranus & Pluto are trine. These are positive aspects that encourage conscious effort and engagement and help create opportunities.

But these are not easy planets or (in the case of Neptune) placements. It's all in the way we work with this energy.

Radical Reimagining Life Coaching @radicalreimagining.bsky.social · 12d

In astrological terms, it makes me really think about how Pluto in Aquarius (intense deep collective transformation), Neptune in Aries (lighter fluid energy), and Uranus in Gemini (disruption in connection) are just sitting there, grinding away in retrograde in the early degrees of their signs.

Radical Reimagining Life Coaching @radicalreimagining.bsky.social · 12d

6 months ago I set up Google alerts for a few key terms: martial law, insurrection act, trans rights, border crossings, and so on. For months, there weren't too many hits that were relevant. Now they're all popping off.

Radical Reimagining Life Coaching @radicalreimagining.bsky.social · 12d

I can feel my nervous system calming just looking at this. Join me in hearing the muffled silence of the snow, in smelling the trees and cold air, and feeling the cozy warmth of the house and the eerie darkness from the snow covering the windows. #Imagining #Rest

Zoë’s Studio @zoesstudio.bsky.social · 12d

Day 9 of #inktober - prompt is heavy
A quick sketch of a house & trees buried under heavy snow

#inktober2025 #sketch #drawing #dailysketch #sketchbook #inktober2025heavy #inkdrawing #dailydrawing #drawchallenge

Radical Reimagining Life Coaching @radicalreimagining.bsky.social · 12d

We love a good Mutual Aid report! Thanks for all you're doing.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 12d

I didn't have enough time to tally everything to include in my October newsletter. So sharing here for those of you who are part of the Giving Circle.

In Sept, some of you donated $4729.77 [after fees] to the Giving Circle. I donated $4500 to 12 projects. Documentation is here.

September 2025 Mutual Aid Donations - PC Giving Circle Funds

September Mutual Aid Donations - PC Giving Circle Funds TOTAL AMOUNT RECEIVED IN $4729.77 after fees - Total Donated: $4500 in September to 12 groups/orgs. $229.77 balance will be applied to future ...

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Radical Reimagining Life Coaching @radicalreimagining.bsky.social · 12d

☝🏼This is in part because other colonizer countries have allowed and counted on US war-lust and greed to do their muscle work. European countries have a couple of shadows: the global South to exploit and racialize, and the US to feel superior to, yet secretly count on for military might.

Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 12d

Weird how the US is such a free country that we only have 4% of the world's population and yet we need three of the ten highest funded militaries on the planet.

(Yes, US municipal police and ICE both have budgets that rank in the top ten of the world's militaries.)

Radical Reimagining Life Coaching @radicalreimagining.bsky.social · 12d

We know this is true, because we heard little during Dem administrations, though deportations & ICE violence were still rampant.

People need to really interrogate what it's going to take to get free. This requires inner work as well as activism. People don't like to face their own contradictions. 🦋

Charlene A. Carruthers @charlenecarruthers.bsky.social · 12d

Are people asking for more skillful kidnappings? Is there a more civil way to strip a child from their parents?

I know the answer to that question for some, it’s yes. People would rather it be less visible, less fuss, and less overtly violent.

Radical Reimagining Life Coaching @radicalreimagining.bsky.social · 14d

If you see yourself in this post or my caption, there's a link in my bio for a free discovery session to explore more. I'm also going to offer monthly free group coaching sessions starting in November, so stay tuned.

Radical Reimagining Life Coaching @radicalreimagining.bsky.social · 14d

While many therapists haven't been trained in trans and gender expansive issues. Patriarchy really is a devastating lose/lose for everyone.

Radical Reimagining Life Coaching @radicalreimagining.bsky.social · 14d

Men are often unattuned to their own emotional needs and it's the core of their issues. And trans people, including trans non-binary and gender nonconforming people exist, and find themselves navigating not just both sides but a "no man's land" (pun intended) of identity and emotional experiences.

Radical Reimagining Life Coaching @radicalreimagining.bsky.social · 14d

ID: @dearnaijagirl: It's not a coincidence that some of the most common therapy work for women is setting boundaries, acknowledging their needs, and speaking up ... while common therapy work for men is understanding limits, managing defensive reactions, and learning to attune to the needs of others.

Radical Reimagining Life Coaching @radicalreimagining.bsky.social · 14d

#Patriarchy strikes again. There is truth to this post, not because of innate tendencies, but because of social and cultural expectations. And also - white women will get defensive like a pro when called out on racism or participating in other oppressions.

Radical Reimagining Life Coaching @radicalreimagining.bsky.social · 15d

🔮🦇 Hex work is real work ✨🖤
Image via @LiberalJaneIllustrations with 2 meanings.

1. Land-based non-appropriative ritual practices are part of my coaching, aligned with material #LandBack practices.

2. Sex work is real work. My practice support the rights of sex workers & decriminalization. 📣