Be advised that this piece contains violent content. I wanted to write about the third decan of Taurus because it scares people.  While most people with natal placements in this part of the chart won’t experience its most extreme manifestations, for astrology to be a complete language it has to include the intense, frightening, even violent energies that exist in the world and the cosmos. Being with fear is one way to spend time with Saturn, the ruler of this decan, and while it may sound like a contradiction, I hope this piece shows some of the ways that Saturnian things, like mourning, strife, or suffering, can also be a source of real power in the struggle for both personal and political liberation.

In year one of the pandemic, there was a little sandwich shop called L’itos popping-up inside an old brick oven pizza shop on Henry Street in the Lower East Side. Occasionally, chef Dria Atencio, a friend of the hosts, would bake classic layer cakes and jammy fruit bars for dessert. It was late 2020 and New York was still in its reopening phase after a traumatic lockdown. Roving pop-ups were booming because a) a lot of cooks and chefs were out of work and b) the rest of us had grown tired of our own cooking.

Clips from the Stronger Men’s Conference have been limping onto social media and the three-day event was something to behold. Produced by Pentecostal megachurch James River Church, the annual gathering bills itself as having a “passion for helping men to become all that God has created them to be.”  While the conference’s raison d'être is purposefully ambiguous—God can be molded into whatever they want—this year’s theme seems to have been “every obnoxiously masculine trope in one place, loud.

In my last Lost Supperdispatch, I told the story of how I took a high-speed train to central Turkey with Mahmut Miski, a professor at the University of Istanbul, who made the case that he’d discovered the mystery herb of the ancient world growing on the flanks of an extinct volcano near the city of Askaray. Here’s the rest of the story. ncG1vNJzZmikn6jBtMHPqZyrZqOqr7TAwJyiZ5ufonyxe9Oaqq2hnpx6tLXLqZ%2Bip54%3D

Happy Friday, W4D Friends! By mid-June, you’ve no doubt been invited to a few cookouts, BBQs, Summer Soirees, and outdoor hangs—’tis the season, after all. This week, we thought it would be a good idea to arm you with not one, but two amazing Potato Salad recipes, so you can dazzle the crowd with your spud sensation! Elizabeth is making a traditional Southern-style Potato Salad, and Anthony’s showcasing his mayo-less, Super Dilly Potato Salad.