Today’s season finale conversation is between all 8 colLaborators, in the very final moments of our time together in the Lab.

We wander together through reflection on what this experience was to us, who we were to each other, and what our early experiment findings have been.

Thank you, listeners, for being a part of our process in this alchemical season!

What’s to come from this temporal collective of artists in the near and far future? Will there be another season of lab partners? Will the colLaboratory run its experiment again with new scientists? We’re excited to find out with you.

If you loved Lab Partners, we’d love to know. Leave a rating and review, drop a comment, tag us on IG, or send an email to kelseyrosetort@gmail.com to be shared with the group.

Find out more about ColLaboratory and each of the 8 Lab Partners at kelseyrosetort.com/labparters. There you’ll find our astrology, designs, little bits of bios, and information about how to be in connection with each of us through our work.

Maru and Amalia step into the terrains of death, dying, and the small and large endings that shape a life. They explore fear, desire, grief, and ego-shedding, inviting listeners into an inquiry of why we might compulsively push death away and what becomes possible when we don’t.

Topics explored include:

• Feeling “close to death” and the clarity, emptiness, or non-narrative states that accompany those seasons
• Aging, mortality, and the wisdom available when we stop resisting the inevitability of death
• Suicidality and the cultural and pathological perspectives that shape how we relate to death
• Ancestral contact and thinning veils in emotional, spiritual, and philosophical proximity to death
• The relationship between death, desire, and impermanence, and the generative potential of letting go
• Non-physical experiences of death: ego deaths, initiations, psychedelic states, chosen pain, kink, and microdosed endings
• Astrological and Human Design references to difference in calibrating to death and dying: the water signs, fear motivation, the undefined spleen

🧪 This episode's Lab Partners:

• Maru is a 6/2 Sacral Generator, Leo Rising with Sun in Cancer and Moon in Virgo
• Amalia is a 4/6 Emotional Generator, Taurus Rising with Sun in Aquarius and Moon in Pisces

You can find more about them and their other lab partners at kelseyrosetort.com/labpartners, including bodygraphs, natal charts, and ways to connect with their work.

💖 Stay tuned: New episodes of LAB PARTNERS are released weekly-ish, usually on the Moon’s day.

Intro & Music by Noah Souder-Russo

In this intimate conversation, Amalia and Eréndira explore the emotional, spiritual, and communal dimensions of resource. What emerges through their inquiry is a nuanced transmission around nourishment, trust, and the future of reciprocity beyond transactional norms.

Here is some of what they touch upon together:

• The solar plexus as a bridge between spirit and form: reconnecting body, spirit, and resource
• Trusting the absence of creative flow and resource flow as sacred guidance, too.
• The relationship between money and community
• The contradiction of being abundantly resourced while simultaneously experiencing poverty
• A tender moment in early relationship around value, worth, and exchange
• Differentiated abundance: complexifying value and exchange
• The Queen of Pentacles embodied and as a guide
• Reciprocity beyond transaction
• Nourishment as the core question: what feeds each person? what feeds the relationship? how can exchange be mutually nourishing?

🧪 This episode's Lab Partners:

• Amalia is a 4/6 Emotional Generator, Taurus Rising with Sun in Aquarius and Moon in Pisces
• Eréndira is a 5/2 Emotional Manifestor, Leo Rising with Sun in Taurus and Moon in Pisces

You can find more about them and their other lab partners at kelseyrosetort.com/labpartners, including bodygraphs, natal charts, and ways to connect with their work.

💖 Stay tuned: New episodes of LAB PARTNERS are released weekly-ish, usually on the Moon’s day.

Intro & Music by Noah Souder-Russo