Aepril Schaile, MFA is an astrologer, performance artist, dancer, poet and mythologist. She is an American living on the West coast of Ireland. She holds a Master of Fine Art from Goddard College. As an astrologer, Aepril is largely self taught, having voraciously studied the works of Demetra George, Liz Greene, Howard Sasportas, Isabel Hickey, Robert Hand, etc. She was also a student of Kelly M. Hunter, and has kept her work updated with countless workshops, books, and relevant astrology and non-astrology studies and practices. Aepril has practiced astrology for over three decades. 

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Aepril has an 8-week course on Planetary Magick beginning January 15th! 

Beginning February 2, Kenneth Anger: American Cinemagician with Carl Abrahamsson, 4 session course Sundays, online via Morbid Anatomy Museum.

Watch Cinemagician: Conversations with Kenneth Anger and all of Carl Abrahamsson’s films at The Fenris Wolf Substack.

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Mentioned in this episode:

The Pythonic Tarot by Jessica Shaw

National Folklore Collection UCD Digitization Project

Check out this previous episode:

RU311: KASPER OPSTRUP & TIM RUDBØG ON A TIDE OF GHOSTS – ESOTERICISM & ART BEYOND FACT & FICTION

The Queerness of Psychoanalysis: From Freud and Lacan to Laplanche and Beyond (Routledge, 2025) edited by Vanessa Sinclair, Elisabeth Punzi and Myriam Sauer is now available.Check out this landmark volume!

Rendering Unconscious is also a book series! The first two volumes are now available: Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives vols. 1 & 2 (Trapart Books, 2024).

Rendering Unconscious Podcast received the Gradiva Award for Digital Media from the National Association for the Advancement for Psychoanalysis (NAAP).

Support Rendering Unconscious Podcast at Patreon, Substack or Make a Donation via PayPal. Your support is greatly appreciated! Rendering Unconscious is a labor of love put together with no funding from outside sources. All support comes from the listeners, colleagues, and fans. Thank you for your support!

Rendering Unconscious podcast is hosted by Dr. Vanessa Sinclair, a psychoanalyst based in Sweden who works remotely with people all over the world. Follow at  Instagram | TikTok | Blusky

Dr. Sinclair is the author of Things Happen (Trapart Books, 2024), The Pathways of the Heart (Trapart Books, 2021), Scansion in Psychoanalysis and Art: The Cut in Creation (Routledge, 2021) and Switching Mirrors (Trapart Books, 2016).

Dr. Sinclair is the editor of Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives vols. 1 & 2 (Trapart Books, 2024) and Psychoanalytic Perspectives on the Films of Ingmar Bergman: From Freud to Lacan and Beyond (Routledge, 2023).

She co-edited the books The Queerness of Psychoanalysis: From Freud and Lacan to Laplanche and Beyond (Routledge, 2025) with Elisabeth Punzi and Myriam Sauer, Outsider Inpatient: Reflections on Art as Therapy (Trapart Books, 2021) with Elisabeth Punzi, On Psychoanalysis and Violence: Contemporary Lacanian Perspectives (Routledge, 2019) with Manya Steinkoler, and The Fenris Wolf, vol 9 (Trapart Books, 2017) and The Fenris Wolf, vol 11 (Trapart Books, 2022) co-edited with Carl Abrahamsson.

Many thanks to Carl Abrahamsson, who created the intro and outro music for Rendering Unconscious podcast. Follow him at: Twitter | Instagram | TikTok | YouTube | Substack

The song at the end of the episode is “Adventurous At Heart” from the album “We reign supreme” by Vanessa Sinclair and Pete Murphy. Available at Pete Murphy’s Bandcamp Page. 

Our music is also available at Spotify and other streaming services.

Image: Portrait of Aepril Schaile by Jessica Shaw