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The Art of Grief – Hope and wonder in the face of environmental collapse… PART 2: Grief Artfully Expressed becomes a Sacrament of Kinship Caroline re-welcomes last week’s guest Eiren Caffall, science writer with the soul of a poet, the author of “The Mourner’s Bestiary” “Lyrical reports from the apocalypse” “The Mourner’s Bestiary is a meditation o…

Grief & Mourning artfully expressed becomes a Sacrament of Kinship Caroline welcomes Eiren Caffall, author of “The Mourner’s Bestiary” “Lyrical reports from the apocalypse” The Mourner’s Bestiary is a meditation on grief and survival told through the stories of animals in two collapsing marine ecosystems—the Gulf of Maine and the Long Island Sound—…

“You Want it Darker” Journeying into the Underworld – Returning with Liberating Cultural High Jinx Join Caroline and guest, long-time Full Spectrum political strategist Pat Ewing, and Nemesis, Dark Moon Lilth, Wrathful Dakinis, Octavia Butler as we explore the horror and redemption of our ride- Moon Pluto conjuction … Gotta go dark- into the Underw…

Halloween Dark O Moon to New Moon to Election and beyond…. Participatory Astro*Animism Caroline welcomes long-time ally Heather Roan Robbins, that we may all co-navigate, dedicate, envision, Inaugurate the most desirable story…good for the Earth and all her FloraFaunaFungiCitizens… Nemesis be on call… “Nemesis was the goddess of retribution for, ev…

May we all be safe enough to dream, & safe enough to Ovafy (what women do instead of testify) Max Dashu be guest today that we may ally with Witchen herbal lore… Mugwort – protects boundaries, enhances Dreaming…. Safe enough to dream….and many more plant allies… that even hearing their names and qualities, is a microdose…. Max Dashu, historian, aut…

The Whole Team of Creation is Counting on Us *Full Moon Magic- for necessary miracles….! Caroline re-welcomes Elaine Mayumi Whitefeather welcoming Mythic and ancestral allies, Yemaya! Dame Ragnall, Octavia Butler for mega-story re-write, from dystopian to Renaissance of Reverent Ingenuity….19 days out…. “As a Queer Elder of many colors, I walk and …

Awareness of Danger and Guiding Liberating Narrative 2 Dragons: Caroline welcomes Elaine Mayumi Whitefeather, Honoring the Power and contribution of multi-racial Women….Especially Now! Elaine M. Whitefeather shares: “In the winter season of my life, I am honored to offer service to our Greater Sisterhood – at such a time as this. After spending ove…

Composting the corruption of cults, into nutrient for Community local participation is Global Citizenship: the Berkeley Cease Fire Resolution with guest Matt O’Brien… Liberating the originating Impulse of Politics: dedication to collective well-being…. resonating the moral compass of Mutual Aid Kinship all beings…. Time for all to be stepping up! h…

We be voting for the earth- in our Fund Drive while answering Antonio Machado’s query “What have we done with the garden entrusted to us?!” We are available to Mystery & Willing to Participate! Woofing the dedicated work of Seán Pádraig O’Donoghue and John Perlin… So, deftly, once again to guide us, be Seán Pádraig O’Donoghue, with his latest book …

We are available to Mystery & Willing to Participate! Caroline welcomes long-time ally, Mistress of Mystery, Amikaeyla… (our shared back-stage, as we brew our Equinox zoom for Sunday 9.22 5 pm pt) Equinox- equal night and day, equal Mars and Venus, equal humans and Flora Fauna Fungi Democratic Animism Now! Astromythopolitico participatory narrative…

Let us be available to Mystery and Willing to Participate ! “Let the story fires be lighted, and our circle be strong and full of Medicine!” (Robbie Robertson) We convene Fund Drive Council with the Council of Grandmothers convenes, Moon in Capricorn…., on vessels we are crafting…And whom shall we see on that craft, sailing into shore?! Many women,…

Trickster Medicine Today is the exact 28th anniversary of the Visionary Activist Show, September 5th, 1996 First guest – James Hillman, splendiferous humming with current pertinence show, that we re-play today, in a discussion that could have happened 20 minutes ago, about the importance of ‘growing down’ into one’s self, recognizing demonic mythol…

Honoring Indigenous Prophecy – teased into guiding pertinence for us now… Caroline re-re-re-welcomes Jerome McGeorge, for Part 2 of Indigenous Prophecy, warning and guiding – “Indigenuity.” He will put much of his worthy cred on the table, inviting him to be a messenger, from the Kogi, the Hopi, the Wolf Teaching Clan, (into which he was initiated …

Healing the Land! By Holding Myriad stories simultaneously! astro*mytho enthusiasm for Democracy…the much good magic of the Democratic Convention With the sine qua non: from the Cauldron of cruel carnage, we conjure Palestinian safe supported autonomy…full global support (and enforcement)…. Caroline welcomes the return of Jerome McGeorge, fellow an…

Full Moon for Full Participation…. Caroline welcomes Heather Roan Robbins for Round 2 of Participatory Anarcho*Astro*Animism…. (with audio contributions from @ruwa4georgia, and Jeff Goldblum reciting George Bernard Shaw, to put liberating lucidity on our work table….) Aug 19th Full Moon (Convention) to Nov. 5th (Election)…. Deeper dedication both m…

Inaugurating a Guiding Narrative- Caroline welcomes long time astro*ally, Heather Roan Robbins, that we further open the portals for the guiding Mythological to suffuse the political… Magnetizing, animating and spiraling forth the Participatory Astro Mytho Story we are electing… We shall honor moral complexities (with nuance and critique). Native A…

“Hail to the Sun God – he is a fun god- Ra! Ra! Ra!” Lughnasadh – Mid-Summer – Ritual Fire or arson?! – take your pick… Propaganda seeks to discourage participation (we play some great de-bamboozling clips from Igor Sushko, and Rep Ruwa Romman, Palestinian state Rep in Georgia ) The tonic antidote to propaganda is participatory animism… So, deftly,…

“We choose freedom!” Caroline encore welcomes Political Magic ally Pat Ewing, full spectrum strategy, as we honor the Full Moon tide we all be surfing… “The Tide has turned – the Great Storm is coming – but the Tide has turned!” (Gandalf) The post The Visionary Activist Show – Full Moon Tide appeared first on KPFA.…

5th Act be our task Convening all skookum guides to good Earth Citizenship, living and ancestral…. Octavia Butler’s prescient novel “Parable of the Sower” written 1993 begins on the Full Moon, July 21st, 2024 (so we take it from there, weaving Repub convention, strategy for now etc..) – Story re-write to include 5th Act. Michiko Kakutani @michikoka…

“Time of Useful Consciousness” Earth Citizens Arise! Divination, dedication, political acumen Caroline welcomes return of Pat Ewing, who brings all of the above in her long journey as full service, adaptogenic political strategist in all realms…… Patricia Ewing is the former Deputy Chief of Staff to Vice President Al Gore, Deputy Chief of Staff to …

“Speak to the Weary – a word that will rouse them” (Isaiah) Let’s all be De-bamboozling Accomplices/Dark o Moon US birthday. So it comes to all of us- To assume cultural narrative lead… To be good Citizens, agents of accountability as sine qua non for democracy… Earth Citizens…. Caroline welcomes these dedications in the human form of Jamie Yeager,…

Caroline welcomes forensic, clinical and cardiac psychologist, Steve Parker. Dr. Parker is a Jungian psychologist and stone mason. He lives with his partner, Kornelia Grabinska (a Jungian Analyst), in a birch forest overlooking Fairbanks. He has lived and worked in Alaska for more than forty years, and treasures living on the edge of the wilderness…

The Moon Walks the Earth – Solstice Dedications – Caroline co-riffs with Jerome McGeorge, fellow anarcho*astro*animist, co-founder Organic Valley to and fro, with segments, honoring the Solstice, from our first show, and our last night conversing around the Mid-Summer Night entheo bonfire… …..including message from the Kogi, of Colombia, for us now…

Dissolving the hubris of humans into nutrient for participatory animism….To dispel bad ideas disguised as “energy transition,” Caroline welcomes, long-time-ally, marine acoustician, Michael Stocker…(who is as though the Ocean adopted a human guise to be its voice…) What is the Ocean saying say to us now?! Michael has served as the electronic and mu…

New Moon 16+ Gemini today New Moon 16+ Gemini June 8, 1967 – When Israel attacked the Intelligence ship USS Liberty….. story hushed up… but now, let’s spread widely for Bibi’s visit to DC next week …. Caroline welcomes return of Eddy Nix, who “plays a bookseller in real life and has many projects operating in the dream world. He is founder and oper…

Assuming Cultural Narrative Strategic Lead, Visioning Necessary Miracles… Caroline re-welcomes Seán O’Donoghue to Liberating Leonard Peltier, the Supreme Court, Gaza, all wrongfully imprisoned International Leonard Peltier Defense Committee: https://www.whoisleonardpeltier.info/ Case background: https://freeleonard.org/case/ Amnesty campaign: https…

Full Moon Pirate Radio Convening our Back-stage Bureau Chiefs…. Back-Stage Bureau chiefs We cannot live through the dead – but we can invite the best in them to live through us, honoring the late great ally Larry Bensky, indefatigable deeply cultivated radio journalist activist…. and the late David Graeber, whose 2 spendiferous books, “Dawn Of Ever…

Entheo*Anarcho*Animism / Endogenous Indigenuity Caroline is wildly enthused to welcome James Fadiman, PhD Who writes: “The work most worth doing for me has been helping myself and others remember how interwoven we are with the rest of the natural world. Only when we act out a dark fantasy of separation do we harm the very world in which we are enme…

As Kent State be humming with crucial pertinence, for us all now, we welcome Laurel Krause, the sister of Allison Krause, who was murdered that day. For the last 20 years Laurel Krause has made her home at the Allison Center for Peace on the Mendocino coast of Northern California. Her sister Allison was one of the ‘Four Dead in Ohio,’ killed as she…

Caroline welcomes Seán Pádraig O’Donoghue (encore encore) with his ally, Jesse Wolf Hardin, conjurer of the Good Medicine Confluence. Jesse Wolf Hardin is an influential author, ecosopher, ecological and societal activist, personal counsel, graphic artist, musician, and historian – a champion of both human and bio diversity, as well as of nature’s …

Caroline re-welcomes Greg Sarris, Chairman of the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria and Board Chair for Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian. Always – re-storying the landscape… His most recent work: Told in the classic style of Southern Pomo and Coast Miwok creation stories, The Forgetters story cycle about the people who have …

“Biomimicry,” as sine qua non for life on planet… Again we are drawn to replay this most fantabulous show from the archives with Janine Benyus. Benyus describes herself as “Scientist, animist, poet,” founder of Biomimicry Institute. “Let’s learn democracy from bees! Before our arrogance destroys the bees, who truly know how to vote.” “Range voting.…

Radical Magazine Spiraling forth Liberating Ideas (Moon 4+ Gemini sabian symbol) Anarcho *Entheo * Astro *Animism – Caroline welcomes return of Eddy Nix, who ” plays a bookseller in real life and has many projects operating in the dream world. He is founder and operator of Driftless Books and Music in Viroqua, Wi and was a founding teacher at Youth…

We’re in the Dark o Moon field of April 8th’s eclipse, traditionally a time of laying low, convening back-stage to guide the course of culture…. (Today’s radio guest, unavailable at the last minute, Caroline flys solo, weaving the themes of now) Tis a fluctuating quirky pre-eclipse shadowy field in which we be navigating…. So let’s work with it… To…

Caroline hosts her long-time deep joy-ful co-cahooter…. Amikaeyla…..Chantress, drummer, calling in the Orishas, Executive Director / Founder, ICAHSI – International Cultural Arts & Healing Sciences Institute “Amikaeyla Gaston is an amazing vocalist and percussionist who comes from the Washington DC area. She has studied, recorded with, and shared t…

May Co-operation Eclipse domination Caroline welcomes Erica Gies – to guide our rogue species back to collaborative Earth Citizen manners (aka animism)…. by asking “what does water want?” …. Erica Gies is an award-winning independent journalist who writes about water, climate change, plants and critters for Scientific American, The New York Times, …

St Patrick*Stormy Daniels*Equinox*Eclipse- Caroline re-re-re cahoots with Seán Pádraig O’Donoghue, as the Celtic Car Talk Gaias, with this week’s puzzler (so many) Seán Pádraig O’Donoghue is an herbalist, writer, and teacher, and an initiated Priest in two traditions. He lives in the mountains of western Maine. Seán’s approach to healing weaves tog…

Dark o Moon – before March 10th New Moon and Ramadan… Land Sovereignty…. Weaving guiding myth with Fund Drive show, honoring The Land in Our Bones: Plantcestral Herbalism and Healing Cultures from Syria to the Sinai by Layla K Ferghali… also learning about, and dedicating to composting, the planned illegal sale of West Bank property in NJ and NY sy…

Caroline welcomes indefatigable Osprey Orielle Lake Founder and executive director of the Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN), Osprey works internationally with grassroots, BIPOC and Indigenous leaders, policymakers, and diverse coalitions to build climate justice, resilient communities, and a just transition to a decentralized, democr…

Waxing Full Moon Awooooh- welcoming Max Dashu, honoring her deep delving deft – resonant, latest book Women in Greek Mythography: Pythias, Melissae and Titanides excavating liberating counter narratives to orthodoxy…. “This richly illustrated ethno-historical sourcebook uncovers what they didn’t teach us about women in Greek myth, including pre-pat…

Moon exalted in Taurus next to Jupiter (watch tonight!) and Uranus, on their rendezvous course, proffering the possibility of necessary miracles… Calling and dedicating to, daily acts of kindness, and Beauty… So, Caroline welcomes: Vicki Robin, in addition to co-authoring the international best seller, “Your Money or Your Life”, has been a serial s…

Dark O Moon- Convening the Flora Fauna Fungi Council: Caroline welcomes Seth Warner, author of “Welcome to Psilocybin – an easy Guide to Growing & Experiencing the Potential of Magic Mushrooms.” Seth Warner is a community advocate in the psychedelic space based in the Bay Area. In 2018 he began his journey directing the San Francisco Psychedelic So…

Brigid – Trickster Peace-maker part 2 – deeper delving… Caroline re-welcomes Owen Ó Súilleabháin, that we honor/welcome Brigid – Trickster Peace-maker…. to bring necessary miracles, to cool out the conflagration…. Owen Ó Súilleabháin is a singer, composer, and teacher. Most recently, Owen performed his new arrangements of Irish folk songs with his …

Caroline welcomes Owen Ó Súilleabháin, and Seán Pádraig O’Donoghue, that we honor/welcome Brigid – Trickster Peace-maker…. Uranus Nature’s evolutionary trickster genius be stationing, so the auguries be welcoming woofy… to bring necessary miracles, to cool out the conflagration…. Seán Pádraig O’Donoghue is an herbalist, writer, and teacher, and an …

Global Truth Transit- may everyone be informed and participatory…. Caroline welcomes Daizy Gedeon, recently returned from the Hague, indefatigable reporter, film-maker… joining us at her midnight with expresso in hand….that we honor all the independent journalists doing the real work that mainstream is not… re ongoing carnage in West Bank, Gaza, ev…

New Moon Capricorn begins the prosecution of Israel for Genocide at International Court of Justice, Caroline welcomes Dr Rupa Marya, co- author with Raj Patel of “Inflamed”, “Deep Medicine and the anatomy of injustice.” Medicine and Metaphor…who is especially deft at weaving all the stories together…. Settler Colonialism, all over, crimes against l…

Jewish revolutionary nonviolence Guiding Story strategies for Necessary Miracles! Caroline welcomes Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb “Explore legacies of Jewish and multi-heritage rituals born out of catastrophic loss and loving solidarity. Share how ceremony functions in contemporary emergent multi-heritage/faith networks dedicated to revolutionary nonviolence…

We play a portion of last week’s Winter Solstice Council with Caroline Casey, astro-mythologist, entheo anarcho animist, and Amikaeyla Gaston, chanteuse, chantress, enchantress, drummer- invoker of the Orishas, living Intelligences of Nature…. “The longest Nights- the wheel is turning – what will we give to the night?” and what reciprocal blessings…

The Spark in the Dark – from which necessary miracles be born… Winter Solstice. Caroline & bard wizard, Seán Pádraig O’Donoghue proffering astro*mytho narrative to magnetize*animate all of our participatory skills … Inviting ancestral support, Mythic allies, that the desirable story of Kindom be born into incarnational actuality born from the spark…