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 medicines. Wolf was a leading organizer of and presenter for Earth First!, becoming a featured presenter at hundreds of conferences and universities, and was the creator of cross cultural ecospiritual collaborations appropriately called “Medicine Shows” that melded his powerful spoken word with live music, indigenous presenters, and focused activism. He cofounded the international Good Medicine Confluence gathering in 2008, along with the in-depth digital magazine for herbalists, healers and folklorists Plant Healer Quarterly. He is the author of over 800 published articles in over 200 different publications, as well as of over 25 books.

PlantHealer.org

Good Medicine Conference: www.goodmedicineconfluence.com

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 together the insights of traditional western herbalism and contemporary science. He regards physical, spiritual, and emotional healing as deeply intertwined. Prior to becoming an herbalist, Seán was a political organizer in movements for peace, human rights, and global economic justice, and a freelance journalist documenting the human and ecological impacts of U.S. policies in Latin America.

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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 forgotten their roots and consequently hurt the Earth and each other. Masterfully infusing magical realism with the history of Indigenous lands, Sarris encourages  readers to remember our shared lineage and honor our interconnectedness with the environment. 

Greg Sarris is the award-winning author of five books, including Grand Avenue, which was adapted into an HBO film. He also co-authored the Graton Rancheria Restoration Act, which restored federal recognition to the Coast Miwok and Southern Pomo Native Americans of California.

https://greg-sarris.com/

 

 

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“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.” Grief and ingenuity…innovation & limits

From Fall 2008 – but so powerfully pertinent to now…

www.JanineBenyus.com

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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 Initiative High School, and has a radio show on community radio station WDRT every Sunday.  He identifies as a rhizome, or a verb, depending on circumstances.  He has been many other things also.

Post Eclipse magic honoring ancestral mentors: David Graeber, Peter Lamborn Wilson, Kropotkin,   anomalous egalitarian city of Teotiohuacan….and the living mentors – Isabel Wilkerson, author of “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent,” – the subject of Ava DuVernay’s profoundly pertinent movie “Origin,” And anything else to guide us at decisive time, that ‘Community’ eclipse ‘Cult’….

 

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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…

Tomorrow, Eclipse magic for dangerous times, Caroline will be joined by the indefatigable Diane Wilson for Eclipse Texas Zoom Council (join by donation) at 2pm eastern / 11am pacific: https://coyotenetworknews.com/schedule/eclipse-texas-council/

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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 the stage with many award winning artists, including Take 6, Sweet Honey In The Rock, Baba Olatunji, Mickey Hart, Gil Scott Heron, Wyclef, Ubaka Hill, Ferron, Vicki Randle, Linda Tillery, Chris Williamson, and Pete Seeger.”

And Me!

https://amikaeyla.com/

Amikaeyla organized the upcoming Music As Medicine Festival on April 5th (5-8pm) at EastSide Arts Alliance & April 6th (11-8pm) at Laney College in Oakland, CA.

https://musicasmedicinefest.com/

 

 

 

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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, Nature, The Atlantic, The Guardian, National Geographic, The Economist, Washington Post, bioGraphic, Wired, and more. Erica is a National Geographic Explorer, served as a staff editor at various publications, and cofounded and edited two environmental news startups, Climate Confidential and This Week in Earth. She has received the Rachel Carson Award for Excellence in Environmental Journalism, lectures at the University of Victoria Southam, and was a finalist for the Falling Walls Science Breakthrough of the Year Award.

Erica is the author of Water Always Wins: Thriving in an age of drought and deluge. The book begins by asking a revolutionary question: What does water want? Most modern development has erased water’s slow phases — wetlands, floodplains, high altitude grasslands and forests — that soften flood peaks, store water for droughts, and keep natural systems healthy. What water wants, say water detectives exploring this question, is a kind of un-engineering that reclaims these slow cycles, offering us greater resilience.

Water Always Wins website: https://slowwater.world/

Erica Gies: www.ericagies.com

 

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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 together the insights of traditional western herbalism and contemporary science. He regards physical, spiritual, and emotional healing as deeply intertwined.

Prior to becoming an herbalist, Seán was a political organizer in movements for peace, human rights, and global economic justice, and a freelance journalist documenting the human and ecological impacts of U.S. policies in Latin America.

He grew up near Boston, a short distance from where his great-grandparents first landed when they arrived from Ireland. Since childhood, he has been an avid student of Irish history and folklore. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1996 with a degree in English Literature and Creative Writing.

https://otherworldwell.com/

 

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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  synagogues…

 

In The Land in Our Bones, Lebanese ethnobotanist, sovereignty steward, and cultural worker Layla K Feghali offers a layered history of the healing plants of Cana’an (the Levant) and the Crossroads (“Middle East”) and explores ways we become free from the wounds of colonization and displacement. Recounting vivid stories, Feghali shares lineages of folk healing and eco-cultural stewardship — including those passed down by matriarchs, plants and practices of prenatal and postpartum care, mystical traditions for spiritual healing, earth-based practices for emotional wellness, plant tending for bioregional regeneration, medicinal plants and herbal protocols, cultural remedies and recipes, and more.

 

Layla K Feghali’s website: https://www.riverroseremembrance.com/  

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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, democratized clean-energy future.

She sits on the executive committee for the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature and on the steering committee for the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty. Osprey’s writing about climate justice, relationships with nature, women in leadership, and other topics has been featured in The Guardian, Earth Island Journal, The Ecologist, Ms. Magazine and many other publications.

She is the author of the award-winning book Uprisings for the Earth: Reconnecting Culture with Nature. Her latest book is entitled The Story is in Our Bones: How Worldviews and Climate Justice Can Remake a World in Crisis. The Story is in Our Bones “reminds readers that another world is possible, and provides an antidote to the pervasive despair of our time.” Osprey lives in the San Francisco Bay Area on Coast Miwok lands.

OspreyOrielleLake.earth

 

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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-patriarchal cosmogonies of the titanides (female titans); women’s dance and ceremony, shapeshifting, Gorgons. How patriarchy transformed the goddesses over time.”

Max Dashu has been restoring women & women’s history to cultural memory, political analysis, spiritual awareness since 1970. Through the Suppressed Histories Archives and her books she provides global perspectives, across the expanse of time, on the cultural record, from rock art, archaeology, Indigenous orature, written records, all testimony woven into an ever expanding collection.

Max Dashu, Suppressed Histories Archives www.suppressedhistories.net Book Trailer: https://youtu.be/CKkhhRO47QY?si=Tn9sFMzK7ZXmfFWW Books, dvds, posters from Veleda Press: www.veleda.net Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Suppressed-Histories-Archives-333661528320/

 

This Friday

Virgo Full Moon Council: Medicine Moon of Necessary Miracles

with Caroline W. Casey & Seán Padráig O’Donoghue

Friday, February 23rd · 8pm eastern / 5 pm pacific

By Donation · Zoom · 90 minutes · Replay available after

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