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—and the lives of a family facing a life-threatening illness on their shores. The Gulf of Maine is the world’s fastest-warming marine ecosystem, and the Long Island Sound has been the site of conservation battles that predict the fights ahead for the Gulf. Eiren Caffall carries a family legacy of two hundred years of genetic kidney disease, raising a child who may also. The Mourner’s Bestiary braids environmental research with a memoir of generational healing, and the work it takes to get there for the human and animal lives caught in tides of loss.

“Insightful and deeply researched…Caffall looks
into the nuances of individual human survival and the survival of our planet as a whole.”

Hope and wonder in the face of environmental collapse…

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“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 Underworld – Act IV – the acknowledge the danger uninitiated Mars Puers unleashed on grotesque rampage……

Tyranny is compensatory weeniedom, and contains the seeds of its own demise… Grief and Wrath, dredge all up to surface…. as nutrient for liberating cultural high jinx

 

 

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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, evil deeds and undeserved good fortune.
She was a personification of dynamic balance aroused in men by those who committed crimes with apparent impunity, or who had undeserved good fortune.
Nemesis directed human affairs in such a way as to maintain equilibrium.”

(Kinned to Dark Moon Lilith, the balance point, now at 13+ Libra, whose Sabian be “”tuning in to the social dreams which weave the politics of a situation…”)

Before Nemesis got a bad rap – she was the destroyer of unjust Empire…. Her name was derived from the Greek words nemêsis and nemô, meaning “dispenser of dues.”

“Take the zircon to Foppa – and tell him we ride tonight!” -Richard Farina

Heather Roan Robbins M.Th. is a practical, intuitive, choice-oriented astrologer, interfaith minister, and author of the Starcodes Book, the Starcodes AstroOracle Deck, other books, the weekly Starcodes forecast, and contributes to the We Moon calendar. She organizes the Shining Mountains Grove for the Order of Bards, Ovates, and Druids and has an on-line global practice based in Montana.

www.roanrobbins.com

 

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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, author, artist  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/

 

Witchen Herbal Lore

This visual talk will dive into the lore, chants, and rituals of sacred plants, including Mugwort, Hypericum, Mandrake, Rue, Vervain, Rowan-berry and the Daturas. The Nine Herbs Charm in Old English, the lybbestre (“medicine woman”) and wyrtgaelstre (“herb-chantress”), among other folk names for women healers.

Herbs of the Midsummer garlands and bonfires; on that Eve, sitting under Hyldemoer, Mother of the Elderberry Tree, to watch for the elven procession pass by.

Italian herbalists who healed with flower oils, Bulgarian vrachky healers, Scots and Irish “fairy doctors,” German “measurers,” and Slavic “whisperers.” Herbalists who sing praise songs to the plants in gathering, tell them why they are needed to cure, and sprinkle offerings into the Earth. We’ll touch on healing by chant, touch, whisking, smoking, lustration, curing stones, tying herbs on with knotted yarn, and “pouring wax.”

Two showings: Thurs 24 Oct at 6pm and Sat 26 Oct at noon (US Pacific Time – check a timezone converter for your local equivalent.)

Registration is sliding scale at https://suppressed-histories.teachable.com/p/witchen-herbal-lore

 

 

 

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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 live, love and thrive with the Grace, Wisdom and ongoing guidance of our Star Ancestors; the Wisdom passed onto me from Above and the medicine I have gained from the many teachers from all paths that have led me to my own wholeness and peace. I am grateful to offer their messages to us all-through the books that I am asked to write, the voice I still have to speak it into the winds and the spirit that still burns with the fire and passion of one who seeks to contribute to a new journey, a better dream for all women and consequently, for all our Human Tribe.
The urgency of the moment, the world that is at the precipice of a grand transformation has called me to join the hearts and hands of my sisters, who also find themselves being called to act in this NOW moment. Whatever I can do, whatever I can offer, it is my giveaway at this important time. There can be no greater call for me to answer in this season of my life.

The Next generations and those yet to be born require us all to help each other through the fear and intimidation of the FearCallers’ Dark Night of our Collective Soul and to collectively light the way toward the world all women deserve to live in-Free in Body, Mind, Heart and Spirit. Emancipated to own and to be herself; and sovereign enough to be a light in the darkness for another sister, that she too, can be free.”

https://www.turtlewomenrising.live/

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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 over 4 decades serving women and children around our Mother Earth, I leave behind a path of advocacy, activism and innovative ways of healing and empowering women rooted in the strengths, wisdom and principles of my multi-cultural heritage, the Red, Black, Yellow and White Winds of me that enabled me to walk in the shoes of many women whose journey through and out of abuse and trauma, I share.

My life’s work has been shaped by the hearts and spirits of women, who honored me with trust and vulnerability as I assisted them toward their own empowerment and emancipation. As a Queer Elder of many colors, I walk and live, love and thrive with the Grace, Wisdom and ongoing guidance of our Star Ancestors; the Wisdom passed onto me from Above and the medicine I have gained from the many teachers from all paths that have led me to my own wholeness and peace. I am grateful to offer their messages to us all-through the books that I am asked to write, the voice I still have to speak it into the winds and the spirit that still burns with the fire and passion of one who seeks to contribute to a new journey, a better dream for all women and consequently, for all our Human Tribe.

The urgency of the moment, the world that is at the precipice of a grand transformation has called me to join the hearts and hands of my sisters, who also find themselves being called to act in this NOW moment. Whatever I can do, whatever I can offer, it is my giveaway at this important time. There can be no greater call for me to answer in this season of my life.

The Next generations and those yet to be born require us all to help each other through the fear and intimidation of the FearCallers’ Dark Night of our Collective Soul and to collectively light the way toward the world all women deserve to live in-Free in Body, Mind, Heart and Spirit. Emancipated to own and to be herself; and sovereign enough to be a light in the darkness for another sister, that she too, can be free.”

 

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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!

 

https://www.berkeleyside.org/2024/10/01/berkeleys-peace-and-justice-commission-calls-for-cease-fire-in-gaza

 

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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 The Silver Branch and the Otherworld: Forest Magic with Plant and Fungi Allies.

“Braiding together insights from herbalism, ecology, neurobiology, psychology, Irish history, and magical tradition, Seán Pádraig O’Donoghue shows how we can tap into the flow of communication from the wild world and our ancestral traditions.”

Seán is a poet and herbalist living in western Maine in the shadow of a chain of mountains that stretch south to Georgia and north and east across the sea to Ireland and Scotland. He guides individuals in finding better ways to connect with the living world along their journeys toward healing, insight, meaning, and liberation. With compassionate listening and deeply intuitive insights, Seán works with clients to identify the patterns they want to shift in their lives. Then, he shares perspectives and strategies with them for connecting with plants, ancestors, and the land as allies in transformation.

https://otherworldwell.com/

 

Caroline re-welcomes John Perlin, whose prodigious “A Forest Journey,”  re-published by Patagonia,

is our primary magnetizing pledge incentive for today!

 

How did we get here? this mega-crisis..
and what shall we do?

Radio Magic…to honor Symbiotic Mutualism…

How can we humbly receive guidance from the forest regarding community…

To protect what we love, become like it, adapt its qualities…
To protect wolves – become more like wolves.
To protect Coyotes – adopt Coyote strategy. (I have lived with actual Coyote and Wolf Dog, longer than have lived with humans.
They certainly taught me a thing or two… all a negotiation for reciprocal evolutionary benefit…)
To protect water, become as water.
To protect the forest …

“Retaining our forests can help keep resolve climate crisis protect the integrity of many of our streams and rivers, and continue to provide food and shelter for much of the world’s land animals,” says Perlin, author of four books and former physics professor at University of California, Santa Barbara. “It is my hope that the new edition of A Forest Journey will make clear the imperative humanity faces, because losing our forests would not merely be the end of nature, it could mean the end of us.”

John Perlin is the author of four books: A Golden Thread: 2500 Years of Solar Architecture and Technology; A Forest Journey: A History of Trees and Civilization; From Space to Earth: The Story of Solar Electricity; and Let It Shine: The 6000-Year Story of Solar Energy. Perlin taught physics at University of California, Santa Barbara. He lives in Santa Barbara.

https://john-perlin.com/

 

For truly this dedicated work should be included in all curriculums,

in our on-going task of becoming good earth steward Citizens….

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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, with Ami calling in the Living Intelligences, Guardians of Life, with whom we partner… for Necessary Miracles….

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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, many many black women….

Octavia Butler, b June 22, 1947, who began this election on the Full Moon of July 21, 2024

Cancer-Capricorn when her novel, written in 1993 “The Parable of the Sower”- begins…

and we are in on-going story re-write…

 

 

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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 mythological possession at play, and awakening the imagination of everyone to dream the desirable world into being

…followed by Democracy Now clip with Gershon Baskin, with whom we dedicate to the Peace Deal he animates…

Democracy Now began the same year as Visionary Activist Show… We are Democracy Now – On Mushrooms, entheo edition, restoring astro*mytho*politico participatory literacy woof to culture…

Vision and Action be Trickster Medicine, the sine qua non for effectively  vitalizing all our dedications…..

Let’s hold many stories simultaneously, cooperating with the good in all…

 

 

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