Revisiting: Cooling Mists on the Conflagration

Caroline announces imminent Equinox strategy: event with Amikaeyla on Tuesday Sept 22nd at 4 pm pdt / 7 pm edt by zoom, by donation www.CoyoteNetwork News.com   Grief as compost for Resilient Human Goodness Replay of a previously recorded show with great ally Jerome McGeorge (1941-2026) Caroline welcomes the return of Jerome McGeorge, astro*animist*enviro-farmer-wizard, co-founder Organic Valley, founding member of Coulee Region Organic Produce Pool (CROPP), for another spirited romp of applied pragmatic mysticism for collective well being, allied with Nature’s Trickster Genius, we can, and we gotta, do impossible things…     The post Grief as compost for Resilient Human Goodness appeared first on KPFA.

  Guiding Voices of Liberating Profundity spiraled into cultural vernacular …. Dark O Moon Council, eve o’ 9/11 the astro*mytho narrative of then to now… Necessary Miracles for Mid-terms We are always voting for Reality, jaunty, though fully informed of danger Defiant Joy , honed by adversity…The excluded carry the Medicine Mojo Now And then – Humming with guiding resonance…… eager to be gleaned The post Guiding Voices of Liberating Profundity appeared first on KPFA.

  Caroline presenting at the United Astrology Conference, so we journey back to this excellent show, recorded August 20th, 2020… with a small astro*of*now intro…    Today: Moon – Uranus partnered in Gemini, that we all be willing to be messengers of the ingenious good – humans humbly cooperating with nature’s design genius… That it may become a traveling story, which inspires good actions – that becomes a story….   —– Original post   As so much life is at risk, Caroline welcomes award-winning science journalist, Judith D Schwartz, whose latest book The Reindeer Chronicles, & other inspiring stories of working with Nature to Heal the Earth, proffers myriad heartening stories of devastating deserts than can return to blooming, as can our hearts…   Judith Schwartz is an award-winning science journalist and leading voice in regenerative agriculture and ecological restoration. Her latest book, The Reindeer Chronicles, shares the inspiring stories of a passionate group of eco-restorers who are following nature’s lead to help revitalize some of the most degraded places on earth—and succeeding. With the UN declaring the next 10 years as the Decade of Ecosystem Restoration, Schwartz’s book will help raise awareness about the importance of regenerating natural systems to fight climate change. “Our natural systems are under great stress,” she says. “However, nature’s inclination is toward healing, and we can work with the logic of ecology to restore landscapes and waterways.”   CoyoteNetworkNews.com · Events, Councils, & More Visionary Activist on Patreon The post Revisiting: Cooling Mists on the Conflagration appeared first on KPFA.

Visionary Activist Show 8.27.26 2 pm pt “Warning &Guiding”: Honoring Jerome McGeorge, with one of his bestest buddies, Eddy Nix Eddy Nix “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; 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.” For Eddy and me, Jerome was/is most Beloved accomplice/ally….. We play a long clip of the last show, (of 9!) on which Jerome and I co-cahooted…. (And we animate ) the back-stage party of Priestess Miriam, honored last week, Jerome and Dolly Parton   From 8.29.2024: 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 by Twylah Nitsch) – the Council of Grandmothers…. and more… Inviting into our world guiding sane reverence, that we may protect as much FloraFaunaFungi as possible…(that it may dissolve the cuckoo cartoon of cruel crackpot humanity) Jerome McGeorge, fellow anarcho*astro*animist*enviro-farmer-wizard, co-founder of Organic Valley; Jerome, a long-time ally of the Kogi in Columbia- with whom he spent much time, was chosen by them to be their guide on their first trip to America… October 20th – Nov 5th, 1999, sponsored by Organic Valley, an investigative mission of discovery; bringing messages of wisdom, warning, and mutual aid…         The post Warning & Guiding appeared first on KPFA.

Syncretism is a Sacrament Honoring the Life of Priestess Miriam Sept 10, 1943 – August 16, 2026 Priestess Miriam Chamani, mambo and co-founder of the Voodoo Spiritual Temple on North Rampart Street, New Orleans, died on Sunday, August 16, after a brief illness. We send our condolences to her husband, the environmentalist Allen Villeneuve, her priest and drummer Louis Martinié, Mishlen Linden, and all of the members and devotees of the Voodoo Spiritual Temple. Caroline’s guest be Louis Martinie’ her long-time drummer ally accomplice, co-author of The New Orleans Voodoo Tarot (with Sallie Ann Glassman)- to tell her story …… Honoring her ally Dr John, the Orishas , Papa Legba…. Dr. Louie Martinié has been in service to the New Orleans Voodoo Spiritual Temple for 35 years. He is a drummer, elder, and spiritual doctor. His practice syncretizes Dzogchen Buddhism with New Orleans Voodoo. Blanc Dan-i is the Master of his Head. The Marassa and the Buddhas sing within his heart. His devotions are to the Drs. John Montanee and Dr. John (Mac), St. Roch, and Lama Lena. He has received 3 grants from Xavier University in New Orleans to use drum rhythms to teach communication skills to persons with severe/profound handicaps. Louie has spent a year on sabbatical with Thubten Norbu, an elder brother to the 14th Dalai Lama, studying how Tibetans teach kindness to their children. He is an honorary member of the Louisiana State Legislature and a Democratic Socialist in the tradition of New York City’s Mayor Zohran Mamdani. Louie is celebrating being the content editor for Black Moon Publishing for 50 Years. His writings include the text to the New Orleans Voodoo Tarot (Destiny Books), Priest’s Head / Drummer’s Hands (Black Moon), and Dr. John Montanee; A Grimoire (Black Moon). He is bi-local due to climate change, spending part of the year in New Orleans and a part of the year in Cincinnati which is the largest city close to The Great Serpent Mound.   Voodoo Spiritual Temple https://voodoospiritualtemple.org/ The post Syncretism is a Sacrament appeared first on KPFA.

  Participatory Animism: Gotta know the full horror to respond with Liberating Ingenuity…. By Dedicating to being cultural agents on behalf of what we love and what we are in Nature Caroline welcomes return of 2 favorite first responder wizards: Michael Stocker, Director Ocean Conservation Research, scientist-musician, human ambassador from Ocean… to guide humans to have some bleeping manners David Grimes, Bardic River Guide , Musician, Artists for Nature “The importance of the project – a collaboration of the international nonprofit Artists for Nature Foundation in The Netherlands and the Nature Conservancy in Cordova – is Prince William Sound and the Copper River Delta, two halves of a beating heart, says David Lynn Grimes, the organizer and a participating artist.   Article: Artists in Nature https://thecordovatimes.com/2025/05/15/artists-in-nature-new-cordova-project/ Ocean Conservation Research https://ocr.org/ The post Liberating Ingenuity appeared first on KPFA.

Visionary Activist Show 8.6.26 #KPFA 2pm pt/ 8.7.16 #KPFK wee hours & 1pm pt   Ladling a resurrection out of the smoldering cauldron of calamity  Cool it all out, slow it all down.. Sacred Bonfires or Arson: True Lammas, Dark o Moon – spooky eclipse Let’s Quell the hot reactive escalation trap…that we cultivate an ever expanding repertoire of cool responses Anniversary of Hiroshima, and Curiosity Rover landing on Mars (August 6 2012)… we remain curious about Mars, literally and mythologically… Venus forms a Grand trine to Pluto and Uranus – the Phoenix Revolution… Let us be artists of atmosphere, Public Dreamers – conjuring the atmosphere conducive to the desirable… Convening with Caroline and Bard herbalist Seán Pádraig O’Donoghue to light a sacred boundaried fire of fierce Beauty in our hearts, into which to toss our nafs, personal and collective befoiblements…while honoring the art of grief – Glen Hansard’s parting song, his widow, Poet Maire Saaritsa’s grieving eulogy, the craft of complex story-telling, satire, Abdul El-Sayed’s victory over $30 million AIPAC corruption… the “news” all woven with the guiding astro*mytho *animistic News – the description and the assignment. https://otherworldwell.com/ The post Cultivating our Repertoire of Cool Responses  appeared first on KPFA.

Visionary Activist Show 7.30.26 #KPFA 2 pm pt/#KPFK 7.31 wee hours and 1 pm pt…. Ritual Bonfires – or Arson – take your pick. Create Ritual or Live Melodrama The Guiding astro*mytho narrative: Lughnasa – Mid-Summer – One of the 4 cross-quarter holy days – called the 4 gates of power…. when Power is especially enthused to be invited in to the Community of Creation…. Now through Friday August 7th which be exact mid-season… Tis the season for on-going exorcisms of all the demons harmful to life…. We continue what was begun last week with Maryan Ishami and the Zar… Underneath the rubble of Malefactor cruelty and bombing, stirs the antidote of powerful human ritual…. The Odyssey, the film excludes the real Circe, so we welcome the real Circe, and all Troubadour bards and Trickster Women, excluded by orthodoxy …. The Odyssey be in the memosphere, finding our way home…to protect home – Chaco Canyon…..   Full Moon Cazimi tide – Cazimi – Arabic astro term meaning “in the heart,” when a planet is conjunct the Sun – Tis Jupiter was Cazimi Sun at 6+ Leo , which be “the constellations of the night sky glow blazingly in the desert – the endless unfolding wonder of creation….” So let’s get “astonished.” (From which “stoned” is derived.) Twas on the Full Moon Cazimi tide that troubadour bard Glen Hansard – rode out of this world on his motorcycle…whose life we honor, and all musician – troubadour bards dedicated to Community well-being…. as Culture Doctors In full Irish tradition, as Seán Pádraig O’Donoghue oft says – “Let’s see the long-ago dead, emerging to welcome the recently dead” – to help us befoibled humans out….   The post Create Ritual or Live Melodrama appeared first on KPFA.

Participatory Powerful Patterns of Simmering Symmetry Not “what’s gonna happen?” But  “What’s the assignment? What’s available with which to participate?” The tyranny we are assigned to compost is a monstrous animation of America’s shadow Hence “Resistance History of United States,” Tad Stoermer (as one Fund Drive offering) cause we gotta know… and myriad contributing voices, and the antidote of Beauty, Cannabis, and powerful traditions of Exorcism from the syncretism of Iranian culture… We’re all gonna participate with this with Omar Khorshid’s powerful Zar, exorcism music…. whereby to transform the demons, and liberate the Community of Flora Fauna Fungi CoyoteNetworkNews.com · Events, Councils, & More Visionary Activist on Patreon The post Participatory Powerful Patterns of Simmering Symmetry appeared first on KPFA.

  Honoring Cancerian Men in a time of Cataclysm Welcoming the return of poet and herbalist Seán Pádraig O’Donoghue, whose birthday it be today! With referenced Cancerian companions: George Orwell, Jose Andres, and Erling Haaland, with myriad narratives proffered as conversing partners…. Chivalric protection of life woven with the simmering symmetry of now… the cruel catastrophic Netantrumpstein war on life, through which the wild winds of revelation & Earth Citizen Community be Rising Aroused! Seán Pádraig O’Donoghue ~ appointments, classes, offerings: https://otherworldwell.com/     The post Honoring Cancerian Men in a time of Cataclysm appeared first on KPFA.