The Visionary Activist Show – December 26, 2024

The wedding of spiritual magic and compassionate social activism with host Caroline Casey. The post The Visionary Activist Show – December 26, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

  Still Point – Yosemite, Brer Ron Kauk Saturnalia – We go Darker – into the Still point (Solstice) Insourcing our autonomy – to suck the chi out of tyranny…. inhale it back into our hara, our center still point…from whence (our customized) Trickster Redeemer be born…. in all beings…. “Only those serving an apprenticeship to Nature can be trusted with technology…”  -Sir Herbert Read We invite by setting the atmosphere, the tree, the candles, the music, which create the welcoming atmosphere conducive to the Desirable…. Caroline and Ami Winter Solstice zoom this Saturday info here *Woof*Woof*Wanna*Play?!?* · www.CoyoteNetworkNews.com · The Visionary Activist Show on Patreon The post The Visionary Activist Show – Winter Solstice preparation… appeared first on KPFA.

“Luminous Pragmatism” Let our Blessing Dreams Spiral Forth to guide us all through the Danger Fund Drive – honoring Rafeet Alareer and Harriet Tubman, that we may invite the best in them to live through us, guide us, at this harrowing time. Rafeet’s book “If I Must Die” published posthumously Dec 10th – is one of our pledge enticements…. As is Tiya Miles’ Book, “Night Flyer – Harriet Tubman & the Faith Dreams of a Free People”…whose effective participatory animism is exactly what we all need…. to ally with Flora Fauna Fungi, in Mutual Aid     *Woof*Woof*Wanna*Play?!?* · www.CoyoteNetworkNews.com · The Visionary Activist Show on Patreon The post The Visionary Activist Show – Luminous Pragmatism appeared first on KPFA.

The wedding of spiritual magic and compassionate social activism with host Caroline Casey. The post The Visionary Activist Show – December 5, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

The wedding of spiritual magic and compassionate social activism with host Caroline Casey. The post The Visionary Activist Show – November 28, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

  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 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 necessary dedications 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.”   Eiren Caffall is a writer and musician based in Chicago. Her writing on loss and nature, oceans and extinction has appeared in Guernica, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Literary Hub, Al Jazeera, The Rumpus, and the anthology Elementals: Volume IV Fire, forthcoming in 2024 from The Center for Humans and Nature. She received a 2023 Whiting Award in Creative Nonfiction, a Social Justice News Nexus fellowship, and residencies at the Banff Centre, Millay Colony, MacDowell Colony (waitlisted), Hedgebrook, and Ragdale. Her novel, All the Water in the World, is slated for release by St. Martin’s Press in early 2025. ErinCaffall.com Caroline W. Casey · www.CoyoteNetworkNews.com · Patreon The post The Visionary Activist Show – The Art of Grief appeared first on KPFA.

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… The post The Visionary Activist Show – Sacrament of Kinship appeared first on KPFA.

“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     The post The Visionary Activist Show – Journeying into the Underworld appeared first on KPFA.

  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   *Woof*Woof*Wanna*Play?!?* · www.CoyoteNetworkNews.com · The Visionary Activist Show on Patreon The post The Visionary Activist Show – Halloween Dark O Moon appeared first on KPFA.

  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       The Visionary Activist Show on Patreon www.CoyoteNetworkNews.com *Woof*Woof*Wanna*Play?!?* The post The Visionary Activist Show – Witchen Herbal Lore appeared first on KPFA.