“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…

Caroline Welcomes Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb CWC: “The Guiding Stories for Necessary Miracles!” Rabbi Lynn “Okay. This will be a conversation about revolutionary nonviolence.” Lynn Gottlieb, one of the first women to become a rabbi in Jewish history, is a pioneer Jewish feminist, activist, writer, visual artist, ceremonialist, community organizer, master …

Caroline welcomes spicy, deep-delving Shambhavi Sarasvati Diving into the Dark Underworld where our souls can speak more deeply to us. Tyranny seeks to destroy Community, then creates the toxic mimic, which be a cult…. that must have conflict and cruelty on which to feed…. So we animate Community arising from the Earth, across all borders…. Communi…

grieving rituals, globally, across all borders… for all in grief, including the Earth herself…. Tyranny seeks to destroy Community, creates the toxic mimic, which be a cult…. So we animate Community arising from the Earth, across all borders…. Caroline proffers dedicated voices, including Rabbi Irwin Keller and (next week’s guest) Shambhavi Sarasva…

Redemptive Thanksgiving of spiraling Blessings out into the World… Caroline, with some great music, reminds us that Thanksgiving not just a hallmark card smiley face on top of colonial destruction of Indigenous people and their kinship with Flora Fauna Fungi, but tis astrologically timed as first Thursday ( Jupiter’s Day) after Sun enters Sagittari…

Cooling Out the Head Caroline welcomes the return of Sean Padraig O’Donoghue that we may avail ourselves of all Flora Fauna Fungi relations to cool out in this hot reactive field…. www.otherworldwell.com Support The Visionary Activist Show on Patreon for weekly Chart & Themes ($4/month) and more… *Woof*Woof*Wanna*Play?!?* The post The Visionary Act…

Caroline welcomes rapid return of Diane Wilson, in reciprocal blessing for her effective dedication…and protection…at this time when the dead are eager to speak and intervene…. indefatigable ally in perpetuity Diane Wilson, “Hey Caroline , I’m on Hungerstrike in ditch front of formosa plastics texas. Come and levitate the plant. Seriously. I have f…

All Souls – back-channels opening – for us all, to call in that which is more powerfully wise than our rogue species… Three Librans convening with Day of the Dead, All Souls, True Halloween – “A Libra is just an Aries that’s been to charm school!” (Jay Jacobs) Caroline hosts fellow politically engaged astrologer, Rachel Lang, elected to Ojai, CA ci…

Halloween Lunar Eclipse “Finding a way outta no way”, Caroline welcomes Sean Padraic O’Donohue, Bardic guide, at this time when the dead speak to the living, at this waxing Full Moon lunar eclipse, when we see the earth’s shadow, visible as it turns red over Gaza and Israel Saturday night, that we may do all we can to animate the desirable, invoke …

May those of us, not under immediate pressure of violence, agony and grief, conjure back-stage atmospheric support – for those who are. Caroline hosts denizen of Yosemite, Ron Kauk, born on Autumnal Equinox, as agent of Equilibrium, and the Taoist Rain-bringer, legendary rock-climber and Mentoring youth back to participatory kinship with Nature… ht…

Pluto Eclipse Radio…. The dedication is more impossible and more necessary…So we convene back-stage in the participatory imaginal realms to conjure the impossible necessary miracle vision…that we then (a la Haruki Murakami) open the sluice gates, and let the desirable pour into incarnational actuality …. Composting the addiction to having an enemy,…

Caroline hosts Mary Greer, long-time, since 1971, divinatory ally, to honor her colleague, Rachel Pollack, whose book, The Beatrix Gate, we are proffering as a pledge incentive Mary K. Greer is one of the world’s leading Tarot scholars and experts, famous by her Tarot blog. She is an author, teacher, and professional tarot consultant known for her …

Full Moon Radio – Deep roots in Community allow us to rise to the occasion… cause ack requires the re-wedding of Politics and Magic…. Caroline plays segments of her Anarcho*Entheo*Astro*Animist Equinox address in Viroqua Wisconsin, with music by Sound Play… (the whole shebang available for down-load – for pledge of $50 call 800-439-5732) with Kropo…

anarcho*entheo*Astro*animism! Live from WDRT in Viroqua, Wisconsin to KPFA, to all; Caroline hosts Eddy Nix and Christopher Robin, Viroqua Community Citizen denizens, as we all be stepping into the Equinoctial still center of the storm – to dance all falsely estranged, (as a mean trick of the Reality Police) Back into dynamic harmonious equilibrium…

New Moon Radio: Caroline welcomes, fellow Sun Libra, Moon Virgo, Judy Tsafrir, psychiatrist-astrologer, author of (the forth-coming 1.24) “Sacred Psychiatry: Bridging the Personal and Transpersonal to Transform Health and Consciousness.” CWC: We be crafting our alchemical vessels, in which we shall then set sail into the wild seas of unfurling now …

James Hillman! to honor the 27th anniversary of the Visionary Activist show – we re-play the first show from September 5, 1996, with James Hillman… a riveting relevant resonant romp, with which Caroline riffs for the remainder of the hour… (Note: Dream News Council open for one more week for registration…) Support The Visionary Activist Show on Pat…

Caroline welcome Sara Calvarese, astro anarchist ally, sharing enthusos for: “The US’ Pluto Return and the upcoming outer planet astrology (Pluto moving into Aquarius, Neptune moving into Aries, and Uranus moving into Gemini). And am always willing to have a good discussion about the 8th house.” “…a South Philadelphia based author, illustrator, ast…

Dream News! Tis a description and an exhortation (and title of just now and more soon council) Caroline hosts Tom Cheetham, “a rogue scholar of the imagination in esoteric Islam interweaving the planes of the real into his continuous and wonderfully whacked-out song.” – Joseph Donahue author of (many books, including) “Imaginal Love – The meanings …

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Guiding Auguries Cooling out the conflagration…. Caroline re-welcomes fellow anarcho*entheo*Mytho*animist Sean Padraig O’Donoghue, herbalist, Bard, wizard, writer part of our Rapid Metaphoric Response Team… https://otherworldwell.com “Nae King, nae Quin, we willna be fooled agin,” sayeth the Wee Free Men (via Terry Pratchett). Support The Visionary…

Underworld Arraignment Accountability Special! Barbie as Inanna (great essay by Meg Ellison), True Lammas, US Pluto return, & The Yes Men continue their liberating High Jinx Caroline welcomes return of fellow Libran Dragon, astro*mytho*politico Rachel Lang, author of Modern Day Magic and the new children’s book As Above, So Below. Rachel was recent…

Caroline co-riffs with clips of 2 wondrous guests, Diana Beresford Kroeger, and Rachel Harris, and Peter Kropotkin whose books serve as pledge magnetizers in our on-going anarcho*entheo*animism festival… Mutual Aid, Peter Kropotkin + Swimming in the Sacred: Wisdom from the Psychedelic Underground, Rachel Harris + To Speak for the Trees, Diana Beres…

anarcho*entheo*animism Syncretism is a sacrament! Caroline re-hosts Charles Allison author of “No harmless power: The Life and Times of Ukrainian Anarchist Nestor Makhno” that we tease the dedicated vision, and myriad befoiblements of anarchist revolution into guiding pertinence, with special honoring of Kropotkin ‘s “Mutual Aid” … Both books being…

Dark o Moon radio, when Communitarians gather to guide culture to ingenious sane reverence, Caroline welcomes, ally Jamie Yeager. Jamie Yeager, “a lifelong Texas liberal, was press secretary for Senator Eugene McCarthy’s independent presidential campaign in 1976, and is now battling the modern Confederates.” The post The Visionary Activist Show – G…

De-bamboozling the Collective Dream, Caroline welcomes long-time de-bamboozling accomplice, Josh Baran, that we may, with Neptune stationing, query “Is this the thing or the symbol of the thing?” Josh Baran is a former Zen monk and teacher in the Soto Zen tradition After leaving the monastery, Baran ran a group in Berkeley for people leaving every …

Waxing Full Moon enthuso anarcho woofing with Charles Allison biographer of Ukrainian anarchist leader Nestor Makhno, that we tease the dedicated vision, and myriad befoiblements of anarchist revolution into guiding pertinence, with special honoring of Kropotkin and “Mutual Aid” in resonating relevance. Charlie Allison is an anarchist writer, story…

Caroline welcomes Andreas Kornevall, author, storyteller and ecological activist. Directs the Earth Restoration Service Charity, the charity aims to enhance ecological integrity by planting new woodlands around the world. Through which, over a thousand schools across the British Isles have signed up and whose students have planted over two hundred …

The Positive Intrigue of Now! Dark o Moon pre-Solstice astro Mytho Council – Caroline welcomes Eric Meyers, fellow astrological guide, at this time when humans gather to cooperate with Nature’s Guiding genius…to guide the course of Culture… first task re-designing the human cultural interface with Flora Fauna Fungi…. Co-Operators are standing by! a…

Radio Magic for the Forests, Caroline welcomes the return of Diana Beresford-Kroeger, Who says Radio holds the ear, and fires the imagination… So we light our collaborative kinship fires, to quell the fires… Speaker for the Trees, Botanist, medical biochemist and author Dr. Diana Beresford-Kroeger possesses a unique combination of western scientifi…

Waxing Full Moon-Opening the Dakini portals!…. Caroline welcomes Jennet Inglis, practitioner of Chöd, dedicated to tracking the Wrathful and Peaceful Dakinis, back to their original liberating impulse, before Tibetan Buddhist orthodoxy made then ”pretty.”…When they were beautiful! woofy, part woman, part animal…original party animal… and offers the…

First show April 20, 2023, Today, a continuation … 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…

Dark o Moon, opportunity to influence culture… Flora Fauna Fungi gives us the task of re-designing the human cultural interface with Nature. So, Caroline plays Kim Stanley Robinson’s Bioneers 2023 talk – as we are in KPFA Fund Drive, pitching his book “The High Sierra: A Love Story,” as a magnetizing pledge incentive. Also animating his astrologica…

Fund Drive, Caroline magnetizes pledges by playing segments of this previous show… and offering this most wonderful book for a pledge of $150: Sweet in Tooth and Claw: Stories of Generosity and Cooperation in the Natural World https://secure.kpfa.org/support/ Originally aired October 6th, 2022 Caroline hosts Kristin Ohlson, whose most recent invalu…