KPFA - The Visionary Activist Show

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Caroline is recovering from deep delving dentistry, returning soon… Equinox Full Moon Aries with Neptune. Dreaming Beauty into the World, no matter what…   Encore Special ~ Bridges Literal and Metaphoric Honoring Bridges as literal metaphors …..let us aspires to be a bridge…. as are the people, the living and the dead, whom we honor this hour… the bridging work of Idries Shah, his son, Tahir Shah,...

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,...

  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 T...

  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 b...

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 WD...

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...

  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 Davi...

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...

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 wh...

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 B...

  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 wa...

Cultivating the Craft of Complex Story-telling: Irony and Compassion Corruption and Beauty …myriad voices animating the guiding astro*mytho*politico narrative Initiating/Honoring the Wizard Mars within us all…. And the danger when we don’t. Fifa, Khomeini’s Funeral Graham Plattner Dr Safiya – July 11th global call for his release by Israel BBC: Lawyer says detained Gaza doctor was severely beaten...

The Heat is on! Fire Bird Revelation Revolution Arising Global Democracy of Flora Fauna Fungi declares  Independence from US July 4th Hellscape: US Shadow grotesquely garishly visibly manifest – That cruelty & corruption to be composted in Cauldron of Calamity – into nutrient for democratic animism.. With Lego News True Origins of America… The danger of Netantrumpstein- Report from Albania – Flami...

When life gives you Demons-Make Demonade Trickster, within us all responds: Speak Truth – Be Power Crazy Danger requires – Majnoun- “Trickster Crazy for the Divine “ Waxing Full Moon Mercury stationing, planetary Intellignces gliding into most powerful opportune and dangerous Summer guiding… The Guiding Mythic News of Now, with accomplices: James Baldwin – on love… and decisions on whom to be, Kin...

Honoring Abdullah Ibrahim, South African jazz musician, welcoming his friend, ally Deborah Felmeth to guide us into the enormity of his great soul, his influential dedication, practice, that he may resonate in us all, with Music –  Africa – tears and laughter – Ishmael,  & “Mandenberg,” that he played at Nelson Mandela’s Inauguration, and was played at Zohran Mamdani’s Inauguration… CoyoteNetworkN...

Visionary Activist Show June 11 #KPFA 2 pm pt/KPFK JUNE 12 – wee hours &1 pm pt “Never Give Up” Caroline joined by fellow entheo*anarcho*bardic ally Seán Pádraig O’Donoghue for the Mythic News of Now: Graham Platner, Flamingo Revolution, the astounding Knicks Game… Trickster miracle via never give up.   Seán Pádraig O’Donoghue is a poet, herbalist, and teacher living in western Maine. He guides cl...

  Speak Truth- Be Power! The Great De-Bamboozling – Liberating Language Lucidity… & the astro*mytho°politico guiding narrative assignment Caroline weaves myriad story complexity guides : Ahana Sharma (why do we say “Middle East”) U.S. Getting schooled by Iranian Lego News, Lego News real origins of this Country ,with Resistance History Prof – Tad Stormer, Iranian political cultural guide,Maryam Is...

Visionary Activist Show 5.27.26 #KPFA 2 pm pt #KPFK 5.28.26 wee hours & 1 pm pt   Waxing Full Moon – of myriad guiding stories, translated into accessible vernacular – to be spiraled forth into the Memosphere….. The more we know of Culture, Stories, History – the more effective we be in our alchemical task of composting the grotesque monstrous animation of America’s shadow – into nutrient for glob...

Defiant Joy – honed by adversity, and the power of story, and irresistible woofy outspoken eloquence….satire, Irony – How it is & How it should be- Liberating Trickster lives in discrepancy….. Stephen Colbert’s last show tonight- the baton of outspoken, sharp, smart satire with a kind heart – be passed to all of us… “Finding a way outta now way” – Guides High John, and Scheherazade – all the Trick...

Honoring Bridges as literal metaphors …..let us aspires to be a bridge…. as are the people, the living and the dead, whom we honor this hour… the bridging work of Idries Shah, his son, Tahir Shah, Fatema Mernissi, and Peter Kingsley…. The Moroccan Journey is never ending… Noting the resonance of 5+ Taurus, whose Sabian Image is “ a Cantilever Bridge over a Rocky Gorge….building connections…finding...

“To love disharmony back into harmony creates a greater harmony than existed before!” Jupiter and the craft of Liberating Story… We live in a Story-Telling Creation- Everything telling us its story by its color, song, rhythm, and if we simply approached the world with informed reverent curiosity – our species would rejoin the Guiding Narrative…”Tell me your story & I will spiral it forth…” Jupiter...

  Caroline re-plays a portion of her November 12th talk in Sonoma, so that we all might be Rising Aroused in Apocalyptic Times….  BodhiSattva Coyote’s astro*mytho*politico guide to navigating this dangerous, opportune time with Dark humor, Grief, Community alchemical magic and jaunty Trickster pluck. Not averting our gaze from the cruel horror of our rampaging rogue species…. We are definitely in...

replay of our 3.26.26 show ~ “No to monarchy, no to having a supreme leader, Yes to Democracy-Equality!” Chant from students/citizens in Iran… Caroline plays a short clip of Maryam Ishani, And long proffering from Omid Safi’s recent teaching: “What we all need to know about Iran” We be Global Coalition: Re-imagining the world beyond false polarity… Like Scheherazade, who liberates the land, women,...

Visionary Activist Show 4.16.26 #KPFA 2 pm PT (#KPFK 4,17.26 in wee hours & 1 pm) Defiant Joy – Honed by Adversity… Rising Aroused in Apocalyptic Times How we animate the world Allying with Liberating  Mars within and without….dedication to desirable vision – See Hungarian Election in cahoots with Mars and Neptune… Honoring Pacifica radio’s 77th birthday, humming with Marian Anderson, segue from l...