KPFA - The Visionary Activist Show

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...

  Paul Robeson (Wikipedia) Caroline welcomes ancestor Paul Robeson, (astounding athlete, actor, singer, cultural scholar, author, and political activist) whose birthday is today… April 9, 1898 (- Jan 23,1976) Let’s invite his embodied positive Mars, expressed through his powerful baritone voice (advocate, for beauty, kinship, dedication to democracy) – into the testosterone fueled maelstrom of now...

  Liberating Trickster Kinship arising from Grief… Maundy Thursday – Maundy Thursday is named after the Latin word mandatum (“mandate”), referring to the new commandment Jesus gave his disciples at the Last Supper to “love one another.” Caroline welcomes Terry Tempest Williams, award winning author of over 20 books, dedicated cultural voice on behalf of what she loves, and what she is in Nature… t...

Visionary Activist Show 3.26.26 2 pm pt #KPFA (3.27.26 wee hours & 1pm pt #KPFK) “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 polarit...

  “I believe Earth is dreaming us into a new way, a new way of being, if we favor our senses and receive what is coming to us through heartbreak and love.”…” (Terry Tempest Williams )   Equinox Eve: Let’s ride this New Moon tide-RevelationAccountabilityStorm… Let’s not fear the storm – let’s become the storm! Let’s not fear the Chaos – but guide the chaos…”Who’s a good chaos? Yes you are, over the...

  “Reality is a dance” – whirling – spiraling Liberating Beauty out of the Cauldron of Calamity, Caroline welcomes great ally Banafsheh Sayyad, whose book “Dance of Oneness,” is a most welcome elixir of profound dedication, resonating within us all, that we too aspire to embody effective prayers for our world…   Banafsheh’s life and book are an invitation for us all to delve into our cultural and...

“If the King Attacks the Persians, He Will Destroy a Great Empire,” (ha! “it will be yours” quips Delphic Oracle) Offering this essential book in our Fund Drive, as a reciprocal blessing for pledging www.kpfa.org Spookily pertinent to now! Replaying portions of Caroline’s March 13, 2008 interview — Where there is Mars – Let there be Venus! May Americans know history!   Caroline welcomes Stephen Ki...

The Great De-Bamboozling·Revelation·Accountability Fest   In which we are all participants, with the help of the Beloved Ancestor Poets. “Bring in the poets and double the madness!” (Bly) Poetry will get us through! Just learned that great buddy colleague, Coleman Barks, has gone backstage. And Sean Padraic O’Donoghue, will join to help honor Coleman – and how Coleman may help us with Iran… Weavin...

Visionary Activist Show 2.19.26 #KPFA 2pm pt (2.20 #KPFK in wee hours & 1pm pt)   Raw sewage – literal and pervasive pandemic metaphor Water and Money: Re-directing the flow – from Cruelty, State Terror, Corruption – to infrastructure….health, protecting commonwealth…. Collective well-being… Empathic Sorrow be appropriate, and serves as incentive for dynamic kindness, dedicated to collective well-...

Visionary Activist Show 2pm pt 2.12.26 KPFA (2.13 KPFK in wee hours & 1 pm pt)   Dark o Moon – Friday the 13th ° Valentine’s Day ° Eclipse ° Chinese New Year ° Mardi Gras ° Ramadan –   Such dangerous skullduggery abounding, that the back-stage gods are proffering syncretized Metaphors as allies. Booo-Merangue! May anything up to no good- be revealed, rendered harmless & return to its source with  ...

“Time of Useful Consciousness “ (The aviation term for the time between when the oxygen cuts out, and the pilot is still conscious…) Caroline welcomes astro mytho colleague Judith Tsafrir, as we weave powerful testimony from Aliya Rahman, and Renee Good’s brothers, Luke & Brent Ganger, rousing music – with the increasing rapidly arising dangers – with the descriptive & guiding astrological narrati...

Visionary Activist Show 1.29.26 2pm #KPFA  /1.30 #KPFK, in wee hours & 1pm pt   Let’s Dive Deep to Rise Aroused – Caroline convenes Mid-Winter Council to gather our wits, dedicate to strategy…forge alliances… Waxing Leo-Aquarius Full Moon Apocalyptic Mid-Winter-Uranus Direct – Revelation fest What would we like to be revealed ? Not what’s gonna happen – but what’s available with whom to cooperate...

  Ladling Liberating Necessary Miracles out of the Cauldron of Calamity   Caroline, convening the Council of Sane Reverent, ingenious, effective, available  Beings Myriad worthy woofy guiding voices, from Greenland – Tillie Martinussen, Ireland, Jamaica, Minneapolis, Davos & more – all in accord with the Guiding Astro* Mytho Animist narrative….collapse of systems, and what be we brewing, envisioni...