Mica Sun Reflections

This is a recording of me reading Chapter 3: Escaping the Past from "The Great Waves of Change" by Marshall Vian Summers.

This episode is dedicated to a talk entitled " Dark with Power: The Astrology and Poetics of Empire's Descent ", featuring cultural historian and mythic astrologer Frank Salzano, on the night of November 7th, 2024. "...Who is this chaos sorcerer Donald Trump and what is his dharma? And what is the karma and destiny of the United States of America?  And how is it connected to Israel? And global rac...

In "The Floating Kingdom", Mica Sun and Samara Jade offer a mytho-bardic fusion of story and song in an original, theatrical tale of reflection, journey and return.  Harkening back to the bardic traditions of the Old World, the tale carries a message for our times of great waves of change, ecological catastrophe, cultural grief, and questionable patriarcho-capitalism. This podcast episode shares a...

S2:E3 This episode is a reading of a new poem with a reflection on the state of the world and human culture.  Mica Sun Reflections "Drop deep for a moment. Getting art to your ears."  www.patreon.com/micasun

S2:E5 This episode consists of a poem born from the top of a panoramic hill southeast of Asheville. Read by yours truly.  1,000 Secret Whispers Through an IT Tower Knoll Hilltop of open cattle land and cell tower IT needles, Sun setting over endless grass. Are we always whispering across such spaces Mole hills tunneling their crazy paces Beneath the only tall things left, the thistles And las...

Please keep showing up and supporting the cause: Black Lives Matter, "All Lives Matter" (of course we all do!), changing the system so that ALL of us can be in greater freedom from the forces that seem to want us to only serve and be oppressed.  Please, extend the right to vote to ALL citizens of our country -- felons and prisoners included. Tax-paying immigrants included. People serving long...

This is my plea for you to do something specific and easy that should take you about 5 to 10 minutes — that if we do it enough together can help change the course of our world.

This poem represents a deep vow I took the other day. Waking with the feeling of the feathered, dark wing of death or mortality in my psyche -- I went out to the woods to grieve -- and ended up in prayer. I've been holding the prayer with me since -- and here, in this podcast, share the vow, the poem, and some free-reflection about what "being a vessel of the witness to love" means. I hope you enj...

Contemplative verse, well-read, with commentary, to start your day and engage contemplation.  Received at dawn on the last day of 2019, and recorded to audio that morning, this episode is the first of my Second Season of work at the podcast Mica Sun Reflections.  Please "Subscribe" to Mica Sun Reflections to support me — and click-through to https://www.patreon.com/micasun to more deeply explore a...

This episode of Mica Sun Reflections features an Imbolc 2019 live telling of the original fable "The Floating Kingdom", which I'm in third-draft phase of editing as of this (Sept. 2019) moment.  It features an aging King, a Mouse, and the Firebird-Phoenix, and is set in a period of forgetfulness, empire, and ecological and social ills much like our own. (~and yet different.~) The germ of "The...

Podcast Episode 7. A Mica Sun Reflections Interview. A musical showcase and conversational romp through Brazil, South Africa, and the United States, with musician, scuba diver, traveler, vidcaster, and English instructor Stephen Kramer. Originally from Cape Town, South Africa; now a resident of Brazil; Stephen shares his band’s original South African music and some personal rock-and-roll; as well...

Bloomington, Illinois artist, farmer, teacher, and Uber driver Aaron Pollitt joins us with 4 beautiful original songs, plus an interview about activism, burnout, ecology, and the bioregional mind. https://micasunreflections.wordpress.com/2018/10/31/podcast-episode-6-aaron-pollitt-songs-and-conversation/

In this episode, I open with a prayer song from a woods walk. I feature the original poem, "streetsweeper", and then chat about spirituality and appropriation and my own scientific-pagan-christian white boy roots. I close with a semi-professional recording of my wildly popular song, "firebird." Enjoy! Drop deep for a moment. Getting art to your ears. Mica Sun Reflections. Support my work directly...

Join me in an original mythological story with narration, music, and song — a new (and old~) Southern Appalachian winter fable of my own design. Bear, Raven, and Grandmother Moon feature in an original script, with original music and songs performed live by myself, the vocalist-narrator, with live acoustic guitar, looping cello, and doumbek hand-drum. (There's even a piece in 5/4 for you music ner...

In this episode, I read three original poems, and reflect on two of them. I think you'll like it. Drop deep for a moment. Getting art to your ears. micasunreflections.wordpress.com

Created by the Devil is an original poem with my own commentary about relationships and healing. I wrote this one while walking, during a particularly challenging day in my relationship with my loved one. I read it here twice, add commentary, and then read it a final time. Enjoy. https://www.patreon.com/micasun