Voices of the Sacred Feminine

Author, archaeologist and history professor, Dr. James Rietveld, author of Artemis of Ephesus: Magic, Mystery & Her Sacred Landscape will chat with us tonight on the topic:  Beyond Gimbutas - Hard Facts for Goddess Worship in the Ancient World.  While Marija Gimbutas is still beloved within Goddess Spirituality and Women's Studies, she is still a controversial figure in Academia, despite there...

Author, archaeologist and expert on religion, Dr. James Rietveld will be with us this week and next discussing controversial topics:  Facts and Fiction of Islam and Beyond Gimbutas - Hard Evidence for Goddess Worship in Ancient Times. There's been a lot of disinformation and fear mongering out there regarding Islam and Muslims.  Resist the temptation to buy into it.  Tonight's show, Islam - Fact v...

Inspired by the movie Malificient, this is Part 2 of our trilogy, celebrating Feminist Fairy Tale & Goddess Mythology. Tonight our guest is with Foremother Barbara Walker. No doubt Barbara's books are in your personal library.  We'll discuss the importance of feminist fairy tales and Goddess Mythology and how so many have lost sight of what they teach us and how they're an alternative to the v...

NOTE:  Some technical difficulties start the show, but 5 1/2 minutes in they're resolved.  Be patient.  We have a great interview with a wise woman to share with you as Modern Medicine Woman, Shonagh discusses the importance of calling the wise woman back to a modern culture of people who have lost their way.  She'll tell us how to reclaim our l ost cultures, opening to "the ancestors of the ances...

As a book-end to last week's show with socialist economist Richard Wolf, I have returning to the show, visionary, author and foremother, Riane Eisler, author of the famous and inspirational books, The Chalice and the Blade and Our Real Wealth.  Riane will discuss caring economics and why corporations would actually benefit from these practices rather than the predator capitalistic values employees...

Resolutions & Return of the Light is the next installment in the Goddess Calling: Inspirational Messages and Meditations audio book series.  Listeners said they wanted to hear more from the hostess of the show, Karen Tate.  They said they'd like to be able to "listen" to her book when they're multi-tasking rather than have to sit down and read it - so now you're getting your wish.  We have a d...

Tune in tonight as I chat with Noam Chomsky, noted philosopher, political critic, activist and long-time professor at MIT.  Noam has written extensively on politics, war, corporatism and the mass media.  Prof. Chomsky has been described as a prominent cultural fiture and he was voted the "world's top  public intellectual in 2005."  Topics might include:  His views on the role of feminism in today'...

It is my great pleasure this evening to have an enlightening conversation with economist Richard Wolff, recommended by many of you, my listeners!  I was impressed by a wonderful and easy to understand interview Richard gave on PBS about the contemporary economic history of the United States:  how we managed to obtain Social Security, how we're slowly being destroyed by predator capitalism and what...

The noted Foremother and Pagan Elder, Margot Adler, author of "Drawing Down the Moon" considered a watershed in American Neopagan circles, as it provided the first comprehensive look at modern nature-based religions in the US. A journalist, lecturer, Wiccan priestess, radio journalist and correspondent for National Public Radio will discuss her work in the world and her insights into what's ahead...

At the top of the hour Ken Worthy, lecturer and research associate at the University of California in Santa Cruz and Berkeley and St. Mary's College of CA will discuss Finding the Human Place in Nature.  We'll discuss the invisibility of Nature, our disconnection from Nature which leads to our being unethical and how clean technology are major sources of environmental degradation.  On the positive...

Enjoy this reading from my newest book, Goddess Calling, called Separating Truth from Myth, inspired by stories, old wives tales and urban legends that become accepted as truths.  With another Thanksgiving behind us and the holiday of Christmas just ahead, both times when history is distorted by "fairy tales," consider this sacred message for inspiration and insight - by Karen Tate.

Elder Priestess and Foundress of Circle Sanctuary, Prs. Selena Fox, make her annual seasonal return to the show to discuss old and new ways to celebrate Yuletide and the pagan Winter Solstice roots of Christmas and New Year's traditions. In the second half of the show, Pastor Stacy Boorn from Herchurch and the annual feminist conference in San Francisco returns to the show.

THREE GUESTS TONIGHT!  First up....Who's going to win the 2016 Presidential Election?  Cathy Pagano, our resident astrologer tell us her best guess using astrological tools and years of experience deciphering the Cosmic Story! Second up....On tonight's show, Renee Starr, author of the new book, You Are Woman, You Are Divine brings women Back to Goddess: Ancient Wisdom for the Modern Woman, helping...

First Guest.....Marsha Scarbrough, author of Honey in the River:  Shadow, Sex and West African Spirituality discusses with us tonight her personal journey and discovery of the Orishas, Goddess Archetypes of West Africa, all while under the influence of her babalawo, or Yoruban lover who acted as her spiritual leader.  We'll talk about her personal soap opera and the growth she gleaned from that ta...

Martha Densmore stumbled across Mary Baker Eddy, the iconic founder of our present New Age Movement.  Like so many women of history, she's been lost to the sands of time, swept under the rug in our male dominated world, but we aim to uncover and discover Mary Baker Eddy tonight on our show.  Martha Densmore will share with us her findings of this obscure but important woman from the 1800s who was...

First Guest:  Cathy Pagano visits us again, discussing the Cosmic Story, or what the cosmos is cooking up for us in the coming weeks and how it might be relevant to our individual and collective lives. Second Guest:  Charlotte Cressey, animal liberation activist, educator, ecofeminist, creatrix of Earth Energy Yoga will discuss Embodied Love: Veganism as a New Paradigm of Relationship.  Moving bey...

FIRST GUEST:  Born in New Jersey, Ernie Garrett grew up writing fan fiction online and fell obsessively in love with movies and storytelling.  While working as an analyst in Los Angeles for a major agency helping them during the Writers Strike, he development his own system to understanding stories and movies and how people discuss them.  Ernie loves topics such as special effects and beauty vs re...

First Guest:  Dr. Marilyn Steel, Jungian psychologist, author, speaker, and shamanic dreamer will define and discuss The Wild Feminine and why she's chosen to mentor to PrimeTime (50+ year old) Women.  Her book, The Wild Feminine: Stories to Inspire and Embolden was chosen as one of The Spirited Woman Foundation's Top Book Picks and she'll share some of her teachings including the importance of dr...

FIRST GUEST:  Danica Anderson, PhD, forensic psychotherapist discusses her new book, Blood and Honey; Secret Herstory of Women; South Slavic Women's Experiences in a World of Modern-day Territorial Warfare delving into topics such as the narratives of Bosnian women war crimes and war survivors narratives, including her mother's concentration camp survivorship of WWII.  Danica will share how the Ba...

Moon Woman as she's known by half a million followers on Facebook, Tanishka Tantrika, bestselling author of 4 books, and teacher of kundalini awakening for two decades chats with us tonight about Fulfilling the Whirling Rainbow Prophecy, or Rebirthing the World as We Know It.  In our interview we'll delve into if its important to have a guru, what the Whirling Rainbow prophecy actually is and why...

Tonight join us as we pay tribute to elder, Shekhinah Mountainwater with Syren, co-founder of the Skekhinah Mountainwater Memorial Fund and the Mother Grove Goddess Temple in Asheville, NC.  Tune in and learn about Shekhinah's thealogy, her books, runes, tarot, music and moonspells.  Syren will give us insight into Shehkinah's struggles as a Priestess and Goddess woman and bring us up to date on t...

Tonight Michelle Hart, one of a handful of experts on the Mesopotamian Princess, Priestess and Poetesse, Enheduanna, will share with the VSF audience the important role of the first non-anonymous author of all literature.  Yes, a real, flesh and blood woman who lived from 2300-2225 BC!  Enheduanna was revered as the most important religious figure of her day.  Through her powerful hymns to Inanna,...

Maybe you've heard the crazy stuff out there about Yoga and Meditations being practices that will enable the Devil to enter you.....Maybe that kind of thinking set your hair afire.  Well tonight's show will soothe that fire.  Tune in as I discuss the Spirituality of Yoga with Monette Chilson, author of Sophia Rising: Awakening Your Sacred Wisdom Through Yoga.  Monette has spent more than two decad...

DeAnna L'am, internationally recognized pioneer in Menstrual Empowerment, author of Becoming Peers - Mentoring Girls into Womanhood and A Diva's Guide to Getting Your Period will chat with me tonight about the importance of Red Tents as a Seedbed for World Peace.  DeAnna will introduce the Red Tents to the VSF audience, including their indigenous origins, and explain the connection between Red Ten...

Women's rights advocate, writer and leadership coach, Tabby Biddle, specializing in helping women find their voice, will chat with me tonight about the importance of Women Finding Their Political Voice & What Goddess Has to do With Poliitics....two of my favorite subjects!  We'll hear about Tabby's path to finding her own political voice and what Goddess had to do with women finding their poli...