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Caroline welcomes fellow Water Dragon – Brooke Williams, scientist with soul of poet….

Let us all be Intimate with world  by being able to read it symbolically….

Tis Spring Now….When we are reminded of the opportunity-responsibility of being human, to borrow qualities of Intelligence from the Flora Fauna Fungi with whom we share this Earth – now in so much peril….His latest book is  “encountering dragonfly–notes on the practice of re-enchantment”

Brooke Williams writes about evolution, consciousness, and his own adventures exploring both the inner and outer wilderness. He lives with the writer, Terry Tempest Williams near Moab, Utah, where they watch light and wait for rain.

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Full Moon Lunar Eclipse Radio Participatory sizzle

Mercury stationing late Friday, Venus descending into Underworld and we with her/him

Much with which to cahoot, so welcoming fellow Libran, Venus in Scorpio, Moon in Virgo – Eli Painted Crow

Eli PaintedCrow (Maya/Yaqui) is the Founder of Turtle Women Rising, a peace activist, a ceremonialist elder and an author. She is a retired Army Veteran, a mother of two veteran sons, and a grandmother of eight. She currently lives in Merced, California. Eli’s current work is centered on helping women remember and find their sovereignty and purpose. She devotes her time to participatory sane reverent ingenuity.

She is the author  of “Why You Matter: Wellness, Balance, and Wholeness Through Indigenous and Western Healing.” This work examines the intertwining of two roads, life led from an Indigenous point of view while living in a colonized world. She shares the values needed for humanity to heal historical and present-day wounds of the spirit and the perspective necessary for us to find significance in everyday living.

https://www.turtlewomenrising.live/

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Navigating Grief as Venus descends into the Underworld, and we with her, to bring back skookum leadership to the 2 leggeds….

Caroline welcomes part 2 Eiren Caffall, and “All the Water in the World,”

a novel that makes its way into our dreams, navigating the grief of a collapsing world…. resonant – pertinent to us all now….

“All the Water in the World,’

And the World that is coming for all of us….

EirenCaffall is a writer and musician. Her work on loss, oceans, and extinction has appeared in Orion, Writer’s Digest, Guernica, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Literary Hub, Al Jazeera, and other publications.

https://www.eirencaffall.com/the-weight-of-all-the-water-in-the-world/

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Navigating Grief

May collapse make us all kinder and kinned….

Caroline welcomes the return of Eiren Caffall, author of “the Mourner’s Bestiary,”

And now, her novel, “All the Water in the World,’

And the World that is coming for all of us….

Eiren Caffall is a writer and musician. Her work on loss, oceans, and extinction has appeared in Orion, Writer’s Digest, Guernica, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Literary Hub, Al Jazeera, The Rumpus, and the anthology Elementals: Volume IV. Fire, (The Center for Humans and Nature, 2024). She received a 2023 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant, a Social Justice News Nexus fellowship, and residencies at the Banff Centre, Millay Colony, Hedgebrook, and Ragdale. Her books include her memoir The Mourner’s Bestiary (Row House Publishing, 2024) and her novel All the Water in the World (St. Martin’s Press, 2025).

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KPFA in Fund Drive

Caroline welcomes James Fadiman and Jordan Gruber, whose most recent, book is

Microdosing for Health, Healing, and Enhanced Performance

Timely, as we have out-sourced authority to those with cunning, but no heart, the devolutionary nadir of our rogue species….

…..So Sacraments of collaborative kinship, symbiotic mutualism and participatory animism especially welcome. Rip tide of science proving folklore, as Paul Stamets said “Johns Hopkins reporting that psilocybe mushrooms encourage curiosity, confidence and kindness. Those are qualities of true leadership.”

To support our mission and receive the book Microdosing as a thank-you gift, please donate here or call (800) 439-5732 (800-HEY-KPFA).

https://www.jamesfadiman.com/

https://jordangruber.com/

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ongoing – Anarcho*Entheo*Astro*Animism

Composting the con of cults into nutrient for egalitarian Community……

Caroline welcomes the 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; was a founding teacher at Youth Initiative High School; and has a radio show on community radio station WDRT every Sunday. He identifies as a rhizome, or a verb, depending on circumstances. He has been many other things also.”

honoring ancestral mentors: David Graeber, Hakim Bey and team….

That we animate and hone  all of our collaborative liberating trickster skills…

Let all tyranny serve as incentive for ingenious creativity….to compost cruel horror into compost for kind ingenuity

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All we have is us! Confluencing of Allies

Caroline welcomes long-time ally Heather Roan Robbins, that we may animate all our participatory skills, invoke all our metaphoric allies

Nemesis be on speed dial-she who brings down unjust Empire and Unjust Fortune..

“Tis the practice of lightning to laugh through the storm….” (Rumi)

Heather Roan Robbins M.Th. is a practical, intuitive, choice-oriented astrologer, interfaith minister, and author of the Starcodes Book, the Starcodes AstroOracle Deck, the weekly Starcodes forecast, and contributes to the We Moon calendar. She organizes the Shining Mountains Grove for the Order of Bards, Ovates, and Druids and has an on-line global practice based in Montana.

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As Uranus – Trickster Genius stations to go outward

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Inauguration Auguries

all our relations are Strictly Plutonic….

Caroline & bardic herbalist wizard, Seán Pádraig O’Donoghue proffering astromytho narrative to magnetizeanimate 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 in the dark…

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 together the insights of traditional western herbalism and contemporary science. He regards physical, spiritual, and emotional healing as deeply intertwined.

Prior to becoming an herbalist, Seán was a political organizer in movements for peace, human rights, and global economic justice, and a freelance journalist documenting the human and ecological impacts of U.S. policies in Latin America.

https://otherworldwell.com/

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Cooling Out the Conflagration

Guiding Narratives from LA to World….

that we all dedicate to being Good Earth Citizens….

The Community of the grieving is globally expanding.

All in this Dream together

After Monday- all we have is us –

Community- Mutual Aid.

Welcoming

Mike Rothschild, denizen of Altadena, California whose eloquent elegy brought its convivial spirit alive from the smoldering ruins….into kinship….and teases all into pertinence for us all…

Mike Rothschild, “journalist, author,conspiracy expert”

His

THE STORM IS UPON US | JEWISH SPACE LASERS

https://themikerothschild.com/

Anything anywhere is everywhere…Los Angeles is everywhere….

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