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KaliSara and RevKess are pleased to host Lupa Greenwolf for a conversation about her newest major art and book project, The Tarot of Bones. The IndieGoGo campaign launched on April 7, 2015. From the press release: "Nature-inspired artist and author Lupa is launching a crowd-funding campaign to fuel her newest major project, The Tarot of Bones, on April 7, 2015. Her goal is to raise $5,000 to pay for materials for seventy-eight permanent assemblage pieces, one for each card in a traditional tarot deck, and to start a seed fund for printing The Tarot of Bones deck and book in 2016." Along with the Tarot of Bones they will discuss "eco-stuff", "art stuff", and other topics of interest to Lupa, including her third book to be published by Llewellyn World Wide. Check out the website for The Tarot of Bones for more information on this ambitious and art-felt project.

  Tonight the gals will be talking with Taylor Ellwood ! And Shauna Aura Knight about Pagan Leadership  Shauna Aura Knight is an artist, author, ritualist, event organizer, and spiritual seeker. Shauna travels nationally offering intensive education in the transformative arts of ritual, community leadership, and personal growth. She is passionate about creating rituals, experiences, spaces, stories, and artwork to awaken mythic imagination. You can find out more about Shauna at http://www.shaunaauraknight.com/about Taylor Ellwood is the Managing Non-Fiction Editor of Megalithica Books, an imprint of Immanion Press. Their focus is on experimental, esoteric occult books for intermediate to advanced practitioners of magic. Taylor is also Senior Editor and Manager of Megalithica Books and has authored numerous books of which can be found at http://www.immanion-press.com/info/books.asp?authorID=6 Promises to be a great return to the Green Egg Hour

In Nebraska we just had our primary for the 2015 elections season. We're also moving into the 2016 campaign season. KaliSara and RevKess thought that this would be a wonderful oppoprtunity to talk about your rights as a voter in the United States. With Spell Out the Vote they plan to share information on how to vote, where to vote, why to vote, and how various states in the Union have made it easier (or harder) for people to vote. Everything from the "hanging chad" to Obama's proposal to make voter registration mandatory. In part your hosts will talk about some of the candidates in the 2016 season, but the main focus of the show will be on the voter. What they can and cannot due when it comes to voting. As well as talk about the difference between not voting and making a political statement at the polls.

Shauna Aura Knight once again returns to the Pagan-Musings Podcast to talk with KaliSara and RevKess about things that matter to her, and to much of the Pagan community. Shauna is a ritual facilitator, teacher, author, artist, and presenter at various events in the Midwest and elsewhere. This year she has attended PantheaCon in California, ConVocation and Paganicon in the Midwest. She presented at all three of those events. She also took note of how they addressed, or seeminly ignored, certain issues. In her recent article on Pagan Activist Shauna talks about racism and rape culture in relations to Pagan events. These have both been hot-button issues in the community for some time, especially since the arrest of Kenny Klein in March 2014 (tune in for an update). Editors Crystal Blanton, Brandy Williams and Taylor Ellwood have recently released their essay collection Called Bringing Race to the Table (tune in on 4/26/15 for a conversation with them), as well as presenting the topic at various events. Tacklin

In the first edition of PWN for the month of April, RevKess and KaliSara will tackle some of the latest news and issues about RFRAs in the United States. These laws are supposed to protect religious freedom, but often tromp on the beliefs and rights of minorities - racial, ethnic, sexual, and religious minorities. Along the way they will address related issues and talk about some of the really good news that is going on in the Pagan world. Religion and politics are often the hot button issues that PWN tackles, but the hosts are also wanting to cover the good that is going on in the world and how it effects the global Pagan community. They'd like to hear from you. Is there an event in your area? a new shoppe opening up? a special mile marker in the life of an individual or institution that you think the listeners would like to know about? Send the hosts an email at paganmusings@gmail.com or contact them via Facebook.

Christopher Bingham and Sue Tinney of Bone Poets Orchestra join RevKess and KaliSara for a conversation about their musical career with Bone Poets Orchestra, formerly Gaia Consort. RevKess has been anticipating this interview for a long time and hopes that the listeners have as well. Belladonna Smiles launched the new band name, since then BPO has rereleased Vitus Dance and two original albums, Atheist Anthems and Ecstasy in the Ruins. From the bio page on the Bone Poets website:After two acoustic solo albums, Bingham and his wife, Sue Tinney, started the seminal Pagan band, Gaia Consort in 1997. Pagans loved it, but after four critically acclaimed records, it was time to expand the audience. So - a new name. Bone Poets Orchestra explores wildly different textures through Bingham’s "no stylistic borders" policy - all enhanced by 40 years of immersion in just about every musical style. Tune in and find out what has been going on with BPO and what they have planned for the near future. This episode will show

Figuring out what KaliSara and RevKess are going to talk about each week is a chore. One that they take into consideration frequently while browsing the interwebs and catching up on social media. Some of the topics come from mainstream media, many from Pagan media sources, and quite a few are shared by their friends on Facebook. What they pick to talk about and what actually gets talked about are sometimes two very different things. This week is up in the air, as has been the case recently. They await a major news story or a development in something they have been covering, but they also keep their eyes and ears open for what is important to the Pagans around them and that they know via the net. If you have a story, event, project, etc that you would like to hear them talk about on PWN, please send an email to them at paganmusings@gmail.com or drop them a note on the Facebook for PWN.

Hollis Taylor visits PMPChannel and discusses the "First Queer Spirituality and Sacred Sexuality Community Blog" DiversiTree. A project that came about after Hollis's brief time working with Green Egg earlier this year, DivesiTree is a large platform blog community project focusing on spirituality and LGBTQIA issues. The site went live on 20 March 2015. From the site's description: "Bringing together some of the most spiritually diverse queer sex positive people to write on the evolutionary movement towards inclusive spirituality.[...] DiversiTree presents a group of writers that have found their own paths to inclusive spirituality and today they are ready to share their experiences with you. We intend to increase understanding of a variety of perspectives and to create a place of celebratory diversity. Our differences are what makes this world such a fascinating place and when we celebrate them we are able to easily lift each other up in a way that can bring success for everyone. Like a tree we respect, sup

KaliSara and RevKess continue the 2015 season of PWN with another open ended topic for the show. There is so much that is going on in the world today that effects Pagans and like-minded individuals that it is sometimes hard to narrow the focus down to just one or two topics. This edition of the show may discuss all kinds of issues from the state of affairs with DC politics and how they influence our actions and decisions as spiritually minded people, what is going on in the Middle East with ISIL and their repeated desecration of historical and religious artifacts from centuries and millenia ago, free speech issues in Europe, Ferguson, MO's continued impact on the Black community and the Pagans who are involved in the fight against racism, and so much more. You'll just have to tune in to hear what they decide to talk about with this week's edition of PWN

Amythyst Raine-Hatayama joins RevKess and KaliSara on this edition of PMP. She is the author of several books including The Gray Witch's Grimoire and Tarot for Grownups. She has been a guest on the show previously. Amythyst joins the hosts in this edition to talk about her newest book The Spiritual Feminist, due out on 24 April 2015. You can get a sneak peak of this soon to be released book at Amazon. Visit her blog to learn more about her and her works. "Amythyst Raine is a professional psychic/clairvoyant quietly practicing her own brand of witchcraft in the American mid-west. She is the author of books on tarot and witchcraft, a legally ordained clergy, high priestess of Bristolwicks Coven, an occasional radio personality, and the creator/webmistress of the popular pagan website: The Witch’s Corner." The Spiritual Feminist explores the Goddess as Feminist. From the listing on Moon Books: the book "empowers today's modern woman through the Goddess, connecting her to ancient matriarchal divinity and spir

On our March 4th edition of PWN KaliSara made mention of a recent article about a push by faith based and secular non-profits for the IRS to clarify what they can and cannot do in the way of politicing. According to ReligionNews.com on January 29, 2015: "In a rare combined front, leaders of the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability, Alliance Defending Freedom, Public Citizen and the Center for American Progress met at the National Press Club to discuss ways the tax agency could better help nonprofits know what they can and cannot do under the law." In this edition of PWN RevKess and KaliSara will share their thoughts on this topic and what they think should be allowable under the law in the United States. As we are moving into Presidential campaign season, this could prove to be a very pertinent discussion for some.

It was previously announced and scheduled that Hollis Taylor would be joining KaliSara and RevKess for this edition of PMP to talk about Green Egg Magazine and the future of that publication. This has changed. According to a press release from Green Egg: (February 22, 2015) - Green Egg, a popular 47-year-old Pagan magazine founded by Oberon Zell-Ravenheart, has announced that it is returning to publishing as 4 issues per year, instead of going to a blog-only format, as previously announced. The magazine decided to return to its traditional format after hearing from readers that they overwhelmingly preferred quarterly issues. The magazine will remain an online e-zine and will not be published in print. Due to discarding the webzine blog format, Hollis Taylor is no longer publisher. The position of publisher will be co-managed by Sylveey Selu, long-time webmistress for Green Egg, and Ariel Monserrat, the magazine's publisher for the past 8 years. Ariel and Sylveey will be joining the hosts instead and will t

First, RevKess and KaliSara would like to apologize for their floating schedule for PWN. Seems that real life keeps creeping in the way of scheduling things during the week. But at least they can still manage to find an hour here and there to share Pagan perspectives on news and issues that are of interest to the Pagan world. Second, with the idea of confusing schedules comes the concept for this episode. Most of the world is floating in a state of confusion about many different issues that have impact on Pagans and non-Pagans alike. What is ISIL's intent in the Middle East and elsewhere? How is the medical community addressing the ongoing pandemics of HIV/AIDS? What do our world leaders really want for the future? That and so much more is being bandied about by politicos, professionals, journalists and armchair activists. In this episode of PWN your hosts will attempt to tackle some of those questions and float around to other similar topics. Third, KaliSara and RevKess always welcome comments and question

RevKess and KaliSara find themselves between interviews and no set plan for this episode. So, to paraphrase the line, "Watch me pull a rabbit outta my hat!" They'll hop along from topic to topic with no real sense of where they are going - or will they? Tune in and find out just how coherent a show they can create the fly. Will they talk spring cleaning? new music? rambling on about crystal weenies and fluffy bunnies? It is anyone's guess - even their's - until it happens.

RevKess presents a variety of topics in this edition of PWN. KaliSara and his schedules conflicted too much this week for the two of them to do a live show together, so with some discussion they decided RevKess would do a solo pre-record. In this edition he covers topics ranging from Peter Dybing and the Covenant of the Goddess to #BlackLivesMatter, from independent music projects to a Manifesto from Jason Pitzl Waters and many places in between. Little commentary is presented by RevKess, instead he allows each article or source to speak for itself. Show notes will soon be available for this edition of PWN at PMPChannel.com. Music from this edition includes: 1. River of Time by Ricky Kej and Wouter Kellerman, 2. Okavango by Hennie Bekker, 3. Mystical Mother by Hennie Bekker, 4. Upper Midwest Terrorist Society (and Sewing Bee) by Murphey's Midnight Rounders, 5. Song for Manannan by Celia, and 6. It's a Beautiful Day by Brian Henke.

You've heard KaliSara and RevKess talk about it for weeks, even months. The ABC Book of Goddesses is now available. Selina Wolfcat will be joining RevKess and special guest host Kyrja to talk about the book and the process of creating this wonderful children's book. From concept to press, the journey has been a long one - but well worth it. Selina created the book with the help of illustrator Ann Tendler. See the Amazon listing or visit the Facebook page for Pagan Children's Books for more details and get a look at some of the art work. Kyrja is the author of Rupert's Tales and organizes children's and environmental events in Florida. Kyrja, RevKess and Selina also expect to be joined by Rayne Storm, author of Elmental Tarot for Kids, and Ancient Amber, author of the Sunchildren series.  

KaliSara and RevKess tend to focus on North America and Western Europe during PWN. Understandable, as they live in the Midwest of the United States. This week they will broaden their discussion of current events and news to encompass much of the global Pagan community. News from Europe, Asia, Australia, Africa, South America and of course from North America will be touched upon. Due to a scheduling conflict, this week's edition is on Wednesday instead of Thursday. The hosts will try to share any other scheduling issues during broadcast, but will continue to post updates in show descriptions for those who prefer to listen live.

Join us as we talk about some of the various projects going on in the Pagan community, from music to videos, from books to movies. We'll give some details about where projects are at and what's been happening. Sharon will be joining RevKess and Kalisara for the second hour, Live from Pantheacon!, to talk about the details of her own album and music video project, Portals. From her FB Event Page: "Winter and I are embarking on our most ambitious project yet, which will draw on the talents of an entire community of musicians, filmmakers, and artists. We are creating a fully produced album AND music video. This is a real stretch for us, and we considered making the video a stretch goal. However, the video really is core to the project, and the reason we decided to do a crowd funding campaign."

At the end of January, RevKess as Phil, interviewed the Rev Dr. Ranae Koehler of Vine UCC in Lincoln, NE. Along with her were two of the leaders of VINE's open and embracing LGBTQA support group VERGE. They were talking about VINE being the first UCC in Lincoln to vote on and approve a statement of affirmation for all LGBTQA congregants and visitors. Kevin Tjeersdma and his husband Corey Webster, both from VERGE, were present to talk about the group and the upcoming celebration of equality for Vine UCC on Saturday 21 February 2015 and the spoecial musical guest for that celebration, openly gay contemporary Christian singer/songwriter/producer Shawn Thomas.  This interview, with additional music and discussion of current events that effect the LGBTQA community were aired on Sunday 15 February on KZUM. You can hear the entire show on the PMPChannel as well.

With PantheaCon starting in less than 24 hours from broadcast, RevKess and KaliSara wanted to take the opportunity to talk about some of the upcoming festival events. Focusing primarily on the United States, there are many festivals and Pagan events taking place in 2015. ConVocation, Between the Worlds, Heartland, PSG (just to name a few). During the show your hosts will give highlights of some of these upcoming events in early 2015. Be sure to tune in to Pagan-Musings on the 15th for a live segment feature Sharon Knight. She will be dialing in from P-Con to share about her new music and video project. If you are hosting or know of an event in your area that you would like us to talk about, please let us know through our Facebook or email us at paganmusings@gmail.com. (Note: The hosts are purposefully leaving PPD events out of this broadcast, those will be addressed in more detail as that season get closer.)