Selections from the Mess Ep #3

Episode 3 of Selections from the Mess is mainly an interview/discussion with Lady Cynthia of the Order of the Red Grail, Church for Transformational Wicca in Lincoln, NE. In between talk segments with Lady Cynthia, we played a selection of music that addressed the topic of our conversation. We were talking about the Catholic Truth Society's pamphlet Wicca and Witchcraft: Understanding the Dangers by Elizabeth Dodd.

Please refer to my earlier blog post, including the show notes for Murphy's Magic Mess from Sunday the 20th, for links to the book and the upcoming Prayer for Peace Vigil.

Play list:

1. Inkubus Sukkubus - Wytches' Chant '98 - Away with the Faeries
2. Kathryn Kaye - Waiting for the Rain - Dreaming Still
3. Paradiso & Rasamayi - Flow - 3rd Eye Rising
4. Steven C - Opus Derian - Heart Strings
5. Michael Brant DeMaria - Danu - Gaia
6. Al Conti - Spring Maiden - Northern Seas
7. Isaac Bonewits - Be Pagan Once Again - Be Pagan Once Again
8. Gaia Consort - Cry Freedom - Secret Voices

Remember to tune in every Sunday at 9am Central to listen to full two hours of the Mess.

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The Pagan-Musings Podcast Channel provides you with a variety of programs throughout the week.

• Saturdays at 2pm Central - Pagan-Musings Podcast. A two hour talk program hosted by RevKess and KaliSara. This program is aired live.
• Sundays at 7pm Central - Lavender Hill. A thirty minute GLBTQ+ news and talk program hosted by Phil Kessler and Corwin Watts. Originally airs as the first half hour of the Wimmin's Show on KZUM, Sundays at 11am Central. This program is prerecorded for podcasting.
  
• Mondays at 7pm Central - Selections from the Mess. Run time varies based on the pod-friendly content from Murphy's Magic Mess. This program is prerecorded.
• Thursdays at 7pm Central - Musica Pagani: Feature Series. A one hour music program featuring specific artists. May include interviews with the featured artist for that week. This program is prerecorded.
• Fridays at 10pm Central - Musica Pagani. A one hour music program with a selection of artists. May include interviews with the artists. This is a prerecorded program.
  

Lady Cynthia vists the Mess

Lady Cynthia from the Order of the Red Grail, Church for Transformational Wicca joined us this week to talk about Elizabeth Dodd's pamphlet Wicca and Witchcraft: Understanding the Dangers put out by the Catholic Truth Society.

On Sunday, February 27th there will be a Prayer for Peace Vigil on the north steps of the Lincoln Capitol Building from 10am to noon. This is in conjunction with several similar prayer vigils nation wide and around the globe. The issue that many Pagans, especially Witches and Wiccans, take with this new pamphlet is that it specifically targets Wicca and Witchcraft for conversion. The 27th is also the anniversary of Pope John XXII's papal bull "the theory of witchcraft" which was at the root of the Inquisition.

Our play list:

1. Inkubus Sukkubus - Wytches’ Chant ‘98 - Away with the Faeries
   
2. Kathryn Kaye - Waiting for the Rain - Dreaming Still
3. Paradiso & Rasamayi - Flow - 3rd Eye Rising
4. Greg Maroney - Valerie’s Song - the Journey
5. Steven C - Opus Derrian - Heart Strings
6. Michael Brant DeMaria - Danu - Gaia
7. Bruce Mitchell - Persephone - New Earth Goddess
8. Dagda - Wind of Change - Hibernia
9. Al Conti - Spring Maiden - Northern Seas
10. Kathy Mar - The Word of God - My Favorite Sings
11. Isaac Bonewits - Be Pagan Once Again - Be Pagan Once Again
12. Kelly Andrew Kaveny - Apollo - Olympus
13. Gaia Consort - Cry Freedom - Secret Voices
14. John Mitchell - Religion and Beer - First 49 Years

If you missed the show and would like to hear the conversation with Lady Cynthia, please listen to Selections from the Mess episode 3 on the Pagan-Musings Podcast Channel at BTR.

Some of that Old Time Religion

A little of that Old Time Religion to celebrate Spring and the Full Moon.

There is an Open Full Moon Circle tonight at the Unitarian Church on 63rd and A in Lincoln, NE. Hosted by the Order of the Red Grail, Church for Transformational Wicca, this circle is open to any and all who wish to attend. Please arrive around 6pm for the Meet and Greet with Ritual to follow at 7pm. Ritual attire is not required.

THE PLAY LIST

1. Old Time Religion - Pete Sieger - Sing Along
2. Children of Lir - Sora - Heartwood (NEW)
3. Apollo - Kelly Andrew Kaveny - Olympus (NEW)
4. Seeds of Time - David Wahler - A Star Danced (NEW)
5. Twilight - Sora - Heartwood (NEW)
   
6. Demeter - Kelly Andrew Kaveny - Olympus (NEW)
   
7. The Gift - Lisa Downing - A Delicate Balance (NEW)
   
8. In Gardens Fast Asleep - Ann Sweeten - Just This Side of Spring (NEW)
9. Shores of Avalon - Tina Malia - Shores of Avalon
10. Ocean Breeze - Bill Wren - One Day in the Life (NEW)
11. Circle of Stones - Tina Malia - Shores of Avalon
12. Serpent's Well - Sharon Knight & T Thorne Coyle - Songs for the Strengthening Sun (Released December 1, 2009)
    
13. Frey & Freya - Sharon Knight & T Thorn Coyle - Songs for the Strengthening Sun (Released December 1, 2009)
14. Joys of Spring - Sharon Knight & T Thorn Coyle - Songs for the Strengthening Sun (Released December 1, 2009)
15. Rock the Goddess - Serpentine (Arborvitae)- Rock the Goddess
16. On-Line Religion - Tom Smith - Plugged
    
17. Old Time Religion - Pete Sieger - Sing Along
18. One True God - Tom Smith - Plugged
19. Word of God - Kathy Mar - There are a Few of My Favorite Sings
20. We Won't Shave Any Longer - Isaac Bonewits - Avalon Rising (1972)
    
21. Thugee Song - Isaac Bonewits - Avalon Rising (1972)
22. April Fool's Day - S.J. Tucker - Blessings
23. Rufus & Beverly - Rude Girls - Mixed Messages
    
24. Do Virgins Taste Better Than Those Who Are Not? - Brobdingnagian Bards
25. House of Mama Dragon - SJ Tucker - Haphazard

We received very sad news at the end of the show. Sally Vanderslice, long time host of the Wimmin's Show on KZUM passed away Thursday the 25th. She will be sorely missed by all of us at KZUM.

Once in Time, Murphy's Magic Mess 08/09/09

Well, folks, it would seem that not only was not present the show, but my brain took a vacation and I didn't get around to doing anything with the play list until today. Almost entire week AFTER the show aired. And, it would look as if Damon's having some technical difficulties of his own getting the show recorded so he can post it to the show's MySpace page. Terribly disappointing. I shall see what I can do to assist him with that for tomorrow's show.

So, here is the play list. Remember, Murf's theme song for the show is Wytches Chant 98 by Inkubus Sukkubus. It is not listed here as this is the play list as it was sent to me by Damon:

1. Once in Time by Christopher Boscole from Presence of Angels.
2. Hoedown Jig by Christopher Boscole from Presence of Angels.
3. Present Being by Christopher Boscole from Presence of Angels.
4. Unknown - Sorry, there was a bit of confusion! :)
5. Acient Forest by Acoustic Ocean from Light Returning.
6. Nantucket by Kori Linae Carothers from Trillian.
7. Magic Garden by Marc Enfroy from Awakening
8. In a stone circle by Ian Anderson from 12 Dances with God
9. Ganesha Mantra by Larisha Stow & the Shakti Tribe from Reaching In
10. Ganesha Mantra II by Larisha Stow & the Shakti Tribe from Reaching In
11. Stolen Child by Loreena McKennitt from Night from the Alhambra
12. The Bonny Swans by Loreena McKennitt from Night from the Alhambra
13. Ordinary Day by J.P. Jones from Salvation Street
14. Blood of Eden by Peter Gabriel
15. Dragons by Anne Lister from Spreading Wings
16. Old Time Religion by Peter Seger from Peter Seger's Sing Along CD
17. Online Religion by Tom Smith from Plugged.
18. Pray your Gods by Toad the Wet Sprocket.
19. Penquin Lust by Annwn.
20. Superman Sex Life Boogie by Tom Smith from Plugged.
21. The Gate by Enigma from The Screen Behind the Mirror.
22. Push the Limits from The Screen Behind the Mirror.
23. GURU - Didn't catch it - will check with Murphy
24. God is Alive, Magick is Afoot by Buffy Saint-Marie from Unknown.

I'm not going to try to go into any show notes, as I was not there for it. But I will do my best to make up for it with tomorrow's show. Remember, tune in to listen to us at 89.3 on the FM dial in Lincoln, NE or Time Warner Cable's channel 10 in Lincoln. If you are one of our MANY online listeners, go to KZUM and click on the streaming audio. But you know that already. :D The show is EVERY Sunday at 9am CST.

Gods bless and keep your ears AND eyes on the traffic as you listen to KZUM, Lincoln's own Community Radio Station.

-Phil aka Rev Moonbeam

Pagan-Musings: An Introduction

Pagan-Musings: An Introduction

www.BlogTalkRadio.com

Hosted by RevKess and KaliSara

original air date: Saturday, July 18, 2009, 10:00pm CST at www.blogtalkradio.com/Pagan-Musings

Greetings and well met, our friends and listeners! We had a slow start to our first program, due to technical difficulties. We did manage to pull it off, though! Thank you to Aut and Lostrayne on the East Coast for showing their support in the chat room and listening to Kali and I get our wits about us.

The primary purpose of this first episode was to test the waters and see if we could get most of what we were doing figured out. I think we did manage to do so, but only time will tell. Our next episode will hopefully have less technical errors in programming and more success with our conversational continuity.

I would like to apologize for the dead air time towards the end of the show, it would seem that I somehow lost my connection with Skype for a minute and didn't realize until after I had been babbling for a minute or two without anyone able to hear me. I hope to be able to catch that before it happens again. But, for a first time out, I think it was rather successful! KaliSara was such a trooper in putting up with me while I was learning the ropes.

One last note, a correction actually, before going on to specifics about this episode and future shows. I did not have a calendar in front of me so I misspoke about the upcoming show This is My Athame. It is scheduled for Saturday, August 15^th, I had said the 10^th, which is a Tuesday. A little hard to do a Saturday show on Tuesday. My apologies for any confusion.

Topics discussed in our Introduction:

• The Summoning by Nuit on the album Mother Night – http://www.motogrrl.org

• Pagan Alliance Network – http://paganalliancenetwork.ning.com

  • Weekly schedule of events

  • Online presence

• Pangaia Metaphysical Store, bringing the metaphysical to life – http://www.pangaiastore.com

• DolphinMoon Coven

  • DolphinMoon Coven Seeker Class

  • DolphinMoon Coven Open New Moon Meditation and Healing Circle

• Order of the Red Grail, Church for Transformational Wicca

  • Open Full Moon Circle

• Pagan Right Alliance – http://www.yahoogroups.com/PaganRightsAlliance

• Murphy's Magic Mess – http://www.kzum.org and http://www.myspace.com/Murphysmagcikmess

  • Pagan music program on Lincoln's own community radio station, KZUM 89.3FM, Sundays at 9am CST

• Witchy Living with Cairelle – http://www.blogtalkradio.com/WitchyLiving

Future Shows:

1. Saturday, July 25, 2009, 10pm CST: Pagan Alliance Network, history, what it is today, and what it offers.

2. Saturday August 1, 2009, 10pm CST: The Quantum Pagan, how science has proven magic exists and how to use quantum mechanics in every day life.

3. Saturday, August 8, 2009, 10pm CST: The Techno Pagan, use of technology and the internet to reach out to the Pagan community.

4. Saturday, August 15, 2009, 10pm CST: This is My Athame, ritual tools, their uses, and what to use in a pinch.

Special Announcements:

1. The DolphinMoon Coven Seeker Class is schedule for Sunday, July 19^th at 4pm at the home of Phil Kessler. Email him at dorian.nos@gmail.com for directions. Students may arrive as early as 3:30pm for check-in before class. This month's class is comparative religions, giving students an opportunity to discuss their religious backgrounds, how they came to their current path and how they have reconciled their path with their friends and families.

2. The DolphinMoon Coven Open New Moon Meditation and Healing Circle is schedule for Sunday, July 19^th at 7pm at the home of Phil Kessler. Email him at dorian.nos@gmail.com for directions. Attendees may arrive as early as 6:30pm for check-in. These sessions are an opportunity to celebrate the new moon in an open and welcoming atmosphere as well as help to boost one's own energies if in a time of need.

3. The Pagan Alliance Network's Meditation and Divination Night is scheduled for Saturday, July 25^th at 7pm at the home of Phil Kessler. Email him at dorian.nos@gmail.com or contact him on http://paganalliancenetwork.ning.com for directions. Participants may arrive as early as 6:30pm for check-in. The Meditation and Divination night is intended as a means to practice both meditation techniques and divination. Participants are encouraged to bring their favorite divinatory tools.

4. The Pagan Alliance Network is hosting it's Second Annual Yard Sale on Friday, July 31st-Sunday, August 2^nd from 10am-6pm at the home of Julia. Please contact Phil at dorian.nos@gmail.com or on http://paganalliancenetwork.ning.com for more specific details. 10% of all profits are invested into PAN.

5. The Pagan Alliance Network is hosting an Open Lammas Ritual on Saturday, August 1^st at 7pm at the home of Julia. Please contact Phil at dorian.nos@gmail.com or on http://paganalliancenetwork.ning.com for directions. Participants may arrive as early as 6:30pm for check-in. Ritual attire is not required, but is appreciated. Please bring a potluck dish, table service for yourself and any guests, and a non-alcoholic beverage to share.

6. Witchy Living with Cairelle, www.blogtalkradio.com/WitchyLiving is doing a special podcast with guest Rev. Philipp J. Kessler for the Pagan Alliance Network. The show is scheduled for Sunday, August 2^nd at 8pm CST. They will be discussing the Pagan Alliance Network and Rev. Kessler's work with past life insights and regressions. If time allows, and listeners are interested, Rev. Kessler may attempt to do mini-past life insight readings on the air. Visit Witchy Living at www.witchyliving.com for more details and to browse Cairelle's online store.

Again, we would like to thank you for listening to the show and hope you tune again next week!

Blessings,

RevKess and KaliSara

RevKess can be reached at philippk@pangaiastore.com

Read his blogs at http://philonradio.blogspot.com, http://randommishaps.blogspot.com, and

http://www.pangaiastore.com/blog

KaliSara can be reached at sarahb@pangaiastore.com

Read her blogs at http://www.pangaiastore.com/blog

Sunday, July 12, 2009

Greetings, once again! Thank you for listening to Murphyy's Magic Mess on KZUM 89.3FM in Lincoln, NE or on the web at www.kzum.org, and Lincoln Time Warner Cable channel 10.

I am going to show the two main looks of Damon, the Pocket Pirate a.k.a. Sir Fluff. the first picture is Damon looking all cool at the microphone with his dark glasses and slicked hair. The second one is Sleepy Damon from a couple of weeks ago. Poor man came in tired off his feet, bedraggled and barely dressed - that is, he was dressed by not as dressed as Damon usually. Too bad I didn't get a picture of him in his kilt from last week! Will have to see if we can catch him in that again. Ooolahlah!

Unfortunately, I do have to be a good boy and avoid posting any pictures that could be compromising to Damon or the radio station. But that doesn't mean I can't take them! /evil grin/

As promised: Murphy's Magick Mess is now available online to listen to any time of day or night! Sometime today the new site will be totally up and running. Damon has worked out a way to put the show on MySpace.com, you do not need to have a MySpace account to access the show. We will have a brief instruction list for how to access the show for those who are not familiar with MySpace. Due to FCC regulation regarding music programs, we are only able to have the show on the site for two weeks at a time, so if you missed a program, be sure to check for it within two weeks of that date. It is being broadcast on MySpace as a video file, which means it will not be downloadable nor will you be able to put certain songs on repeat. But we will have playlists for the shows, going all the way back to the mid 1990's, when Murf took over from Cindy Clarity's Spiral Dance. There will also be a link to this blog and other related information. I am still working out some details with Damon and Murf, but we might have some rather interesting things going on with the MySpace site. So keep checking it weekly for updates other than just the show.

Announcements, announcements, announcements!
Tonight, Sunday 12th, at 6pm is the Open Full Moon Circle hosted by the Order of the Red Grail, Church for transformational Wicca at the Unitarian Church at 6300 A Street. The meet and greet portion of the evening begins at 6pm with the Circle to follow at 7pm. All are welcome and there is no charge for this event.

Thursday, July 16th, at 7pm is this month's DolphinMoon Coven Seeker Class hosted by DolphinMoon Coven at Phil's apartment. This month's topic is Comparative Religions. Check-in starts at 6:30pm and meditation is at 7pm. New students or curious individuals are welcome. Please contact Phil for more information or call 402-202-9676.

Saturday, July 18th, at 7pm is the next Discussion Group meeting for the Pagan Alliance Network, hosted by Julia in the Belmont area of Lincoln. This week's topic is Portable Altars, what are they and how do you make them? Check-in begins at 6:30 and meditation starts at 7pm. New faces are welcome! Please contact Phil for more information or call 402-202-9676.

Sunday, July 19th, at 7pm is the DolphinMoon Coven Open New Moon Meditation and Healing Circle hosted by DolphinMoon Coven at Phil's apartment. Meet and greet session begins at 6:30 and the meditation will start at 7pm. New faces welcome! ! Please contact Phil for more information or call 402-202-9676.

Check out the Moon Phase applet I found.

Well, all, it was a wonderful show, again. If I may toot my own horn, that is. You see, Murf asked me to help put the show together for Sunday. It was a blast. Hardly even got close to playing half of what I had picked out, but it is May and we have four more shows to go. ;)

The morning started out for me, Sarah was visiting from Cozad and we got up with plenty of time to spare before the show.... or so we thought. It was the Lincoln Marathon. I live right off of 10th Street and the radio station is located on the top floor of the Terminal Building, which is also on 10th. Guess what, the Marathon route went from before my apartment to past the studio. Needless to say, we had fun getting there. Good thing I suggested we leave early. We managed to find a parking space only a block away from the station. Now, Murf, being more experienced, left early enough to take an alternate route to the station and had few problems getting there. She was just arriving at the sound booth as Sarah and I got upstairs. Thank you, Damon, for waiting in the parking lot for us! You are a Goddess send!

Once we arrived and got settled in, Murf started off the show with the back up disk she made just in case I wasn't able to arrive on time. Heh. Good thing, too. She had some wonderful new stuff courtesy of a music promoter, and it was BEAUTIFUL. I have received comments in email from one of my listeners in Colorado. Blessed be, Lauralee!

The Pocket Pirate, a.k.a. Damon, was with us once again. I am so pleased to have him back on the show. He brings an interesting take on things. I sometimes am too serious and he makes us all laugh. Seems I have turned into the Straight Man on the show, and that is just ironic if you know me at all. :) I am good for being the butt of jokes, but I also like to share some good ones.

Sarah's visit to the show was great. She was there for moral support during my first solo-esque stint behind the boards. And that was her voice you heard a lot during the second half of the show. She did our Quotes and helped with the announcements. She is also helping me to find some fun and interesting music to maybe play in the future. One of her suggestions is Enter the Haggis, a Celtic rock group out of Canada. You can find them at www.enterthehaggis.com, where you can listen to streams of all four of their albums thus far and even purchase their music. At some point I am sure you will get to hear some of their music on the show. We are pondering doing themed shows once a month to help share some of the great stuff we have found that doesn't always fit into the normal genre of Pagan music.

Now, on to some of the Calendar of Events type stuff for you all. I know not all of this got covered on the air, but we try our best to share it all with you when we can.

Calendar for May 4th-10th
Monday, May 4th, 2009: Moon is void of coarse at 8:31pm

Tuesday, May 5th, 2009: Moon enters Libra at 4:51am
Cinco de Mayo, Mexican holiday of the dead
Beltaine cross quarter day, sun reaches 15 degrees Taurus

Wednesday, May 6th, 2009: Long Island Church of Aphrodite formed by Rev. Gleb Botkin, 1938

Thursday, May 7th, 2009: Moon is void of coarse at 5am
Moon enters Scorpio at 11:48am

Friday, May 8th, 2009: Full Moon at 11:01pm

Saturday, May 9th, 2009: Moon is void of coarse at 1:48pm
Moon enters Sagittarius at 8:49pm
Flower Moon is the name of the Full Moon
Joan of Arc canonized, 1920.
First day of the Lumeria, Roman festival of the dead; this festival was probably borrowed from the Etruscans and is one possible ancestor of our modern Halloween.

Sunday, May 10th, 2009: Mother's Day

Upcoming Events:
Saturday, May 9th, 2009: Mysteries of Wicca, hosted by the Order of the Red Grail, Church for Transformational Wicca, 2pm at Here & Back Again. This month's class is on Divination.
Pagan Alliance Network Meet & Greet Social at 5pm, at Here & Back Again. An opportunity for Pagans and curious minded people to get together in a neutral environment and learn about each other.

Sunday, May 10th, 2009: Open Full Moon Circle, hosted by the Order of the Red Grail, Church for Transformational Wicca, 6pm at the Unitarian Church at 6300 A Street, Lincoln. Meet and Greet at 6pm, ritual is at 7pm. Ritual attire not required, but encouraged. Please be sure to arrive before ritual starts.

A reminder:
Lincoln: Friday May 15, 2009 — 8-10pm
Lincoln NE House Concert
Hosted by Joe and Jade
2348 D Street
Lincoln, NE 68502
$6-$15 suggested donation, please.
RSVP to Jade: (402) 613-7891

Omaha: Saturday May 16, 2009 — 8pm
The Dollhouse
4022 Lafayette Ave
Omaha NE 68131
Join us at Bryir's lovely Victorian home.
$6-$15 donation, please.

Unfortunately, SJ won't be available to do an appearance of the show during this tour, but we may be able to line something up for during her next tour. Be sure to RSVP for the Lincoln show so that Jade knows how many people to expect. Your's truly is going to do his best to be there.

Tidbits & Quotes:
All things grow with love. -- Anonymous
Real love stories never have endings. -- Anonymous
Live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now! -- Victor Frankl
Love many, trust few, and always paddle your own canoe. -- Anonymous
The best proof of love is trust. -- Anonymous

COMING UP NEXT WEEK:
More Beltaine/May music from such artists as Incubus Succubus, Gaia Consort and a host of others.
Mother's Day Pagan Music. Wonder what that could be.....?
Further details on the Full Moon Circle on Sunday the 10th.

Again, I would like to thank all you wonderful people for listening to KZUM and Murphy's Magic Mess. On behalf of Murphy, the Pocket Pirate, Sarah, and myself, have a safe and wonderfully joyous Beltaine month! -Phil

April 12, 2009

Hello, loyal listeners! Hope you all enjoyed the show this weekend. After Murf threw me onto the boards and I got a handle on things, I enjoyed the show very much! I did get my revenge, though:

She was none to happy about that, but she could have said "No!"

I would like to extend a mega thank you to all my friends on PaganSpace.net who were listening this morning. Thank you, Nyx, Gwyd, Solace, Dee, and anyone else I may have missed. It is great to get immediate feedback on the show from our online listeners. I hope to hear more from our online friends.

As usual, we seem to not have enough time for all the fun that we have planned, so here is the information I couldn't get out over the air:

Religious and Cultural Holidays
April 12-19

Sunday, 12th of April: Easter Sunday (Resurrection Day)
First Day of the Festival of Cerealia: Roman holy day. The Festival of Cerealia was a seven day festival in honor of the Goddess Ceres. The exact date of the festival is uncertain, but most likely occurred from April 12 to April 19. Other possible start dates include the Ides of April (April 13) andApril 7. Note that the Romans used a lunar calendar. This date is a generalized date for the modern calendar. This Roman holy day may be on a different day if calculated using the ancient Roman lunar calendar.
In the city of Rome, Cerealia was the primary festival for Ceres. In Rome the festival was accompanied by the Ludi Ceriales, or the “Games of Cere”, which were held int he Circus Maximus. Ovid wrote in Fasti iv. 494 that Roman women clothed in white ran about the city with lighted torches to represent Ceres’ (Demeter’s) search for her daughter Proserpina (Persephone). The modern English word “cereal” comes from the name of the Roman Goddess Ceres.

Monday, 13th of April: Festival of Libertas: Roman holy day.

Tuesday, 14th of April: Adoption of the Principles of Wiccan Belief at “Witch Meet” in St. Paul, MN, 1974

Wednesday, 15th of April: Celtic Tree Month of Willow Begins
Birthday of Elizabeth Montgomery, Samantha on Bewitched, 1933
Fordicalia: Roman holy day. Festival of Tellus Mater.

Thursday, 16th of April: Passover Ends (Jewish)
Birthday of Margot Adler, author of Drawing Down the Moon
Festival of Listening: Kemetic (ancient Egyptian) holy day. It is the day the heart of the neteru (deities) listens very well. The crew of Re (Ra) is in festivity. (from the Cairo Calendar)
Feast of Goddess Hekat: Greek holy day.

Friday, 17th of April: Orthodox Good Friday
In 1900, Aleister Crowley broke into and took over the Golden Temple, providing the catalyst for
the demise of the original Golden Dawn
Feast of Followers of Ra: Kemetic (ancient Egyptian) holy day. The day is fixed in heavens and onearth as a fe ast. It is the month of the followers of Re (Ra). (from the Cairo Calendar)
Mounikhion Noumenia: Greek holy day. The first day of the Greek month of Mounikhion. According to Plutarch (Mor. 828A), the Noumenia (the first day of each Greek month) are “the holiest of days”.
According to Jon D. Mikalson (in “The Noumenia and Epimenia in Athens”, The Harvard Theological Reviews, Vol. 65, No. 2, April, 1972, page 291), “In an ordinary year there were twelve Noumeniai, and thus they form a large and important series of “holy” days. There is no indication in the sources that the religious activities on the Noumenia of one month varied from those of another month, and therefore the Noumeniai may be treated as a single homogenous group.
“The strictmess with which the Athenians preserved the sanctity and the independent identity of the Noumenia is striking. No annual religious festival is attested to have occurred on the Noumenia or to have included it. Not one of the positvely dated meetings of Athenian legislative assemblies such as the Ekklesia, the Boule, or a tribal organization is attested to have occurred on the first day of a month.”

Saturday, 18th of April: Day of Geb and Nut: Kemetic (ancient Egyptian) holy day. It is the day that what Geb and Nwt (Nut) have done in judged in the presence of the neteru (deities). (from the Cairo Calendar)

Sunday, 19th of April: Sun enters Taurus
Orthodox Easter
1579, second of four famous trials at Chelmsford, England results in the conviction of witches
Feast of the Charite: Greek holy day.
Last Day of the Festival of Cerealia: Roman holy day.

Sources: Llewellyn’s Witches’ Datebook 2009
Pr Ntr Kmt World Religious Calendar Pagan Holy Days

Tidbits and Quotes

Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher von Braun
There's no problem a good miracle can't solve.
-- Shick's Law
Beware of programmers who carry screwdrivers.
-- Leonard Brandwein
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
-- A. Einstein
Death is just nature's way of telling you to slow down.
-- Anonymous

Announcements

Sunday, 12th of April at 6pm, Order of the Red Grail, Church for Transformational Wicca, Open Full Moon Circle at the Unitarian Church at 6300 A St., Lincoln. Meet and greet starts at 6pm and the ritual will begin at 7pm. This month is the Animal Council.

Thursday, 16th of April at 7pm, DolphinMoon Coven Seeker Class, and introduction to divination techniques. Call 202-9676 or email dorian.nos@gmail.com for details.

Saturday, 18th of April at 7pm, Pagan Alliance Network Discussion group, check out panetwork.webs.com or email pan founders@yahoo.com for details.

Sunday, 19th of April from 12-4pm at Here & Back Again, Mystic Colors aura photography. Call 817-4177 for details and to schedule an appointment. There is a charge for having your picture taken.

Follow what is going on with Murphy’s Magic Mess with Phil’s radio blog at philonradio.blogspot.com.

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Now, back to some of the excitement this morning. Mwahaha! I gave Murf a CD of music that was given to me by one of my PaganSpace.net friends. Pagan heavy metal, let's hope she approves some or all of it for playing on the show. Windcaller spent some time assembling that for me and I don't want it to go to waste.

When Murf let me run the boards I got pick some of the music. So I played Sacred Ceremony off of Gerald Jay Markoe's Meditation Music of Ancient Egypt. As we go I will be picking more and more of the music. I have started putting together collections for the Sabbats and will be bringing them with me.

That is all I have for now. Hope you all enjoy the show and remember to tune in next Sunday at 9am CST!

Gods Bless!
-Phil

April 4, 2009

Greetings and well met, my friends! Thank you again for listening to Murphy's Magic Mess on KZUM 89.3, Lincoln's Community Radio.

Today was a fun day at the studio. After I did the "standing in the cold pagan peepee dance" I was able to join Murf upstairs and help her with another wonderful show! It is my own fault for not getting there on time. I have really got to work on getting up early enough to meet Murf downstairs. A big thanks to our friends with the Gospel show for letting me in as they left. And we dearly hope that our friend with that show gets well very soon!

We listened to some wonderful music, everything from nice and relaxing meditation style music to some Ray Stevens with the Baptist Squirrel. That was a hoot!

We didn't get a chance to do our weekly announcements, so here we go:
Saturday the 11th is the Mysteries of Wicca class at Here & Back Again, presented by the Order of the Red Grail, Church for Transformational Wicca at 2pm. This weeks class is on herbs. There is a $5 free will donation request to cover use of the space and other expenses related to the class.
Saturday night at 7pm is the Pagan Alliance Network Craft & Game night at Julia's home. you can email me or call 402-202-9676 for details on this. Generally PAN does a c(C)raft project related to one of their discussions or just has fun with crafting and gaming.

Sunday the 12th at 6pm is the Order of the Red Grail, Church of Transformational Wicca's open Full Moon Circle at the Unitarian Church on A Street in Lincoln. Meet and greet session begins at 6pm and the ritual will be at 7pm.

And save some money for your Aura Photopgraph on the 19th at Here & Back Again. Mystic Colors is coming down from Omaha to take your aura photo. They will be at the store from 12-noon to 4pm. Cost is $25.

Cultural and Religious Holidays from April 6-12, 2009:
Tuesday, April 7th - Church of All Worlds founded in 1962.
First Wiccan "tract" published by Pete Pathfinder Davis in 1996
Wednesday, April 8th - William Alexander Aynton initiated into the Isis-Urania temple of the
Golden Dawn in 1896, he would later be called the "Grand Old Man" of
the Golden Dawn.
Thursday, april 9th - Full Moon, Wind Moon. Moon is fullest at 9:56 am CST
Passover begins
Friday, April 10th - Good Friday
Birthday of Rev. montague Summers, orthodox scholar and author of A
History of Witchcraft and Demonology, 1880
Saturday, April 11th - Burning of Major Weir, Scottish "sorcerer" who confessed of his own
accord in 1670; some historians believe that the major became delusional
or senile because up until his confession he had an excellent reputation
and was a pillar of society.
Sunday, April 12th - Easter


There will be oh so much more next week:
New (to me) music by Folkearth, Falkenbach and Finntroll. Maybe even so lovely music from Gaia Consort. Thank you to Dave C. for sharing some of his Pagan heavy metal collection with me. Woot!
More Quotes and Tidbits, Cultural and Religious Holidays, and Announcements.

Speaking of announcements, Darla and Josh at Here & Back Again are putting on the Earth-Spirit-Celebration June 7th, 2009. If you are interested in finding out more about being a vendor at this event, go visit the store or check out their website! :)

Thanks for listening, goddess bless! - Phil