February Full Moon

After having a few minor arguments with BTR yesterday (I finally won this morning), I am uploading the newest episode of Musica Pagani as I type this play list out for you. My sincerest apologies to everyone who tried to listen to the Cernunnos Rising feature last night. It didn't actually get correctly uploaded and posted until after midnight. Not even sure if it went "live" until after 8am today. But it is there!

Today is the February Full Moon, as such, I decided to play some Moon and Goddess music for you all. Here is the play list:

1. Wendy Rule - Elemental Chant - The Wolf Sky
2. Kenny Klein - Goddess Chant - Oak and Ash
3. Bear- Star Dust - Untroubled
4. Blackmore's Night - Shadow of the Moon - Shadow of the Moon
5. Damh the Bard - When I Become the Moon - Spirit of Albion
6. Jenna Greene - Lady Moon - Crossroads
7. Michele McLaughlin - Out of the Darkness - Out of the Darkness
8. Nuit - Mother Night - Mother Night
9. SJ Tucker - Goddess - Sirens
10. Sharon Knight - Siren Moon - Song of the Sea
11. Sharon Knight & T. Thorn Coyle - Force of Nature - Songs for the Strengthening Sun
12. Terri Liles Mason - Beautiful Beings - Om Gaia

Remember to tune in Saturday at 2pm Central for a live talk show with RevKess and KaliSara. Pagan-Musings Podcast will be discussing Spring Cleaning and Pagan Charities this week.

Visit our sponsors at Pangaia Metaphysical Store and the Pagan Alliance Network and find out how you can help keep the Pagan-Musings Podcast Channel on the air at BTR.

Samhain Trivia on Pagan-Musings

As promised, here are the rules and the questions for the Trivia contest from Pagan-Musings.

Rules - Live Listeners (almost seems a moot point after the show):

• Send a private message to either KaliSara in the PAN chat or Pagan Musings in the BTR chat with your answers.
• For each person who answers one or more questions correctly they receive a free mp3 download from Marc Gunn's Happy Song of Death.
• Each person with a correct answer will also be entered into a drawing for a chance to win a full physical copy of the CD.
• Live listeners had until the end of the show to answer. Answers received from live listeners after the show concluded will be treated as archival answers and they will qualify for that drawing.
  

Rules - Archive Listeners:

• Listen to the trivia questions in the show and send your answers to paganmusings@gmail.com.
• For each person who answers one or more questions correctly they receive a free mp3 download from Marc Gunn's Happy Song of Death.
• Each person with a correct answer will also be entered into a drawing for a chance to win a full physical copy of the CD.
• Archive listeners have until midnight of the 29th/30th central time to submit their answers.
  

Yes, we have to CDs we are giving away. So here we go with the questions. These are being posted here at the request of our listeners. DO NOT ANSWER IN COMMENTS!

1. True or False: Aleister Crowley taught Gerald Gardner

2. Belladonna and Aconite are/is __________.
a. ingredients in a love potion.
b. ingredients in a flying ointment.
c. the title of a song by Inkubus Sukkubus.
d. names for the Goddess.

3. True or False: Samhain is the name of an ancient Celtic god.

4. The Pagan Alliance Network was originally called ______________.
a. Pagan Alliance of Nebraska
b. National Pagan Alliance
c. Nebraska Pagan Alliance
d. Iowa Pagan Access Network

5. The first episode of Pagan-Musings aired on what date?
a. 9/14/09
b. 7/18/09
c. 6/21/09
d. 10/31/09

6. Which of the following did Leigh Ann Hussey NOT record with?
a. Nuit
b. Uglytown
c. Real Magic
d. Annwn

7. List these events in the correct order.
a. First episode of Pagan Musings
b. Webstore for Pangaia Metaphysical Store opens.
c. First episode of Musica Pagani.
d. Founding of what is now the Pagan Alliance Network.

8. True or False: Isaac Bonewits' first book was the thesis for his degree in metaphysics from UCLA-Berkley. (BONUS: What was the title of Isaac's first book?)

9. Which came first?
a. Gardnarian Tradition
b. Alexandrian Tradition
c. Georgian Tradition
d. Ordo Templi Orientis
(BONUS: Name their founders.)

10. True or False: The last anti-witchcraft law in the Western world was repealed before 1990.

11. In which city is the headquarters for PAN?
a. Lincoln, NE
b. Denver, CO
c. Chicago, IL
d. Cozad, NE

12. Who was Pagan-Musings' first guest author?
a. MR Sellars
b. Kaedrich Olsen
c. Isaac Bonewits
d. Starhawk

13. Who was the first officially recognized 20th Century witch in the United States?
a. Z Budapest
b. Lady Sheba
c. Raymond Buckland
d. Laurie Cabot

REMEMBER: Email your answers to paganmusings@gmail.com.

Phil Gets Roasted on Pagan-Musings

Today on Pagan-Musings, KaliSara instigated a Roast of RevKess (aka Phil, the author of this blog). Wikipedia defines a roast thus:

A roast is an event in which an individual is subjected to a public presentation of comedic insults, praise, outlandish true and untrue stories, and heartwarming tributes, the implication being that the roastee is able to take the jokes in good humor and not as serious criticism or insult, and therefore, show their good nature. It is seen by some as a great honor to be roasted, as the individual is surrounded by friends, fans, and well-wishers, who can receive some of the same treatment as well during the course of the evening. The party and presentation itself are both referred to as a roast. The host of the event is called the roastmaster. Anyone who is honored in such a way is said to have been "roasted".

And Sarah did play the role of roastmaster very well. With callers and comments in the chat rooms, we had a wonderful today during the show. Sarah told how she and I first met, via ISCABBS and we talked about some of experiences at ISCAnics in Iowa City, IA. Those were certainly fun and interesting. Some of the stories were editted to protect the not-so-innocent as well as to protect ourselves.

Listener and friend ChrisInSA called in to talk about some of our adventures when she lived in Lincoln. We met over a D&D gaming session and things went down hill from there. We LARPed, did Karaoke and even performed in a Drag Production at the Q in Lincoln. The Daily Nebraskan did a story on that show and they talk about Sarah in the article.

Sarah's partner and father ofher daughter, Stormcrow, called in to say that he thinks of me as the most "epicly straight gay man" he has ever met. He also related the story of calling me one night when I was late coming home from work. Stormie and I used to room together and we both worked for the same company, just different facilities. My first night on the job I wound up working twelve hours, which was much longer than he thought I would be there. So he called me wondering where I was. I was driving home when he called. Just as I answered the phone I saw police lights in my rearview mirror. The officer pulled me over because he thought I was drunk, I had apparently swerved over into his lane as I answered the phone. Lucky for me he took me at my word that I was just very tired and he let me go with a verbal warning.

And of course we had to talk about the Pagan Alliance Network and some of the incidents involved there. At the discussion group we had a member who was rather young and not educated in the U.S., so some of the terms we were using were unfamiliar to him. These terms were not necessarily Pagan specific. We found that it was easier to hand him a dictionary as soon ashe entered the room. Saved him the time of being lost and confused while waiting for the chance to ask what something meant.

There was also the Samhain that we did hand dipped candles and carved pumpkins in preparation for the ritual. We had a blast making the candles and carving the pumpkins. I even roasted the seeds as part of the ritual feast.

We talked about all of this and much more. You can listen to the archived podcast at www.blogtalkradio.com/pagan-musings.

We also plotted some of the future shows. Coming up on the 18th is Witch in the Kitchen, a discussion of Kitchen Witchery. On the 25th we are going to discuss Pagan Expos & Metaphysical Events, past, present, and future that we have been involved with. On October 2nd we will be in Omaha for Mystic Fest 2010 and will be airing a repeat of one of our earlier shows. But we will be back on the 9th with part three of Sacred Sexuality, LBGT+ Pagans and sacred sexuality.

And of course we had some pre-Mysitc Fest chatter. Sarah and I have been working on make improvements to the store's website, www.pangaiastore.com. We have also made some adjustments to our store logo and will be preparing to feature many unique and wonderful items at Mystic Fest. Check out the September 14th posting at www.pangaiastore.com/blog for more details on Mystic Fest and what we are going to have available for our patrons.

Music played during today's show:
1. Think On the Day by Wendy Rule
2. Dead Gerbil Jam by Kenny Klein
3. We Won't Shave Any Longer by Isaac Bonewits

Murphy's Magic Mess w/ Guest Dale Bacon

Greetings, friends!

It was another fun filled show! With special guest Dale Bacon and some surprises. Dale used to host a program on KZUM several years ago. Our long time listeners may remember Mystic's Dream, a new age music program that was on right before Murphy's Magic Mess. Dale also plays tour guide for the annual Ghosts of Lincoln Tour, which he has been doing for a number of years.

The Set List:

1. Wytches Chant '98 - Inkubus Sukkubs- Away with the Faeiries
2. A Still Motion - Michael Samson - A Still Motion
3. Over Such Beauty - Matthew Labarge - October
4. Die & Be Reborn - Abigail Spinner McBride - Fire of Creation
5. Persephone - Bruce Mitchell - New Earth Goddess
6. The Wild Hunt - Omnia - Crone of War
7. Hail, Crone - Pauline LaBelle - Dancing with the Crone
8. This is Halloween - Nightmare Before Christmas soundtrack
9. On Ghost Eve - Caroline Hillyer
10. Dark Goddess - Crow Women - Crow Goddess
11. The Only Son - Michael Longcor
12. Don't Call My Name in B attle - Heather Alexander
13. Matters of Life & Death - Gail Perrigo - Never Again the Burning Times
14. Kayler's Rage - Heather Alexander
15. Lord Idath (Idath's Ride) - Leigh Anne Hussey - Homebrew
16. Dark Lord - Tamara James & Jennifer Holding - Libation
17. What's Wild is Wild - Gary Moore - What's Wild is Wild (story)
    
18. Dead Gerbil Jam - Kenny Klein - Fairy Queen
19. Anti-Dead Gerbil Song - Dale Bacon (radio debut)
    
20. Morrighan - Damb the Bard
21. Wake Skadi - Hagalaz

Like many of our listeners, you either love or you hate Kenny Klein's Dead Gerbil Jam. Dale Bacon hates it and he wrote and recorded his thoughts on the song. We played that for the first time ever on the Mess, Anti-Gerbil Song is a funny take on how some people react to the song. It would appear that Murf will be using that as a bait during future pledge drives. :)

A LITTLE MORE ABOUT DALE BACON:
Dale Bacon is a long time fixture of the Lincoln Pagan Community. A druid and story teller, most everyone Lincoln seems to know who he is. Either long time listeners of KZUM, local history buffs, or even just your casual about town person, Dale is a popular guy. He's been dabbling in filmography for years and has recently begun releasing a series of DVDs. Song of Amergin was the first release and is available at Pangaia Metaphysical Store. His latest release, A Haunted History of Lincoln - the Capitol City, was released on October 6th and is available through Pangaia as well as Here & Back Again and the Next Millennium. This is the first installment in his series on Supernatural Nebraska. Future releases include a history of witchcraft in Nebraska, which Murf and myself are mentioned in.

Tune into Pagan-Musings this Sunday morning at 12am to hear a segment from Haunted History.

PLEDGE REMINDER:
Just because KZUM is not currently in pledge drive doesn't mean that your listeners can't make pledges. You can visit KZUM on the web and make a pledge through their secure server or you can the radio station (474-5086) at any time to make your pledge. Be sure and mention Murphy's Magic Mess when making your pledge!

Catch next time on the Mess! Missed a show, you can catch recent episodes at our MySpace page: www.myspace.com/Murphysmagickmess.

Pagan-Musings: Ground, Center, Shield, pt 1

Hello and thank you for listening to Pagan-Musings! Even when we have the sound glitches that we did with this episode. Most of the information that we covered can either be found in this blog or by visiting the Pangaia Metaphysical Store's blog. I hope you were able to learn something from our ramblings and musings.

SHOW NOTES:
The topic of this weekend's show was Ground, Center, Shield (pt. 1) Grounding.

Grounding is one of the three basics of metaphysics, the others being centering and shielding. RevKess and KaliSara both feel that these basics are very important to anyone who practices their spirituality in a manner that creates a beacon on the other plains. Grounding is the first of these three basics and is easily done through various means.

Examples of grounding techniques include: The tree meditation as described by RevKess, the burning pot, food, drink, sex, etc. Anything that gets you in touch with the elements. You can ground using earth, the tree meditation or touching the ground after a ritual; using air, letting the wind blow the excess energies away from you; fire, using the burning pot (described below); and water, letting the running water of a spring wash the energies away.

THE BURNING POT EXERCISE

Items suggested/needed:

• cauldron or other fire safe vessel
• salt (sea salt, table sdalt, epsom salts)
• alcohol (rubbing alcohol or grain alcohol)
• matches or lighter
• heat resistant plate

Place the cauldron on the heat resistant plate. Pour equal parts salt and alcohol into the cauldron. Light the alcohol on fire. Sit back in a comfortable position and let your negative energies, stresses, etc flow into the flame and be consumed/transformed by the fire.

This is a wonderful starting point to a meditation, it helps to clear your mind and body of the influences that may distract you during meditation. This can also be used prior to ritual or spell work to help ground and center yourself.

The Swifting Ritual

Dorothy Morrison, Utterly Wicked, pp. 102-104

Materials:

• 1 black candle

• 1 brown (yellow, gray or lavender) candle

• 1 white candle

• table salt

• metal cookie sheet

• paper and pen

• a large supply of “negative” energy

Place the cookie sheet horizontally on a flat surface. Beginning at the center left-hand side of the cookie sheet, arrange the candles – first black, then brown, then white – so they form a horizontal line. Then using the salt, draw a horizontal line from the white candle to a point approximately three quarters of the way to the right-hand edge of the pan. Draw an arrow tip with the salt at the end of the line, then draw a salt circle around the arrow tip to encase it.

Write your desire on the paper in large block letters. [….] But since we're breaking a curse here, simply write “GOOD FORTUNE.” Fold the paper into thirds, then into thirds again, and place it inside the salt circle directly on top of the arrow tip.

Ground and center. Light the black candle and focus on all the nasty energy coming your way. See the harm it;s done, the trouble it's caused, and feel your personal misery. Then take it a step further and feel the anger. Don't just become angry though. Let the fury consume you until you're absolutely, positively, livid pissed. [….] Then name the candle for negativity.

Light the brown candle. Take a deep breath and exhale slowly, releasing every particle of anger from your body. When detachment takes over – and it will – feel the weight of your personal burden lighten. Then see the energy begin to transform into something neutral, and name the candle for transformation.

Light the white candle. See the energy transformation process as complete. There is nothing left but clear, bright, raw, pure energy now. Energy which you can use to manifest your desire. Name the candle for raw, untapped, pure energy.

With your eyes closed, follow the salt line from the candle to the circle, and focus on the paper with your intention. Visualization is very important here, for you not only need to see your desires coming to fruition – your luck changing, your life becoming yours again, living a life you want t olive – but be able to feel them as if they've already manifested.

[….]

When the candles extinguish themselves out, light the paper, and leave it in the salt circle until it burns to ash. [….] Once the ashes are cool, gather them together with the salt and the remnants of wicks and wax (if there are any), and bury the items outdoors. [….]

[T]hings begin to change immediately. [….]. All that's left is for you to decide precisely how you want to live that life you've taken back. And I've no doubt you can manage that!

Books Mentioned:

1. Psychic Self-Defense by Dion Fortune
2. Protection & Reversal Magick by Jason Miller
3. Wiccan Warrior and Full Contact Magick by Kerr Cuhulain
4. Utterly Wicked by Dorothy Morrison
   

Music Played:

1. Meet Me By the Standing Stones - Leigh Anne Hussey - Homebrew
2. I Used to Be a Powerful Priestess - Leigh Anne Hussey - Homebrew
3. Harper David - Leigh Anne Hussey - Homebrew
4. Mental - Noctiflora - the Magic Drone
5. Rise Up Witches - Leigh Anne Hussey

Announcements:

1. East Cobb Pagan Walk in East Cobb, GA. Saturday, September 5th. (More details forth coming.
2. Pangaia Metaphysical Store to participate in Pagan Centered Pagan the weekend of September 27th.
3. Pagan Alliance Network and Pangaia Metaphysical Store to participate in the 2009 Mystic Fest in Omaha, NE. October 3rd and 4th.

Web Sites:

1. KZUM - Lincoln, NE Community Radio Station
2. Blog Talk Radio
3. Pagan Alliance Network and alternate site
4. Pangaia Metaphysical Store
   
5. Witchy Living
6. Pagan Centered Podcast

THANK YOU FOR LISTENING! Remember, you can hear Pagan-Musings live every Saturday night at 10pm CST or anytime you want at www.blogtalkradio.com/Pagan-Musings.

Blessings to you all,
RevKess and KaliSara

This is My Athame, Pagan-Musings for Saturday, August 15, 2009

Hey, there, all our loyal and new listeners! RevKess and KaliSara put on a somewhat disjointed, yet entertaining and educational show for "This is my athame....". The topic was pertaining to ritual tools, their uses, a bit of history, and alternatives for when you do not have your tools handy.

We had a wonderful discussion of basic altar and ritual tools. We touched upon portable altars and some of their uses, in particular what author Raven Grimassi has written about the Strega version of this:

The Nanta Bag

The Nanta Bag is a very old tool, appearingin various forms as it is traced back through the Ages. The form in which we have it today comes to us from fifteenth-century Italy. The purpose of the Nanta Bag is twofold. First, it is designed to keep its wearer in harmony with the forces of Nature. Second, it serves as a carrier for the tools of the Art, so that a witch can perform his or her Magick anywhere or any time. The original followers of Aradia carried them as they traveled from village to village, and soon they became a symbol of being a Priest or Priestess of the Old Religion.

[…..]

The principle of “contagion” Magick was the foundation for empowering the bag. Basically, this means that objects absorb power and have an energy field around them. When one object is placed in contact with another, then these objects are joined and influence one another. The Nanta Bag, in turn, has a contagion influence upon the person who carries it (in direct proportion to the items it contains).

[…..]

A small stone, smooth and rounded

A small feather, blue or very light in color

A small portion of ash (wood or coal)

A small vessel of pure water

A small coin, with a five pointed star etched upon it

A small twig (fruit or nutwood)

A pin with a black head (or needle)

A thimble

A portion of incense

2 small candles

A piece of marking chalk

A measure of cord (nine feet)

A small finger-sized bowl (cup or dish)

A symbol of the God (an acorn, small pine cone, piece of horn, etc)

A symbol of the Goddess (a seashell, string of beads, nutshell, etc)

A personal power object (a lucky piece, a crystal, etc)

A portion of salt

A small vessel of anointing oil

[Place these items into a bag and say:]

O' Great Nanta bag, be thou a natural focus

and a bridge to Power.

I am linked to thee and thou art linked to Nature.

We are One from Three

We are the Triangle manifest.

In the names of Tana and Tanus, so be it.

(From Ways of the Strega by Raven Grimassi, republished as Hereditary Witchcraft, pp. 86 & 87. Text inside [] by Rev. Philipp J. Kessler, 2009.)

We also had a couple of live callers during the show. Both Besom and Cairelle had some wonderful in put for us! Thank you both. And I do apologize to whomever that third caller was that we lost somewhere along the way.

Music played:
Meet Me By the Standing Stones, Leigh Ann Hussey, Homebrew
Rise Up Witches, Leigh Ann Hussey, Homebrew
The Summoning, Nuit, Mother Night


Please join us on Saturday the 22nd of August at 10pm CST as we begin the first in a series on Ground, Center, Shield: the Three Basics of Metaphysics with special guest host, Cairelle of WitchyLIving. You can get a glimpse at what we will be discussing by visiting the blog on Pangaia Metaphysical Store. Remember, you can join us in chat at PAN or BTR before, during and after show with your comments and questions.

Web Sites mentioned during the podcast:
http://www.wicca-spirituality.com/altar-tools.html

Pangaia Metaphysical Store, bringing the metaphysical to life!

PaganSpace.net

BlogTalkRadio

WitchyLiving

Pagan Alliance Network, building and creating community since 1997.

KZUM, community radio

Murphys Magic Mess

Pagan-Musings: Techno Pagan

Techno Pagan on Pagan-Musings

The August 8th episode of Pagan-Musings on Blog Talk Radio was about Techno Pagans and what they do. We had a blast looking back to the early days of the internet and had a visit with besom, a friend who shared many (unfortunately broken) links from her days with AOL's Pagan chat rooms. With some wonderful chat room contributions and a chat visit from our Tradition's founding High Priestess, it was a very fun show and we are looking forward to many more!

Web Sites Discussed During the Show: (This is to the best of our ability and accurate list of links, even if it is not a complete list from show.)
ISCABBS - the Iowa Student Computer Association Bulletin Board System. telnet://whip.isca.uiowa.edu

Pagan Alliance Network - the online home of the Pagan Alliance Network, founded by RevKess and KaliSara in 1997.

PaganSpace.net - a wonderful social networking site owned by Starrfire Price of Labyrinth House Publishing.

WitchyLiving.com - the launch pad address for all of Witchy Living's online resources. Witchy Living is an online occult shop focused on Voudoun and Santeria, owned by Cairelle it is a wonderful resource. Cairelle also hosts her own show on Blog Talk Radio, check her out!

PaganSpace.com - a site that neither of us have checked out much, but it is an option for social networking.

Pangaia Metaphysical Store - an online business owned by KaliSara and RevKess, specializing in unique and one of a kind creations by artists around the world.

U.S. Grand Lodge, Ordo Templi Orientis - the online home of the OTO.

Temple of Set - the official website of the Temple of Set

KZUM - the online home of Lincoln, NE's only community radio station. Here you can listen to Murphy's Magic Mess live every Sunday morning at 9am CST. Murphy's Magic Mess is cohosted by RevKess.

Blog Talk Radio - a resource for MANY Pagan and non-Pagan podcasts. Pagan-Musings is hosted through this site.


PCP, the Pagan Centered Podcast - a great podcast covering all kinds of topics with guests from all walks of l ife and around the globe.

PaganFM - a podcasted music and news radio program in New Hampshire.

That pretty much sums up the show. We hope that you enjoyed listening to us and we are so sorry for the technical difficulties and the lateness of this blog post. Tune in every Saturday at 10pm CST to listen to us live and remember to join us in the chat room! -RevKess and KaliSara

Pagan-Musings: the Quantum Pagan show notes

Greetings and well met, our friends and listeners! Thank you once again for listening to Pagan-Musings on BlogTalkRadio.

This past show, Saturday, August 1, 2009, was about Quantum Paganism. A philosophy or way of thought that has inspired KaliSara in most everything she does in life. You can contact her via email for more information on her personal take on the philosophy.

We would like to extend a special thank you to our live listeners who participated in the chat room and gave us their support during our third broadcast. We sincerely apologize for the echo during the show. We were trying an experiment and it proved not to be very friendly to the recording and broadcast program. /KaliSara thwaps RevKess for forgetting the good microphone and forcing her to have to call into the show via her cell phone/ And HUGE thank you and SNOG to Lizzie from Australia for calling in to the show and letting us know that she was listening.

During the show we discussed in brief several books, movies, and websites. Here is a listing with links when possible:

Books:

The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield

The Tenth Insight by James Redfield

The Secret of Shambala by James Redfield

What the BLEEP Do We Know by Betsy Chasse

The Secret by Rhonda Byrne

Movies:

The Celestine Prophecy

What the BLEEP Do We Know

What the BLEEP Do We Know: Further Down the Rabbit Hole

The Secret

Websites:

What the BLEEP Do We Know – indepth information on the book, movies, and the scientists and other experts involved in the research

Water Secrets Revealed – the official website on the research conducted by scientist and philosopher Dr. Masaru Emoto

The Magic Water Experiment – a YouTube video about an experiment that anyone can conduct at home

Pagan Alliance Network – the home of the Pagan Alliance Network

KZUM – Lincoln's own Community Radio Station, 89.3FM

Murphy's Magic Mess the MySpace page for Murphy's Magic Mess, Sundays at 9am CST on KZUM, hosted by Nadine Murphy and cohosted by Damon and Phil (RevKess)

Pangaia Metaphysical Store – online metaphysical book and supply store owned by RevKess and KaliSara, Pangaia Metpahysical Store: bringing the metaphysical to life

Witchy Living – online new age and Pagan supply store owned by Cairelle of New Orleans, LA

Up Coming Episodes:

Pagan-Musings airs live every Saturday at 10pm CST on BlogTalkRadio.

Saturday, August 8, 2009: Techno Pagan – A discussion of various aspects of the technological and online resources for today's Pagan. Items ranging from websites and online social networking to programs and hardware to help today's Pagan be more technologically savvy and efficient.

Saturday, August 15, 2009: This is My Athame – A discussion of various rituals tools, their history and uses, and what to use in a pinch. Here you will learn a little about the most common ritual tools used by the majority of Pagans and Wiccans as well as suitable substitutes when you are not able to access your own tools.

Pagan-Musings Chat

You can log into the BlogTalkRadio chat room during the broadcast to ask questions or make comments. You can also log into the chat at Pagan Alliance Network at any time to chat with RevKess, KaliSara, other listeners and members of PAN. The chat room is set aside on Saturdays from 9pm-1am CST for chatting about that night's topic. (Membership on the website is required for chatting on PAN. Membership to the website is free.)

Closing Note:

Again, thank you to everyone who listens to our broadcast live and to those who listen to the archived episodes. Remember, you can download each episode for free from BlogTalkRadio and listen to them on your mp3 player or computer whenever you would like. When listening please remember to post a comment, mark us a favorite, or give us some sort of rating. The popularity of our program depends as much on you, the listener, as it does on the content of each episode.

Sunday, July 25, 2009

Greetings everyone! I do hope you liked the show this weekend. If I may toot my horn, I thought the show was uber fantastic and very smooth....for the first time I was behind the boards for the show the WHOLE show! lol Yes, I am the crazy person who selected the majority of the music for the show this time around. A little different, but still keeping with the general theme as it is put forth by Murf. It would seem to that I a getting better at this kind of thing. :)

It was quite humorous to watch Murf AND Damon scribbling down my play list. Murf so that she can add it to the playlist archive on the website and Damon so he can use it for the MySpace page. Woot! And only about five or so pieces that were not selected by me. :) I think I did pretty good and at least one of my listeners concurs. Thanks, Stormcrow!

THE PLAYLIST:

1. Wytches Chant 98 by Inkubus Sukkubus off of Away with the Faeires
2. In the Beginning by Dragon Ritual Drummers off of The Epic: A Drum Opera
3. Otherside of the Moon by Juliet Lyons off of My Siren Song
4. Meet Me By the Standing Sgtones by Leigh Anne Hussey off of Homebrew
5. Carpe Diem by Kori Linae Carothers off of Trillium
6. Begin Again by Terri Liles Mason off of Om Gaia
7. Nocture No. 2 by Arturo Mayorga off of Cascades
8. Visionary Temples by Dean Everson & Scott Huckaby off of Healing Dreams
9. In the Between by Zingaia off of Soles on Earth
10. The Mummers Dance by Loreena McKennitt off of Book of Secrets
11. I Am the Goddess by Spiral Rhythm off of Roll of Thunder
12. Intro: Viator by Corvus Corax off of Viator
    
13. Second Sight by Glass Wolfe off of Xotica
14. Glastonbury Song by the Waterboys off of Dream Harder
15. Hey, It's Cannon by Tom Smith
16. Trans Poly U Fight Song by Tom Smith
17. Dead Gerbel Jam by Kenny Klein off of Fary Queen
18. The Howling by Within Temptation off of the Heart of Everything
19. Freaks in Love by Elton John off of Peachtree Road
20. Foliorum Viridum by Agalloch off of Of Stone, Wind and Pillar
21. Worlds Wedding by Emerald Rose off of Songs for the Night Sky
22. City Magick by Chalice and Blade off of Wild Hunt
23. Ruse Up Witches by Leigh Anne Hussey off of Homebrew
24. The Rede by Gaia Consort off of Gaia Circles

And Now For Some of the Stuff We Didn't Do:

TIDBITS AND QUOTES:

Frogs have it easy, they eat what bugs them. -- Anonymous

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

                                       -- George Eliot 

Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.

                                        -- Robert Frost 

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.

                                        -- Kurt Vonnegut 

I was never lost but I was bewildered once for three days.

                                        --  Daniel Boone

Astrological Calendar for July 26th-August 2, 2009 – all times are Central. 

Sunday, July 26th, the Moon entered Libra this morning at 12:25am. 

Monday, July 27th, the Moon is void of coarse at 9:53pm. 

Tuesday, July 28th, the Moon enters Scorpio at 5:36am and is in its 2nd quarter at 5pm. 

Thursday, July 30th, the Moon is void of coarse at 7:54am and enters Sagittarius at 3:10pm.

Friday, July 31st, Venus enters Cancer at 8:28pm. 

Sunday, August 2nd, Pallas enters Virgo at 12:29am, the Moon is void of coarse at 12:42am and enters Capricorn at 3:08am, and Mercury enters Virgo at 6:07pm.  



Calendar of Events for July 26th-August 2nd, 2009 

Friday, July 31st, birthday of Madame Blavatsky, founder of the Theosophical Society; date of the fabled meeting

of British witches to raise cone of power to stop Hitler's invasion in 1940. 

Saturday, August 1st, Lammas or Lughnasadh; birthday of Edward Kelley, a medium of Dr. John Dee;

anniversary of the founding of AURORA Network in the UK. 

Sunday, August 2nd, birthday of Henry Steele Olcott, co-founder of the Theosophical Society.  



Announcements: The 2nd Annual Pagan Alliance Network Yard Sale is scheduled for Friday the 31st-Sunday

the 2nd. Contact panfounders@yahoo.com for details.

The Pagan Alliance Network is hosting an open Lammas celebration on Saturday the 1st at 7pm.  Again contact

panfounders@yahoo.com for details.

Pagan-Musings, a podcast on Blog Talk Radio, will be addressing science and magic on Saturday the 1st at

10pm.  Pagan-Musings is hosted by RevKess and KaliSara and is a program for discussion of news and topics

of interest to the Pagan Community.



Tune in next week for our Lammas Celebration show.  We will be including music and songs about Harvest as

well as a reading by yours truly about Lammas.

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

Podcast Update

Hey, there, just wanted to give you an update. As I am now working evenings during the week, the August 3rd podcast with Cairelle on Witchy Living has been moved up to the 2nd. That is Sunday, August 2nd at 8pm. All other information still applies.

thank you

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.

July 5, 2009

Greetings and thank you once again for listening to the Mess! We had, as usual, a very good show. Good music, fun conversation, and lots of phone calls this week. Woot!

First, we would like to thank ALL of KZUM's supports, we raised over $13K in our latest pledge drive. That is for ALL shows and ALL programmers. Congratulations to the station!

Second, we would like to thank everyone for making this 4th of July weekend a safe and exciting one! Celebrating our independence is important, but we don't want to be b lowing our fingers off or setting the neighbor's house on fire!

Third, I'd like to send a shout out to all those online listeners that we have! Cairelle in New Orleans, Gwydion and Silverowl in Massachusetts, Lauralee et al in the Denver area, and of course our overseas listeners who are too many to list! These are just a few of our online listeners. You can tap into the live streaming audio by going to the KZUM website and clicking on the microphone icon on the left side of the page. The Mess is on at 9am CST every Sunday, but there are so many other shows to fit your tastes. Explore the site while you are listening to the Mess.

We are always aquiring new music as we go. If you have any suggestions or requests, please feel free to comment here or email Phil.

Some up-and-coming things for the Mess:
At least once a month we plan to have a themed show. We've already been doing something like this for the Sabbats and other special holidays. But what we are planning is something more along the lines of featuring an artist or a style. So if you have any suggestions we would love to hear about them!

Damon is working on creating a MySpace page for the Mess that will have up-to-date playlists and video streams of our shows. Now, these will be track listing videos, not footage from the studio. Though we may through in some pictures of the three of us, our featured artists and guests. We will only be able to have each shop up for two weeks at a time to avoid issues with the FCC and the video will not be downloadable. But you will be able to catch each show for up to weeks. I'll be sure to post the link when it is up and ready!

Murf is moving her website by the end of this fall. Yahoo has decided to do away with the Geocities sites and that is where Murf has had the radio's website for the last several years. Perhaps that explains why she has stopped updating her playlist... Damon and I are helping her to move her archives over to a new site and we shall see what we can do about having special links and other services available. We do know that her playlists will be archived back as far as we can go. I believe as far back as 1996 or so. Again, as soon as we have the live link, I'll post it here for you.

And last, but not least, Phil will be on a podcast soon. Cairelle from WitchyLiving will be interviewing Phil on his involvement with the local and national Pagan communities, the Pagan Alliance Network and other issues and topics of interest. The show is scheduled to air live on Monday, August 3, 2009 at 8pm Central. There is also a chat room open during the podcast for people to talk about the show and whatever else might come to mind. As this is a podcast, it will be archived and available for download if you miss the live broadcast. Phil and Cairelle are both very excited to be doing this together.

May 17, 2009

Greetings and well met, our loyal listeners and fans! Once again we had a chaotic show. But we are the mess. I have to apologize, I was out of sorts this morning. I have an ear infection and cannot hear out of my right ear right now, so I was not really putting much into the show. But Murf and Damon/Sir Fluff/Pocket Viking did take care of that.

As promised, I am attempting to post the play list from each show from now on. Pardon me if it is a little messed up at this point. I had trouble reading Murf's handwriting and with the messed up hearing this morning I may have misheard some of the titles or artists. So here goes:

Wytches Chant by Inkubus Sukkubus
Begin Again from Terri Mason's Om Gaia
Alhambra (the Red)from Lawrence Blatt's The Color of Sunshine
Rhiannon from Or Mabinogi's Ceredwen, Legends of the Celts
Heart of Spring from David Arkenstone's Celtic Book of Days
The Dragon's Breath also from David Arkenstone's Celtic Book of Days
Fire off of Brian Crane's Piano Opus
Road to Fairie from David Akerstone's Celtic Book of Days
Song Bird by Jana Reynolds
Spirit of Tintaginel by Scott Helland and the Gypsy Nomads
Shining Knight in Dented Armour also by Scott Helland and the Gypsy Nomads
Moonlight by Spiral Dance
Pan from the Chorus of Life by Gaia Voice
Das Tor by Pagan Mediaevel Renaissance Folk off their Faun CD
Unorthodoxology by Gaia Voice on their CD The Chorus of Life
Metamorphosis from the Chorus of Life by Gaia Voice
Water Fire & Smoke by Kathy Mar
Elemental Chant by Wendy Rule
Intro: Viator from Corvus Corax's Viator
Skudrinka from Corvus Corax's Viator
Bacchus (lat.) also from Corvus Corax's Viator
Circle Song also by Wendy Rule
Discovery by Three Wyrd Sisters
Gently Johnny by Damb the Bard
....and I know there were at least two others. They got lost as we were cleaning up at the end of the show.

Once again, I would like to thank your online listeners. We are gaining popularity world wide. I know we were already being listened to world wide, but thanks to the internet's chat rooms, we are getting immediate feed back from our listeners. As was evidenced by last week's special dedication to Solace. :)

I have also being getting great recommendations from our online listeners. Since I cannot always play them on air, either due to lack of time or content, I will list them on this blog from time to time. This week I would like to feature my friend Alessandra from PaganSpace.net. She has not yet, to my knowledge, released a CD. Her singles are available at her website and they are definately worth a listen.


Upcoming Events
Thursday, May 21: DolphinMoon Coven Seeker Class, the Wheel of the Year, 7pm at the home of Rev. Philipp J. Kessler. Email or call 402-202-9676 for information and directions.

Saturday, May 23: Pagan Alliance Network Divination and Meditation Night, 7pm at the home of Julia. Email or call Phil at 402-202-9676 for information and directions.

Sunday, May 24: DolphinMoon Coven New Moon Meditation and Healing Circle, 7pm at the home of Rev. Philipp J. Kessler. Email or call 402-202-9676 for information and directions.

Tuesday, May 26th: Gypsy Nomads at the Meadowlark Coffee and Espresso, 7pm. $5 suggested donation.
MEADOWLARK COFFEE & EXPRESSO
1624 South St
Lincoln, NE
(402) 477-2077

Wednesday, May 27th: Gypsy Nomads at the Cresent Moon Coffeehouse, 7pm. $5 suggested donation.
CRESCENT MOON COFFEEHOUSE
816 P Street
Lincoln, NE
(402) 435-2828

Thursday, May 28th: Gypsy Nomads at the Next Millennium Shop, 7pm. $:30pm5 suggested donation.
NEXT MILLENNIUM SHOP
3141 North 93rd St
Omaha, NE
(402) 393-1121 for info

Saturday, May 30: Pagan Alliance Network BBQ and Movie Night, 5pm at the home of Julia. Email or call Phil for information and directions.

METAPHYSICAL CALENDAR (all times are Central)
Tuesday, May 19th: Moon is Void of Course at 4:43pm
Moon enters Aries at 6:30pm
Wednesday, May 20th: Sun enters Gemini at 4:51pm
Thursday, May 21st: Moon is Void of Course at 5:36pm
Moon enters Taurus at 11:40pm
Saturday, May 23rd: Moon is Void of Course at 7:48pm
Sunday, May 24th: Moon enters Gemini at 1:34am
New Moon at 7:11am

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