by

PMP: Avoiding the Holiday Rush

ImageTo start out the month of December, RevKess and KaliSara talked about ways to celebrate the Winter Holidays without getting trampled in the holiday rush. Covering everything from shopping to family gatherings to creating family traditions, the show was filled with fun and information. Visit the BTR page for Pagan-Musings and listen to this episode and other shows from the Pagan-Musings Podcast Channel.

Music Play List:

  1. Damh the Bard – The Sons and Daughters of Robin Hood – Antlered Crown and Standing Stone
  2. Spiral Dance – Solstice Evergreen – The Quickening
  3. Bone Poets Orchestra – Solstice Call – Atheist Anthems
  4. Emerald Rose – Santa Claus is Pagan Too
  5. Marc Gunn – Celtic Christmas Elf Conscription
  6. Marc Gunn – Christmas in Scotland

leaf and bark candlesAs we move through the Winter Holidays there is a lot of pressure for everyone to do more. Before the influx of consumerism that is Western Civilization, people would take this time of year to regroup, to reflect and to prepare.

During the show, the hosts spoke about how they are going to attempt to avoid some of the holiday madness when it comes to shopping. KaliSara mentioned browsing around on Etsy and doing other online shopping. RevKess talked about starting the holiday gift shopping as early as the December before. Both mentioned the idea of regifting.

They also spent some time talking about how some people feel that when it comes to the big holiday dinner that they have to do it all themselves and if it doesn’t turn out perfect it was a failure. This simply is not true. First, you do not have to make every single dish your self. Second, accidents happen and sometimes they make the dinner that much better.

RevKess’s family likes to do a potluck dinner for most holidays. This enables the host(s) to focus on their guests. By providing the main dish, or some central dish to the meal, the host(s) have more time to prepare their home and make things as enjoyable as possible. This also allows the guests to bring a dish or more that they feel is important to their holiday celebration. Not to mention assures that there will be at least one dish they will enjoy.

It has been some time since his family has all gotten together for a holiday feast. Being one of seven children and each of his siblings having children (and many of them grandchildren already), a full family gathering can be a logistic nightmare. But it is something that he is looking forward to doing sometime in the future.

MysteriesOfHeaven

This is also one of the times out of the year where many Pagans take a little time to ponder and reflect on what they have accomplished in the past year. The Dark of the Year begins around Samhain and continues through (at least) Yule. Those who follow the Celtic calendar have already celebrated the New Year and those who follow the secular Western calendar are preparing to do so at the end of the month. During these two months many people look back over the year and what they have done. It is a time to analyze the events and things that they have in their lives to see what has served them and what has held them back. It is time to begin laying the ground work for the coming year.

In this time of family and celebration it is also a time for us to look to our past and to our future. What have we accomplished that has lifted us forward? What have we done that has held us back? What people and things have come into our lives that bring us joy and enlightenment? What people and things have come to us that do us nothing but harm? These are questions that we must ask ourselves from time to time. During the Dark of the Year seems just as good a time as any.

At Pagan-Musings Podcast Channel we have much to be thankful for every week. Not the least of which are our sponsors. Please visit these Pagan businesses and artists online and see why we are so proud to have them as part of our family.

Pangaia Metaphysical Store

Pagan Alliance Network

Kessler Editing Services

And special thanks to our sponsor through the Winter Holidays, the Shining Wheel Pagan Chorus!

by

MP: Mabon 2012, a celebration in music & song

On Friday, 21 September 2012, RevKess hosted an episode of Musica Pagani dedicated to music and songs about Mabon, the Autumnal Equinox and the season of Fall. The original scheduled date was Thursday the 20th. Minor conflicts came up and he mistakenly confused his dates. Thanks to a regular listener and fan of programming on Pagan-Musings Podcast Channel, he was reminded and made arrangements to produce the show on Friday the 21st.

Click on image to get the audio feed for the show.

Along with the music and songs, RevKess shared some mythology, folk lore and correspondences of the season. The play list is below followed by links to some of the information shared during the show.

  1. Please Bless This Space – Celia – Carry Me Home
  2. Come to the Dance – Emerald Rose – That Night in the Garden
  3. Fae Dance – Spiral Dance – Through a Sylvan Doorway
  4. The Coming and Going – Cernunnos Rising – Wild Soul
  5. Cloak of Feathers – Damh the Bard – Herne’s Apprentice
  6. Dancing the Dragon – Dragon Ritual Drummers – Passage
  7. In Days  Gone By – Elaine Silver – Faerie Goddess
  8. Interlude at Sunset – Bone Poets Orchestra – Belladonna Smiles
  9. Persephone – Kellianna – Lady Moon
  10. Open My Senses – Wendy Rule – Deity
  11. Winds of Change – Damh the Bard – Herne’s Apprentice
  12. Marooned on Venus – Spiral Dance – Magick (Had intended to play Shadow Wood, error in music upload.)
  13. Spring Maiden – Al Conti – Northern Sea
  14. Spring Rain – Hennie Bekker – Spectrum
  15. Spring Love – Jenna Greene – Crossroads
  16. Dead Gerbil Jam – Kenny Klein – Fairy Queen
  17. Anti-Gerbil Song – Dale Bacon (single, not released for mass market)
  18. Last Night I Dreamed of Dead People – Lon Milo Duquette – I’m Baba Lon
  19. Stardust + Energy = Me – Didges Christ Super Drum (single, available as video on YouTube)
  20. Heartbeat of the Earth – Heartbeat – Bloodmoon

Links:

RevKess would like to thank everyone for listening to Musica Pagani and invites you to listen to any and all programming available on the Pagan-Musings Podcast Channel. Questions, comments, suggestions and more can be sent to RevKess via the PMPC email or in comments on this post. Like Musica Pagani on FaceBook for sneak peaks at up coming episodes, information on artists, song lyrics and videos.

by

Murphy’s Magic Mess – Phil’s B-day Show 9/16/12

Wytch’s Chant ’98 – Inkubus Sukkubus – Away with the Faeries
Nocturne – Marc Enfroy – Dreams of the Forest
Speaker/Listenter – Lisa Downing – A Delicate Balance
Morgan le Fay – Celeste Alayne – Prtrait of the Goddess
Moon Dancing – Heidi Breyer – Beyond the Turning
Deep Alpha #8 – Steven Halpern – Deep Alpha
Charlie Kean – The Cundeez – Charlie Kean (single release)
Rhiannon of the Birds – Hugin the Bard – Bardic Tales of the Mabinogian
The Dagda’s Club – Isaac Boneiwts & Real MAgic – Avalon is Rising
Come to the Labyrinth – SJ Tucker – Blessings
Pagan Ways – Damh the Bard – The Cauldron Born
Cycle of the Seaons – Kiva – Finding the Balance Within
In the Belly of the Mother – Music for the Goddess – Goddess Mandala
The Queen of Argyll – Silly Wizard – Kiss the Tears Away
Duncarron – Saor Patrol – Duncarron
Children’s Totem Chant – Spiral Rhythm – Roll of Thunder
Maria’s Not a Catholic Anymore – Kenny Klein – Fairy Queen
What Shall We Do With A Catnipped Kitty – Marc Gunn – Whisker in the Jar
My Karma Broke Down – Three Weird Sisters – Hair of the Frog
Freya, Shakti – Emerald Rose – Bending Tradition
Rock and Roll Alchemy – Haze – Haze
Belladonna and Achonite – Inkubus Sukkubus – Belladonna and Achonite
Le Sorcerie – Gypsy Nomads – Eternal Summer
Divine – Kellee Maize – Integration
Avalon – Sully Erna – Avalon

by

Falling Behind & Playing Catch Up

Greetings, friends and listeners. RevKess here.

We’ve been very bad about posting to the site this summer. It has been one very busy summer. With fall just around the corner, I think it is time that we all buckle down and see what we can do to make this site what it is meant to be.

What we have been good about is producing the shows on a regular basis and mostly on schedule. I say mostly because the Zaracon Show has been a hit or miss this summer. Our good friend and fellow PMPC host has been experiencing some health issues all summer long and been unable to produce his show with any consistency. He has even elected to take a hiatus from all podcasting during the month of September.

Over the next several weeks, I will be going back through the shows we have aired and at the very least providing music play lists and important links for our listeners to catch on this site. In the mean time, my friends, please continue to bear with us as we attempt to build and grow this site to meet the standards that we (and we hope you) expect from such an informational page.

Thank you all for listening and sharing our show with your friends and family!

-RevKess

by

PWN #59: Guest Host Deirdre Hebert

Pagan Weekly News #59, live air date 09/10/12, 7pm Central

Deirdre Hebert, host of PaganFM on WSCA-LP Community radio out of Portsmouth, NH, sat in for Zaracon on this week’s edition of the Pagan Weekly News. The theme of the show was especially intriguing to her and made her acceptance of RevKess’s invitation that much easier. What was the theme? “Politicians at War with Liberal America?”

Topics that were addressed during this edition included:

  • The War on Women
  • The War on Terrorism
  • The War on Drugs
  • The War on Religion
  • The Republican National Convention
  • The Democratic National Convention
  • The 2012 Paralympics in London, UK and the British  Druid Order’s involvement.
  • The novels and non-fiction works of Ellen Evert Hopman
  • and many other sub topics and points of interest

Listeners in the chat room brought up some interesting points, including the use of the phrase “war on…” being a misnomer and just adding confusion to the whole idea of handling these various issues in the political arena.

by

PWN #50: Zaracon is Back

After a nearly three week absence from the PMPChannel, Zaracon has returned. He was absent while spending time with his children. More than understandable there. And we at PMPC are very pleased he got to spend time with his family! <click the PWN banner to hear the show>

For his return to the Pagan Weekly News, Zaracon and RevKess dived right in and discussed many issues and events of note to the Pagan community, even though few of them had direct impact on the Pagan community specifically.  On PWN, Z and RevKess do their best to cover news from the Pagan community as well as talk about news and events covered by mainstream media but from a  Pagan perspective.  Whenever possible, RevKess does these show notes with links to the articles mentioned and further information on the issues athand. And of course, the music play list.

Tonight’s Topics (with Links):

  1. Wild Fires – We started the show off with a discussion of some of the issues related to the Wild Fires in many states across the western U.S. In particular, the conflict between Arizona’s indigenous population and the courts over a fire ban. We continued with a recorded segment from our friend Peter Beckley at That Witchy Place on Magick without forethought as related to the  Wild Fires.
  2. Scranton, PA has opposed a court order and reduced the pay of all city employees to the Federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour. The city is essential bankrupt. But is that a reason to make police, fire & rescue, and other city employees suffer? Many of these employees may well be unable to provide for their families at this significantly reduced pay rate. Don’t get us wrong, Z and RevKess are far from living high on the hog themselves, but Federal minimum wage has not been raised since 2006 and has less buying power than the minimum wage of 1968.
  3. A Rolling Stone’s article on the sharp and sudden decline of the middle class during this current recession prompted your hosts to go into a conversation about service organizations and how some of them that are religiously operated tend to enforce their religious beliefs onto their clients and exchange for the services offered.
  4. From there they talked about the Pagans with Disabilities or Developmental Differences Anthology being compiled by Immanion Press. They are still taken submissions for this anthology. In fact, they have extended the submission deadline to August 31, 2012. Check out the link or email tara.miller21@gmail.com for further information.
  5. July 9th was the 20th anniversary of the death of Herman Slater. Slater was a writer, publisher, Pagan shop owner, and variously a Pagan rogue, hero, and jokester. RevKess, not having met Slater, does have fond memories of encountering his writings and video productions in the mid ’90s, after Slater’s death. You can read a full bio of Herman Slater on Controverscial.com.
  6. A question of free speech, artistic license and the separation of church and state was addressed this past school year by the ACLJ. A source for information that we rarely use, but this article caught both Z and RevKess’s attention. An art project in a New York public school hit some controversy when the school administration required one of the contributors to alter her art to removed religious symbols. This after several other students had included apparent non-Christian symbols in their own contributions. Read and decide for yourself.

Pagan Weekly News is usually slated for three hours on BTR. That third hour being for any overflow discussion or major stories that need to be addressed. Z and RevKess usually wrap up around the top of the second hour. Tonight they ran out of time for the deep topic of the Higgs Boson (aka the God Particle). Tune in next week for a discussion of that topic and how it might effect science and religion in the very near future.

And now for the music:

  • Celia – Ground, Center, Shield – For the Asking
  • Cernnunos Rising – Heart Beat of Harvest – Wild Soul
  • Jenna Greene – Dance with Me – Crossroads
  • SJ Tucker – Cheshire Kitten (We’re All Mad Here) – Mischief
by

PWN #46: Murder, Transgender Hate Mongering, Books

The 46th edition of Pagan Weekly News was rather heated and some what disjointed. For the latter we apologize. Zaracon had to sign off early due to stomach ailments and KaliSara was not prepared for filling in on anything other than the Zsuzsanna Budapest story.

We started out with a follow-up to a story we were a little late in covering the first time. Over a year ago, Peter Lucas Moses was arrested and charged with the deaths of his 28 year old “wife” and her 4 year old son. Wife is in quotes, as the man had four wives and was the self proclaimed leader of the Black Hebrews, a religious group claiming to be the direct descendants of the ancient Israeli tribes. Moses has plead guilty to the killings, accepting a plea for two consecutive life sentences (rather than the death penalty) in exchange for his testimony against his sister, mother, and his three other “wives”. Read the full article here.

We then moved onto the upcoming (Tuesday, 12 June 2012) vote in North Dakota regarding an amendment that would allow religious law (Christian religious law) to trump the laws of North Dakota and by extension the United States. A Christian form of Sharia Law that few are crying out against. We are expecting to do a brief follow-up on the result of that vote in next week’s edition. Read an editorial article from Addicting Information on this amendment.

Our main story was about Zsuzsanna Budapest and her apparent continued attack on the transgender population, not just within the Pagan community, but as a portion of the global community. KaliSara chimed in on this discussion, as she has for our previous coverage about Z Budapest and her apparent hatred towards the trans community. (Hear those episodes here and here and most recently here.) KaliSara brought the current “rants” to our attention over the weekend, referring to two posts on Facebook by Budapest. Please read Budapest’s posts from Thursday and Friday, as well as the comments, for more information.

After the rather heated discussion about Budapest, RevKess felt it would be a good idea to insert the introductory episode or segment from That Witchy Place with Peter Beckley. That Witchy Place is a podcast segment provided to the podcast community by Peter and his wife.  The segments will cover topics of green living, Pagan homesteading, and other environmentally minded issues. Some of the segments may stray from that general theme, but all should be worth listening to. If you would like to hear those segments by themselves or are a podcaster who would like to include them in your own shows, please visit That Witchy Place for more information.

We wrapped up the show with a brief run down of the 27 Essential Books on Paganism from Huffington Post’s Religion section of their online newspaper. We are inviting our listeners to submit to us their own lists of essential books on Paganism and spirituality for a future show. You can list them in comments on this blog, at our Facebook page or email them to us at paganmusings@gmail.com.

Music heard during the show:

  1. 1. Emerald Rose – Fire in the Head – Bending Tradition
  2. . SJ Tucker – Cheshire Kitten – Mischief
  3. . SJ Tucker – Firebird’s Child – Solace and Sorrow
  4. . Cernunnos Rising – Greenman (Last Tree Falling) – Wild Soul
  5. . Damh the Bard – The Land of the Ever Young – The Hills They Are Hollow
by

PWN #44: RevKess and KaliSara at Heartland

Over Memorial Weekend, RevKess and KaliSara went to Heartland Pagan Festival outside McClouth, KS. For RevKess it was his first visit, for KaliSara it had been 15 years since had gone. On Tuesday, 29 May 2012, they discussed their experiences on PWN. Zaracon joined in on the line about 1.5 hours into the show. Both will be blogging and writing articles about their experiences over the next couple of weeks. Please check back with this posting for links to those articles and blog posts. In the meantime, visit the Pagan-Musings Podcast Channel on BTR to hear their talk and listen to some great music.

Play List from PWN #44

  1. Wendy Rule – Deity – Deity
  2. Paradiso – Ancient Waterways – Shaman’s Trance
  3. Blackmore’s Night – Be Mine Tonight
  4. Wendy Rule – Shine
  5. Celia – Connected – For the Asking
by

Pagan Weekly News #39: Show Notes

The Pagan Weekly News is approaching a full year on the internet air waves. Hard to believe. 13 more episodes and Zaracon and RevKess can celebrate a full year of programming. A full year of bringing the listeners news, views, and interviews from and about the global Pagan community. The 39th edition was no exception to that.

Zaracon and RevKess were joined by fellow PMPC hosts KaliSara and Shauna Aura for a discussion of the latest public out cry by Z. Budapest, this time over the “unauthorized” use of her “We All Come From the Goddess.”

Listen to the show to get more details, or visit the Wild Hunt and read what Jason Pitzl-Waters wrote regarding the story.

They also talked about the untimely passing of Katrina Kessler, Earth Day, the Pope’s war on women in the United States, and the fifth anniversary of the Pentacle being approved for Veterans’ tombstones.

Check out the whole show and listen to the archives for all of Pagan-Musings Podcast Channel.

Music play list:

  • Lady Rhiannon – Ink Bah Tah, Horned Lover, 7-Fold God Chant – Covenant of Cernunnos Chants
  • Frank Ralls & Bill Wren – Beyond the Misty Veil – Journey Around the Sun: A Mayan Odyssey
  • Damh the Bard – Raggle Taggle Gypsies – Herne’s apprentice
  • Celia – Symbol Song – Red, Alabaster and Blue
  • Shauna Carol – Sacred Pleasure – Goddess Chant

A note regarding BlogTalkRadio and WordPress: WordPress does not allow flash players on their sites right now. So until either they change that policy or BTR creates a player that is not flash based we cannot embed show or channel players on this site. Our sincerest apologies if this causes any inconvenience for you. You can always visit the PMPChannel on BTR for the player.

by

PMP: Addiction, Possession & Obsession

The Pagan in Recovery, available on Amazon and Lulu

Saturday, 21 April 2012: RevKess and KaliSara were joined by Deirdre Hebert, author of The Pagan in Recovering: 12 Steps from a Pagan Perspective. This episode focused mainly on the aspect of addiction, with approximately 1h45m talking about Dee’s book and her own perspectives on addiction.

Dee has been on the Pagan-Musings Podcast Channel a time or two, either as a call-in guest or a participant in the BTR chat for the show. She is also the host of PaganFM! on WSCA-LP 106.1FM in Portsmouth, New Hampshire (Thursdays from 10-midnight, Eastern). You can learn more about Dee and PaganFM by visiting their website. Dee has appeared on KZUM‘s Lavender Hill to discuss transgender issues.

Along with substance abuse, the hosts discussed with Dee and the chat room participants other forms of addiction. Including sex addiction, addiction to people and ideas. A brief run down of the 12 steps from a Pagan perspective was discussed as well as a means of incorporating each step into a person’s spiritual life.

Listen to the show in archives for full details and remember to keep your eyes open for future installments of this series.

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/btrplayer.swf

Listen to internet radio with Pagan Musings Podcast Channel on Blog Talk Radio

Play List for this episode:

  1. Spiral Dance – Shadow Wood – Magick
  2. Kellianna – The Ancient Ones – The Ancient Ones
  3. SJ Tucker – Salad of Doom – Mischief
  4. SJ Tucker – In the House of Mama Dragon – Haphazard

Tune in on Saturday, 28 April 2012 for guest Boudica Foster!