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Join Taylor Ellwood of Magical Experiments as he interviews Diana Rajchel about her book Divorcing a Real Witch. We'll also discuss her Mabon and Samhain books for the Llewllyn Sabbats series, as ell as her work in pop culture magic, using pop music for magical workings.

Join RevKess and Kalisara as we talk once more with Kyrja, the author and creator of the most loveable Pagan rabbit ever, Rupert! Kyrja's back with another awesome children's book and her wonderful self to tell us what's been going on. Rupert has been busy filling up his schedule. He will be Celebrating  Pagan Pride with Jacksonville Pagan Pride Alliance, Walking the Labyrinth at Treasure Coast Pagan Pride Day, and promoting his newest adventure: Rupert Learns about Making Magick (to be published later this year).  

School violence is on the rise, Russia takes aim at Syria, and the Pope visits the US. This and much more on this edition of the Pagan Weekly News.  Join RevKess and KaliSara as they tackle some of the headlines from mainstream media and share their own unique Pagan perspectives on the news. This edition of PWN will also feature a mini review of the Kearney Area Pagan Pride Day. Gun control. Mental illness.World politics. Religion. Spirituality. LGBTQIA issues. Tune into the longest running Pagan news podcast every Thursday at 10pm Central. 

Join Taylor Ellwood of Magical Experiments as he and Vincent Piazza discuss Lovecraftian conjurations and ritual possession. We'll also explore what precautions need to be taken with ritual possession and explore how lovecraftian conjurations are a form of pop culture magic.

KaliSara and RevKess attended the 2015 Kearney Area Pagan Pride Day outside Kearney, NE this Sunday. KaliSara presented Pagan Activism while RevKess did a two part presentation on Pagan music. In this episode you get to hear a version of those workshops and lots of great music. From the early origins of Pagan music through to some of the newest releases in that broad genre, tune in and learn a thing or two (we hope) and enjoy the music!  Featured musicians include: Wendy Rule, Damh the Bard, Murphey's Midnight Rounders, Celia, and more.  

Tesea Dawson is a native of Tennessee and is one of the founding members of the Celtic, Tribal, Gypsy, Rock band Tuatha Dea.  She’s toured with the group for five years playing the bass guitar, the flute, keyboard and various percussion instruments.  Her final show was December 31, 2014 after deciding to leave to raise her two children.  Today she remains involved with the group by assisting with bookings, promotions, etc.  After spending 5 years touring the festival circuit she is now using that knowledge and close network of friends and tribe to build a new convention in Nashville, TN.  After being inspired by a smaller festival she was asked to help coordinate in April of 2015, she began building a convention based on the idea of unity.  ODD Con personifies that as it’s main message is be original, be diverse, be different.  Though not labeled a pagan event it remains pagan friendly and hosts a variety of pagan speakers, authors, musicians and presenters.  In order to bring folks of all walks of life toge

In the Northern Hemisphere the Autumnal Equinox is upon us, in the Southern it is the Vernal Equinox. KaliSara and RevKess look at how even when the seasons change many things in life seem to stay the same. As they look towards the colder months, the hosts will look at how things seem to stagnate around the globe. Wars continue to wage, politicians continue to lie and make empty promises, and the social climate goes through its never ending cycle of "this looks good, oh wait, it isn't much different than before." PWN's hosts talk a lot about change, usually for the better. But is there really much in the way of real change anywhere around the world? Sounds depressing to think about, doesn't it? Maybe there is real change. Tune in and find out what RevKess and KaliSara see as truly changing for the better.

Join Taylor Ellwood of Magical Experiments as he and Rune emerson discuss the topic of Tarot sorcery, using tarot for enchantments, and evocations. e'll both share our experiments in this area and Rune will share information about his upcoming book Tarot Sorcery.

RevKess and KaliSara get to turn the tables on one of the PMPChannel family, Taylor Ellwood. Taylor hosts Magical Experiments every Monday at 8pm Central. He is also the non-fiction managing editor for Immanion Press/Megalithica and an author himself. In this interview he will talk about his new book Pop Culture Magic 2.0 and related projects. From the book description:  In Pop Culture Magic 2.0, Taylor Ellwood explores how pop culture magic has continued to evolve. In this book you will learn how to make any pop culture into pop culture magic as well as why you might want to. You'll also learn how pop culture is becoming the mythology of our time and how older mythologies are showing up in contemporary culture. If you've wanted to practice pop culture magic or are just curious as to how magic and pop culture go together this book is for you. You will also learn: • How to work with corporate entities in pop culture magic • How to develop your own system of pop culture magic • How to integrate social media

From big political plans to pseudo-science, there are some really "out there" big ideas being bandied about some of the pundits and scientists making the news of late. KaliSara and RevKess attempt to explore some of those ideas and maybe stick a pin in some of them to let the hot hair out. In this edition of PWN the hosts will touch upon some of the bigger and "out there" ideas related to global warming and how to compensate for some of the damage already done by humanity as well as poke around at some of the political views that have cropped up as the United States draws closer and closer to the 2016 Presidential election season. 

Chris Orapello is a Pagan podcaster and an artist. He is a witch & animist, with a background in Western Occultism and Ceremonial Magick, and has been on his journey for 20 years. He is also a proud south Jersey Freemason. In the past, he was the vice president of his college Pagan organization while at Rowan University and later was the primary facilitator of his own group, The Marlton Witches’ Coalition. Currently, he has an exclusive collection of cast bronze items available for purchase at Eclectic Artisans, where they are made to order or they can be purchased already made at HEX, located in New Orleans, LA and Salem, MA.  Chris also publishes the yearly book A Witch’s Journey – A Journal which is the perfect companion to any witches’ personal Book of Shadows. Chris joins RevKess and Kalisara to talk about his perspective on initiation rituals: what they are and what they mean to the initiate.

Our guest this week is Hekataios Pindaros Amerikos, who was once a Bible thumping Christian. Hekataios is now an eclectic Pagan who generally combines Greco-Roman, Egyptian and a little bit of near eastern and Norse elements. He is in the process of writing a book about ancient Christianity, and on this show we will talk with him about what led up to this. Anyone stepping into Paganism from a Christian background will enjoy this segment of Green Egg with the Mother, Maiden, and Crone - on the PMP channel. Join us at 7 pm central time in the chat room, or call us at (347) 857-3605.

Its been politics as usual pretty much around the globe. And that's just what KaliSara and RevKess are going to address in this edition of PWN. After a spotty absence this late summer, the hosts are going to play a little catch up and talk about some of the political exploits of the usual suspects as well as address some of what has been going on in the Pagan world. Will they talk about Bernie Sanders creeping up and passing Hillary Clinton in the Iowa caucus? Will they talk about the recent rekindling of the debate of Wicca and initiation? Will they rambling on about their upcoming presentations at the Kearney Area Pagan Pride Day? Chance are they will do all of this and more. You'll just have to tune in to find out.

Náf Andrewson is a founding member of the Three Wells Kindred of Nebraska and a founding member of Nebraska Heathens United, a group of community and learning "open to all walks of Heathenry, be it Asatru, Theodish, Odinist, Norse Wicca, Rokkatru, Folkish, Odian, Seith practitioners, Reconstructionist, or others with a genuine interest in Heathenry". Join Náf, RevKess and Kalisara as we talk about the ways that Heathenry has developed in the past decade, as well as the modern expressions of Heathenry. We will be sharing information and resources, and questions are welcome.

Join Taylor Ellwood of Magical Experiments as he interviews Stephanie Connolly about Demonolatry and how its different from demonology. We'll discuss the tradition of demonolatry and how a person becomes a demonolater and what it means to work with demons and how to work with them. We will also explore her other related works and why Demonolatry has become so popular.

Singer/songwriter Mama Gina joins KaliSara and RevKess for another visit. With the upcoming release of her fourth album in less than four years, Gina is bringing us and the listener some of her love!  Mama Gina's new CD is collection of unique love songs with a twist. From her IndieGoGo page: Hello!  I am Mama Gina, Fearless Bard and Folk Artist.  I travel with an acoustic 12 string guitar, djembe and frame drum, sharing my Muse and all original music at festivals, book stores and shops, and living rooms all over the US.  Last year, a friend commented, "Oh, you don't really write love songs, do you?"  I took that as a challenge, and looked and listened for love stories that needed to be told.  My new CD project "I Remember Love" has 10 stripped down, raw, acoustic songs about love - and it's all love.  A song for handfasting, the story of my love affair with Kali, a tale of soul mates, a chant reminding us that we are worthy of love, and more. [...] I do what I love, and I love what I do.  Do what YOU love

A member of the ITW (International Thriller Writers), M. R. Sellars is a relatively unassuming homebody who, in his own words, “tells pretty lies for a living.” Although his penchant for creating fiction began at an early age, he was eventually inspired to pursue a degree in journalism, an endeavor he describes as, “a good chase, even though it got away.” His career plans re-routed, he put a secondary talent – electronics repair – into play. However, this did not deter him from writing and he soon re-focused on his first love, fiction. While he had several short stories appear in minor publications, it wasn’t until 2000 that his first full-length novel, Harm None: A Rowan Gant Investigation, hit bookstore shelves, officially launching the acclaimed paranormal thriller series and its associated spinoff. All of the current novels in Sellars’ continuing Rowan Gant Investigations saga have spent several consecutive weeks on numerous bookstore bestseller lists as well as a consistent showing on the Amazon.com Hor

Join Taylor Ellwood of Magical Experiments as he interviews Lydia Crabtree about Family Coverns and hereditery witchcraft. We'll learn what it takes to create a family coven as well as what hereditery witchcraft is and how multi-generational Paganism works. We'll also get tips on how to raise Pagan children and teens and how to handle relatives who aren't Pagan. 

Join RevKess & KaliSara as we talk to the creators of the recently launched Sabbat Box. We will be talking about their inspiration for the subscription box and the items included, as well as their own Pagan retail company, Eclectic Artisans. Hugh Carey, the founder of Eclectic Artisans and Sabbat Box, has been a practicing Pagan for over six years. As an eclectic Pagan, his magickal practice is a blend of traditional Witchcraft, folk magic, and shamanism, grounded in a holistic study of Paganism from around the world, both past and present. Hugh took his passion for paganism and the craft and turned it into his profession by starting Eclectic Artisans in 2012, and has turned it into one of the fastest growing internet Pagan retail stores. By melding the concept of an online store with a handmade Pagan marketplace, Eclectic Artisans has been able to successfully help promote small pagan owned businesses, artists and suppliers by bringing the international Pagan community together in a marketplace type set

RevKess and KaliSara hop from source to source to deliver to you some Pagan related news. From Pagan media sources like the Wild Hunt and Pagan Square to mainstream sources like CNN and the BBC, there are a myriad of sources for news that relates to the global Pagan community. The hosts will share some of the sources with you as well as talk about some of the stories out there that have catch their attention in the last week or so.