Caroline Casey
Caroline W. Casey, Visionary Activist Astrologer, is devoted to the principle that Imagination lays the tracks for the Reality Train to follow. Therefore the cultivation of imagination coupled with the capacity for complex story-telling is a key strategy for personal and collective change.
As the late great Native American activist, Ruben Snake, used to quip, “Here’s a little bit of Native American wisdom for you – if we don’t change our direction, we’re likely to end up where we’re headed.”
A native of Washington DC Caroline is the last of five children born to an Irish-Democrat-New-Deal Congressman, and a politically active Yankee Swede. She has a degree in Symbol Systems (semiotics) from Brown University, and has studied magic, mythology and social activism all over the world.
Based in Washington DC, Caroline broadcasts her live weekly radio show, “The Visionary Activist Show”, wedding spiritual magic to ingenious social action to Pacifica station KPFA (94.1) in Northern California , replayed on L.A.s KPFK (and can be heard live on the web, by going to www.KPFA.org at 2pm PT on Thursdays).
Fungi Underworld Bureau Chief
Paul Stamets –
Mythological Bureau Chief of the South
Marie Laveau
A woman of her character, saw a role to be played and played it to the hilt. Transforming culture and standing against tyranny.
“To find a way out of no way, and hit a straight lick with a crooked stick,” says High John the Conqueror, Trickster Redeemer of the South.
Mythological Bureau Chief of the Middle East
Scheherezade
…holding 1001 stories of how to transform culture.
Long before there was Lakoff etc, there was Scheherezade – Who through her dedicated eloquent story-telling prowess, not only saves all women, lifts the curse from the land, but liberates even the tyrant who has murdered his own heart.
(As John Michael Greer reminds us): if you want people to get nothing done but strife, convince them they are
on opposing sides – the number 2. What 2 needs is 3, the third force, – the unifying story – to spiral conflict into creative life force. This story is the irresistible invitation to animate a culture of all embracing collaborative cavorting cahoots with everything.
(To “shoot the Moon”, win big, for those who know the game of hearts, you need all the hearts and the Queen of Spades, a poisonous ally.)
Therefore:
Critique without vision is complicitous with dominance.
Critique is the compost for wise vision which invites us all to join the dance.
Mythological Bureau Chief of the North
Raven
Mythological Bureau Chief of the West
Coyote