I am truly grateful for my friends and the people I have met along my magical, musical path in this life. One of my many awesome friends is Kathleen Hannan who I met at the Gulfport Women’s Music and Spirituality Festival. The timing was around Fall of 1991 or ’92 (we can’t quite remember). I …
I want to share some of my band KIVA’s songs of empowerment with you: Lovin’ Ourselves Into Love, A Call to Beauty and Empowerment. All three of these songs that I wrote and/or performed, were inspired by a lifetime of being treated as “less than” because I wasn’t thin. From being put on a diet …
The inspiration for my song, Diana (Live), which is on KIVA’s first album, The Healing Art, was from being a fan of the Robin of Sherwood series and their idea of a hunter god of the forest (Hearn) and there being a song about him by Clannad. So, I thought there should be a song …
I participated in my first ritual to celebrate Aphrodite (in this lifetime) when I was a teenager. I only remember bits of the ritual but one of the things that we did was a guided meditation where we communed with Aphrodite. In that meditation Aphrodite gave me a rose and I’ve felt connected to her …
I wrote Autumn’s Twilight originally on October 29, 1995. It was published on KIVA’s album Out of the Corner of the Eye in 2006. The inspiration for the song was a beautiful maple tree in my back yard when I lived in Kensington, Maryland in the 1990s. I used to sit under the maple tree …
Out here in Maryland where I live, Spring has definitely returned, with the red buds bursting forth from the twigs and branches of the tree in my front yard that I can see from my home office window. As I drove from Maryland to Virginia, where I currently do palm, tarot, graphology & Lipsology readings …
Winter Solstice Sunrise is the first chant that I ever wrote before I wrote any songs. Sometime in 1981 (I was 19 or 20 years old) I started realizing that I could write music and not just reproduce it (I had been singing and playing music since I was a child) when I was asked …
The first three words of the song that I wrote called High Summer comes from a poem a friend of mine wrote years ago. “High summer reigns…” and then her poem continues. The poem inspired me to write about my own experience of summer and the festivals that I attended like Pagan Spirit Gathering (in …
This is the story of a poem and song that started with a heartbeat…coming out of a bathtub. It’s about being awake to magic and the messages of the Goddess. It’s about the song Jnana Mai, which translates as “mother wisdom”. Tom’s mystical experience In 1994, my friend, Tom Wolfe, master herbalist, fan of my …
