Have you ever wondered what it is about a song lyric that captures your imagination? Some lyrical phrases leave a stirring within us long after the song ends, while others leave us flat. What makes the difference? One of our challenges as songwriters is to create an experience for our listeners without them feeling bludgeoned. …
Alane was kind enough to ask me to be a guest writer, once again, for these blogs. In her request she wanted to know how my Beltane song Bringing in the May came about. I answered that I’d like to know that TOO and grinned. It’s is on my album Welcome to Annwfn. Here it …
I’m here with your Beltane horoscopes, good pagan folk. It’s the merriest time of the year! Life is springing forth in leaf and blossom, birds are gloriously singing, knowing what is coming. The days get longer and warmer. It feels as if the world is born anew! Astrologically, the planets agree! The sun, at moment …
Today I am toasting the arrival of the Beltane season with some mead I made two years ago. Remember those strange times? It was April of 2020 and we were holed up in our homes. I was very, very single at that time, so it was rather an isolating experience. For me, that was a …
The roots of connection between social justice and music run deep. Music has a unique power not only to tap into a deep emotional state, but also share that state with an entire group of people. It is both evocative and connecting, making it a perfect medium for social justice. A Brief History of Social …
Murphy’s Magic Mess airs live on Sundays at 9 am CT from the studios at KZUM-Lincoln/KZUM-HD in Lincoln, NE. For over 30 years, one Pagan content radio program or another has aired on KZUM. Starting in 1987 with Cindy Clardy and continuing on to Nadine “Mama Dragon,” “Murf” Murphy in 1994. The current host, Phil …
Hello – warm and magical greetings from Australia. I want to share with you the creation and birthing of one of my songs ‘ Goddess Of The Southern Land’ and how it came out of my spiritual journey in this country I call home. The land of my blood ancestors I am a first generation …
Submito Silentium This was not the post we thought to write. It is not the post we want to write. It is, however, the post we felt we needed to write. On February 11, 2022, Spiral Rhythm lost part of its soul when our beloved PJ Seale passed through the veil. She had been doing …
Just recently, we saw a lovely full Moon in Virgo, with the Sun in Pisces. Yes, I know, pre-Eostara. However, that ties into other things going on which are pretty big this period. As you can see in the chart, Neptune and Jupiter are running very close together. In fact, by April 12th, they are …
Microseconds following the Big Bang (approximately 14 Billion years ago)… the Cosmic Fireball expands, inflates, creating waves and ripples… they persist over eons of time, becoming Fields and Particles… and galaxies, and stars, and planets, and… Us? and Magic? Can what we know from Ritual and Ceremony be compatible with the story told by Science? …
