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 …
By Kira Lang of Spiral Rhythm Our three tracks on The Red Album: Pagan Voices for Reproductive Rights (redalbum.org) are very different but with the same goal. Bringing awareness to reproductive rights, raising funds to benefit those in need, and using our voices in protest of injustice. They are the chant Mother Of by Kiki …
As we sit at the table of our first bountiful harvest of the year, what do you see laid before you? This is a question I have asked myself too many times to count over the last week. The same answer rang back in my face over and over, “keep going, you’re almost there”. I …
Hello Everyone. Looking back over the songs I write and have written, I have noticed that I do write a lot about time, love and the space between. I do believe that time is an illusion, a way for us to navigate and better learn about love. The space between us is also an illusion. …
1971 and I was 9, living an almost idyllic childhood, deeply loved and sheltered from the world and news of the Vietnam War, riots, racism, and rising feminism. But that summer, the protest lyrics and subversive rhythms that began drifting through the car window at stop lights, on the radio at a friend’s pajama party, …
We’re the Crow Women, a Goddess-focused women’s circle that has had a long, rich life as a pagan coven as well as a parallel identity as an award-winning pagan choir. We’re feminists, and that informs our political actions, our spiritual practice and our music. When a group of pagan musicians from across the USA decided …
The Dream of Gaian Culture Almost all of the Gaia Consort ideas came from the dream of building community and culture around celebrating the natural world. Imagine a world where the Great Cycles were taken seriously, hearkening back to the early days of agriculture, when we didn’t have the “luxury” of ignoring the seasons. None …
Do you believe that lovers and partners are meant to find each other? Once upon a time, back in 2006, I was on my way to the airport with a friend. We were running a little late but we were both excited about the adventure that lay before us. That was when the Lady decided …
“March me up a mountain. Push me off the edge I’d rather die flyin’ Than to ever leave this ridge…” I was going to write about Nothing Holy but the Blood, my contribution to the upcoming compilation, The Red Album. Instead I chose to write about aging and starting over. A few years ago, after …
Lupercalia: goat skins, kink, and fertility. The snowdrops are up. That’s how I know it’s February. With February comes the Feast of Lupercalia or its mild, newer religious overlay. As much as I love chocolate, I get a sweet giggle out of the old ways. Besides, they’re not mutually exclusive by any means. As the …
