Caroline W. Casey is a Visionary Activist Astrologer, devoted to the principle that Imagination lays the tracks for the Reality Train to follow. Therefore the cultivation of imagination whereby to spin the irresistibly eloquent unifying story is a strategic art 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).
Primary astrological consultant for Time-Life Books' 1989 book "Cosmic Connections", she has offered mythological-astrological news analysis on ABC"s "Nightline", CNN's "Crossfire", in "People Magazine ", on Public Radio, the Mutual Broadcasting System, CBS's "Nightwatch", "Fox Morning News", "Equal Time" etc.
In 1980 Caroline was a weekly astrological political analyst on Washington Metromedia TV, with Mark Shields. Subsequently her Astrological Interpretation of World News and Politics has been sought in a full-page interview in The Washington Post, a full length cover feature also in the Post's style section (July 2000), on the front page of the Providence Journal, the New Bedford Standard Times, the London Sunday Times, the San Francisco Examiner, and in an interview with James Ridgeway for the Village Voice. She has written astrological-political essays for Washingtonian magazine as well as an astrological-political column for George Magazine (July '98-February '99). And covered the 2000 election for National Journal's Hotline.
Her audio book,Visionary Activist Astrology is published by Sounds True. She is the author of Making the Gods Work For You - the astrological language of the psyche (Harmony Books/Random House or Random Harmony) The audio version, a theatrical presentation of the material in the book, is also titled Making the Gods Work for You. She offers Visionary Activist Revivals at a wide variety of conferences all over America as well as in South Africa (presenting at the Parliament of World Religions), Sweden, England, is the founder of Coyote Network News (our own mythological news service), and the on-line Compassionate Trickster Experimental Juju Mystery School and New Zealand.
Caroline Kenner is a Washington Witchdoctor. Born and brought up in Washington, DC and Montgomery County, Caroline is a Pagan activist and shamanic healer who also practices the Washington art of advocacy media.
For twenty years, Caroline labored in the propaganda mines of Washington, helping shape media messages for mass consumption. She worked as a media consultant for organizations such as Families USA, The Alzheimers Association, and several unions and advocacy groups for feminism and the environment. During the Clinton administration, she worked closely with the White House promoting health reform. Caroline also worked for National Public Radios Performance Today, a syndicated classical music program.
Caroline has also practiced media arts as a longtime spokesperson for the Washington, DC and Baltimore Pagan community. She has spent years working to dispel the many misconceptions in the public mind about Paganism and Witchcraft.
She is a shamanic healer, trained for twelve years by Michael Harner, Sandra Ingerman and the Foundation for Shamanic Studies. She is initiated into two branches of Wicca: the Assembly of the Sacred Wheel, a Wiccan organization based in the mid-Atlantic, and the magical family of internationally famous Anglo-Irish Witches Janet Farrar and Gavin Bone. Caroline is also a proud initiate of La Regla de Ocha de Lukumi, also known as Cuban Santeria.
Caroline holds an A.B. in anthropology from Bryn Mawr College, and an M.S. in communications from Boston University.
Katrina Messenger, a radical feminist of African, Cherokee & Irish descent, is a refugee from the communist, labor, feminist, and black nationalist movements of old. She now busies herself with revolutions of a more immediate nature - changing herself. A founding member of Dark Flame Coven, she finds inner peace and solace by sharing her hard won lessons with others who care to listen.
Katrina is a DC native with over thirty year's experience as a grassroots activist and community leader. She has taken on leadership roles in almost every group she has joined, including her election to the state presidency of Maryland NOW and later when she served eighteen months as the acting minister for the Sojourner Truth Congregation of Unitarian Universalists. Katrina is a full time mystic, an ordained minister and the founder of Reflections Mystery School.
For more information, email: caroline@paganreligiousrights.org
