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The Spiral Dance with Hawthorne is a lively weekly show dedicated to folks who share a passion for earth-based spirituality. We offer a combination of music and talk, with engaging conversations with writers, musicians and activists, complimented with th Primary Format : Spirituality Also Listed as: Spirituality City : Unknown State/Province : Unknown User Tags: User Votes: RSS Feed Website People found this Podcast Searching for: View this Podcast on a Google Map. Add to iTunes Text Only listing of The Spiral Dance with Hawthorne Podcasts Trumix.com listings available of The Spiral Dance with Hawthorne Podcasts Click Here to Update the directory of this podcasts programs.

Trumix.com listings available of The Spiral Dance with Hawthorne Podcasts Build your own playlists with this podcast. Celebrating Independence Day This week on The Spiral Dance we honor America's Independence Day. We'll enjoy a ritual you can do to help ensure Religious Freedom - whether it be just for yourself, or for your community, or even for the whole world. Plus - writer Diana Paxson wrote an article for the January, 2007 issue of PanGaia magazine in which she suggests that we can invoke the Founding Fathers to provide protection for our religious freedoms. I want to share some exerpts from that article with you. Also, we'll ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fire Magick! It's Summer! It's hot out there! So, let's talk about Fire Magick! When we start a fire -even if just to light a candle, we are responding to an ancient instinct. There is an enduring need to tend that legendary flame; to come home to the Hearth; to look within the dancing flames, remember our past - and maybe to glimps into the future. Our topics will iclude; Firegazing, Candleburning and Fire Affinities, to get your magickal Fire stoked. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Blessed Summer Solstice As the sun spirals its longest dance, Cleanse us As nature shows bounty and fertility Bless us Let all things live with loving intent And to fulfill their truest destiny Celtic Wiccans know the Summer Solstice as Litha. Litha is an Anglo-Saxon word, meaning “Moon”. The summer solstice takes place as the Sun enters the sign of Cancer; the month of the year which is ruled by the Moon. Litha was the time when our spiritual ancestors crowned the Sacred Holly King. The Holly King and the O ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Holy (?) Grail, and other Such Cauldrons The theme for this week’s show is the so-called Holy Grail. What is this thing that people through time are supposed to be so enamored of? Did it ever even exist? The Grail is the name given to a legendary sacred vessel, variously identified with the chalice of the Eucharist and the theme of a famous medieval cycle of romances. In the romances the concept of the Grail varies considerably; its nature is often vaguely indicated but left wholly unexplained. Follow along as we go back ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The June Bride The month of June is named for the Roman Goddess, Juno. She is a patroness of marriage and the well-being of women. So, for this week’s episode, we’ll celebrate the June Bride. And, along with that, we'll tak about the Magick of the Wedding Ring. Afterall, necklaces and rings are in essence, Magick Circles. If you're going to a wedding this month, you don't want to miss this week's show! Plus; many traditions in the modern wedding have ancient pagan origins; including that all- ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Great Rite; the Ring of Love and Flowere Essences The Goddess and the God are celebrated in ritual communion, through an act called the Great Rite. The Great Rite refers to the greatest act of magick, Creation - as the Creation of the Universe through the Goddess and the God. Listen along as we talk about the Great Rite. There is an old Hindu tradition which says you can attract the person you want to marry, or test your compatibility with the person you love, by wearing a ring attunted to the other person's astrological sun sign. It's ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Warrior Magick for Memorial Day In celebration of this upcoming Memorial Day weekend, I want to talk about Warrior Magick - who uses it, how it’s used. The Warrior is found in female as well as male archetypes. Pagan traditions all over the world know both Goddesses and Gods who describe warrior energies. So, for this upcoming Memorial Day we honor the men and women who have taken up arms in our Name. And, to look at how the early Celts understood Warrior Energy, we’ll take a look at two well-known warrior deities; ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ancient Mystery Cults In the first part of my show, I want to talk about Mystery Cults. The Mysteries were cults in which all religious functions were closed to the non-inducted, and for which the inner-workings of the cult were kept secret from the general public. For Roman men – especially the military – The Cult of Mithras was an initiatory mystery cult which stressed dualism; the conflict between darkness and light. For Roman women, the Cult of Isis gave enlightenment about the afterlife and the trium ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Delving into the Inner Child What does the Inner Child mean to you? Do you feel trustful toward your Inner Child? These are the sorts of questions we’ll be examining. Also, I’ll have a recorded guided meditation from Alan Cohen for connecting with your Inner Child, called ‘Beloved Child”. Feel free to go into meditation if you like, or just sit back and listen. Plus, I have two stories for you! The first, “Awakening in a Dream”, is presented by Stone Riley. Then, I’ll be reading a story by D.J. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Blessed Beltane! This week on The Spiral Dance we celebrate Beltane! Beltane, also known as MayDday occurs on May first. It's a festival of Fertility and Love as we welcome the flowering of Nature’s Return. In Wiccan mythology, Beltane marks the mating of the Maiden Goddess and the Young God - it's the Original White Wedding! So come join the fun. It's Beltane, and it's a nice day to start again! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Conversation with Isaac Bonewits Since the 1970’s, Isaac Bonewits has played a major role in shaping the NeoPagan community in this country. He is the founder and arch-druid emeritus of ADF. He has led public rituals for groups with thousands in attendence in such places as the Thomas Jefferson Memorial in Washington DC, to name just one. The many titles by Isaac Bonewits include; The Druid Chronicles; Real Magic; Authentic Thaumaturgy; Rites of Worship: A Neopagan Approach and others. He is with us this week to ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Magick in the Air! Well, our show this week is sort of - Up in the Air! I’m dedicating this week’s show to one of the Five Cardinal Elements, the Element of Air. It’s a good topic for April because, by many traditions, Air is associated with Springtime and Day’s Beginning. Usually associated with Men’s Mysteries, Air is most often thought of as on the Mental Plane. On the Witche’s Pyramid, the expression of Air is “To Know”. So, Air has many occult facets. And on this week’s show we� ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website An Interview with Kenny Klein Singer/Songwriter Kenny Klein will discuss his music and his Pagan beliefs. Pagan Bluegrass? Listen as Kenny tells us all about it! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website April 1; Trickster & Fool In honor of April Fools Day, our theme this week is: The Trickster and Fool. We’ll take a look at the history of April Fool’s Day, as well as the Role that the Fool and the Trickster play in Earth-Based religious practices. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Here's to the Little People! This week on The Spiral Dance, because it’s early spring, it’s a good time to enter The Realm of Faerie I’m happy to read for you some tales and short stories from William Butler Yeats’ book “Mythologies”. First, I’ll read from “Belief and Unbelief”, then from ”Mortal Help” Plus, I have some recorded stories on tape featuring Morganna Davies . We’ll listen to her performing, “The Little People and the Hawthorne Bush”. Later, we’ll hear “Faerie Gifts” ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Celebrating Ostara This week on The Spiral Dance we celebrate Ostara; The Spring Equinox Astronomically, the Equinox occurs on Thursday, March the 20th at 1:48 Eastern time. We’ll be talking about the history of Spring Equinox - the role that it has played in cultures down the ages: Norse Goddess Ester, plus Rabbits, Eggs and the Balance of Light and Dark The Spring Equinox marks the point in the solar year when day and night are of equal duration, and the daytime once again becomes l ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Celebrating Ostara This week on The Spiral Dance we celebrate Ostara; The Spring Equinox Astronomically, the Equinox occurs on Thursday, March the 20th at 1:48 Eastern time. We’ll be talking about the history of Spring Equinox - the role that it has played in cultures down the ages: Norse Goddess Ester, plus Rabbits, Eggs and the Balance of Light and Dark The Spring Equinox marks the point in the solar year when day and night are of equal duration, and the daytime once again becomes l ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Magick of Nature Nature will be the center of tonight’s theme this week’s in one way or the other. It’s said that whenever the King Arthur’s knights began their quest for the grail, they plunged straight into the wilderness where the woods are thickets.I want to share with you an article on “Wilderness Magick” There are many customs associated with bones. In many traditions, one is taught to be careful not to break any of the bones of the game that one kills, in the belief that if the skel ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Magick of Nature Nature will be the center of tonight’s theme this week’s in one way or the other. It’s said that whenever the King Arthur’s knights began their quest for the grail, they plunged straight into the wilderness where the woods are thickets.I want to share with you an article on “Wilderness Magick” There are many customs associated with bones. In many traditions, one is taught to be careful not to break any of the bones of the game that one kills, in the belief that if the skel ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website March marches on! Let’s give a big welcome to the month of March! It seems to be the month everybody loves to hate! So, this week, the month of March will be our topic. We’ll see if I can maybe help you get a different perspective on this time of the year. We’ll be talking about the folklore of the March Hare. Plus, I have an Irish Story of Magick which I’ll be reading called “The Boy and the Hare” And also, we can’t forget that March 5th was sacred to the Egyptian Goddess Isis! Mar ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jesus Christ! Magick, Religion and Aliester Crowley This week on The Spiral Dance I’ve got a few topics that might all be different, but still somehow related. Aleister Crowley says that Magick is the Science and Art of causing change to occur in conformity with Will. Let's take that and look deeper at the relationship between Magick and Religion. From there, I want to go to the topic that alot of people don't want to touch; somthing that I call the Myth of Christ. And after that, we’ll take a look at the Wiccan Reade: "EIGHT WORDS ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Magick of Animals This week on The Spiral Dance, our Theme is - Lions and tigers and bears - oh my! Well, actually, cats and birds and horses - the magick of animals. Listen as we take look at how we can relate to animals on the magickal level, and how that should effect our relationships with them on the physical plane as well I also have a couple of stories on tape from Morganna Davies. And our music will all have something to do with animals. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Valentine's Day! This week on The Spiral Dance, we got LOVE for sale! Our Theme is in honor of Valentines Day. We’re gonna look at some of the history and myths surrounding Valentine’s Day. Valentine’s Day was named for a Christian priest from the third century, CE. According to legend, he was condemned to death by Claudius II, emperor of Rome. According to the story, while Valentine was in prison he noticed violets growing outside his cell window. He picked some of the heart-shapped leaves and sent ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website February; Fire and Ice! This week on The Spiral Dance, our Theme is February, Fire and Ice. February is the second month of the Gregorian calendar, and the year’s shortest month. It’s named for the Februa, a Roman purification festival. And so we’ll talk a bit about the Roman God, Februus later in the show. The astrological sign of Aquarius, January 20 - February 18th is associated with February. Aquarius, the Water-Bearer, is a fixed Air sign ruled by the planet Uranus. February’s full moon is known as ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Celebration of Imbolc! This week on The Spiral Dance, we celebrate Imbolc , which is coming up on Saturday, the second of February! Imbolc marks the point half-way between Winter Solstice and Spring Equinox. It’s a Primary Cross Quarter Holiday, and it’s Sacred to the Goddess Brigid There’s an Anglo-Scottish folk song which goes, Mother and Maiden Was Never None but She; Well may such a Lady the God’s Bride Be Join in the fun as we honor the Goddess as the Waiting Bride of the returning Sun God. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website From Magickal Figureheads to Music in Ritual This week on The Spiral Dance, I’ve got a few different topics that might just be somehow more related than you might think. We start off with Magickal Figureheads. You know; the images of dragons and female figures that used to adorn ocean vessels. I want to take that idea and apply it to our homes. From there, we go to the topic of Familiars, because, afterall a Magickal Figurehead is very much a familiar. A more common familiar is the spirit of a creature, and the horse has played a m ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Winter, the Northern Quarter, Dreams and Intuition This week on The Spiral Dance, our theme is, The Northern Quarter, and it’s associations with The Winter; Night; the Element of Earth; as well as Silence and Regeneration. And in this context, we’ll talk about Intuition and Dreams. Intuition and dreams play such an important role in becoming spiritually awakened. And so I bring you a traditional story of awakened shamanism - it’s called “The Birch Bessom”. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Happy New Year! THE MEDIA FILE IS INCORRECTLY LABELED "YULE". THE SHOW IS NEW YEARS This week on The Spiral Dance, our theme is New Years’ and the month of January. I share with you a New Year’s Prayer/Spell, using an hour glass to meditate on changes that occur at this time of year. You may be familiar with figure from Italian folk-tradition, known as La Befanna. She has strong ties with this time of the year. Plus we’ll bring in the new year Scottish-style, with a New Year festival ca ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Giving Thanks in America Hey, Podcast listeners!! I am sorry, but due to technical difficulties, I had to remove the audio for this week. I may be able to return it sometime during the beginning of next week. In the meantime, please listen to my webcast! Visit my website, www.spiraldanceradio.com, and find the link on my homepage. I'll have a new podcast on 11/28. Peace! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website