My Interview with InsideOut Cape Cod

Excerpt from InsideOut Cape Cod article: "Oh My Goddess! It's the First-Ever Cape Cod Goddess Festival By: Elise Hugus, August 30, 2012 Cape Codders have two days and myriad ways to celebrate the goddesses in their lives over Labor Day weekend, with the first-ever Cape Cod Goddess Festival at the Harwich Junior Theatre Art Center. The brainchild of Dennis medium, herbalist and photographer Pandora Peoples, the festival is inteneded for all ages and genders “to celebrate the synergy where masculine and feminine energy unite.” With a full load of workshops, musical and dance performances from noon to 7 PM on September 1 and 2, the festival offers a taste of the many talents and alternative healing arts on Cape Cod, says Peoples. “It’s a wonderful celebration and sort of kaleidescope of talent, a bouquet of gifted performers here on Cape Cod,” she says. “I hope everyone can come down and inhale deeply the essence of the goddess.” READ MY INSIDE/OUT CAPE COD TODAY INTERVIEW HERE NOW

Cape Cod Today Interview

Excerpt:

"Labor Day Weekend Festival Celebrates the Feminine in All of Us

By Cheryl Kain

Meeting Pandora Peoples is a multi-sensory experience. The meditation room is serene, almost like a tree house, looking out over woods and a lake. Sage is burning inside a big seashell, and the aroma of Jasmine tea wafts gently by. Pandora’s smile, complete with dimples, is high-wattage and welcoming.

We are drinking Pandora’s Saraswati Mood Lifter tea, with organic St. John's Wort, Kava Kava, and jasmine flowers. It has a delicious, minty taste. I am not usually partial to tea, but this tea is out-of-this-world. Pandora’s name means “All giving and all gifted” in Greek. Born and raised in Venice, California, her forward-thinking parents raised her celebrating Christmas, while focusing on Jesus as a healer, and Mary as a demi-Goddess...."

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Wicked Local Interview

Photo by Cheryl Kain. My interview today with Cheryl Kain from Cape Cod Today was deeply satisfying. It started with sage smudging and ended with a hug. I always love getting pertinent psychic information for folks when it behooves them. We enjoyed some Saraswati tea and I found out firsthand that she is a gifted singer. Interview with Elise Hugus of InsideOut Cape Cod was fun, perhaps I shed some light on the positive energy here out on the forearm. Hope it draws some artistic, holistic and multi-dimensional peeps from up Falmouth way.

Follow the link to read my interview with Candace Hammond of Wicked Local. Take note the Festival will be at the HJT Arts Center, not the HJT.

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Intoxicating Beauty in the Portal of Love

My interview with writer Jen Sexton from The Cape Cod Chronicle went great today. I get to enjoy another interview tomorrow, this time with writer Candace Hammond from the Cape Codder. Framing digital images in a world of mattes made for 8 x 10 photos is like brushing your teeth with tweezers, or cleaning your comb with a lighter. Dingy Magazine is covering the festival for an article in their next addition. Dancing Spoons is our provider of delicious local cuisine! It is the home of the best clam chowder, it will have you flying through the catacombs of the ancient world with the magical bliss of sensory overload.

The show is already conjuring the power of the feminine mystique, and those around me are turning into feline-like priestesses of ingenuity. I can see by the fire in their eyes, everything they touch has an alchemical reaction, blushing gold. As we hack through the humid jungle of discontent, our barefeet squishing through rich dark mud, trampling swollen ripe and fallen fruits, our fists sink under the weight of our offerings of twinkling jewels, with bundles of gorgeous green clothing (fit for queens) slung over our shoulders, ripping our biceps in the tropical heat, we approach the shrine of reverence for feminine wisdom and creative power.

Inside the Temple of Isis, to which we are transported by every great love, for what is love but a portal into the divine, we come upon the intoxicating rhythm of the belly dancers and mermaid chanteuses who heal us with their immortal song.

"Offering - Egyptian Goddess Ma'at" Photo by Pandora Peoples with Victoria Ariel Brown

Goddess Festival Labor Day Weekend

Check out my link below... CAPE COD GODDESS FESTIVAL

This lovely event I am coordinating will feature phenomenal R&B/HipHop/Soul artists the Boss Queens, off-the-hook multilingual rockers Daniel Ouellette and the Shobijon, punkhorn The Goners, Middle Eastern Dance Troupe Isis, ambient and dance trance with Nicholas Rideout, singer songwriter Kathleen Healey, bluesy songtress Alicia Mathewson, acoustic rocker Sarah Burrill, folk artists Joanna Meager and Danielle Ryder, singer songwriter Jennifer Stratton, priestess-in-spirit Tara Murphy and her African drummers and dancers, child prodigy Raquel the Little One, Diana Anderson with a solo performance and Daughters of Moonlight Congo line, songbird Hana Kahn, hiphop artist Crystal, acoustic singer songwriter Molly Parameter, spoken word by Nicholas Rideout, flamenco with Zoe, folk dance with Keelia, dramatic readings by Jamie Horton and...free classes including yoga, mudras, voice work, movement therapy, herbal medicine for kids, bellydance, TCM What Elemental Goddess are you?, and more!!!

Art Show with myself, Shannon McDonald, Richard Williams, Becky Burrill, Ned Sonntag! Vendors! Raffle Sunday!

Kids activities and entertainment include Trevor the Juggler, face painting, henna tattoos, hiphop and karate classes, sing-a-longs, rhythm and movement, from poetry to song children's writer's workshop, and fairy house building.

$10 adults $3 kids.

Cape Cod Goddess Festival: Celebrating the sacred feminine and the pleasureful space where male and female energy meet and create synergy!

Saturday September 1st 12-7pm Sunday September 2nd 12-7pm

HJT Arts Center 265 Sisson Road, Harwich, MA

Amaterasu Sun Goddess

Amaterasu is the Shinto Sun Goddess and creator of the universe, revered in both Japan and Korea. These are my photos of Amaterasu as portrayed by Izumi Hamagaki, drink formulator and designer.

Shinto Goddess Ukemochi

Here is Shinto Goddess Ukemochi, Japanese Goddess of agriculture, grains, and fertility, with Izumi Hamagaki. Ukemochi sews, fertilizes and pollinates the land with her essence.

Cape Cod Summer and Goddess Inari

Citronella candles, blazing logs in the fireplace, crescendos of burning sap crackling, the rhythmic honking of “geese” toads, the high-pitch pulse of pond-side locusts, the sweet taste of watermelon and cantaloupe sangria, breakfast, lunch and dinner al fresco on the wooden deck, salty lips, wild berries on the vines, tart plums on the wayside bush, large green grapes sprawling out on every tree, ripening in the summer heat, brisk swims by the cliffs, slow walks through the dunes to the mud hole…flashing smiles with friends around the fire, dancing flashlights of sleepy-eyed children, cackling laughter in the creek's strong current...make Cape Cod summers invigorating, lilting, heavenly.

Relishing my friend Izumi's visit. There is no better way to spend the summer than with out-of-town guests. It renews your appreciation for what you have, as if you need a reason to break out zingy Spanish wine, buffalo mozzerella, and your favorite eggplant and orange dal recipe. The first canoe trip into your backyard reveals the Loch Ness snapping turtle. A trip to the ice cream parlor by the old merchantile. The Brewster Store, is a candy and gift haven to tourists. To residents it is the midway point in a Spring parade, the home of caroling and hot cider on the house, a biking destination through the quiet backstreets.

What a pleasure to have long time friend Izumi Hamagaki, (designer, mixologist, entrepreneur), in from New York City before she moves back to Los Angeles. Here is Izumi and Inari, Japanese Goddess of sexuality and fertility. Inari is personified as a fox, god and goddess.

Goddess Ma'at

Victoria Ariel Brown as Goddess Ma'at...

Mudflats

My friend took my son and I to discover some mudflats where a river meets the sea. Our kids had fun being carried and pulled along via boogie board against the tide. We gave ourselves a peat moss mud scrub, followed by some salty quartz-filled sand exfoliation. The texture of the mud is so playful and sticky, and the riverbed sand is quite captivating.

My next shoot is of Egyptian goddess Ma'at with radiant beauty Victoria. Ma'at means "wise one". She is the all-seeing eye whose manifestation predated The Eye of Horus and the Eye of Ra. Ma'at (thought to be pronounced Mu'at) is the Goddess of harmony, order and truth. Went to Wicked Thrift, the best vintage store this side of the Mississippi. Bought a cute red dress that zips up the front and an Egyptian Goddess necklace with lapis lazuli colored stone. Went to Joanne's fabrics for an ostrich feather and fabrics.

My long-time friend Izumi (designer, drink formulator, marketing director and gorgeous priestess-in-essence) is visiting from NYC in a couple of days. Inari is the Japanese Goddess of sexuality. Her name means "lady fox". Her Shinto and Buddhist temples are painted red and are all over Japan....Looks like there may be some mud involved.

Morgan Le Fay Tarot

Morgan Le Fay is a powerful sorceress in the Arthurian legend who is believed by some historians to be a hybrid of the Morgans (Welsh water nymphs), Welsh goddess Modron and the triple goddesses The Morrigan. In early writings she was depicted as a healer, and not at odds with her half-brother King Arthur and Queen Guinevere. The Morrigan are the goddesses of battle, strife and sovereignty. Interestingly, both Morgan Le Fay and The Morrigan are associated with Crow. Crow is a shape shifter and a messenger. He represents sacred law and change. His medicine includes using seeking the truth, adapting, surrendering to divine timing and Justice.

Here my model is gifted doula and talented belly dancer Hannah J. Rudy. Some of these say "Goddess Tarot", don't they?

"I have slain the demon with my eyes closed in ballet class, this is just reminiscing."

"Life is a circus."

"I am bound, but not broken."

"The mood swing is not my best weapon."


Recently I channeled for a client some very personal words of wisdom from a spirit muse calling herself Nina Simone. She had a lot of relevant things to say to my client. Apparently, not only did Nina Simone's music reach out and touch my client, but so did Nina. IT seems that on the other side of the veil, Nina is guiding and visiting one of her most fervent listeners and most passionate appreciators. There seems to be a synergy that happens metaphysically with active listening. My advice? Let your muses guide you.

"Allow people to be inspired by you. Do not hold back on the magic you give for fear of how it will be received."

Could music be a portal which brings its listeners to shared vibrational dimensions? Is it a transmission from the universe via human conduits which reaches out to people, simultaneously connecting them with each other and with the true metaphysical source of the vibrations? Does the music that people compose contain hidden messages from the universe? Perhaps some is translatable and some has great meaning but we lack words or understanding to translate it?

"Ahhhh...music to my ears."

"Life is delicious."

Gluten Free Pizza Crust

Blackberries on the Unitarian church grounds today with our pals. Wicked fun.

Pizza Crust
1 1/2 c. organic non-GMO cornmeal
1 c. organic rye flour
3 heaping tbsp. potato starch
2 tbsp. organic tapioca starch
2 heaping tsp. xanthan gum
2 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. sea salt 1 c. scalding hot water (handle with care)
1/2 c. olive oil
2 tbsp. maple syrup
dash of garlic powder
pinch of coriander powder
pinch of freshly ground black pepper
pinch of paprika

Mix. Spread on well-lubricated pan, er, baking sheet. Top with marinara sauce and cheese. Cook until it's melty and starting to brown a tad on the edges. Presto.