About Caroline W. Casey
Caroline Casey, astro*entheo*animist at Coyote Network News, proffers her unique craft of astro*mytho*politico guiding meta-narrative, in myriad venues. Creator/weaver-of-context of "The Visionary Activist Show,” a weekly, live talk radio show dedicated to anything we need to know to have a democracy, critique and ingenious solution (named one of the top 10 podcasts of 2025 on non-violence).
Caroline Casey is the author of Making the Gods (Work for) You: The Astrological Language of the Psyche. She began her study of occult and esoteric guiding in 1970 with a BA from Brown University in Symbolic thinking, studied Grail Legend with Joseph Campbell, lived with a Wolf Dog (Moon Dog) and an actual Coyote (Stella) - so, trained by the best - and brews it all into dedication to Liberating Trickster… in the form of Democratic Animism, Pragmatic Mysticism, and Applied Divination.
“Whatever we do for ourselves grants us the spiritual muscle tone, to do such in world.”
-Caroline W. Casey
Astrological Consultations
Caroline W. Casey began studying astrology as a late teen, where she was the kid who got to hang out at a salon presided over by Dr. Andrew Weil, comprised of way cool intellectual political mystics, reading anything the Whole Earth Catalogue recommended, including Carl Jung and Joseph Campbell (with whom she studied Grail legend and Animal Myths in later years).
Dedicating to astrology as one of the great meta-languages of antiquity, uniting everything of consequence: personal and collective change, ritual magic, esoteric philosophy, Quabbalah, she went on to study at the Astrological Lodge on Baker Street in London, traveled though India, returned to Brown University, where she read long 18th and 19th century novels, and studied everything useful to astrology: The Grail Legend, Comparative Religion, Sufism, Voudoun, Middle Eastern Dance, Film, Writing - all contributing to a degree in Semiotics (ie. symbols and systems). During that time she lived at the Providence Zen Center, earning a Brown Belt in Shim Gum Do, Korean sword(wo)man-ship and studied with the late astrologer Isabel Hickey in Boston. She continues her studies and practices of magic, mythology, literature and social activism all over the world.
She began her astrological consulting practice in 1976, continuing to this day (via zoom) to people truly all over the world.
"Each planet is real, bien sur, and symbolizes a quality of Living Intelligence that resides within you and connects you to the world.
So part of our play is that these planetary parts of us love and are encouraged by being considered. The Zodiac is their adverb.”
-Caroline W. Casey
The Visionary Activist Show
Caroline W. Casey is the host-creator, weaver of context for "The Visionary Activist Show" on Pacifica Radio Network Pacifica station KPFA (94.1) in Northern California.
The first show aired out of DC on September 5, 1996, when she hosted the late ally James Hillman, conversing on their shared dedication of restoring mythological literacy to culture.
The Show is dedicated to: anything we need to know to have a democracy; critique and solution; and the acknowledgement that we humans cannot solve the innumerable rude crises we've imposed on our planetary kin - by ourselves. It's "by ourselves" that got us into this pickle. Let a willingness to cooperate with everything emerge from the smoldering ruins of dominance. Hence Democratic Animism.
Her guests are leading contributors to a culture of reverent ingenuity, all teased into pertinence.
“The forces within us and outside us, represented by the planets, do not understand any spoken language. They understand ritual. We are ritual beings. We offer our gifts to Creation, thereby consciously participating in the evolutionary dance.”
-Caroline W. Casey
Astro*Mytho Guiding: Events
Caroline invites us to imagine, conjure, and implement a more lovingly ingenious world. She presents her unique art of astrological* mythological* political* guiding* meta-story-telling in myriad multi-media venues worldwide - throughout America, in Bali, India, Sweden, UK, New Zealand, Hawaii, the Caribbean, British Columbia, Tasmania, Serbia, and South Africa (presenting at the Parliament of World Religions).
A rousing keynote speaker, Caroline has offered the Mythic News at the Bioneers Conference in California for over two decades, Green Festivals, New Living Expo, and with the great poet-ally Robert Bly for over 11 years at his Great Mother Conference. She also is a frequent presenter at Astrological and Astronomical Conferences across the globe.
Caroline hosts weekly councils via Zoom, welcoming all who wish to be ever more effective players on the Team of Creation at this time of dire beauty. The essence of ritual magic is literalizing metaphor… We play: Metaphor is the incarnational garb whereby Power enters the world. So cultivating metaphoric agility is a central skill whereby to be a conscious participant in the Cultural Renaissance.