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Folder 4: FireHeart, 1988 - 1990

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Collection number: 4

Scope and Contents

- [no.1] ([1988]: Spring Issue) Contents: [Untitled] / poem by Myrriah Nyberg: Incipit: He Lives in the Forests of my Kin – As the Wheel Turns / Myrriah Nyberg – Living on the Earth: Reflection on Light and Life / John Nove – Question Authority / Nicole Jordan -- "I Dream You… " / poem by Nicole Jordan – Where’s Jim Alan / an interview by FireHeart Staff – From Roots to Dreams: Pagan Festivals and the Quest for Community / Andras Corban Arthen – The Wicker Man: A Ritual of Transformation / Ernest Walters – The Sweat Lodge: A Native American Way / Weaving Eagle – A Series - Rites of Passage: Handfasting / Sue Curewitz – The Outer Planet Transits in Astrology. Part 1, The Birth Chart and Transits / Daile Nicholson – Between Worlds: Homospirituality: Roots, Fruits & Futures / Jody Menke – Pagan Paths: Discordia / Chip Lavin -- What is Pagan? /What is a Witch? [back cover]

– Reviews: The Power of Silence: Further lesson on don Juan by Carlos Castaneda / reviewed by M. N. -- The Horned God: Feminism and Men as Wounding and Healing by John Rowan / reviewed by J. M. -- The 1988 Lunar Calendar published by Luna Press / reviewed by F. B. Truth or Dare by Stawhawk / [anonymous]

-- Art: [untitled [dancer]] / by Kathleen Dempsey -- [untitled] [Sunshine and plant] / Twlya Reardon -- [untitled][Toad] / Don Deveau -- The Wicker Man / Sue Brown -- [Handfasting] / Carol Ann Leventhal -- [untitled] / Kathleen Dempsey -- [untitled] / Twyla Reardon -- Kallisti / Twyla Reardon

-- Advertisements: FireHeart (Maynard, Mass.) -- Arsenic and Old Lace (Cambridge, Mass.) -- Abyss (Easthampton, Mass.) -- Deirdre Pulgram Arthen (Medford, Mass.) -- Star Cat Arts and Textiles (Wakefield, Mass.) -- Checks & Balances [Susan Curewitz] -- Agaurra Ellezar (Somerville, Mass.) -- Wizard's Workshop (Boston, Mass.) Includes two items laid in: Advertising cards for "The EarthSpirit Community”; FireHeart subscription

- [no.2] (1988/1989: Fall/Winter) Contents: Enduring Winter / poem by Nicole Michellé Jordan – Der Mond / poem by Nicole Michellé Jordan – As the Wheel Turns: Reflections on Death and Transformation / Sherry Gamble Arthen – Living on the Earth: Bats / Myrriah Nyberg Lavin – Question Authority -- The Wizard in Oz / Fireheart Staff – Real Vampires / Daile Nicholson – A Series: Rites of Passage: Circle Around the Death / Sue Curewitz – An Excerpt from Sabu and the Jerry Riggers / a novel in progress by Buck Young – The EightFold Path. Part One: Meditation / Ernest Walters – In the Body of the Mother: The Eleusinian Mysteries / Pam Wright -- Patterns in the Flame: The Outer Planet Transits in Astrology. Part 2: Pluto Passes / Daile NIchlson – Between the Worlds: Beyond the Walls / Oriethyia -- Pagan Paths: What’s Crowley Got to Do With Thelema Anyway? / Sam Webster

– Reviews: Dreamtime and inner space: The world of the Shaman by Holger Kalweit / reviewed by Ernest Walters ; Buffalo Gals and Other Animal Presences by Ursula K. LeGuin / reviewed by Myrrīah Nyberg Lavin ; The Shaman Warrior by Gini Graham Scott, Ph.D. / reviewed by Joe Callahan -- Art: [untitled (tree)] / Don Deveau -- [Untitled (bats)] / Twyla Reardon -- [untitled (Mother Nature)] / [not given] -- [untitled (skeleton with bell in circle)] / Katheleen Dempsey -- [untitled (flowers reclaiming abandoned car)] / Kathy Dempsy -- Rowan / Sue Brown -- [Untitled (transition)] / Kathleen Dempsy --[untitled (Goddesses)] / Twyla Reardon

-- Cover art: [untitled] / Don Deveau

-- Advertisements: Mindful Inc. (Tucson, Ariz.) ; EarthSpirit Community (Medford, Mass.) ; FireHeart (Maynard, Mass.) ; Abyss (Easthampton, Mass.) ; Center for Community Resources (CCR) ; Deirdre Pulgram Arthen (Medford, Mass.) ; Arlington Food Co-Op (Arlington, Mass.) ; Thunder Studio (Cedar Ridge, Calif.) ; Magi Craftsmen [Jill and Fred Buck] (Binghamton, N.Y.) ; Tarot by Morwen ; Agourro Ellezar ; Dancing Dragon Designs (Arcata, Calif.) ; The Wizard's Workshop (Boston, Mass.) ; Aphrodite (Cambridge, Mass.) ; Star Cat Arts and Textiles (Wakefield, Mass.) ; Polarity Massage [Cynthia Pierro and Paul Henry Bachteler) ; Meditative Massage [Linnie Smith] ; Unicorn Books (Arlington Heights, Mass.) ; Checks & Balances [Susan Curewitz] ; Kathleen Dempsey freelance graphic design & illustration ; Arsenic and Old Lace (Cambridge, Mass.)

- [no.3] (1989: Spring/Summer) Contents: Page of Cups / poem by Nikki Michellé – Premonitions of Spring / poem by Noel-Ann Brennan – Letters to the Editors – As the Wheel Turns: Snakesong / Buck Young – Living on the Earth: Walking Gently on the Earth in a Throw-Away World / Trashbuster –Selena Fox: Building Bridges of Understanding / an Interview by FireHeart Staff – Toward a Magickal Birth / Dierdre Pulgram Arthen – A Series: Rites of Passage. Puberty / Sue Curewitz – The Witch as Shaman. Part I / Andras Corban Arthen – A Series: The Eightfold Path. Part Two: Chanting / Sherry Gamble Arthen – Whistle up the Wind: The Theory and Practice of Weatherworking / Daile Nicholson – Patterns in the Flame: The Outer Planet Transits in Astrology. Part 3: Into the Dreamtime-Transitioning Neptune / Daile Nicholson – Out of the Shadows / Rich Wandel –Pagan Paths: Gardnerianism / Kyril Oakwind and Judy Harrow -- Quarter Meditations / poem by Greg Palmer -- Moonbeat / poem by Nikki Michellé -- First visit to Druid Oaks Gog and Magag, Glastonbury / poem by Ellen Cooney

– Reviews: The Chalice and the Blade by Riane Eisler / reviewed by Francis Bone ; Dwellers in the Land: The Bioregional Vision by Kirkpatrick Sale / reviewed by Francis Bone ; Wheels of Life: A User's Guide to the Chakra System by Anodea Judith / reviewed by Pam Wright ; Ve Pagan Once Again by Isaac Bonewits and Friends / reviewed by ArnDraiocht Fein ; All Rites Reversed?!: Ritual Technology for Self-Initiation by Antero Alli and Guests / reviewed by Mary A.D. Howell ; The Shaman's Ascent by Laurence Galian and Friends / reviewed by Deirdre Pulgram Arthen

-- Art: [untitled (Eve and Snake)] / Rhiannon Cotter -- [untitled (trash heap)] / Sabastian Buffa -- [photograph of Selena Fox] / Lynne Johnston -- [photograph of Selena Fox] / Dennis Carpenter -- [untitled (pregnant woman in lotus position)] / Carolann Leventhal -- [untitled (girl)] / Twyla Reardon -- [untitled (Shaman)] / Lucinda Barrows (1989) -- [untitled (chanters)] / Don Deveau -- [untitled (God with wand, feathered back, and snake; Hindu God Subrahmanya?) ] / [not given] -- [untitled (androgynous person)] / Carolynn Leventhal -- Whenever [Vulcania] / Mary Howell

-- Cover art: [untitled (Artemis)] / by Persephone

-- Advertisements: Star Cat Arts and Textiles (Wakefield, mass.) -- Perfect Circles [Judy Foster] (Berkeley, Calif.) -- Erick Klein [dentist in Cambridge Mass/) -- FireHeart pitch to advertisers -- In Her Image (Point Reyes Station, Calif.) -- Mermade Magickal Arts (Long Beach, Calif.) -- Claire Reiki and Secret Garden Catering services -- Polarity Massage [Cynthia Pierro and Paul Henry Bachteler] -- Unicorn Books (Arlington Heights, Mass.) -- Arsenic and Old Lace (Cambridge, Mass.) -- Center for Community Resources (CCR) -- Gemstone Candles (San Rafael, Calif.) -- Angel Tech [Antero Alli] (Seattle, Wash.) -- Magi Craftsmen (Binghamton, N.Y.) -- Abyss (Easthampton, Mass.) -- Artists, Inc. (Stoneham, Mass.) -- Checks & Balances [Susan Curewitz] -- KD Macdougall Designs [Kathleen Dempsey] -- Tarot by Morwen -- Thunder Studio (Cedar Ridge, Calif.) -- EarthSpirit Community (Medford, Mass.)

- No.4 ([1989]) Contents: Question Authority [forum] – Transformation / poem by Frances Anderson – Living on the Earth: Between Earth and Sky: Spiritual Treasures or Public Domain / Jim Cairo – A Series. Rites of Passage: Crone and Wise Men: Dancing with Spirit / Sue Curewitz – The Magic of Caves / Walter Wright -- [When I die] / poem by Kelly Cherry – Ted Mills: A Rock in Turbulent Times / and interview by FireHeart staff – The Appendage Police / short story by J. Barrett Wolf – The Witch as Shaman. Part II / Andras Corban Arthen – The Unquiet Grave: A Meditation for Allhallows / Catherine Madsen – The Eightfold Path. Part Three: Fasting / Daile Nicholson – Witches and Pagans: In Search of Our Roots / a panel discussion by Andras Corban Arthen, Isaac Bonewits, Alison Harlos,, Judy Harrow,, Otter G'Zell – Dancing with a God so Dark / Murtagh Adhamh anDoile – The Outer Planet Transits in Astrology. Part 4: Struck by Lightning -Transiting Uranus / Daile Nicholson – Out of the Shadows: The Dark and Otherness / Michael Banchy and Pat Camarena – What is a Pagan? /What is a Witch?

-- Reviews: Persuasions of the Witch's Craft: Ritual Magic in Contemporary England by T.M. Luhrmann / reviewed by Arachne ; The Rebirth of Witchcraft by Doreen Valiente / reviewed by Andras Corban Arthen ; The Dream of the Earth by Thomas Barry / reviewed by Deirdre Pulgram Arthen ; Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner by Scott Cunningham / reviewed by Daile Nicholson ; The Inner Dance: A Guide to Spiritual and Psychological Unfolding by Diane Mariechild with Shuli Goodman / reviewed by Mary Howell ; Stroking the Python: Women's Psychic Lives by Diane Stein / reviewed by Oriethyia ; Gods in Everyman: A New Psychology of Men's Lives and Loves by Jean Shinaoda Bolen / reviewed by Walter Wright ; Coming into the Light: Rituals of Egyptian Magick by Gerald and Betty Schueler / reviewed by Canopis -- What is Paganism?/What is a Witch

- Art: [untitled (crescent moon hand)] / Rob Lansley -- [untitled (crone witch)] / Don Deveau -- [untitled (sleeping person]) / Don Deveau -- [untitled (sleeping person protected by bear)] / [not given] -- [untitled (cave)] / Don Deveau -- [untitled (hands)] / Scott Fray -- [untitled (doorway)] / Scott Fray -- [untitled (evocation)] / Carol Ann Leventhal -- [untitled (connecting at the quarters)] / Lucinda Barrows -- [untitled (dunce man)] / KD Macdougall -- [untitled (tree through the veil] / KD Macdougal

-- Cover art: Twyla Reardon

-- Advertisements: Unicorn Books (Arlington Heights, Mass.) -- R,M. Russo [costume and ritual garb] -- In Her Image (Point Reyes Station, Calif.) -- Arsenic and Old Lace (Cambridge, Mass.) -- Thunder Studio (Cedar Ridge, Calif.) -- Circle of Avalon (Lancaster, Mass.) -- Mermade Magickal Arts (Long Beach, Calif.) -- Center for Community Resources (CCR) -- Star Cat Arts and Textiles (Wakefield, Mass.) -- Magi Craftsmen [Jill & Jack Buck] (Binghamton, Mass.) -- Abyss (Easthampton, Mass.) -- Perfect Circles (Berkeley, Calif.) [Judy Foster] -- Tarot by Morwen -- Akasha: Weddings with a Creative Approach -- Deirdre Pulgram Arthen: Holistic Psychotherapy, Spiritual Counseling -- Polarity Massage [Cynthia Pierro, Paul henry Bachteler -- Eric Klein, dentist -- Checks & Balances [Susan Curewitz] -- EarthSpirit Community (Medford, Mass.)

- No.5 ([1990]) Contents: Me. Moon / poem by Nikki Michelle -- [Incipit] This is a holy place / poem by J. Barratt Wolf -- Rebirth Equinox / poem by Frances Anderson -- [She is speaking to me always / poem by J. Barrett Wolf – Letters to the editor – Living on the Earth: Living Gently on the Earth: The Goal of Sustainable Living / Pamela Hughes – What is it / poem by Ellen Cooney – A Series. Rites of Passage: A Celebration of Birth / Susan G. Curewitz – A Series. The Eightfold Path. Part Four: Breath / Walter Wright – Pagan-Christian Connections / M. Brian Patrick – Myths of Childhood / by Jim Cairo -- Margo Adler: Working Magic in the Wider World / and interview by FireHeart staff – Out of the Shadows: The Dark and Otherness. Part 2 / Michael Banchy and Pat Camarena – Pagan Paths: The Art and Philosophy of Ceremonial Magic / Arachne and Canopis, and the Order of Ganymede

– The Ethics of Working Magic / a panel discussion by Murtagh A. An Doile, Judy Harrow, Dr. Leo Louis Martello, Russell Williams -- What is Paganism? /What is a Witch?

-- Reviews: The Grandmother of Time by Zsuzsanna E. Budapest / reviewed by Oriethya ; The Power of the Witch by Laurie Cabot with Thomas Cowan / reviewed by Chuck Hitchcock ; The Zulu Bone Oracle by Ulufudu / reviewed by Jim Cairo ; An Agnostic's Reading of Persuasions of the Witch's Craft: Ritual Magic in Contemporary England by T.M. Luhrmann / reviewed by Nancy Stieber ; Snake Power: A Journal of Contemporary Female Shamanism published by Vicki Noble of the Motherpeace Institute / reviewed by Daile Nicholson ; Or Common Future: The World Commission on Environment and Development, and, The End of Nature by Bill McKibben / reviewed by Erica Brigid – Poetry: See Me Coming / Diane Lunde

-- Art: [untitled (tree representing "As Above, So Below")] / Mary Howell -- [untitled (newborn)] / Don Deveau -- [untitled (pregnant woman in lotus position sitting in lotus)] / Persephone (1990) -- [untitled (Myth)] / Rob Lansley -- [untitled (corporate baby)] / Rob Lansley -- Smurfs Die / Rob Lansley -- [untitled (nuclear "happy face" family] / Rob Lansley -- [untitled (tree through the veil] / KD Macdougal -- [untitled (reaching)] / not given

-- Cover art: "The Star" / a tarot card by Jennifer Moore

-- Advertisements: Heaven and Earth (Gloucester, Mass.) -- Perfect Circles (Berkeley, Calif.) [Judy Foster] -- KD Macdougall designs [Kathleen Dempsey] -- Witches All [journal] (Cambridge, Mass.) from Pentacle Press Inc (Cambridge, Mass.) -- Polarity Massage [Cythia Pierro, Paul henry Bachteler] -- Tarot by Morwen -- FireHeart (Maynard, Mass.) -- Maid 'n Mother (Cypress, Calif.) -- Coyote Tales of Creation (Albuquerque, N.M.) [Francis "Jesse" Coyote, Garthenia E'Star] -- In Her Image (Point Reyes Station, Calif.) -- Sequoia Artworks (Cypress, Calif.) -- Mermade Magickal Arts (Long Beach, Calif.) -- White Light Pentacles/Sacred Spirit Products (Salem, Mass.) -- Arsenic and Old Lace (Cambridge, Mass.) -- Abyss (Easthampton, Mass.) -- Checks & Balances [Susan Curewitz] -- Costumes & Ritual Garn [R.M. Russo] -- Unicorn Books (Arlington Heights, Mass.) -- Star Cat Arts and Textiles (Wakefield, Mass.) -- Deirdre Pulgram Arthen, Holistic Psychotherapy, Spiritual Counseling -- Jennifer Moore, Tarot Reader -- Temple of Eternal Light [home study program "Thirteen Tools Toward Enlightenment] -- Henry Canby, M.T., M.Ed., Psychotherapist -- Joseph F. DeCaria, Spinologist -- EarthSpirit Community (Medford, Mass.)

Dates

  • 1988 - 1990

Creator

Extent

From the Collection: 3 Boxes

Language

From the Series: English

Repository Details

Part of the Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collections Repository

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