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It’s a Sex Attack! – Episode 7 – July 29, 2017

How do The Alchemist and this week’s moon cycle fit together? Listen below to find out.

Hey there, lovelies. This week’s episode you’ll need to put away your inner 12-year-old, because we’ll be talking about Sex Magick. We’re visited by The Alchemist, have a huge amount of gratitude to bless Mother Gaia with, we bake and break bread,  and the Old Ones dance in the moonlight for one and all.

If after you’ve listened and you want to play the mini-ritual during your own work, it begins at mark 43:44:00.

Again, please leave a comment, question, or content request here. We’ll happily respond to you here or on our podcast.

Blessed Be,

Runa & MareLin

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Crone Moon Full of Politics & Recipes – Episode 6 – July 22, 2017

This week’s Tarot card was the Eight of Wands. Listen to the podcast below to hear all about it.

Greetings Listeners, Followers, and Fellow Country Dwellers:

First off, please forgive the couple of bloops in our recording. We had our microphone set to the wrong setting and it picked up MareLin’s ceiling fan, which pinged the sensitivity of the mic. Runa did her best to minimize the damage. But, we’ll fix it in the next podcast, so, “bear” with us as MareLin goes off and hugs the teenage Ursidae in her yard.

At any rate, we talk about Etsy and the closing of Pagan Shops, Moving to Canada, and like we mentioned above…sometimes there is politics.

This week’s card is the Eight of Wands, which leads nicely into this week’s almanac focus of water conservation, dream work, Ritual Bath Soak/Cleansing.

Here’s MareLin’s Water Purification for Hydration and Detoxing:

1 Quart of Water

1 tsp of Cayenne Pepper

Freshly mulled mint leaves (to taste)

half a cucumber peeled & sliced

Whole lemon, quartered, juiced and rinds reserved

Ginger Root, grated to taste

Put all ingredients together in a pitcher and drink. Refill in one day to get your hydration covered. Be ready for lots of energy. 

Again, please leave a comment, question, or content request here. We’ll happily respond to you here or on our podcast.

Blessed Be,

Runa & MareLin

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Energy Pig Pens, Poor Danny & A Special Coyote Guest – Episode 5 – Country Dwellers Pagan Podcast

Listen below to hear our tarot reading of The Star Card and what it means for all of us.

Hugging Salutations from MareLin & Runa!

This week on Country Dwellers Pagan Podcast we welcome a special guest, Zoey, aka Black Coyote Woman, who brings her insight to all our discussions, including the Tarot’s Star Card, Waning Moon Check-In, Dream Messages, Fire Divination, Energetic Cleansing & Protection ritual for before Lammas, A Zucchini Recipe ode to Danny, and our spell of the week, which centers on banishing negative energy. Additionally, this podcast was quite the laugh-fest. Next time, MareLin is not allowed to be mimosa maker. 😉

MareLin would also like to acknowledge that she knows the difference between parameter and perimeter; just go with it as you’re listening. The parameter of the perimeter, if you will.

Again, please leave a comment, question, or content request here. We’ll happily respond to you here or on our podcast.

Blessed Be,

Runa & MareLin

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Buck Naked Divine Downloads Under the Buck Moon – Episode 4 – Country Dwellers Pagan Podcast

The Tarot Card of the Week: Three of Swords

Greetings Pagan Spiritual Path Seekers!

This week on the Country Dwellers Podcast we clarify Divine Downloads, get naked with the Buck Moon, explore the Three of Swords, hydrate with herb water, cook up some roasted salsa, quote Starhawk, feature our weekly spell and stones, and generally have a witchy good time.

Please note that Runa would like to apologize for her “summer cold” voice.

Again, please leave a comment, question, or content request here. We’ll happily respond to you here or on our podcast.

Blessed Be,

Runa & MareLin

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Tying Up Loose Ends & Being Fully Present -Episode Three – Country Dwellers Podcast

This week’s Tarot card reading is for the Moon Card. Start singing Moon Shadow right now! 😉

Hello Country Dwellers & Podcast Listeners:

This episode lets you know all about the Moon Card of the Tarot and how you can make a list of things you can do now to work on personal patience during this Libra Gibbous Moon. In this episode we introduce Witchy Self-Care and some words of wisdom from fellow pagans.

We want to first off apologized to the listeners for the background noise in this episode of Runa’s Aquarium. It shouldn’t be a problem in the future; however, we do tend to travel from place to place as we record these podcasts, so one never knows. Just think of it like a bubbling brook at our little internet witchy cottage.

Remember Mercury goes retrograde on July 24th, so take some time now to back up your back ups as far as your data and documents are concerned and start practicing now for clear communication.

Low-Carb Seafood Chowder

Runa’s Chiron Summation was referenced from Britannica.com and Wikipedia.

Summer Recipes coming soon; however, get you some of this good Low-Carb Seafood Chowder, while you can. Here’s some more information on ricing cauliflower. 

And because we just can’t take ourselves too seriously, here’s a little Meme for MareLin’s fear of sharks:

If you’re really interested in doing crabbing pier-side within the Puget Sound, here’s some information.

Remember to take a minute for yourself this week — schedule in self-care if you need to, because it’s so necessary to a healthy, joyful life.

Again, please leave a comment, question, or content request here. We’ll happily respond to you here or on our podcast.

Blessed Be,

Runa & MareLin

 

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Everything’s In Retrograde – Episode Two – Country Dwellers Podcast

Eight of Cups is our Tarot Card of the Week. To hear the reading as it applies to this week, listen to the podcast below.

Greetings Fellow Country Dwellers!

Thanks again for listening to our podcasts. As will be the usual below is the extras from our podcast you can only find here at CountryDwellers.com.

Seemingly everything is in retrograde, as MareLin explained. If you want to know how it will affect you individually, contact Raven Bella Zingaro.

We at the top of the Wheel of the Year — Summer Solstice! Enjoy.

 

For those wanting more information about combating slugs — who mind you are still very important to the ecosystem, just not on our broccoli — here’s information about Sluggo, Beer Traps, and Ducks.

For this week’s recipe of Greenie Eggs, just click this link.

Greenie Eggs

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Again, please leave a comment, question, or content request here. We’ll happily respond to you here or on our podcast.

Blessed Be,

Runa & MareLin

 

*Date note:  Income Tax Day for the United States is traditionally on April 15 each year. This past year it was on the 17th because the 15th fell on a weekend. MareLin may have confused a few folks, so we just wanted to make that clear. 

 

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The Five Ws and One H – Episode 1 – Country Dwellers Podcast

Just some of the ley lines in our backyard.

Greetings one and all!
And we mean all.

First we want to thank all those that helped make this release possible, especially to The Viking and Babe. Without your support, none of this journey would be possible.

The Tarot Card of the Week is the Queen of Pentacles. Listen to the Podcast to hear MareLin’s reading.

This episode we talk about who we are, why we’re doing this podcast, where we are, what we plan to accomplish with this podcast, when you can find the podcast and deeper information than what we discuss on-air, and how all of this came to be.

Our podcast may be found on Google Play, iTunes, and Soundcloud, just look for “Country Dwellers.”  If there’s a particular podcast portal you’d like us to also be available to, please let us know in the comments.

Here are the links as promised referred to in our first podcast:

*Leylines

A special treat for our inaugural podcast: Raspberry-Infused Mimosa

*Recipe of the Week:  Raspberry-Infused Mimosa – Ingredients:  One shot (jigger) of Orange Juice, One shot of Pineapple Juice, Two shots of Prosecco or Champagne, Three fresh raspberries per glass. Mix liquids together in one glass, add fresh raspberries. Enjoy.

*Gardening Zones and Gardening to do in June

*Natural Pesticides for Rose Bushes: Two parts water, one part dish soap (not detergent), one part lemon juice. Feel free to add a little garlic and cooking oil, too, if you like. Spray on the aphid infested part of the plant. The force of the water from your sprayer is part of the control method, so don’t be afraid to really soak the little buggers.

*Uncle Ian’s

Hope you enjoy the podcast. Please leave any comments or questions here and we’ll do our best to answer them either here or on the podcast.

Blessed Be,

Runa & MareLin

Runa & MareLin up to shenanigans.

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Welcome to our Little Cottage on the Internet, Come Walk A Journey With Us

Welcome! Merry Meet!

Did you hear the news? Country Dwellers Podcast will be premiering June 17, 2017. MareLin and Runa will be taking you along a spiritual journey, exploring some of the oldest spirituality on our planet, the pagan path. Each episode will feature explorations into the Wheel of the Year, the Tarot, working with the land, recipes for yumminess and health, celebrations, rituals, self-care, ancient wisdom, and anything else the path reveals to us. We welcome all in love and light and hope everyone will join us with an open mind and heart.

Stay tuned to this space for more information as logistics and details become solidified.

See you in a few weeks!

BB,

Runa & MareLin.