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Episode 4, Season 2 – The Veil, The Messages, and One Silly Witch – September 29, 2018

The handsome King of Swords stops by with a message this week.

Greetings listeners!

This episode we are visited by that handsome lad, The King of Swords. Then we discuss the thinning of the veil, recent visits and messages from the spirit realm, and Runa having a super silly, derp hedge-witch moment. Leave a comment below and tell us about your thin-veil moments, if you please!

A quick reminder that you’re running out of time to participate in our Tarot Giveaway. September is just about gone! So go tell us your Tarot story.

Donā€™t forget to connect with us onĀ Instagram,Facebook, andĀ Twitter!

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Yours in love and light,

~MareLin & Runa

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Episode 3, Season 2 – Dig Those Divine Downloads – September 22, 2018

Happy Autumnal Equinox Listeners!

In this episode we get a visit from The Seven of Cups, then dig deep into Divine Downloads, how to get them, what it’s like to get them, what happens after you get them.

Hopefully, you’re getting a Divine Download to also participate in our Tarot Giveaway. Don’t delay, September is fading fast.

Please let us know how you like our new format.

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Yours in love and light,

~MareLin & Runa

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All The Details On Our Tarot Give Away

Tell Us Your Tarot Story! Win A New Tarot Deck from Country Dwellers Pagan Podcast.

How You Can Win…

Simple Rules. Follow them and watch blessings come back to you threefold. šŸ˜€

  1. Tell us your Tarot Story in the blog post for the Sept. 15 episode of the Country Dwellers Pagan Podcast (here) in the comments. Not this post.Ā 
  2. Get your story in the comments of the Sept. 15 episode of the Country Dwellers Pagan Podcast before the end of September (11:59 p.m. 9/30/2018).
  3. We will draw a winner on the Oct. 20, 2018 episode of the Country Dwellers Pagan Podcast.
  4. Winner will need to contact us via email with mailing address in order to claim give away Tarot Deck (email: info (at) countrydwellers (dot) com).
  5. We will ship the deck to you before Samhain (Oct. 31, 2018-Nov. 1, 2018).
  6. One entry per person.
  7. September 15, 2018 episode post is public, so all you In-The-Broom-Closet folks need to be aware and behave accordingly with that information; however, we must have legal identity to mail winner the deck when you claim the Tarot Deck. Your identity is safe with us. We will not use it other than to award you your prize.

So get your entries in the comments of the Sept. 15 episode today! What’s your Tarot Story?

 

 

 

 

*We reserve the right to disqualify entries for lack of following the rules of the contest. Multiple hidden entries will be determined via digital information security. Refer to rule #6.Ā 

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Episode 2, Season 2 – Trenching into Tarot – September 15, 2018

Greetings Listeners!

In this episode we talk about our personal Tarot stories and encourage you to do so right here in the comments section. The best story will win a free Tarot deck, sent with love and light for your best and highest good from MareLin & Runa. We also do a weekly Tarot reading.

Please let us know how you like our new format.

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~MareLin & Runa

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Episode 1, Season 2 – Magickal Summer Moments – September 8, 2018

Runa & MareLin up to shenanigans.

Greetings Lovely Listeners:

MareLin & Runa are back from Summer Vacation and talk all about their magickal moments throughout the fair season while turning the spotlight on your magickal moments.

We’re changing the format of the podcast a bit and we will be experimenting with the format for a bit, so please tell us how you like it after a few episodes, please.

So let’s dive right back in to Country Dwellers’ Pagan Podcast!

In love & light,

Runa & MareLin

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Episode 45, Season One, A Last Fling Fond Fare-thee-well But Not Forever, June 2, 2018

Thank you all so much for sticking with us through the last year. This is our last episode until autumn, when we will come back after our summer hiatus all recharged and ready to rumble. In the meantime, we still have nearly an hour of Country Dweller Discussions. We get a visit from the Temperance card; we talk Hedge Witch tips; The moon is waning gibbous in Aquarius and what does that mean for you and your magic. We connect with festivals and preview that we’ll be at Puget Sound Pagan Pride on October 28. We make Pizza Tacos during Cauldron Cooking and Pay It Forward. As always we leave you with some Old Ones Wisdom and a Spell of the Week.

Don’t forget to connect with us on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter!

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Yours in love and light,

~MareLin & Runa

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Cauldron Cooking: Pizza Tacos

Pizza Taco.

Everyone loves pizza. Everyone loves taco. So why not have both? Of course! This is a great meal if you need an activity for multiple generations over some food and drink. Relationship

It’s like a pizza but you fold it like a taco and eat it like a taco. It’s fun. It brings the magic of a bonded experience to everyone.

longevity is the magic of this recipe. Imagine one person in the party cooking up the mushrooms, after someone else plays sous chef, and someone else mixes up the sauce. Someone else can pour the wine. Put on some great music in the background and youā€™ve got a weeknight party.

All the yum, none of the bad.

Notes:

  • I spread the sauce on clockwise with 13 rotations, putting in the intention of strong love bonds that conquer all. Now before anyone thinks this is a manipulative cauldron cooking spell, this is not intended as that at all. Itā€™s just to push energy in the right direction. Not to change anyoneā€™s free will. We all know that shared experiences are the best way to strengthen bonds. This recipe does this.
  • I use balsamic vinegar in the sauce I create for the pizza part of this recipe. But you can use vinegar in a pinch. But the flavor really deepens with the vinegar.
  • I love the sprouted-grain tortillas from Food for Life Ezekiel for this recipe. But you could use any low-carb tortilla in a pinch. But, donā€™t

    These are my go-tos for tomato paste, garlic paste and basil paste.

    use any run-of-the-mill tortilla.

  • I use cherry or grape tomatoes when I make these because the size doesnā€™t overwhelm the Pizza Taco. Seeding those are a bit harder, so I donā€™t stress on it. But if you use regular-sized tomatoes, you need to seed them.
  • If you have a pizza stone, that would be the bomb to cook these up; however, I just use a huge oven tray covered with parchment paper and it works well. Regardless, oil the stone, or put the baking sheet in to heat in the oven while you ready the ingredients. I have in the past forgotten to heat the baking sheet, but the Pizza Tacos cooked fine without. But if you are heavy on toppings, heating the stone or pan is smart.
  • Ingredients listed are per pizza taco. So figure out how many you want and do the multiplication.
  • If your market has an olive bar, then my suggestion is to use them for the peppers, artichoke, and even olives, of course.

Marinated veggies from the organic olive bar at my local market make sourcing these ingredients easy.

Ingredients:

Tomato Paste (2 tblspns per pizza taco)

Garlic Paste (1 tsp per pizza taco)

Basil Paste (1 tsp per pizza taco)

Balsamic vinegar (2 tsp per pizza taco)

Dried Oregano (2 tspns per pizza taco)

Sea Salt (to taste, I go with 1 tspn per pizza taco)

Sprouted Grain Tortilla (1 per pizza taco)

Shredded Part-Skim Mozzarella Cheese (Ā½ cup per pizza taco)

Tomato, thinly sliced and seeded (i use two cherry tomatoes per pizza taco)

Be sure to cook your mushrooms before putting them on your Pizza Taco.

Carefully put the topped Pizza Tacos onto your pizza stone or baking sheet.

Fresh Basil Leaves (1 to 2 torn per pizza taco)

Red Onions thinly Sliced (per taste per pizza taco)

Uncured Pepperoni (about five slices per pizza taco)

Sauteed Mushrooms (about one cut up per pizza taco)

Artichoke hearts, cut up small (about one heart for a couple of pizza tacos)

Fire Roasted Red peppers, sliced up small

Parmesan cheese, shredded

Hot pepper flakes, to taste

Any other toppings you must have (olives, etc.)

Instructions:

When the pizza is done baking, sprinkle with Parmesan and hot pepper flakes.

Heat oven to 350 degrees. Heat Pizza Stone or Baking Sheet while preparing the rest of the Pizza Taco.Ā 

In a small bowl, stir together the tomato paste, garlic paste, basil paste, balsamic vinegar, oregano, and a pinch of salt.

And then you’re ready to eat your Pizza Taco.

Place the tortilla on a flat working surface and spread the tomato sauce mixture evenly over it (remember the 13 clockwise circles). Sprinkle about ā…” of the Ā½ cup of mozzarella cheese on top and arrange the pepperoni slices over the cheese. Scatter the other toppings over evenly over the top, then sprinkle remaining mozzarella cheese and the basil leaves.

Put filled tortilla carefully on baking stone or sheet and bake until cheese is melted and sauce is bubbly — about 15 minutes (check after about 10 minutes). Just before serving, sprinkle with Parmesan cheese and hot pepper flakes.

Serve flat on plates and let your guests fold it into the ā€œtaco.ā€ Fun, right? Enjoy!

 

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Episode 44, Season One, A Flaming Hot Summer Prep, May 26, 2018

Well met, loyal listeners!

We have a fiery three-way tarot reading this week, then talk about veggie planting. Then there’s this Scorpio Moon of endings. We learn about the stone Beryl. We challenge you to try something new this summer, maybe even try your hand at this week’s Cauldron Cooking: Rhubarb-Strawberry Pie with a bit of pucker power magick. Kissey-kissey! We do a little preaching on journaling and talk about food as medicine. As always we leave you with a powerful spell of the week.

Apologies if the puppies playing int he background of the podcast are distracting. Runa’s familiars were a bit hyper this week — they’re getting pumped up for summer.

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

Yours in love and light,

~MareLin & Runa

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Cauldron Cooking: Pucker-Up Rhubarb-Strawberry Pie

Cauldron Cooking:  Pucker-Up Rhubarb-Strawberry Pie

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Not prize-winning, but magick making all the same.

Sweet and sour kisses may be in your future after you bake this; regardless, you’ll amp up your joy to all who see, smell, and taste this beauty of a spring-time dessert recipe. This is a matriarchal recipe, so good chance your divine feminine will increase in power while preparing and eating this.Ā The magick in this recipe is all about amping up the sweetness in your life.

Whether it’s just getting a good parking spot in the market; or stealing more kisses with your sweetie. As you roll our the dough, it’s good exercise for your hands to do positive things like give a massage to your spouse, or give a helping hand to an elderly neighbor — ramp up that sweetness in your life. If you’re having trouble obtaining any extra sweetness in your life, bake this pie with the intention to do just that and watch the good times roll. If you attempt a weave crust, this recipe ends up giving you more courage, too.

Notes:

This recipe calls for 5 to 6 cups of chopped rhubarb; however, that is mutable.Ā  I tend to stay closer to about 4 1/2 cups because I like a less tart pie.

I use coconut sugar instead of refined sugar. A good substitute would be brown sugar or organic cane sugar. But, if all you have on hand is refined sugar. that’s fine. Although I like a less tart pie, I coconut sugar goes a long way and I don’t like the sugar ingredient to overpower the natural sweetness of the strawberries. However, you can use up to 1 1/2 cups of sugar, whichever variety you use.

Almond meal is used as a binder in this recipe. Traditionally pies like this are made with corn starch. My body doesn’t like corn starch, so hence the almond meal. However, if you have an almond allergy or arenā€™t a fan of almond meal, you may use corn starch.

Normally this recipe is made with orange zest and juice; however, I have always had a sensitivity to oranges and since I’m using more natural sweeteners these days, and if I’m baking and don’t have juice on hand, the maple syrup (the real stuff, not the fake Log Cabin stuff) complements all the flavors together.

The secret ingredient. hehe.

MY SECRET INGREDIENT:Ā  (Which is obviously not secret any more).Ā  Unlike Momā€™s recipe I add a generous shot of Mischief Whiskey, but your favorite bourbon or rum would be good, too. There’s so many flavored vodkas out there, you could use that; too. I’m allergic to vodka, so whiskey it is.

Cinnamon to taste is exactly what it means — your preference. I throw in a level tablespoon. Your mileage may vary.

When you add the filling to the refrigerated pie crust, leave out as much of the juice that rendered while the filling rested. Filling is going to bubble and splash while it bakes, hence that is why you need a baking tray. I always use a metal pan to make my pies anymore. In the past I’ve used glass and it doesn’t bake as well. If you’re in a pinch, you could totally bake your pie in a cast-iron frying pan. Talk about upping your witchiness in the kitchen!

Need to bake something up in a hurry? Feel free to use store-bought pie crust dough.

Now Momā€™s recipe calls for making a weave top crust, which I don’t always do (see variety of photos); I just put a full piece of crust on top like you would for any fruit pie ā€” apple, cherry, peach, etc. ā€” but the good thing about the lattice pattern is that it allows steam and some of the juice of the pie to evaporate. Iā€™m including the directions for the checkerboard-crust pattern. As you can see by my photo, my lattice work needs improvement. But it’s about goodness and not perfection, as well as having fun. So cut yourself some slack.

Do not skip refrigerating the bottom crust.

Ingredients:

1 1/2 pounds of rhubarb, cut into 3/4-inch-long pieces (about 5 to 6 cups)

2 to 2 1/2 cups sliced strawberries

3/4 to 1 1/2 cup cup coconut sugar

1/4 cup almond meal

1/4 cup of maple syrup or 1 teaspoon finely grated orange zest, plus 1 tablespoon orange juice

Cinnamon, to taste

Coarse salt

2 tablespoons unsalted butter, cut into pieces

1 large egg, lightly beaten, for egg wash, optional

Sugar for sprinkling, optional

A healthy shot of your favorite sweet spirit

Your favorite two-disk pie crust recipe ready to rock.

Doesn’t matter if you use a full crust or do a weave. You decide. Doing a weave amps up your courage, however, so go ahead and try that little kitchen witchery.

Instructions:

To make filling:Ā  Mix together rhubarb, strawberries, sugar, almond meal, maple syrup, 1/4 teaspoon of salt, and cinnamon to taste. Set aside and let rest.

Yummy, yummy sweetness.

Roll out one dough disk so itā€™s 1/8-inch thick and will fit into a nine-inch pie plate. Place the dough in the pan, pour in the filling (leave out as much of the juice that rendered while the filling rested); dot top with butter.Ā  Refrigerate while making top crust.

Roll remaining disk to 1/8-inch thickness on a lightly floured surface. Cut into at least 10-inch-wide strips using a fluted pastry cutter.

Lay five strips across pie. Fold back every other strip, and lay a horizontal strip across the center of the pie. Unfold folded strips, then fold back remaining strips. Lay another horizontal strip across the pie. Repeat folding and unfolding strips to weave a lattice pattern. Repeat on remaining side.

Trim bottom and top crusts to a 1-inch overhang using kitchen shears and press together to seal edges – be sure itā€™s a tight seal. Fold edges under, and crimp as desired. Refrigerate for 15 minutes (this is very important step).

Preheat oven to 400 degrees.

Remove the pie from the refrigerator. Brush crust with egg wash, if desired, and sprinkle generously with sugar (I didnā€™t do this step). Place a foil-lined baking sheet on the bottom rack to catch juices, (I highly recommend this! Even if you have a self-cleaning oven) and bake pie on middle rack for 30 minutes. After 30 minutes, reduce the temperature to 375 degrees and continue baking until filling is vigorously bubbling in center and bottom crust is golden , about one hour. Tent loosely with foil after one hour if crust is browning too quickly. Transfer pie to a wire rack, and let cool for at least two hours before serving.

Ready for some sweetness? Eat it up and enjoy!

Leave comments on your attempt to make this or any questions you might have.

BB,

~Runa

 

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Episode 43, Season One, Switching Roles for Growth, May 19, 2018

Time to delegate!

Thank you, listeners, we love you. We’re so grateful for you coming each week and hanging out in our little witchy cottage on the internet, drinking tea and mimosas with us and cooking up all kinds of magic and fun!

This week we have a special visit from the 10 of Wands and the Ace of Swords, with a special message to delegate for your best and highest good. We talk about elements of a well-written spell, as we enter first quarter waxing crescent moon in fiery Leo with some chakra alignment sparking even more magick. We learn about the stone Sardonyx. Then we eat ourselves well with the magic of cauldron cooking. We plan escapes with our listeners and we have a special spell of the week.

Have a listen below. Donā€™t forget to share our podcast with a friend.

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Yours in love and light,

~Runa & MareLin