Where We’re Going
Seven years ago, Tom and I were in London and Cambridge, England, following the literal footsteps of Sylvia Plath. How I miss traveling! When I saw that “four” for how long Covid-19 would last (see a few posts back), I had hoped it was four weeks and then began to believe it was four months. […]
The Mysticism Behind Covid-19
There’s a lot to the novel coronavirus Covid-19 that they’ll never tell you on the news. If you’ll indulge me in a bit of wordplay, this is indeed a novel, full of drama and tragedy, a pandemic with an audience of the world. Let’s look at the Etymology and Numerology of Covid-19, and how it […]
We are the One
***Note: originally I took this guy’s complete name out, but I have decided that it is important it should be included here, and searchable, to protect others*** Be careful of making teachers your guru The past four days have been full of spiritual activities. A noted Australian healer and medium, Simon Hay, was in town […]
The Qabalistic Palimpsest of Axel’s Castle
This is the 5th book review from books in Sylvia Plath’s library, or mentioned in journals or letters. See older blog posts for other reviews. I’ve decided that these book reviews are getting a bit long for a blog format, so I’m going to blog only the beginnings, and if you’d like to read the […]
From Ritual to Romance: Plath’s Pagan Primer (w/Tarot too!)
Which book from Sylvia Plath’s library to review next? How about From Ritual to Romance, by Jessie L. Weston (thanks to Matthew Freeman for gifting this to me years ago). Notes on LibraryThing say Plath read this book 1954-55, wrote “Sylvia Plath 1958” inside of it, and that there is “much underlining” by Plath. […]
Know What Plath Read to Know Plath
In the previous blog I mention Literary Alchemy, and the conscious effort that some poets and writers have made throughout history to interweave mysticism into their art in order to make it into something larger than themselves. This is not a new idea, and I am not the first one to notice it. When Sylvia Plath […]
Portrait of the Artist as a Model for Sylvia Plath, or Waking Up to Finnegans Wake
This is part of a series of posts summarizing and quoting from books that were important to Plath, since I believe the majority of Plath fans today have not read them. If I get a lot of them down with good response, perhaps it’ll be another book. James Joyce’s experimental novel, Finnegans Wake, is the […]
Proof Plath Knew Qabalah: The Painted Caravan
I thought I would do a series of book reviews on this blog on old books that Plath owned and read, as I’m becoming aware that few others have read them. I’m going to start with the one scholars know Ted Hughes bought Plath for her birthday in 1956, The Painted Caravan: a penetration into […]
What We Don’t Know
A reader saw Dr. Ann Skea’s 2012 posts about my first book, Fixed Stars Govern a Life: Decoding Sylvia Plath work and asked me some questions. I started to respond, and then decided to answer her here, to share with everyone, five years after the fact: Earlier in that year, Dr. Skea emailed me, letting me […]