PDF Available of Fixed Stars Govern a Life
In this year of Covid-19 and quarantining, it seems a lot of people have been Plathing and reading my papers on Academia.edu, as well as my two Decoding Sylvia Plath books. And they write, mainly asking, “How can I get a copy of Fixed Stars Govern a Life: Decoding Sylvia Plath“? It is out of […]
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 […]
On Atheists
Click on this picture to go to the Center for Spiritual Atheism A lot of my friends (and some of my family) are atheists, and so they believe that they cannot “believe” in what I do as a tarot card reader, or embrace my Plath work. Tarot and spirituality are sometimes lumped with “religion” […]
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 […]