The Metaphysician Is In
With 2018’s castor-oil retrogrades behind us and with Jupiter glowing in big-picture Sagittarius and the winter solstice light still shining bright, this year is ending on a glorious uptick. You can tell when a witch is in her element because her eyes start looking wildly different from each other; right now, I’m positively cockeyed. So while I usually just see clients on the weekend, I’m booking sessions all day tomorrow and New Years Day. Let’s chart your 2019 through tarot cards, astrology and the wisdom of your highest, most beautiful self. To schedule an intuitive reading for you or a loved one in person or via video chat, message me or read more here.
Love Lost, Love Laureate: Noel Visitations
I woke thinking about Donald Hall, who died last June at the age of 89 after living a very fine life as a poet and a New Englander. There are details of his biography that make me wince, especially his string of very, very young girlfriends. That string included his second wife, the poet Jane Kenyon, who was decades his junior and whom he met while she was still his student.
Though it’s unmodern to think so, Goddess is not always concerned with such details, and in this case Jane and Donald’s love helped them develop as humans and writers. He was wildly proud of his wife’s artistic development, which outstripped his before she succumbed to a voracious cancer a few weeks shy of her 48th birthday. Continue Reading →
‘Cold War’ Beauty
What follows is a review adapted from a lecture I gave to the delightful Westchester and Huntington cinema clubs. It’s been a joy to share films with these groups all year.
I think this is the most beautiful film of the year. As soon as I saw it, I called [curator] David [Schwartz] and begged him to let me to show it you. And what’s most special is this beauty feels like a hard-earned decision to not just see the darkness but the lightness in a world full of oppression and corruption and hard, hard times–both then and now.
About a 15-year relationship between two musicians in Cold War-era Poland, it is directed by Pawel Pawlikowski, who in addition to directing My Summer of Love and The Woman in the Fifth, directed 2013’s Ida–so good!–which is also set in his native country of Poland. This one is based on his parents, who both died in 1989 after chasing each other for 40 years on both sides of the Iron Curtain. Like this film’s central characters, they were named Victor and Zula, and were blond and dark respectively. Continue Reading →