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ARCHETYPAL ASSETS

ARCHETYPAL ASSETS

Innovation in Cultural Cosmology / by Debra DeLeo Moolenaar

  • Sylvia Moon: On the Unfortunate Business of Cursing

    Sylvia Moon: On the Unfortunate Business of Cursing

    There are still occasions when a particularly disagreeable individual makes me think that a little magical correction might be beneficial.

    debramoolenaar

    October 10, 2026
    Cornwall, Magic
  • Sylvia Moon: The Language That Would Not Die

    Sylvia Moon: The Language That Would Not Die

    It was the language of bread and butter, quarrels and courtship, gossip and grief. 

    debramoolenaar

    October 9, 2026
    Cornwall, memoir
    Cornwall
  • The Tide That Remembers

    The Tide That Remembers

    Nevertheless, on a damp October morning, he found himself standing beside Sylvia and Lillian at the end of an old granite quay, watching fog settle over Falmouth harbour.

    debramoolenaar

    July 18, 2026
    Cornwall, Original Fiction
  • Three Who Came to Build a Bridge

    Three Who Came to Build a Bridge

    The bridge became whole without noise. For a long moment, the only sound was the river passing beneath. Then, as if remembering how, the church bells began to ring.

    debramoolenaar

    July 16, 2026
    Original Fiction, Tarot
  • The Creative Work Life Cycle Spread

    The Creative Work Life Cycle Spread

    “When our attention remains fixed on what wounded us, we’re still living there. The boat only begins to move when our attention turns towards where we wish to go.”

    debramoolenaar

    July 16, 2026
    Tarot
  • The Quintessence Spread: Discovering the Essential Expression of My Creative Work

    The Quintessence Spread: Discovering the Essential Expression of My Creative Work

    Recently I asked the cards about my present efforts to write and publish literary fiction. The resulting spread was striking.

    debramoolenaar

    July 15, 2026
    Magic, Tarot
  • The Woman Who Tried to Catch the Sea

    The Woman Who Tried to Catch the Sea

    “And yet every sailor who has ever crossed an ocean has carried a little of it home.”

    debramoolenaar

    July 8, 2026
    Cornwall, Original Fiction
  • Lillian Hartley and Sylvia Moon on the Lost Land of Lyonesse, Robert Hunt, and the Hidden Foundations of Brindlemark

    Lillian Hartley and Sylvia Moon on the Lost Land of Lyonesse, Robert Hunt, and the Hidden Foundations of Brindlemark

    Hunt cites the Saxon Chronicle, which records that on the third before the Nones of November in 1099 — upon the first day of the new moon — the sea overflowed, destroying towns and drowning people, oxen, and sheep.

    debramoolenaar

    May 31, 2026
    Cornwall, Folklore, Original Fiction
  • Lillian Hartley and Sylvia Moon on How Red Tree, White Tree Echoes Through Their Own Stories

    Lillian Hartley and Sylvia Moon on How Red Tree, White Tree Echoes Through Their Own Stories

    Reading it, I found myself recognising many of the same concerns that gradually emerged in our own stories, though perhaps we arrived at them from the opposite direction.

    debramoolenaar

    May 30, 2026
    Book reviews, Cornwall, Magic, Myth, Original Fiction
  • Lillian Hartley and Sylvia Moon on Red Tree, White Tree by Wendy Berg

    Lillian Hartley and Sylvia Moon on Red Tree, White Tree by Wendy Berg

    What impressed me most was Berg’s refusal to reduce the Arthurian stories to either naïve fantasy or dry symbolism.

    debramoolenaar

    May 28, 2026
    Book reviews, Folklore, literary criticism, Myth, Spirituality
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