Category: Book reviews
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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.
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Lillian & Sylvia Discuss Cherry…
“To Cherry,” she said. “A woman standin’ on the threshold of who she was — and who she’ll become next.”
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A Ghost Addresses Mrs Cherry Clinton
This is not a warning. It is a blessing disguised as discomfort.
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The Shining Ones, Tuatha de Danaan, and the Roads Beneath Our Feet
The Watchers appear in texts like the Book of Enoch, a once-suppressed text that describes how these beings—often interpreted as fallen angels—shared knowledge of metallurgy, herbalism, astrology, and magical practices.
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Blog Post Review: Faeries, Fallen Ages, and the Forgotten Covenant — A Deep Dive into Red Tree, White Treeby Wendy Berg
Berg paints a stunning portrait of Faery not as the domain of mischievous sprites or dainty flower fairies, but as a noble Otherworld inhabited by radiant, intelligent beings whose lives once overlapped with ours.
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The Heart of Shadows and Imbolc: A Psychological Reality Through the Lens of Tanya Luhrmann
The ritual occurred at a site rumoured to be linked to the Heart of Shadows.
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Book Review
A key strength of Hartley’s work is her exploration of mythology, especially the role of the hero archetype.
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From Maiden to Mother: The Unfulfilled Transformation in Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë
Agnes begins her journey with determination and agency by leaving home to become a governess with the Bloomfield family. However, she quickly becomes disillusioned and fails to make meaningful progress or learn from her experiences.
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A Brotherhood of Sinners: the Bible in National Hawthorne’s The House of The Seven Gables
We start with the Salem Witch Trials of 1692-3, during which the “holiest” of the community circled the gallows loudly, applauding the “work of blood”.
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The Western Esoteric Traditions (Part 9)
Jung believed a radical shift in human consciousness would characterise this new age: self-awareness would become the equivalent of God-awareness.