Tarot Life Lessons: Living Wisdom from the Major Arcana
Tarot Life Lessons by Julia Gordon-Bramer is a collection of real-life stories lifted from the journals of a professional tarot card reader. Within each story is explored the living meaning of the 22 major arcana cards of the tarot, based on the author’s more than 44 years of experience as a tarot card reader. Tarot Life Lessons peeks into client readings and a diverse group of people and situations to show how each card tells a story and how it only takes a small amount of familiarity to decipher a world full of meaning in the cards. Finally, it shows how to use the tarot to grow your strengths, identify weaknesses, conquer problems, and move on from painful situations.
ISBN 978-1-64411-817-7
Release Date: November 7, 2023
Audiobook available!
Tarot Life Lessons by Julia Gordon-Bramer is a collection of real-life stories lifted from the journals of a professional tarot card reader. Within each story is explored the living meaning of the 22 major arcana cards of the tarot, based on the author’s more than 44 years of experience as a tarot card reader. Tarot Life Lessons peeks into client readings and a diverse group of people and situations to show how each card tells a story and how it only takes a small amount of familiarity to decipher a world full of meaning in the cards. Finally, it shows how to use the tarot to grow your strengths, identify weaknesses, conquer problems, and move on from painful situations.
ISBN 978-1-64411-817-7
Release Date: November 7, 2023
Audiobook available!
The Occult Sylvia Plath: The Hidden Spiritual Life of the Visionary Poet
Sharing her more than 15 years of compelling research—including analysis of Sylvia Plath’s unpublished calendars, notebooks, scrapbooks, book annotations and underlinings, as well as published memoirs, biographies, letters, journals, and interviews with Plath and her husband, friends, and family—Plath scholar Julia Gordon-Bramer reveals Sylvia Plath’s enduring interest and active practice in mysticism and the occult from childhood until her tragic death in 1963.
Release Date: May 2024
Audiobook available!
- Explores Sylvia Plath’s enduring interest and active practice in mysticism and the occult from childhood until her tragic death in 1963.
- Decodes the alchemical, Qabalistic, Hermetic, spiritual, and tarot-related references in many of Plath’s poems.
- Based on more than 15 years of research, including analysis of Plath’s unpublished personal writings from the Plath archives at Indiana University.
- Examines the influences of Plath’s parents, her early interests in Hermeticism, and her and husband Ted Hughes’ explorations in the supernatural and the occult.
Sharing her more than 15 years of compelling research—including analysis of Sylvia Plath’s unpublished calendars, notebooks, scrapbooks, book annotations and underlinings, as well as published memoirs, biographies, letters, journals, and interviews with Plath and her husband, friends, and family—Plath scholar Julia Gordon-Bramer reveals Sylvia Plath’s enduring interest and active practice in mysticism and the occult from childhood until her tragic death in 1963.
Release Date: May 2024
Audiobook available!
Decoding Sylvia Plath’s “Lady Lazarus”: Freedom's Feminine Fire
The Decoding Sylvia Plath series, by Julia Gordon-Bramer, will present a book for each of Plath’s Ariel poems in a compelling, original context, interpreted by the Fixed Stars Govern a Life: Decoding Sylvia Plath system. Expect a new publication in the series every quarter.
ISBN-10: 0-9991860-0-0
ISBN-13: 978-0-9991860-0-8
Release Date: Oct. 27, 2017
In print and ebook. Audiobook coming soon!
“Lady Lazarus”: More than just a hot mess…
You get the sense already that Plath’s “Lady Lazarus” is a fierce, angry, feminist poem. But do you know why? Can you explain it beyond your personal feeling or Plath’s literal autobiography?
Fans: Discover the parallel themes of the Statue of Liberty, the abolitionist, the feminist, and other exciting facts within “Lady Lazarus” that scholars have missed for over 50 years
Poets & Writers: Judge for yourself how “Lady Lazarus” includes themes of Emma Lazarus’ poem “The New Colossus,” Sojourner Truth’s “Ain’t I a Woman?,” and the Egyptian Book of the Dead’s titles of Isis.
Students: Understand all themes and meanings beyond the superficial; learn why Plath used Jewish and Holocaust references in “Lady Lazarus,” and enlighten your classmates to Plath’s higher goals
Teachers: Save time with a complete class plan, discussion questions and more
The Decoding Sylvia Plath series, by Julia Gordon-Bramer, will present a book for each of Plath’s Ariel poems in a compelling, original context, interpreted by the Fixed Stars Govern a Life: Decoding Sylvia Plath system. Expect a new publication in the series every quarter.
ISBN-10: 0-9991860-0-0
ISBN-13: 978-0-9991860-0-8
Release Date: Oct. 27, 2017
In print and ebook. Audiobook coming soon!
“Lady Lazarus”: More than just a hot mess…
You get the sense already that Plath’s “Lady Lazarus” is a fierce, angry, feminist poem. But do you know why? Can you explain it beyond your personal feeling or Plath’s literal autobiography?
Fans: Discover the parallel themes of the Statue of Liberty, the abolitionist, the feminist, and other exciting facts within “Lady Lazarus” that scholars have missed for over 50 years
Poets & Writers: Judge for yourself how “Lady Lazarus” includes themes of Emma Lazarus’ poem “The New Colossus,” Sojourner Truth’s “Ain’t I a Woman?,” and the Egyptian Book of the Dead’s titles of Isis.
Students: Understand all themes and meanings beyond the superficial; learn why Plath used Jewish and Holocaust references in “Lady Lazarus,” and enlighten your classmates to Plath’s higher goals
Teachers: Save time with a complete class plan, discussion questions and more
Decoding Sylvia Plath's "Daddy": Discover the Layers of Meaning Beyond the Brute
Decoding Sylvia Plath’s “Lady Lazarus” is the second in a series of Decoding books presenting Plath in a compelling, original context, interpreted by the Fixed Stars Govern a Life: Decoding Sylvia Plath system, by author Julia Gordon-Bramer.
In print and ebook. Audiobook coming soon!
“Daddy”: Not your average everyday Electra complex…
“You do not do” Sylvia Plath studies without her bedazzling poem “Daddy.” But do you get it?
…I mean, beyond the drama of anger and attraction from a daughter and wife?
Fans: Discover the parallel themes of Sigmund Freud, King Brutus, the London Stone, and other exciting facts within “Daddy” that scholars have missed for over 50 years
Poets & Writers: Judge for yourself how “Daddy” includes themes of Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, Joyce’s Finnegans Wake, and other literary works; consider applying Plath’s mystical format to your work
Students: Understand all themes and meanings beyond the superficial; learn why Plath used derogatory names and racism in “Daddy,” and enlighten your classmates to her higher goals
Teachers: Save time with a complete class plan, discussion questions and more
Decoding Sylvia Plath’s “Daddy” is the first of a series of Decoding books presenting Plath in a compelling, original context, interpreted by the Fixed Stars Govern a Life: Decoding Sylvia Plath system, by author Julia Gordon-Bramer.
Decoding Sylvia Plath’s “Lady Lazarus” is the second in a series of Decoding books presenting Plath in a compelling, original context, interpreted by the Fixed Stars Govern a Life: Decoding Sylvia Plath system, by author Julia Gordon-Bramer.
In print and ebook. Audiobook coming soon!
“Daddy”: Not your average everyday Electra complex…
“You do not do” Sylvia Plath studies without her bedazzling poem “Daddy.” But do you get it?
…I mean, beyond the drama of anger and attraction from a daughter and wife?
Fans: Discover the parallel themes of Sigmund Freud, King Brutus, the London Stone, and other exciting facts within “Daddy” that scholars have missed for over 50 years
Poets & Writers: Judge for yourself how “Daddy” includes themes of Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, Joyce’s Finnegans Wake, and other literary works; consider applying Plath’s mystical format to your work
Students: Understand all themes and meanings beyond the superficial; learn why Plath used derogatory names and racism in “Daddy,” and enlighten your classmates to her higher goals
Teachers: Save time with a complete class plan, discussion questions and more
Decoding Sylvia Plath’s “Daddy” is the first of a series of Decoding books presenting Plath in a compelling, original context, interpreted by the Fixed Stars Govern a Life: Decoding Sylvia Plath system, by author Julia Gordon-Bramer.
Fixed Stars Govern a Life: Decoding Sylvia Plath
Fixed Stars Govern a Life: Decoding Sylvia Plath (2014, Stephen F. Austin State University Press)
The original book with the first twenty-two poems from Plath’s Ariel, revealing exciting new interpretations. Sylvia Plath wrote in poems, letters, and journals about playing with tarot cards, Ouija boards, and other forms of divination. Her husband Ted Hughes’ occultism has been widely explored, yet in the 50 years since Plath’s death, no one approached her work this way. Until now.
Fixed Stars Govern a Life: Decoding Sylvia Plath aligns Plath’s great poetry collection, Ariel, with tarot and Qabalah, opening it up to entirely new meanings:
Understand Plath’s Jewish imagery as Qabalah
Understand Plath’s color and chemical imagery as Jungian alchemy
Understand Plath’s concern for African-Americans’, Native Americans’, Women’s and even LGBT’S civil rights, as well as her fear of the Cold War and nuclear annihilation
Appreciate the historical, scientific and artistic correspondences that resonate on all levels of consciousness to explain Plath’s timelessness
COMING SOON AS AN eBOOK!
Forthcoming from Julia Gordon-Bramer:
Decoding Sylvia Plath’s “Cut” (nonfiction) Winter 2019
Night Times (memoir)
The Magician’s Girl: the mysticism of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes (biography)
Diary of a Tarot Card Reader (nonfiction)
Fixed Stars Govern a Life: Decoding Sylvia Plath (2014, Stephen F. Austin State University Press)
The original book with the first twenty-two poems from Plath’s Ariel, revealing exciting new interpretations. Sylvia Plath wrote in poems, letters, and journals about playing with tarot cards, Ouija boards, and other forms of divination. Her husband Ted Hughes’ occultism has been widely explored, yet in the 50 years since Plath’s death, no one approached her work this way. Until now.
Fixed Stars Govern a Life: Decoding Sylvia Plath aligns Plath’s great poetry collection, Ariel, with tarot and Qabalah, opening it up to entirely new meanings:
Understand Plath’s Jewish imagery as Qabalah
Understand Plath’s color and chemical imagery as Jungian alchemy
Understand Plath’s concern for African-Americans’, Native Americans’, Women’s and even LGBT’S civil rights, as well as her fear of the Cold War and nuclear annihilation
Appreciate the historical, scientific and artistic correspondences that resonate on all levels of consciousness to explain Plath’s timelessness
COMING SOON AS AN eBOOK!
Forthcoming from Julia Gordon-Bramer:
Decoding Sylvia Plath’s “Cut” (nonfiction) Winter 2019
Night Times (memoir)
The Magician’s Girl: the mysticism of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes (biography)
Diary of a Tarot Card Reader (nonfiction)