Hence in a season of calmer weather Though inland far we be, Our Souls have sight of that immortal sea  Which brought us hither,  Can in a moment travel thither, And see the Children sport...

These days engaging with myth, for me, can be an invitation to poke at sacred cows.  In a month that JCF has dedicated to Campbell’s work on goddesses and what he, and many other mythologists,...

  “Imagination is the star in man, the celestial or supercelestial body.”  —Martin Ruland the Younger Arthur Edward Waite, the famed esoteric scholar and mystic who with Pamela Colman Smith created the classic tarot deck,...

In The Power of Myth, Bill Moyers remarks that the Lord’s Prayer begins with, “Our father, who art in heaven,” and then asks Joseph Campbell if it could begin with our mother. It is a...

Jean Marion Erdman, choreographer, director, co-founder of the Joseph Campbell Foundation, and wife to Joseph Campbell for 49 years, was born on February 20, 1916. This week, in honor of her birthday, Diane McGhee Valle...

Epigraph to Letter I: The Magician from Meditations on the Tarot: A Journey into Christian Hermeticism:   “Spiritus ubi vult spirat: et vocem  ejus audis, sed nescis unde veniat,  aut quo vadat: sic est omnis, ...

The magician made a modest request. Could he and his friends from the local chapter of the Society of American Magicians perform the “broken wand ceremony” at my grandfather’s open-casket, Catholic funeral?   My resistance, bordering...

The wheel of the year ROTATes and the next card in the TAROT pops up. What card did we pull out of the Year of the Rabbit’s hat for 2023? The next one: The Magician....