The Flame (interview w/ Maureen Seaton pt. 2)

Polish your crystal balls and buckle up, ladies! We get downright divinatory with Maureen Seaton leading the charge.

As always, please consider supporting the poets and writers we mention in the episode and buying indie! Breaking Form recommends Loyalty Booksellers, a Black-owned DC-area indie bookshop. Peruse them here.

Taurus poets mentioned in the Fact Check include Phillis Wheatley, Yannis Ritsos, Robert Browning, Joy Harjo, Natasha Trethewey, Randall Jarrell, Carolyn Forche, William Shakespeare, Jayne Cortez, and Aurelia Plath.

The archetype card deck we used in the podcast is "The Wild Unknown: Archetypes," deck and guidebook by Kim Krans, inpsired by Carl G. Jung.  Two others that Maureen uses and recommends are "The Goddess Oracle," by Amy Sophia Marashinsky, illustrated by Hrana Janto; and "Daughters of the Moon Tarot," by Fiona Morgan.

 Sylvia Plath’s poem is simply called “Mirror” and it begins, “I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions./ Whatever I see I swallow immediately ....” Read it here. 

 Jewelle Gomez is a Virgo, born Sept. 11. Watch her give a reading on her birthday here (~12 min).

Kairos is Greek for “right time” or “season” and in modern parlance describes a rhetorical strategy that considers the timeliness of a message and its place in the zeitgeist. Like when we say, “In a patricia? During a panorama? In this economy?” We’re employing kairos. With thanks to the viral tik-tok user @hotdaddyissues, who's original video can be found here. 

The poet Christopher Deweese writes and edits The Weather Channel's very entertaining Morning Brief. To sign up for the newsletter and learn delightful and informative things about weather every day, go here.

The Bangels’s “Eternal Flame” was co-written by lead singer Susanna Hoffs for their 1988 album Everything. Watch the video here.