RARELY a day goes by when I don’t ask my daughter if the slipper fits before trying her shoe on. And what do you know, it’s a perfect slide every time, but let’s not get lost in the exoteric. Falling asleep in bed last night, I thought about Cinderella and our impending move to Europe, variably, in that order. It was a ping pong affair. This morning I woke up with the same coupled thoughts and the dread associated with them. Firstly, as it concerns our travels across the pond, there is little time and much to do on a shoestring budget. Let’s just say we will be living in various homes and doing a lot of kittensitting. To add to that anxiety, the boat casts off in three weeks as of this afternoon. Books are nice and the smell of old pages comfortable, but to quote Dr. Henry Jones Jr., “If you want to be a good archeologist, you gotta get out of the library.” Therefore, our temporary move to the UK and EU is intended as a seven-month long hands-on field trip investigating the various topics that I so often cover. The late Middle Ages, its association with the feminine divine, and something which I intimately refer to as the Millennial Kingdom takes up the crux of that focus. And let’s not forget about Mary Magdalene. Perhaps you will be happy to know that Cinderella finds her home and hearth in all of them. The slipper fits.
Nearly an entire year has passed since turning out Sleeping Beauty and the Feminine Divine, one of my all-time favs. Most recently, I have given the princess architype another looksy-loo with Rapunzel in Mary Magdalene and the Maiden in the Tower. Give them a read, why don’t you? I am directing you to them now because this is yet another spin-off paper, which means I will be springboarding rather than repeating information. That is to say, I am expecting you to know a thing or two while in pursuit of new discoveries.