an introduction
plus where you can find my work elsewhere
I’m Jodie, a writer, researcher, and general mysticism enthusiast.
This substack is a space for my research-based writing projects on art and literature inspired by, and/or created with, mystic and occult means. Whilst I still publish through traditional academic venues, I’m opening up eternity in your hand to make parts of my research more accessible to the public. While my PhD focused specifically on the artistic circles of William Blake and the Celtic Twilight, my professional and personal expertise covers a much wider scope of artists and movements. In addition to scholarly, yet accessible articles, my substack will also offer (again, research-informed) opinion pieces on subjects within my professional expertise, and my personal orbit as a writer-practitioner.
Since I began my PhD research in 2017, and after completing the doctorate in 2022, I’ve had equal interest in my work from people and groups both inside and outside the academy. This can, in part, be explained by the general revival of cultural interest in esotericism, tarot, astrology, and alternative spirituality from the early-mid 2010s onwards. However, drawing from my own research, which spans the arts in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries, I can tell you there’s always been a human receptivity to these topics: it simply waxes and wanes with the times.
I look forward to sharing my work with you. I’ll post weekly writing here, and you can keep up with me via my other socials as well. Keep in touch.
Contact
email: jodie.eternity@gmail.com
X/Twitter and Bluesky: @jodie_l_marley
Where you can find my previous work
This is a list of my previous publications and where you can find them. Those in Good Horoscope, VALA, and my talks on YouTube are publicly available. You may be able to access my other publications if you have a university library membership or a JSTOR membership (fun fact: you can sign up to JSTOR for free if you’re not at university, you just have a monthly cap on the number of articles you can read).
Articles
Jodie Marley, ‘Vegetable Eyes’, in VALA: The Journal of The Blake Society 4 (November 2023), p. 67. https://blakesociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/VALA-04.pdf.
Jodie Marley, ‘William Blake on Astrology – Part 2’ in Good Horoscope (3rd February 2023),
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Jodie Marley, ‘William Blake on Astrology – Part 1’ in Good Horoscope (19th January 2023),
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Jodie Marley, ‘“Invisible Gates Would Open”: W. B. Yeats and William Blake in the 1890s’, in Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, 98:1 (Spring 2022), pp. 23-38.
Jodie Marley, ‘On The Book of Thel and Pandemic Prophecies’ in VALA: The Journal of The Blake Society 2 (2021), pp. 14-16. https://blakesociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/VALA-02.pdf.
Public Talks
‘Another William Blake!’ George Russell and William Blake’s Mystic Reception, for Global Blake, December 2022,
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‘What the Yeatses Partly Learned’, for Global Blake, January 2022,
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I am so excited for this! School is in session.