Susan Kacvinsky
@susankwrites.bsky.social
Modern Mythology
https://open.substack.com/pub/modernmythology?r=45ipx4&utm_medium=ios Eleusis, a novel about the violent overthrow of the ancient mystery cult will be published by She Writes Press in early 2026.
https://open.substack.com/pub/modernmythology?r=45ipx4&utm_medium=ios Eleusis, a novel about the violent overthrow of the ancient mystery cult will be published by She Writes Press in early 2026.
Something huge and very much alive was swirling through that darkness, listening.
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August 28, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Something huge and very much alive was swirling through that darkness, listening.
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modernmythology.substack.com/p/why-i-writ...
Here’s the thing that set me free: the deep silence of my soul and the radical willingness to do what it was prompting. modernmythology.substack.com/p/silence-is...
July 3, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Here’s the thing that set me free: the deep silence of my soul and the radical willingness to do what it was prompting. modernmythology.substack.com/p/silence-is...
modernmythology.substack.com/p/three-days...
I wonder how many generations have been robbed of brilliance like my mother’s. Over the centuries, I wonder how many women weren’t allowed to be themselves, and what that has cost all of us.
I wonder how many generations have been robbed of brilliance like my mother’s. Over the centuries, I wonder how many women weren’t allowed to be themselves, and what that has cost all of us.
June 19, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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I wonder how many generations have been robbed of brilliance like my mother’s. Over the centuries, I wonder how many women weren’t allowed to be themselves, and what that has cost all of us.
I wonder how many generations have been robbed of brilliance like my mother’s. Over the centuries, I wonder how many women weren’t allowed to be themselves, and what that has cost all of us.
A Love Story for My Father; Though He Was a Violent Man modernmythology.substack.com/p/a-love-son...
June 5, 2025 at 9:28 PM
A Love Story for My Father; Though He Was a Violent Man modernmythology.substack.com/p/a-love-son...
Here’s the myth's essential part for those about to die: There must be consequences when we blink back alive from the cultural death that is still hurtling toward us.
modernmythology.substack.com/p/the-work-a...
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May 8, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Here’s the myth's essential part for those about to die: There must be consequences when we blink back alive from the cultural death that is still hurtling toward us.
modernmythology.substack.com/p/the-work-a...
modernmythology.substack.com/p/the-work-a...
Compassion is the antidote and the medicine for the grievous harm we have brought into the world. What we build, once we are reborn, must be tempered by only one thing: the awareness that life is impermanent.
modernmythology.substack.com/p/the-rebirt...
modernmythology.substack.com/p/the-rebirt...
April 24, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Compassion is the antidote and the medicine for the grievous harm we have brought into the world. What we build, once we are reborn, must be tempered by only one thing: the awareness that life is impermanent.
modernmythology.substack.com/p/the-rebirt...
modernmythology.substack.com/p/the-rebirt...
No holiday reminds me of the systematic patriarchal takeover of the religious imagination more than Easter. modernmythology.substack.com/p/the-easter...
April 18, 2025 at 10:02 PM
No holiday reminds me of the systematic patriarchal takeover of the religious imagination more than Easter. modernmythology.substack.com/p/the-easter...
Death is a friend but our myths tell us to fear her. substack.com/@modernmytho...
April 10, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Death is a friend but our myths tell us to fear her. substack.com/@modernmytho...
New Post on Substack
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modernmythology.substack.com/p/surrenderi...
March 13, 2025 at 11:09 PM
New Post on Substack
modernmythology.substack.com/p/surrenderi...
modernmythology.substack.com/p/surrenderi...
I feel your pain. I lost my baby almost ten months ago.
February 26, 2025 at 12:55 AM
I feel your pain. I lost my baby almost ten months ago.
February 13, 2025 at 3:10 PM
The next stage in the descent to death and rebirth we are on. modernmythology.substack.com/p/inannas-th...
January 30, 2025 at 11:20 PM
The next stage in the descent to death and rebirth we are on. modernmythology.substack.com/p/inannas-th...
Caution: Myths should not be taken literally!
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January 23, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Caution: Myths should not be taken literally!
modernmythology@substack.com
modernmythology@substack.com
Continuing on the death and rebirth transformation-personally and collectively. open.substack.com/pub/modernmy...
January 17, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Continuing on the death and rebirth transformation-personally and collectively. open.substack.com/pub/modernmy...
My baby pug/husky.
January 10, 2025 at 3:16 AM
My baby pug/husky.
Our death and rebirth has begun. open.substack.com/pub/modernmy...
January 2, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Our death and rebirth has begun. open.substack.com/pub/modernmy...
On the darkest night, light returns.
December 22, 2024 at 8:52 PM
On the darkest night, light returns.
New post in Modern Mythology open.substack.com/pub/modernmy...
December 20, 2024 at 1:04 AM
New post in Modern Mythology open.substack.com/pub/modernmy...
Lasagne and a side car for Threshold Choir rehearsal tonight!
December 12, 2024 at 12:08 AM
Lasagne and a side car for Threshold Choir rehearsal tonight!
Inanna's Plan B - New post in Modern Mythology
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December 5, 2024 at 7:47 PM
Inanna's Plan B - New post in Modern Mythology
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Myths describe potent archetypes. This is the one we are living in now.
November 22, 2024 at 11:31 PM
Myths describe potent archetypes. This is the one we are living in now.
New writer on the block! Gave up on the old, embracing the Blue. Been reading posts. Looks like a welcome tone shift. Phew!
November 20, 2024 at 12:08 AM
New writer on the block! Gave up on the old, embracing the Blue. Been reading posts. Looks like a welcome tone shift. Phew!