Kristin Mathis TALKTALKTALKS 'Karma, Fate, Moira & Long Covid'

Poet and Translator Kristin Mathis of Mysteria Mundi opens up about her relationship with Long Covid, from the philosophical to the practical

If it wasn’t for Long Covid and personal tragedy, Kristin Mathis may have never left her job as a Waldorf school teacher. She might not have listened when Hermes came to her in a dream. And she may never have launched her Substack, Mysteria Mundi. 

Kristin has been translating ancient texts her whole adult life — but since leaving University, it had become mostly Sappho’s poetry, and mostly something she did just for fun. This was different. This was a calling to Orphic Initiation. And the Universe was conspiring by taking away all the obstacles — health, partner, job security. 

There were days, weeks, months, when literally all she could do was translate. 

During these periods when she was too ill or sad to leave bed, she still found time and energy to pour herself into her work. One by one, in an order that would come to her in waking visions and dreams, she started translating the collection of 87 Orphic poems from Ancient Greek to living English texts. More than an obsession, it beca…