Recall your message from the severed braid. How is this message an answer to your question? Let this be a new beginning somehow, this question-and-answer pairing. Notice what is revealed and what remains hidden by this question and answer, and then begin these last rites, the Rites of the Exile.

now? Reshape the question slightly to be a question about your life. Let the question become more personal.

Now that our story has ended, name your one remaining question. Does it feel like any part of the plot is missing? Do you have a small wonder — or a big one? Write this question down. For the last time, ask yourself, How is my question about this fairy tale the very question of my life right now? Name the question an oracle. Why is this your questi

where do you find this braid? How does this image make you feel? When you are ready, allow the severed braid to speak. What does it tell you? Write down your message from the severed braid. Name it teacher.

envision this: a long, severed braid lying on the ground. How do you see this image? What can you say about its nature? What time of day is it, and

In this story, as before, we want to consider that all the characters are aspects of our own psyche. We are not only the stolen daughter; we are also the ravenous mother, the pitiable father, the wild man, and the hag-witch herself.

As you ready yourself to meet our final Night House fairy tale, reflect on your own moments of exile, of being cast out, shunned like the Thirteenth Wise Woman and left uninvited to the feast.

Even the most closed-minded skeptic, if they truly listen to and meet a fairy tale well, considers that magick may be real as the tale unfolds.

“part of the miracle of the wild psyche is that no matter how badly a woman is ‘killed,’ no matter how injured, her psychic life continues, and it rises above ground where in soulful circumstances it will sing its way up and out again. Then wrongful harm done is consciously apprehended and the psyche begins restoration.”