Mythology

We are narrative creatures, hardwired for story. We make sense of the world, from childhood onward, through the stories we find — or the stories that find us. They are the stars we navigate by; they bring us the wisdom we need to thrive.

Fairy tales, myths, and stories provide understandings which sharpen our sight so that we can pick out and pick up the path left by the wildish nature. The instruction found in story reassures us that the path has not run out, but still leads women deeper, and more deeply still, into their own knowing. The tracks we all are following are those of

Another useful way to speak of soul is as story. Psychologist Jean Houston, for example, speaks of the larger story each person is born to live. This larger story — much deeper than your prosaic personal history — expresses the ultimate meaning of your life, its true significance, in the same way a myth communicates truth or gnosis. To be living

Beyond the Mythteller there is only the story—the story you are living, the story you are leaving, and the story you yearn to be.

Our own lives are stories that we write from day to day; they are journeys through the dark of the fairy tale woods. The tales of previous travellers through the woods are passed down to us in the poetic, symbolic language of folklore and myth; where we step, someone has stepped before, and their stories can help light the way.”

start tracking the process in a journal where you record and process your transformations. In the journal, ask what the central elements of your old myth are. Who are you? How do you see yourself? How do others (family, friends, coworkers) see you? What is the creation myth of you?

all cultures have created stories to help us grapple with, and ultimately map, the chaos into which we are thrown at birth;