Sublime

The cure for both the naive woman and the instinct-injured woman is the same: Practice listening to your intuition, your inner voice; ask questions; be curious; see what you see; hear what you hear; and then act upon what you know to be true.

Sometimes a stranger asks me for one of the stories I’ve mined, shaped, and carried over the years. As the keeper of these stories, given to me on the basis of promises asked

retrograde

We find ourselves then, filled with drum beats, filled with singing, filled with listening and saying our own words; new poems, new ways of seeing, new ways of acting and thinking. Instead of trying to “make the magic last,” we just live.

This woman of the story is not old, not sick, yet she must be dismantled for she cannot be the way she has been anymore. Yet forces are waiting for her to help her heal.

to unleash whatever of her profound gifts continually pour into us through our shared bloodline with her.

Jules Cashford Jungian Analyst, London Coauthor of The Myth of the Goddess

In this sense, fairy tales and mythos are initiators; they are the wise ones who teach those who have come after.

This is done by descending into the deepest mood of great love and feeling, till one’s desire for relationship with the wildish Self overflows,