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The Wisdom of Folklore, Story + Myth
Womanhood and Rites of Passage
Innocent girl, virgin, maiden, mother, crone, lover, priestess, enchantress, seductress, warrior, healer, mystic, storyteller, queen, wild woman. All of these we carry within us, sometimes simultaneously; and yet life carries us, time comes, and we change naturally like the cycles of the land; we enter into a different phase of our life, one, that should be supported, appreciated, honoured and celebrated…
The Secret Threads
… Until one day we find ourselves before the landscape, which embodies everything that we have been looking for our entire life; the echo that called us for so long now swells into the sound itself. And we know. Here is the thing that I was made for…
What The Snow Queen Knows
Sometimes we look around and may wonder, “Where did the love and compassion go?” It’s you darling – you *are* it. And others experience love through your mere presence in this life…
Wild Marriage
What happens when two worlds touch one another? They kiss. And we find that love is not only felt in the hearts, it is known by the hands also…
Breath of Life: The Esoteric Symbolism of True Lover’s Kiss
The kiss is perhaps even more powerful than the final surrender, because it already holds within it that surrender. As our lips open, we share our souls, and each spirit is contained in the other …
The Gift of The Magi: Love, Selflessness and The Eternal Virgin
With sacrifice, love transcends the physical. In such deep love, divisions dissolve, and two become one…
The Importance of Fairytales for a Child’s Wellbeing
Real childhood is filled with fragilities, intensities, adversaries and unknowns. And in times of global confusion and worries, fairytales can provide a comforting hand, holding a child’s need to experience their own emotions fully…
The Cultural Evolution of Fairytales: Their Importance for Social Issues, Wellbeing and Preserving Generations
“Perhaps we are born knowing the tales, for our grandmothers and all their ancestral kin continually run about in our blood repeating them endlessly, and the shock they give us when we first hear them is not of surprise but of recognition. Things long unknowingly known have suddenly been remembered…
What Rapunzel Knows
All human societies need to love and to be loved, and to connect with one another. This is how we can experience the full fierceness of human emotions, and only then, would we be able to understand the value of the sacred part of our life…
Weaving Life: Spindle, Shuttle and Needle
There is abundance of tales, lore and myth across many cultures, connecting spinning and weaving to the divine and to the threads of fate that lead us toward various destinations, and to each other. There is also the famous concept of The Web of Wyrd, which reminds us that it is our own actions every day that weave the yarn for the day after; a web marrying fate with destiny…
The Dandelion Girl: Love Transcends Time
“The day before yesterday I saw a rabbit, yesterday a deer, and today, you.” Love humbly begins from chance meetings, maturing into something meaningful when carefully nurtured and properly cultivated. Each day Julie sees something beautiful and substantial yet each following day is a deeper layer unfolding, beyond the veil of her eyes…
Storytime: Finding The Nameless Horse
Has he achieved such perfection? He penetrates the construction of the spirit. Only interested in the essential, forgetting the insignificant; penetrating into internal dignities, he’s lost all his sense of the external traits. He sees what he needs and does not pay attention to what is unnecessary. He is so wise that he no longer sees neither color nor shape…
