Folklore, Myth + Literature
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…
Why Children Need Fairytales for Their Wellbeing
Tales speak a child’s language and allow them to feel their emotions in safe and healthy ways; tales nurture children’s imagination and develop their creative talents; and tales also allow us, as a family, to cultivate and nurture a loving space of connection and more closeness …
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…
What Cinderella Knows
Cinderella wants us to know to stay unmistakably true to ourselves and our heart; that we can preserve that beautiful spark inside of us despite our circumstances. But she reminds us of the importance of support; to surround ourselves only with those that truly allow us the space to reveal ourselves freely and safely…
What Sleeping Beauty Knows
Beyond the themes of true love, patience, integrity and kindness of heart, there is an underlying thread of the soul’s path towards self-realization and sacred union, including the concepts of soul’s destiny and reincarnation. Sleeping Beauty personifies the human soul going through its transformation as fate goes beyond the prediction of sleep…
Eros and Psyche: Breathe Life Into the Desires of Your Soul
It’s a story of fate, soul connection, trust, loss, purification and redemption.
Eros (desire) and Psyche (soul or breath of life) remind us to breathe life into the desires of our soul; a story of soul meets body, for the purified true love capable of transcending time and space. It is a reminder of the importance of trust & self love first in order to…
Relationship Dynamics: Archetypes of Knights, Damsels, Kings and Queens
The knight’s armour symbolizes the shield to vulnerability; it is shining because he hasn’t gone through the emotional transformation yet – he is not emotionally mature. We can’t keep on saving and distressing just to feel needed and avoid true intimacy…