Welcome here, as the red-winged blackbirds sing of new life, in the full pink moon season of The Maiden, as we spiral deeper into this 13 month journey - A Year & A Day.
Today we are ripe for the feminine initiation of descent and rebirth, and connecting & holding our inner maidens with a retelling of a 3500 year old myth, part of the sacred Eleusinian Mysteries from the Cult of Persephone & Demeter.
While our focus at this time is the Maiden’s journey, this particular retelling also radiates the interdependence & connection with the essential and active roles of the Mother and the Crone energies. These phases including the Mage/Matriarch phase are all inside us and present throughout our lives, as women folx.
A mingling, holistic, cyclical and spiraling of experience and transformation. Mind blow, huh?
The Heroine’s Journey, the alchemical soul path of the Feminine is the story of descent and then…rebirth.
If you are new to this pod-space, new to relating with your body & soul, with living & ancient stories, I invite you to listen with your whole body; rest in the story, breathe with the story as you listen, stay in the story, stay with the sequential unfolding of images, and stay in your body. This is a practice that can be awkward or even uncomfortable work, it can also be joyous, and can reveal that which you are ready to hear, feel, see, release & know. Hell and eff yes!
Afterwards, gently reflect on the images (more than the meaning, if possible), notice images that charmed you, and notice images that troubled you, make an offering, a gift of something to the story ( don’t overthink this, and it can be a simple gesture).
Perhaps, after a few hours, days, weeks of just soaking in the images of the story, then reflect on what this story means to you particularly through the experience of the Maiden.
What is your relationship with your Maiden within?
Does your own maiden’s journey resonant with the story?
When have you known the mythic, soul journey of descent, and return?
What sacred dance, what holy joy can you embody to call forth youthful, underworldly parts ? What might that feel like? Can you give that to yourself? Who are your allies?
How might the healthiest, most balanced and alive Mother or Crone within you, support your inner Maiden’s return?
Please, if you can give yourself even 5-10 minutes to reflect, journal, share your experience with this story, with the Maiden within you. If tears need to flow, a big ass pink permission slip for you, to allow that release.
Yours in the wholeness of the whole-mess,
Much love,
Tracy
PS. If you are keen to do this inner & soul feeding story work with a witness, guide & breathing ally - please do reach out. And if this podcast, this work is meaningful to you and you have the means to support offerings like this here, please consider becoming a subscriber.
What I’m offering here is the gifting of 30 years of embodied connection with story in my role as an oral storyteller and as a deep journeying soul-fed, feminine being.
* social media image by Meinrad Craighead, Demeter and Persephone.
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