Myth is the power of place speaking, and the story threads that made meaning and held guidance for our ancestors can be found anew and re-woven for our times. When we tap into the mythic imagination, we remember the calling that brought us into the world.
IN THE INTRO:
- Dreaming the ancient ways
- Sisters of rock and root
IN THE INTERVIEW:
- The Loss of the Voices of the Wells: the sacred contract between humans and the land, and how the desecration of women and the destruction of the earth are interwoven
- The loss of lineage results in the loss of our stories
- The sophistication embedded in ancient myths, and how we’ve been raised misunderstanding the old stories
- Stories have an independent existence outside of the human mind and reside in the imaginal realm
- A myth is the power of place speaking
- The Otherworld is an overlay, interwoven with this one
- How the heroic journey is killing the planet
- Archetypes are universal, but expressed in myth through different cultural filters
- The wise old woman of the world, and the Cailleach that informs much of Sharon’s work
- Cultivating the mythic imagination & courting the world soul
- The meaning of “calling”: every one of us came here to do something that matters
- The stories that we loved as children hold meaning for us
- Discerning coincidence from synchronicity
- Grounding the imaginal realm
- Bodyfullness v mindfulness
- The root of the word “enchantment” means “to sing into”- becoming re-enchanted is singing yourself back into the world
- Telling stories to the land, and the sacred responsibility to engage with the earth
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