Jump into Aries as we start our astrological journey through the year, but you can join at any time. This is applied living astrology.

beginning
April 24

with Aries

an ongoing class that moves with the heavens

Astrology is an archetypal heroic journey

This class presents an astrological approach to YOUR LIFE, aligning heaven & earth to co-create with the energy & mythology of the stars. As we move together through the year, we create a project with the archetypal qualities, energies & stories of the heavens. Join at any time & continue throughout the year. This will become a LIVE in-depth yearly class next year but is a kit for now.
Understanding our astrology chart is the doorway: the effort to move through it is our own. 
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Astrology is a framework for Cosmic Co-Creation 

Offering an ancient & emergent perspective, astrology co-creates with soul on a cosmic level of scale. Astrology is a:

Co-creative Life Blueprint

Astrology is a matrix of time & space that allows us to co-create with the ineffable (eternity & infinity), offering an archetypal guidance system to align above & below.

Life Navigation Tool

Let's face it, life decisions are tricky, but astrology offers a lens to self-reflect & see through along with lessons, skills, energy & information to guide us on our life journey. By looking up we journey in & out into unknown lands with a celestial compass & map charted through the ages.

Expanded Perspective

Astrology is expansive, reaching backward & forward in space & time to co-create a cohesive narrative of our lives & all life: of soul. It is a way to step back & see larger patterns that we are a part of & recognize larger influences & opportunities to collaborate with in the world & worlds beyond. It is a way of seeing & being.

Create meaning & purpose

Astrology is a blueprint for co-creation that undergirds Soul Space which is about connecting our nature to nature according to the fractal & scalable nature of soul.
Explore the heroic myth from the perspective of lived astrology, traveling through the signs with power & purpose to really live your life. The class is integrated in your life & includes a year-long project.
  • Zodiacal Creation Map for YOU
  • Archetypal images & motifs
  • Heroic quest mythic narrative (hero.ine)
  • Shadow work with the signs' polarity
  • Healing complexes & relationships 
    (Zodiacal myth is a cultural framework to create, educate & evolve humanity)

Objectives & Outcomes

Monthly content drops down for the new & full moon (information for all phases too), including:
  • Zodiacal Dream journaling prompts
  • Reading, reflection & Journeys
  • Live sessions & assignments
  • Partner & group support
  • Private social media sharing
Outcomes vary but include:
  • Creating your own astrological myth
  • Illustrating, animating & mapping it
  • Make an Astrological Creation Template for your Project
  • Goal setting for your mythic journey
  • Guideposts to living your myth
    to recognize ongoing revelation

    "You can no longer see or identify yourself solely as a member of a tribe, but as a citizen of a nation of one people working toward a common purpose." Idowu Koyenikan 
We move from sign to sign but also with the stages of the moon & other astrological considerations in co-creating our life & opus.

Bring the Zodiac to life

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Course features
  • Multi-modal & lived
  • Beginners welcome
  • Marginalized Paths
  • Experience-based
  • Archived material
  • Culturally Inclusive
Course overview
This is an applied co-creative approach to lived astrology.
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Certification beginning 1.1.24
*The price of your kit will be applied to the longer course offering & gives you a chance to begin to move co-creatively with the heavens & integrate the material, so you can immerse yourself when we go LIVE.
Astrology is a language. If you understand this language, the sky speaks to you.
Diane Rudhyar
Start in the energy of Aries or begin in your own time with a lesson designed for & recorded in the energy of Aries with intention. 
An example of the coursework/play from aries

Creative Astrology

This is a combination of different kinds of astrology but more than anything, it is applied creative astrology that aligns & co-creates with the signs' energies, influences, developmental stages, skills & more. Coupled with the moon's movement, this is a way to pattern co-creation with Creation, aligning above & below, heaven & earth to co-create with soul.
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New
Moon:
Intention

Clear the old, vision, begin
or initiate & set intention

Waxing Crescent: 
Vision

Positive hope & energy to imagine into & dream on

First-Quarter:
Action

Momentum to plan, make decisions & change/adapt

Waxing
Gibbous:
Focus

Refine, hone, clarify, assess creation & our emotions

Full
Moon:
Energize

Illuminate to view creation & relations: ritual release

Waning
Gibbous:
Revise

Take stock & revisit to give gratitude & claim power

Third Quarter: Reflect

Spring clean to separate old habits & grow anew

Waning Crescent: Release

Be still, rest, reflect, release & renew

Creative Order

Way of interpreting & understanding symbol & synchronicity in life time & space to create

Creative Pattern

Way of expressing in a range of archetypal patterns & forms with a quality of energy

Creative Skillset 

Way of creating with skills & capacities that lend themselves to the astrological expression

Creative Energy 

Way of opening to the energy flowing from the sign to empower your creation in life

& Lots More

Way of making 
decisions to chart your creative journey aligned to the heavens

Personality & Soul

2 (+ & -) Poles or Perspective. expressing in light & shadow

Earth, Sun & Moon

Elements, Seasons & Body
expressing in an < or > of e  

Storied Structure

Myth, Archetypes & Rulers
with stories, tropes & roles

Connect to our Lives

Life Qualities & Aspects
manifesting through us
Each sign will have general content as well as a prompt, creative activity & ritual suggestion for each moon phase to help navigate.

Creative Activity

Consciously recreate your life & a project in alignment with astrological energies.

Earth Orientation

Connect to the earth & with the earth as a collaborator in your co-creative story.

Cosmic Relationship

Look to the stars for deep inspiration in charts & the beauty of the clear night sky.

Additional Reading

Alice Bailey's Labours of Hercules is the only book
(with other author sections)

You Exist in Time, but you belong to Eternity--Your are a penetration of eternity into the world of time. You are deathless, living in a body of death. Your Consciousness knows No Death, No Birth. [This is the reality of soul.]
Osho
Including & synthesizing Labour of Hercules by Alice Bailey, Soul of Astrology by Ruth Hadkin & Journey ( . . . ) by Rosanne Finn.
Here is a little about the signs. Again, this is applied astrology, so the focus is on creating through the energy, imagery & influence. 

 Aries. Warrior

1. March 21-April 19

Activity: Self-Reflect, Journal & Take on your Identity, Calling & a Creative Project
Element: Fire 
Stage: first principle of mind & spirit Impulse to Create
Season: Beginning of Spring
House: Self-Identity
Quality: Initiating, Beginnings. Will or Power expresses itself through the great creative processes. In the early stages, activities are directed toward material & then spiritual creation.
Alchemical: Calcination
Archetypal: Animus & Ram
Mythic: Search for Identity
Ex. Luke Skywalker & Athena
Body Part: Head & Brain
Modality/Cross: Cardinal  
Ruler: Exoteric Mars & Esoteric Mercury
Personality: "Let form again be sought"

Soul: "I come forth & from the plane of mind, I rule."

 Taurus. Creator

2. April 20-May 20

Activity:  Gather, Brain & Heartstorm your Resources for yourself, life & Project
Element: Earth 
Stage: desire & attraction create leading to illumination
Season: Blooming Bulbs
House: Resources
Quality: Desire, for the mass of men; will or directed purpose for the disciple
Alchemical: Congelation
Archetypal: Anima & Bull
Ether, Earth & Work
Mythic: Search for Meaning
Ex. Moon Goddess, Dionysus & Hephaestus & Minotaur
Body Part: Neck & Shoulders
Modality/Cross: Fixed 
Ruler: Exoteric Venus & Esoteric Vulcan
Personality: "Let struggle be undismayed." 

Soul: "I see & when the Eye is opened, all is illumined."

Gemini Messenger

3. May 21-June 20

Activity: Communicate with radical authenticity, Craft a Message & draft Project Plan
Element: Air  
Stage: Creating on physical plane for self-knowledge
Season: Flowering
House: Communication
Quality: Duality. Love-Wisdom, Fluidity. Control of every pair of opposites. The underlying love of Deity reaches our solar system through Gemini.
Alchemical: Fixation
Archetypal: Child & Twins
Mythic: Search for Variety 
 Ex. Hermes & Peter Pan
Castor & Pollux
Body Part: Arms & Hands
Modality/Cross: Mutable

Ruler: Exoteric Mercury
& Esoteric Venus
Personality: "Let instability do its work"
Soul: "I recognize my other self & in the waning of that self I grown & glow."

Cancer. Caregiver

4. June 21-July 22

Activity: Reflect on Home, Family, Community & Take Care of Yourself & Project 
Element: Water
Stage: Moving from instinct to intellect & intuition 
Season: Birth of Summer
House: Home
Quality: Mass sensitivity; for the average man, mass identification with form; for the disciple, service for the soul & world soul
Alchemical: Solution
Archetypal: Mother & Crab
Mythic: Search for the Mother Ex. Goddess, Demeter & Kuan Yin
Body Part: Breast or Womb
Modality/Cross: Cardinal
Ruler: Exoteric Moon & Esoteric Neptune
Personality: "Let isolation be the rule, and yet the crowd exists"

Soul: "I build a lighted house & therein dwell

Leo. Ruler

 5. July 23-August 22

Activity: Self-Express Creatively & Create your Project as a Whole Vision
Element: Fire
Stage: Service & purpose are coordinated leadership
Season: Hot Days of Summer
House: Creativity
Quality: Sensitivity leading to individual awareness, Emergence out of the herd. Self-consciousness, Self-assertion
Alchemical: Digestion

Archetypal: Father & Lion
Mythic: Search for Being & Wholeness Ex. Hercules; Rhea; Kukulkan
Body Part: Heart
Modality/Cross: Fixed
Ruler: Exoteric/Esoteric Sun
Personality: "Let other forms exist, I am because I am"
Soul: "I am that I am"

Virgo. Hermit

6. August 23-Sept. 22

Activity: Explore Life Balance & the role of Service in your Life & Project. Create it!
Element: Earth
Stage: Birth of the project & love, turning - into + 
Season: Harvest
House: Service & Health
Quality: The unique service in Virgo is that both the form & spirit are nurtured, shielding "Christ" or sacred Child (Soul)
Alchemical: Distillation

Archetypal: Maiden & Virgin
Mythic: Search for Meaningful Service, Ex. Virgin Mary, Isis
Body Part: Digestive organs
Modality/Cross: Mutable
Ruler: Exoteric Mercury
& Esoteric Moon
Personality: "Let matter reign"
Soul: "I am the Mother & the Child, I, God, I, matter am."

Libra. Lover

 7. Sept. 23- October 22

Activity: What is the role of Partnership & Relationship in your (Love) Life & Project? 
Element: Air
Stage: Balancing the pairs of opposites in symbolic union
Season: Fall, wind, leaves fall
House: Marriage/Partnership
Quality: Equilibrium, an interlude where duality is known & the life of soul & form is balanced (Law, Sex & Money)
Alchemical: Sublimation

Archetypal: Persona & Scales
Mythic: Search for the Soul Mate Ex. Juno, Eros & Psyche
Body Part: Kidneys
Modality/Cross: Cardinal
Ruler: Exoteric Venus
& Esoteric Uranus
Personality: "Let choice be made"
Soul: "I choose the way which leads between the two great lines of force." 

Scorpio. Alchemist

8. Oct. 23-November 21

Activity: Reflect on Sex, Death & Rebirth in your Life & Project as Transformation
Element: Water
Stage: Supreme test & dark night of the soul bring light
Season: Fall, Dying Time, Dark Time
House: Death & Rebirth *
Quality: "Conflict. Test. Trial. Triumph. Points of crisis. Moments of re-orientation. Turning point in the life of humanity & the individual. 
Alchemical: Separation

Archetypal: Shadow & Scorpion
Mythic: Search for Transformation Ex. Shakti, Persephone, Hydra
Body Part: Reproduction
Modality/Cross: Fixed
Ruler: Exoteric/Esoteric Mars
Personality: "Let Maya flourish & let deception rule"
Soul: "Warrior I am & from the battle I emerge triumphant"

Sagittarius. Seeker

9. Nov. 22-December 21

Activity: Coming 
Element: Fire
Stage: On pointed focus & consummation of our task
Season: Winter Sleep & Dreams
House: Inner Exploration
Quality: Focused direction. One-pointed activity. In the early stages, satisfaction of desire; in later stages aspiration for the goal of initiation.
Alchemical: Ceration

Archetypal: Hero
Mythic: Search for Wisdom Ex. Artemis, Athena
Body Part: Thighs
Modality/Cross: Mutable
Ruler: Exoteric Jupiter & Esoteric Earth
Personality: "Let food be sought"
Soul: "I see the goal. I reach that goal & then I see another."

Capricorn. Initiate

10. Dec. 12-January 19

Activity: Coming  
Element: Earth
Stage: Sustained service to the world soul (life on earth)
Season: Winter
House: Career
Quality: Extreme & best types. Ambition. Crystallisation. Struggle overcome. Transfiguration. Initiate consciousness
Alchemical: Fermenation

Archetypal: Sage & Goat
Mythic: Search for Life Path Ex. Pan, Saturn, Father Time, Cronus
Body Part: Ankles
Modality/Cross: Fixed
Ruler: Exoteric/Esoteric Saturn
Personality: "Let ambition rule & let the door stand wide"
Soul: "Lost am I in light supernal, yet on that light I turn my back."

Aquarius. S Rebel

11. Jan. 20-February 18

Activity: Coming 
Element: Air
Stage: Inclusive perspective & skill in implementing project
Season: Preparing for Spring, waiting time
House: Hopes & Dreams
Quality: Will to serve, first the lower self, then the higher Self. World service. Individual consciousness transmuted into group consciousness
Alchemical: Multiplication

Archetypal: Trickster & Water Carrier
Mythic: Search for the Holy Grail Ex. Prometheus, Pandora 
Body Part: Ankles 
Modality/Cross: Fixed
Ruler: Exoteric Uranus & Esoteric Jupiter
Personality: "Let desire in form be the rule"
Soul: "Water of Life am I, poured forth for thirsty men."

Pisces. Mystic

12. Feb. 19-March 20

Activity: Coming 
Element: Water
Stage: Identity with the Self & expanded consciousness
Season: Swelling of the Seed in the Earth
House: Self-Transcendence
Quality: Duality. Fluidity endowed with instinctual. Polarised mind unawakened. Intuition dormant. Death of the personality. Release of the soul.  consciousness. Mediumistic
Alchemical: Projection

Archetypal: Self & Fishes
Mythic: Search for Peace Ex. Christ, Percival
Body Part: Feet
Modality/Cross: Mutable
Ruler: Exoteric Jupiter & Esoteric Pluto
Personality: "Go forth into matter"
Soul: "I leave my Father's home & turning back, I save"

*Ophiuchus: a 13th sign from November 30-Dec. 18
is near our galactic center, representing our struggle.

If we use a celestial planisphere, we will see that between November 30 & December 18, the sun moves through the newer less obvious constellation, Ophiuchus or the serpent bearer/snake charmer. While this sign reflects a struggle, it is like the serpent itself which in Geomatria (ancient Jewish mystical numeric writing system) means both trickster & redeemer. So, Ophiuchus reflects deep healing gained through the enantiodromia of the movement of the opposites from one archetypal pole- to the other+ & their tension.
Astrology should not enslave, imposing a particular pattern of behavior, corresponding to the zodiac sign, and prescriptible by the basics of teaching. Its mission  is to help understand the prerequisites for human development. [& aid & guide us in our development]
Djwhal Khul

Create astrologically

Moving with the energy & myths of the zodiac as we align ourselves between the heavens & earth together. In our sharing, our experience is amplified. Please come join, create & share.
  • Live this in your life & share your experiences to grow & learn together along with ongoing resources.
  • Myths from many cultures help to give archetypal perspective on the roles, qualities, energies & skills.
  • Insight from different teachers from archetypal, esoteric, evolutionary, relationship & Vedic astrology.

Hercules & Hero or Standard Culture

This is the dominant mono-myth in all of our lives.

Heroine's Journey or Marginalized Peeps

This is the disenfranchised myth in all of our lives

Full Spectrum Lens
Includes Both

This is a synthetic view of masculine/feminine/plural

Multi-Cultural perspective

This is a narrative of the story of all LIFE, human+.
Our astrological life journey is a heroic myth. Yet it is not the mono myth of previous ages divided into masculine & feminine.
Paulo Coelho said, "When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person realize his dream'," adding to Albert Einstein's assertion that, "The most important decision we make is whether we believe we live in a friendly or a hostile universe." In the Anthropocene, this is really important.
Notes from the universe

A call to unite

While we will work with the Labours of Hercules as a mythic journey, this is meant to transcend this as a starting place to touch & uplift the hero's journey & traditional imagery of the zodiac from the past. What is present now? What is calling to come through? Together we get to bring the new astrological images in to guide us in a new age & archetypal expression.
The seminal question of what astrological myth (s) we live individually and collectively guides us to discover and create a living myth to live by . . . this is no small statement, given our current crises. So, we integrate dreams, play, synchronicity, fantasy, yoga, journaling, active imagination and intuition as we travel on our astrological journey. As we travel, we return to a past where we were "still linked by myth with the world of the ancestors, and thus with nature truly experienced and not merely from the outside." Our return resurrects myths from the unconscious & unleashes the astrological currents from the heavens. As the psychologist C G Jung said: "Myths which day has forgotten continue to be told by night.''" Now is the time to reach up to the heavens in inspiration & aspiration.

We are confronting darkness in ourselves & our collective unconscious & superconscious, availing ourselves of the energies that are always there. Not to be molded by them but to collaborate & co-create with them to empower our vision & service in the world. What are you called to create to unify heaven & earth, humanity with the other kingdoms of nature & one person with another? With the entry in Aries (or when you start), we bring in this vision to rotate with us through the heavens with each sign adding color, texture, body & integrity to it.
As creators, we collaborate & co-create with a benevolent universe

soul is masculine & feminine, energy & matter

Astrology is the union of opposites in the evolving story of space & time (i.e. creation & co-Creation).

It moves with us & through us as energies of creative expression available to us.

Astrology is like a gateway drug to a more cosmic world view (without the drug).
Ruby Warrington

What's included in the zodiacal journey kit?

  • 12 Videos & Text Lessons
  • 12 Live Sessions w Q & A 
  • Partner Work & Support 
  • Online Group Container & Social Media Hub

Year of Archetypal Guidance

Self-paced & guided, prompts & activities lead you to create a project & live a year in alignment with the stars.

Value. live your life

Examine inherited myths & stories that unconsciously guide your life and values to consciously create and live your life as your unique story.

We begin with a workshop to initiate us

With the energies of Aries, we are ushered into the new year & our soul's call to transform
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Online courses

We provide online courses that prepares everyone for the real world. We offer an array of courses that cover everything from business to writing skills, helping our students gain knowledge and practice their skills at the same time.

Forward Thinking

We believe in our own on-going education and keeping up with state-of-the-art technology and industry standards. This ensures our students receive quality instruction while earning the credentials they need.

Quality Content

We understand that staying at the top of your profession means accessing education and earning certificates efficiently and effectively.

Mythic call to your adventure (big or small) 

Hear the call

This kit is about what you are called to do and how you are or can do it--your gift

Heed the call

You will take your living myth and add direction to co-create with it to heed your call

Answer the call

To answer your call you will vision & intuit the path before you . . .  & walk it

Hero's journey steps

1.                   7. Approach innermost cave 
2. Call                                        8. Ordeal
3. Refusal of the Call              9. Overcome Fear 
4. Meeting the Mentor           10. Road Back 
5. Threshold                             11. Resurrection 
6. Tests, Allies, enemies          12. Elixir of Life & Return
This is the classic heroic model for the part of all of us that identifies with the hero and the broader culture. Parts of it overlap with the heroine's model.
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Call & Refusal 

Call to adventure & saying no/not yet
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Mentor & Allies

Gathering a fellowship of allies & mentor
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Threshold

Crossing & passing a point of no return
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Cave & Ordeal

Entering the interior depths & challenges
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Death & Return

Death or resurrection, return & rebirth

Heroine/minority journey steps

1. Separation from your value/feminine                6. Initiation & descent
2. Identification with cultural value/masculine             7. Embrace self/feminine
3. Call & road of trials                              8. Healing relationships
4. Experiencing success                           9. Healing wounded masculine
5. Spiritual emptiness                             10. Union of masculine & feminine
This is a journey of self-denial, acceptance, empowerment & healing for all of the parts of you repressed & denied by the broader dominant culture. 
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Illusion/Betrayal 

You betray your feminine values & self
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Call & Awaken

You are called to awakened authenticity
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Descent & Death

You descend into your body & reclaim truth
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Heal Lineage

You heal the feminine in you & the world
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Union & Return

You unite with & heal the masculine

Conscious or not, we live our myths (if not, they live us). We must live our myth to claim the power of:

  • collective unconscious
  • self-creation
  • cultural healing
  • self-realization

Myths are essential

They order our lives and create meaning, while limiting our roles, behaviors & opportunities 

Effecting & creating all life

Myths are powerful narratives whose values influence all aspects of our lives and all life, including:
The call to adventure is the point in a person's life when they are first given notice that everything is going to change, whether they know it or not . . . The call . . . signifies that destiny has summoned the hero.
Joseph campbell

Union = completion

This heroic journey is about union--the inner hero & heroine together as you and your soul. Union is the treasure at the end of the rainbow of both journeys & the healing wholeness of our journey Just as the rainbow is a symbol of inclusion and hope, it is a symbol of soul love--who you are really marrying in your union.
  • combining journaling and creative writing
  • with creative activities, prompts and practices
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The union of feminine and masculine energies within the individual is the basis of all creation.
shakti gawain
We can never enter the collective unconscious but we can send the anima or animus to bring us information. By making things with your hands without conscious intent you find a vision of the things of the unconscious
C G Jung
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Anima

feminine soul & guide
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 Animus

masculine soul & guide
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Self

union of male & female
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Individuation 

heroic journey of wholeness
One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being. 
May Sarton
If you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct you and you will call it fate.
C G Jung
Only birth can conquer death--the birth, not of  the old thing again, but of something new.
Joseph campbell
Achieve you goals

Our whole is ourselves

We are grounded in the earth as a center and point of origin that is integral to our expanding mythology.
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Your past creates your future

Myths bridge the past, present and future, connecting us to each other and the world, evolving us through the ages. Returning to prehistory, they extend back beyond words to the oral traditions that rooted us to each other and the earth, generation after generation evolving from the genetic or primordial Eve (whatever your belief). Myths incorporate science and spirituality, blending creation and evolution in the individuation of the earth. Connecting us to past ways of relating, we remember we are a part of not apart from the world. In this connection, myths are essential to the continuation of our species and other species . . . to the creation of a sustainable world of co-creation.
The psyche has many secrets in reserve. And these are not disclosed unless required. 
Joseph campbell
Set within the seed of the soul is not just a fleeting image or a vague pattern but a lifelong story enfolded within, waiting to be cracked open and lived all the way.
Michael Meade
It is a sure sign that a culture has reached a dead end when it is no longer intrigued by its myths.
Greil Marcus

Heroicism is personal & cultural

Personal myth is a story you tell yourself (and that you were told) to make sense and meaning of your life & world as a guide to navigate your life experience. It is made unconsciously as you grow, incorporating words and beliefs from your family and community. In this way, personal myths are informed by the broader cultural myths, rippling out to the earth and the cosmos beyond. While there are archetypal patterns like the mythic Sky Father and Earth Mother, we have the ability to reach beyond pas myths and molds to see new emergent ways of being in and of the world.
Courage is found in unlikely places. May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out.
J R R Tolkien
Our deepest fear is not that we are weak. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
Nelson Mandela
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We are more than we imagine

centering & vitality

Your myth centers you and aligns you to your purpose, passion & power

 compassion & love

Making your myth conscious requires compassion and love for yourself & others

world view & service

Our myths need to change to match the pace of our interconnected evolution

creativity & confidence

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connection & belonging

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Gender

roles, power & relationship 

Race

equality, shame & mythic history

Class

opportunity & privilege 

Identity

 possibility, hope &  diversity

Magic

transcendence & imagination  

Healing

Union & transformation

Focusing on creation myths

They connect us to each other and the world, evolving us through the ages. As we have become more aware of our interconnection through quantum physics and technology, we are also more aware of the cosmos around us and the likelihood of other life. The world is accelerating its change and can't deny its creative connection
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Archetypal vision

See through the everyday world to view your life and underlying mythic imagery as archetypal, symbolic & meaningful based on interconnection and synchrony.

Storytelling voice

While this kit's focus is on myth, the overlap between all stories is held in your story...whatever it is.
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We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
Joseph Campbell

Myth

supernatural characters

Legends

heroes from history

Fairytales

magic & lessons

Folktales

realistic & unwritten

Myth is inclusive

Blending elements of legends, fairytales and folktales (which are already blended), we create a myth as our story, combining all of the elements in one myth:
  • magic and realistic, secular and religious
  • dualistic and unifying, destructive and creative 
  • historic and imagined, past and future 
  • multicultural and transdisciplinary (include anything)
  • The keep is to follow your soul's intuition
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The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong in the broken places. 
Ernest Hemingway

A structure to CONTAIN the process

This process is contained by your soul but also by 3 circles of support made by you and your group. Each circle expands with you as you create your opus or soul journal, designed to offer different levels of containment as you transform. These circles protect and support you as you explore and create your myth. Embrace and create them in your own way. 

Alone

You travel alone.

This is your myth after all

Partner

A partner helps to mirror you.

Partners help to see and ID myth

Group

A circle to discuss and reflect.

Groups brings myths together

Create your support

Watch a video introduction and orientation and sign up for more support

Create & dedicate your space.

You will create an art studio, creativity altar, and art as your "church" and "cathedral," a place to commune with your soul. This is a place for renewal and retreat whether creating art, lighting a candle, meditating, or doing gentle yoga. These spaces cocoon you as an alchemical container of transformation through your process, nurturing your body and a body of art. 

Create your space

Watch a video introduction or read a list of suggestions to create your space.
Heroes take journeys, confront dragons, and discover the treasure of their true lives. 
Carol Pearson
For me, the hero's journey is not the voyage from weakness to strength. The true hero's journey is the voyage from strength to weakness.
John Green

Information

New knowledge 

Video, audio & text lessons to guide your exploration

Activity

Creative action

Creative exercises designed to deepen your experience

Prompt

For your life

Visual and verbal images to seed your  imagination 

Journal

Reflecting within

Mythic journal practice with "free journaling" & art

Live

Lived experience

Embody and live your insights in your life & world
A journey will have pain and failure. It is not only the steps forwards that we must accept. It is the stumbles. The trials. The knowledge that we will fail. That we will hurt those ones around us. But if we stoop. If failure becomes our destination. To love the journey is to accept no important step is always the next one.
Maureen Murdock

Heather 

Who has an active mythic practice

Myths have always fascinated me, speaking to a relationship with the impersonal and transcendent, the unknowable. When I was young I was taught different myths from around the world, so that it surprised me to find how central the Christian myth was to my life, as the foundation to the Western world. Though I integrate myths from Africa, Asia and North and South America, it is the European mythology of the Judeo-Christian world that most defines me, as I wrestle with the expulsion of humanity from Edenic nature and the shadow cast upon Eve, the serpent and the natural world. 

Your Myth

Which will probably surprise you 

When I began exploring to find my myth, I hoped I would be the virgin huntress Diana (virgin meaning her power was her own) or Inanna who descended into the underworld. But what came to me was the Slavic myth of Baba Yaga from my childhood nightmares. Yet, the more I sat with the myth and engaged it in the way outlined below, the more it made sense. I came to realize that this is not only my myth but my favorite myth: a story of the Dark Mother who initiates the young daughter into the mysteries of death and rebirth to claim the power of life and light birthed from the darkness.
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge... myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death. 
robert fulghum

We need a healing mythology

Myth inspires us and gives us direction. It tells us who we are and what we can do. If we believe that we are separate from nature or sinful by nature, how does that create in the world? If healing is based on wholeness and god (goodness, creation . . . ) is all (omnipresent, omniscient . . . ) we must find a way to accept and embrace all of ourselves and all of life. How can we love and forgive? What in our beliefs holds us back from healing?
The Value of myth is that it takes all the things you know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by the veil of familiarity. 
c s lewis

A home for all

With modern media and technology, we have a sense of our interconnected whole that our ancestors couldn't imagine. We are no longer the warring tribes of the past, yet we face unprecedented resource conflict as the climate becomes more severe and erratic. How can a new mythology help us to create an economy of sharing and caring in which need not greed is the driving force? Look to the world around you to imagine it as a home for all. 
mythic Revolution

Create your myth to overcome  oppression

myths evolve

Example: Jesus

First depicted as a child in nature surrounded by animals and holding a shepherds staff like Hermes, Jesus became the image of a bearded Zeus on his throne.
Myths politicize

Example: nations

All national myths create a sense of superiority and manifest destiny through symbolic narratives to reinforce the belief that they are chosen and justified.
Myths demonize

Example: women

Myths evolve over thousands of years, bridging cultures and marking social evolution. So past women of power are often changed into baby eating demons in myth. 
The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it--aliens. [It is time to become one with it]
Alan watts

New consciousness & cosmology

Not only are we aliens in our own world but we now have an understanding of life beyond our earth. How does this information shape our consciousness and cosmology? Myths from the past have taken into account what we would now call aliens. What does it mean to be beyond our planet? How do we understand the relationship of the kingdoms of nature? What lies beyond? The questions of our day are answered by our mythology.

Shame and shadow

Myths hold both our disease and remedy in images of shadow and light. From the casting out of Adam and Eve from Eden and nature to the schism between Isaac and Ishmael, myths are family stories in need of therapy (healing). They call us to address our core wounds and complexes.
"Shame is a soul-eating emotion." C G Jung
deep trauma

Mythic wounding
& healing

Core wound

deepest pain

Your wound is compounded & amplified by family, community, earth & cosmos. 
core complex

irrational anger

A complex forms around your wound triggering an irrational response to pain.
core myth

story of healing

A story that helps you understand and heal your painful & complex response.

Creating and created

We assume inherited myths without questioning their beliefs and the patterns they create. These myths are dead if they are not growing in us and our lives. They are destructive if we do not make them conscious, creating myths of our own. "Myths which are believed in tend to become true." George Orwell
Is it not time that the Christian mythology, instead of being wiped out, was understood symbolically?
c g jung

Duality and unity

No

Healing is wholeness

In creation myths all is one and then differentiates.
Myth is more individual and expresses life more precisely than does science. 
c g jung

Archetypal images

Archetypes include mythic roles like the hero, ally, mentor, trickster, guardian, wise old man or woman, shadow, psychopomp or shapeshifter. The images that represent these roles are powerful, helping us connect with the archetypal energy they represent. While the energy is rooted in the collective unconscious or psyche, the forms or images the energy takes are unique to us. A snake may be a common theme but it will have a unique interpretation, meaning and vision for you.
True myth may serve for thousands of years as an inexhaustible source of intellectual speculation, religious joy, ethical inquiry, and artistic renewal 
ursula k le guin

Awaken to unconscious 

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Mythic relationships are archetypal

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Myths are the world's dreams. They are archetypal dreams and deal with great human problems. Myths and dreams come from the same place. They come from the realizations of some kind that then have to find expression in symbolic form. Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
Joseph campbell

Not impossible...if we work together 

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What are people saying . . .

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Coursework and play . . .

Each week your content drops down for you as a steppingstone that guide us on our life path--the path of our soul.

"One thing you must know: the one thing I have learned is that one must live this life." C G Jung
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Following in archetypal footsteps.

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This course comes with a discussion group & bi-weekly zoom

Myth Drop In Circle.

Sign up for the support you need. Remember that I am here as a resource as well. Feel free to call and touch in for additional containment and support. Reach out to your alchemical partner and group. You are held.

A 3 month journey home

While 3 month may 

Mythic knowledge is cartographic. 

Myths map a journey and a map can help you orient and find your way in your life. So, I use maps to help guide us from step to step, creating a container or space for our creativity, gathering our supplies and centering ourselves in our soul and a journal practice. From there, each week brings a new lesson that characterizes the stage of the path, from ethics to shadow work to the soul's symbolic language of the unconscious. Every week has guidance established to guide you. Like participants in a trust building exercise, you need to lean into this. 

Your soul brings you a vision in art. 

Jung said that you cannot go directly into the unconscious but if you create unconsciously with your hands your soul would bring you a vision. Imagination has the roots magi for magic and image and it is the heart of this visionary path. As you walk you are activating your imagination and remembering how to play with your soul's images that guide you. Open your eyes, heart, and mind to a new way of seeing and being. Learn to navigate by starlight through the dark night of the soul.

Mythology + Creativity

creative Writing
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calligraphy & Illustration
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Active Imagination
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Mythic regeneration
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Your images guide you.

Imagination has a shared root with image and magi for magus, magician, and magic. Images are the language and wealth of the soul, drawn from the depths of the collective unconscious. They speak with the power of the world soul and what Jung called the "magical value of art." Your images are symbolic and natural, emerging with their own color, shape, composition, and form. 

Share your story with others

Bridging head and heart, this course follows in Jung's footsteps as he followed his soul into the wilds of his psychological nature to reconnect with the natural world. Because creativity expresses in our nature and in nature, this is an eco-art therapeutic path to wholeness--to the whole world. It is about your transformative growth, patterned after the perennial rhizome planted in the rich earth of your imagination to grow out of you in art.
"I immersed myself in nature, crawled, as it were, into the very essence of nature and away from the whole human world. . . The only important thing is to follow nature.” C G Jung “God left the world unfinished: the pictures unpainted. The songs unsung. Problems unsolved. That man might know the joys of creation.” Thomas S. Monson

Connect to the soul's creative nature

Images connect our nature to nature because we are a part of nature. So these courses work and play with the nature of our body. Drawing upon our psychological and physiological evolution toward visual evolution and primacy, the coursework combines visual and verbal imagery to maximize our whole brain and body learning. Just as images are the wealth and language of the soul, they are the language we speak in our creativity throughout the coursework. You are learning the unique language of your soul's images that are both visual and verbal.

The soul's ethic is authenticity

The soul's communication is symbolic and imagistic, embodied and imaginal. Jung said that his soul did not have speech centers and let her use his to speak, and studies have found that during spiritual experiences speech is not generated in normal speech centers. Nor is core wounding reached by speech. Both are accessed through the imagistic and embodied language of the soul. So, this soul path combines visual and verbal imagery in the way of the soul (the picture superiority effect) in which words are symbolic and metaphoric images, combined with visual art. When Jung's soul referred to The Red Book as art, she meant all of it, words and paintings as images.