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Bog Hagging: An Intention
Who is the Bog Hag? This archetype, familiar to us, known in our bones, surfaced for me in late 2023 when I was skulking a thread about perimenopause that came up in my search results. A woman wrote something about embracing the Hag she was becoming, flipping the bird to expectations and taking up residence in her Hag hut. Yes. That will do, I thought, my heart opened and immediately wrote the poem that ends this letter.

Lara Irene
Dec 30, 20256 min read


How To Return from the Underworld
This is an old trick I learned as a fiction writer. When you get blocked, don't stop writing. Change course.

Lara Irene
Sep 20, 20252 min read


Three Phases of a Rite of passage
Return is the third phase of an initiatory rite of passage. In myth it often includes a ceremony of homecoming, coalescence, community honoring. On return the initiate may ritually take a new name, something symbolic of the new role or work they embody after transformation. Return can be a time of mourning, grieving and celebration simultaneously. It is paradoxical, an ending and a beginning, often without a place of pause in the cycle of transformation, but still marking a d

Lara Irene
Jul 6, 20225 min read


how to find your myth
The second our lives become a ritual story — honing us, annealing us, moving us outside of the known and into the unknown — we have again agency, choice. This is where working with myth can support our journey, and understanding the ancient form of the most human stories can give our own strange, underworld travels a comprehensive shape.

Lara Irene
Feb 22, 20223 min read


the Spiritual Uses of Illness: Disability as Power
Telling a story of empowerment around these embodied experiences has been essential to my work, and this passage about disability as a corollary for power affirms what I have been feeling and thinking for a long time.

Lara Irene
Feb 6, 20224 min read
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