Storytelling
Myth is medicine.
Ancient stories contain formulas for healing and survival.
Story is our inheritance and storytelling is our birthright. "To be a human is to have a story to tell," said Isak Dinesen. Stories call to us when we need them, come to us when we call them, and when we tell a story, when we allow story to move through us into the world, it transforms in a triangulation, a holy trinity of seeker, teller and myth, transporting us forward and back through the spiral of time.
In this way, myth is magic.
We may be inspired by contemporary storytellers Martin Shaw, Robert Bly and Michael Meade to attempt our own tellings. It is an essential vulnerability, trying to tell a story publicly. It is about embracing the unknown, surrendering to the will of something larger than you. Learning to trust the story, to listen to its bones is a good bit of guidance for both writing and telling.
These stories are shared in the hopes that they will inspire you to trust a story, build a relationship with a myth, and bring it through you. We need this medicine now, this potent restoration of our ancestral human connection, and we need you: Your specific story, transformed by your specific life. Your powerful magic.
By this and every effort may the balance be regained.
Vasalisa the Brave
This Live Story Circle concluded the five week long Myth as Healer class.
Fox Woman
I first heard this story from Martin Shaw, and felt called to attempt telling the story from the perspective of the Fox Woman. This was a live Moon Story told in January, 2020.
Gullveig
A story ritual of survival, a rite of passage born from a few lines in the Voluspá.
Demeter and Kore
A Live Story Circle honoring the ancient myth and steeped in the lore of the Eleusinian Mysteries. In memory of my teacher, Mara Lynn Keller
Ariadne and the labyrinth
This was the first Moon Story, offered in December of 2019.
How to Work With a Myth
Some suggestions for finding your myth and working with it as created for the original Dark Goddess Project.
