Friday, January 31, 2014

Myth & medicine in the backbone of The Year of the Horse

“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
Happy New Lunar Year, the Year of the Wooden Horse. Like the infamous wooden horse of Troy filled with unexpected outcomes, the year of the horse is one that is fueled by wild and quickly changing events. Riding Living in the back of this new year there is space for
a bit more myth and medicine. 

The story that began with The Safety Pin Cafe continues. This time the journal kept by Pale Wawae, also known as Joy Weed, opens more deeply the inner world of the evolving sensitive. The two stories The Safety Pin Cafe and The Joy Weed Journal are a pair. You might like to (re) read The Safety Pin Cafe before you begin The Joy Weed Journal, read both stories and savor the connections, metaphors and places where the myth can tickle at lines in your/our journey evoking memories, similarities, queries. Between reading the two stories, do pause and reflect on the characters and the effect of the cafe upon you. Maybe a journal of your own --to make notes, sketch images that might come, intuitive renderings--would be fun. Allow some time and space to feed your soul and your imagination.

Thanks so much for coming to read the Joy Weed Journal. If you journal you know that these pages can include snippets of an unfolding discovery; emotions and entanglements might flood a page; or sometimes a long and detailed dialogue from a memorable day; and other times remembering an event long passed will find its way in your journal. The journal you're about to read includes all of these sorts of recordings. They are the private writings of an aging border witch about to discover more than she expected.


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Mahalo,
Mokihana

P.S. Already, the horse has given me insight into her true nature. Notice the subtle word change?