Sculpting your life in a swipe right world…
by Lian Brook-Tyler
Sculpting your life in a swipe right world…
In this month’s UNIO mythical quest we are being moulded by the myth of Pygmalion as he in turn sculpts his own soul’s longing into the form of his beloved Galatea.
Stories climb right into my life and my bed, filling my days with the scent of long-ruined, incense-filled temples, my night dreams with impossible possibilities that never were but always are… a synchronicity of symbols and spirits.
But it’s not just me who thinks and dreams in story, we all do, it’s in our blood and bones to see ourselves and the world around us mirrored and mapped out for us by the myths of those that came before, and I believe we’re all slowly remembering that.
(It’s why myths and archetypes have long been at the very heart of our work, and why, when we were shown it was time to honour that fully… we metamorphosed from our much-loved, long-awaited, toiled-over Waking The Wild into Be Mythical. It was certainly not easy, convenient, or indeed popular with everyone! But it was right.)
Anyway, back to the story of Pygmalion that’s working me right now… it’s been occurring to me that this tale is a story for these times, it reveals so much about something that so many of us are struggling with: how we create the life that’s right for us (and how we even know what that is).
Along the way, it tells us about some other things, long forgotten in this time of fast food and even faster scrolling and swiping, when we expect our deepest (and not so deepest) desires to instantly appear at the tap of a screen… longing, devotion, the duty to our craft, prayer, making offerings, our relationship with the land, union, and maybe how the Gods want what we want for ourselves too.
As the John O’Donohue poem I read in the ceremony says… “May you come to accept your longing as divine urgency. May you know the urgency with which God longs for you.”
If you feel called to enter and be entered by this story, to allow it to show you how to sculpt your soul’s truth into your life, it’s not too late to join us for this quest… the details are below.
All my love and blessings as you unfold your own myth,
Lian ♥️
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