The lost parts hidden in your mirror
by Lian Brook-Tyler
The lost parts hidden in your mirror
This morning, I happened across a brilliant quote by Maureen Murdock that I’d shared many years ago.
“When women work on reclaiming the lost part of themselves, they’re also working on reclaiming the lost soul of the culture as well.”
When I shared it back then, I thought I understood why women doing that vital work of reclamation might also be doing it for our culture, and maybe I did, but now I feel it differently, perhaps more tangibly.
I still see it through an archetypal lens (as I guess I would have back then, after all it’s the pattern that I’ve been looking at life through since childhood, long before I realised I was), but now not only energetically or metaphorically, but as something I witness laid bare in the face of every woman I meet.
I now know that how we LOOK - the shape of our body and the mould of our face - isn’t incidental or random…. It’s the Maiden, Enchantress, Lover, Artist, Queen, Wild Woman, and Mystic etched deep into our skin and soul.
And though we all have access to all of these archetypes, some women are innately (ie their soul chose to be) more Enchantress Artist, others more Lover Queen, and the tale of their lives will twist and turn accordingly.
So how we look is both an aspect of how and why we lost those parts of our soul… and the very map that can lead us back to them.
As I enter the work of Beauty Potion with a circle of women, each will have the chance to reflect on what was dismissed, rejected, objectified, mocked, shamed, and made unsafe in their appearance and therefore in their lives, and in doing so they will reveal and reclaim the lost gifts of those archetypes.
And as they emerge at the end of our time together… radiant, replete with an embodied knowing of their Wonder, Magnetism, Devotion, Expression, Power, Vitality, and Depth… they will bring that mythic beauty back into their relationships, their families, their communities… descending like blessed summer rain on a culture that has grown dry, numb, and closed.
(That is what I now see when reading Murdock’s words.)
Our first circle is on 13th May, when we’ll gaze together into our first mythical mirror, to see the soul parts we once lost.
There are just a couple of places left - is one of them meant for you?
All my love,
Li ♥️
Art: The Tower at Stony Wood" by Kinuko Y. Craft
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