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Greetings from The Bard's Grove!
The Bard's Grove by unknown
We'll be gathering at The Bard's Grove this Friday night at BlogtalkRadio on the Internet. All you have to do is grab your computer and settle down for an hour of good, old-fashion adult storytelling (and I don't mean naughty stories!). Join us there Friday night at 7pm Pacific/8pm Mountain/9pm Central/10pm Eastern time.
There is so much going on in our world right now - who can doubt that some form of change is coming. Everyone seems to be saying it - Something's Coming. Do you feel it? Well, stories are just what we need when our world begins to change around us. Stories give form to chaos, they channel archetypal energy and they can lead us to new life. So, while we don't know what the 'something coming' is, stories help us remember that we have the capacity to meet it and get through it. We are living in a time that wants us to be creative, free, committed, courageous and unique. It is a Call to Adventure!
The Cosmic Story is asking us to go on The Hero's Journey and bring back our unique gift to our community. With Uranus moving into Aries on Friday, the hero's journey is about to become our template for change for the next 7 years. Uranus will move north of the equator for the first time since 1969, when it moved into Libra and the Southern hemisphere. We all know (or remember:) how creative and disruptive those times were. But also times alive with possibilities. In Aries, Uranus coming North calls us to the home of the Ancestors. The Archetypal Wisdom that the Aquarian Water-Carrier pours out onto humanity is already calling us. We are the first. We will be the Ancestors one day.
"There are times when people need stories more than they need nourishment, because the stories feed something deeper than the needs of the body." Charles DeLint, The Onion Girl
Stories can feed us even when we can't afford that 3rd pint of Ben&Jerry's. There are many variations of the Hero's Journey, but they all concern discovering A BIGGER IDENTITY. This is the archetype our soul resonates with - the Law Giver, the Peacemaker, the Lover, the Mother, the Artist, the Priestess, the Brother. The mythic stories of our many cultures can help us understand and deal with the cultural quirks and personal intricacies of this Journey. All you have to do is discover which stories speak to your heart and then learn how to understand and speak their symbolic language.
So when you join us at The Bard's Grove, you get to listen to ancient story wisdom. Who knows what treasure you'll go away with, what vision will spark your interest; the story-feeling in your heart speaks to your own story so it can become story food for you.
This week at The Bard's Grove, Cat will finish her story of Sheherazade and her tale of The Water Stair - a story of sacrifice and love. The Age of Pisces was an age of martyrs and victims, of uniting the collective heart despite religious sectarianism. And all too often, women carried the burden of 'sacrifice'. But let's not reject the idea of sacrifice out of hand, for the word sacrifice means 'to make sacred'. Sheherazade's Water Stair story to the women in the Harem is a story of turning a sacrifice into a sacred contract.
Lantern is going to surprise us tonight, so stayed tuned. Who knows what delights he has in store for us!
So remember: Meet us at The Bard's Grove Friday night at BlogtalkRadio: 7pm Pacific - 10pm Eastern
Merry Meet!
Cat and Lantern
