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Feb 29Liked by Alyssa Polizzi

Thank you Alyssa, I loved this ‘post/work’.

I’d love a workshop that shares a ‘methodology’ of how I might identify and listen in to mythic figures that may hold/offer influence /guidance over my inner and outer worlds and how to feed the Goddess/Gods. This really feels like real kind of mythic medicine - Thank YOU

Also how to live a mythic life/ live more mythically

And magic and myth - I feel when I am with a myth [I’m very new at this] there is some magic present - something that excites my mind?

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Mar 1Liked by Alyssa Polizzi

Many thanks for another timely and absorbing post. The deity I encountered after processing the questions you helpfully provided was Hecate. The unexpected retirement (symbolsied as a car breakdown) positions me at a crossroads. And as she is a psychopomp who can take one down into the scary descent to the underworld, I can see her as part of the current therapy experience. I turned to Edinger's Eternal Drama and was surprised not to find her indexed.

Thanks so much. Having the ideas grounded in your own dreams and life events is so helpful. It brings the discussion alive and helps the reader see how the methodology can work in very practical terms.

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Thanks so much for this post! I sometimes wonder whether calling the archetypes “gods” might create a very particular relationship to them. If psyche is nature, especially in an ecocidal world, might the archetypes be something akin to the wounded animals seeking a place to be free to be wild, to eat and play and kill and mate and move, all aligned to their instinctual natures? There is a lower/higher ranking when it comes to animals and gods, below and above, and perhaps animals and gods are the same, albeit expressed in different language, but I wonder what changes with different terms... 🤔

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I absolutely love your work and that you brought in the myths and gods into inner alchemy. It is something I have been working with for years yet were not able to put it into a clear methodology. After a methodology for ritual workshop with Amanda Yates Garcia I was able to create a specific clarity ritual to emerge from the waters, similar to those you describe, with the lady of the lake as a guiding figure, handing over the sword of sovereignty. Now thanks to your post and hopefully upcoming workshop I have a map and inspiration for personal practice before the methodology of ritual is needed. The starting point, the reason, the core exploration, as well as devotion or collaboration with an archetype.

I would love to translate this work to the Celtic mythology and Arthurian legends and archetypes, if it’s not the stories you are specialising in, I’d love to offer you my assistance and helping hand from the Avalonian corner of the world :)

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