Present in the Loss
The Cailleach is the ugly, one-eyed, frozen hag that brings death and destruction to the land. As the winter goes on, she falters and must eventually return to the cave where her powers lie.…
The Essays
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What Path Home?
Why is THAT road traveled less? Isn’t the answer obvious? It’s not a great road. It’s full of potholes and gulleys, eroded shoulders and blind curves. The lighting is also pretty awful. If you…
Finding Myself In His Pages
Scott Peck reminds me of myself. In the introduction to the 25th anniversary edition of The Road Less Traveled, he tells us that his readers express gratitude for his courage in writing about “the…
Maybe Artemis
To share or not to share: that seems to be the eternal question, and there’s always a tail-ender attached: Where? We have this site, and I often think of my folio friend, wondering how…
Mother
In Murdock’s book, separation from the feminine comes in two flavors: rejection of the mother or rejection by the mother. What does that say about mothers and is it really true? Is this something…
She’s Still Writing for Me
The idea of striving for perfection—and, perhaps, being satisfied with nothing less—has been on my mind lately. I finally feel like I understand the role perfectionism has played in my life: a big one,…
We All Have a Journey
The take by Joseph Campbell that Murdock recounts on page 2 is interesting: In the the whole mythological tradition the woman is there. All she has to do is to realize that she’s the…
It Takes Two, Together
Now I turn to Maureen Murdock’s own words at the beginning of the introduction to The Heroine’s Journey. She tells us that she is a therapist who has worked with women, particularly those between the…
The First Step Out
I wrote the following paragraphs a few days ago and then let them sit. After reading your pieces, I was sore tempted to edit them. To edit myself and my thoughts to align better…
Re-member Who You Are
Back to that epigraph: “So the female void” gets cured “by a remembering or a putting back together of the mother-daughter body.” Yes. It’s the body. Healing involves the body as much as—if not…
