293 - Pricked by a Spindle - Symbolism in Sleeping Beauty
The Symbolic World
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The Sleeping Beauty Story
The sleeping beauty story is about a woman who doesn't fit in the world. She's excluded, and so she pricks her finger on raw wild straw before it's united. The spindle represents something even higher: unity and multiplicity. "If there's an element in those that seem strange to us ... we should be careful not to discount it," he says.
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