54. Lineage, Calling, and the Mythic Imagination - Sharon Blackie

Myth is the power of place speaking, and the story threads that made meaning and held guidance for our ancestors can be found anew and re-woven for our times. When we tap into the mythic imagination, we remember the calling that brought us into the world.

IN THE INTRO:

• Dreaming the ancient ways
• Sisters of rock and root

IN THE INTERVIEW:

• The Loss of the Voices of the Wells: the sacred contract between humans and the land, and how the desecration of women and the destruction of the earth are interwoven
• The loss of lineage results in the loss of our stories
• The sophistication embedded in ancient myths, and how we’ve been raised misunderstanding the old stories
• Stories have an independent existence outside of the human mind and reside in the imaginal realm
• A myth is the power of place speaking
• The Otherworld is an overlay, interwoven with this one
• How the heroic journey is killing the planet
• Archetypes are universal, but expressed in myth through different cultural filters
• The wise old woman of the world, and the Cailleach that informs much of Sharon’s work
• Cultivating the mythic imagination & courting the world soul
• The meaning of “calling”: every one of us came here to do something that matters
• The stories that we loved as children hold meaning for us
• Discerning coincidence from synchronicity
• Grounding the imaginal realm
• Bodyfullness v mindfulness
• The root of the word “enchantment” means “to sing into”- becoming re-enchanted is singing yourself back into the world
• Telling stories to the land, and the sacred responsibility to engage with the earth

LINKS:

• Sharon’s website (books, online courses, and more)
• Medicine Stories Patreon (enter the giveaway!)
• This Mythic Life podcast
• The Boudica book series by Manda Scott
• Wisdom of the Mythtellers by Sean Kane
• The Cry for Myth by Rollo May
• The Soul’s Code: In Search of Character and Calling by James Hillman
• My website MythicMedicine.love 
• Take my fun Which Healing Herb is Your Spirit Medicine? quiz
• Medicine Stories Facebook group
• Mythic Medicine on Instagram
• Music by Mariee Sioux (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes)