THE BLOG
Words weaved with magic & mystery to guide you in living your own myth
THE 7 ELEMENTS OF THE BE MYTHICAL PATH
SELF ILLUMINATION ● REWILDING ● EMBODIMENT ● KINSHIP ● INTIMACY ● MAGIC ● SPIRIT
Working with teacher plants (aka ‘plant medicine’)
Working with teacher plants (aka ‘plant medicine’) 🌱
I first began working with plant spirits many years ago, long before I had been trained to do so shamanically (in fact, perhaps before I even knew there was such a thing as doing so shamanically)!
Do you know your story? 📖
Humans are designed to be endlessly fascinated with and moved by stories… something that this crazy modern world knows and uses to maleficent effect.
Unless we become focused on, even obsessed with, and ultimately devoted to our own story, we will be forever pulled into the stories of a world that is hell bent upon eating itself…
Lineage
Yesterday, I was thinking of my great uncle George and how unusual interracial marriages were back then in the 40s.
I asked Chris Tyler-Humm if he could find any photos in my mother’s photo albums and bless him, he went rummaging through the albums and sent over some precious photos, as well as an old letter he’d found.
Your Soul’s Calling Keeps Calling 💫
As acclaimed mythologist and author, Michael Meade, said on our recent podcast “Your calling keeps calling.” (Link below.)
I can attest to the truth of that… in two ways:
Firstly, that as much as we might try to dismiss the call to a deeper, more spiritual, more magical, more mythical way of being and working, it will keep calling, for a lifetime if needed, and in ways that are harder and harder to ignore.
The anniversary of a miracle 🌟
It was 6 years ago today that I had the operation that restored enough of my hearing that I can now manage without hearing aids (not that I managed particularly well with them).
It’s easy to take even miracles for granted after a while but I do my best not to
Symbols, myths, magic, and how healing actually happens 💫
I was with a client this morning supporting her with integrating a deep, difficult plant medicine journey.
I drew a tarot card for her which mirrored symbols that had both shown up in her journey and in a message she’d received when visiting her special tree a few days before.
Who I am & ways to work with me… 🌟
Hello beautiful soul,
It’s my first day back at work since before Christmas, it’s been a while since I’ve written something like this and there’s been many (many!) changes, within and without, since the last one, and so it felt like it was time to (re-)introduce myself and the work I do.
Why Almost Right Isn’t Right (and you know it) ⚔️
You’re already doing work that on your best days, you feel fortunate to be doing.
And it’s certainly much better than what you used to do.
But secretly you know… it’s not quite right.
It’s sort of the right direction, it’s sort of the right kind of clients, it’s sort of using your gifts.
What does it mean to be Mythical? 🌟
As we (Jonathan, the whole team, and I) journey into the evolution of Be Mythical, we have been deep in conversation and contemplation of those words and what we mean by them.
There’s a shadow of both words that we are called to be conscious of, intimate with and responsible for…
“Be Yourself!” 🌟
When people say things like “just be you”, what’s often missed is what that requires… Which is self awareness, healing, and individuation, not to mention being confronted by and responsible for all the parts of you that you feel are unacceptable, unwelcome and ugly.
That takes many years, more typically decades, and it takes deep devotion.
How long does it take to live your soul’s purpose?
My own purpose is guiding others to discover their soul’s purpose and to actualise it, whether that’s through founding a business, creating a non-profit venture, or by honouring it in the work they already do, and one of the things I’ve seen is vital is that we need to honour the time that takes, however long that is.
Soul business is usually slow business 🐌
Soul business is usually slow business 🐌
(Or why we won’t promise you’ll make an easy 6 or 7 figures - overnight or at all)
Word of mouth
Ebb and flow
Easy does it
Plant medicine integration: What is being integrated with what? 🌱
I sat with a man recently who had sat with ayahausca… We were in the work of integration.
You may know that after a ceremony with a teacher plant it’s considered wise to consciously integrate what occurred.
Are you being initiated? 🖤
People are often called to work with me and Jonathan as they're called to or are journeying through life initiations such as a plant medicine ceremony, a dark night of the soul, or a huge change or rupture, such as relationship breakdown, childbirth, job change or loss, ill health or bereavement pulling them in down into its alchemical crucible.
Which stage of psychological alchemy are you in? 🖤
Many people who come to work with us are undergoing psychological alchemy, though they often don’t know that - or not fully, even though they are often experienced facilitators of transformational or spiritual work themselves, for example working as coaches, therapists, and spiritual teachers.
To the ones who see things differently 👁️
You see life in a different way to most, and you’ve learned to hold back from sharing much of what you see and feel because painful experience has shown you that few can understand or relate.
And so when huge world events are taking place - that no-one can agree upon, aside from agreeing that they’re terrible - you are compelled to hide that you are seeing those events through a different lens altogether.
What do you want?
Yesterday, I listened to five precious souls share their journey of discovering their soul purpose and becoming their medicine (a conversation that we'll share on the podcast soon).
There was a question I asked each of them which was something like “What called you to that journey?”
What my broken foot is teaching me
On Friday evening, I broke my foot, though at the time I did and also didn’t know it was broken (the paradoxical Schrödinger's Cat experience of living through a mythical lens.)
My husband was out and I watched a film with my children, afterwards we decided to dance to one of the songs on the film’s sound track (for those of you who, like me, like details it was ‘Ooh Wee’ by Mark Ronson, Ghostface Killah and Nate Dogg)
The self in the spiritual
In modern spiritual circles, the self often gets a bad rap, and yet, all the while it’s being dismissed and denied, it’s busy running the show.
To clarify, when I say modern spiritual circles, I am talking of forms of spirituality that are 30-50 years old and based in non-duality or oneness in some way, rather than Eastern traditions in which students are devoted to a master, happening within a context in which a cosmology, community, concepts of consciousness, and practices have been baked in for aeons.
How I went from corporate leader to purpose guide, shamanic healer & spiritual mentor
This post is one I needed 12 years ago, but then maybe if I had I would have dismissed it, and maybe just upon seeing the title…
• Dismissed it as woo woo nonsense… “shamanic”, “spiritual”, please. Why not throw “astrologist” in for good measure?