I was swept away by this piece. In indigenous Maya culture we believe that the sacred calendar, the Tzolkin mirrors the path of human gestation and then mirrors again macro-cosmic cycles. Yes to everything you have written here beautifully. Words and articulation that goes beyond the mundane and into the primal. Instant subscribe
This is bold and fascinating. I keep thinking about Campbell’s idea that the cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek, and your writing makes that feel almost biological. Do you see this primarily as metaphor, or do you believe the hero’s journey might actually be rooted in an inherited memory of birth itself?
Love this take so much. Astrologically, we are on such a Pisces/Aries threshold of planets right now, which I look at as the birth canal: the end of one cycle and a birth into the next.
I was swept away by this piece. In indigenous Maya culture we believe that the sacred calendar, the Tzolkin mirrors the path of human gestation and then mirrors again macro-cosmic cycles. Yes to everything you have written here beautifully. Words and articulation that goes beyond the mundane and into the primal. Instant subscribe
Thank you!
This is bold and fascinating. I keep thinking about Campbell’s idea that the cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek, and your writing makes that feel almost biological. Do you see this primarily as metaphor, or do you believe the hero’s journey might actually be rooted in an inherited memory of birth itself?
The latter. Keyword “might.”
Love this take so much. Astrologically, we are on such a Pisces/Aries threshold of planets right now, which I look at as the birth canal: the end of one cycle and a birth into the next.
Myth is simply the language we give to that ancient experience.
What a beautiful analogy 🙌