The Faerytale Apothecary

The Faerytale Apothecary

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The Faerytale Apothecary episodes

  • Princess Lindworm
    The story of the Lindworm is an old Norwegian Foktale that I have felt tap me on the shoulder over the last couple of weeks, with a curious nudge.
    "How would you see me differently if my genders were switched?" it asked " what would I taste like if the Queen were a King and the sons were daughters?"
    Well?
    15 min
  • The Marriage Invitation
    What if the King continually offering the Princess as Prize in fairytales could be read as the death of patriachy giving way to the restoration of the Sacred Inner Marriage; the trials of the Poor Suitor the Courtship of Yin and Yang? How would that reconcile our view of the way women are treated in these stories?
    8 min
  • Ishtar's Journey into the Underworld
    A reading of the myth of Ishtar and her descent into the Underworld in seek of her lost love. But the Underworld is the realm of her dark sister Ereshkigal and she is not best pleased to see her sister of the Heavens.
    14 min
  • Caught in the Descent
    Do we have our myths the wrong way around?
    Are our heroes and heroines not descending from the human realm into the Underworld but is the human realm actually already the Underworld?
    And how do we get our tarred and feathered selves out again?
    8 min
  • A Shout of Giants
    What does it feel like to say the word Giant?
    How does it want to move about our being?
    Where does it take us when we seek them out in the landscape?
    5 min
  • The Patchwork Story Skin
    Where exactly do the stories that make up our being originate, how many of the tales we carry around are not even technically ours, if not where do they come from and what do we do about it?
    6 min
  • The Story Nest
    Riffing on the idea of fairy tales as more than simply gorgeous bedtime stories for children but as deeply therapeutic containers for adults and teaching tales for all.
    7 min

About The Faerytale Apothecary

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Increasingly our world demands more and more of us, not just our time but our essence, the core of who we are. What if there was another way to be? What if there was a remedy, a tincture of stories that could encourage us to take just a moment back, to close our eyes and remember when we sensed what was around us with awe and wonder, when we could smell and taste the magicks in the air. And what if in this stoppedness, this holding, we were also able to hear the whisperings, the longings of our hearts?