The Spoken Symbol

This episode #14 discusses three topics. The Spiral as a learning or growth metaphor, making distinctions between words and concepts, and the impact of unconscious material coming through to us. These three ideas have been working on me over the last two weeks and the result has been a deeper understanding of how learning occurs for me and others that attended a "Creativity" workshop I facilitated recently. Also, included is a new poem titled "Dreaming in Trees". Create and be well...

This Lucky #13 podcast is about how we are seen and appreciated for our creativity. What are the "stories" we make up and tell ourselves about who we are? It talks about insecurities and how they affect our creativity and how to trust the Universal creative process that guides our next steps if we pay attention and listen. This episode includes my new poem entitled "To Be a Flower". Create and be well...

This episode explores the metaphor of an Archer and how it relates to parents and children and the seen and unseen forces that affect a life. The second poem in the podcast, "Getting Out of the Way", also relates to unseen forces that we can become aware of if we notice and trust our Deep Intuition. Enjoy...

What is compelling you to Organize your office, your yard or your Life at this time? Are there parts of your life that you organize easily and without much effort? Can you look towards Nature and how it is sometimes a tangle and yet those tangled parts are actually benefitting each other? And also, how can we take a deep breath, not make ourselves wrong about it, and find ways to organically make our lives work. Finally, what can you learn about the areas you organize easily and transfer that learning to other tangled areas...naturally.

This episode explores the gap between being perfect and working towards excellence. It shares examples and offers a new expanded way of looking at our behaviors in regard to creativity.

This last episode of working with the story "Iron John" brings the initiation of the Prince to fruition. This story shows the ancient template for initiation into adulthood. Follow the Prince and Princess into their final act of bonding and ascention to the throne.

This episode talks about what happens to the Prince when he enters the "Garden". This is after he has done the "ashes" work of learning what poverty is like. He is forced to build a foundation for his later work. Stay tuned to this part of the "Iron John" myth.

This episode, the seventh in this series, talks about our shadow side, our dark side and how we have to do Ashes work to understand ourselves better and to clear harmful patterns from our psyche. This comes from the fairy tale called "Iron John" compiled from the Grimm Bros. around 1820. Though parts of the mythological story could be 10,000 to 20,000 years old. Enjoy...

What can the “Wild Man” do for YOU...

Capturing Your Gold...and Where To Find It • The Story of "Iron John" • Poem, "Sometimes" by David Whyte