It was woven long ago in threads
Woven: Telling the Heroine's Journey
…Of tales told in the dim reaches of time of the feminine heroic, a tapestry of beauty, valor, and power. Spinning the ancient stories of the heroine’s quest, weaving them in our time, we tell their wisdom in our own words.
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The Fairytale Heroine: Live and Create Her Journey
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This month we will go underground on the heroine’s journey in Chapters Seven and Eight, following the path of the Princess Psyche to Hades and her blissful return. We’ll discover even more ancient tales, those of the Greek goddesses, Persephone and her mother, Demeter, and the even older “Descent of Inanna,” the Sumerian goddess and her astonishing epic poem dating from 3,000 BCE.
No matter how ancient, it is the time of the year that the return of the light is celebrated in the rites of spring, the renewal, the seed time of the harvest.
Fairy Tale Heroine’s Journey: The Graphic*
We’re excited to reveal the Woven circular graphic showing the progress of the heroine’s journey based on universal, repeated motifs in ageless fairy tales.
*Concept by Kate Farrell and graphic by content creator, Christine
Most have seen the circular graphic for the hero’s journey made famous by Joseph Campbell based on his concept of the “monomyth” or a synthesis of worldwide heroic myths.
In contrast, the three basic stages of the Fairy Tale Heroine’s journey are:
Entanglements and Jealousies
Into the Wilderness: Escape and Initiation
Return: Recognition and Self-Attainment