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🌑 What Do We Mean by Mythic?
The word mythic is so often mistaken for something untrue — a fairy tale, a story to dismiss. But in its original sense, mythic carries timeless truths wrapped in image, metaphor, and archetype.

To live mythically is to recognize that our lives are both personal and symbolic. Every choice, loss, and rebirth echo an ancient pattern. Every dream figure or life encounter is not only itself — it is also part of the great story unfolding through all time.

🔥 The Jungian Lens
Carl Jung taught us that myth is not something left in dusty books, but a living mirror of the collective unconscious. Through myth, we discover the archetypes shaping us from within — the Trickster, the Mother, the Hero, the Skeleton Woman. These are not abstract ideas but energies that breathe through us, calling us to wrestle with shadow and light, to find meaning in what otherwise feels random or overwhelming.
When we engage with myth through a Jungian lens, we are invited into a dialogue with the soul — one that speaks in symbols, dreams, and synchronicities.

🕯️ Why Mythic Mondays?
Because every Monday we begin again. And beginnings always carry the seed of the mythic.
Each week in this series, I will bring you a story retold in its full mythic flavor, followed by a Jungian reflection on how the tale lives within us today. You’ll also receive a ritual nudge or journaling prompt — a small way to invite the myth to work on you, rather than remain at arm’s length.

💫 An Invitation
I invite you to journey with me here, each Monday, as we step into the mythic together.
Don’t just read these stories. Let them stir, unsettle, inspire, and shape you. Let them remind you that your own life is mythic — unfolding, archetypal, and alive in ways seen and unseen.

Until next Monday, may the myth carry you.
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