There is a book by Robert Bly and Marion Woodman called the Maiden King and well as a video workshop on the whole story I recommend both. I have included it here because this story is important for our relationships. Our relation with the Ego and Soul and the hero quest of Ego for Soul.
This story carries us into a realm the enables us to see the effect of the absent father on the developing Ego (Ivan), the glamourous stepmother,(the female captured by the status quo) the false tutor,(the status quo). the capture of the tutor by the promises of the status quo. The Soul in the form of Vasilisa,
The Lizard in the fire narrative. Michael Meade’s version
What the beginning of the Iron John story tells us about the current state of the Axis Mundi. The tree
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Our mistakes are the steppingstones to our Soul retrieval from the banishment by the status quo.
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Even in this material world, our Soul is not asleep. It waits for us to return.
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When the guest is being searched for, it is the intensity of the longing for the Guest that does all the work.
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A piece about the loss of the Senex the old father of tradition and code. What happens when he is missing. The implications for the Axis Mundi and for us humans in the middle.
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The Mystical marriage.
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The human Soul sometime requires a draft of medicine to return Soul to the centre of our being.
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The Wind, One Brilliant Day The wind, one brilliant day, called to my soul with an odor of
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The Story of Iron John. The narrative.
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