📖 Story: A Soul Guide
Story holds humanity's map, meaning, and medicine.
“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.” - Albert Einstein
🔥 Stories Speak to the Soul
Since the dawn of time, humans have gathered around the fire to share stories- not just to pass the time, but to pass on truth. Stories hold the encoded wisdom of those who have journeyed before us. They carry archetypal lessons, moral dilemmas, and mythic structures that transcend culture and time.
“You’re never going to kill storytelling, because it’s built into the human plan. We come with it.” - Margaret Atwood
A good story, like a good soul guide, speaks to something ancient in us. It touches the psyche where words alone cannot. We feel it in our bones when a character’s heartbreak mirrors our own, or when their triumph reminds us of what is still possible.
Even in modern times, we see how deeply humans are moved by story—why the best marketing, teaching, and healing often weave storytelling as the core delivery system. Because story bypasses resistance and gets directly to our wiring, it holds immense power.
This power can be used to awaken—or to control.
That’s why it crucial to be aware of which stories you listen to, believe, and carry.
Be intentional about the stories you let in… and the ones you choose to live by.
“Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.” -Joseph Campbell
🎭 Archetypal Storylines & Mythic Lenses
“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.” -Shakespeare
Mythologist, Joseph Campbell, and archetypal astrologers like Laurence Hillman (son of depth psychologist James Hillman) recognize that Shakespeare was onto something big! Here we are: All characters given specific settings and roles to play in the great theater of Life. The question then is: Who has the script? Who is directing this act?
“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.” -CG Jung
The Hero’s and Heroine's Journeys give us mythic frameworks to understand our own cycles of descent, challenge, growth, and return. When we see our lives through the lens of story, we begin to trace recurring patterns, character dynamics, and psychological themes with more grace and clarity.
We might recognize when we’re caught in the Victim, Rescuer, or Saboteur. Or when we’re stepping into the Seeker, Alchemist, or Sovereign.
✍️ Rewriting the Script
“The most powerful stories are the ones we tell ourselves.” -Brené Brown
When we begin to see ourselves as storytellers, not just characters—we reclaim power.
So many of us carry inherited scripts and unconscious narratives:
“I’m too much.” “I don’t belong.” “I have to earn love.” “I can’t trust anyone.”
But story, when used with intention, becomes a gateway to re-authoring these inner myths.
We can reframe our pain as a wounded healer's path.
We can transform our “failure” into the forge of our strength.
We can choose to become the hero of our own story- not in fantasy, but in the lived truth of becoming who we were born to be.
Because once we recognize the story, we can change the ending..and maybe even the world.
"We need to embrace the hard work of becoming our own hero. There is no way around it. When it comes to you and the inner workings of your mind, no one has the power or authority to save you the way you can save yourself." -Yung Pueblo, Lighter