“This predatory potentate shows up time after time in women’s dreams. It erupts in the midst of their most soulful and meaningful plans. It severs the woman from her intuitive nature. When its cutting work is done, it leaves the woman deadened in feeling, feeling frail to advance in her life; her ideas and dreams lay at her feet drained of animation.”
(Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With The Wolves)
Is Bluebeard ravaging your psyche?
Join me for an interactive workshop where we will explore the story of Bluebeard through an archetypal lens, as if it were a dream, and relating it to personal dream motifs that you may recognise. We’ll focus on important symbols and archetypes in the story, including:
The negative animus, the trickster, as the inner killer;
The puella;
The key to knowledge;
Feminine initiation and the myth of individuation.
Preparing for the class:
Please listen to this telling of the Bluebeard story ahead of the workshop.
You do not need to read any interpretations of the fairy tale beforehand and I recommend that you don’t, so that you approach it from an experiential, intuitive perspective, rather than an intellectual one. Resources will be provided after.
How to participate
Become a member of Dreamwork Circle for a month* and get access to this workshop, our future class on Characters in Dreams, two dream circles, and our private forum. If you sign up for the Alchemist tier (£35/month), you also get access to all the previous class recordings.
Book this class only without becoming a member.
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*Please read the membership tier benefits before booking. You can cancel your membership anytime.