Kayleen Asbo, Ph.D
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The Heroine's Path: Re-Membering the World
Ariadne's Thread and The Labyrinth 



In the first episode of the The Heroine's Path, we focus on the theme of forgetting and remembering .  First, we will learn about Mnemosyne, the mother of the muses and through art and story encounter the Greek myth of Ariadne and the Labyrinth - a tale which inspired the novel and movie The Hunger Games).  We will discover the more ancient roots of Ariadne that connect her to the Snake Goddess of Crete and, as High Priestess, to the rituals of the Minoan Civilization.

We'll explore how  the act of remembering the Good, the Beautiful and the True in our lives can actually change both ourselves- and our world. Through  storytelling, writing practices, music, art and a  
labyrinth drawing ritual, we will find pieces of ourselves and our own stories that we had forgotten.

Video Streaming Coming Soon!
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Suggested Reading, Listening  and Viewing List:

Erik Satie, Gnossiennes (Dances of Gnossos)

Dr. Christine Downing's wonderful lecture on Ariadne, Mistress of the Labyrinth for the  San Diego Friends of Jung  can be found here. There is also a chapter on Ariadne in her  foundational book, Goddesses.


Karl Kerenyi, Dionysos
Christine Downing, Goddesses
Walter Burkert, Dionysus and Greek Religion
Rudolph Otto, Dionysus:: Myth and Cult
Carol Christ, Goddesses
Marija Gimbutas, Goddesses of Old Europe
Riane Eisler, The Chalice and the Blade
Francis Weller, The Wild Edge of Sorrow, Learn more about this essential work on grief and ritual here
Linda Fierz-David and Nor Hall, Dreaming in Red; reading the Women's Initiation Chambers in Pompeii





Information about Labyrinths:

Dr. Lauren Artress is rightly considered the founder of the world wide labyrinth movement. Her book A Sacred Path details her quest to bring this ancient tool of spiritual awareness to our modern world. Veriditas offers weekly online finger labyrinth events, labyrinth workshops and training in how to build and facilitate labyrinth walks. www.veriditas.org

The World Wide Labyrinth Locator is an online index of  public labyrinths throughout the world

Jeff Saward is one of the great builders and scholars of labyrinths. Here is his website, which is filled with fabulous information, including all the different kinds of labyrinths and instructions on how to make your own.


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Contact Kayleen Asbo: mythicamuse@gmail.com
  • Home
  • Pilgrimages
    • From Grief to Garden: Holy Week with Mary Magdalene
    • Glastonbury and May Day
    • Mystical Scotland >
      • Beginning Your Pilgrimage
      • Celtic Knots and Illuminated Manuscripts
  • Heroines
    • Esclarmonde of Foix
    • Ariadne's Thread
    • The Map of the Heroine's Path
    • The Art of Lamentation: Isis and Nepthys
    • The Tasks of Psyche
  • Classes
    • Anchored in the Heart >
      • Week One: Drinking From the Well of Virtue
      • Week Two
      • Week Three: Music and Divine Office
      • Week Four: Images and Visions
      • Week Five: Julian of Norwich and Lectio Divina
      • Week 6: Time and Seasons
    • Dante Retreat >
      • Welcome letter
      • Session One: Love, Loss and Longing
      • Session Two: Hot Sins
      • Session Three: Where Our Hearts Grow Cold
      • Session Four: Arriving on the Shores of Humility
      • Session Five: Returning to Innocence
    • 22 Days of Magdalene
    • The Mystic Path and Poetry of T.S. Eliot >
      • Week One: Prophet of Despair
      • Week Two: Beethoven, Dante and Eliot
      • Burnt Norton
      • East Coker
      • Dry Salvages
      • Little Gidding
    • Mary Magdalene and the Movies >
      • Mary Magdalene and the Movies Code
  • Poetry
  • Art
  • About
  • Videos
  • Catherine of Siena