Kayleen Asbo, Ph.D
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      • Week One: Drinking From the Well of Virtue
      • Week Two
      • Week Three: Music and Divine Office
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      • Welcome letter
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      • Session Three: Where Our Hearts Grow Cold
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      • Session Five: Returning to Innocence
    • 22 Days of Magdalene
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      • Week One: Prophet of Despair
      • Week Two: Beethoven, Dante and Eliot
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The Hero's Journey in Music, Myth, Art and Poetry
Live seminar and online webinar next offered  in  Summer of 2017
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Using Joseph Campbell’s blueprint of the Hero’s Journey and the Jungian understanding of the development of the psyche, we’ll examine the quest of the Hero throughout time  as we discuss myths ranging from Parsifal's search for the Holy Grail  to the Tales of Baba Yaga, encounter the visual arts through the centuries,  revel in musical works of Beethoven, Schumann, Mozart, and Berlioz , and bask in the poetry of Rilke, Goethe, Mary Oliver, Anne Sexton and T.S. Eliot. 

 Week One:  The Map: Joseph Campbell’s Blueprint of the Hero’s Journey
The monomythic parallels of Jesus, Buddha, Moses, King Arthur, Luke Skywalker and Harry Potter

  Week Two: The Search Begins in Failure 
 Parsifal and the Fisher King; Mozart and Classical Sonata Form as Mythic Journey; Dante

 Week Three: Descent and Love, The Anima/Animus 
 Berlioz:'s Symphonie Fantastique;  Ardhanari: Tamil sculptures of Shiva and Parvati 

Week Four: Encountering the Feminine: Good Witch/Bad Witch
Baba Yaga;  The Legend of Gawaine and the Loathely Lady;  Moussorgsky; Cantigas de Santa Maria

Week Five:  Confronting The Split Self and the Shadow 
 Pablo Picasso: Minotaur  Series and Robert Schumann's Davidsbundlertanze  Op.6 
                                     
Week Six: Facing Death and Homecoming 
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight;  Auguste Rodin: The Burghers of Calais
Gustav Klimt's Beethoven Frieze and Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 
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Gustav Klimt's Beethoven Frieze
Contact Kayleen Asbo: mythicamuse@gmail.com
  • Home
  • Pilgrimages/ Retreats
    • The Blessing Thread 1: Mary Magdalene and the Contemplative Tradition: Provence
    • Pilgrimage 2: Wales and Ireland >
      • Beginning Your Pilgrimage
      • Morning Circle
      • Schedule and Links
      • Celtic Knots and Brigid's Cross
      • Doll Making with Polly Paton Brown
      • Celtic Legends with Justin Coutts
      • Brigid's Blessing Hand Instructions
      • Recipes
    • Claiming Our Light Retreat
    • Mystical Scotland
    • From Grief to Garden: Holy Week with Mary Magdalene
  • Heroines
    • Ariadne's Thread
    • The Map of the Heroine's Path
    • The Art of Lamentation: Isis and Nepthys
  • 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 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
  • Poetry
  • Art
  • About