Category: Dark Night Of The Soul (Descent)
The Handless Maiden - the pattern of initiation and descent
Author: Denise Grobbelaar
Date Published: 2025-06-24 19:12:31
In The Handless Maiden, a Brothers Grimm tale, a poor miller is approached by the devil-in-disguise who offers wealth in exchange for “what stands behind your mill.” Believing it to be an apple tree, the man agrees, only to discover that his daughter was standing there.
What does personal transformation really mean?
Author: Denise Grobbelaar
Date Published: 2024-06-20 20:02:35
Transformation refers to a thorough or dramatic change in our view of ourselves, the world, and how we experience the world. This often happens when we break out of a darkness that has enclosed us. The darkness comes in many forms – a loss, depression, tragedy, or simply an attack on our personhood, professional image, or livelihood.
Journey to the Underworld: Descent of Inanna
Author: Denise Grobbelaar
Date Published: 2020-06-10 06:07:01
The “Descent of Inanna” is one of the oldest myths of journeying to the underworld where, through death, an initiation takes place and, ultimately a rebirth...
Dark night of the Soul
Author: Denise Grobbelaar
Date Published: 2020-06-02 05:51:00
Jung referred to the Dark Night as the ‘night sea journey’ or ‘nekyia’, believing that our sorrow and suffering serve the individuation journey. As an archetypal pattern or process it involves a basic restructuring of the psyche, transforming our individual or collective values and attitudes.