Hi Andreas, Thank you for sharing this story. This story leaves me sad as it seems to end with Tuvstarr never returning to her divine home nor finding a true higher self-consciousness.... She seems to get trapped like Narcissus in her own self absorbed reflection, losing her heart in the process, and her fylgja is sort of helpless to help her out of it. It’s kind of a sad story of where many modern women get stuck today, in the yearning (I like to think of it as a sacred need) to see themselves in their true form in order to make up for insufficient containment in childhood... but many young women myself included seem to get lost in a cheap form of this. But the need itself is sacred I think. Just the way we try to fulfill it can miss the mark. But what healing or cure does the story point towards? It seems to not have one. She neither returns her divine home nor sees herself through a higher Self-consciousness. What guidance does the story offer modern women? Or is it a warning and there lies the guidance? I imagine it’s something you think about having two daughters in this social media age.
Thank you. Enjoying your 6 week class with the college of psychic studies very much.
Hello Brielle, very pertinent questions. We can see that she is spell-bound, similar to what we are seeing today when we stare at our reflections; like Narcissus being obsessed with his image. These are troubling stories pointing to our bound self-consciousness and we need to find ways to break her spell. But on the other hand, ecologically, the story points to the relationship between the Moose and the Cottongrass flower. In the essence of this flower resides a Goddess and a songline that knows the way to the Dream castle. Here Tuvstarr is a form of a "protective" guardian of the flower, or the spirit of the flower.
Maybe the guidance is to hold close to our Flygja. To follow its guidance and not let go.
Hi Andreas, Thank you for sharing this story. This story leaves me sad as it seems to end with Tuvstarr never returning to her divine home nor finding a true higher self-consciousness.... She seems to get trapped like Narcissus in her own self absorbed reflection, losing her heart in the process, and her fylgja is sort of helpless to help her out of it. It’s kind of a sad story of where many modern women get stuck today, in the yearning (I like to think of it as a sacred need) to see themselves in their true form in order to make up for insufficient containment in childhood... but many young women myself included seem to get lost in a cheap form of this. But the need itself is sacred I think. Just the way we try to fulfill it can miss the mark. But what healing or cure does the story point towards? It seems to not have one. She neither returns her divine home nor sees herself through a higher Self-consciousness. What guidance does the story offer modern women? Or is it a warning and there lies the guidance? I imagine it’s something you think about having two daughters in this social media age.
Thank you. Enjoying your 6 week class with the college of psychic studies very much.
Sincerely,
Brielle
Hello Brielle, very pertinent questions. We can see that she is spell-bound, similar to what we are seeing today when we stare at our reflections; like Narcissus being obsessed with his image. These are troubling stories pointing to our bound self-consciousness and we need to find ways to break her spell. But on the other hand, ecologically, the story points to the relationship between the Moose and the Cottongrass flower. In the essence of this flower resides a Goddess and a songline that knows the way to the Dream castle. Here Tuvstarr is a form of a "protective" guardian of the flower, or the spirit of the flower.