Psyche: a Greek myth sheds light on intuition

Psyche sheds light on inner knowing and intuition

Can employing the Greek myth of Psyche help develop inner knowing or intuition? For centuries, Greek culture and myths have continued to inform each successive generation of present-day man. One Greek myth of interest is the story of Psyche and Eros, an archetypal story of love, doubt, fear, courage, work, and even jealousy.

Eros is also known as Cupid or Love, and Psyche of course as Breath, Spirit or Soul. The website Stories and Your Life, suggests that this simple love story is much more: “It tells of the transformation from Eros to Amor, from passion to compassion, from duality to non-duality.”

Isn’t it always easiest in relationship to find that drive, energy, courage, or whatever, to risk, expand and open to an order of spaciousness and presentness previously unknown?

I can see that, both the transformation from passion to compassion and from duality to non-duality or a “We are one” mindset. I can imagine embedded in every marriage or relationship existing today, a strand or form of this archetypal truth can be data-mined. Isn’t it always easiest in relationship to find that drive, energy, courage, or whatever, to risk, expand and open to an order of spaciousness and presentness previously unknown?

And if one can open “in love,” it would stand to reason that one could also open in other areas as well. But that drive for companionship is quite compelling. For some it can seem as primal as eating and sleeping.

An acquaintance of mine created an intuition building tool based on the myth of Psyche. The tool is targeted for women, but since everyone has intuition, anyone can benefit from this tool, The Psyche Cards.

The Psyche cards were developed by two brilliantly insightful and in-tune licensed professional counselors: Nancy Flint Ed.S. and Fehrunissa Willet, M.A. The premise of the cards is pretty simple, actually, and answers one basic question, time and time again, in all the myriad forms the answer arises: Who knows what YOU want and need?

Who knows what YOU want and need?

Who knows what YOU want and need? WHO actually knows that?

Of course, it is YOU who knows that. Temporarily, you may have just forgotten, or perhaps are clouded by external stimuli. The Psyche Cards can help trigger or open the flow of your intuitive memory and knowing.

The Psyche Cards point to a hero or a women’s journey to wholeness, in all its forms.

In fact, it is possible to re-discover your eternal right to the Path of the Heroine with The Psyche Cards

The Basic Story of Psyche

The story of Psyche is from the 2^nd Century AD, a Latin novel/Greek myth. Basically a mere mortal makes a female god jealous of her beauty and mayhem ensues. The female god’s son falls in love with Psyche, then Psyche’s sisters get jealous, and damage, drama and suffering ensue. There are trials and tribulations along the way, inspiration and divine intervention, and in the end, it all works out for the best.

Your journey on the Path of the Heroine with The Psyche Cards imitates this Greek myth, by focusing your own intuition to form your own divine intervention. The theory or thought behind this journey has to do with psychological ideas of the collective conscious and unconscious.

Memes, Consciousness, Unconsciousness and the Collective

All mothers, all brides, all high school graduates, etc., form a meme, or a group, or a collective experience. Everyone kind of knows something about what it means to be a Mother, a bride or a high school graduate.

This broad base knowing also allows for a very specific and individual experience of the meme. One mother is not exactly the same as another mother, for example, but “Mother” has something of a universal meaning and this is perhaps a kind of collective experience.

Other kinds of collective, and yet also individuated experience, might be: the first baby kick, the saying of “I Do”, the first job or college course….So this is my loose definition of collective unconscious and/or collective conscious. Both exist. Both have value, and there is navigation between them.

The Psyche Cards Process

Before embarking on your Path of the Heroine Journey you would set a query or an open ended question, around something that you are struggling with at present. Then you shuffle the deck of Psyche Cards, and draw cards to place around the Path of the Heroine in a particular order. Finally, you review each card from a set of provided things to think about, and then through all the cards inter-relatedness, an answer, option, new direction, or something you may not have considered before, will emerge.

The images of The Psyche Cards tap or work through deeply seated archetypal images, which can reveal or uncover, things, ideas, experiences, conclusions, you already know but may have forgotten you know. There is no set answer or meaning of the cards, the only meaning is the interpretation YOU attach to them.

The beauty of The Psyche Cards is the way the Path of the Heroine focuses your line of query which coalesces an answer almost right before you eyes. On occasion Grounded Relating hosts Psyche Card events; check our calendar for details on the next Psyche Card event.

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Psyche: a Greek myth sheds light on intuition