Riding into Your Mythic Life
It is time to reveal secret #2 about me (for #1 you’ll need to read back through the blog, here’s a hint. . . it involves swearing.) I am kind of a new age-y sort of gal. (is that anything like being kinda pregnant?) Okay, so it wasn’t very juicy and probably not much of a secret to most of my local friends. But I haven’t really mentioned it on the blog yet. Now I don’t study the stars or collect crystals . . . but I also do not mock those who do. I am open to new ways of thinking and enjoy reading about spiritual matters. So I thought this book would be right up my alley.
I purchased this book thinking it was going to be horse stories told by a therapeutic riding instructor, (who by the way has over 20 years experience working with horses and children with special needs, as well as a 12 year series of horse camps for children and adults.) She would then apply myth to those anecdotes and sort of dissect it with psychology. (Yes, that really did sound like a good read to me.) Turns out it was not quite like that.
Riding Into Your Mythic Life by Patricia Broersma is about the symbolism of the horse in myth and using that mythology to discover more about ourselves and what she calls “the hero’s journey. It is chocked full of exercises designed to help you gain more awareness and enhance communication between you and your horse. It is part philosophy, part self-help and part horse training guide.
I tend to already communicate with Chicory on a deeper level, none the less, I think I will give a couple of the exercises a go when I have a spare moment. (and for those of you wondering how I got a book read this past month . . . lets just say, I have been spending a lot of time riding to and from artfairs.)
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It sounds interesting. I don’t know how you can read and travel at the same time though - it makes me ill!
Mike’s the same way. Never had a problem though. Hmmm.
Thank goodness I leave soon for Kentucky which is like a 16 hour drive. I’d go crazy without doing something. I mean there is only so much to talk about.
Wow, 16 hours! I would have to… listen to music, sing along, probably dance as well (oh yes), then just listen for a while, then talk, then stop for food, then talk some more, then sleep (as a passenger - not whilst driving!), then spend half an hour waking up, and then repeat until the end of the journey!