Matrignosis

A BLOG ABOUT INNER WISDOM

Four Ways to Work With Your Shadow

Unfortunately, there can be no doubt that man is, on the whole, less good than he imagines himself or wants to be. Everyone carries a

My Holiday Blessings to You

My dear friends, Soon it will be twelve years that I’ve shared my associations with Christmas and the New Year here at Matrignosis. Communicating my

The Thanksgiving Gift of Two-Way Partnership

Most people think working with horses is a one-way form of communication: the human does the training and the horse does the listening and learning so it can serve the human’s needs. Most riders and trainers love horses very much and train them with kindness and patience; others believe they need to “break” horses with bullying and brute force. Either type can achieve great success…from the perspective of the human ego.

Trickster Rides Again

Like the Lone Ranger and Tonto who burst my bubble of security in an unforgettable dream at the age of ten, the Trickster archetype has

Learn Your Story: Write Your Myth

“Just as dreams do not conceal something already known, or express it under a disguise, but try rather to formulate an as yet unconscious fact

The Delicious Blessing of Being

We have a tendency to think in terms of doing and not in terms of being. We think that when we are not doing anything,

The Defining Characteristics of the Opus

It’s life that matters, nothing but life — the process of discovering, the everlasting and perpetual process, not the discovery itself, at all. ~Fyodor Dostoevsky. The

The Essential Thing Is the Opus

I observe myself in the stillness of Bollingen and with all my experience of nearly eight decades must admit that I have found no rounded

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