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Guides and Threshold Guardians - Week Two As we make the commitment to take the hero’s journey, to step across that threshold and onto our path, we are sure to be met by the threshold guardians. Threshold guardians are the gargoyles and creatures that appear on the path to test our resolve and to turn back the faint of heart. As we begin to walk in our own story we will find these guardians standing tall along the way, revealing our tightly held fears, insecurities and attach

Guides and Threshold Guardians - Week One The hero myths remind us that we will always have help when we enter onto our spiritual path. We must remember to ask for help, however, and we must recognize the helpers as they appear. Too often, we think of spiritual guides that appear like Glinda – gentle, kind and compassionate with magical powers to move us along. But sometimes the guides come in more fearsome forms – perhaps a challenger or an adversary who pushes us to a new p

Guides and Threshold Guardians “As you now go towards the center, there will come more aids, as well as increasingly difficult trials.” ~ Joseph Campbell As Dorothy begins her walk down the yellow brick road, the Wicked Witch promises, “I’ll get you my pretty, and your little dog too.” Lurking behind trees and around dark corners, the Witch lies in wait for the opportunity to stop Dorothy on her journey. Threshold guardians show up in the form of talking apple trees, in worri

Guides and Threshold Guardians “As you now go towards the center, there will come more aids, as well as increasingly difficult trials.” ~ Joseph Campbell As Dorothy begins her walk down the yellow brick road, the Wicked Witch promises, “I’ll get you my pretty, and your little dog too.” Lurking behind trees and around dark corners, the Witch lies in wait for the opportunity to stop Dorothy on her journey. Threshold guardians show up in the form of talking apple trees, in worri