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The Mythopoetic Hearth — nourishment, healing, and transformation through story, embodied (w)rites, the wisdom of the earth, and the turning of the wheel.

Newsletter · By Stasha Ginsburg · Official site

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Sep 8, 2026
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  1. Issue · Sep 8, 2026

    Eat your Words. Drink them. (opens the original)

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    Eat Your Words. Drink Them.When I was a little girl, I had a collection of fairy tales illustrated by Arthur Rackham.Just looking at the pictures put my imagination under a spell of enchantment. I knew long before I had language for knowing that there were spells hidden in those pages that I couldn’t understand.I read them year after year, migrating toward certain stories again and again. Red Riding Hood. Bluebeard. Cinderella. Hansel and Gretel. Beauty and the Beast wondering:But what do they r

  2. Issue · Aug 25, 2026

    We need Edges (opens the original)

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    As women connected to the earth, we are nurturing and we are fierce, we are wicked and we are sublime. The full range is ours. We hold the moon in our bellies and fire in our hearts. We bleed. We give milk. We are mothers of first words. These words grow. They are our children. They are our stories and our poems. —Terry Tempest Williams<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!StFs!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-po

  3. Issue · Aug 9, 2026

    Before you ask AI (opens the original)

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    Before you ask AI,ask your body. Ask the season.Ask the creek. Ask your dream.Ask the roots. Ask the stars.And listen.Don’t expect instantaneous success. Become the question. Let the question enter you. Let it simmer. Allow it to ripen.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!12R2!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F65958413-2f46-48e2-995e-3af4f5950274_1034x1387.jpeg" tar

  4. Issue · Jul 29, 2026

    Living Relationship with Story (opens the original)

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    Some of the longest relationships of my life have been with stories.One of them began with a little girl in a bright red cloak.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="778" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-g9t!,w_1456,c

  5. Issue · Jul 21, 2026

    Crack Open the Story (opens the original)

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    I’m writing to you to invite you to join me for an upcoming 13 week creative (w)rites of passage process through place, body, memory and imagination and to experience the power of living story.Crack Open the Story: An Apprenticeship in Living Story<source ty

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