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Ignoring Vasilisa

You may or may not know that one of my favourite tomes is Women Who Run with the Wolves and you may or may not know that one of the stories analysed within the book is the story of Vasilisa.

The basic gist of the story is a hero cycle about a girl who meets a number of challenges with the help of the doll in her pocket who whispers sage advice every so often. It is a wonderful story in itself and it is also a wonderful way of describing intuition.

Intuition is the voice that tells you what is what when your ego brain is running around like a loony bin doing whatever it thinks is best.

For instance, intuition is the sound of the doll jumping up and down in your pocket when you take an open, compartmented storage tray of jewellery findings and rest it on the edge of a shelf that is only half as wide as the tray - the little voice says "put it over on the table or close it and put it back in the crate but do not leave it there because you know what the law of sod will bring..."

The law of sod is the thing that, combined with ego brain trying to be smart and fast with only one pair of hands, makes several thousand jump rings in various sizes dance in a silvery waterfall to the floor and mix with several hundred eye pins and head pins as they tinkle and twinkle and land in heap on the carpet.

Vasilisa is generally a children's story that does not include the word that came out of my mouth next.