How Fairytales Can Show Us the Way Home

Across centuries, these strange and enduring stories have carried the soul’s memory through times of collapse, exile, upheaval, and renewal. They emerge from the deep forests of the collective psyche bearing symbols, terrors, helpers, riddles, wolves, witches, impossible tasks, and hidden treasures—not merely to entertain us, but to orient us.

Fairytales begin with disorientation: a lost child, a barren kingdom, a wanderer at the edge of the woods, a woman who no longer knows who she is. And yet, the tale insists: there is still a path.

In this richly layered and imaginal evening, Muriel McMahon explores the profound psychological wisdom embedded within traditional fairytales through the lens of Jungian psychology, symbolic life, and the modern crisis of meaning.

Together, we will explore:

• Why fairytales appear most urgently during periods of personal and collective uncertainty, and why symptoms, anxiety, and disorientation may signal the beginning of initiation rather than failure
• The symbolic roles of the forest, the witch, the impossible task, and the hidden helper
• How fairytales speak to the lost instinctual life of modern people and continue to illuminate the soul’s path in difficult times
• The archetypal journey home—and the difference between comfort and belonging

Muriel invites participants into an evening that is intellectually nourishing, emotionally resonant, and spiritually alive. It is an invitation to remember something ancient within yourself.

Come if you are weary.
Come if you are wandering.
Come if you suspect the soul still knows the way home.