Heart Scarab: Myth, Memory, and the Soul's Journey

Co-Taught with Orpheus Black, Educator & Storyteller

Live Online • Six Weeks

Mondays, August 17 – September 21
4:00–5:30 PM Pacific

$150

For the ancient Egyptians, the heart was far more than an organ. It was the seat of memory, conscience, identity, and moral character—the part of us that remembered every choice we made and every relationship we cultivated throughout our lives. At death, it was the heart that stood before the scales of Ma'at, where a life was measured not by wealth or achievement, but by truth, integrity, and the quality of one's participation in the world.

Centered on the heart scarab—one of ancient Egypt's most enduring ritual objects—this six-week journey explores the myths, symbols, and sacred imagination surrounding death, transformation, and the soul's passage through the unseen world. Together we will encounter Osiris, Isis, Anubis, Thoth, Ma'at, and the rich symbolic landscape of Egyptian funerary traditions, discovering how these stories continue to illuminate the questions we carry today.

Rather than approaching ancient Egypt as a distant civilization, we will engage its mythology as a living symbolic language. What does it mean to carry a heart that remembers? How do our actions shape the people we become? What practices help us live in greater harmony with ourselves, our communities, and the larger order of life?

Designed for both newcomers and longtime lovers of mythology, each session combines accessible scholarship, mythological interpretation, thoughtful discussion, and opportunities for personal reflection. Whether you come seeking a deeper understanding of ancient Egyptian religion or a richer relationship with myth as a guide for contemporary life, Heart Scarab offers a space where history, imagination, and lived experience meet.

The heart scarab was never simply an amulet placed among the dead. It was a reminder that every life becomes a story—and every story leaves an imprint upon the heart.

This course welcomes anyone curious about mythology, ancient Egypt, religious studies, symbolism, psychology, ritual, or the enduring questions of what it means to live—and die—well. No previous knowledge of Egyptian mythology is required.

PLEASE NOTE: Classes will be recorded and archived for students unable to attend live.

Saturday, August 29, 2026
5:00 pm PT (CA time) | 8:00pm ET (NYC time)
Hosted by Morbid Anatomy

The moon has long been a symbol of intuition, mystery, memory, and the hidden dimensions of the psyche. During a lunar eclipse, that familiar light is temporarily obscured, creating a liminal moment that cultures throughout history have regarded with awe, caution, and reverence.

In this special online gathering, we will explore the mythology and symbolism of lunar eclipses across cultures, from celestial dragons and cosmic serpents to stories of descent, shadow, and transformation. Drawing from mythology, depth psychology, and ritual traditions, we will consider what it means when the light of the moon is veiled and what such moments can teach us about change, release, and renewal.

Together we will engage in reflection, guided visualization, and ritual practice designed to help participants identify what is ready to be released, reclaimed, or transformed within their own lives.

Suggested Ritual Items:
- A candle (white, silver, black, purple, blue, or red)
- A small bowl of water
- A journal and pen
- An object representing a threshold, transition, or transformation in your life
- Optional incense (Dragon's Blood, frankincense, sandalwood, mugwort, myrrh, or a blend of your choosing)
- Optional crystals, talismans, or symbols of the moon, serpent, dragon, or other threshold guardian

Join us beneath the veiled moon as we enter a sacred threshold between what has been and what is becoming. This gathering is open to all experience levels and all items are optional.

A six-week live online journey through myth, landscape, imagination, and the places where the human and more-than-human worlds meet.

Wednesdays, October 7 - November 11, 2026
4:00–5:30 PM Pacific Time | 7:00 - 8:30 PM Eastern Time

$150

There are places where the boundaries grow thin.

The edge of the forest.
The mouth of a cave.
A path disappearing around the mountain.
A garden at dusk.
The shoreline between land and sea.
The crossroads where one road becomes many.

Across cultures, these landscapes have long been places of encounter. Gods appear there. Women wander into them. Animals speak. The dead draw near. Old identities loosen, and something unexpected becomes possible.

The Wild Threshold is a six-week exploration of these places—not only as settings within mythology, but as ways of encountering our own lives and the living world around us.

Together, we will enter myths of women who cross beyond the boundaries of the familiar and meet what waits there: wilderness, danger, revelation, sovereignty, grief, beauty, instinct, and transformation.

But this is not simply a course about interpreting old stories.

It is an invitation to practice attention.

To notice the landscape around you.

To become curious about the places that call to you, unsettle you, or make you feel suddenly more alive.

To experience myth not as something safely contained in an ancient text, but as a language through which human beings have always tried to understand what happens when we encounter a world larger than ourselves.

The Crossroads
Choice, uncertainty, Hekate, and the strange intelligence of not yet knowing which way to go.

The Forest
Wildness, instinct, disorientation, initiation, and what happens beyond the boundaries of the cultivated world.

The Cave
Descent, darkness, incubation, hidden knowledge, and the interior landscapes we enter when ordinary vision is no longer enough.

The Mountain
Effort, perspective, solitude, revelation, and the relationship between elevation and transformation.

The Garden
Cultivation, sensuality, enclosure, fertility, beauty, and the complicated boundary between wilderness and what we attempt to tend or control.

The Living Threshold
Bringing these landscapes home: discovering the thresholds already present in our bodies, our environments, our imaginations, and our everyday lives.

You feel drawn to mythology but want to experience it as something more than a collection of stories.

You are hungry for a deeper relationship with the natural world—even if your daily life takes place primarily in cities, homes, offices, or online spaces.

You sense that something important is lost when we move too quickly through the world without truly seeing it.

You are interested in feminine mythology, archetypal imagination, ritual, ecology, symbolism, or the mysteries of place.

Or perhaps you simply feel yourself standing at a threshold in your own life and want a different kind of language for understanding where you are.

No previous knowledge of mythology is necessary.

Curiosity is enough.

Each live gathering will weave together mythological teaching, storytelling, reflection, guided imaginal or embodied practice, and conversation.

You will also receive simple invitations between sessions—ways of noticing, wandering, journaling, observing, or entering into relationship with the landscape where you actually live.

These are not assignments to complete correctly.

They are practices of attention.

Because one of the central questions of this course is deceptively simple:

What happens when we begin treating the world as though it might have something to say to us?

You do not have to disappear into a distant wilderness to find the wild.

Sometimes it begins with noticing the tree outside your window.

The bird that keeps appearing.

The path you always take.

The place you avoid.

The landscape you dream about.

The moment when the familiar world suddenly feels slightly less familiar.

The threshold may already be beneath your feet.

Join The Wild Threshold

PLEASE NOTE: Classes will be recorded and archived for students unable to attend live.