| Who is the mysterious man with the bluebeard and | | | | on the floor that had leaked and splattered out by all |
| why do I still love him after I find him to be just a | | | | the corpses she now found lying upon the floor and |
| blue meanie? Learn how this fairy tale and others | | | | nailed to the walls. Arms to the right and the heads |
| were written for those without the best family lives | | | | stacked to the left. Here was all his past wives. This |
| as children.Fairy Tales might be for children, but parts | | | | represents the skeletons in the closet we all have/ |
| of us never seem to grow up. Embrace change and | | | | the problems, obstacles, and challenges we must |
| read on... Now since the ancient days of the traveling | | | | face to get to a better life. But like she did, we find |
| mistral or fireside Shaman, every culture around the | | | | it easier just to close that door as quick as we found |
| world had storytellers that instructed youths and | | | | it. We always think we can clean out the cobwebs of |
| adults on how to find happiness when it seemed to | | | | the closet another day. But like Daffy Duck, every |
| be lost. Knowing that people sometimes can not bring | | | | time we put things off, we get the closet emptying |
| ownership to their problems or just will be simply | | | | onto our head. Like an avalanche. |
| bored with allot of technical jargon. So they invented | | | | Now the woman tries to hide the key in a cupboard. |
| fabulous stories to captivate our imaginations using | | | | But it leaks blood onto the floor. She hides it in a |
| the symbols that resonate deep within our minds | | | | pantry, but the blood gives up its location. No matter |
| from a time before language was ever created. The | | | | where she hid it, the blood soon gave it up. This |
| same place in a baby turtle on Galapagos Island | | | | represents the time when we see where change is |
| knows to run to the ocean as fast as possible and | | | | needed in our lives, we can not escape or deny it. |
| zag or zig when it sees a shadow from above | | | | We must face it to bring change. If we do not... |
| without ever seeing a hawk or gull before. Allot of | | | | Bluebeard enters once again and asks for the keys. |
| tales have to do with helping a child to follow its | | | | Now the cost of our mistakes get higher, and |
| instinct's when a care giver or parent is insufficient in | | | | eventually may lead to death if we do not answer |
| his roles as a teacher or becomes just down right | | | | them. She gives him all but the one. He knows right |
| abusive. Under harrowing circumstances, how can a | | | | off the bat she has been in the room. He now |
| child retain what it knows to be true in its heart | | | | represents the man who is afraid of us seeing him |
| under such constructs. Or reshape them in the future | | | | for what he is, who wants to blind us to the truth |
| to save their lives? As Carl Jung and the women that | | | | about his abuse. For he fears change the most. He |
| proceeded him; Woodman, Pinkola Estes, Von Franz; | | | | has to admit to the abuse he has received in the |
| they found these stories of regained truth in the | | | | past and feel the guilt for the abuse he has given. If |
| fairy Tales and Myths of the world. For your listening | | | | you change he must also. So he becomes quite irate. |
| pleasure, I have encapsulated one as an example. | | | | On another level it is our own shadows who will not |
| Bluebeard | | | | let us rest until we bring the change necessary to our |
| Three daughters were raised amongst their mother | | | | lives. For this time it welcomes the danger into your |
| and father, plus two brothers. But before the | | | | home, for all harm that comes to you, granted under |
| youngest daughter reached puberty the father and | | | | great duress, you invited in. It is the spanking that |
| the two brothers were sent off to war. Not to | | | | has been put off too long. |
| return for many years. So it came to the time that | | | | So Bluebeard chases her through the castle, our |
| the youngest daughter was itching for a mate. So | | | | minds, with a sword ready to kill her. Her sisters |
| her and her two sisters were riding in the commons | | | | appear to help her and keep a look out for her |
| on Sunday as the finest men and women paraded | | | | brothers coming back from war. Now since at the |
| out and about on horseback in all their finery. When | | | | age of puberty, the youngest daughter had no |
| the youngest of them spied a man with a blue beard. | | | | healthy male figure in her life, she could not tell by his |
| The older sisters were taken a a back by his | | | | beard like her sisters that he was dangerous. The |
| appearance. "Look at that Blue beard, how revolting!" | | | | oldest had the father and brother to teach them |
| said the oldest with the second oldest consented | | | | what a loving man is. The youngest did not. So the |
| with a guffaw. But the youngest remarked he was | | | | return of the brothers is the healthy animus returning |
| quite striking. The sisters stared in disbelief at their | | | | to save the youngest sister. So now in the distance |
| sibling. The second oldest mentioned he was rumored | | | | the smoke from the dust cloud of her brothers on |
| to have been married several times. The oldest | | | | horseback can be seen. The sisters yell to them and |
| concurred and added his wives have never been | | | | they increase their pace to a full gallop. Bluebeard is |
| heard from again. " But he is quite cute!" said the | | | | ascending after his wife proclaiming " I do not want |
| youngest as she rode off to make his acquaintance. | | | | to hurt you, I just want to bash your brains in. |
| Within the month the youngest was married and | | | | " She is almost to the top steps where her sisters |
| living in his castle. Now the castle with its moat is the | | | | sits, when the two brothers bust into the room and |
| symbol of the subconscious's. It represents the | | | | dispatch the blue meanie. It is never too late to have |
| journey from your skull across the water barrier to | | | | healthy men in your life to learn from. They will teach |
| your brain. This is where all the fun happens, if you | | | | you as friends how to find a healthy mate. For the |
| like it or not. Because the drawbridge slams shut | | | | brothers come in time to slay the shadow Bluebeard |
| once you enter.. | | | | and prepare the youth for a healthy marriage in the |
| One day after a week of marriage, Bluebeard | | | | future. Now did you ever think a fairy tale could ever |
| announced that he must go on a prolonged journey | | | | be that important?Summary.... In our adolescence it is |
| to pay for her luxurious room and board. A normal | | | | important to have a healthy sex role model to shape |
| occurrence that happens even today, making the | | | | our construct of what a loving male or female is so |
| woman feel like she is married to a stranger. He | | | | we will be attracted to a healthy mate. Bluebeard is a |
| handed her the keys to all the rooms of the castle | | | | fairy tale about what happens when this does not |
| including one small key. This was to the room she | | | | happen by absence or abuse by a sexual role model. |
| was to never enter upon. Unless desiring serious | | | | This is fairy tale interpretation. There is a story for |
| consequences to her well being. So he left and she | | | | everyone. There is no mistake that you have made |
| of course checked out all the rooms. Especially the | | | | that has not happened already without a story of |
| one with the little key!When she opened that door | | | | how to solve the problem. |
| she was taken back by a mass of congealed blood | | | | Come and see... |