The stories we tell reflect the shapes we become.
The Living Lore is a quiet space.
Not a shrine, not a school, but something between—
a mirror for the symbols we carry.
Every culture has its myths, and every myth has a reflection.
Some show us how we once saw the world. Others reveal how we still do.This site gathers symbols, stories, archetypes, and rituals—ancient or ongoing, whispered or worn smooth. It’s an attempt to trace the old patterns that surface in dreams, habits, fears, and traditions. Not to claim them as answers, but to let them shimmer like reflections in a dark pool.
I write these articles not as a guru, nor a collector of trivia, but as someone turning the mirror slowly—seeing what changes with the light. If you’re drawn to the strange, the ancient, the in-between… you’re not alone.
The Living Lore is written and curated by someone who has always chased meaning in odd corners—through science, story, and stillness.
Hi, I’m Liz.
I’m a lifelong explorer of the unseen threads connecting nature, history, and myth. With a background in ecology, botanical research, art, and an enduring fascination for ancient traditions, I delve into folklore, symbolism, and ritual.
What You’ll Find Here
🜁 Symbols – what they meant, what they still mean, and what they might
🜃 Myths – analysed, unpicked, recontextualised
🜂 Rituals – ancient roots, modern resonance
🜄 Wisdom – not given, but glimpsed
Latest Reflections
- Becoming Mirror-Literate: Seeing Clearly in a Reflective World
There’s a point in the journey — if you’ve gone far enough — where the tools start to feel like mirrors. The rituals, the stories, the emotional work, the symbols… none of them are the thing. They’re the reflection of the thing. And the question becomes: Who is seeing this? And what does it ask of me? To become mirror-literate is not to believe the world… Read more: Becoming Mirror-Literate: Seeing Clearly in a Reflective World - Resonance vs. Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: What Are We Really Attracting?You think of someone you haven’t seen in years — and they message you. You get a strange feeling about a place, and later find out something happened there. You finally decide you’re ready to be seen — and someone shows up who actually sees you. What is that? Kate Bush – Strange Phenomena, 1978 Coincidence? Confirmation bias? Energy? Projection? Maybe all of the above. But… Read more: Resonance vs. Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: What Are We Really Attracting?
- You Will Call it FateThere is a moment in life — not always dramatic, but unmistakable — when something old returns. A pattern. A fear. A way of collapsing or defending or reacting that you thought you were finished with. And there it is again. The same fight. The same loneliness. The same hidden craving for approval or escape or control. You think: haven’t I outgrown this? But it’s not… Read more: You Will Call it Fate
