The Nine Paths
Nine archetypal currents. Each a door, each held by a sister, each one of the nine ways the One returns to itself.
IThe Root
The seed that refuses to forget it was planted by the moon.
Elena Ixchel
Mexican / Tzapic-Maya · Interpreter · 27
IIThe Bridge
The mind that learned to kneel.
Ananya Mehta
Indian · Mumbai · Clinical psychologist · 38
IIIThe Turn
The flame that learned to spin instead of burn.
Layla Hassan
Syrian · Istanbul / Damascus · Sufi dancer · 34
IVThe Weaver
The singer who forgot to be sung to.
Nadine Diatta-Leroy
Senegalese-French · Paris / Saint-Louis · Griot, singer, drummer · 37
VThe Song
The brush that trusted the hand that held it.
Mei Lin Chen
Taiwanese-American · Brooklyn / Taichung · Painter · 36
VIThe Holder
The one asked to raise the unparented, having never been parented.
Naomi Waanatig
Ojibwe · Thunder Bay / Manitoulin · Social worker · 53
VIIThe Scribe
The tourist who stopped outrunning her own heart.
Eleanor Matthews
British · Hackney, London · Travel journalist · 41
VIIIThe Lantern
The one who became the thing she feared, so she could come home to what she buried.
Selene di Marco-Amari
Italian-Moroccan · Venice · Philanthropist · 34
IXThe Return
The one who knew the wall was the carried.
Asha
Indian · Sarnath / Auroville · Restorer of sacred walls · 41