all right so just coming into this dream space and taking a moment to land in your body close your eyes if that feels right to you and just breathe into the center of your being wherever that feels natural to you many people feel that in their chest or their solar plexus or their belly and just taking three deep breaths [Music] together [Music] maybe then dropping your awareness lower into your body grounding yourself in the moment feeling the weight of your body dropping like sand in a sand timer growing heavier and heavier down through your chest
and your body down into your abdomen into your hips your legs your feet your toes and into the ground beneath you the Earth and just take one big deep breath into your belly and up through your chest and out through your mouth all right so now if you're working with a candle or a fire you may want to open your eyes and just softly rest your focus there as you begin to enter the Deep of your imagination allowing images and Visions to rise in your mind you may see just darkness or maybe it's light a
white mist and out of this emerges your character maybe you know who this character is already or maybe this character is coming to you for the first time to let you know they're ready to be written just take a moment to see this person or animal or Spirit or whatever form it may be taking although my language will assume it is in human form from here on what does this character look like just watch look at the details that emerge face their hair their clothing how does it sit upon them and move with them how
old is this person someone fulfilling a maiden archetype will often be quite young in their early to mid teens but they don't have to be they don't have to be female now consider what is around this person what does the setting look maybe you see them in a room inside or maybe you see them outside or maybe you see both or all at once a flickering of myriad images coming to you all at once consider how the environment feels to the character how does it feel safe to them how do they feel supported by how
do they take its familiarity for granted this is your maiden's protected world the world of your stories First Act is there a sense that Beyond this familiar setting there is a great unknown that the character has never seen or ever experienced how do they think about the unknown are they afraid of it or do they long for it perhaps maybe a mixture of both what have they been told about this great unknown what have they been told about the small and comfortable World in which they've grown up and who is telling them about both think
about the important people in this character's Life begin to see them as well
