Labyrinth

The labyrinth is the winding path that seems lost and is not. Cretan tradition gives us the labyrinth of the Minotaur, with Ariadne’s thread as the thread of consciousness itself. Medieval Christianity built labyrinths into cathedral floors — Chartres most famously — as pilgrimages walked in place. Unlike a maze, a true labyrinth has one path; you cannot get lost, only impatient. Jungian analysis reads labyrinth-dreams as the individuation journey in miniature: a path that circles, seems to leave the center, and arrives. Notice where you are on the path — approaching, at the center, returning — and whether you trust the way.