Developing your own personal mythology is a good way to regain your own footing in the worlds around you. Simply fix on something that interests you and that appears meaningful in some undefined way. As an example, I once kept seeing urban foxes everywhere and their appearance would often seem symbolic in some magic imaginary way that I was unable to imagine. What was important was the magic feeling which could now be triggered by the mere word fox or crucially their graphic representation in the culture around me. Oh look a fox! That means something! What does it mean? I don't know! Isn't it brilliant?
Of course, there are limits to this thinking. Soon you will notice that what you have selected is indeed everywhere in a mad scramble by popular and high culture to occupy the empty space you selected. You might even become tired of what you once loved so much. Then it's time to move on to the next thing. But just wait until you see a picture of the fox with the new thing maybe on an underground poster or zooming past you on a bus.
This is an example of constellatory thinking. Your thoughts are like stars in the sky and it's not up to you to see the connections between them although soon you will notice shapes and patterns. It's all working up to the moment a giant graphic of a fox flies past in the sky when you most needed help or reassurance.
And what new thing have I moved on to? For me, it's whales. I predict they are going to be really big this year.
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