The Language of the Gods

“The gods speak to us in the deep hidden places, and their native tongue is myth.”

Kristi Hall

When people speak of myth, they often mean story — something symbolic, poetic, or allegorical. But myth is not something humans invented to explain the world. It is something we remembered in order to speak with forces larger than ourselves.

Myth is not fiction.

It is a language.

And like any language, it has its own grammar, cadence, and logic — one that does not belong to the rational mind, but to the deeper strata of consciousness where image, sensation, and meaning arise simultaneously.

Where the Gods Actually Speak

The intelligences we have historically called gods do not communicate through linear sentences or logical arguments. They do not arrive in bullet points or definitions.

They speak in the hidden places — the inner planes where psyche, soul, body, and memory overlap. This is why myth has always been experienced rather than analyzed. It moves us before we understand it. It bypasses explanation and goes straight to recognition.

You do not learn myth.

You remember it.

Archetypal Intelligence and Living Symbol

In my work — whether with Tarot, planetary currents, plant intelligences, or elemental forces — I encounter these presences as coherent archetypal intelligences. They are not psychological constructs, nor are they external beings issuing commands.

They are living fields of meaning with their own rhythm and intent.

When an intelligence wishes to communicate, it does not give information. It offers form. An image. A story fragment. A symbolic gesture that unfolds differently depending on who receives it.

This is why the same myth speaks differently to different people — and differently to the same person across time. The intelligence remains consistent, but the point of contact changes.

Tarot as a Mythic Language

This is also why Tarot functions so powerfully when approached as a mythic system rather than a predictive tool.

Each Tarot card is not a definition to memorize, but a doorway into a mythic field. The images are not decorations — they are speaking forms. When laid out together, the cards begin to converse, weaving a symbolic narrative that reflects the client’s current inner landscape.

I do not ask the cards to tell me what will happen.

I listen for how the myth wants to speak now.

The Tower does not always destroy.

Death does not always end.

The Star does not always comfort.

Each archetype reveals the face it needs to reveal in that moment, for that person, in that phase of becoming.

Why Myth Still Works

In a world obsessed with clarity, productivity, and explanation, myth can feel uncomfortable. It refuses to be reduced. It does not give quick answers. It asks us to linger, to feel, to descend.

But myth persists because it works where logic cannot.

It reaches:

• grief before language

• longing before desire is named

• identity before it stabilizes

• thresholds before they become choices

Myth does not tell you what to do.

It tells you where you are.

Myth as Working Language

In Inner Planes Alchemy, this understanding of myth shapes how language is used within courses and transmissions. Rather than offering explanations, instructions, or affirmations, the language is shaped as mythic form — spoken expressions that carry the rhythm and structure of the intelligence itself. These forms are not meant to be interpreted or believed, but to be encountered. When carried in sound, they allow the body and nervous system to recognize a current directly, without translation into thought or meaning.

Listening Instead of Interpreting

To work mythically is not to interpret symbols, but to listen to them. To allow them to rearrange perception rather than forcing them to conform to meaning.

This requires slowness. Presence. Relationship.

When we stop asking for explanations and start allowing the image to work on us, something ancient stirs. Recognition happens without effort. The message lands not in the intellect, but in the soul.

This is the place where the gods still speak — quietly, insistently, without apology.

And their language has never changed.

It is myth.