Once Upon a Time - Snow Falls - Review by Karen

"Once in a while, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale." - Unknown author



This week our beautiful tale focuses on matters of the heart. The Queen wants Snow White's heart. While in one version of the literary fairy tale we may perceive this as a violent and vicious act of vanity and jealousy, metaphorically the jealous Queen wants Snow's heart. The Queen may have many possessions but she lacks something of true value.
Please note that there are a few versions of Snow White. The Grimm Brother's Snow White should not be confused with the story of "Snow White and Rose Red", another fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm.

An important thing to keep in mind with the literary story of Snow White is that she goes through a few rounds of "dying", waking up, deep (unconscious) sleep, waking up and so on.

Pain, sadness and loneliness weighs heavy on Snow-Mary Margaret's heart. We witness Snow admit to wanting to "leave this place, escape to another realm, somewhere isolated. Where I can never be hurt". This is a protective survival mechanism, a self imposed isolation from the pain that life can and will bring. The fear of getting hurt is so great; one would rather isolate themselves by choice and feel they are shielded from suffering instead of letting go of that old pain and move forward and grow from it.

In life bad things happen, sometimes a lot of bad things happen. People have physical scars and emotional scars. Our scars play a role in shaping us and contribute to our life story. One acquires a scar from a deep and painful cut. In time these cuts should heal, but some leave such a deep scar that one is reminded of the pain every time they confront the scar. But again, it's all a matter of time healing wounds, letting go of the pain and having hope and faith that you've learned something from that pain to get you were you need to go along your path. Something that happens when someone is this lost, when they are shut off from the good things life will bring- they lose perspective and precious time...time you can't get back.

Snow White is attached to her pain and James is sentimentally attached to the ring that belonged to his mother. Although the ring belonged to James' mother, it represents the item that bonds his merger together. But to Snow the ring is a symbol of love everlasting.

Ahh, the magic of true love and destiny and that two specific people are meant to be together forever- soul mates. It is such a romantic idea, could it rein true? Snow/Mary and Charming/James/David seem to share a very close connection, just as some of us LOST fans saw with Desmond and Penny or Sun and Jin. They always found their way back to each other.
Coincidence or Fate? Snow's dangerous fairy dust inadvertently ends up being good fairy dust; as it did take care of the Trolls, it also acted as a tool to help her connect with her special someone, James. Even though Regina magically brings Kathryn into the picture, the connection was made between Charming/James/David and Snow White/Mary Margaret.

Is life just as series of chance or can things be listed under the category of fate and destiny. Are the people of Storybrooke so void of hope and believing in positive magical happenings that they can't see that they hold the power to believe that they can have another chance at life, love and happiness?

The residents of Storybrooke lives are in flux. Yes, they are stuck, but they can become unstuck with a little work and perhaps a little push. Henry has taken on quite a role in all of this. We've seen him move some of the pieces {People} around to move things along in hopes of helping return all to their happy place.

In life we can forget or simply don't discover who we really are. As beautiful as life is, with all of it's good and bad, it gets in the way and tends to cloud over the person we really are inside. I am a real and levelheaded person who is continually learning how the universe works and growing as I try to find my place in it. But as I look around my house at all the fairy tale mementos and art cleverly incorporated into our décor and in my car and even on my key chain, it is clear to me that I’ve always needed to be reminded that maybe, just maybe a little magic is possible.

So- believe in a little magic and some hard work, but more importantly it's important to keep hope alive. After all, it's a terrible thing to lose.

Continue Reading Review Here: Karen's Adventure in Storybrooke