The thread is given to someone else and she is left holding the labyrinth
Resonance
Those who help others out and are left those who must find the way out
Symbols
The threadThe crownThe labyrinthThe dance floorThe ivy
Mythology Summary
Ariadne is the daughter of Minos and Pasiphae, half-sister of the Minotaur, and the one who gives Theseus the thread and the way out of the labyrinth. He takes her from Crete and abandons her - at Naxos or on Cyprus, depending on the teller - and Dionysus finds her there and makes her his wife and immortal (Hesiod, Theogony 947-949); Homer's Odyssey has Artemis kill her instead (XI.321-325). Plutarch collects the disagreements, including Paeon of Amathus's Cypriot account of her death in childbirth on Cyprus (Theseus 20).
Modern Practice
Ariadne is called on by anyone who has to find the way through something, and by anyone who has handed the way to someone else and been left. The practice is the thread: lay down the route while you are still in it, so that it can be walked again by someone who is not you.