Explore our connection to Athena, Artemis, Aphrodite and Gaia through meditation, writing and art-making. Discover and celebrate your woman strength with like-minded souls. Beautiful as you are!
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“I have learned that recognition of the archetypal and universal dimensions of one’s experiences can help free one from a purely personal relation to them. I also believe that one can celebrate the mythic patternings without losing an appreciation of the concrete and unique moments that constitute one’s existence… We need images and myths through which we can see who we are and what we might become. As our dreams make evident, the psyche’s own language is that of image, and not idea. The psyche needs images to nurture its own growth; for images provide a knowledge that we can interiorize rather than ‘apply,’ can take to that place in ourselves where there is water and where reeds and grasses grow. Irene Claremont de Castillejo speaks of discovering the inadequacy of all theories about the female psyche including the Jungian framework into which she had for so long tried to fit her own experience and that of her female patients. For now, she suggests, we need simply to attend lovingly and precisely to the images spontaneously brought forward in our dreams and fantasies (p 2.)”
We seek images that affirm that the love women receive from women, from mother, sister, daughter, lover, friend, reaches as deep and is as trustworthy, necessary and sustaining as is the love symbolized by father, brother, son, or husband. We long for images which name as authentically feminine courage, creativity, loyalty, and self-confidence, resilience, and steadfastness, capacity for clear insight, inclination for solitude, and the intensity of passion. We need images; we also need myths - for myths make concrete and particularize; they give us situations, plots, relationships. We need the goddess and we need the goddesses (p. 5).”
“From the palms of her hands to the soles of her feet,
Her face and body are exquisite, more than divine.
Indeed, we cannot gaze upon her long enough,
For she brings increasing joy to heart and mind.
Like the moon in the sky glows her beautiful face;
Like the light from the sun her body shines;
Her beauty sparkles like a nugget of pure gold.
She has perfumed curls like the large black bee,
Eyes like lotus petals, teeth like stars in the heavens.
Clearly she could only be the daughter of the gods (p 38).”
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