Goddesses in Everywoman

an interest in them, and an unconscious sensuality that made adults comment, “Wait until she grows up—she’ll be a heartbreaker.” ...

ters, too. Some mothers become strict and controlling, overreacting to teenage music and dress styles, even when their daughters ...

of others. Given the double standard, the high school girl who has a desire for sexual experience every bit as strong as a sexua ...

innate passion, and thus may turn out to be the most outstanding drama student in the school. WORK Work that does not involve an ...

Often an intensely introverted man, the Hephaestus type is ill at ease in social situations, with no talent for small talk. Henc ...

semblance to Ares’s mythological family configuration: raised by his bitter mother after his father left them. He is an emotiona ...

who loves to outsmart “slower” minds. He’s full of potential, often very talented though undisciplined, charismatic, and not com ...

relationships. For example, actress Elizabeth Taylor, whose public image is that of a contemporary Aphrodite, has had a string o ...

community offers suits her lifelong unconventionality. Lesbian women sometimes discover Aphrodite in themselves through a relati ...

abilities (which were exceptional) and had to cope with feelings of worthlessness and depression, which paralleled her feeling w ...

LATER YEARS Some Aphrodite women retain the capacity to see beauty in, and always be a little in love with, whatever or whomever ...

stances, and how to respond in others—how to choose wisely “when and with whom,” and how not to be propelled by the archetype in ...

out. But when the appointed time comes, she may be engrossed in something or someone else. Although the lessons are painful, exp ...

THE “CURSE” OF LOVE The goddess Aphrodite’s power to make others love could be destructive. For example, she sometimes compelled ...

tremendous effort to avoid the temptation to see him and become reengaged with him. But she must do so before she can invest her ...

Psyche, and Robert Johnson in She. Psyche is a pregnant mortal wo- man who seeks to be reunited with her husband, Eros, God of L ...

ants.” These insects are analogous to an intuitive process, the workings of which are beyond conscious control. Or clarity can c ...

stream cascades from a spring at the summit of the highest cliff to the lowest depth of the underworld, before being drawn up th ...

what is best for them, until they learn to say no. Whether it is a per- son who needs their company or comfort, or the attractio ...

13. Which Goddess Gets the Golden Apple? Competition, conflicts and alliance among the goddesses occur within a woman’s psyche—a ...