Goddesses in Everywoman

decision with a bribe. Hera offered him power over all the kingdoms of Asia if he awarded her the apple. Athena promised him vic ...

be in conflict with each other. Within each woman, activated arche- types often vie for supremacy, or compete for dominance. Giv ...

quiet, solitary aspect to her personality (thanks to Hestia), as well as being a competitive tennis player (which may be either ...

chairing the committee, deciding when and who should have a turn or take the floor. A chairperson keeps order by being an observ ...

home. Hera feels she has obligation to visit her husband’s relatives. Athena reminds her that she has some unfinished work to do ...

wants a child and the other does not? What should she do now that she is in her thirties and motherhood is a time-limited possib ...

meaningful the task may be. For O’Keeffe (or any woman) to be able to experience the loss of something important, and then plung ...

that would act on her to preserve the marriage. They saw marriage as a sacred vow and as a lawful institution, believed that a w ...

her husband. There was no other man, and it was a twenty-year marriage that others idealized. As long as she only contemplated t ...

are the goddesses with whom the ego identifies. Meanwhile, the perspective and priorities of out-of-favor god- desses are suppre ...

Thus, she “acted out” her ambivalence—although she wanted the role and consciously threw her efforts into it. Artemis gave her a ...

suasive make her very effective. She’s a dynamic mix of Artemis and Aphrodite, who easily slips into being a compliant Persephon ...

apple” in one situation, but pass it to introverted Hestia or Persephone in another. According to Jungian theory, thinking and f ...

may be successful. For example, when Dana was working on her thesis it was often hard for her to muster the effort to do library ...

14. The Heroine in Everywoman There is a potential heroine in everywoman. She is the leading lady in her own life story on a jou ...

became, much more than the degree of adversity they encountered. For example, I have met people who survived childhoods full of ...

new home in Richard Adams’s novel Watership Down: they were small and powerless, sustained by an inner myth that if they endured ...

try: the true cost of anything is what we give up in order to have it. It is the path not taken. To take the responsibility of m ...

psychologically “armored” as Athena, as independent of men’s opinions as Artemis, or as self-sufficient and solitary as Hestia. ...

THE JOURNEY As a woman proceeds on a heroine’s journey, she confronts tasks, obstacles, and dangers. How she responds and what s ...