Goddesses in Everywoman

“I see a snake coiled on the porch...,” “Three snakes are in the room....” Whenever women begin to claim their own authority, or ...

from a chosen path—the choice-maker as a captive of her instinct. For example, a woman graduate student I knew almost lost sight ...

over. A woman needs to “resist the power of the bear” and yet honor its importance to her, if she is caught in the grip of the m ...

dreams in which she is being attacked by snakes (indicating that the power they represent is dangerous to the dreamer). In one s ...

her; the enemy or demon may be in the psyche of other individuals who want to hurt, dominate, humiliate, or control her; or as i ...

that is no more. Or it may be a relationship, ended by death or dis- tance, that leaves us grieving. Will the heroine in the wom ...

ward or back. There may be impossible barriers in either direction. Or she may need to solve a riddle before a way will open. Wh ...

these stories are variants of the same plot as the classic Western, when the brave but outnumbered group suddenly hears the bugl ...

Most synchronistic events do not provide such tangible answers to a dilemma. Instead, they usually help resolve a problem by pro ...

could not figure it out until he dreamed of a snake holding its tail in its mouth. He intuitively knew that this provided the an ...

the negative aspect of a goddess that can take us over: a susceptibility to fall into Demeter or Persephone depressions, a probl ...

power was destroyed forever. This round with evil won, their heroic task completed, the hobbits returned home to the Shire. The ...

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Appendix Who’s Who in Greek Mythology Achilles (a kil’ z), Greek hero in the Trojan War, who was favored by Athena. Aphrodite (a ...

virgin goddesses, the daughter of Zeus and Leto, and twin sister of Apollo, God of the Sun. Atalanta (at a lan’ ta), a mortal wo ...

and the mysterious, and was a personification of the wise witch. Hecate was associated with Persephone, whom she accompanied whe ...

meter while she was searching for her abducted daughter Persephone. Psyche (s ’ kë), a mortal heroine, who completed the four ta ...

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Notes The primary sources for each chapter are listed first, followed by footnoted references. All references to Jung’s Collecte ...