Goddesses in Everywoman

them, or withdrawing inward. Each goddess who valued a particular relationship was vulnerable and relatively weak in comparison ...

2. Activating the Goddesses In ancient Greece, women knew that their vocation or their stage in life placed them under the domin ...

lescent or a backpacking Girl Scout. Or she may have been a young Athena, her nose buried in a book or competing in a science fa ...

off on her own to explore the neighborhood—as different as Persephone and Artemis. FAMILY ENVIRONMENT AND GODDESSES The expectat ...

THE EFFECT OF CULTURE ON GODDESSES Which “goddesses” does the culture support through the roles it allows women to have? Stereot ...

women were not stopping at having two children, but were having three, four, five, or six. By 1950 the birthrate in the United S ...

pregnancy, missing hardly a day of work. Menopause—the cessation of menstruation brought about by a drop in estrogen and progest ...

be caretaking Demeter. This shift can have an adverse effect on her job, since that’s what she most often drops. She spends too ...

worker, who noticed that with meditation she became calmer, less harried, and more compassionate. In contrast to the gradual eff ...

tremely helpful is undeveloped or apparently “missing” in them- selves. It is possible to “invoke” that goddess, by consciously ...

creative effort, a man, or a combination—are evident. More energy becomes available for something else, which is an invitation t ...

3. The Virgin Goddesses: Artemis, Athena, and Hestia The three virgin goddesses of Greek mythology are Artemis, Goddess of the H ...

or nuts, extracted without heat (metaphorically, untouched by the heat of emotion or passion). Virgin metal is what occurs in na ...

The virgin archetype might manifest as that part of a woman that is secretly or openly a feminist. It may be expressed as an amb ...

tion.” She has a “one-track mind,” which allows her to do what she sets her mind on. When she concentrates on outer goals or wha ...

In contrast, Athena, Goddess of Wisdom, joined men as an equal or as a superior at what they did. She was the coolest head in ba ...

tionally held in psychology. Depending on whether the viewpoint is Freudian or Jungian, qualities that are characteristic of vir ...

libido away from her mother and toward her father, who had one.) A woman who is as sexually active as men are supposed to be ca ...

His theoretical position discouraged women’s strivings to achieve. He wrote, “By taking up a masculine profession, studying and ...

shares with these relationship-oriented women a need to develop her animus or have Artemis and Athena as active archetypes in or ...