Goddesses in Everywoman

good and bad. Thus she has difficulty understanding why people become outraged over unethical or immoral behavior, especially wh ...

finest material and to have as a finished product a designer-quality coat or dress that would have cost more than ten times what ...

ther Zeus. She was unaware of her mother Metis, whom Zeus had swallowed. Metaphorically, Athena women are “motherless” in many w ...

6. Hestia: I Goddess of the Hearth and Temple, Wise Woman and Maiden Aunt HESTIA THE GODDESS Hestia was Goddess of the Hearth, o ...

Hestia’s brief mythology is sketched in three Homeric hymns. She is described as “that venerable virgin, Hestia,” one of the thr ...

Rome into one family. In her temples, the sacred fire was tended by the Vestal Virgins, who were required to embody the virginit ...

HESTIA THE ARCHETYPE The goddess Hestia’s presence in house and temple was central to everyday life. As an archetypal presence i ...

clarity in the midst of the confusing myriad of details that confront our five senses. The inward Hestia may also become emotion ...

nymity. They often are taken for granted, and aren’t newsworthy or famous personalities. TEMPLE HEARTHKEEPER The Hestia archetyp ...

position of an honored elder. She stayed above or out of the intrigues and rivalries of her relatives and avoided being caught u ...

Hestia’s round hearth with a sacred fire at the center is in the shape of a mandala, an image that is used in meditation and tha ...

game. There pillar and circle merged, while the Greek and Roman kept these same two symbols of Hermes and Hestia related but apa ...

CULTIVATING HESTIA Hestia can be found in the quiet solitude and sense of order that comes from doing “contemplative housekeepin ...

wardly focused archetype. Once begun, meditation often becomes an everyday practice because it provides a sense of wholeness and ...

an atmosphere of warmth and peaceful order. She is usually an in- troverted woman who enjoys solitude. Recently I visited a Hest ...

a happy childhood. Cronos was a tyrannical father who had no warm feelings toward his children. Rhea was ineffectual and powerle ...

she appears on the surface, she is inwardly true to Hestia; she has a quality of independence and detachment, an emotional evenn ...

WORK The competitive workplace does not reward Hestia women. A Hestia woman lacks ambition and drive; she does not want recogni- ...

side can come out. A Hestia woman won’t engage in gossip or in intellectual or political discussions. Her gift is to listen with ...

temptation to be unfaithful—as long as she is unaffected by Aphrod- ite. A Hestia wife may look like a dependent wife, comfortab ...