Goddesses in Everywoman

and this satisfaction indirectly supports the activities of the other. He appreciates not having to concern himself with the hom ...

When it comes to helping her children cope with social nuances or competitive situations, however, she is not much use. The same ...

An elderly Hestia woman may have to eke out a living on Social Security, but she is far from impoverished in spirit. Often she l ...

deeply for are unaware of how she feels and leave her alone. It is also sad when someone who wants to be loved by a Hestia woman ...

mediately the role that actor was to play. In Jungian psychology, the persona is the mask of social adaptation that a person pre ...

of herself in the world. The goddess Hestia did not jostle for power or compete for golden apples. She stayed out of relationshi ...

in herself that she uses when she ventures out into the world, through which she can be assertive and articulate. The animus als ...

cism is allowed to penetrate spiritual experience and to demand “proof,” the invasion invariably violates a woman’s sense of int ...

7. The Vulnerable Goddesses: Hera, Demeter, and Persephone The three vulnerable goddesses are Hera, Goddess of Marriage; Demeter ...

rewards of relationship—approval, love, attention, and by the need of the archetype to mate (Hera), to nurture (Demeter), or to ...

discovered that when I changed modes and concentrated intently on something other than them, they invariably interrupted me. For ...

in the woman, who is herself not responding as usual to him. It is as if an unseen warm light has been turned off, making him fe ...

ties out into the world can lead to uninvited intrusions. Any woman standing alone and waiting, or sitting alone at a restaurant ...

PATTERNS OF BEING AND BEHAVING Each of the three vulnerable goddesses has within her mythology a happy or fulfilled phase; a pha ...

characteristics of Hera, Demeter, and Persephone. Each chapter de- scribes the archetypal patterns one goddess personifies, and ...

8. Hera: Goddess of Marriage, Commitment Maker and Wife HERA THE GODDESS Stately, regal, beautiful Hera, whom the Romans knew as ...

GENEALOGY AND MYTHOLOGY Hera was a child of Rhea and Cronos. She was swallowed by her father as soon as she was born, as were fo ...

But Zeus placed both mother and son in the sky as the constellations of Ursa Major and Ursa Minor (the Big Bear and the Little B ...

or Hera the Virgin). She was celebrated as Hera Teleia in the summer and autumn (Hera the Perfected One, or Hera the Fulfilled O ...

becomes involved in a committed relationship, most of the yearning created by the Hera archetype to be a wife is met. But she st ...