cism is allowed to penetrate spiritual experience and to demand
“proof,” the invasion invariably violates a woman’s sense of intact-
ness and meaning.
Alternately, if a Hestia woman is “carried away by Poseidon,”
she is being overwhelmed by the God of the Sea. Poseidon represents
the danger of being flooded by oceanic feelings or by contents that
well up from the unconscious. When this flood threatens her, she
may dream that a huge wave is bearing down on her. In waking life,
preoccupation with an emotional situation may keep her from feeling
centered. If the turmoil leads to depression, Poseidon’s watery influ-
ence can temporarily “put out the fire at the center of Hestia’s
hearth.”
When threatened by either Apollo or Poseidon, a Hestia woman
needs to seek her one-in-herselfness in solitude. In quiet tranquility,
she can once again intuitively find her way back to center.
Hestia: I Goddess of the Hearth and Temple, Wise Woman and