GREEK GODDESS ARCHETYPES
Arthena, Artemis, Aphrodite, Hera, Demeter, Persephone, Hesita
Did you know that understanding and learning about the lives of these goddesses will help you to discover more about yourself? Or that you could gain some powerful tools in discovering your strongest archetype and then being to work on ways to incorporate other underdeveloped goddess personalities into you life when and where needed?
I would like to introduce you to the power of working with the feminine energy (also known as the Goddess energy) to aid in the release of creative blocks and to help restore self-confidence, balance and harmony in your life. The way you can do this is by consciously making an effort to see, feel, or sense Her presence, bring Her into your attention through imagination, then ask for Her particular strength.
It was Carl Jung, a former student of Freud’s, who introduced the concept of archetypes into psychology. He saw archetypes as patterns of instinctual behaviour that were contained in a collective unconscious. These patterns are how we behave and interact with others. Homer Simpson is an archetype, so is Zena the Warrior Woman. To be human is to have all of the archetypes available; some will have a natural affinity to for certain ones.
In Jungian psychology, all myths include symbols that unlock the mysteries of our subconscious and our inner motivations. The Greek Goddess had very human attributes, you will find their behaviour and emotional reactions provide us with patterns that are very similar to our own human (mortal) behaviours and attitudes.
For Example
The “alchemical” Goddess of love and beauty, she has the ability to be both creative and procreative. Aphrodite governs a woman’s enjoyment of love, beauty, sexuality, and sensuality.
Goddess of the hunt and the moon, an independent and achievement orientated feminine spirit, she is confident and seeks goals on terrain of her own choosing.
A beautiful, stately warrior Goddess, Goddess of wisdom and craft, she is practical and realistic in her views of life and represents the logical, self assured woman who is rule by her head rather then her heart.
Goddess of the hearth, Hestia embodies the patient and steady woman who finds comfort in solitude, she exudes a sense of intactness and wholeness. Hestia is peaceful, dignified, secure, welcoming and grounded.
Goddess of love and marriage, she stands for the woman who considers other roles secondary to her main goal of finding a husband and being married.
Goddess of grain and the maternal archetype, Demeter represents a woman’s drive to provide love, nourishment and nurturance for her children
Maiden and Queen of the Underworld, expresses a woman’s tendency toward compliancy, passivity, and a need to please and be wanted by others. Represents the transition from innocent maiden to the adult woman.
These seven Goddesses have both positive and negative traits that, upon reflection, you will realise we “mortal’ women hold in our own make up – the trails, tribulations, emotions and frustrations; learn more about these Goddesses, their story and myth from your local library and/or various internet sites. You are truly in for a wondrous Journey.