Women, Ageing and Archetypes
Women, Ageing and Archetypes

Author: Margaret Stone

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 1904098487

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Women face a host of challenges as we age, from social disrespect, to physical changes, to the hard work of psychological adjustment.We explore in depth three major archetypes - the Hero on her Journey, the Wise Woman and the Goddess - from their roots to their relevance today in conscious ageing. What are archetypes, and why is there a universal myth of the Hero? Why did the menopause evolve, and how did that lead to the post-menopausal Wise Woman of early societies? What does the evidence show about worship of the Great Goddess in the past, and how could such powerful archetypes become hidden from us? How can we reclaim the myths of the Goddess today? Through these archetypes we can explore how much the "Crone" stage of life has to offer, and find the strength, power and courage to embrace all it brings, even our own mortality. This book aims to be a companion for your journey, with a range of ideas, images and exercises and help for the hard times.

Goddesses in Older Women
Goddesses in Older Women

Author: Jean Shinoda Bolen

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2009-10-13

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 0061852775

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At some point after fifty, every woman crosses a threshold into the third phase of her life. As she enters this uncharted territory -- one that is generally uncelebrated in popular culture -- she can choose to mourn what has gone before, or she can embrace the juicy-crone years. In this celebration of Act Three, Jean Shinoda Bolen, Jungian analyst and bestselling author of Goddesses in Everywoman, names the powerful new energies and potentials -- or archetypes -- that come into the psyche at this momentous time, suggesting that women getting older have profound and exciting reasons for welcoming the other side of fifty.

Creatrix Rising
Creatrix Rising

Author: Stephanie Raffelock

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2021-08-24

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13: 1647421640

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Ever since Eve was banned from the garden, women have endured the oftentimes painful and inaccurate definitions foisted upon them by the patriarchy. Maiden, mother, and crone, representing the three stages assigned to a woman’s life cycle, have been the limiting categories of both ancient and modern (neo-pagan) mythology. And one label in particular rankles: crone. The word conjures a wizened hag—useless for the most part, marginalized by appearance and ability. None of us has ever truly fit the old-crone image, and for today’s midlife women, a new archetype is being birthed: the creatrix. In Creatrix Rising, Stephanie Raffelock lays out—through personal stories and essays—the highlights of the past fifty years, in which women have gone from a quiet strength to a resounding voice. She invites us along on her own transformational journey by providing probing questions for reflection so that we can flesh out and bring to life this new archetype within ourselves. If what the Dalai Lama has predicted—that women will save the world—proves true, then the creatrix will for certain be out front, leading the pack.

Archetypal Patterns in Women's Fiction
Archetypal Patterns in Women's Fiction

Author: Annis Pratt

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 1981

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 9780253202727

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Archetypal patterns endure because they give expression to perennial dilemmas submerged in the collective unconscious. Having examined more than 300 novels by both major and minor women writers over three centuries, Annis Pratt perceives in women's fiction distinctive elements of plot, characterization, image, and tone. She argues that women's fiction should be read as a mutually illuminative or interrelated field of texts reflecting feminine archetypes that are signals of a repressed tradition in conflict with patriarchal culture. Pratt suggests that the archetypal patterns in women's fiction provide a ritual expression containing the potential for the reader's personal transformation and that women's novels constitute literary variations on preliterary folk practices that are available in the realm of imagination even when they have long been absent from day-to-day life.

Women Who Run with the Wolves
Women Who Run with the Wolves

Author: Clarissa Pinkola Estés Phd

Publisher: Ballantine Books

Published: 1995-08-22

Total Pages: 561

ISBN-13: 0345396812

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • One million copies sold! “A deeply spiritual book [that] honors what is tough, smart and untamed in women.”—The Washington Post Book World Book club pick for Emma Watson’s Our Shared Shelf Within every woman there lives a powerful force, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity, and ageless knowing. She is the Wild Woman, who represents the instinctual nature of women. But she is an endangered species. For though the gifts of wildish nature belong to us at birth, society’s attempt to “civilize” us into rigid roles has muffled the deep, life-giving messages of our own souls. In Women Who Run with the Wolves, Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés unfolds rich intercultural myths, fairy tales, folk tales, and stories, many from her own traditions, in order to help women reconnect with the fierce, healthy, visionary attributes of this instinctual nature. Through the stories and commentaries in this remarkable book, we retrieve, examine, love, and understand the Wild Woman, and hold her against our deep psyches as one who is both magic and medicine. Dr. Estés has created a new lexicon for describing the female psyche. Fertile and life-giving, it is a psychology of women in the truest sense, a knowing of the soul.

The Women's Wheel of Life
The Women's Wheel of Life

Author: Elizabeth Davis

Publisher:

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 9780615394688

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"Maiden, Mother, or Crone--where does a woman in her midlife years fit in? Thirteen powerful archetypes for your whole lifecycle. Women who have turned to feminist spirituality for appreciation of women's ways of knowing will revel in the thirteen empowering archetypes presented in this book. From Daughter to Blood Sister, Mother to Amazon, Sorceress to Crone, this groundbreaking work reveals the grand pattern of women's lives, rich and complex, beautiful and mysterious. Elizabeth Davis and Carol Leonard, licensed midwives with sixty-five years combined experience as health care providers and healer, developed the Wheel as a synthesis of their work in women's health, spirituality and psychology. The women's wheel of life draws on more than a hundred interviews with women of all ages who have found the Wheel to be an inspiring and revolutionary path for more powerful living"--Back cover.

Inviting the Queen: An Emerging Archetype for Women at Midlife
Inviting the Queen: An Emerging Archetype for Women at Midlife

Author: Sandra Rogers

Publisher:

Published: 2019-10-21

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13: 9781950186129

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Depth psychotherapist Sandra Rogers articulates what many women intuitively know-that the archetypal configuration of Maiden, Mother, and Crone is missing something. She offers us the archetype of the Queen, a stage in midlife between the Mother and the Crone. Through rich examples of real-life women, Sandra brings the Queen to life, and then, shows us how to fully embody her energies through the chakra system, including suggestions for journaling, meditation, visualization, and instructions for conducting a set-coronation ritual. "This book could not be more relevant or timely! Sandra Rogers has written a book that embodies the last 60 years of women's efforts to achieve both deeper psychological realization and broader efficacy in the world. Sandra's book, Inviting the Queen, is written for women (and for men who love women) who are searching for a practical guidebook to wholeness: she asks you to welcome the Queen, a symbol of inner empowerment, into your life via simple exercises, engaging stories, and an important new way of understanding the chakras. This book is a 'crowning' achievement!" Patricia Ariadne, Ph.D., LMFT, Associate Professor of Psychology and Licensed Psychotherapist

The Way of All Women
The Way of All Women

Author: Esther Harding

Publisher: Shambhala Publications

Published: 2017-03-07

Total Pages: 373

ISBN-13: 0834830434

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Acclaimed as one of the best works available on feminine psychology from the time it first appeared in 1933, The Way of All Women discusses topics such as work, marriage, motherhood, old age, and women's relationships with family, friends, and lovers. Dr. Harding, who was best known for her work with women and families, stresses the need for a woman to work toward her own wholeness and develop the many sides of her nature, and emphasizes the importance of unconscious processes.

Crones Don't Whine
Crones Don't Whine

Author: Jean Shinoda Bolen M. D.

Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com

Published: 2009-11

Total Pages: 102

ISBN-13: 1458745058

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"For women there is nothing more liberating than age if we learn to use our energy, power and compassion." -- Back cover.