The Goddess speaks through dreams and creative imagination
We hear a great deal these days about women stepping into their own shoes, or finding their own voice.
In other words, they are trying to live their own feminine potential and speak with their own feminine voice.
If their voice is coming from their own musculature and not from a complex, it is a real voice ringing with feminine truth.
Many men, too, are trying to hold onto their jobs and, at the same time, live from their own inner values.
Many of the largest corporations are attempting to recognize the voice of soul within the every¬ day business world.
Psychologically speaking, they are differentiating the Virgin from the Mother, Psyche from Aphrodite.
The young uninitiated feminine, who is just beginning to know that she exists in many men and women, inevitably faces the judgment of the Mother.
Mother may be personal mother, the boss at work, the corporation that refuses to recognize the existence of the emerging feminine.
Often, in a crisis, lip service is paid to the feminine, but, when the crisis passes, retribution takes over, even revenge.
It takes a very strong Psyche to stand up to the discipline the Mother sometimes enforces.
As the old saying goes, “If it doesn’t kill you, you’ll be stronger.”
The Mother’s severity sometimes feels like abuse—and sometimes it actually is.
It is part of the differentiating process to recognize which of the two it is and to act from that recognition.
For people who live in daily dialogue with the unconscious, the Goddess herself may make quite clear how she hopes the evolving feminine will respond in a given situation. And if Virgin replies, “I’m not strong enough to do that,” she cuts in, “I’ll help you. Do it.”
And a Crone Shall Lead Them
There’s no time for farting around.”
In the absence of role models for the new feminine in our culture, the Goddess speaks through dreams and creative imagination, giving guidance to those who choose to listen.
Her sense of humor always softens the sharpness of her approach.
Her compassion for the human being in the human situation establishes a strong, loving container so long as communication is kept open. — Marion Woodman, Dancing in the Flames, Page 137-138
