Marion Woodman: Many people are being dragged toward wholeness in their daily lives, Many people are being dragged toward wholeness in their daily lives, but because they do not understand initiation rites, they cannot make sense of what is happening to them. They are being presented with the possibility of rebirth into a different life.…
Marion Woodman: A free woman has a strong neck—an open connection between heart and head, a balance between reality and ideals. A free woman has a strong neck—an open connection between heart and head, a balance between reality and ideals. To fall into the complex is to damn herself for her imperfections; to accept the…
Marion Woodman: The door thuds, leaving them bitter or resigned. The undercurrent of despair in our society is epitomized in a German word that first appeared in English in 1963, and is now incorporated into the Oxford English Dictionary. It is torschlusspanik, (pronounced torshlusspanic), defined as “panic at the thought that a door between oneself…
Marion Woodman Feminine anger cleanses; animus anger leaves me tense. As I understand the virgin archetype, it is that aspect of the feminine, in man or in woman, that has the courage to Be and the flexibility to be always Becoming. Rooted in the instincts, the virgin has a loving relationship to the Great Earth…