Goddess Archetypes in Human Design

I remember being struck by the title of Merlin Stone’s book, When God Was A Woman.  Because she didn’t use the word ‘goddess’ in her title, it brought home to me how much -even after all these years of feminist consciousness – we still frame the feminine as the ‘other’.   As Simone de Beauviour says in her classic The Second Sex ” women simply are not men”.   But then, what are we?

I love the story Vicki Noble (creator of the Motherpeace Tarot) tells in the Introduction to her book Shakti Woman.

For the first three years of my marriage, I fought repeatedly with my psychologist husband over his frequently voiced (and very loving) concept of the Feminine.  The Feminine to Jonathon was related to the planet Neptune and the elusive watery element and seemed from my perspective to be weak, insubstantial and conveniently not really there.  The Jungian view of the female ‘anima’ was vacuous and seductive, alluring yet forever unobtainable, was offensive to my feminist consciousness and, in the final analysis, threatening to my personal sense of self. “If that is the Feminine,” I would scream at Jonathon, “then what am I?!”

Amongst the standard 10 planets, women looking for an answer to that question – what am I? – searching for some reflection of their feminine self, can choose between the watery lunacy of the Moon, or the potentially vapid beauty of Venus.  The hysterical or the siren.  If we’re lucky, we land in a place where the Moon is a powerful inner force of knowing and Venus a divine sense of love, beauty, connection and raw feminine power.  But most of us don’t.

It’s the same in conventional Human Design. Who dares peek beneath the prescribed 13 planetary activations of the standard chart to see what may be hidden there?

We’ve come a long way baby.  In the late 1980′s, rifling amongst files as part of my government job,  I was stunned to find that women had only just begun to be paid an equal wage, rather than a set percentage of the male wage.  Magazines were beginning to write about how much housework husbands were doing (not much) and how to juggle career and children (with great difficulty).

All that seems like old news now, and here in Sydney we have a female Governor General, Prime Minister, Premier and Mayor. And yet there is still a sense that something vital is missing.

There is something deep and abiding within women that is calling to be released into the world.  It is the rage of an ancient and almost forgotten goddess, in need of our conscious participation, our leadership. It is the divine creative, rising again from the void where we have been slumbering.  It is the somnambulent princess, waking from her 2000 year old bed and realising the king is dead and she is heir to the throne.   It is taking off the lense of patrimony, looking around us with our new old eyes, and not liking what we see.

We have created so much change in our relationships, our workplaces, our family lives.  We have changed the landscape of our legal system, our economy and our culture.  Now we are reclaiming the depth and power of our souls.

Finding the Doorway

During our preparation of the Feminine Mojo Project, Jamie Walters and I were guided to begin with Athena.  She was the doorway, we were told.  And what a doorway she was!  In the first month after beginning to put the original Teleseries together, Athena had blown my world apart.  Partly because I wasn’t expecting to make any major revelations! I work with these energies all the time.  But here’s the thing, the deeper I dug in preparing the teleseries, the more astonished I was at what these feminine archetypes were trying to communicate to us. There they were, as if in clear sight yet hidden from view.

Athena is a warrior, in astrology she is generally seen as an indicator in the chart of an ability to plan, to strategise, a place where we feel invinsible in battle.  But there’s a darker side to Athena, as evidenced in Martha Lang-Wescott’s seminal book The Mechanics of the Future: Asteroids.

The asteroid Pallas Athene also represents what the child has learnt he or she has to do to win the father’s approval.  The so-called ‘warrior’ is, at the core of it’s being, fighting only one battle – to be loved by the father.

When Jamie and I looked more deeply into the mythology of Athena we discovered that she had a mother, never mentioned, who was Metis, the Goddess of Wisdom, and that her original birth was on the shores of a Libyan lake known as the home of the Triple Goddess.

Athena was an original goddess of wisdom, who put her skills to the uses of the patriarchy, cutting herself off from her own agenda and goals.

You know I love Human Design and the astonishing power it has to inform us of who we truly are.  These days it is leading me deeper and deeper, even beyond the archetypal self and into the profundity of the human experience of original authenticity.

In conjunction with the Feminine Mojo Project, I am now offering readings that specifically explore the Goddess In Your Design.  They  focus on your unique contribution, what you are bringing through as part of  the re-emerging feminine currently impulsing humanity.

There are over 1500 cosmic bodies that I check when I do your Goddess Reading.  I choose dwarf planets, asteroids, trans-neptunian objects, centaurs and other bodies that are significant in your design.  They may be conjunct your Sun, or creating definition in a Centre that you have considered undefined.  They may be in one of the bridge gates for your split definition.  The reading includes information on asteroids like Pallas Athene, Juno, Hekate, Snow White, Magdalena, Lilith, Pandora, Kassandra, Persephone, Psyche.

We are breaking free of old ways of perceiving ourselves.  We are  no longer content to stand on the ‘head’ of the patriarchy and accept it’s version of wisdom.  It’s time to step down onto the earth and feel it between our toes.  A Goddess Reading reveals the power you hold to reclaim your right to birth your authentic feminine self.   More here….

 

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