Maiden to Mother: Unlocking Our Archetypal Journey into the Mature Feminine

Maiden to Mother: Unlocking Our Archetypal Journey into the Mature Feminine

by Sarah Durham Wilson
Maiden to Mother: Unlocking Our Archetypal Journey into the Mature Feminine

Maiden to Mother: Unlocking Our Archetypal Journey into the Mature Feminine

by Sarah Durham Wilson

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Overview

The bridge from Maiden to Mother has been broken.
 
When the goddess culture was stolen and buried, so too were women’s rites of passage into our wild, intuitive femininity and maturity.
 
With Maiden to Mother, Sarah Durham Wilson excavates these ancient rites, guiding us through a sacred and crucial initiation from the immature Maiden into the archetypal Mother—the powerful, safe, compassionate, full-bloom feminine life force that exists within all of us.
 
Becoming the Mother is every woman’s birthright—regardless of whether or not she raises children. The Mother is who we needed as a child, who we were meant to be in this life, and who the world needs us to be now.
 
Wilson teaches that while pre-patriarchal cultures honored women’s natural cycles, today’s society infantilizes women, idolizing youthful traits such as “pretty, pleasing, and polite” in order to keep us distracted and dependent. While a healthy version of the Maiden will always remain part of us, there comes a time when we must no longer let her wounds and immaturity guide our lives. We must step into our mature, feminine fullness.
 
In this journey, you will travel with Inanna—the ancient Sumerian goddess who ventured through the Underworld to meet her severed, dark sister and emerged fully integrated and empowered, giving us an archetypal map to inner strength and wholeness.
 
Through personal stories, rituals, teachings, and practices, Wilson helps women heal the Mother Wound and dismantle our internalized patriarchy with its false, constricting standards for the feminine, so we may live with authenticity and feast on the richness of life. “Midlife is not, as our culture proposes, where a woman’s power ends,” writes Wilson, “but where it really begins.”


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781683647034
Publisher: Sounds True, Incorporated
Publication date: 06/07/2022
Sold by: Macmillan
Format: eBook
Pages: 216
Sales rank: 876,924
File size: 354 KB

About the Author

Sarah Durham Wilson
Sarah Durham Wilson is a women’s rites of passage leader and writer. Sarah’s offerings are rooted in archetypal Mother work and resurrecting the rite of passage from Maiden to Mother. She has taught courses and led retreats for thousands of women over the past decade and works with private clients. She previously worked as an arts and music writer in New York City, writing for Rolling Stone, VH1, GQ, Vanity Fair, and Interview magazine. In 2010, she began writing under the pen name DOITGIRL, which provided inspiration for women interested in the path of the witch and priestess. She lives in New England with her daughter Avalon and two familiars, Odin and Ridley. For more, visit themotherspirit.com.


Sarah Durham Wilson midwives women from the wounded, patriarchalized feminine across the bridge to the archetypal Mother, or mature feminine. Before her service to the Goddess, she was a rock journalist in New York City, beginning with an internship at Rolling Stone and culminating as an editor at Interview magazine. She lives in Maine. For more, visit: themotherspirit.com.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

I Growing Out of Maiden 11

Reflection Exercise: Crossing the Threshold 22

II The Descent of Inanna 25

Reflection Exercise: A Review of Inanna's Descent 37

III UnMothered 43

Reflection Exercise: Maiden Reactions and Mother Responses 53

IV Time in the Underworld 59

Reflection Exercise: An Overview of the Underworld 70

V Excavating the Exiled You 75

Reflection Exercise: Compassionately Listening to Your Maiden 92

VI Becoming a Medicine Woman 103

Reflection Exercise: Cherishing Great Mother Meditation 122

VII Saging into Mother 127

Reflection Exercise: Inner Queen Mother Meditation 142

VIII Mother Yourself, Mother the World 151

Reflection Exercise: Mother Rituals 176

Recommended Reading 189

Acknowledgments 191

Endnotes 195

About the Author 199

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