The Maiden, Mother, and Crone archetypes traditionally represent the cyclical nature of life, encompassing youth, motherhood, and old age/death, respectively.
As I have been aging, reflecting and mining my own life, I have come to a conclusion that there is actually a fourth phase, nestled between the Mother and The Crone that I prefer to call The Empress. She is us, women in midlife.
The Maiden: is our youth, innocence, inexperience, untapped potential, our playfulness, sense of adventure, desire for new beginnings, and the potential for growth.
The Mother: is where we nurture, our fertility, our sense of abundance, and the fullness of life, if you don't have children it's our creative ventures and the building block time of life
The Empress: invites us to pause, discern, take stock, take back our power, process, and reinvent
The Crone: is where we step into our wisdom, pass on our experience, face endings, and seed the renewal of the Maiden
At each phase, we carry the other three as we are always cycling through-no matter what age you actually are today. Each stage has wounds to heal and gifts to give us.
I'll be launching a coaching program around this concept later in 2025. Stay tuned and in the meantime, let me know your thoughts on your season of life
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