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Sacred Mother

Sacred, complex, and emotionally powerful, the Mother Archetype is the most influential pattern in the collective unconscious. Consequently, relationships with mothers often feel fraught.

Second in a new series, The Mother, at The Third Eve.

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Hildegard von Bingen

By the end of her long, robust life Hildegard von Bingen was an advisor of kings, princes, and popes; had run two abbeys; had numerous visions and conversations with God, and produced extensive works as a medical healer and naturalist.
Making Peace

Forgiveness is necessary to peacemakers, but it’s difficult to make peace when one has been hurt. One of the best means of facilitating forgiveness
15 Minute Relationships

I doubt that even Warhol would have predicted the notoriety offered by social media, where anyone with a smartphone can be famous, humans reduced to mere bytes, frozen like embryos for later revivification.
Sacred Mother

Sacred, complex, and emotionally powerful, the Mother Archetype is the most influential pattern in the collective unconscious. Consequently, relationships with mothers often feel fraught.
Sister Mothers

Many of us spend much of our adult lives trying to understand and heal the Mother Wound.
Light for the Dark Path

We need art and music, poetry, literature and film, all that evokes the beauty, terror, dread, doubt and ecstasy of descent. They are light for the dark path.
Birth Day: A Recollection

Life is as short as the memories of those who loved us and what they say about us after we’re gone.
Beyond Self-Actualization

It can take a lifetime to deal with whatever hand our parents and caste dealt us—so much so that growth needs may never be realized. Even so, there is hope.
Weeds

Reflections on the flagrantly honest charm of being a small thing with great love.
The Disease of Greed

“The love of possessions is a disease in them […] If America had been twice the size it is, there still would not have been enough.” Chief Sitting Bull, 1877.
Elisa y Marcela

“Elisa y Marcela” is a film based on the true story of Spain’s first same-sex marriage in 1901. It is a triumph of cinematic art, telling an exquisite love story against the backdrop of groundbreaking historical moment.
Mulling

Deprivations and restrictions are inevitable. Throughout our lifetime, we’ll encounter ordeals that push us underwater, plunging us from times of growth to times of deficiency. Captive to what’s too strong for us, we wait for deliverance.