About 10 years ago, I came across a book called “Oracle of the Goddess” by Amy Sophia Marashinsky. Since then, I have used this book a lot in all my therapeutic processes. In fact, it is a tarot, with all the goddesses from different cultures, and each of these goddesses represents an archetype, an aspect of our unconscious.
Archetypes were coined by Carl Gustav Jung, the father of analytical psychology. According to him, we have two unconscious: the personal unconscious – where your memories, traumas, shadows are stored – and the collective unconscious. In the collective unconscious, memories, shadows and traumas are also stored, but of all humanity. It's a big energy, a big HD that we all access at different times in life.
The first time I had access to the collective unconscious, and understood what it was, was when I had a dream when I was 25 years old. In that dream, someone was calling Lucrecia, an unusual name I had never heard of. As my therapist at the time was a Jungian, she told me about Lucrecia Borgia's story. I had never heard of her story, but she had everything to do with that moment of mine.
From that point, I understood what the collective unconscious was. Something I had never heard of, but which exists as an archetype. In this way, if I managed to access Lucrecia Borgia, I certainly also access other symbols that, in some way, influence my psyche and my decisions.
Archetypes are therefore manifestations of images and symbols. As an example, let's use Aphrodite, goddess of love and beauty. When she appears to you – whether in a tarot, in a dream or in some other kind of unconscious manifestation, she is trying to convey a message to you. Maybe you need to work on your feminine side more, or maybe he's just overworked.
The opposite way is also possible and we can use archetypes to access aspects of the unconscious that we know we need to work on. So, when we need prosperity, we can use the fish archetype, for example. Pisces represent prosperity in various cultures of different times. As an example, we can use the story of the multiplication of fish by Jesus.
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I use the goddess archetypes a lot with my clients since then and I even developed a training called “Goddess Journey”, precisely to access these archetypes and manifest the goddesses in our lives. They are extremely ancient and powerful archetypes, which bring fantastic results to everyone's lives. And I know from experience.
In the next texts, I will talk a little more about this subject and about the goddesses that govern our lives.
