The idea that we might be Queens is intoxicating. Ever since I first started introducing The Queen as a helpful archetype for midlife women in my workshops and articles some eight years ago, I have received thousands of requests for detailed instructions on how to become a Queen. “Dear Mama Donna,” women would write, “I…

The Self, according to Carl Jung, is the center, the midpoint of the personality, the crossroads where our personal and collective, conscious and unconscious processes intersect. The Self encompasses the totality of who we are. It is, he writes, “A kind of central point within the psyche to which everything is related, by which everything…

I would like to share an alternate vision of Memorial Day by three Queen Poets. ***Those Holy MomentsBy Karen Ethelsdatter  Those holy moments before sleepwhen the mind lets go& the hands & the teeth & the jaws unclench& the body settles into the arms of the bed& in winter comes the welcome weight of blanket,…

A life-long lover of the moon, I live in a constant state of lunar awareness and I attend to the process of my life and living in conscious accordance with the cycle of its four phases. It has long troubled me that so many Triple Goddess models leave out one element, direction, season, or moon…

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