Violet’s Blog
Blog Tiredness and Toxic Culture
Dear friends, Here we are near the end of the year. In a few weeks I’ll be taking a much needed break to nourish and replenish my being. I realise I haven’t yet delivered up my offering of a course on healing through the Sacred Feminine. The reality is I’m tired. For...
Memory and Imagination
Thomas Moore writes in his delightful book Original Self: “Memory holds us together as individuals and communities. When we forget who we have been, we lose a full sense of who we are.” (p.22) Forgetting is akin to erasing memory, perhaps the only way we know to...
The Unmothered Child
If you were a child who came into this world with a mother who, for whatever reason, was unable to fully welcome, nurture, protect or connect with you, you have a part of you who is an unmothered child. It is an aspect of nature that not all lives who enter this world...
Persephone in the Underworld
Dear friends. Hello! I hope this finds you and your loved ones well. Here in New Zealand it’s winter. A time of withdrawal and hibernation. A time in which we’re invited to go inward and reflect on our lives, and to conceive what we want to gestate and sprout when the...
The Demeter-Persephone myth
Today I’m exploring how the Greek myth of Demeter and Persephone can speak to us about healing wounds to the Sacred Feminine. This well-known myth, which I shall tell briefly below, is a story of mother-daughter relationships, of wise-woman guidance, and of the...
Attributes of the Sacred Feminine
Attributes of the sacred feminine – and the wounds that correspond with them. I’m excited to announce here that my course Healing the wounded Sacred Feminine will soon be available for registration, inviting you on an archetypal journey towards experiencing a more...
The Tower and the Stone
Symbols of transformation and writing personal myth. Today I’m exploring the concept of personal myth and the power of personal and archetypal symbols to transform our lives. I was reading some material by Jungian writer Marie-Louise von Franz on the images of the...
The Tower
A woman lived in a tower. For many years it was a cold, dark, lonely tower. In her tower the woman grew claws and sharp yellow scales. Her teeth lengthened into fangs. Her hair grew green with mould. She was locked in this body of clanking scales. Each day she hunched...
What is the Sacred Feminine?
The Sacred Feminine is the archetypal feminine principle. She embraces the universal qualities of what it means to be feminine. She is partnered with the masculine principle - the Divine Masculine, which embodies the essence of masculinity. I want to be clear here:...
Place and a Centred Heart
I’ve been thinking about the importance of grounding and place. When the relationship with mother is severed, when we experience traumatic early attachment, or profound grief and loss, we lose our connection to where we are rooted, where we feel belonging. Mother,...