Return of the Goddess: The Heroine’s Journey to Transformation and Wholeness

More and more women are becoming interested in goddesses and their stories. Many of these goddesses have accompanied humanity throughout the ages, and some of them have fallen into oblivion. But this is not just a book for women about reclaiming the lost mythology of the Goddess. That’s powerful in itself, but this book is more than that. It is a very special invitation for creative women to use a powerful literary tool to rewrite their own stories in a way that will actually help to heal the damage done to countless generations of women, and reshape the narrative that women have been forced into. It is a comprehensive guide to using the ＂heroine’s journey＂ to reconnect with female archetypes, free ourselves from restrictive roles and find our authentic selves.

The classic hero’s journey according to mythologist Joseph Campbell is the arch-plot on which many well-known novels and films are based. But why? What about the heroine’s journey? What kinds of stories did we tell each other before men took over the cultural space? The Return of the Goddess searches for traces of much older mythological patterns and archetypes of women’s transformational journeys that stretch back to the dawn of humanity, when the Great Mother was still among us. Women’s lost knowledge of renewal, transformation and wholeness shines through in myths and fairytales and can still be found today in the strong female characters of Hollywood blockbusters such as Titanic and literature by authors such as Doris Lessing.

This is a voyage through the history, mythology and spirituality of the feminine, with many current cross-cultural references. The Return of the Goddess is a book about the re-awakening of ancient wisdom and energies. It is the lost story of the Goddess and the roots of our culture, in which everything divine was originally female.