12:30-2:30 pm
The 3rd Sunday falls on Easter this year so we are meeting at 12:30 on the 4th Sunday in April.
This week we will be exploring Greek Goddess Myths and how they parallel ideas in Tarot. Pick one or more Goddess and learn about their myths. Contemplate if any tarot cards could be used to illustrate their stories. You might want to look at the Goddesses in Every Woman, Theopi Project and search the internet.
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Greek Goddess |
Who is she? | |
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Artemis |
Goddess of the Hunt and the Moon. Personifies the independent achievement oriented feminine Spirit. Virgin Goddess. Competitor and Sister. | Diana (Roman)
Artume (Etruscan) |
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Athena |
Goddess of Wisdom and Craft, represents the logical, self assured woman who is ruled by her head rather than her heart. Virgin Goddess. Strategist and Father’s Daughter. | Minerva (Roman)
Menrva (Etruscan) |
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Hestia |
Goddess of Hearth and Temple. Embodies the patient and steady woman who finds comfort in solitude and exudes a sense of intactness and wholeness. Goddess who never leaves home. Virgin Goddess. Wise Woman and Maiden Aunt. | Vesta (Roman) |
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Hera |
Goddess of Marriage, stands for the woman who considers her roles as a student, professional or mother secondary to her essential goal of finding a husband and being married. | Juno (Roman) |
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Demeter |
Goddess of Grain and the maternal archetype, represents a woman;s drive to provide physical and spiritual sustenance for her children. | Ceres (Roman) |
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Persephone |
Maiden and queen of the underworld, expresses a woman’s tendency towards complicacy, passivity, and a need to please and be wanted by others. | Proserpina (Roman), Other Names: Persephassa, Persephatta, Kore. |
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Aphrodite |
Goddess of love and beauty, the goddess governing a womans enjoyment of love & beauty, sexuality and sensuality, impels women to fulfill both creative and procreative functions. | Venus (Roman), Ishtar (Mesopotamian), Hathor (Egyptian), Ashtart (Syro-Palestinian), Turan (Etruscan) |
Which Greek Goddess Are You Quiz
Posted on April 28th, 2006 by Leisa
Filed under: Events, Tarot
