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the feminine side of consciousness.
Both
journeys have their dangers and rewards,
and they are equally important to the
development of a “whole” Human Being.
Much myth and scholarly attention has
been devoted to understanding the hero’s
journey, with its emphasis on action and
daring deeds, usually motivated by external
forces in the form of challenges to virility
and ego, threats to those the hero is sworn
to protect, or the need to prove one’s worth
in order to establish sovereignty and the
respect of the people over which the hero
is destined to rule. Evolution for the
hero takes the energetic path of the spiral
moving outward from “center” into the
external world, widening and expanding to
gather new experience and courageously
breach the boundaries that define one’s
“comfort” zone. It is the search for Spirit
(Sun/Ego), that inspirational spark of
divinity that resides within us all and
defines us as individuals with a unique
gift to contribute to the world. The hero’s
journey separates us from the herd,
and moves us through the process of
individuation. There are dragons to slay,
obstacles to overcome, villains to conquer,
and damsels in distress to save. The
heroine’s journey, on the other hand, not
so action-packed and exciting, has received
much less press, mythically. Too many of
the modern attempts to depict the heroic
feminine simply depict a woman adept
at the same masculine principles (daring,
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