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can manifest, grow and prosper, and or encounters in his adventures, the
ultimately reach refined, perfected successful heroine’s journey depends on

expression. Whereas the hero strives to her intuitive ability to respond and adapt
reach the new heights of Olympus and accordingly to circumstances, and to

Zeus/Jupiter’s domain, where we can make the best of situations as they arise.
discover Spirit and live among the Gods, Whereas the Hero creates or chooses
the heroine takes us into the depths of The outer world experience to challenge and

Underworld, Hades/Ereshkigal’s domain, test his virility, prowess, and strength (stir
in search of the Soul, that place of Source, energy up), the Heroine’s struggles test

which is already “there” and the womb her ability to accept/surrender, endure,
from which all life on Earth emerges. persevere, flow with the natural rhythms
Whether She’s abducted and dragged to of current reality, process and integrate

Underworld by force, like Persephone, energy, and enhance or add value to the
or enters out of desperation, like Psyche, Human experience. The goal/motive of

or chooses to make the perilous journey the Hero’s journey is to break free from
in quest of integration and wholeness, the collective experience of Oneness in
like Inanna, the Heroine’s journey almost order to individuate as a separate entity,

always requires travel into the shadowy, whereas the goal/motive of the Heroine’s
murky depths of the unconscious realm, journey is union with “Source” and the

where it begins and ends. There is no collective experience of one Humanity.
majestic goal, like The Holy Grail, or The Hero seeks to find himself and realize
imagined vision of great accomplishment, his unique personal expression of The

like the status of a great warrior or worthy Divine (Ego). The Heroine seeks to lose
King, to spur the Heroine on Her journey. herself and dissolve personal ego in favor

Rather, it is motivated by the emotional of union and co-creation as a vessel for
longing to fill some ineffable void The Divine. Like Inanna’s descent into
(connection), to live more comfortably the Underworld, the Heroine’s journey

in the flow of life’s fluctuating reality requires that she relinquish all earthly
(to make peace with what is, as it is), attachments, be stripped naked and left

or to create the kind of stability needed hanging on a meat hook as a rotting
(grounding) to enhance human existence corpse for a while, and completely
beyond the experience of sheer survival. surrender Her previous identity in

Whereas the Hero’s journey separates and order to be reborn into a higher level
seeks individuation, the Heroine’s journey of consciousness. Unlike the bold and

unifies and seeks integration. Whereas daring feats of the Hero, which usually
the success of the hero’s journey depends include an audience of avid fans or fellow
on his instinctive ability to act and react warriors cheering him on, her journey is

appropriately to circumstances he creates made in isolation, shrouded in mystery,
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