Judith Duerk: The Great Mother

Kwan Yin

Painting by Frank Howell

Triple Goddess by Susan Seddon Boulet

Long ago before the patriarchal period, in many places on earth, the Goddess was worshiped. Woman in the train of history has been orphaned by the death of this Great Mother, has suffered loss of connection to her own beingness, lack of sense of legitimacy and belonging in the universe or in her own individual life. Woman can draw comfort from an image of the Great Mother reaching out to her to fulfill and to bring to manifest form in her own individual life that of the Archetypal Eternal Femine. Woman, with the help of the Great Mother, can leave the collective way to find her own individual way, for somewhere deep inside she knows she must leave to become herself.

- Judith Duerk, from Circle of Stones: 

Woman's Journey to Herself

Sleeping Goddess At the Lost Gardens of Heligan, England