Colette Obrien

I’ve put the latest Yucatan article up on the site in the articles section titled,”Travels in the Yucatan.”

Preparing for the next workshop June 1^st on feminine archetypes, we’ll be focusing on the dark side of the Great Goddess. Not a favorite subject but an important one, and one that personal experience has taught me, had best be attended to or She will demand attention and that is NEVER a good thing, as Sleeping Beauty and other heroines and heroes have learned.  She goes by many names through time and space, essentially representing loss of consciousness, whether that means physical death or ego death.  If truth be told, no matter what story we may tell ourselves about either of those options, it is truly terrifying or so She has the power to frighten us. There is NOTHING maternal about her.  She is not ambivalent but entirely horrible. The Indian goddess Kali best represents Her in modern time when, in western culture she’s been sent back to the unconscious. As I mentioned earlier, that is not a good idea. One can wonder if our current world crises may have something to do with our denial of death.