6 Goddess Archetypes to Unlock Your Courage & Power

Working with the sacred feminine archetypes, 6 of which I've listed here for you can help you unlock and unleash your full power!  I share a tip to support you in doing further below as well.

Yet first I share, for the shamanic practitioner, there is spirit in all things. The spirits communicate to us, and also share their particular strengths, healing energy and supportive messages.

The characters we humans designate as deities, gods and goddesses, are also perceived as alive and embody powerful archetypes that can support us by filling several roles.

The 6 sacred feminine archetypes I'll share with you today can:

• Be personifications of something in Nature that is larger than us. That connection can support us to be in better harmony with the enormous forces of the planet and our cosmos.
  
  
• Personify and help teach us a strength, attribute or skill we wish to connect with in our own lives.
  
  For instance, a deity that personifies cleverness or creativity may help buoy you when you feel stuck or overwhelmed. One that embodies compassion can help you in stressful situations or teach you more about better self-care and self-love.
  
  
• Become trusted guides in our journeys and dreams– to help us to live our passion
  
  
• Heal the “mother line” and provide reparative parent energy when our beginnings were less than ideal which is especially important in these times.
  
  
• Be a teacher for having more courage, patience, tenacity, peace, fierceness, or otherwise, traits we wish to more fully embody.
  
  
• Be a source of ancient wisdom and of new ways of thinking about ourselves and the world we live in.
  

As you can see, they have many roles for the shaman, as spiritual allies, teachers, and as role models for expressing our own gifts.

The wild Norse goddesses are favorites of mine as they embody unbridled, unapologetic strength, cleverness, creativity, and power. They are loving as well as fierce and provide role models for raising ourselves up into our full, most effective selves.

TIP:  Invest some energy into doing a shamanic journey (or if are new to journeying, instead journal) and ask, What personal attribute would be most important for me to focus on now?
Write down what comes to you and then do some exploratory research on what goddesses embody those traits and so they can be a support for you!

• For instance, if you feel as though a task is “too big” to accomplish, or need more strength, you might call on Hyrrokkin from the Norse pantheon for support. She did tasks that none of the other deities could accomplish.
  
  
• Need to feel more powerful in times of turbulence? I call on the fierce, Móðguðr, who guards the bridge over the tempestuous river that separates the worlds of the living and dead.
  
  
• Do you need a broader, cosmic perspective on a current issue then try Urð the eldest of the Norns. She is a creatrix who works the thread of energy that become physical reality.
  
  

These and other goddess archetypes can help you to discover your strengths, develop more courage, shed old skins that no longer serve you, and so much more!

Check out my free events for a special guided shamanic journey to meet a sacred feminine goddess and to learn more about my fall 2024 course which can support you in deepening with the Norse goddesses.

Love and blessings,
Evelyn Rysdyk