“Allow me to guide you through the terrain of the dark goddess - the exiled, the forgotten, banished, suppressed and oppressed part of the collective psyche that holds the keys to our greatest collective challenges and opportunities. She is Cybele, Lilith, Coatlicue, Persephone, Durga, Kali, Sekhmet, Hestia and Demeter in their original forms. She is the primal void that gives life to all things, the original mother, the crone, the moon, the night sky, priestess of the sacred fires of sexual healing, desire, connection to feminine independence, and the Earth herself. She is the drumbeat of the goddess, the primordial sound, the blood of each mothers heartbeat, the Source, the Origin. In her banishment, we have banished ourselves. In her suppression, we have suppressed the only thing that allows us to truly understand ourselves as part of the cycles of nature. And by forgetting her, we have forgotten who we truly are, along with our worthiness in our power to heal ourselves.” From the book Grounded by @dr.erinmcmorrow 🦋 photo by @alyssakeysphoto