Can’t-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted at Wishful Endings, to spotlight the books we’re excited about that we have yet to read.
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Maiden, Warrior, Mother, Crone: Divine feminine archetypes for modern life by Julie Peters
Expected publication: June 17, 2025 by David & Charles
In Maiden, Warrior, Mother, Crone discover lessons from the goddesses including Eve, Lilith, Inanna, Persephone, Kali, The Morrigan, and more, spanning mythology from the East to the West. Learn how these divine feminine archetypes are with you in times of struggle and a part of you in times of strength.
Goddesses are not only powerful spiritual figures, they are also archetypes that represent our deepest feelings and most powerful experiences. They are exiles, witches, queens, lovers, grievers, rage-filled warriors, playful beauties, despairing crones, and hopeful maidens. They can move with us through the cycles of our lives, teaching us over and over again what can be learned from our most difficult experiences.
Through the stories of goddesses and mythic figures from around the world, we will learn how exile makes us powerful, how grief is a form of love, how protest and play can work together, how rage is a necessary aspect of forgiveness, how loneliness can be a magical form of desire, and how despair always sits right next to hope.
This book will explore a range of goddesses including Eve, Lilith, Inanna, Persephone, Kali, The Morrigan, and more, spanning mythology from the East to the West. Learn how these divine feminine archetypes are with you in times of struggle and a part of you in times of strength.
Framed around the archetypes of maiden, warrior, mother and crone, this book looks at how embodying the power of the goddesses can be a balm in hard times, and help readers to connect with, and feel how important, their emotions and their divine feminine power can be.
This sounds like the perfect mix of a book about female goddesses and mythology + the body, mind & spirit genre. I absolutely love the sound of it! 😍
Are you also looking forward to this book? What do you think of it?
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Oh cool, it sort of sounds like a self help book but with goddesses. I’m surprised no one has come up with this idea before!
This sounds really fun – I hope you love it!