For a long time, I believed that in life you must decide who you are.
Strong — or gentle.
A leader — or a guardian.
The one who acts — or the one who feels.
I searched for myself within these opposites, and each time I felt an inner fracture. As if choosing one role meant abandoning something essential inside me. As if any clear definition required a quiet betrayal of another part of myself.
With time, a different understanding came to me.
A woman is not meant to be whole in the sense of being the same.
Wholeness is not one face.
Wholeness is the ability to contain many.
At different stages of life, different states awaken within us.
There are periods of strength and sharp clarity.
There are moments of tenderness and vulnerability.
Times of action, and times of deep silence.
Each of them has its own meaning.
Each of them has the right to exist.
When I stopped seeing myself as a set of roles and began to perceive myself as a living, multilayered structure, much of the inner struggle dissolved. Resistance softened. Acceptance appeared. I no longer demanded consistency where movement was natural.
This is how the goddesses entered my life.
Not as myths, and not as beautiful images from ancient stories.
But as inner archetypes — states, energies, qualities that live within a woman and reveal themselves when their time comes.
The goddesses do not compete.
They do not fight for dominance.
They exist as parts of one whole.
In one woman, the wisdom of Athena may live alongside the depth of Psyche.
Structure and intuition.
Clarity of mind and silence of the heart.
True balance is born not when one energy suppresses the others, but when a dialogue appears between them. When a woman allows herself to be different — and remains truthful to herself in each of these states.
In the following notes, I will speak about each goddess separately.
About how they manifest in life, in choices, in the body, in a woman’s path.
Not as ideals to strive for, but as inner points of reference that help us understand ourselves more deeply.
Because a woman’s journey is not about becoming someone else.
It is about recognizing who she already is — in all her forms.
