Healing and Empowering the Feminine: A Labyrinth Journey
The thirteenth-century Chartres Cathedral labyrinth and its
historic precedents are popular today as metaphors for the
spiritual journey. In this book, Jungian analyst Sylvia Senensky
probes the inner depths of the labyrinth as a source of archetypal
feminine energy--the womb, the cave, the domain of the Goddess, the
core of the earth, the encounter with planned chaos and the
consequences of the ignored shadow. Senensky draws on powerful
personal experiences, the stories of women she has worked with as
clients and workshop participants, and a rich literature of myth
and fairy tale that includes Theseus and the Minotaur, Demeter and
Persephone, Inanna, and Vassilissa the Beautiful. Poems and
quotations also serve as examples.
