Triple Goddess

Listen to those all the time.

Uh, Marion talked about the Triple Goddess, and she put maiden and mother together and then virgin and then crone.

And virgin for her was virgin as in virgin forest, not as in an untouched person who's never had sex.

So I really like shimming that a little bit because the word virgin and giving away virginity or ta- toking- taking my virginity, uh, is such a lens, an other lens, not a sovereign lens, a lens that's about something that could be taken from you.

Jane Hardewick Collins, an Australian midwife and teacher, she sort of said, you know, there's a, there's an intermediary archetype now, both because we're living longer, and I realize too my language of archetype, people are gonna have to be, uh, slightly flexible with 'cause I'm not coming from a psychological perspective per se.

But what I noticed was originally the Triple Goddess was defined, you know, women defined as only their child-rearing function, which of course in early feminism got taken apart, and none of us wanna be thought of as something that's an object to possess or something that's only valuable because of what we reproduce.

However, in that separation, what I'm trying to do in the book is to come back together with what is really unique as we move through these physiological, biological changes.

One of my teachers said to me, "Hormones are gods." That phrase has just stuck with me and reverberated in so many different directions as the conversations about hormones in every way, whether it's menopause or birth control or gender surgery or whatever, they're just, hormones are so much in the ethos at the moment, in the ethers and ethos.