Hello beautiful women,

This week on Maps of Becoming, I explore one of the most powerful archetypes in the Tarot:

The Empress.

The Great Mother.The Earth Mother.The archetype of abundance, creativity, nurture, fertility, love, renewal, truth, and ferocious devotion to life itself.

And unexpectedly, this conversation arrived just days after I became a grandmother for the very first time.

In this episode, I share the moment I met my grandson Lachlan over FaceTime —the overwhelming flood of emotion that followed —and why becoming a grandmother opened something profound within me.

From there, the conversation unfolds into mythology, fairy tales, archetypes, motherhood, creativity, truth, courage, and the different expressions of love women encounter throughout a lifetime.

Inside this episode we explore:

— The myth of Demeter and Persephone— Why the Tower card appeared in my daughter’s Tarot reading before she gave birth— The difference between coddling love and ferocious love— Baba Yaga and the Wild Woman archetype— Motherhood as initiation— The creative force of the feminine— Why courage is love becoming stronger than fear— The role of truth in becoming fully ourselves— The women who “mothered” me into becoming who I am today

This is one of the most personal conversations I have shared so far.

And perhaps one of the most important.

You can listen now inside The Eudaimonia Library.

With love always,

Edwina x

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