Contents of the collective unconscious are called archetypes. Jung believed that archetypes originate through the repeated experiences of our ancestors and that they are expressed in certain types of dreams, fantasies, delusions, and hallucinations.

Collective unconscious, term introduced by psychiatrist Carl Jung to represent a form of the unconscious (that part of the mind containing memories and impulses of which the individual is not aware) common to mankind as a whole and originating in the inherited structure of the brain.

Jung felt we can directly access the collective unconscious via our dreams. We can remember our dreams, look for the archetypes, then interpret the wisdom the archetype offers.

She explains that the feminine archetypes and the goddesses associated with these archetypes can be used to elevate self-awareness, cultivate inner wisdom, and develop our strengths as we navigate who we are and how we interact with the world around us.

Here’s how.

1. Step 1: Write out your complete birth date in numerals. Day.
2. Step 2: Add each individual numeral to the next until you have a single digit between 1-9. ( Ex:1+2+3+1+9+4+5=25; 2+5=7)
3. Step 3: The final single digit is your Life Archetype. (

Accompanied by considerable hormonal changes, the life stages of women are generally divided into infancy, puberty, reproductive age, climacteric period, and elderly years, in addition to pregnancy and delivery that are generally included as the life events unique to women.

The crone goddess represents the archetype of the older woman. Crone, hag, and witch once were positive words for old women. Crone comes from crown, indicating wisdom emanating from the head; hag comes from hagio meaning holy; and witch comes from wit meaning wise.

Crone, noun The Cambridge Dictionary online defines this as ‘an unpleasant or ugly old woman’ or ​’in stories, an old woman with magic powers’. Which basically means the male equivalent would be wizard… infinitely less offensive. Often used alongside ‘revolting old’ or ‘withered’.

In folklore, a crone is an old woman who may be disagreeable, malicious, or sinister in manner, often with magical or supernatural associations that can make her either helpful or obstructing. The Crone is also an archetypal figure, a Wise Woman.

The Crone is the wise woman within, who can consciously generate healing power. She is the part of us that feels empowered to act on intentional desire, in an honoring setting. She is the wise one who intuitively connects with the spiritual nature of sexual energy.

The crone is the wise woman, the one that sees beyond the surface into the depths. She is deeply connected to her spiritual essence and to the wisdom that resides there. The crone has a deep internal beauty that only comes with age, a gentleness and acceptance that comes from knowing and loving herself.

Trimurti, (Sanskrit: “three forms”) in Hinduism, triad of the three gods Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva. The concept was known at least by the time of Kalidasa’s poem Kumarasambhava (“Birth of the War God”; c. 4th–5th century ce).

Brigit, Brigid or Bríg (/ˈbrɪdʒɪd, ˈbriːɪd/, Irish pronunciation: [ˈbʲɾʲijidʲ]; Old Irish, meaning ‘exalted one’) is a goddess of pre-Christian Ireland. She appears in Irish mythology as a member of the Tuatha Dé Danann, the daughter of the Dagda and wife of Bres, with whom she had a son named Ruadán.

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