E19: Inanna’s Descent: A Heroine’s Journey of Self-Knowledge, Growth, and Transformation

In this week's episode, we continue working with the Goddess Inanna, focusing on her myth, her story of her descent to the underworld. This story contains many lessons we can learn and use in our self-discovery journey and life today.

Host, Tora Moon, shares a retelling of Inanna’s Descent, one of the first stories written in Western Civilization. This story provides the foundations of the Heroine’s Journey story structure. At it’s heart, this story is one of self-knowledge, transformation, and growth. Inanna guide us, as women, in regaining the Queen’s throne stolen by patriarchy through the principles of the Divine Feminine.

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E18 - Inanna: Goddess of Paradoxes
This month for the Goddess of the Month, we’re connecting with the Mesopotamian Goddess Inanna. She’s also called Ishtar. Inanna is a Goddess of paradoxes which makes her really interesting and fun goddess to connect with.

Inanna guides us in learning to balance duality, loyalty, and empowering ourselves through our bodily autonomy. The story of how she brings the gifts of civilization to humanity is a lesson in the differences between patriarchal leadership and leading from the feminine divine.

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E17 - The Heroine’s Journey: Reflecting Women’s Stories

In this second part of sacred storytelling, we discuss the shift in paradigms and a new way to structure and tell our stories as women. We don’t have to stick to the hero’s journey, which doesn’t reflect our journey as women. In this episode, I’ll share with you the heroine’s journey story structure and how we can use it in writing or telling our stories, and in our life.

The heroine’s journey is a reflection of how women perceive life and our lived experience. You’ll find this structure in many stories written by women for women. These are often discounted by men—like all women’s work. We’ll also explore why the heroine’s journey is better for us to use than the hero’s journey in our healing and spiritual awakening.

Books referenced in this episode:
The Heroine’s Journey: Women's Quest for Wholeness by Maureen Murdock.
From Girl to Goddess: The Heroine’s Journey through Myth and Legend by Valerie Estelle Frankel.
The Heroine's Journey: For Writers, Readers, and Fans of Pop Culture by Gail Carriger.

Additional links:
Modern Mystic Women Writers Facebook Group

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