“Once in a while, a book goes to the heart of what it means to be a woman, and connects this to women throughout time and across the world. The Women’s Wheel of Life is such a book, with a permanent place at my bedside. A stellar work!”
“No one gets left out here. All of our collective and individual strengths and differences as women are depicted in their glorious power and beauty. I bless this book!”
The Women’s Wheel of Life
by Elizabeth Davis and Carol Leonard
About the Matriarch
Why Thirteen Archetypes?
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Women who have turned to feminist spirituality for appreciation of women’s ways of knowing have struggled with the confining concept of the triple goddess–Maiden, Mother and Crone. Where does a woman in her forties fit in? Beyond childbearing, but not yet ready to call herself Crone, she is at the height of her personal power. A natural leader, she is the Matriarch!
Thirteen is the sacred number of women’s mysteries — thirteen lunar cycles in a year, and thirteen lunar months in the pre-Christian calendar. Although the stages on the Women’s Wheel are sequential, the thirteenth stage–the Transformer in the center–lets us move back and forth, leaping ahead intuitively to a stage beyond our years or revisiting another for pleasure or consolidation.
Reviews of The Women’s Wheel of Life
“Adds an insightful new formulation to our understanding of the stages of women’s development.”
“A tremendously useful book in defining women’s experience of maturation. This book is a gem!!”
“I love this book. I recognized myself–thirteen times.”
“Elizabeth Davis and Carol Leonard combine the best of midwifery wisdom with the extraordinary depth of their own experience.”
“A long awaited recognition of female diversity and development.”
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The Women’s Wheel of Life by Elizabeth Davis and Carol Leonard
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