So often a culture can get caught up in an image for generations.
Medusa is one such image. A hideous woman with snakes coming out of her head.
This image is based on a popular Greek mythology.
Now I want to focus on the place where mythologies and archetypes blend. Taking another step, I want to focus on where archetypes and belief systems blend, and then finally to understand where a generation of false images are sustained to those who accept them.
This can create a vacuum of unconscious followers. I am one of them. It all came to an understanding when I read an article. This article told a story about who Medusa was before she turned men to stone. She was beautiful and Poseidon fell in love with her and they had two children one being the famous Pegasus.
The jealous Goddess Athena turned her into this hideous monster. She wanted Medusa’s man.
I realize this is making a long story short but my focus is on the vacuum of unconscious images, mine being the one I held in my belly. One that my mother held in her belly. As women get older we all hold this in our bellies; this dark painful vacuum or Medusa the “peri to post-menopausal woman, or hag.”
Hidden also in this mythology is the cultural time of a matriarchal society destroyed by the Greek of sword and male God heads.
The time is now, to wake up from the sleeping vacuum and reverse the pain. Medusa throws off her snakes and false image. Woman can work together and not compete.
I know her image now and it is not an ugly Gorgon. Her image is impressionistic it spirals out and up!
She is wide and deep. She is creative and terrestrial.
The Seminary of Praying Mantis Publishing 
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