The moon and prophecy: a heroine's journey
The moon and prophecy: a heroine's journey
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1986
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Nakano, Shirley
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In my thesis, the moon is symbolic of a journey that occurs in cycles. Its three phases are periodically alternating between fragmentation (crescent) and wholeness (circular fullness). What changes is the form, but not the essence. The moon, as the Great Mother of antiquity, has never turned her back to human needs, although she may appear to disappear from sight. In her wholeness then, the moon has a fourth phase, the "new moon' (dark and black). In her nightly voyage against the heavens, she symbolizes the Archetypal life journey of individuation or wholeness that surfaces anew periodically; reaches fertileness; wanes; and then disappears again.
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Heroines , Moon--mythology , Archetype (psychology)