DESCENT SERIES I

The energy of these images began coming to me in 1993 after my daughter and son disclosed the abuse they had suffered at the hands of their father. Plunged into severe clinical depression by the despair, guilt and deep pain for what I perceived to have been something I should have prevented I began the journey inward to retrieve the memories that would help me support my children in their healing as well as recover my own lost self.

In 1995, while meditating on a hilltop I felt a presence with me and, upon asking it to identify itself, She said Inanna. Puzzled by this unfamiliar name, I returned to my house and picked up Sylvia Perera's book , Descent to the Goddess, a Way of Initiation for Women, which I had just purchased, sensing that the answer would be in there. Reading the story of Inanna's descent for the first time a deep knowing arose in me that I had known Her for a long time and that  She was appearing to guide me on my own descent to recaim the unwanted and denied parts of myself. That night I received a phone call asking me to join a trip to sacred goddess sights in Turkey including the ruins of the temple of Innana.

The grouse , my central totem whose medicine is the dance of the sacred spiral, accompanies me on my journey.

INITIATION	VISITATION	DESCENT I	RE-MEMBERING	GESTATION	MILLENIUM I