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Wheel of Life Masks

Thirteen Archetypes Ceremony

The ceremony in 2017 was based on the book: The Women’s Wheel of Life: Thirteen Archetypes of Woman at Her Fullest Power by Carol Leonard and Elizabeth Gould Davis.

I am pure
I am the essence of myself
I am the Daughter
Response: Come, sister, we need your joy
 
I am ripe
I am the Goddess budding
I am the Maiden
Response: Come, sister, we need your blood
 
I am wild
I explore the edges and extremes
I am the Blood Sister
Response: Come, sister, we need your passion 
 
I am fertile
I am intertwining, a sigh of surrender
I am the Lover
Response: Come, sister, we need your pleasure 

I am the zenith  
I create worlds with my love  
I am the Mother
Response: Come, sister, we need your nurturing

I am faith 
I usher between worlds 
I am the Midwife
Response: Come, sister, we need your help
 
I am independence
I stand proudly in my power
I am the Amazon
Response: Come, sister, we need your strength

I am authority 
I find the balance and resolution within
I am the Matriarch
Response: Come, sister, we need your leadership

I am soulful
I open my heart to the mystery
I am the Priestess
Response: Come, sister, we need your spirit

I am surging transmutation
I am the madwoman
I am the Sorceress 
Response: Come, sister, we need your alchemy 

I am peace 
I am wisdom within and the view from above. 
I am the Crone
Response: Come, sister, we need your stories

I am death
I am the essential, distilled down
I am the Dark Mother
Response: Come, sister, we need your truth

I am the molten core
I am the fiery source and the cauldron itself
I am the Transformer
Response: Come, sister, we need your refuge

Copyright Emily Smith

Based on the book: The Women’s Wheel of Life
by Elizabeth Davis and Carol Leonard