Anima Mundi School x Alchemical Toil present:
MALEFICENT
Individuation through the Dark Goddess
In recent years, there has been an uprising in the need to reconnect and reclaim the “dark goddess”. This perhaps now more popular terminology has its roots in the urgent need women feel to reconnect to this ancient power and face of the Feminine, in this time when the [breakdown of] ecological structures of the Earth are crying out for us. Thousands of years of patriarchal power and religion has severed women (and men) from this primordial connection. But before that, thousands of years of archaeological evidence has been found when human beings, and women in particular, lived and breathed this archaic connection to this aspect of the Feminine.
But what does it mean to reconnect and reclaim the “dark goddess” in this day of age? How have our complexes—deeply rooted in patriarchal patterns—shaped the workings of this face of the Feminine in our psyche? And to take it a step further: what does it mean to be called into an individuation journey through the dark goddess? What are the perils and beauties of this path? We will explore the dark goddess through looking, reflecting, interpreting and discussing the movies Maleficent 1 and 2.
Join Alexis Durgee @alchemicaltoil and Faranak Mirjalili @faranak.mirjalili as they explore and journey with one of this modern re-telling of Briar Rose (Sleeping Beauty) that does great justice to the dark goddess and the individuation process of the feminine.
“What does it mean to reconnect and reclaim the “dark goddess” in this day of age? How have our complexes— deeply rooted in patriarchal patterns— shaped the workings of this face of the Feminine in our psyche? And to take it a step further: what does it mean to be called into an individuation journey through the dark goddess?”
We will specifically focus on:
…the individuation of Aurora via the dark goddess Maleficent
…the relationship dynamics of the daughter and the “death-mother”
…the patriarchal mother and her inheritance in the psyche
…the exile and rape of the dark goddess
…the dragon-complex in a woman’s psyche
…the transformation of the Maleficent as the dark goddess into the Phoenix
…and more
Note:
You can (re)watch the movies Maleficent 1 before our workshop on February 5th and Maleficent 2 before February 12th. We won’t be screening the film during the workshop but we will explore various scenes together in our analysis and discussion of the film.
Faranak Mirjalili is a Jungian analyst, founder and teacher at the Anima Mundi School. She works with women around the world to help regenerate the feminine principle through weaving a personal experience of psyche in analysis with group-work in the imaginal realm. Her current work focuses on the importance of group engagement in myth, story and the imagination during the analytical process.
Alexis Durgee is a depth psychotherapist whose work emphasizes the importance of becoming embodied through soul work and meaning-making. She is currently in her dissertation process at Pacifica Graduate Institute focusing on the concept of Soul rape and the oppressed/repressed images of Soul as they present in dreams.
DETAILS
When: Sunday February 5th and February 12th both at 8PM CET / 2PM EST / 11AM PST.
What: The workshop will be between 90 min and 2 hours. Recordings made available the next day.
Fee: 35 EUR for one session // 60 EUR for both sessions.