The Heroine's Journey vs Hero's Journey - Breaking down the inner quest of the Feminine 

Also check out the Virgin's Promise, which I think is a fantastic alternative to the Hero's Journey. Where the Hero's Journey is about going on an adventure, battling monsters, and ultimately protecting the status quo of the community... Virgin's Promise is about claiming one's power, disrupting the status quo, and ultimately transforming the community for the better.

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It is marvelous how the musical Wicked took the idea to another level with the two witches at first at odds but soon find each other. The song For the good is such a moving song of the love of two women, the duet with Glinda and Elphaba says so much as the dark and light witches are brought together in synergy creating new energy leading to a rebirth. "Like a handprint on my heart, And now whatever way our stories end, I know you have re-written mine By being my friend." The rest of the words in the song bring tears to your eyes and hairs rise on the back of your neck. One must laugh though, that Elphaba left with the straw man, a symbol of the hollowness of much male authority, to finally leave oz (the unconsciousness). In my heart I just hope that Glinda and Elphaba meet again in some way, perhaps before they both pass. Thanks once again. (Shaun)

Hello, im from brazil and actually, im interested in creating a good history. Studing about narrative and archetype, i somewhat step on the "heroine journey", and i had to tell, this is really fascinating. Thanx for you video, you just open my mind to a new topic to study more haha

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This was great.

Well done! Top job explaining the hero's journey versus the heroine's journey. I look forward to hearing more from you.

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Thanks for the explanation. It was really interesting to see this under-discussed archetype.

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This was a fascinating video. I could listen to you analyze movies for hours.

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Literally, just got chills!

Thank you it was a good post.

Really enjoyed this. Thank you. The music was subtle and a nice touch. I look forward to watching more.

Great. I love the Dorothy part and the ruby slippers. Many thanks.

Another nuanced, rich video. Looking forward to the 22nd!

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This was so thought provoking, thank you! This has helped me realize I have a lifelong pattern of abusive relationships and betrayals from women. It’s a reoccurring theme that I must figure out how to heal and integrate.

Commenting to boost the channel, very interesting!

Recently stumbled on your channel and Im absolutely loving this. Cant wait to dive a lot more into what you teach, don't stop!

Hi! This is the first video of yours I see and I love it. Very interested in your work!

I always thought the hero's journey can be applied to both the man or the woman. I don't agree with the differences. Sure, they can be used as a guide to a story. But, from my understanding, If you boil down the hero's (male or female) journey more, like the modern story circle, you pretty much get the same major changes and growth. Not all man's journey is outward and not all women's journey is inward. In great stories the hero (male or female) has both the inward and outer journey.

If Joe Campbell were alive today, he might realize that the journey of the hero is to the Divine Feminine.

The hero and heroines journey also has to do with being outcasted by a large group in the story who completely misunderstands what they are going through by the evils of people in the world’s society. Also the choosing of darkness or light. There is also coming to grips with a much darker aspect of reality representing dreams and death. Nobody wants to talk about that last part as it goes into spooky theory territory.

Hi there! Thank you so much for the content that you create. This is the first video I have stumbled upon of yours, and immediately I had to subscribe. I will definitely be doing a deep dive of your channel and the ideas that you share on there. I am working towards being an illustrator and creating a visual novel of my own that incorporates themes of the hero's journey. What's interesting is that I had no idea of the heroine's journey until I have met you, and it's crazy because the main character of my story deals with becoming whole by journeying into the depths of herself. Once, again, thank you for this video, I find it very helpful and relatable, not only with the art that I create, but also with the journey within myself!

Thank you for your video. I have this budding theory that the Heroine's Journey isn't about reclaiming the feminine so much as reclaiming our truest essence which is what is shut down within both men and women and what "the feminine" goes within to find. I enjoyed listening to your insights and have subscribed. 😃

The Divine guided me to your channel. Thank you for turning me to Marie Louise von Franz - never heard of her, but I've heard of Jung all of my life. Just like you said. Your explanations are so helpful. I've been frustrated with a lot of the prevalent teachings on the hero's journey and even how Joseph Campbell is interpreted. It's no surprise to me that Marie Louise von Franz may have been overshadowed by Carl Jung. Just like how nobody talks about Aleister Crowley’s wife Rose Edith Kelly, even though she was a great mystic and channeler. (Rose Edith Kelly is the one who actually performed the channeling that Crowley transcribed to create the Book of the Law...but why should anyone credit her, right?)

This is very interesting. I have never considered The Hero's Journey to be exclusively for men. Even if it's historically been default...

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not sure yet if I agree with you, I am writing my dissertation on the heroines journey. Maybe Jordan Peterson's approach of the female hero (beauty and the beast) is wrestling with your view here. Nonetheless, you have a thought provoking and high quality video which has really made me think. All the best

Dear Mariana, This and the other video on the Heroine's Journey are some of the clearest quality explanations of this important concept I have heard. John Truby tries to explain the feminine myth in his book on Genres, and he uses this Jungian approach as well. Still, I have doubts that the Archetype Goddess has actually been tapped at all because the powerful Goddess is portrayed as dark according to Jung, Murdock, etc., but never good. What about Glynda the White witch in Oz? The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was written in 1900, and Jung split from Freud around 1913, so Frank Baum likely didn't know Jungian analysis. Maybe his journey for the heroine was different from Jung's, namely it included a positive Goddess. Isn't "Descent" to the Goddess which appears in the violent anti-Goddess epic poetry of Gilgamesh based on the assumption that the Goddess is a horrible monster that needs to be killed, head cut off, etc., and replaced with a male God (just like uppity women and the laws of Assyria and Greece that men could beat their wives in order to control them easier). I'm not totally convinced to accept a male perspective (Jung, Truby) on female archetypes. We may need to keep thinking on this one, but tell me or point me in a direction if I'm missing something. Thanks!

I so love your channel- and the deep dives you take us on. One individual that keeps popping into my conciousness is Jezebel. My mother's church tells tales of Jezebel, and encourages the congration to boo, hiss and catisgate. My hackles are up, and from my own investigations see jezebal as a powerful leader, a strong woman. She defended her pagan indiginous culture and was murdered. I would LOVE to know your perspective.

BUT WHICH VIDEO ABOUT THE ARCHETYPAL FEMININE AM I SUPPOSED TO WATCH? There was no link, I would love that link, please :D

I love it! But I’m confused with something. One of the first steps is a mentor. My question is how does one get a mentor? Do I wait for one? Do I google available mystic mentors? Can a RU-vid channel be one? Can this channel be one??

Could this also work for men too? I don’t wanna follow the hero’s journey if it has a lot of cracks so I’d like to try the heroines journey

You compared them to sort of an extrovert journey and an introvert journey. Does that mean an introverted man could follow a sort of pattern of the heroine's journey? Perhaps not as gendered ofc but yearning for spiritual/familial reconnection and healing etc. I'm just curious

I definitely have a mother complex.

4:45 I'm sorry to say that you've totally misunderstandood the point of the Hero's Journey, which is, in fact, to return to one's community of more use than at the outset. I think that a Heroine's journey that doesn't reach or teach this part of the cycle can only aslo miss the entire point of the journey. Becoming more femanine or masculine is not a goal, especially in a multi gendered world where sexually constricting roles are being abandoned. I'm saddened to come across such a regressive approach to any kind of human journey, that it's apotheosis should be assumed to be gain for oneself, without reference to community is belittling and destructive, and sadly, submits to a capitalist war like narrative of journeying for personal gain.

Is it wrong to call a female character a hero?