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by Nina Gmeiner

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This body of work was inspired by Sophie Bashford’s book You Are a Goddess. In this book you are beautifully guided back to your feminine essence. As I immersed myself in the energy of each goddess, I found myself journeying ever deeper into their wisdom and presence. Each encounter opened a doorway to profound healing, inner transformation, and moments that felt nothing short of miracolous.

Kali

Kali emerges as the fierce embodiment of feminine consciousness - confronting illusions rooted in fear. She symbolizes deep themes such as death and rebirth, transformation, chaos, destruction and loss. Encounters with her often happen through profound, dramatic shifts - emotional upheaval or crises - that reveal hidden truths and catalyize transformation.

She emodies the necessary destruction of old patterns, fearless clarity and the painful yet liberating process of rebirth.

Her energy is intense and demands courage - but within her there lies a nurturing interplay of power and healing.

As Kali stepped into my life, she litterally cut away everything that was not ment to come along with me - so my relationship.

So here I found myself again… alone… completely in the unknown, living on a hill near the forest without any neighbours, three children (at that time 2, 8 and 14) and my aging parents. My fathers condition got worse and worse. My circle of friends already shrunk to not even a handful.

This phase of my life brought up a lot of strong, uncomfortable emotions, that have been burried in the dark for so long and also a deep yearning to really get in touch with my feminine essence, which was suppressed through childhood conditioning and life’s challenges

Mother Mary

As I began this painting, all the anger, fear and even rage that had been bubbling up to the surface softened into grief and sadness.

I found myself mourning the parts of me that I had let go of. I grieved the “wasted years”, when so much of my energy went into family, relationships and daily obligations - trying to hold everything together, while slowly losing myself.

I also grieved the loss of my beloved brother, taken by cancer.

While wresteling with second-guessing my choices in life, I was facing insecurities that had shaped so much of my journey.

Yet, in the midst of all of this, Mother Mary - the archetype of divine maternal grace - gently guided me into healing spaces. Places where I could be seen, heard and loved, without needing to be different. Simply held, to the very core of my being.

Kuan Yin

Kuan Yin is the archetype of compassion and mercy. She heals by dissolving judgement and embracing pain with tenderness. Her presence is like a balm. She reminds us that we don´t have to strive or prove anything to be loved. Instead she leads us to let the gentle waters of compassion wash over us.

And it’s true - through this painting I began to accept myself and my situation more deeply. I found joy again in the things I love: singing, playing the guitar, dancing, of course painting. I also was taking better care of my body again.

With the first three goddesses, I had released much of the denser emotions, with Kuan Yin, I was given a little space to rest and breath.

But little did I know what awaited me with the next paintings I had comitted myself to do, that there still would be so much distortion to clear and that this process would change my life.

With every painting, the relationship grew more profound - like a deep conversation - refining me again and again.

The Avalon Priestesses

The Avalon Priestesses embody intuition, spiritual receptivity and connection with higher guidance. Their energy helps to open the third eye, guiding us to step into a deeper relationship with inner knowing, sacred visions and spiritual alignment.

While working on this painting, I struggled with an art block. It took time to return to the flow, but I kept tuning in, feeling something approaching - intense and almost impossible to define. I was receiving a vision, like a gift wrapped in a red ribbon standing outside my door. I was afraid to open it, not knowing what it would reveal.

During this time, allthough I was living a quiet, almost hermit-like life, something unexpected happened. Out of nowhere, a very significant person appeared in my life - a man who felt profoundly different. From the first time we met, I sensed: This is my Twin Flame.

Immediatly, visions and synchronicities started to flood me and I could literally hear his soul speaking to me.

I know the concept of Twin Flames can sound abstract and there is a lot of confusing content out there you really should use with discernment, but to me it felt very real and nothing else could describe my expierience better than that.

So, I opened “the gift” and I knew that this would take me to my deepest wounds - everything before were just the outer layers of the onion.

Hecate is the archetype of the Dark Moon and the Crossroads. She calls us to surrender to mistery, trust the unknown, and walk courageously through endings into the deep transformative power of the sacred feminine.

What I personally went through during that piece, may only resonate with people who have similar expieriences, cause it is something you cannot understand with your mind.

As some may know how Twin Flame-dynamics can play out, after having that deep soul recognition, feeling that amazing third energy, there’s an energetic wall building up. From that moment, you are being mirrored your deepest wounds from the other person. Not because they want to hurt you, but to show you, what was already inside -unconsciously driving our reality- to be brought to the surface, to be finally seen and felt.

You are being changed on a soullevel and you feel it energetically, emotionally and physically, also releasing a lot of ancestral and past-life trauma.

I also had something almost like a Near Death Expierience, where I thought, this would be my last minutes, until I surrendered and came out of it feeling uplifted, realizing that every part of my life was a preparation for this.

So while I’m still here, there was definitely something dying …a huge part of my distorted ego.

And allthough, this journey continued to be a tough rollercoaster ride, from that moment on, I fully accepted that it is first and foremost for my healing and evolution.Turning to soul, was the only way that was left.

Hecate

Aphrodite

Aphrodite is the archetype of Love, Beauty, Sensuality and Creative Life Force.

The first step in Aphrodites temple can be an uncomfortable one, because she shines a mirror on the places where we’ve abandonned ourselves: the times we judged our bodies, suppressed our desires, or felt unworthy of love. This can bring up shame, heartbreak or insecurity that we thought we had already dealt with.

But rather than forcing change, Aphrodite heals by softening. She invites us to sit with the wound, bathing it in compassion until the pain begins to loosen and we can finally start to open our heart fully -to ourselves, to others, to life.

What simultaniously played out in my life again felt very synchronistic. In my connection to this man, it came to a point, where sacrificing my needs, out of fear of losing him completely was no longer an option. And so for this season, I decided to choose myself. Allthough it was incredibly painful to let go of somebody, you have so much love for..still feeling him energetically.

So i let it wash over me, feeling every part of it without resistance and distraction. With every tear I began to soften and all the stuck energy in my body could start moving, bringing me back to joy and self-love and feeling my own inner feminine and masculine polarities more balanced.

Lilith

She is the archetype of the Wild Feminine - fierce, free and unapologetic. She liberates us from suppression, heals wounds of being silenced, judged or demonized. She calls us to reclaim our exiled power, embrace our shadow and awaken the raw life force energy that has been suppressed for so long.

My personal encounter with Lilith at first was unexpectedly gentle. To me, she felt like “the mother I never had.” Her presence touched something very deep inside of me, and soon it became clear that my relationship with my own mother was at the heart of this chapter.

While painting her, old wounds began to resurface. I thought I had already forgiven the past and accepted the conditions of my childhood. I no longer looked for blame, because we are all shaped by the systems and conditioning we grow up in. Yet still, a part of me longed to be seen and acknowledged.

So as I allready expierienced a very intense heart activation for months, which was building up, pressing against my throat - it felt almost unbearable - Lilith stirred something powerful within me: One day, out of nowhere, a wave of raw rage broke through. As I allowed it to move through, a blockage in my throat finally cracked open, and the energy was released.

The relief was immense. I was amazed how profound and transformative this work with Lilith could be. Through her, I learned to become the mother to the wounded child within myself - to witness her, to embrace her and allow her to be seen.

Mary Magdalene & Yeshua

As I was tuning in to the painting of Mary Magdalene, I was surprised to feel Yeshua’s presence so strongly - as if he had stepped right in to the picture. I always saw them toghether, so lovingly, beautifully and divine. So there was no way of painting her without Jesus.

Connecting to this Christ-Energy, as I’m on my way to Inner Union, brought the most profound healing and states of being, I have ever expierinced.

It put me into a state of Presence, Calmness, Peace and Stability, no matter what was going on around me. Even as challenges in my life continued - especially around my parents’ health - I could feel peace within. I was still feeling all the feelings, maybe even more intense, but nothing could shake me so easily anymore. I began moving through the world with more compassion for others and for myself, no longer so easily caught by the ego’s lies.

I had touched this state before in fleeting moments, but now i could hold it for much longer. It happened not through effort, but through connection - with Christ, with God, with something far greater than myself. In this surrender, I felt closer to love, to truth and to the mistery of divine union.

Since then, I started to form a true connection to god, which is molding me more and more into the person, I was desined to be. Everything that’s not true is just falling off in perfect timing…

Isis

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