Thirteen Faces of the Divine Feminine: An October Journey
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Title: Reclaiming the Forbidden Feminine
Read time 5-10 minutes.
What if the faces called “monsters” or “villains” were actually the guardians of your own sovereignty?
October has always carried an energetic charge for me. It is the month I was born, the month when the veils thin, when the world turns inward. It is also Breast Cancer Awareness Month, a reminder of the body, its fragility, its resilience, and the stories women carry in flesh and bone.
Libra season crowns October with its call for balance, harmony, and justice. Yet beneath the scales, another truth rises: balance is not always soft. Sometimes balance demands rage, boundaries, and the courage to reclaim what has been stolen.
For centuries, women’s power, our voices, bodies, and wisdom, have been silenced, distorted, and punished. Myths were rewritten to turn goddesses into monsters, priestesses into villains, and wisdom into heresy. Yet beneath those distortions, the original faces of the Divine Feminine still burn bright. They wait for us at the crossroads, whispering: remember, reclaim, rise.
All these archetypes share a similar thread: a rise to power, a slander of their image, and a damnation that strips them of their true essence. Succubus. Harlot. Witch. These words became weapons, used to erase and control. The “witch” became a catch-all accusation that justified horrendous crimes against women—healers, mothers, daughters, sisters, wives, lovers accused of practicing witchcraft.
This month, I have created a series as an invocation. An act of remembrance as a journey to meet these figures not as villains, but as the guardians, teachers, and mirrors they have always been. I will walk through thirteen faces of the Divine Feminine. Some are goddesses, others are archetypes, and a few are mythic figures. Each carries a fragment of the story of suppression, sacred rage, reclamation, and sovereignty.
Countless women have been persecuted and murdered, so why choose thirteen? Because thirteen is the number of the moon. Thirteen cycles each year mark the rhythm of the feminine body. It is the sacred number once feared and shamed.
To honor thirteen in October is to celebrate the cycles of death and rebirth, shadow and light, to remember what was buried and reclaim what was stolen. It is a call to rise, whole, once more.
Over the coming weeks, each post will open a door into one feminine face:
Her origins and backstory.
The wound or distortion she reveals.
The gift and reclamation she carries.
A practice to honor her in your own life.
By the end of this month, you will have walked not just through thirteen stories, but through a living journey: weaving rage into power, shadow into sovereignty, and suppression into wisdom.
An Invitation
I invite you to walk this path with me and meet the Liliths and Persephones, the Medusas and Morganas, the Kalis and Gaiae. Perhaps you will see in them your own reflection, your voice, your rage, your beauty, your wisdom.
This is not just mythology or skewed history. This is reclamation demanding remembrance. This is the Divine Feminine rising again—through us.
✨ On October 13th, I will be opening the online course. Sign up for my newsletter to be the first to access the introductory rate.
🌙 In November, I will be hosting an in-person class. Details can be found on my event page.
Until next time, let your inner compass guide you. 🧭
💫 Tara
© 2025 Tara Palazzolo, True Path Co. All rights reserved. This piece is part of the Traveler’s Codex—designed to support your journey of inner growth and sovereignty. Sharing is welcome with proper credit. No reproduction or redistribution is permitted without written permission.