Access Your Power and Creativity through Sacred Female Archetypes

Journey through the seven feminine archetypes to rediscover your essential self:

• Discover the seven feminine archetypes that prevail in the modern psyche—Maiden, Mother, Sage, Huntress, Lover, Mystic, and Queen—and how each influences us

• Explore each archetype’s beneficial qualities, its connections to the physical-emotional-mental body, and its shadow aspects

• Engage in step-by-step creative practices, guided visualizations, mind-body rituals, and soulful poetry to help you embody each archetype and activate a life

of fulfillment and happiness

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“Sage Huntress Lover Queen” Book Cover Design + Illustration by Laura Mowbray

Journey through the archetypal wisdom of the divine feminine. Gain a better under

standing of your psyche, reclaim your essential self, and activate the life you desire.

Awaken the wisdom of your feminine soul.

In this new book, Mara Branscome explains the continuing arc of influence these feminine archetypes have throughout the different stages of our life including inviting in the light aspects and integrating the shadow. 

She also shares embodiment techniques to help you shift your consciousness and untangle from the habitual and unconscious patterns that dim your vital spark.

View yourself and the world through the lens of the seven feminine archetypes + discover how each cycle and experience in life are part of the unfolding of your own living ceremony.

 

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1. Homecoming Meditation : A Journey on the Archetypes

2. Journal Prompts + Rituals on the 7 Female Archetypes

3. Poetry to help you connect with the Inner Mystic.

“Among these titles are direct responses to the social injustices and political strife of today, such as Sage, Huntress, Lover, Queen, by yoga and meditation teacher Mara Branscombe.”

— Mention in Publishers Weekly’s 2023 People of the Year: The Defenders

What Others Are Saying…

  • "Capturing the creative, intuitive, and feminine spirit that can and will transform our world, Sage, Huntress, Lover, Queen invites us to the edges of shadow and light to understand key archetypes, prioritize our love and reclaim our feminine leadership."

    Elena Brower, Bestselling Author of “Practice You, Being You”, “Softening Time”, and “Art of Attention”

  • “Sage, Huntress, Lover, Queen - is a beautiful guide that leads to a deeper understanding of self. Through the teachings of powerful archetypes, Mara’s wisdom activates a remembering of who we are and why we are here. This book spoke deeply to the visionary, the healer and the matriarch within my bones and I highly recommend it to anyone who wishes to continue weaving their medicine into the world.”

    Asha Frost - Indigenous Medicine Woman, Best-Selling Author of “You are the Medicine”

  • “There is healing in these pages. As we journey through the archetypes, we reclaim our power and sojourn with all of the parts of ourselves that are ready for healing, rebirth, and renewal.”

    Tracee Stanley Author of “Radiant Rest” and “The Luminous Self”

  • “Thank you, Mara, for giving women a map to explore the power of archetypes to embody the many dimensions of our full spectrum. Each chapter offers juicy practices, prose, and poetry to embrace the fullness of one’s life through the feminine lens while meeting the shadows that arise along the way. An empowerment offering for these soulful times.”

    Shiva Rea, Author of “Tending the Heart Fire - Living in Rhythm with the Pulse of Life”

  • "Mara Branscombe mystically and masterfully weaves rituals, poetry, somatic practices, meditations, and movement throughout the pages of Sage, Huntress, Lover, Queen to inspire deep transformation. This book is an ever-expanding and rich portal for uncovering and revealing what must come forth from one's Soul for their own healing and the healing that is and must continue to take place collectively."

    Michelle C Johnson, Author of “Skill in Action: Radicalizing Your Yoga Practice to Create a Just World”, and “Finding Refuge: Heart Work for Healing Collective Grief”

  • “Mara Branscombe is passionately committed to inspiring each reader to live the most empowered, creative, and authentic life possible. She goes far beyond her own beautiful words of inspiration as she provides an abundance of practical tools (meditation, journaling, rituals and more) for the genuine seeker to use to immerse herself in an active physical/emotional/spiritual exploration of any or all of the seven sacred female archetypes highlighted in Sage, Huntress, Lover, Queen. Branscombe links the weaving of personal accountability and divine feminine wisdom to the urgent necessity of bringing healing to our world in this sincere and encouraging call to awakening.”

    Robin Rose Bennett, Herbalist and Author of “Healing Magic-A Green Witch Guidebook to Conscious Living” and “The Gift of Healing Herbs-Plant Medicines and Home Remedies for a Vibrantly Healthy Life”

  • “Mara’s latest book, Sage, Huntress, Lover, Queen reads almost like a map helping you understand your inner-world, while navigating the outer one. Poetic, insightful, and deeply practical, Mara helps you understand the transitions in life through a compelling and original look at the archetypes. This book provides equal amounts of practical information with a wisdom that seems almost “other-worldly”.

    Ally Bogard, Author of “The Quiet Teachers”

  • “In “Sage, Huntress, Lover, Queen,” Mara Branscombe unfolds rich female archetypes in order to help women reconnect with and harmonize the very attributes that empower an awakened and authentic life. Through the journeywork and envisioning we discover, in the truest sense, the wisdom of the female psyche. It is both mystic and medicine, fertile ground for discovering your soul’s calling.”

    Dr. Michele Kambolis, Author of “When Women Rise”

  • "In this book, Mara beautifully interweaves stories of feminine archetypes and provides invaluable guided meditations, journaling prompts, ceremonies to heal and awaken the soul.”

    Erika Buenaflor, M.A., J.D., Author of “Cleansing Rites of Curanderismo” and “Veneration Rites of Curanderismo"

  • "Mara's words are true homecoming for the feminine. To read it is to remember. This book invites us to reclaim our power and restore what we have lost and forgotten. A deep and satiating read."

    Ally Maz, Author of “Girlvana”

Amazon Hot New Releases : Sage, Huntress, Lover, Queen
(ranked #1 in Feminist Spirituality, and
#5 in Mind, Body & Spirit Self Help on launch week)

Podcast Interview : Mara featured in “Finding Refuge” hosted by Bestselling Author Michelle Cassandra Johnson

Yoga, meditation, mysticism, and ritual have been at the heart of Mara’s journey. Her trainings in the Incan Shaman lineage, Yogic studies, Pagan tradition, and Buddhist wisdom teachings have greatly inspired her life’s work of earth-based, ceremonial, intentional, and heart-centered living and loving.

In this special episode, we discuss:

  • Nature

  • Honoring the darkness

  • Grief

  • Writing

  • Embodiment

  • Turning towards shadow

  • Witnessing

  • Support teams

  • Dreamwork

  • The Sage

Review on Facing North by Sara R. Diamond

“This book is a useful workbook for women (and men) who want to dive deep into sacred feminine archetypes. “The archetypes,” Branscombe writes, “provide an open canvas that you can use to awaken intuition and understand how your mind works.”

… I flipped first to the chapter “Sage Spirit” and found insightful material. Branscombe presents this archetype as not just about noble wisdom that might effortlessly arrive with age. She writes that “to connect with the inner Sage requires a deep listening within, along with conscious, present-moment awareness. We must be willing to understand how the inner critic may be ruling our lives.” This is the shadow side of the Sage archetype. If the Sage is worried about what others think, she “remains disconnected from her truth.” The Sage flows with change but not if she’s “caught in over-doing, over-judging, and under-acknowledging personal efforts.”

What to do about it? Branscombe offers a good practice: each morning, attend to your “personal frequency” and how it’s feeling in your body. Of course, this advice can be given with any of the archetypes. Branscombe’s point with this one is that “your inner Sage holds a frequency that his higher than the inner critic and steadier than the frantic multi-tasking martyr.” Wisdom comes with a practice of naming your “emotional debris.” It’s one of the journal prompts to reveal the Sage’s shadow: “What emotional debris is currently draining your energy?” …

11:11 Talk Radio with Simran : Sacred Feminine Archetypes
with Mara Branscombe

“Journey through the archetypal wisdom of the divine feminine to reclaim your authentic self and to follow your soul’s longing. Embodiment teacher Mara Branscombe takes an intriguing look at the seven feminine archetypes that prevail in the modern psyche—Maiden, Mother, Sage, Huntress, Lover, Mystic, and Queen—and traces their continuing influence throughout different stages of our life, sometimes dormant, sometimes prominent. As she explores each archetype’s beneficial qualities, its connections to the physical-emotional-mental body, and its shadow aspects, Mara highlights the positive impact these models can have if we embrace them and live them consciously.”

Rebel Spirit Radio: Sage Huntress Lover Queen
with Mara Branscombe

In this episode, author Mara Branscombe returns to the podcast to discuss her latest book, Sage, Huntress, Lover, Queen. Mara discusses several archetypes of the divine feminine, the importance of working with the shadow, the necessity of meeting our fire, how love is artistry in motion, and finding solace in the universal web.

Om Times: Mystic, Mother, Maiden: Archetypal Keys to Creative Power

Embark on a transformational journey merging voice, creativity, and soulful wisdom. Tune in to an enlightening episode of the Voice Rising Show, hosted by voice visionary Kara Johnstad.

Join us as we feature Mara Branscombe, embodiment teacher and author of the groundbreaking book “Sage, Huntress, Lover, Queen: Access Your Power and Creativity through Sacred Female Archetypes.”

Dive into an exploration of seven potent feminine archetypes—Maiden, Mother, Sage, Huntress, Lover, Mystic, and Queen. Mara will guide you through the depth of each archetype, unveiling their illuminating qualities, deep connections to your mind-body-soul, and their hidden shadows. Unleash your potential for fulfillment and joy as Mara shares creative practices, guided visualizations, mind-body rituals, and soulful poetry. This transformative experience will help you embrace and embody these archetypes, unveiling a world of self-discovery and empowerment.

Sacred Feminine Archetypes: An Interview with Global Heart

An Interview with Mara Branscombe about her new book: “Sage, Huntress, Lover, Queen” by Esther Haasnoot

Esther Haasnoot: Your wonderful book takes us on a creative adventure through the lens of seven female archetypes—Maiden, Mother, Sage, Huntress, Mystic, Lover, and Queen. What are archetypes, and why do they matter?

Mara Branscombe: Archetypes hold universal patterns, symbols, and themes found inside all of humanity. Foundational in aspects of Jungian psychology and woven into the tapestry of the collective unconscious – we can discover guiding principles and powers that move us, shape us, and inspire us to evolve.

When recognized and embodied, mythic, and universal archetypes can bring forward a thematic framework – or a mindset that allows us to understand why we are living out certain hardships in life. We are not just one archetype, yet we can be influenced and motivated by all the different archetypes over our life’s journey. By understanding and befriending the shadow qualities inside the archetypes, we enable the fullest, wisest, and most loving version of who we are today.

Archetypal knowledge allows us to honour, let go, and re-route a particular dysfunction or evolution within an archetype to generate deep transformation within.

“Sage, Huntress, Lover, Queen” in Publishers Weekly

“Yoga and meditation teacher Mara Branscombe’s Sage, Huntress, Lover, Queen: Access Your Power and Creativity through Sacred Female Archetypes (Findhorn, July) focuses on those four archetypes and three more—maiden, mother, and mystic—in creative practices, poems, guided visualizations, and other mind-body rituals in an effort to help readers reveal their “vital spark,” according to the publisher.”

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Coverage in Just Breath Magazine :
Activate Intuition & Mind-Body Healing through Sacred Female Archetypes
by Mara Branscombe

“Over the years, through meditation, breathwork, yoga, rituals and mind-body coaching techniques – I have had the honour of empowering women to heal from past trauma’s, transform unhealthy habits, and ultimately liberate minds from limiting core beliefs. Through this healing process, I discovered sacred female archetypes rooted deep in the feminine spirit that presented both the shadow and the light within.”


Coverage in Spirituality & Health :
5 Daily Rituals to Honor Your Inner Elder 
by Mara Branscombe

“Do you believe the story that aging will be challenging, filled with loss and disappointment? If so, it may be time to change your story.

What if you reframed your mindset around aging to authentically speak, feel, think, and visualize the years to come as the best years of your life? What if you truly integrated the mindset that no time is lost, and that your relationship to your future self is overflowing with emotional freedom, deep love for your body, a clear mind, and a deepening of gratitude and spiritual integration?

What if you no longer bought into the consumerist culture of anti-aging everything, but rather tended to your true needs while evolving your intuitive, spirited, and joyful relationship with yourself and others?

Instead of trying to fix, hide, or erase our aging journey, what if we shifted our perspective and held our maturation adventure as a time to gather the wisdom tools and resources required to evolve into the best version of who we are becoming?”


Coverage in Spirituality & Health :
Bless Me !
excerpt from Mara Branscombe
“Sage, Huntress, Lover, Queen”

Place one hand on your heart and one hand on your lower abdomen. Focus on soft, fluid, and nourishing breaths. When you feel calm, read this blessing at least three times to yourself. Author Mara Branscombe suggests you return to this blessing as needed—or write your own blessing as if your inner elder is writing it for you and to you.

“I am the Sage within. I trust that my current process is the teaching I am meant to receive at this time.
I honor my body as my timeless temple.”

Adapted from the new book Sage, Huntress, Lover, Queen by Mara Branscombe, published by Inner Traditions.


Coverage in Wanderlust:
Are you a Mystic? Explore the Realm of the Mystic Archetype
excerpt from Mara Branscombe
“Sage, Huntress, Lover, Queen”

To show up as the best version of self is to consistently return to the Mystic’s code of presence and truth, which naturally enlivens the essence of wonder in every step on the journey.

Mara Branscombe

Author, Ceremonialist, Spiritual Coach, Yoga Teacher, and Meditation Guide

Amplifying Wellness + Creativity - Supporting Others to Live Their Best Life

Mara Branscombe is a mother, writer, yogi, artist, teacher, mindfulness leader, ceremonialist and spiritual coach. She is passionate about weaving the art of mindfulness, self-care, creativity, mind–body practices, and earth-based rituals into her life and work, and she has been leading community and ceremony since 2000. In summer of 2022 Mara released Ritual as Remedy : Embodied Practices for Soul Care via Inner Traditions. Her second book : Sage Huntress Lover Queen will be released in the summer of 2023, also by Findhorn Press.

Click here to view Mara’s author page on Inner Traditions.