Up: [[Pay Attention MOC]] [[James Hillman]] considered Hestia the ruling deity of psychotherapy and Jungian analysis. He said she represents **soul essence** Jean Shinoda Bolen sees Hestia as the **stillpoint at the centre of the soul**, another term for soul essence. [[Quotes - Stillpoint]] [[Quotes - Silence and Solitude]] I started connecting to Hestia in 2018. ## Hestia’s Qualities - [[Contentment]] - [[Centredness]] - [[Focusing]] - [[Present-Focused and Intentional]] - [[Compassionate Disinterest and Charitable Hospitality]] - [[Calm, Clear, Well-Possessed]] - [[Introverted, Contemplative, Love of Solitude]] #### Fortunately Hestia No Longer Has This Quality Archetypes change over time and there’s an aspect of Hestia that I’m grateful has changed. In ancient, patriarchal Greece, men were the only ones to participate in the communal, political life of the city. So in some areas, like Naukratis and Kos, women were forbidden to tend to the public hearth. But they still tended the home hearth and so Hestia embodied the Greek ideals of motherhood and womanhood, namely to be dutiful, obedient, and inconspicuous. ## History, Myth and Story [[Hestia, Goddess of the Hearth]] [[How the Pythagoreans Understood Hestia]] [[Hestia’s Mythology]] [[Pop Culture References to Hestia]] [[Hestia Symbols]] [[Fire Rituals Related to Hestia]]