Kathleen McGowan – Exploring the Legends of the Divine Feminine
OM Times: Tell us more about your most recent project, the Legends of the Divine Feminine.
For the last two decades that I have been investigating the stories of women in history who have been maligned, misunderstood and in some cases forgotten almost entirely, I have been blessed to explore many countries around the world. Along this amazing journey I have uncovered more stories of exceptional women – and the rich cultures from whence they came – than I will ever be able to tell in full length novel form. But there are elements of these stories which inspire me regularly and continue to be a huge part of my own spiritual and cultural awakenings, and as such I am eager to share them.
I have kept an ever-growing list for years of the women – some real, some mythical and archetypal – who have inspired me. Some of these women can only be the singular, starring subjects of their own lengthy books and require years of research for just one complex character. Anne Boleyn, for example, features in both my forthcoming full length novel, “The Boleyn Heresy” (eta December 2012) as well as a non-fiction project called “Avenging Anne Boleyn” (eta 2013). Similar projects for superstars Marie Antoinette and Joan of Arc await my attention in the future as they will also require years of time and devotion to do justice to the re-telling of their epic, if mostly misunderstood, lives.
But in the shadow of these Diana Ross characters from history are the ever-constant Supremes, the other women and stories who deserve to be celebrated for their own importance in the grand concert of the human experience. And so it was in searching for a project to tell more stories, more readily, combined with the quickness and versatility of the new e-book formats, that I developed this idea of a series to celebrate these lesser known but supremely (ahem) important women.
