It would be a journey of self discovery and connecting to the archetypal woman inside of me and inside of every woman. To be able to connect the women of the past, with the women of the present and future, and to really go deep inside myself to find my own primal woman, could help me to discover the common link that binds all women together. To gain insight to what our truth and purpose in nature is upon this earth.

So in preparation of my journey, I decided to do some research on primal women, goddesses from primal cultures, Neolithic women and ancient symbols and more. This information was not as easy, as I thought it would be, to find. However, I was fortunate enough to attend two lectures by Max Dashu; one at Pantheacon in 2007 and another at the Isis Oasis in October of 2007. In addition, a good friend of my suggested a book called “Language of the Goddess” by Marija Gimbutas. The author brings together mythology, symbology and archaeological evidence to support her premises and interpretations; it was exactly what I was looking for. This information along with various images of cave paintings and internet source information was amazing, thought provoking and primal, but not the key to unlocking my grand design and vision.

For several weeks I sketched some ideas, but nothing really clicked, it was as though the bulb in that proverbial light had burned out. I had lost the divine inspiration, and I had become frustrated, and almost abandoned the idea entirely. The lesson here is patience, nothing is ever lost. It merely reveals itself when the time is right.

One night, several weeks later, I had a vivid dream of colorful images flashing through my mind. There was a dancing ballerina from Swan Lake, postcard like images of Mary Magdalene, Mona Lisa, Marilynn Monroe, and other abstract images. Hundreds of images popped through my mind; however, the common thread in all of them was that all the images were covered with an ancient symbolic writing, like that in Marijas book. I could clearly see the artworks that I was going to create, down to every last detail; it was my inner gallery instead of inner temple at work. 

When I awoke, I began to immediately sketch the ideas down on paper, there were so many that I knew I couldn't possibly draw them all before the memories faded. When I was done, I had over twenty sketches of designs, but it would be only seven that I would initially complete.

I have since created three more abstracts of my primal woman series, all containing some hidden visual literacy or subconscious message. I feel that all my art has a visual message within it, which is different for each individual, but somehow I feel it speaks to all primal women on a level that can not be conveyed into words. The art works that I have created so far are only a glimpse of the divine inspiration I have been given, there are many more images I have seen, and they are forthcoming; when the time is right.

About the Author: Sabotia is a member of the Fellowship of Isis, ordained as a Priestess and consecrated as a Hierophant. She has founded STARS Lyceum. Of her work on this wonderful series of art she writes: "As I continue my research, the journey just gets more interesting as I go along. This semester I'm in an independant art study class, just to work on this particular series." She serves the Goddess through her studies, her art and her love of nature and the stars.