Athena is the goddess of wisdom and crafts. Warrior. Strategist. She is prudent, focused, knows how to properly distribute forces, and not give in to emotions. Its principle is the superiority of will and intellect over instincts. Discipline and patience help a woman with a strong Athena archetype to carry out painstaking work, the result of which she will see only in the distant future. Athena, like Artemis and Hestia, is considered a virgin goddess. Effective goddesses are independent of close relationships and the opinions of society. If you believe the myths, they did not suffer in relationships and chose who they wanted to be with. Athena and Artemis have a special consciousness, focused on the goal. Athena makes plans for the future and sticks to them. Conservative Athena has order at home, in work, in finances. Athena was born from the head of Zeus as an adult woman in armor. That is, even the child Athena is “adult” and reasonable. She understands everything, but lacks childlike spontaneity, the ability to enjoy little things and fool around. Secondly, the armor signifies that Athena is protecting herself from strong emotions. This is an emotionally closed woman who hides the world of feelings behind rationality, even from herself. Athena is the daughter of her father. Unlike Artemis, Athena respects patriarchy, strong and smart men, and the male world. She can become a faithful adviser, an eminence grise, and a strategist in this world. She has good relationships with men. Women's society and friends are not particularly interesting to her. The role of wife and mother is not primary for her. But she can choose a man who will command her respect as her husband. Athena is quite comfortable when a man patronizes her, but her choice may also fall on someone who needs her mental qualities. Then she guides him, and he goes to success. If Athena is satisfied with her personal life, it turns out successfully because she approaches the choice of a partner wisely and understandingly. She is also in no hurry to become a mother; even if she gives birth, she is not particularly interested in messing around with the baby (unlike Demeter), it is more interesting to wait until the age when you can talk with him, go somewhere together, etc. Athena’s weak side is - this is the flip side of her strength: she suppresses her emotions, the childish part, spontaneity, affects, trying to subordinate life to logic. Women with this archetype may feel bad about their body and learn about the disease when the disease is at its peak. Athena’s development path is to listen to emotions, trust intuition and feelings. Develop physicality, be more attentive to sensations in the body. Her strengths will not go away, and the world will only become richer if we open up our defenses a little. Give free rein to your inner child. If such a woman has been focused on one goal, one thing for years, then it is useful to expand the range of interests. If she has a bad or absent relationship with her mother, then moving towards her mother and accepting the feminine in herself also transforms her. According to the book “Goddesses in Every Woman” by Jean Shinoda Bohlen. Who is closer to you, Athena or Artemis?