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The Black Madonna

"The Black Madonna is the power we all have to emerge from the darkness transformed. There are over 500 Black Madonnas throughout Europe. Historians believe many of the icons are actually of the Egyptian Goddess Isis holding her son Horus carried over from Egypt during the Crusades. Other icons of the Black Madonna are meant to represent the earth goddesses and are worshipped for the fertility miracles attributed to them.

Jungian psychologist Marion Woodman believes that the Black Madonna represents a new awareness or consciousness toward the earth, and our bodies. She represents the wisdom we can only accrue when we go through the often-painful fires of transformation. Woodman relates that, “only the intensity of the fire can unite body and soul.” (The Pregnant Virgin, p.121) The Black Madonna helps us become conscious of the spirit in matter, of the light in the dark, of the intersection of sexuality and spirituality.

This particular Black Madonna resides in the Benedictine Monastery in Einsiedeln, Switzerland. The Abbey is dedicated to Our Lady of the Hermits because the chapel where she resides was originally the hermitage of Saint Meinrad, a first century hermit.

Einsiedeln is the birthplace of the renowned alchemist Paracelsus. Alchemy is the physical process of transforming base metals into unalloyed gold, which represents a spiritual and metaphysical process of burning away all obstacles to just be the soul.

The Black Madonna is loved for having been through the fires of loss and for emerging with a greater capacity to love. Every afternoon for hundreds of years, the monks of the Abbey come out from meditation to sing Salve Regina to Our Lady of Hermits.


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This listing is for one poster print in your choice of size, printed, on heavy matte stock.

Available sizes:

11X17
18X24
24X36


The posters are securely packaged in a heavy, cardboard tube. Perfect for framing, this poster will serve as an exquisite frontispiece for any sacred space. DIscounts on shipping are available for multiple poster purchases - please inquire before purchase for a reduced shipping cost.

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Illustrations and text from "The Divine Feminine Oracle" by Meggan Watterson,
published by Hay House, Inc. 2018

Art by Lisbeth Cheever-Gessaman,