Snow White - White, Red, Black 

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Snow White - short version
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Liliana's story - still fabulous

The Good Queen

Once upon a time there was a queen who sat at the window and embroidered. The window frame was made of black ebony. Everything was quiet and the snow was falling outside. It had been months since she had last seen her husband. The king was travelling with his entourage. He had promised to be home before Christmas. Today was Christmas, Christmas Eve. Her heart was heavy. She looked at the snowflakes swirling outside the window. Small ones and big ones, near and far and near again. Some fell, others rose again, probably pushed up by the warm air of the window. It was beautiful to watch the white dots and spots and forget everything. The queen felt slightly dizzy, a pleasant dizziness....

Wholeness, White-Red-Black and the birth of a child

But there - ouch! Her hand had sunk down to her work, she had pricked herself on the sewing needle. She pulled her hand away. Blood dripped from her finger into the snow that had accumulated on the ebony window frame.

The queen stared at the red spot in the white snow in the black frame and thought: It was now more than a week since her last bleeding. She clutched her heart and daydreamed to herself: "Maybe he will come today after all...", she thought, "That would be the best Christmas present! Oh, I hope he comes! And then I want to give myself to him. Oh, I want so much to become pregnant. - I want a daughter, a pretty girl, with a soft skin, white as snow, with rosy cheeks and a pretty mouth - yes, red... red like the blood from which she will be born... and with black hair, black as ebony. Her name shall be Liliana. Pure and radiant as a white lily she shall be!"

The modern story - Lilian tells

I am Lilian. I want to tell you my life story here. I will keep it short, because it is not a special story. But I think that many women feel the same way as I did.

Wholeness - White, Red, Black

I want to talk about love. This is important to me because I have learned that the woman is the source of love. That is why she must carefully guard her love.
I tell you here the story of my love, how it died and how it rose again.

The Good Queen

I received little love as a child. My mother died when I was born. This was probably also the reason for my problems in the partnership. It started when Matthias, my husband, was very busy with business and was rarely at home. At that time I was still full of ideals. I dreamed of true love. And I wanted to have a child with Matthias.

The goal: wholeness of the woman (7)

White, red, black for three phases of life

The wholeness of the woman is symbolised by the three colours white, red, black (see Female Wholeness - the Goddess, White / Red / Black). The three colours represent the three phases of her life, as a virgin(white: pure love), as a mother(red: blood, pain and anger) and wise old woman who has regained her pure love and her strength on the path through the underworld(black) (see The Woman's Path).

In the process, the masculine parts of the woman, her inner man(animus), must develop from macho (red) to father (white). Her ego (symbolised in the fairy tale by the witch) must die and her pure love (symbolised by the virgin and the prince) rises again.

Through the union of the masculine parts (prince) with the feminine (virgin), the woman has attained wholeness and thus kingship and self-efficacy in life. She can now reshape her life herself and create good, constructive reality, symbolised by the child (s. The emergence of new reality).

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Snow White and the Stepmother

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Snow White - short version
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