This Enchanted Life

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Awaken Your Dark Queen (Active Imagination)

Awaken Your Dark Queen (Active Imagination)

An Active Imagination to reclaim your power, rage, and authority

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Lisa Marie Rankin
Apr 22, 2025
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The Dark Queen isn’t here to destroy you—
She’s here to crown you. 👑

In myths and stories, the heroine must face the Dark Queen to unlock her full power—Feyre with Amarantha, Inanna with Ereshkigal, Persephone with herself.

Most of us have buried the Dark Queen in favor of the Pleasing Princess. We've traded our discernment for diplomacy. Our power for palatability. Our fury for fitting in.

But the cost of avoiding her?
A placid, mediocre life—always pleasing, always accommodating, always wondering what’s missing. (Spoiler alert: What’s missing is you.)

Unspoken resentment. Passive-aggressive behavior. Explosive outbursts at the wrong time, in the wrong place. (Suppressed emotions always find a way out and rarely in the healthiest way.)

If you haven’t already, you can read about the Dark Queen here, or continue on the Active Imagination practice and journal prompts for paid subscribers.


The guided Active Imagination practice and downloadable workbook below invite you to meet your inner Dark Queen as a guardian of boundaries, wisdom, and unapologetic authority. Long live the Queen!

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