Minerva

Minerva

The Community Nurturer

Your Goddess Qualities

Minerva is a champion of community life.  She shows extraordinary caring, concern, and practicality, yet can be warlike when defending her home.

Your Personality at Its Best

As a Minerva, you are a community nurturer and nature lover who handles the challenges of society with expertise and finesse.  You are responsible, intelligent, and capable in all that you do.  You are a born teacher and a “Supermom.”  Your civic-mindedness helps others succeed, and you like to receive recognition for your creative abilities to support community life.  You love arts and crafts and always find creative ways to express your love for others — on the job and in the home.

Early Childhood Conditioning

You probably received little appreciation or praise as a child, and this early conditioning causes you to feel dissatisfied with yourself and your performance.  You tend to judge yourself too harshly, and may be too critical of others as well.  As an adult, you may also have a large family with lots of pets in order to feel your loved returned.

How Your Personality May Undermine Your Health

Your basic need to be justly rewarded creates a subconscious desire to gratify yourself, particularly when you are frustrated.  As a result, you often overindulge — perhaps by eating too much (to feel loved).  Instead of recognizing your need for self-caring, especially for self-love, you likely rationalize your poor self-image. You formed these poor health habits at an early age, and, if left unchanged, they can lead to a number of blood sugar problems, including low energy and poor circulation.

Because you fail to realize your virtues, you sometimes feel unloved and unappreciated for your contributions to family and/or community.  Since you often see yourself as duty-bound and responsible for everyone, you can easily be overly put-upon and used by others, and then feel resentful or guilty about your feelings.  Instead of verbalizing your pain, however, you tend to internalize your emotions, making yourself physically or emotionally ill.

Special Attributes: Wisdom & Self-acceptance

Strengths

  • Innate talent for teaching
  • Natural nurturing qualities
  • Proficient in arts and crafts
  • An ability to rejuvenate self
  • A deep appreciation of nature
  • Competence in job performance
  • Socially oriented and concerned citizen

Weaknesses

  • Inclined to get too involved in others’ affairs
  • Repressed frustration with self and others
  • Prone to feelings of guilt and resentment
  • Need to rationalize overindulgence
  • Tendency to feel overburdened
  • Overly critical of others

Meeting Your Creative Wellness Challenge

Because you tend to make excuses for your low self-esteem, you need to identify your problems and alter your detrimental habits to restore your health.  By improving yourself, and drawing on your natural ability to rejuvenate yourself, you will find the energy you need to be the nurturer that you are.  To make the most of your Minerva personality, you can

  • set goals for yourself
  • join a dance or exercise class
  • go on a diet with a support group
  • set time aside in your busy schedule for daily meditation
  • take classes in a favorite subject and share your knowledge with others
  • participate in community activities, like picnics, craft shows, and festivals to feel emotionally secure and creatively challenged

 

Efforts made to improve yourself will be recognized and complimented as a “community mom” and role model to all.

Minerva’s Affirmation

I acknowledge that I have not understood
how to care for myself as a total being.
Because of this misunderstanding,
I have had difficulties recognizing and loving myself.
Therefore, I now take constructive action
to learn to appreciate myself
so that my innate qualities
to heal and nurture others

may flow from me and to me,
bringing me balance, peace, and happiness.

Minerva’s Colors

 

Balancers

This palette of colors give the longest endurance to the wearer. They should be worn in main outfits, such as suits, dresses, slacks, and blazers.

Saddle Brown
Rust
Gold
Apple Green
Evergreen
Navy Blue
Black

 

Protectors

This palette of colors offers extra protection during periods of environmental or personal stress. They are most effective when worn as outerwear, such as coats, blazers, jackets, jogging suits, and other sportswear.

Pewter Grey
Sienna Brown
Sunshine Yellow
Wheat
Emerald Green
Midnight Blue
Burgundy

 

Securers

This palette of color makes one feel good. They should be worn as blouses, shirt, casual wear, scarves and neckties, but never alone — as their effect changes with mood or activity.

Chinese Red
Pumpkin
Honey
Champagne
Nile Green
Turquoise
Plum

 

Inspirers

This palette lifts one up. They are most effective when worn as ‘date outfits’, underwear, night and lounge wear, as well as for specific creative undertakings and artistic projects.

Melon
Apricot
Oyster
Celery
Mint
Sky Blue
Lavender

 


 

Avoidance Colors

Minerva needs to avoid all pinks (pale rose to hot pink)