In this new Age of Aquarius, humanity is endeavoring to transform and evolve. One of the main precepts of this evolution revolves around bringing the divine feminine to the forefront and learning to love oneself, to truly treat oneself as a beloved.

"But what is 'the divine feminine'? What is 'the path of the beloved'? "How have I learned to deny and reject that which is the Sacred within me?"

After her birth mother dies, the author begins a five-year voyage of self-discovery, striving to answer these questions and to create for herself a "loving mother within" as she learns...

"In a place called Far Away and a time called Long Ago, there once lived a woodcutter and his wife, and they were happy but for the fact that they had no child. Across a plain and halfway up a mountain, towered a mighty castle where lived the king and queen of the land, and they too had no child.

"And long before that Long Ago, and far beyond that Far Away, in a place of deepest magic hovering beyond the mists and veils of time itself, there is talk of change."