Archetypes
GENERATING:
The Energy of Envisioning, Creating, Ordering, and Empowering.
The Generating energy is a conduit, a medium, between the ideal (the perfect, the divine,
the sacred, the eternal) and the world (the imperfect, the profane, the material, the
mortal,) that transmits to the individual and humankind what their potential can be, how
it can be done, and the blessing to do it.
Unifying Archetypal Images
• Complete (mature/adult): King-Queen, Mother-Father, Adam-Eve, Woman-Man;
King Arthur; Queen Elizabeth I of England
• Incomplete (immature/child): Divine Child, Little Angel
Shadow Archetypal Images
• Complete (mature/adult):
Aggressive: The Tyrant, The Evil King-Wicked Queen
Passive: Weakling, Insecure, Indecisive "King"; Helpless, Overwhelmed "Queen"
• Incomplete (immature/child):
Aggressive: Highchair Tyrant; Demanding "Princess"; Tantrum Child
Passive: Weakling, Incompetent Prince; Helpless Princess
The Generating energies involve three main powers: Creating, Ordering, and
Empowering. This is the energy of the inspired, creative, caring, charismatic leader. It is
the energy of envisioning. It is the power of Mother-Father, King-Queen, Adam-Eve,
Woman-Man working in a syzygy, a mutual, inseparable union of male and female
power, that creates a world of possibility, safety, abundance, and growth for themselves
and for all.
Examples of Generative Male Behaviors
Creating
• establishing a family line • setting direction and tone • protecting and defending •
guiding growth • bringing security and comfort • offering explanations
Ordering: Organizing
• creating order out of chaos • categorizing • being systematic • providing shape and
form • being organized • applying reason • coordinating • sticking to a plan
Ordering: Authority
• taking a leadership role • commanding • exerting control • representing the
establishment • being in a position of strength • coming in contact with officials •
setting direction
Ordering: Regulating
• establishing law and order • operating from sound principles • applying rules or
guidelines • working within the legal system • setting standards of behavior •
following a regimen
Examples of Generative Female Behaviors
Creating: Mothering
• giving birth • nourishing life • nurturing and caring for others • cherishing the world
• expressing tenderness • working with children
Creating: Welcoming abundance
• enjoying extravagance • receiving lavish reward • luxuriating in plenty • having
more than enough • feeling rich
Ordering: Responding to Nature
• relating to plants and animals • embracing the natural • feeling connected to the
Earth • going outdoors • harmonizing with natural rhythms
Empowering: Experiencing the senses
• giving and receiving pleasure • focusing on the body • appreciating beauty • feeling
vibrantly healthy • being earthy • doing physical activity
King (Mature Male) Energies
(Creating) Generativity, Fertility, Initiates
(Ordering) Boundaries, Unites, Proscribes, Gives Law
(Empowering) Acknowledgment, Naming, Validating, Blessing
Queen (Mature Female) Energies
(Creating) Nurturing, Feeding, Growing, Maintaining, Protecting
(Ordering) Planning, Consolidating, Overseeing, Regulating
(Empowering) Blessing, Encouraging, Motivating, Promoting
Shadow Energies
Tyrant
Weakling
Divine Child
• General Characteristics
o Primal beauty generating love and admiration
o Encourages greatness and ambition
o Playfulness
o Source of authentic being
o Vitality of the child
o Generativity
 Allows us to see the abundance of human potential around us
 Connect to see the possibilities in lifer
 Connect to see the opportunities for freshness
 Connect to see the opportunities for newness
 Keeps us from boredom and being washed-up
o Creativity
 Love and admire the primal creativity
 Born with our own inner genius -- source of man’s music, art,
statecraft, and courage
o Suggestions
 Acknowledge but do not identify with the divine child
 How are we honoring or not honoring the divine child? How are we
blocking him?
 How are we manifesting the shadow child -- tyrant / weakling?
• Shadow Energies
o Highchair Tyrant: works through the shadow king in adulthood
 Self-righteousness
 Arrogance (hubris = overweening pride)
 Grandiosity:
• Center of the universe
• Childishness
• Limitless demands
Others exist to meet all-powerful needs and desires -- nothing
is good enough
• Rejects food and love
• Just wants to be and let all things flow toward him -- does not
want to do
 Inflation / Pathological Narcissism
• Needs to learn he is not the center of the universe and the
universe does not exist to fulfill every need - his limitless needs
and pretensions to godhood -- it will nurture him but not as
god
 Shoots self in foot (self destruction) -- sabotages host success (hubris
followed by nemesis)
 Rather see the host fail than deal with own grandiosity (scorched
earth)
 Demeans and degrades others who are trying to accomplish
something -- even our other selves
 Imagines himself as invulnerable and all-important
 Irresponsibility (even to self meeting mortal needs)
 Icarus flew too close to the sun (me?)
 Perfectionism
• The perfectionist attacks the human host
• The grandiose 2 yr.
• old enslaves the man in perfectionism and drive workaholism
• Expects impossible of himself and berates himself when be
can’t meet those demands (just like those of mother and
father)
• Allows no mistakes
• Causes somatacism -- death is the only escape
o Weakling Prince: Passive-Aggressive
 Many bi-polar reversals depending on the direction of the current
passing through -- tyrant to weakling
 Very little personality
 No enthusiasm for life
 Very little initiative
 Needs to be coddled
 Dictates to those around him by his silent or his whining and
complaining helplessness
 Needs to be carried around on a pillow
 Everything is too much for him
 Rarely joins in other children’s games
 Has few friends
 Doesn’t do well in school
 Frequently hypochondriacal
 Slightest wish is his parents command -- marj/father serves
 Entire family system revolves around his comfort
 Reveals dishonesty of helplessness in:
• Daggerlike verbal assaults on siblings (other archetypes)
• Bitter sarcasm against them
• Patent manipulation of feelings
• Convinces parents (higher self) he is helpless victim of life and
others are picking on him -- parents punish others and excuse
him
 Depressed passivity
•
QUESTING:
The Energy of Inventing, Discovering, Rediscovering, Establishing,
Defending, Challenging, Serving, Actualizing, Action, Conscious Awareness,
Concentration, and Power. It is the energy that allows the individual and humankind to
"Be all it can be." It brings us face to face with our potential which is both within ourselves
and greater than ourselves, allows us to do what is right to achieve it.
Unifying Archetypal Images
• Complete (mature/adult): The Knight Errant; The Warrior-Warrior Princess; the
Apostle / Disciple; The Pilgrim-Searcher; Joan of Arc; Don Quixote; Dr. Martin Luther
King; Ghandi; Search for the Holy Grail
• Incomplete (immature/child): The Hero / Heroine Child
Shadow Archetypal Images
• Complete (mature/adult):
Aggressive: The Sadistic Bully
Passive: The Coward, The Withdrawn One, The Resigned and Defeated One
• Incomplete (immature/child):
Aggressive: The Playground Bully, The "Grandstander"
Passive: The Coward, The "Mousy" Child
The Questing energy is the power of the purposeful mission. It involves two related
goals: to discover or rediscover a lost or diminishing energy; and / or to establish or
employ an energy into the world. The purposeful mission is a result of connecting one's
own fate/dreams with that of something greater than one's self. The quest is in service
of the power of the Queen-King, Sorcerer-Sorceress Guide, or the Lover.
The questing energy uses the powers of focus, dedication, cleverness, perseverance, risk
taking, intelligence, constraint, and inventing to bring the other energies back to the
world or into the world. The questing energy stands for "doing the right thing," serving
a greater good, and following the dreams and aspirations necessary to creating meaning
in one's life and to give meaning to the lives of others. The quest follows and actualizes
what has been envisioned by the other energies. This power enables the Dream Builder /
World Builder / Vision Questor and clears the path for and defends the dream of personal
and cultural self-actualization.
Other Examples of Questing Behaviors
Taking action
• doing what needs to be done • realizing your potential • making what's possible real
• practicing what you preach • carrying out plans • producing magical results •
using your talents
Acting consciously
• knowing what you are doing and why • acknowledging your motivations •
understanding your intentions • examining the known situation
Concentrating
• having singleness of purpose • being totally committed • applying the force of your
will • feeling centered • setting aside distractions • focusing on a goal
Experiencing power
• making a strong impact • having vitality • creating miracles • becoming energized
• feeling vigorous • being creative
Warrior / Warrior Princess
• General
o A clear focus and dedication to mission and the “King”
 Samurai story
o Transpersonal Commitment: Commitment to something “higher” that self.
o Aggressive energy to take life “head on.
o Demonstrates clarity of thought and action in overcoming the
challenges of life.
o Knows his or her limitations
 Realistically assesses his / her capacities and the situation and mission.
o Balances the need for “violence / destruction” with compassion
 General Marshall and the Marshall Plan
• Female Energies
o Harmonizer
o Peacemaker
o Settler
• Shadow Energies
o Sadist: The passionate or passionless practitioner of cruelty. avenger /
tyrant. A passion for the cruel and destructive and a hatred for the "weak."
Nazis, Darth Vader, The Great Santini
o Masochist: The coward, pushover, the wimp, the one who disempowers
himself and gives it to others. Doesn't know when to quit; to learn to cut
loses and takes too much abuse until it explodes into a sadistic outburst.
Hero Child: the world needs a rebirth of the heroic to bring it back from chaos
• General
o No transpersonal commitment, but is committed to him / her self.
o committed to “impressing” self.
o Does not know his or her limitations
o Romantic about his or her vulnerabilities
o Will push the limit until the push causes his or her “death”
• Usefulness
o Noblest approach to life / task?
o Advanced form of boy psychology -- the most advanced
o At best in adolescent development
• Assert masculine force / traits
o Calls upon boys masculine reserves to experience own independence,
competence, budding abilities
o Tries to shine and stand above the crowd (often attacked for this)
• Break with the feminine
o Mobilizes the boys delicate ego structures to break with the Mother and face
life
o Establishes a beachhead against the overwhelming power of unconscious
represented by the feminine (Mother)
• Explore limits
o Encourages him to dream the impossible and fight the unbeatable if he has
enough courage -- and if he is not possessed by the hero grandstander
o Set to “push the envelop” and test himself against the difficult even hostile
forces in the world
o Throws the boy against the limits, the seemingly intractable
o Push us to our limitations (as boys) to enter manhood
• Death and resurrection
o All heroes must “die” and be transformed
o He meets the enemy and it is himself -- encounter with true humility (role of
hero is to bring us to true humility) -- knowing our limitations and getting
the help we need
• Shadow Energies
o Grandstander Bully
 Need to dominate
• Intends to impress others
• Strategies intend to proclaim superiority and right to dominate
 Overinflation
• Claims center stage as birthright
• Walks over others in his insensitivity and arrogance
• Rage accompanies claims against his special status
• Assault with vicious verbal or physical abuse against those who
see through him or threaten his overinflation
• Attacks those who recognize his underlying cowardice and
deep insecurity
 Sense of invulnerability
• Thinks he is invulnerable, has god-like pretenses -- in danger of
creating his own destruction / demise
• Soldier who takes the unnecessary risks -- the hot shot
• Denial of death -- non acceptance of mortality
 Doesn’t know his limitations
• Doesn’t know or acknowledge his limitations
• Inflated sense of own importance and abilities -- not as good as
he thinks he is
• When we do not face our limitations we are inflated and
sooner or later our inflation will be called into account
• The “impossible dream” is for him (he thinks)
• Thinks he can fight the “unbeatable foe” -- set for ironic trouble
 Loner
• Not a team player, but a loner
• Listens to no one, out for himself
 Feminine conflict
• Overly tied to Mother with driving need to overcome Her
• Locked in mortal combat with the feminine striving to conquer
it and assert his masculinity -- doesn’t know what to do with
the princess once he has won her
o Coward
 Reluctance to stand-up for self in physical confrontation
 Runs away from a fight (more manly to walk away excuse) feels
wretched in spite of excuse
 Allows self to be bullied intellectually and emotionally
 Caves-in under forceful pressure -- acquiesce to pressure form others
 Feels invaded, run-over, doormat
 Lacks motivation to achieve anything of importance or significance in
human life
 When he has had enough, the bully violently takes over -- surprising
the enemy
 Not the Author of his or her own life, but allows others to dictate
their actions / reactions
TRANSFORMING:
The Power of Change and Growth; The Path of Transcending
from Ordinariness to Extraordinariness. It is the knowledge and the training that moves
us from Meaninglessness to Meaning IN OUR LIVES and OF OUR LIVES.
Unifying Archetypal Images
• Complete (mature/adult): The Magician; The Sorcerer-Sorceress; The High-PriestessHigh Priest; The Guide; The Muse; Wizards; Shamans, Witch Doctors; Prophets; Merlin;
Obi Wan Kanobe
• Incomplete (immature/child): The Precocious Child; The Sorcerer's Apprentice; The
Gifted / Anointed One (Malcolm in the Middle?)
Shadow Archetypal Images
• Complete (mature/adult):
Aggressive: The Detached Manipulator
Passive: The Denying "Innocent" One
• Incomplete (immature/child):
Aggressive: The Know-It-All Trickster
Passive: The "Dummy"
The Transforming energy is the power of change and growth. It is the power of
ascendancy and transcendence. It is the power that allows us to "go beyond" our
apparent limits and to connect to the old as well as the undiscovered. It allows us to
enter into the fabric of all that is and access the power of that synergy.
The transforming energy accesses deep knowledge of the world and of the nature of
people. It holds the essence of reality and what it means to be human. It is a profound
ability to invent, create, and utilize insights into scientific technology, psychology, and
sociology to have power for change and growth into the world. The transforming energy
allows us to see things others don't, and to make connections others can't make. It is an
access to a heightened power of observation and connection that creates "magic" and
"genius" into the world.
The power of transformation is accessed through many archetypal images but is
essentially represented by the "ritual elder" (the shaman, the magician,) who guides the
processes of transformation, both within us, and around us into the world. Everyday
examples of this energy can be seen the persons of doctors, teachers, technicians,
inventors, and scientists to name a few. It is not so much the pure "science" that these
people can create or access, but the ancient process that underlies the discovery of such
"science" that connects our modern "elders" with shamans or medicine men of "primitive
" cultures, and the wizards and conjurers, witches and warlocks of ancient lore. It is a
process that involves ritual, initiation, trial, test, quest, mentoring (master-apprentice
relationship), guiding, teaching and above all, curiosity. The Ritual Elder opens the
pathway to the connection between the sacred and the profane, the human and the
divine, the body and soul, the worldly and the spiritual. She opens the door to other
worlds.
The transforming energy takes two basic paths: The acquisition and holding of "sacred"
knowledge; and, the ability to use that knowledge as a "technology" for bringing
meaning to the life of the individual and of all others, and to make the energies of
Generation, Questing, and Love actual in the world.
Some Further Examples of the Transforming Energy Demonstrating a Strong
Influence From the Female Energy
Staying nonactive
• withdrawing from involvement • allowing events to proceed without intervention •
being receptive to influence • becoming calm • being passive • waiting patiently
Accessing the unconscious
• using your intuition • seeking guidance from within • trusting your inner voice •
opening to dreams and the imagination • being aware of a larger reality
Seeing the potential
• understanding the possibilities • opening to what could be • seeing your hidden
talents • allowing development • letting what is there flower
Sensing the mystery
• looking beyond the obvious • approaching a closed off area • opening to the
unknown • remembering something important • sensing the secret and hidden •
seeking what is concealed • acknowledging the Shadow
Magician
• General
o Has a special knowledge or how to transform and self-actualize AND the
“technology” - skills and strategies to make it happen for him / her self and
others.
o A Guide: Guides Others to their fullness
o Also a deflator of over-inflated egos
o Teaches others how to access the other energies (King, Warrior, Lover) and
to integrate them into a whole (individuated / integrated) self.
 For Jung, self is not ego.
 Self is more in the Buddhist concept of Emptiness - empty of a
separate self and in our “selves” are all other things.
 Ego is our personal consciousness.
• Shadow Energies
o Detached Manipulator
 Misguides others energy from their fullness and uses their energy in
order to meet the manipulator’s needs.
 Stands back and cynically “pulls the strings".
o ”Denying “Innocent One”
o Obstructs
o Transfers guilt, responsibility
o Changes the focus / subject
Precocious Child: the Sorcerer's Apprentice
General
Has a special knowledge that can help himself, herself, and others to begin the
process of transforming into adulthood, but does not have the mastery of the
“technology” to do it.
the “technology” can be seen as emotional intelligence tied, as well, into the
Warrior energy.
Jerry’s special knowledge in The Chocolate War is the idea that to become
and adult and self-actualized one must “Disturb the Universe.
”
At the end of The Chocolate War (Chapter 38, pg.
187) Jerry arrives at a new special knowledge - “They” don’t want you to
disturb the universe, and if you do, they will kill you.” This new
knowledge provides the key back to the mature Warrior energy, so that
Jerry will be able to be a smarter “Questor” and this time know the enemy
and know how to win.
The source of “so called” child prodigies
Talented in more than one area
Grace
Poise
The sorcerer’s apprentice
At this stage performs as the intern, novice, initiate
Concentration
Mind is quickened
Usually a good student
Introverted and reflective
Achieves cognitive detachment from people around him
Sees hidden connections in people and things
Self-confidence
Eager participation in class discussions
Friends come for help and emotional support
Powerful urge to help others with his talent and knowledge
Also extroverted and eager to reach out and share insights and talents
Origin of curiosity
Origin of adventurous impulses
Eager to learn
Shares what he is learning with others
Wants to know the “why” of everything as well as “what”, “where” and
“how”
Learns to read (at an early age?) to answer his own questions
Adventuring in the world of ideas (actively)
Urges exploration and pioneering of the unknown, strange, mysterious
Wants to know what makes others and self “tick”
Causes us to wonder at the world around and within us
Stimulates intellect, curiosity, and wonder in the adult and moves him to
the magician
Shadow Energies
Know-it-all Trickster
General
We can only admire others if we have a sense of our own worthiness
and a developing sense of security about our own creative energies
The creator of ironies and deflator of egos
Can be carried over into adulthood causing inappropriate infantilism in
thoughts, feelings, behavior
Intimidator
Enjoys intimidating others
Deceives others (and self) as to depth of knowledge and importance
Wants others to feel as intellectual dolts
Likes making people feel ashamed of their own beauty by placing
himself above, and belittling those below
Dominates conversations -- turns discussions into lectures, arguments
or diatribes
Volunteers his knowledge not to help, but to impress others
Verbally abusive of others he regards as inferiors
Depreciates others who don’t know what he knows or who hold
different opinions
Hostile and deprecating of all the real effort, rights and beauty of
others
Defiant conviction of own superiority -- convinced he is the 2nd coming
and does not understand why others don’t see
“I’m too busy, to important to deal with you now” attitude
Shoots off mouth a lot
Smug, cocky grin
Makes many enemies
Manipulator
Expert at creating appearances and “selling” others on it (self too)
Seduces people into believing him then pulls rug out from under them -gets ust to believe, then betrays and mocks
Deflator
Can play the court jester
Good at deflating egos (own and others)
Always looking for a sucker
Plays tricks of a more or less serious nature on self and others
Practical joker adept at making fools of others and self
Spots grandiosity and knows how and when to attack and expose
frailties
Sniffs out hypocrisy (self and others) when appearances are “too good”
Amused by the failings, weaknesses, problems of others only to be given
the ironic ending
Hubris leads to nemesis -- gets us to walk the line so we will fail -hopefully so se can learn
Officer Krupke -- the Vidals vs.
the Buckleys -- the sarcastic know-it-all
Envy and Authority
Seeks the fall of the great man, but does not wish to take-up his mantle
or responsibility
Has an authority problem -- believes all men in power are corrupt and
abusive and sets out to “shoot them down”
Energy comes from envy due to lack of touch with own talent and
abilities
Denies own realistic greatness with envy
Envy blocks creativity
Has no heroes (requires admiration)
Not able to take responsibility for self or actions
Does not want to do anything by himself or honestly earn anything -passive aggressive
Superiority hides inferiority and lack of connection
Rushes to fill the vacuum left by denial of and lack of connection with
the divine child
Activated in us when we are deprecated and attacked by parents or
emotionally abused
Trickster comes when we don’t feel our specialness and will take away
other’s specialness
The Dummy
The dummy is also a trickster-naive (last to learn, for example, about “birds
and bees”)
Lacks personality, vigor, and creativity
Unresponsive and dull (seemingly)
Can’t seem to do the basics - labeled a slow learner
Lacks a sense of humor -- doesn’t get jokes
Physically inept -- poor coordination -- butt of ridicule
Ineptitude masks grandiosity that feels too important and or too vulnerable
to come into the world
CONNECTING:
The primal energies of Passion, Vividness, and Aliveness that
connect body and spirit through sensitivity and sensuality. The power that joins all things,
material and spiritual into wholeness and unity. It is the power of the Lover (Connector)
and the Beloved (Connection) Experiencing Life fully.
Unifying Archetypal Images
• Complete (mature/adult): The Lover / The Beloved; Adam and Eve; Romeo and
JulietPsyche and Eros; Orpheus and Eurydice; Yin / Yang; Alchemy (Earth, Wind, Fire,
Water); Arthur and Guinevere
• Incomplete (immature/child): The Oedipal / Electra Complexes
Shadow Archetypal Images
• Complete (mature/adult):
Aggressive: The Addicted Lover
Passive: The Disconnected Lover
• Incomplete (immature/child):
Aggressive: The Momma's Boy / Daddy's Little Girl
Passive: The Dreamer
The Connecting Energy is the power of the Lover (Connector) and the Beloved
(Connection) becoming one to Experience Life fully. It employs the primal energies of
Passion, Vividness, and Aliveness to guide the individual and humankind to engage their
senses to sensually connect with creation, and their sensitivity to open the gates of
understanding, empathy, and compassion for all living and non-living things.
The Connecting Energy acts as the bond that unites all the energies (Generating,
Questing, Transforming, and Connecting) together into a synergistic powerful force that
draws the individual and humankind into a meaningful union. It brings The Lover to
bear in all energies, thus providing an influence away from the shadow energies and a
light toward connecting to something beyond the self.
In a reciprocal manner, the Connecting Energy needs the power of the Generating,
Transforming, Questing Energies to keep it grounded and attached to the real world and
to prevent the Lover energy from drawing the individual and humankind into a dreamfantasy world of inaction, disconnection to the mortality and perfect imperfection of
being human. They keep the experience of being alive a sensual, passionate, engaged,
human experience.
Some Further Examples of Lover Energy With a Strong Influence From The Female
Energy
Connecting: Relating to others
• establishing bonds • feeling love • forming a union or marriage • acknowledging
kinship • sympathizing with another • getting closer • making a connection • being
intimate
Sensual / Sensitive: Being sexual
• seeking union • experiencing desire • opening to another • responding with
passion • feeling a physical attraction • tapping inner energy
Boundries: Establishing personal beliefs
• questioning received opinions • figuring out where you stand • staying true to
yourself • setting your own philosophy • going by your own standards • making up
your own mind
Boundries: Determining values
• struggling with temptation • choosing between right and wrong • facing an ethical
or moral choice • refusing to let ends justify means • finding out what you care about
Lover: Experiencing Life Fully
General
Other energies (Generative, Questing, and Transforming) are detached and
need the Lover energy for reunification within and throughout each other.
The Lover needs the other archetypes for boundaries, decisiveness, and healthy
reflection so a person doesn't over identify - become narcissistic.
Keeps the masculine energies humane, loving, and related to one another and
to real life situations.
It keeps the Queen-King, Warrior, Magician from being sadistic, exploitive,
cruel, or generally under the influence of the shadow.
Primal Energies:
Vividness
Aliveness
Passion
Primal Hungers
Food
Sex
Reproduction-Eternal Continuation
Well-being
Creative Adaptation to Hardship
Ultimate Sense of Meaning
Connectedness
Agape: Brotherly Love - Love for Humankind
Eros: Bonding and Uniting Urge of all things
Amor: Complete Union of Body and Soul with another
Unification of Body and Spirit / Spirit and Body
Connection of Human to Divine
God and World
The source of spirituality, especially mysticism
Creates a Sense of Meaning - Spirituality
The essence of creativity is the connection and unification with the whole
Open to "Collective Unconscious" of all creation, sentient and non-sentient.
We are but waves on the surface of a vast sea. The Lover Connects us to
what is beneath and around
All Things are Bound to One Another in Mysterious Ways
Everything in life is experienced in its oneness, its unity
Even while experiencing life's pain, one can still experience joy
Experience of the unity and oneness of the experience
We become each individual AND all individuals we love.
Recognizes no boundaries - wishes to live out connectedness
Does not want to stop at socially created boundaries
Tension between sensuality and morality
Tension between love and duty
Appetite For Life Through the Senses
Heightened Consciousness of Life
Aesthetic Consciousness (Life is Beautiful): experiences everything no
matter what it is - all life is art
Holographic Consciousness: not only sees, but feels
Deeply Sensual and Sensitive to the Physical World
Desire to touch and be touched (physically and emotionally)
Related and Connected to the World through his or her sensitivity
Healthy embodiment of being in the world of sensuous pleasure in one's
own body and without shame.
Energy of Sensitivity and Sensuality both Internally and Externally
Connects the Physical to the Infinite and Eternal through the senses
Energizes the Idealist and the Dreamer - one who wishes abundance and
generation
Ever / Always Creating / Energizing new Opportunities and Possibilities
Intuits the ultimate oneness while still in daily mortal life
Archetype of Play and Display (The Mating Ritual)
Passion - the feeling that goes with the intellect, empathy, sensitivity and
sensuality
Delight and joy in all life and the sensory experiences of life
Feelings of relatedness, aliveness, connectedness, enthusiasm, empathy,
compassion, energy and romance for and about our lives, goals, work, and
achievements.
Sensitivity Leads to Compassion and Empathy
Capable of reading people "like a book" - sensitive to hidden motives
Lover is Manifested in:
The Artist: Lover as muse; messy; unconventional; creative unconscious
The Psychic: world of sensations / vibrations; intuitions
A world behind and beneath "daylight"
The underlying unity of all things is present in intuition and premonition
The Connoisseur: perceiver of oneness / wholeness
Thinking with the Heart: feeling without the pressure to perform, look good, or
manipulate
Issues in the Lover Energy
Lover energy is opposed to other masculine energies in many cultures
Overly moralistic and self-righteous strands of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam
persecute the Lover even to the point of misogyny.
The mysticism movement in these religions has brought some change.
The Lover creates the sacramental view of the universe as God in us
Is it not through the woman (Feminine) that God enters us and the world?
Hinduism is not moralistic or ethical in the Western sense, thus the sensual is
part of the religion / cultural mores
Oneness with all things (Brahman)
Oneness with God (Atman)
Respect for the sensual - celebration and joy
God as exotic and sensual
Shadow Energies
Addicted Lover
Does not wish to put any limits on sensual and sexual experience of this vast
world, a world that holds the promise of unending pleasures
Rejection of Boundaries
Does not wish to put any limits on sensual and sexual experience of this vast
world, a world that holds the promise of unending pleasures
There are no boundaries and the Addicted Lover wants no limits or
limitations
Desire to touch what it is forbidden to touch or enter - the "Mother /
Feminine Unconscious."
Lack of respect for boundaries will ultimately result in Addicted Lover's own
downfall.
Lostness
Addictive Personality - lost in the pleasures of the addiction
Lost in the world of the senses, and loses contact with the real world and
connectedness of the sacred and profane
Captured and owned by their obsessions / possessions
Unable to detach from our feelings and get in touch with self
Caught in the agony and ecstasy of our own longings
Eternally restless - always looking for the next yearning, searching for
something
Loving and Leaving - seeker of adventure and excitement instead of
connection and awareness of what is beyond self.
Don Juan Syndrome
Looks for the ultimate "experience" and when faced with the
humanness of others is disillusioned and moves on.
Inner self is not yet solidified and thus looking for self on the outside and in
others
Sees the world in its fragments and not its whole - moves from fragment to
fragment lost in each and never seeing the underlying unity.
Lives FOR the moment, not IN the moment
Prone to idolatry and obsessive worship of parts and no understanding
of the whole.
Trapped in the Feminine Power of the Collective Unconscious - Mother
Issues, struggling to get out
Needs to detach from and contain the chaotic power of the "feminine"
unconscious.
Disconnected Lover
Impotent / Frigid Lover
Out of touch with the Lover in His/Her Fullness
Experience lives in an unfeeling way - Flattened Affect
Lack of enthusiasm, vividness, aliveness
Bored and Listless
Feel hungry but no appetite
Alienation from families, friends, work
Ennui
Chronic Depression
Lack of Connection to self and others even disassociation (3rd person
references)
Isolation
Loss of envisioning and imaging the Lover
Lack of active sensual activity because of being overwhelmed by the
feminine unconscious and becomes passive
Oedipal and Electra Child Energies: Yearning
General
Warm, Related, and Affectionate
Connectedness
Passion, deep sense of wonder and appreciation for connectedness with his
inner depths, others, and all things
Need for connectedness and perfect, infinite love and nurturing
Expresses (through connectedness to mother) the origins of spirituality
Expresses sense of mystic oneness and mutual communion of all things
Deficient in Experience of Nurturing Mature Masculine or Generating the
Mature Feminine
Ties to Mother / Father
Yearns for the Goddess beyond his own mother, beyond the beauty and
feeling of the things of the world
Deep yearning for the infinitely nurturing, infinitely good, infinitely
beautiful Mother (the one beyond his own) -- real mother and other
women can’t meet needs
Yearning for unconditional allowingness and acceptance
Must direct his spiritual yearnings at the Goddess not at mother or women - need to relieve women of our (man’s) need for them to be god-likeness
Shadow Energies
Momma’s Boy: boys too bound to the mother get hurt
Tied to apron strings
Rescue
rescue mother from father -- worse if father is absent or “absent”
strikes down the god (father) for the goddess (mother)
Don Juan
oedipal boy inflated beyond mortal dimensions, cannot be bound to one
woman
never satisfied with mortal woman because he seeks the immortal
goddess -- Don Juan syndrome
chases the beautiful, the poignant, the yearning of union with mother
from one woman to another
Autoerotic
Seeks to experience own masculinity, phallic power, generativity
through the divine phallus that experiences all women or experiences
union with the Mother Goddess in her infinity of female forms -- rather
than affirming as a mortal
Does not want to do what it takes to have real union with mortal
woman and deal with complex feelings involved in an intimate
relationship
Just wants to be -- does not want to take responsibility -- seduction makes
the other responsible through the trickster
The Dreamer
While others play, he or she dreams, separate
Dreams are melancholy but highly idyllic and ethereal
Takes the spiritual impulses to an extreme
Feels isolated and cut-off from human relationships
Relationships with intangible things and the world of imagination within
him
Accomplishes little and appears withdrawn and depressed
Less than honest
Prefers fantasy to real relationships
May “love” objects and things
Money
Car
Voyeur: watches the world but never directly engages it
Demonstrates through passivity his or her pique at failing to achieve
possession of the mother / father -- grandiosity hidden by depression