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What Masculine/Feminine Archetype Are You?
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“King, Warrior, Magician, Lover – Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine” is a C. G. Jung based interpretation of masculine behavior and personality in the light of social context mythology, poetry and art. This book describes what it takes for a man (and boy) to grow up, what C.G. Jung defined as individuation process. The book presents those four archetypes and asserts that men need to embraces or control their positive and negative elements (shadows). C. G. Jung believed as depth psychologist that evolutionary and cultural roots manifested in archetypes to form our unconscious experience.
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King:
He is decisive.
He is centered.
He lives with integrity.
He protects his realm.
He provides order.
He creates and inspires creativity in others.
He leaves a legacy.
| Warrior:
Aggressive
Mindful
Purpose
Adaptable
Minimalist
Decisive
Skillful
Loyal
Emotionally Detached
| Magician:
Intellectually Curious/The Holder of Hidden Knowledge
A Master of Technology
Spiritual Mediator
Reflective
Reticent
| Lover:
Romanticizes all aspects of life
Dionysus type of beliefs |
If you guys are interested there are some things you can do to move towards a different archetype.
King:
Leave a legacy
Develop practical wisdom
Become a mentor
Find a mentor
Develop the virtue of order
Break away from you mother
Develop traits of true leadership
Establish your core values
Establish your core values
Develop a life plan
protect the sanctity of your ideas
become decisive
Avoid corruption
Live with integrity
| Warrior:
Do something that scares you
Be more decisive
Quit seeking exits
Find your core values
Have a plan and purpose
Strengthen your resilience
Find out who you are loyal to
Establish and live via non-negotiable terms
Compete
Strengthen your discipline via habits and routine
Adopt a minimilist attitude
Take up a physical discipline e.g. martial arts
| Magician:
Commit to life long learning
Meditate
create more, consume less
work with your hands
take part in rites of passage
find a mentor
become a mentor
create a sangha
create a sacred space
| Lover:
Cultivate the virture of moderation
become fully present
find the centre of your bliss
Be spontaneous
work out what your lover needs |
Also I encourage you to find literature on this topic. It's fascinating to take an introspective look at ourselves and ask: who are we, who do we want to become and how do we get there?
I think I'm a Warrior-Magician who strives in becoming a King. Which one(s) do you fit into?
Feminine Archetypes:
the majority of the characteristics that make up the masculine archetypes are shared between both, but the warrior and mother archetypes are yin and yang thus balancing each other.
Queen:
the Queen is the most holistic and temporal (worldly) of the female archetypes
The powerful queen can abuse her power and direct her knowledge and status for negative purposes, clinging to all she has achieved, becoming consumed with acquiring more and more power.
| Mother (Creator):
Just as the Warrior is the most natural complement to the King and embodies a set of virtues that are necessary to defend the Kingdom, the Great Mother is the most natural complement to Queenship – and the King. The explosive, destructive energy of the male Warrior archetype is balanced by the reproductive energy of the female Mother archetype.
| Wise Woman:
a non spiritual mind seeks not to penetrate beneath the surface of things and probe the mysteries of nature, rather, she looks inward into the mysteries of Being.
| Lover:
Self-sacrificing
owns their sexuality
Lover intrudes powerfully into humanity’s collective consciousness and enthusiastic, connects with followers, inspiring them to accomplish the difficult deeds. The intoxication of love opens an alternate reality with its own truths which separates those in the grip of the Lover from mundane concerns. Thus, as is the case with the male Lover, the female Lover gains enormous powers of transcendence, but she, and he, are subjected to “the other” and therefore lack the freedom of the other archetypes. |
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