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If you date the god(dess) within, you won’t obsess about the (wo)men without.
An exploration of archetypes via song, written word, and interpretative dance. . . (I‘m lying about the dance)
Today is Friday, Freyja’s day, based on the Roman calendar and today’s association with Venus, goddess of love.
Needless to say from the title of this article the goddess of love is on my mind.
As befits the archetype of love and fertility these meditations have born some great fruit. All influenced and inspired by the love songs I came across today as I walked with Venus.
In them, I recognized our many projections. The Jungian concept that we are affected by psychological archetypes that entrance and enchant, distorting our perception of others and self. Another way of looking at it is that our neurology is conditioned to expect certain experiences and behaviors. Eventually, we’re so used to it we expect to see rather than reality.
This is how we end up in crazy relationships, suddenly make enemies, marrying the wrong person, or drop off into paranoia and anxiety.
When we work to integrate our wholeness, we take the burden of our psyche off of the world and stand in our own triumph. It’s hard work but it’s…
