Emerging Archetypal Themes:
Whale Rider, Aries and the Female Leader.
While the sign of Aries conjures up images of warriors such as the Greek hero Jason with his golden fleece, and virgin huntresses such as the Greek Artemis and The Hunger Games heroine Katniss, it is also the sign of leadership. Aries, which rules the head, gives the gift of strategy and leadership to its children.
Today our world is in need of good leaders, people who will take the part of the people o
Hi Cathy, very sweet description of the upcoming Aries Libra full moon. And I loved that exquisite photo.
Thanks to you I now have, Buber's I-Thou classic in one hand. And I've begun a journal of all the qualities that I've always loved/hated in "the other," and one by one am starting to try them on and integrate them as my own!
Of course I took another peek at the sign on my seventh house cusp in order to be reminded of what I love/hate in others and am now preparing to go through this invento
With the Libra Full Moon falling on the weekend of both Passover and Easter, the spiritual importance of this full Moon is emphasized. All full Moons highlight our relationships, and the Aries/Libra full Moon is the archetypal relationship full Moon since the two signs energize self (Aries) and other (Libra). This first full Moon of the year shows us the emotional issues we face as we relate to each other. Since it is also a super moon – closest to the Earth – it will exert a stronger influen
Since the patriarchy is giving way to a new sense of equality and partnership between men and women, I don’t want to give you the impression that The Hunger Games is only about the new feminine Hera. It is also about the new masculine Hero. Uranus in Aries is waking us all up to a new sense of identity, a new sense that we are all the heroes and heras of our own destiny. And that destiny involves being there for each other, with respect and ingenuity.
I was going to us
“The greatest of emotions is fear, and the greatest fear is fear of the unknown,”(Lovecraft, 2003). So said the horror writer H.P. Lovecraft who knew quite a lot about what frightens mankind. Indeed the fear of the unknown is inflated onto the fear of death,(Nichols,1980). What happens after death is something that is utterly unknown to the psyche of man,(Jung,1958). Metaphysics is something that we all ponder, in particular the topics of the afterlife. On a subjective level, we all have notions
Recently, two incidents of time and place looped around, intersecting in synchronistic repose. But it wasn’t until my neighbor came to my door that I realized it. Ken, my neighbor and unrelenting ball of octogenarian energy, held his head in shame when he had to tell me (by the prodding of his wife) he could no longer make good on our agreement. I watched him shift from foot to foot, eyes down as a twelve year old admitting he broke a window. He said “I can’t mow your lawn anymore. [pause] .
Awakening Body Wisdom through
Dreamdancing & Authentic Movement
May 6 -12, 2012
A Five-Day Retreat for Women & Men
with Tina Stromsted, Ph.D., Jungian analyst & Dance Therapist
assisted by Margareta Neuberger, MA
Green Gulch Zen Center, Mill Valley, California
Dreams carry treasures that enhance the meaning and depth of our life's journeys. Authentic Movement allows access to these rich inner resources on a cellular level, reawakening our natural rhythms, instinctual wisdom, and sense of self. At
EMERGING ARCHETYPAL THEMES:
The Hunger Games
The Female Heroine: Uranus in Aries: The Courage to Be Yourself
By
Cathy Pagano
Aries, considered the first sign of the Zodiac, begins when the Sun comes north of the equator at Spring Equinox. When the Sun resumes its journey here in the north each year, we experience a new beginning, a return of green, growing life. Many religious holidays celebrate this season as a time of new life, of Resurrection and Freedom. The reverse is true of our friends sout
It has been almost a year now since Dae Poep Sa Nim bestowed on us the special energy writing painting, “The Balancing of Nature Energy Buddha”, which was distributed throughout the world. Reflecting on the past year we can see that all the countries where reproductions of the painting were hung, experienced a peaceful year, free of natural calamities. Also, there were the instances of countries experiencing hardships, such as the horrible earthquake in Japan, whose situations began to improve a
Beliefs about who we are, what the world is like, and what we can aspire to in life, arise out of the continual flow of sensations in the body that are not reflections of present experience but of the initial conditions of our lives. Although these sensations seem
‘The Last Wave’: The Archetypal Tidal Wave
Cathy Pagano
"There are times when people need stories more than they need nourishment, because the stories feed something deeper than the needs of the body."
Charles DeLint, The Onion Girl
The World is full of magic and mystery, if we will only believe. Life is arrayed in beauty and possibilities, if we will only see. Our imagination interprets the world for us. It's how we comm
I saw it from a distance: lavender buds shimmering in the misty Seattle rain. My heart felt warm, and light. How eager we are to emerge from the grey! Our longing for Spring is as ancient as humankind.
The Greeks conceived a myth to explain the reunion of soul that comes with new life bursting out of the soil. Persephone, maiden goddess of the Spring, is abducted by Hades, Lord of the Underworld. He carries her down to his dark realm, a prisoner-bride. Her mother, Demeter, goddess of the earth, i
Recently we are experiencing an intensive amount of solar activity on the Sun which is affecting both the Earth and Humans.
Exactly what is a solar flare and how does it affect us?
A solar flare is a magnetic storm on the Sun which appears to be a very bright spot and a gaseous surface eruption such as in the above photograph. Solar flares release huge amounts of high-energy particles and gases that are tremendously hot. They are ejected thousands of miles from the surface of the Sun.
According t
After the door closes, it’s not the darkness, but the quiet that strikes me—that and the fact that I’m totally naked, floating on a bed of Epsom salt in a contraption that looks like what would emerge if my bathtub impregnated my washing machine.
I’d rather be in a slope-side hot tub—that’s my idea of relaxation. Instead, I’m in a windowless, seven-and-a-half by four-foot, fiberglass sensory deprivation tank. As such, I’m part of one of the newest trends in wellness and
Every major stage in our life’s journey can lead us to not only have feelings of wonder and joy, but can also lead to feelings of despair and confusion. We must make decisions that could affect our wellbeing and our mental health. One major change for seniors is the idea of living in a retirement community or living at home. We cliché have this image of elderly people getting shipped away to nursing homes and yet this is not the case. “Approximately 70 percent of the elderly live in a family set
“Thirty-seven years ago, Congress passed the Age Discrimination crimination in Employment Act(ADEA) which makes it illegal for an employer or union to discharge, refuse to hire, or otherwise discriminate on the basis of age.”(Cox, 2011). It is obvious from the passing of this bill that the elderly in the american workforce have faced discrimination and hardships at the hands of their younger counterparts. Why do younger person’s discriminate against the elderly in the workplace and in society at
Jungian Type Question. I have tested over 75 people in both young singles groups and premarital counseling and I have never had a person score EI=0, SN=0, TF=0 and J = 20. How do you counsel a young man with three of four traits = 0. This 23yr old young man seems unable to pick a life path and without trait preferences, I am struggling to provide him the proper encouragement. Carl Jung said this was a primitive personality but I didn’t find a any suggestion on of how would help a person in t
The New Yorker has an interesting essay on Elaine Pagel's new book, "“Revelations: Visions, Prophecy, and Politics in the Book of Revelation” (Viking). I posted the following on Facebook about the New Yorker essay:
I grew up in the New Church, which is based on Swedenborg's symbolic reading of the Book of Revelation. I am interested to learn if Elaine Pagels takes up Swedenborg in her new book...
I'm also interested in the way she reads Revelations as a coded description of the religious politics
“Generally people who are active in a religious faith tend to get through difficult times better,” says Al Siebert, Ph.D., author of The Resiliency Advantage. (Cox 2011) Many psychologists have reached the conclusion that people with high religious convictions and who participated in religious rituals/activities could overcome depression faster than their non-religious counterparts. In Jungian Analytical Psychology, dealing with the divine mystery of religion, is really to deal with the mystery
Hey everyone I wanted to share some of my blog posts from another blog I had to set up while taking a Psychology of Aging course where I attend school. The professor wanted us to post our papers as blog posts so we could have experience blogging and also making it academic in nature. I was the only student in class that had any serious interest in Depth Psychology and Jung in particular, so my professor allowed me to write on the topic of aging from a "Jungian" point of view. I began to doubt if
