Archetypes
The King Archetype
In a recent post on sacred masculinity, I talked about archetypes. What is an archetype? From Dictionary.com the original pattern or model from which all things of the same kind are copied or on which they are based; a model or first form; prototype.
The Magician Archetype
Magic is the art of changing consciousness in accordance with will - Dion Fortune (This is third installment of a series on masculine archetypes. Links to the Warrior and King are found at the end.) Growing up in America I remember hearing more than a few times, alchemy was about turning lead into gold. This was always delivered with condescension, those …
The Lover Archetype
…A rosy sanctuary will I dress With the wreath’d trellis of a working brain, With buds, and bells, and stars without a name, With all the gardener Fancy e’er could feign, Who breeding flowers, will never breed the same: And there shall be for thee all soft delight
The Warrior Archetype
[post too long for email] Probably no archetype is more misunderstood, and so held in shadow than the warrior archetype. For this article I am leaning less on Robert Moore and Douglas Gillette, King, Warrior, Magician, Lover, and more on Miyamoto Musashi, A Book of Five Rings. To the Japanese, Mu…
Sacred Masculine
When I was a young man I was very confused about manhood. I never went through any sort of explicit initiation into manhood, as is common in indigenous cultures typically around the age of 13. Growing up in America, coming of age in the 80’s and 90’s, the media message was something like, a man is stron…