To: K-list
Recieved: 2001/07/19 05:23
Subject: Re: [K-list] re: seeing our own faults in others then criticizing
From: Serenasbliss

". . . the anima is bipolar and can therefore appear positive one
    moment and negative the next; now young, now old; now mother,
    now maiden; now a good fairy, now a witch; now a saint, now a
    whore." (_CW_ 9i: 356) Jung

Thanks Tracy, for posting the link to the Jung quotes.
The one above caught my eye as I've been pondering
my repressed/disowned High Priestess aspect...

Mystress' comment was, to paraphrase, that images
of crafty powerful women abound in our culture, but that
these women always come to a bad end,
because they don't need
men and they aren't rescued by princes on white horses.

Yes.

I try to see progress; Bond girls are doing much
better these days than they used to, and
I do think there is some improvement. But it is slow; the stereotypes
of our culture get repeated and repeated and repeated
and with each iteration, there is the slowest trace of movement
towards an emergent new thing, a new way of being, a heroic
powerful female.

If you want to watch
movies with heroines, these days you've
got a lot of movies you can go see, even if there are many fair criticisms
to be made of how the heroines are portrayed. Ten years ago, you
had hardly a handful of movies with heroines in mainstream
theatre...

Anyway, to circle back and reference the Jung quote
above, I wonder what the negative aspect of the High Priestess
is, since perhaps that is why I am blocking her?

Personally, I feel fairly
"in touch" with the positive aspects, been running with the wolves
for some time now
(okay, the bunnies, but bunnies are ~wild~!),
I'm an empowered woman and I've got the big charge thing
going now, and when I enter a room, people stop what they are doing
and attend.

I should basically already ~be~ a high priestess at this point; everyone
seems to expect it of me, and it seems like they are surprised
more than anything else when I defer the role.

One thing that flashes to mind is that when I embody the High Priestess
archetype, no matter how carefully I behave, I will be experienced
by some as her negative pole- as fearful, devouring, shaming,
manipulative, and what have you. This leads to witch hunts
(experiences I deeply fear, although I am getting better at
sidestepping/withdrawing/not overwhelming
people and I am having better "luck" as a result).

My own dark side- fearful, devouring, shaming, manipulative?
Okay, been there, done that, trying not to repeat it, have tried
to live better... and maybe in the process of trying to become a
better person, I repressed myself as High Priestess?
Didn't like what I was doing with my power, so hid it from myself?
My partner says it was like hiding a spotlight under a bushel
basket, but still I did my very best; look everybody, no evil witch here.

Hmm. I am grateful for this list.

Serena

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