ENG: "Illness is the path for perfection". Ill people provoke their own illness. That's the symbolic interpretation of sickness, known as Psychosomatics. In order to understand this theory we need to get through some explanations... First, the human conciousness is dual, and in one side that's is good because we can have discernment over things, but at the same time it makes us incomplete and imperfect. So on this track of thinking, the human being is ill and it is manifeste

ENG: "FOLLOW YOUR BLISS." (Joseph Campbell). The Self wants things through us, and I guess Campbell's quote would be more aligned to the needs of the Self . But if we read this quote trhough the needs of the Ego, it is understood as a need of pleasure all the time, as we know, nothing can give us pleasure and bliss all the time. So everything gets temporary, shallow and superficial. When Eastern cultures became accessible to us, and the huge populatization of it, it became

ENG: After looking closely at the pattern of themes that people bring up for on the readings. I though it would be very valid to explore deeper on the Medusa Archetype, and clarify the numinous aspect of it. For a deeper analysis I invite you to ready by yourself the myths of Athena and Medusa, because I won't tell it here the whole myth of those Goddess, I will stick to my insights on this matter. Welcome to the journey. Enjoy it! I noticed that people who became atractt

ING: "Everything is double, everything has two poles, everything has its opposite. The same and the unequal are the same thing. The extremes touch. All truths are half-truths. All paradoxes can be reconciled." Always when man faces enigmatic questions, about the unknown, like death; his unconscious creates simbolic models (mythic/archetypal models). And almost all of those symbols and motifs that manifests in death dreams are as well present in the journey of the individuati

ENG: In the time when belief systems that offer life meaning seem to have failed us, any archetypal imagery that can provide an organazing system could become a container for the psyche in an uncertain world. (The ancient Gods want to regain their voice) Consciousness isn't only a racional and intelectual process of the soul and spirit, that's mostly why the modern man is sick and devoid of meaning. When we get constellated by a symbol or an archetype, it's a transcedent ca

ENG: "Know thyself", it's imperative not only to explore the highest heavens but also the deepest hells. I see beauty and power in the symbolic description of the Anima as the mediator of your hero in the second part of the hero's journey at the major arcana. Now he must go into an inward journey. Like when Beatrice appear's at the gates of Hell (Inferno) to Vigil in Dante's Alighieri's masterpiece, to guide him in this path of the inner world. But Babalon's energy as the a

ENG: " Atotô Obaluaê ! ” (Which means "Silence to the great King of Earth!". That's the greatings to the orisha Obaluaye at the Yoruba culture and rituals (afro-brazilian). Obaluaye is a very powerful and feared orisha he is the responsable for earth (from everything grows and returns), the fire, the gate guard at the threshold of death/rebirth, he can deliver sickness and pandemic but as well a cure for all humans pains. He's image holds the archetype of the Wounded Healer

PT : "Devemos voltar ao corpo para recrear o espírito e dar assim uma nova realidade a experiência humana". (Jung) Na astrologia a carta da Imperatriz é conectada com Vênus/Afrodite, prazer na beleza do próprio corpo (sempre desnuda e sem vergonha da sua própria natureza); e também, sábia juíza e conselheira. Encorpora satisfação conjugal e fertilidade. Procriação, desejo e satisfação, adornos e cultura, beleza e artes eróticas, tudo isso pertence a ela. O seu sexo é uma ar

PT: Esse artigo é muito clarificador e esclarecedor sobre as origens e influências do mito e culto de Deméter e Perséfone no transcorrer da história. A autora nos ambienta no período histórico desdeos primeiros registros do culto a Deméter e Perséfone em 2000 a.C. Um culto que durou quase 2 mil anos em Elêusis, uma pequena cidade perto de Atenas na Grécia. Nesse período em que a sociedade agrária no mediterrâneo conviviam em assimilação e culto com as "forças criativas do u

PT: Essa jóia de livro da Downing, me faz perceber que o Hades não é necesariamente algo mal... mas sim profundo. Estamos falando do mundo dos sonhos e do simbólico com toda a sua fertilidade através da Sombra (nosso lado obscuro/reprimido/rejeitado). Lidar com a morte e o inferno é um ritual de iniciação necessário para que possamos possuir nosso próprio corpo de maneira genuína. É a própria descrição da fertilidade; do crescimento; da decadência e renascimento do grão. O

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