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A Lesson on Aging
I’m so happy to be back in the mountains. I love the weather, the trees, the birds, the rushing creek, the flowering bushes. The beauty.
I’m so happy to be back in the mountains. I love the weather, the trees, the birds, the rushing creek, the flowering bushes. The beauty.
Hello friends. Yes, I’m very alive and well. And having some fascinating dreams. I hope you are too. For the last few months I’ve been
“The gigantic catastrophes that threaten us today are not elemental happenings of a physical or biological order, but psychic events. To a quite terrifying degree
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Jeanie,
Another insightful and provocative post. Thank you. I would love to read how you might tease out your choice of the portrait of Anne and Gloucester for this one.
Yours,
Sally
Hi Sally,
Thank you. Why did I choose this portrait? Not for the historical reference but for the psychological one. I liked the fact that the Mother/Queen has a strong and positive presence. Her husband, the Old King Ego is dead, so now her son, William (new will?) will be the New King Ego, an advancement over the more rigid and conventional old one. Whether or not this happened historically was not my point; it was the son as a symbol of a positive new potential for greater consciousness which has a more harmonious relationship with the feminine that spoke to me!!
There’s also a religious/spiritual message here: just as Jesus (the son) is closer to human awareness than the distant God King (the father), so the newly reborn ego has greater awareness/consciousness than the old one.
Thanks for asking! Your questions and comments are always equally insightful and provocative!
Love,
Jeanie
Ah Jeanie,
Right On! or I really should say Write On!
Although I don’t believe that historically Anne’s rule did much to break patriarchal/hierarchal cultural patterns in Europe at the time, your symbolic interpretation speaks volumes. I truly enjoy the way your mind and heart work. Thanks again for sharing.
Sally
And thanks for your participation. And I truly enjoy our communications!
Jeanie