Dreams over years map my dance with the Anima. That’s what Carl Jung called the feminine part of a man’s psyche. She teaches him to feel, to accept, to suffer, to see, to love, and to create.
Key truth: the Anima is the bridge to the center of the personality — the Self.
If a man thinks this sounds like nonsense, it only means he hasn’t met his Anima yet. And what happens when a man ignores a woman? Kiss goodbye to wild spark, feast, grace, flow.
Such a man constantly feels an odd sense of lack. Through achievements, experiences, relationships, and material things, he tries to find wholeness — but always fails.
The masculine part of the psyche must reunite with the feminine within. It’s an alchemical wedding. The sacred marriage. The union of the Sun and the Moon.
This is the process of individuation, where the conscious and the unconscious gradually merge, giving birth to a new, complete “I.”
Dreams are the easiest way to witness this fascinating process. You just have to stay open to how the Anima appears — a bear, a sheep, an anaconda, a tigress, a girl, a woman, an old lady, a lover, a wife. Modest or teasing, wise or mad, strict or tender.
If you can accept and love her in all her forms, she will give you what no one else in the world ever could — the thing you have always longed for most.
Yours sincerely,
-Alexander
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