In every person’s psyche, there is both a masculine and a feminine part.
For some, this may sound strange, unpleasant, or even frightening.
Moreover, there will be no real harmony with the opposite sex in the outer world…
…until a person builds trust between these two polarities inside himself.
Otherwise, he will be haunted by conflicts, disappointments, and resentment.
That is why we see in society a constant struggle for power between the sexes. Their conflict is a desperate and often absurd expression of the thirst for love.
In alchemy, their union was the culmination of the Great Work:
Coniunctio oppositorum (the union of opposites)
Marriage of the Sun and Moon
Chemical Wedding
Hieros Gamos (Sacred Marriage)
Symbolically, Chaos surrounds the Cosmos — the ordered world. At the center of the Cosmos stands a throne, upon which sit the Queen and the King. They bestow stability, blessing, and care upon everything and everyone.
This is the deep center of your personality… in potential.
Of course, it takes tremendous inner work to find the opposite force within yourself, to get to know it, and to accept it as it is.
This is only one perspective, of course. There are others.
If you want to go deeper, listen to the lecture by Jungian psychoanalyst Dr. Robert Moore. By the way, at the end of the lecture, Robert shows how to connect with your own inner King and Queen.
Ask them, and they will remind you that the Source of everything is within you.
Sincerely yours,
-Alexander
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