The Male/Female Principles in the Archetypes

[JustLikeYou]

third-density-being, I'd like to hear more about the distinction between "male" and "male/female" (and vice versa) and how this directly relates to the different cycles.

A Ra quotation to keep in mind:

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the Significator of the Mind is both actor and acted upon.

The terms Ra is using here are---as always---crucial. The concepts of "actor" and "acted upon" have, in fact, informed our most fundamental conceptions of what it means to be masculine and feminine as far back as history can remember. There is a youtube video that nicely outlines this point using these very terms, though its intention is to undermine the direct masculine-male and feminine-female correspondences.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PF_WLlMWk6U

It is this line from Ra that has solidified my approach to both the Significators and the Choice as what I call "di-gendered," or hermaphroditic. In the case of the Significator of the Mind, for example, the mind complex is constituted of both the conscious and the unconscious. The constant interaction between these two sides of the mind is necessary in order to produce the intricate narratives in which we all engage through the course of our lives. If we were to remove the unconscious from the act of storytelling, we'd lose the mystery, emotional fluidity, and subtlety that characterizes our most prized examples of storytelling. If, however, we were to remove the conscious from the act, we'd lose the structure and direction so integral to a meaningful work. The former imbalance would tend toward rigid plot-driven story whose intellectuality kills any connection we feel with the characters, while the later imbalance would tend toward meaningless expression that we usually view as nonsense or drivel.

Moreover, when we consider the archetypes as foundational roles that we can all play, there emerge a few roles that seem to come just as easily to males as females. Storytelling is clearly one of those roles, though females tend to emphasize the emotional content while males tend to emphasize the intellectual. Here we have a spectrum of storytelling which, unlike the Mother or Father archetypes, clearly invites the masculine and feminine influences in equal measure.