The Male/Female Principles in the Archetypes

[Monica]

Each archetype can be viewed in relation to the one before or after it, but each also contains both male and female energies, to varying degrees, depending upon what we focus on and identify with. To me, it's more about the snapshot of that particular motion, rather than the male or female energy of the main character depicted. Though the main character is usually what is noticed first, the archetype itself is more than a single character, but is, rather, a dynamic.

16 Lightning Struck Tower shows male energy (active, lightning) striking a male entity (phallic tower) which is in a female (receptive) role (being struck...having something done to it).

I have always thought of this as being the erect male (phallic) being enspirited by the female (light-ing or illuminating the physical structure, rending the chemical illusion).

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