03-09-2016, 10:34 AM
Thanks for your analysis, Ankh! And I agree. In the context of all of the archetypes, it is the Magician who is deciding how to court the maiden, and the "how" leads to polarization.
I have another update on my husband's progress/shift of intentions. So, he's writing this story about abused/traumatized people who are going to a therapy setting, and an event happens that causes them all distress/to panic. He came to me with this weird face on, and was describing about how he's never going to really say what most of these people have gone through, and how he's not going to exploit his characters. He was a little perplexed, saying that usually, he wants to describe every awful thing that happens in the finest detail possible, but suddenly that seemed unpalatable. Usually his writing is very gritty and intense, which has always made it hard for me to read, honestly - though many people loved it and gave him good feedback. I tried to draw the line too that how you treat the self ('court the maiden') is then reflected in how he treats his characters, and subsequently, his reader - he was exploiting the weaknesses of his readers. Most of us are masochists on one level or another so we look for 'safe' outlets to experience this - reading/watching horror are participating in these things at an arm's length.
Anyway. It was just a sincerely fascinating shift to watch this huge, huge aspect of his "identity"/personality/writing style just "fall away". It was definitely a persona/voice - named even, Barkingturtle, his longtime forum alias. I think Barkingturtle was the fruits of his prostituted maiden. And all the while that he's been meditating, doing work in consciousness, crystallizing his heart chakra, etc, he always had this strong affection/attachment to Barkingturtle, and just on random occassions Barkingturtle's head would rear out of nowhere in the midst of his gentle being and would be kind of shocking! Mostly it was in the form of a highly inappropriate joke(I enjoy tawdry humor, but there is a point where you take a joke and it's not funny anymore, and he prides himself on finding that point), but he also used his Facebook page as an outlet for this energy as well.
Anyway. I am curious to see what happens then, next time he directs his creative energy 'outward' towards another. Will Barkingturtle still come out to play sometimes? I don't mind of course, that's who I fell in love with, luckily - his roughest, darkest side. But, I don't think so. I think he's taking this endeavor very seriously, and the Lovers card is where we see the many triangles representing the divergence of the paths getting greater the further you travel them.
I have another update on my husband's progress/shift of intentions. So, he's writing this story about abused/traumatized people who are going to a therapy setting, and an event happens that causes them all distress/to panic. He came to me with this weird face on, and was describing about how he's never going to really say what most of these people have gone through, and how he's not going to exploit his characters. He was a little perplexed, saying that usually, he wants to describe every awful thing that happens in the finest detail possible, but suddenly that seemed unpalatable. Usually his writing is very gritty and intense, which has always made it hard for me to read, honestly - though many people loved it and gave him good feedback. I tried to draw the line too that how you treat the self ('court the maiden') is then reflected in how he treats his characters, and subsequently, his reader - he was exploiting the weaknesses of his readers. Most of us are masochists on one level or another so we look for 'safe' outlets to experience this - reading/watching horror are participating in these things at an arm's length.
Anyway. It was just a sincerely fascinating shift to watch this huge, huge aspect of his "identity"/personality/writing style just "fall away". It was definitely a persona/voice - named even, Barkingturtle, his longtime forum alias. I think Barkingturtle was the fruits of his prostituted maiden. And all the while that he's been meditating, doing work in consciousness, crystallizing his heart chakra, etc, he always had this strong affection/attachment to Barkingturtle, and just on random occassions Barkingturtle's head would rear out of nowhere in the midst of his gentle being and would be kind of shocking! Mostly it was in the form of a highly inappropriate joke(I enjoy tawdry humor, but there is a point where you take a joke and it's not funny anymore, and he prides himself on finding that point), but he also used his Facebook page as an outlet for this energy as well.
Anyway. I am curious to see what happens then, next time he directs his creative energy 'outward' towards another. Will Barkingturtle still come out to play sometimes? I don't mind of course, that's who I fell in love with, luckily - his roughest, darkest side. But, I don't think so. I think he's taking this endeavor very seriously, and the Lovers card is where we see the many triangles representing the divergence of the paths getting greater the further you travel them.
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