14: Male and Female Dream Characters Often Describe Inner Conflict
August 16th, 2020 · 56 mins 40 secs
About this Episode
Dreams from this episode:
- Finding dead deer parts while urbexing
- Green dye in the ocean reveals sandy caves and a snake
- Fire and water gods shape people into a crystal wishbone
- A car and bus journey in drag
Themes from this episode:
- The unconscious uses masculine and feminine characters and imagery to communicate with us about different parts of our personality.
- Everyone, regardless of gender, has masculine and feminine aspects of their psyche that they can use at different times when needed.
The unconscious constantly uses the masculine/feminine dichotomy to symbolize opposite forces inside us, because it’s such a well-known pair of opposites that we see in external relationships where people balance and complete each other.
Feminine/yin/lunar characteristics:
- Feeling, sensing
- Appreciating beauty
- Connection and relatedness
- Soul, imagination, interiority
- Slower pace, time for reflection, being (rather than doing)
Masculine/yang/solar characteristics:
- Thinking and organizing, order and reason
- Action and doing
- Analyzing
- Differentiating, classifying, making boundaries
- Competing
- Aggression and power
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