Archetypes

Playing out archetypal roles has been hugely helpful. In the ritual of Journey of the Heart, different Shivas would come to my goddess temple: Shiva as sinner, lover, father, lost boy, fool, playmate. I forgave a man by representing all the people he’d ever hurt. I had another cry in my arms. I was accepted by one for all the people I’d ever hurt, and I wrestled playfully with another. As the mother, the child, the lover, the goddess, the fool, the playmate, each meeting explored the role in the collective unconscious of what it means to be a human.