Friday, August 10, 2012

The Sacred Marriage Within


I've been wrangling with this one for a time as I'm working on whether this for me is more about how I'm wired or how I live due to how I believe. Essentially this is less about my internal structures and more about values. As archetypes the Lord and Lady are guides for behavior (for good or ill depending on your pantheon). For me the Lady is of the verdant fields, fertility and potential which will spring forth at the first opportunity, but you have to give it opportunity. The Lord on the other hand is the Lord of the Hunt, ruler of the wild places and keeper of the wild things. I must admit that I highly value logic and communication. I also value intuition and instinct. I've learned that intuition is not illogical, you may sense something that is not readily apparent but it IS there. It may be on some visceral level and you may not immediately understand where the information is coming from but it is there it is real, and you are using real senses to perceive it. I guess what I'm trying to show is that the more intuitive and feminine ways of sensing things are no less logical that the five senses thing. Also emotion need not be overwhelming nor always controlled. Emotions are for expressing. Like anything else if it's all you do it won't be all that functional. I guess in the end, this aspect of practice is about balance. Masculine traits balanced with Feminine, the ability to engage logic and intuition to solve a problem, this is balance that I strive for.

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