FNL_INSPIRED Vol 2_Spring

REDFeather MIND | BODY | SPIRIT 9 The Soul’s Twins: Emancipate Your Feminine and Masculine Archetypes Size: 6” x 9” | 17 color images 176 pp | Binding: hard cover ISBN: 978-0-7643-6060-2 The Soul’s Twins is a guide to understanding and ac- cepting your soul’s twins. It will help you distinguish which archetypes are essential to your soul’s purpose, which need more attention, and which are content to stay quiet. Examples from mythology and history illus- trate how the archetypes have played out in the lives of others. Suggested exercises help you take steps to change what isn’t working. This knowledge will help you work toward healthier relationships with yourself and others. Here’s a summary of all four archetypal pairs described in The Soul’s Twins :  Mother and Father represent your instinct for nurturance. They seek lawful order and moral virtue.  Queen and Warrior represent your instinct for activity. They seek power and success.  Mediatrix and Sage represent the instinct for reflection. They seek release from delusion.  Beloved and Lover represent the instinct for sex. They seek love and pleasure. As you accept your archetypal twins, embrace their strengths, gentle their shadows, and integrate them into your awareness, a new image for your fifth instinct, the instinct for creativity, gradually emerges at the center of your psyche. This archetype is the Couple, a new name for your spiritual center and your whole, authentic Self. The goal of the Couple is conscious oneness in loving relationships. Evolving into the Couple’s unitive con- sciousness is your reason for living, your magnum opus, your gift to humanity, and your path to individuation and enlightenment. your Father. But in the big picture, it doesn’t matter. Your soul does these things instinctively, to ensure the sur- vival and welfare of you, your family, and the next gen- eration. You need them both. Does it make any sense at all to repress one of your soul’s twins because you associate it with gender? DR. JEAN RAFFA is an author, speaker, and leader of workshops and dream groups. Formerly a television producer and college professor, Jean changed directions in midlife to write about her passions: self-awareness, Jungian psychology, empowering the feminine in all of us, and psychological and spiritual growth. Her previous books on these subjects are The Bridge to Wholeness , Dream Theatres of the Soul , and the Wilbur Award–winning Heal- ing the Sacred Divide. A mother of two and a grandmother of five, she and her economist husband live near Orlando, Florida, and Highlands, North Carolina. Her blog, Matrignosis, can be found at www.jeanraffa.wordpress.com. Her website is www.jeanraffa.com .