On The Way To Animus-range

Summary

A woman metaphorically navigates her inner turmoil, represented as a labyrinth with Minotaurs, to achieve self-awareness and balance between her masculine and feminine aspects.

Abstract

The narrative describes a woman's journey through her personal "labyrinth," symbolizing her struggle with internal conflicts and emotions. She confronts her "inner Minotaurs," which are metaphors for her challenges and fears. Through introspection and the help of her "self-observer," she begins to understand her thoughts and actions, recognizing the equal importance of her masculine (Animus) and feminine (Anima) attributes. She realizes that embracing both aspects without prejudice is crucial for her personal growth and the dissolution of her illusory labyrinth, leading to a state of awareness and wholeness.

Opinions

The author suggests that self-blame and gender-based self-criticism are unproductive and should be overcome.
There is an emphasis on personal responsibility and the need to move beyond victimhood and external blame.
The text conveys that balance between masculine and feminine energies within an individual is essential for completeness.
The narrative posits that neither masculine nor feminine qualities should be suppressed or idealized, but rather understood and integrated.
The process of self-observation is presented as a powerful tool for achieving self-awareness and personal liberation.
The article implies that awareness is the key to dismantling self-imposed limitations and illusions.

Dealing with her inner Minotaurs within an illusory labyrinth

She stands in the middle of her “labyrinth”, dealing with inner Minotaurs, searching for a way out. All paths look the same, at this moment of emotional loudness and chest-upheaval.

It’s me. I’m the problem. It’s all fault of my female sentimental side! So what? Should I deny it? Are my feelings guilty of making me less tough? Is my gender signaling weakness? Do I have to force my earthly nature to become “male”?

Tired of the purposeless wandering, exhausted from the whining and the irresponsible attitude of “others do things to me", she stops every movement, asking for help from the great liberator called “self-observer”.

She hears her breathing, she eavesdrops on her thoughts and their consequences, she recalls her actions and reactions of the pre-labyrinth incident, sensing in parallel her body’s correspondence to the inferences that emerge.

But she’s not ready to fully surpass the fallacy yet. Feeling her invisible context becoming more and more narrow, seeing the surroundings as tigers ready to eat her antelope-an self-confidence, there is only one direction left to look at; Up.

What am I? Why am I? What to become? How did I come?

The earthly “me” was conceived by the commingling of a man’s and a woman’s substances. Proportionally, my whole existence was synthesized by the combination of male and female powers. Wherever there is “birth”, a unification of masculine and feminine principles has been occurred.

If I destroy any of these two in me, I won’t be whole. If I deify or demonize any of these two in me, I won’t be balanced. And, my purpose is to realize this whole, balanced “me”. No competition. No superiority. No inferiority. Two powerful factors, complementing to each other, each of them contributing its part to the creation of everything that is created.

I don’t have to silence Anima. I just have to listen to Animus without passing its messages through the “prejudiced” filters of my personality. I don’t have to kill my Anima-skills as manifested on earth. I just have to grow my Animus ones.

All Minotaurs became tiny under the lens of clarity. All walls collapsed by the vigorous hands of responsibility. The illusory labyrinth became dust in the wind of awareness.

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Anthi Psomiadou — CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International : Credit must be given to the creator/ Only noncommercial uses of the work are permitted/ No derivatives