The vernal (spring) equinox is associated with images of hope, new beginnings, and rebirth.  As the sun appears progressively earlier in the northern hemisphere and warmer temperatures thaw the earth, our blood and being too awakens to images of renewal. After what can become the weariness of the darker...

Poem # 4: Cedar Cathedral in the Catch the Bride’s Bouquet Series The poem series is titled Catch the Bride’s Bouquet in reference to Leonard Cohen’s song The Gypsy’s Wife (Cohen 2001) . Gypsy’s husband is looking for her and when he sees her surrenders to her. Ah the...

In my book, The World’s Geography of Love, I detail what happens when we surrender our living to the influence of the feminine archetypal energies. Such a surrender balances the overdriven heroic masculine archetype that rules us and our world culture. This blog is the second of a series...

Wisdom is our ability to act with common sense and insight in ways ethical and compassionate. Wisdom facilitates the harmonization of love and power. C. G. Jung wrote: “Wo die Liebe herrscht, da gibt es keinen Machtwillen, und wo die Macht den Vorrang hat, da fehlt die Liebe. Das...

One hot, humid day in August of 1961 I witnessed a spectacular event; well at least spectacular from my six-year-old perspective. For the first time I saw my mother play. She was then thirty-two-years-old, pregnant with her ninth child, and one year from an untimely death. That I did...

As we approach the one-year anniversary of the 2020 resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement, I ponder what the archetype of Truth has to contribute to the social justice dialectic. How does Truth matter to the healing of personal and intergenerational trauma? We know that trauma lives in...

This poem is the third in a series of poem blogs titled Catch the Bride’s Bouquet in reference to Leonard Cohen’s song The Gypsy’s Wife (Cohen 2001). Gypsy’s husband is looking for her and when he sees her surrenders to her.  Ah the silver knives are flashing in the tired old cafe / A ghost...

Introduction This blog tells of two numinous experiences accompanied by mandala images that symbolically inform my individuation. Whenreviewed along the continuum of my life they demonstrate an evolution towards wholeness, from an initiatory experience (Henderson, 1967/2005) to a mature and beneficial relation with the ego-Self axis.[1] The first mandala image was...

Love: Eternally Evolving “Dance me to the end of love” (Cohen, 1984). If we could view the interstitial spaces between the molecules of our human being, we would see the energy of love as the glutinum mundi. Yet, getting a grasp of love as the glutinum mundi is like...

In my book, The World’s Geography of Love, I detail what happens when we surrender our living to the influence of the feminine archetypal energies. Such a surrender balances the overdriven heroic masculine archetype that rules us and our world culture. This blog is the first of a series...