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Learning the Dance Steps to Life: Recognizing Archetypal Energy Patterns and Learning How Not To Get Your Toes Tromped On ****** Anne Beversdorf [email protected] www.stariel.com “Grokking” Energy Signatures • Using astrological archetypes as a tool • NOT depending on astrological timing but on your own observations. • Learning to identify what pattern you are in: e.g. if you are “upset” does that mean – – – – – – Quick fury? Frantic? Confused? Grieving? Overburdened? Passionately outraged? • Engaging your consciousness to observe your responses to the world around you • Learning the “dance steps” to the energy you’ve engaged What does it feel like? Myth as activator… It would not be too much to say that myth is the secret opening through which the cosmos pours forth its inexhaustible energies into human cultural manifestation. ---Joseph Campbell Myth as activator… It would not be too much to say that myth is the secret opening through which the cosmos pours forth its inexhaustible energies into human cultural manifestation. ---Joseph Campbell Mythology is the story. Archetypes are the patterns. Richard Tarnas tells us: Planets represent the chordal structure: what we dance to. The exact melody will be defined by the individual and collective consciousness at the time. Then there’s Carl Jung…. • Jung’s observations on archetypes… • (Jung’s use of astrology) • Value of identifying archetypal details in dreams… whether or not the dreamer has conscious knowledge of the archetype manifesting • (Jung’s use of astrology’s archetypes) Dreams can detail archetypal content using specific symbolism of cultural deities that are unknown to the dreamer.