So I resolve to grow as I learn to hold space for all of us
offering my lucky-white-girl passion as a door of sorts
a leg up past my privilege that imprisons us both to something more
Someone may ask why bother with this speculation, and my answer is: because it affects women today, and it affects men as well, as they are also trapped in these limited perceptions of what women can be. We need more examples and archetypes of powerful women.
Stripped of the things that damaged them -- jealousy and the rage that ensued -- they were free to be vulnerable once more. Lying there naked, the sincerity underpinning the relationship that had once allowed it to flourish was palpable.
Jung calls the feminine side the anima. It is the archetype of life, he says. The archetype of relationship. It animates and re-enchants life, and makes the world alive.