Showing posts with label Archetypes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Archetypes. Show all posts

Thursday, August 22, 2013

Astrological-Social Archetypes: Role Models of society

Like the Caped Crusader, there are a variety of archetypes (social role models) found within literature--and psychological astrology. Carl Jung used the concept of archetypes to identify these role models through mythology as examples of the life patterns that the zodiac signs personify.  Note that there are male and female archetypes.  To me, Batman is a Scorpio type of role model: fighting the Underworld figures by using the dark of night and a cave as his hide-out/power.

FEMALE ARCHETYPES

* Seductive Muse (Aphrodite): Scarlett O'Hara and Emma Bovary
* Femme Fatale (villainous Aphrodite): Cleopatra
Amazon (Artemis): Jo March (and Rose Dawson - Kate Winslet, Titanic)
* Gorgon (villainous Artemis): Nikita
* Father's Daughter (Athena): Queen Elizabeth I
* Backstabber (villainous Athena): Lady Macbeth
* Nurturer (Demeter): Mary Poppins, Meg March (Little Women)
* Over-controlling Mother (villainous Demeter): Nurse in Romeo & Juliet
* Matriarch (Hera): Monica from Friends
 * Scorned Woman/Wife (villainous Hera; Lilith): Mrs. Bennett (of Pride & Prejudice)
* Mystic (Hestia): Phoebe from Friends
Betrayer (villainous Hestia): Blanche DuBois ("A Streetcar named Desire")
* Female Messiah (Isis): Monica from Touched by an Angel, Lady of the Lake in Arthurian Legends
* Destroyer (villainous Isis): Erin Brockovich (movie), Black Widow (Scarlett Johansen
* Maiden (Persephone): Rachel from Friends, Juliet from Romeo and Juliet
* Troubled Teen (Persephone): Ophelia from Hamlet 

MALE ARCHETYPES

# Businessman (Apollo): Mr. Darcy from Pride & Prejudice, Jerry Maguire
# Traitor (villainous Apollo): Loki
# Protector (Ares): Lancelot from Arthurian Legends, Romeo from Romeo & Juliet
Gladiator (villainous Ares): Thor, Atretes from Francine River's Mark of the Lion series
# Recluse (Hades):  Quasimodo, Beast from Beauty & the Beast
Warlock (villainous Hades):  Dr. Jekyll
# Fool (Hermes): Joey from Friends; Austin Powers; Howard, Raj, and Leonard from Big Bang Theory.
# Derelict (villainous Hermes): the Fool in King Lear
# The Woman's Man (Dionysus): Nick Marshall in What Women Want, Will Shakespeare in Shakespeare in Love, Jack Dawson in Titanic
Seducer (villainous Dionysus):  John Willoughby from Sense & Sensibility by Jane Austen
Male Messiah (Osiris): Luke Skywalker, Martin Luther King, Gandhi
# Punisher (villainous Osiris): Malcolm X, Wolverine, Jack Reacher (Tom Cruise), The Equalizer (Denzel Washington)
# Artist (Poseidon):  Jack from Will & Grace, J.D. (Brad Pitt) in Thelma & Louise
# Abuser (villainous Poseidon): Dr. Zhivago
## King (Zeus): Ricky Ricardo (I Love Lucy), King Arthur, Julius Caesar, Tony Soprano Sr. from The Sopranos
Dictator (villainous Zeus): Blackbeard the pirate, King Lear

Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Astrology & Tarot as Archetypes & Role Models

The use of archetypes in astrology also has a similar representation with the Tarot deck. Even ordinary playing cards have their birth information value. The astrology wheel and the Tarot deck combine to make a powerful statement about learning more about the Life Blueprint concept of Psychological Astrology for the Psyche.