Between life and death
There is Saturn
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In one song, it is sung:
Baba Yaga, guardian of the borders of the night gates. Baba Yaga, she knows the living and the dead. Baba Yaga, no one knows where the truth lies…
Honestly, I don’t even know if there is an asteroid or something like that in the Universe, but must there be? There needn’t be.
There are many stories and legends about her. It is said she was not created to terrify children, but us adults. Everyone who entered her forest never returned. For many, she truly remains a nightmare from those stories to this day; for others, despite her poor reputation, many midwives and folk witches have “claimed her as their own.” For still others, especially those who found themselves on the threshold between two worlds—the living and the dead—she is a certain guide back to the world of the living. I believe she is there at our first breath, but also at our last exhale. I see Baba Yaga more as an archetype of the skeleton-storyteller. We often talk about the soul, but what about our own skeleton? While exploring “bone-storytellers,” I discovered that although there are quite a few of them, they are rarely spoken of because the soul is considered one of the more important forms. Yet our skeleton (just like the ego) is a part of our soul. I believe that our entire being, every cell in the body, and the skeleton with the soul and the ego, carries over into the next life. However, I also believe that in every life, we become a better version of ourselves. Nonetheless, I will return to the skeleton (yes, that is also why the page is named: the vulture that reveals the skeleton) and to Baba Yaga, who is very specific. Even the stories make me realize more—her story, when one reads about her, thinks, and tries to penetrate it, is not important because yes, Baba Yaga makes herself known by asking us if we even know our own story while we are preoccupied with hers. It makes sense; it also refers to the fact that people stick their noses where they don’t belong instead of cleaning up properly at home. However, it also shows that people are often afraid to go to the core of the skeleton, even though it is just as much a part of our entire being as the soul. When I had a dream about Baba Yaga long ago, she said: “The skeleton and the bones have their own voice and story.” Of course, it didn’t stop at the skeleton. However, it led me further to the question: what story does our skeleton carry? The skeleton carries the entire construction of our body, and not just the body. It carries everything with it. Everything stands upon our skeleton. On our internal construction and spine (yes, that is why I personally value people who still have qualities like honor, loyalty, respect, and reverence in their spine), which is not just about bones, but also about those qualities. That is why, at least in our region, the expression is often used when someone is fake or has impure intentions: “That person has a crooked spine.”
It is precisely Baba Yaga who teaches those qualities that one can appreciate. At the same time, she bestows the gift of recognizing that “crooked spine.”
In conclusion: in the dream, she gave me her medicine to drink, but only time revealed how beneficial and necessary it truly was.
Art; Al
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The romantic archetypes I keep noticing in people
Some patterns in love are impossible not to see after a while.
You start noticing that people fall into certain archetypes without even realizing it.
The Quiet Observer
Watches everything before opening up. Notices the smallest details about you but rarely talks about their own feelings until they’re absolutely sure you’re safe.
The Soft Romantic
Believes in love more than they admit. They pretend to be casual about relationships but secretly want deep emotional connection and slow, meaningful affection.
The Intense Lover
Feels everything strongly. When they care about someone it becomes impossible to hide — the energy, the attention, the depth of their feelings.
The Independent Soul
Needs space to feel comfortable in love. They don’t want to be controlled or consumed, but when they choose someone it’s because they truly want them there.
The Late-Night Thinker
Overthinks everything. Replays conversations, wonders if they said the wrong thing, and spends way too much time trying to understand people’s hidden intentions.
The Comfort Giver
The one people always run to when they’re hurting. They instinctively know how to calm others down, but rarely show how much they need that same care themselves.
The Mysterious One
Hard to fully read. They reveal pieces of themselves slowly, and somehow that makes people even more curious about them.
The Dreamer
Lives half in reality and half in imagination. They want a relationship that feels almost magical — something emotional, intimate, and a little cinematic.
Which one do you think you are?
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Manage Fear with Archetypes
Your personal archetypes provide you with strategies to manage your fears. Archetypes are patterns of thinking, feeling, choosing and acting. They’re instinctive roles people play, patterns of behaviour, that can be used to help you navigate life’s challenges and uncertainties. It’s as if each archetype holds an internal code for responding to fear: ways to look after yourself and others, or…
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Wisdom Goddesses Across Cultures - The Alchemy of the Divine Feminine
Across cultures and centuries, many civilizations honored powerful wisdom goddesses who represented knowledge, creativity, strategy, and spiritual insight. From Athena in Greek mythology to Saraswati in Hindu tradition, these divine figures remind us that wisdom comes in many forms—intellect, intuition, and experience.
✨ If you love mythology, goddess symbolism, or the idea of the divine feminine, this is a fascinating journey through history and myth.
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Self-authoring Archetypes is an Accurate Way to Identify and Describe Your Personality
As a personality profiling process, the value of Self-authoring your archetypes lie in the clarity they provide about how you tend to think, feel, decide and behave. The benefits include:
Self-understanding
Awareness of strengths
Awareness of blind spots
Faster personal insight
Improved communication
Decision-making clarity
A neutral mirror
I’ve briefly outlined them below:
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Self-authoring Archetypes is an Accurate Way to Identify and Describe Your Personality
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“Not all masks we wear are to hide the self. Some serve to set us free. Who are you when you wear your mask? Who do wish to become?”
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The relational field shifts from coercion to connection. However, the system’s magical infrastructure remains, raising questions about whether the repair is structural or symbolic. #RFT #survivorliteracy #encanto
Survivor Literacy Review: The Narrative’s Repair Attempt in a Magical Family Narrative
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I have been reading about Jung’s concepts of symbology and archetypes. Mainly two things have been simmering in my brain—whether what we call god(s and goddesses) can be archetypes and what Jung would think about today’s information-saturated world and its impact on the psyche. And these two may be connected, but we’ll see.
[[MORE]]There is an abundance of information today. I don’t know if it’s healthy that we are exposed to this much information all day every day. There are videos, posts, news, pictures, celebrities, apps, movies, books, ads. The conscious mind is constantly bombarded and stimulated. Normally, you would expect there to be a balance between this conscious input and its unconscious processing, but it is near impossible to digest and process all this information.
Now, according to Jung, concepts like rituals, religions, myths, symbols acted as bridges between the conscious mind and the unconscious mind, and, these practices would also act as outlets through which archetypes would be expressed. So for instance we have the archetype of the Dark Feminine, and this archetype would be embodied and expressed through various goddesses like Lilith or Hecate. Or we have the Trickster archetype, and for this archetype the mythologies around Loki or Hermes would play out. And keep in mind that archetypes are numinous, they’re mysterious, powerful, slightly overwhelming, meaningful in a way that’s difficult to explain. And because of this, the myths, religions, and rituals that express these archetypes tend to be emotionally charged with fear, awe, love, hatred, hope, and devotion And so these symbolic systems historically allowed us to engage with the deeper psychological forces within ourselves AND to organize those experiences into meaningful forms.
And what we see is the disappearance of these symbolic systems. Sure we still hear about rituals and myths and religions, but we don’t view them with the same “reality glasses” of those who lived centuries ago. And although these practices may have been disappearing, archetypes don’t disappear, Jung thought they appear in a changed form. If I’m not mistaken, he predicted that modern people would unconciously start looking for meaning through things like conspiracy theories, ideologies, cults, celebrity worship, fascination with the occult. And when you stop for a second and consider the current interest in all these occult concepts like witchcraft, astrology, energies, magic, neopaganism, it kinda makes sense. These information-saturated environments push us back toward symbols and archetypes, and yet, because the “rational” systems in the world feel overwhelmingly empty, people start turning to tarot, astrology, mythological figures, spiritual frameworks. Not because we believe in them literally, but because these concepts restore symbolic meaning. In short, symbols become psychologically attractive to us because they compress meaning.
This realization made many things easier for me to understand. Why celebrities are given certain roles in society by society. Why there are still pagan practitioners. How Tarot works (at least for me). Why rituals and devotions feel so attractive. Why people all of a sudden talk about humanoid extraterrestrials. Archetypes and symbology definitely is not the answer to everything, but it makes things make sense, you know?
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These rules stabilize the system by making deviation feel dangerous and compliance feel moral. #RFT #survivorliteracy #encanto
Survivor Literacy Review: The System’s Logic in a Magical Family Narrative
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Explore the grey archetypes and shady characters in Lily Among Thorns — where moral complexity and faith intersect in this inspiring Christian story.
🔗 annettekmazzone.com/grey-archetypes-shady-characters-lily-among-thorns/
#ChristianFiction #CharacterStudy #LilyAmongThorns #FaithAndFiction #Archetypes #LiteraryInsight #AnnetteKMazzone
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DEH and the Archetypes of “Seven Deadly Sins” (a very, very long essay)
In this essay I will use the character templates from the 99th Class and Starlight in Shojo Kageki Revue Starlight to map onto DEH to explain the character archetype issue. Not recommended for those afraid of spoilers who haven’t watched Shoujo Kageki Revue Starlight or Neon Genesis Evangelion, but considering there’s no overlap in my feed anyway, read if you want.
Disclaimer: this is an archetypal reading, not what I think were the writers’ intentions, nor accusing the characters of possessing actual sins. Archetypes are just a writing shorthand the same as “the four knights of apocalypse” or “angel and devil” that are replicated in different media for duo/group dynamics.
Some fan theories and methodology
1) Revue Starlight
I subscribe to the “Hikari and Karen are one entity + all stage girls are one entity” theory. Therefore, each revue actually represents different aspects of one person (Karen; though ultimately Karen represents an abstract “stage girl”). For example, the TV series revues focus more on exploring different personality elements (pride, jealousy, passion for hobbies/career, nostalgia, interpersonal relationships) and self-challenge, while the movie version has only one theme: whether to indulge in interpersonal stability or face the uncertainty of walking alone. So, back to the TV series, the Seven Goddesses of Starlight are actually metaphors for each person’s character flaws and what personality components each represents. For instance, Futaba representing Wrath and Mahiru representing Jealousy is obvious enough. I am adopting this because they represent a gentler version of interpreting the traits of Seven Deadly Sins.
2) NGE
Here I adopt a theory I’ve considered but am not deeply convinced of: that each Eva pilot represents a personality disorder/mental illness. Shinji represents Avoidant, Asuka represents Narcissistic, Rei represents Schizoid. I also think they somewhat resemble Id, Ego, Superego, but I’m too lazy to delve into deep theory; roughly speaking, Asuka represents the desiring Id, Shinji represents the ordinary Ego, and Rei represents the Superego that transcends human morality.
In short, this is the foundational setting where “everyone represents different aspects of the same image.”
“The Seven Deadly Sins”
Pride, Envy, Wrath, Sloth, Greed, Gluttony, Lust
(The Seven Goddesses of Starlight don’t correspond exactly to these)
How these map to specific personalities and settings:
The first five are relatively self-explanatory. I interpret Gluttony as a kind of indulgence (in modern terms, roughly “self-degradation”), and Lust as an exploitation of interpersonal relationships and self-centered release. Of course, after mapping, the specific concentrations might differ somewhat; I just need to be able to explain it myself.
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Evan - ? Karen/Shinji type
He is a neutral container, a mirror. When interacting with others, he reflects and amplifies others’ “sins” through his behavior, creating an echo. So he is the most ordinary social “ego”, without any morality (Superego) or desires (Id) above or below others. I’m not saying Evan’s character is this kind of blank slate personality; I mean his positioning is this type of protagonist.
Connor - Wrath
Literal. Wrath, disrespect, the self-centered violent rage that harms others. Whether it’s the real Connor or the later “For Forever reprise” ghost Connor, this is the case. Interestingly, in official interpretations, Wrath usually carries connotations of “revenge,” “retaliation.” What does he want to retaliate against? Parents, society, himself?
I think Evan, when together with Connor (especially the “ff reprise” ghost Connor), rarely exhibits retaliatory rage, but more of a passive, pessimistic anger at his own incompetence—a feeling of being angry at himself. Undeniably, this anger is when he has the most clarity and is the sharpest in self-analysis—just like how Connor, every time he gets angry, is actually facing his ugliest parts.
Jared - Greed
Also literal. Wanting fame, wanting friends, wanting social currency, wanting to obtain easily without diminishing himself. His feelings toward Evan, for example, are greedy—wanting Evan to be his die-hard sidekick and sycophantic friend without any input on his part.
Evan, when with him, also becomes greedy. In the “Sincerely, Me” reprise, he monopolizes Connor’s friendship; around the “Good for You” period, feeling Jared crossing his personal boundaries, he wants to desperately retain Zoe’s love and the Murphy family’s love. It’s just that this isn’t what Jared wants, so Evan doesn’t appear greedy toward Jared.
Alana - Pride
Still literal. To me, she has many similarities with Maya Tendou, both representing a kind of top student’s confident pride/arrogance that feels superior. This pride is lonely, but loneliness can also intensify pride. It leads her to look down on others (directly ignoring Evan’s arm), to look down on emotions.
Later in the Connor Project, her act of making public all of Evan’s forged letters is the ultimate pride, because she feels public trust lies with her. Similarly, Evan accusing her of doing the Connor Project only for reputation, sending her the fake suicide note to protect himself, is his most self-centered, selfish, and proud move.
Zoe - Envy
Still literal. She envies Connor; more precisely, adopting the original definition of envy, she feels “sorrow” for what others possess. The fact that Connor inherently possesses more is unfair to Zoe, so envy isn’t necessarily negative. The difference from greed is that greed doesn’t have a specific object, while envy does, and it also reflects that Zoe’s life, whether love or hate, revolves around Connor as its anchor.
Evan’s envy also takes Connor as its object, operating through Zoe. In “Words Fail,” what he says—not having a father like that, not having a mother like that, not having a perfect girl like that—is textbook Seven Deadly Sins envy (as opposed to general envy)—it contains this pain of self-pity and self-sorrow, a lonely yearning, rather than the resentment of wanting to possess. This is the same as Mahiru.
Cynthia - Lust
I CAN EXPLAIN THIS
As I mentioned above, Lust isn’t about sex; it’s about excessive dependence on and exploitation of interpersonal relationships, almost like the desires of a sentimental and overflowing id. For example, here it’s her maternal love and family love. She infinitely wants to perform the role of a tender good woman, good wife, good mother, and satisfies herself through the acceptance of this performance.
Evan, when with her, clearly gets stimulated with the same emotional dependence. Cynthia was the first to encourage him to continue, to keep talking about his “friendship” with Connor. She’s also the last to finally accept that everything Evan said was a lie. Evan’s dependence on her directly mirrors his unmet needs from Heidi. Cynthia’s words to Evan before “Good for You,” treating him like her own son, represent their emotional resonance.
Larry - Sloth
Sloth here combines with the old concept of Acedia; I interpret it as dereliction of duty, neglect, denial, unwillingness to change—more about inertia than laziness. Larry’s non-acceptance of Connor and his stubbornness represent a kind of Stoic sloth.
Evan doesn’t spend much time with him; take “To Break In A Glove” as an example. Evan positively responds to Larry’s sloth, completely avoiding the fact that Larry was a terrible father to Connor—refusing to accept this fact, refusing to consciously recognize that Larry’s treatment of Connor was just like his own father’s neglect. Treating Larry’s kindness as a substitute for paternal love—isn’t that also Evan’s sloth, his unwillingness to face his own real trauma?
Heidi - Gluttony
I CAN STILL EXPLAIN
I think Gluttony is an action that can be both egoistic and altruistic, like Heidi towards Evan. Gluttony is self-destructive, yet one finds satisfaction within that self-destruction. Heidi loses herself in overwork, but simultaneously feels this reasonably explains her neglect of Evan. So from Evan’s perspective, Heidi is just indulged in the empty promises of love she herself weaves.
Evan’s attitude toward Heidi is also one of gluttony. He excessively enjoys/consumes the limited affection she has, similarly in moralising his own dissatisfaction and loneliness. “It’s not my fault that other people can” means Heidi’s affection isn’t enough for him to indulge in, so he chooses to continue to amplify his own “appetite,” projecting it towards the Murphy family’s love. Love is limited, it can be drained dry; he indulges to the point where he might choose lies, which is like quenching his thirst with poison.
Ferally yapped. Don’t even know what I said. Hope someone can understand. Actually, DEH, in a pop media sense, is very anti-archetype, but if you look deeper, you can still see some characterisation habit, or maybe I’m just hallucinating.
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bad tv show idea
[[MORE]]early “retired” (unemployed) 27 year old chet recieves a box of 12 small critters (called dots) who claim to be from ceres. why 12 specifically? archetypes. ruler, artist, sage, innocent, explorer, rebel, hero, wizard, jester, everyman, lover, and caretaker. mfs look like they straight out of a nick jr show and they might as well be. the dots reproduce asexually (they don’t even have any form of private parts) and are basically unkillable (plus they’re thousands of years old).
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“The mother in all of us calls for us to be born, to be new. To let ourselves begin without fear, within love and bravery.”