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May 8-9 Weekend	Apeiron Symposium at the Kanaskis Field Station. Click the Symposuim link on the side bar.
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Lecture: Friday 19th March, 2010, 7.30 p.m. Parkdale United Church, 2919 8th Avenue NW, Calgary Ticket Prices General (non-members) $25 Students/seniors over 65 $15 Members $20 Tickets will be available at the door. www.calgaryjungsociety.org	When The Feminine Is Ready The Masculine Responds Peggy Funk Voth The feminine and masculine principles operate as the great archetypal opposites in the human psyche. Characterized by qualities such as receptivity, warmth and fertility, the feminine principle represents a state of being. Associated with initiating, penetrating and fertilizing, the masculine principle stands for activity, or doing. Women and men have both of these energies in their psyches. Coming to wholeness requires that we value and develop both principles equally. Understanding how these archetypes influence each other can bring an appreciation for the unique role that each of them plays in psychological health. Driven by instincts, the animal kingdom can tell us something about the dynamic of feminine readiness and masculine responsiveness. In this lecture, the estrus cycles and mating behaviors of cows and bulls will serve to amplify the possibilities of psychological states in humans. Rites undergone by men and women of indigenous cultures show us something about relating consciously to these archetypal energies within ourselves, and will be used to offer guidelines for our inner work. The lecture will explore feminine readiness and masculine responsiveness as one aspect of the interplay between the feminine and masculine principles in the psyches of both genders. The following issues will be considered: · What constitutes psychological readiness on the part of the feminine principle? What does this look like in the female psyche? In the male psyche? · In what ways does the masculine principle respond to the readiness of the feminine principle? How does this manifest in the female psyche? In the male psyche? · What would the states of feminine readiness and masculine responsiveness mean for us in our everyday lives and in the analytic process