We’ve come to the end of our month-long read of Warrior of Light, by Paulo Coelho and we’ve taken inspiration from the selected snippets of wisdom he’s written and we will each have our favorite.
In my halfway article - I discussed from a Jungian perspective, what it means to bring Light and wholeness to our psyche and the world around us and this entails facing, embracing, and integrating those contradictory parts - often regarded as the darker elements of our psyche. The alchemists of old unconsciously viewed this integration as a marriage of the king and queen - which Jung amplified as the meeting of the opposites of the psyche: female and male, queen and king, or the unconscious and conscious.
Marc Chagall - The Blue Couple
Carl Jung recognized the ancient myth of Sophia as being important to the individual's search for wholeness, and to the cultural and spiritual potential of humanity.
Sophia reminds us of the importance of doing the inner work of growing in maturity by integrating our own Masculine and Feminine qualities. She helps us to realize that we are not alone: We are held in loving embrace by our Creator, and we are irrevocably connected with each other, with the Earth, and with the Source of All That Is.
Is Sophia the woman who walks over the water towards the rising moon?
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