A psychic archetype represents a core energy expression that we believe defines our psychological and spiritual journey, in this, past and future lives. While we may engage in different forms of life practice, such as being a soldier or a doctor, we are one specific archetype, which could be the Warrior or the Healer.
This article explores the psychic archetype of the Mother.
One archetype, many guises
History is full of warrior priests and soldier healers (medics). Teachers can be athletes and athletes can be teachers. We can wear many guises over the course of our lives, but we usually operate from a single psychic archetype.
Sometimes necessity and circumstances can force us into a guise that is far removed from our spiritual purpose, it will seem. If we look closely enough at our actions under any circumstance, we will be able to see the consistent psychic imprint of our representation.
I have a varied work history including construction, website design/management, teaching (college English), and now spiritual consulting. With each iteration of my work opportunities, I repeatedly found myself in the same role… as a spiritual and emotional advisor to those around me.
The mother
I’ve had my fair share of experiences with women and men in parental roles, especially after I became a parent in 2005. Fewer women than I had thought showed what I would consider the Mother archetype, and more than a few fathers I met had more Mother energy than Father energy. A mother archetype individual truly and deeply loves caring for his child or children as the main purpose of his existence.
Mothers exist outside the family construct and, like all archetypes, can be found in any profession. Their ability to care, care, and protect applies to work, friendships, and family. When we need some form of emotional security and support, mothers provide the energy, knowledge and action to support us.
Each archetype travels through lifetimes gaining experience within and beyond its ideal representation to enjoy and understand the full range of human experience, while learning lessons related to completing his or her work and/or the fact that he or she is prevented from completing his or her work. Lessons flow both ways, but they don’t have to.
The ideal society (utopian vision)
It is really not difficult to imagine an ideal society in which everyone discovers his or her psychic or spiritual archetype and is given a way to express that archetype through work and interactions with the other archetypes in the world. Creating such a world would require a wholesale and comprehensive acceptance of the balance between science and spirituality, between creativity and necessity, and between compassion and integrity.
Reality is an ebb and flow of balance, imbalance and rebalancing, and that is where all learning for the spiritual soul that inhabits a human or animal body teaches lessons not found in utopian visions or in the spirit realm. We choose to be here; and psychic or spiritual archetypes indicate that we choose a singular type of role so that we can experience true mastery.
Are you a mother?
Each archetype has definable and distinguishable properties.
Attracted to emotional needs
We all want to be able to be vulnerable and unguarded with another person, especially our Mothers. Therefore, it can be especially harmful if the mother figure in our lives is not a Mother archetype. The Mother is the safe haven for our feelings of uncertainty, trepidation, hesitation and worry, so that we can withdraw from the world and recharge, and then re-enter the world.
Mothers ‘move’ towards need; they are not repelled or afraid of it. They are drawn to others and invite others to lean on them emotionally and ask for help. Moms aren’t afraid of emotional messiness; instead, they respect and honor the need that others have to feel their emotions, both negative and positive, so that they can process them. Mothers are there to help with the processing.
Drawn to teaching
Mothers represent the first and most intensive teachers, both in terms of practical skills (such as preparing food) and relational (how to deal with people who conflict with you). The Mother moves through the world and ‘activates’ when they see someone in need, financially, emotionally or physically. As a society or community, we want mothers to ‘be there for us’ in times of greatest need.
Protect and prioritize children
Mothers, like all archetypes, work to master their craft, which sets them apart from other archetypes who may perform the same practices, but not from the same place of soul and spirit. A surgeon may be a mother, who sees illness or injury as something that must be cured to protect the life of a child or a child’s parent.
The best mothers master caring and nurturing knowledge; they study children’s needs as a way to teach the children, protect the children, and understand the children. Mothers are ‘protective’ people who want to help souls transition from childhood to adulthood.
The Mother’s “need to care” is the defining quality that sets him or her apart from other archetypes that fill the same role. The motivations are different and more unique than the practices for each archetype. All archetypes can learn how to care for and raise children, but their motivations will be different.
The Mother is motivated to connect with the fears, worries, and concerns that accompany childhood life transitions: learning to walk and talk, developing emotional growth, and forming a core identity. Mothers understand the important timing and quality of meeting a child’s needs appropriately to help that child participate in the world in a healthy and productive way, both for the child’s sake and for the sake of the child. world.
Its leaders
Results are important for the mother archetype; they work best in solving emotional and developmental problems. They know that they are the first teacher in most early life development situations. In their highest form they can be understood as the moral fiber of all societies.
The Mothers show others what is needed and how to act as they seek to meet and understand their needs. This path through the world is fundamental in helping them understand their place in the scheme of the community of archetypes.
