Sacred Archetypes: Concubine

Armless Concubine

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First at all: to be a Concubine is a status. And sometimes many really beautiful women cannot get rid of this status ..."concubine". They want to marry and dream about an obliging relationship. But somehow they cannot achieve. Sometimes the dream becomes true and a concubine has a wedding.

 

This marriage goes wrong very fast.

 

Then she keeps on living: either as a lover of a man who cannot or does not want to marry her, maybe she becomes the playmate of a bonded man, on the border of an unfamiliar marriage.

 

How can you recognize your “status as a concubine?”

•  Are there many men interested in you and your body, but without interest to make a commitment or even marry you?

• Men’s reaction towards you is full of fire and they cherish you a lot. But there are, besides you, always other women in their lives.

• Did you realize that all men you fancy are either married of bond somehow?

 

• Are you vulnerable to becoming involved with men who weep on your shoulder. They talk about their unhappy marriage and cherish your openness and your apprehension over all.

 

All these men have something in common: They are not free! None of them you will get.

 

 

Unconsciously you keep on choosing those men, who do not really want to get involved with you.

Maybe you live passing full relationships  consciously. Than you have turned the lance. And – even if you never use contraception, you never got pregnant.  [read more here]

 

 

Or the men have "tied the knot" - as in - had a vasectomy!

 

 

 

Al Dente

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Papa Hemingway: SoulCraftsman

Ernest Miller Hemingway

21 July 1899 - 2 July 1961

 

 

 

 

The Art of Manliness is authored by husband and wife team, Brett and Kate McKay. It features articles on helping men be better husbands, better fathers, and better men. In our search to uncover the lost art of manliness, we’ll look to the past to find examples of manliness in action. We’ll analyse the lives of great men who knew what it meant to “man up” and hopefully learn from them. And we’ll talk about the skills, manners, and principles that every man should know.

 

 

My idea for the Art of Manliness came about as I was standing in Borders bookstore looking at the men’s magazines. It seemed to me that the content in these magazines were continually going downhill, with more and more articles about sex and how to get six pack abs. Was this all there was to being a man?


And as I looked around at the men my age, it seemed to me that many were shirking responsibility and refusing to grow up. They had lost the confidence, focus, skills, and virtues that men of the past had embodied and were a little lost. The feminism movement did some great things, but it also made men confused about their role and no longer proud of the virtues of manliness. This, coupled with the fact that many men were raised without the influence of a good father, has left a generation adrift as to what it means to be an honourable, well-rounded man.



Shop Class as Soulcraft brings alive an experience that was once quite common, but now seems to be receding from society: making and fixing things. Those of us who sit in an office often feel a lack of connection to the material world and find it difficult to say exactly what we do all day. For anyone who felt hustled off to college, then to the cubicle, against their own inclinations and natural bents, Shop Class as Soulcraft seeks to restore the honour of the manual trades as a life worth choosing.

The Emperor Wears Pajamas

You are handed a life, and if you're lucky enough and smart enough, you become the person you want to be. My life is in direct response to the way that I was raised, which is true for everybody. Much of it is still connected to the boy who dreamed the impossible dreams. If you don't remember who you were, you don't know who you are. And I love the boy who dreamed the dreams. ~ Hugh Hefner (1926 - )

Did she make you cry
Make you break down
Shatter your illusions of love
Is it over now--do you know how
Pick up the pieces and go home.

Rock on--ancient queen
Follow those who pale
In your shadow

Rulers make bad lovers
You better put your kingdom up for sale

Did she make you cry
Make you break down
Shatter your illusions of love
Is it over now--do you know how
Pick up the pieces and go home.

~ words by Stevie Nicks

 For the coming Venus Transit of June 2012, we can use archetypes and imagery to imagine the Sun (representing persons in power) as a great lord or king, such as Midas, with the golden touch, who sits on his throne controlling everything with his gold; in fact, all he touches turns to gold. Everything he sees is for his use and everything has a dollar value. Our king is nearly exhausted with this tiresome ‘golden touch,’ when, from out of the shadows, glides a graceful and beautiful goddess in flowing robes.........Annalee Smith, TMA, April 2012

Playboy leaves Town