This archetype was described as Carl Jung as a person with great judgment and wisdom. The wise old man is sometimes referred to as the Sage. This archetype is characterized by being old, bearded, father-figure type who uses his great personal knowledge of the world and offer guidance through stories and may impress upon his [...]
Oedipus was a mythical Greek king who was prophesized by the Oracle at Delphi that he would kill his father, marry his mother and put his country chaos. The Oedipus Complex is also the term used by Sigmund Freud to describe a neuroses where a male child experiences unconscious desire to have the exclusive love of his mother, even feeling jelousy towards his father.
Oedipus was the son of King Larius and Queen Jocasta, His parents consulted the Oracle at Delphi before he was born. After which, his parents gave him to a herdsman and instructed him to kill the baby. The herdsman felt pity for the infant and gave him to another herdsman. The second herdsman brought Oedipus to the king of Cornith, Polybus and his wife Merope. The king and queen adopted Oedipus and raised him as their own son. Many years later Oedipus was told by a drunk that he was adopted. Polybus and Merope denied this and Oedipus instead went to an Oracle who told him that he was destined to kill his father and marry his mother. Oedipus, thinking that the Oracle meant Polybus and Merope, decided to leave Corinth for Thebes.
Pandora was the first woman. Zeus ordered Hephaestus to mold her from earth as part of the punishment for mankind when Prometheus stole the secret of fire. All the other gods help create her by giving her different gifts. Venus gave her beauty, Apollo gave her music and Mercury gave her persuasion. Her name means “giver of all”.
According to the myth, Pandora was given a box, which is actually a jar, and was instructed by the Gods to never open it. However, the gods also created Pandora to be curious and so she opened the jar and out came disease, sorrow and death to mankind. When Pandora finally shut the box, only Elpis or Hope was left inside.
Chaos in Greek Mythology meant the original state of the universe before the Gods were born. In other words: nothing. It is the opposite of cosmos, in ancient Greece meaning order. The Greek poet Ovid mentioned in Metamorphoses, a collection of 15 books the creation of the universe that Chaos is “rather a crude and indigested mass, a lifeless lump, unfashioned and unframed, of jarring seeds and justly Chaos named” which is how we have the modern meaning for chaos: disorder.
Chaos in mythology is often referred to as where everything came from. In Hesiod’s Origin of the Gods, Chaos was the nothingness out of which the first objects emerged. From Chaos, we have Gaia or Earth, Tartarus the Underworld, Nyx darkness of the night, Erberus, darkness of the underworld, and Eros sexual love. In other words Chaos is the womb from which everything emerged from.
The Tarot deck contains archetypal symbols that can be related to the analytical psychology of the Swiss psychologist, Carl Jung. The Tarot deck, especially the major arcana or trump cards, can be used effectively in therapy. The client, with the assistance of the therapist, conducts a reading or uses several cards to tell a story and then discusses possible meanings of the symbols in his or her own words. The therapist then relates the symbolic meanings given by the client to the client’s problem in much the same manner as in Jungian dream analysis.
In Greek and Roman mythology, the god of dreams. He was one of the sons of Hypnos (Somnus), god of sleep. Morpheus sent human shapes of all kinds to the dreamer, while his brothers Phobetor and Phantasus sent the forms of animals and inanimate objects.
| S | M | T | W | T | F | S |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| « Feb | ||||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||
| 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 |
| 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 |
| 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 |
| 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | ||
