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Title: Archetypal Symbolism


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Archetypal Symbolism
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Blood
  • Life itself
  • Divine life
  • Magic powers
  • Close ties with guilt
  • Often represents the endbeginning

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Leaf
  • Green leaf depicts hope
  • Dead leavesdecay and sadness
  • Turning over a new leafstart anew

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Darkness
  • Chaos
  • Death and Destruction
  • Emblem of bad judgment
  • The end of the world
  • The Prince of Darkness is the Devil.

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Hair
  • Symbolizes strength and virility (strength)
  • Female seduction or attraction
  • Disheveled hairsign of bereavement
  • Free flowing hairloose and free

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Hand
  • Strength, power, and protection
  • Guilt or healing
  • Generosity and hospitality
  • Peace

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Tree
  • Feminine nourishing sheltering image of the
    Great Mother, rooted in the earth and reaching
    toward the heavensevocative of eternity
  • Tree of Life
  • Tree of Knowledge

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Cave
  • Symbolic of Heart
  • A place where the Self and Ego unite
  • Entering a cave is entering the womb of Mother
    Earth

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Water
  • Birth, Fertility, and Refreshment
  • Symbolizing a purification of the Soul

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Moon
  • Immortality
  • Eternity
  • Dark side of Nature herself
  • Inner Knowledge
  • Middle ground between the light of the sun and
    the darkness of night
  • Symbol of the Soul
  • Maturity and Pregnancy
  • Waning moon represents the declining of lifesleep

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Lightening
  • Sudden illumination and destruction of ignorance
  • In dreams, the lightening bolt is an image of
    sudden and terrible events
  • A form of divine message
  • Phallic relations
  • Lightening as liberating the Soul
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