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Balancing the Personality

Skip down to the dreams! Dreams balancing four elements that stand for various sides of the psyche. Jung labeled them:

physical, sensory, somatic, the body. In Tarot, pentacles, coins, diamonds, earth.
emotional, judging by feeling. In Tarot, cups, hearts, water.
mental, thinking, reason, the mind. In Tarot, swords, spades, air.
spirituality, intuition, creativity. In Tarot, wands, clubs, fire.

This fourfold division is hardly unique to Jung! As well as the Tarot, it's found in South Asian thought, and it's all over North America, where each function has an associated color, power animal, and compass direction. Though details vary by culture, the core idea is worldwide: that a mature person learns to walk all four paths in balance. Over-developing one or two personality aspects, at the expense of others, leads to serious trouble.

RELATED TOPICS: dreamwork - shamanism - Jung - souls - personality integration - Jungian Shadows - guides and animas - Tarot -

BODY SENSE: body image - diagnostic dreams - blindness, deafness - focus - taste and smell - urges and instincts
EMOTIONS: love, anger, grief, joy, shyness, guilt, play, fear, courage, loneliness, humor, envy
THINKING: dreams of math and logic - intelligence and genius - lucidity - creativity - science - inventions & experiments - literary dreams - essays & rants
INTUITION: hunches and urges - psychic experiences - living with ESP - shamanic dreaming - dreamwork in general - astral planes - homesickness for the spirit world

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	ANDROMEDA: by Wayan; dreamed 1987/12/30; 14x17" crayon portrait I dream of the legendary maiden chained to a rock, and the dragon--but they weren't as advertised... CAUTION: NUDITY
	BALANCE?: by Wayan, 1984/10/10, a dream about dreams. Silky, my sentient starship, gives me a scolding about playing it safe...
	BEGGARS IN SPAIN: by Wayan; 1994/12/10, A dream on Nancy Kress's book on IQ. Two rivals stand for ways of thinking, ways of life. Why won't they cooperate, see each others' virtues?
	BOX OF DREAMS: by Jenny Badger Sultan; 2007 to 2009, a boxed set of 19 small dream-paintings A sequence of short dreams full of creatures. They warn I'll face leukemia...
	BRICK AND SKIN: by Wayan; 1988/10/18, a dream of spiritual stretching. I'm analog myself, but in Tibet, I meet a digital shaman whose body's a sort of ...
	CLAY AND HOP: by Wayan; 2009/10/30, a dream poem with sketches; Dreamverse #63 I touch the secret soul of a cancer survivor, upsetting her. To apologize, I become a goofy hopping god... CAUTION: FONDLING SACRED FIGURINES
	DANCING ROBBANE: by Emily Joy; 2007/8/1, sculpture of a dream sculpture. The clay came alive, shaped itself, started dancing...and mutating.
	DON'T WANT HIM TO SOAR: by Wayan; 1991/4/18, a dream of sabotage. In a parallel world, a visionary's building the first plane only now. I'm his assistant. But I don't WANT...
	THE DRAGON'S TEETH: by Wayan; 1994/6/23; a dance dream that maps out my life I'm dancing on stage, in behavioral space. But right in the middle of the stage, erupt these... teeth?
	THE ENCHANTED WOMAN: by Anna Kingsford; Feb. 1877, an epic prehistoric dream. Goaded by a green spirit of envy, an Ice Age sorceror kidnaps Adam's Eve, arresting human evolution...
	FEVER DREAMS: by Wayan; 1993/9/8, a set of wild feverdreams. While my body expels a kidney stone, weird scenes happen on the astral plane. At least I get to dip the pope. CAUTION: PAIN, PEE, POPE
	FOUR ELEMENTALS: by Wayan, four recurrent 2009 dream-figures, 2010/1/1 to 1/14 For the New Year, I draw a group portrait of the old year's main dream-figures. Four needs came up constantly...
	FOUR-EYED BABY: by Xanthe; 1989?, a Jungian dream I met some little hunchbacks in the woods who showed me a newborn baby growing from the moss...
	FOUR LOVERS: by Wayan; c.1992/5/26; digital painting based on recurrent dream A recurring dream of a fourway marriage of animal people. I don't think it's symbolic, but predictive... CAUTION: FURRY SEX
	A GAME OF CARDS: by Anna Kingsford; 1883/12/7, a god kibitzes on a Tarot game Anna trusts to luck, but her mentor urges her to plan--"Think it out!" And what are these cards?
	GREENBIRD SAVIOR: by Wayan; 1983/6/2, a divine comedy. Time-travel the Navaho way! But our bread-pipe gets hijacked, so we call the Bird. Who shows up, all right... CAUTION: NON-STANDARD SAVIOR, EVIL DREAM PUNS
	HERM: by Jenny Badger Sultan; 2009/9/8; painting in the Box of Dreams In a domed tower, we all look up bewildered by a statue like an ancient herm, floating in mid-air...
	THE LIMP: by Wayan; 1986/7/18, a dream on difference I was working for a London architect. His son thought people shunned him for his limp, but...
	MANDALA: by Carl Jung, c.1915; a drawing he lied about for decades Jung, in crisis, drew a complex mandala, and then wrote about its symbols & archetypes, always claiming a patient had drawn it...
	A MUSLIM CHEETAH: by Wayan, 2004/12/2, a dream of fundamental ambivalence A cheetah is a saboteur for a violent Islamic group. I'm attracted, but tear into her; "You plant bombs in the name of a rulebook meant for apes not cats!" CAUTION: NUDE CHEETAH; CRITIQUES HOLY BOOKS
	NIBBLING FRUITS: by Jenny Badger Sultan; 2009/2/3; a painting from an advisory dream I am given a gift of "Nibbling Fruits" which only I may eat--because I've been feeding everyone but me...
	THE NIGHT OF CHANGE: by Wayan; 1994/2/8, a dream on the order of deep changes. Festival night in a strange town, where, one night a year, dancing in the street transforms you into... CAUTION: SEX TALK
	RADAR BEAR: by Wayan; 1983/6/17, a dream of MASH--and perseverance. Radar O'Reilly's teddy bear is stolen. He builds spy-planes to find it. One morning the camp wakes to find...
	TAROT: THE MAGE: by Wayan; Tarot card, 3x5", summer 1979. Jung said most people let one aspect of life dominate them. The Mage balances them...
	TAROT: OUTSTANDING (The Seven of Wands): by Wayan; Tarot card, 3x5", summer 1978. How rare it is to meet the Outstanding whose thinking, sensing, feeling and intuition all work...
	TRINITY: by Nashoba Hostina; 2002? A nightmare of losing best friends to romantic love We were inseparable: the tiger, the fox, and the wolf. Together our magic lit up the darkness around us, until...