She is a woman who did not become strong because she didn’t have to. Or, in many cases, because she never learned how. She didn’t have a father she could trust, or maybe she had one who left – or worse, stayed and never truly saw her.
She, too, could have had a mother who outpaced her father in overall competency, hailing from a widely matriarchal household.
So she can often learn to get what she needed through softness, charm, and helplessness. She learned to be adorable sometimes because she didn’t feel safe being powerful; or, she found
great power in vulnerability and the willful control of men.
The Warrioress is the woman whose strength was born in the absence of softness.
She is often forged in a home where her mother – though biologically present – was emotionally unavailable, emotionally chaotic, harsh, competitive, or disempowered in her own femininity.
As a result, the Warrioress adapts by leaning into the masculine aspect of her psyche, orienting herself around structure, results, and resilience. She becomes what was missing: strong, decisive, competent.
He is a man who chose to remain in the masculine side of his mind, or maybe life made the choice for him. In most cases, he had no other option – either a chaotic mother or the absence of one led him to over-identify with structure, order, strength, and the suppression of feeling.
He may have also had a masculine father that he fought back against, and became a Forger out of survival, despite having a feminine mother he adored.
The Manifestor is a man who, whether by nature or nurture, leans heavily into the feminine side of his psyche. He is the artist, the empath, the dreamer – the man whose compass is internal, and whose focus drifts toward meaning, beauty, and emotional connection.
Often raised with a at least somewhat feminine mother figure – and or in the absence of a strong father, or a masculine role model in general – he develops a magnetic sensitivity to the world around him but struggles to anchor himself in it.
The Balanced archetype is a man or woman who can effectively utilize both the masculine and feminine sides of their mind with ease; having reached peak masculine and feminine integration,
where both the masculine and feminine sides of their mind is fully developed.
Balanced men can be very expressive for the purpose of entertainment, or express deep feelings to convey an important message. They can do this without overly dramatizing it, often
making it impactful in some way.
If this feels like your story — even the parts you don’t say out loud — it’s time.
The love, safety, and power you’re looking for start inside you. Let’s begin the journey of integration together.
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