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