Today is a harvest fest - Lughnasadh and today we continue to talk about the female and male roles of the Wheel of the Year.
I remind you that Wikipedia defines the Wheel of the Year as "an annual cycle of seasonal festivals, observed by many modern Pagans. It consists of either four or eight festivals: either the solstices and equinoxes, known as the "quarter days", or the four midpoints between, known as the "cross quarter days"; syncretic traditions like Wicca often celebrate all eight festivals".
These eight seasonal festivals are: Yule (December, 20-23) Imbolc (February, 2) Ostara (March, 19-22) Beltane (May, 1) Midsummer (June, 19-23) Lughnasadh (August, 1) Mabon (September, 21-24) Samhain (November, 1)
Each holiday of the Wheel of the Year is associated with certain natural energies and traditional human activities, exploring which the esotericist Larissa Kuznetsova-Fetisova proposed to distinguish eight traditional female and eight traditional male roles of the Wheel of the Year.
Roles - this is what the society requires of people of a certain gender for normal interaction. If a person can not adequately choose a role for a certain type of communication, he will be inadequate to the situation, since he will react from another social role. These roles can be considered by analogy with subpersonalities. In general, everything depends on a specific approach, but the gender roles of the Wheel of the Year should not be confused with the archetypes. As we will see later, for example, the role of the Mistress differs significantly from the archetype of the Mistress. The names of the roles should not confuse you.
The study of each role allows you to harmonize the personality within your gender. Conversely, if some role is not sufficiently developed, it can impede the full implementation of other roles.
To understand how this works, imagine a wheel with eight spokes. One spoke is broken and the wheel in that place was weighed down. It is clear that the wagon will shake. Now imagine that two, three spokes were broken. Will you like the trip?
Women's roles for the Year: Woman in childbirth, Mother, Girlfriend, Mistress, Wife, Proprietress, Wise woman (Old Woman), Widow (Woman survived a loss).
Men's roles for the Year: New-born, Educated, Friend, Lover, Husband, Manager, Wise man (Old Man) The man who leaves the woman.
The designation of the male and female roles of the Wheel of the Year is largely due to the fact that traditionally both women and men are required to perform certain social functions.
Any role becomes a problem if it is expressed too weak or too much. Unfortunately, practice shows that often of eight roles only one or two are activated and well developed. The rest of the roles are fragmented. This leads to communication failure, when we can not understand what the surrounding people are waiting for from us consciously or subconsciously.
All eight roles can be connected and worked out gradually, step by step throughout the year.
In August, a favorable period for working out the role of Proprietress and Manager.
Who is the Proprietress? The Proprietress is a woman who knows how to manage properly the resources that she has. Do not confuse this role with the housewife!
The role of the Proprietress is very popular in modern society. Glossy magazines show us a successful business ladies. This is the image of the Proprietress.
The Proprietress knows her strengths well, she knows how to organize her life correctly. If, for example, she is good at making money, then she does not have to deal with housekeeping. She can hire someone else for this.
It is also important to remember that this is not just about money, but about any resources. This can be, for example, knowledge, education or appearance.
If you constantly feel a shortage of resources (most often this is a lack of money), you do not know how to claim what belongs to you, most likely your role as a Proprietress is not sufficiently developed. Here the problem is not only in organizing your time, the proper allocation of resources, but also in that you must learn to understand what you need and learn to demand from others what they owe you, the ability to determine the price of your work.
The opposite situation will be if the role of the Proprietress is hypertrophied. Such a woman will think that everything in this world has its price and can be bought for money. In addition, this woman behaves very like a man, this is a man in a skirt.
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A man's role is the role of the Manager. This role assumes the ability of a man to take responsibility not only for himself, his words and promises, his family, but also for a wider range of people. It's like the head of the enterprise. He calculates the consequences of his actions not only for the immediate environment, but for other people.
Here we have a very wide area of responsibility. This is the most social role, which significantly affects the world around us. Accordingly, when this role is hypertrophied, the man seeks to control absolutely everything, although this is practically impossible. In the opposite situation, a man is not able to calculate the consequences of his actions for others.
Thus, the role of the Proprietress is the principle of maximum efficiency, and the role of the Manager is the principle of expanded responsibility.