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she becomes the carrier of his “Anima.” When this happens to both people at
His Anima, his inner feminine, once he the same time, we call this “falling in
consciously discovers her and can start love.” They definitely fall. They fall into

up a dialogue within, she can help him their own unconscious image as each
get in touch with his feeling nature, his projects part of themselves onto the

receptivity, his personal other person (same sex
relating and nurturing skills, we don’t consciously or opposite sex), evoking
and his ability to create. His choose who we fall a feeling of fantasy and

Anima acts as a muse to in love with. Our Eros. The erotic and sexual
bridge the gap between his unconscious chooses nature of the encounter

inner and outer worlds. is psychologically quite
for us. symbolic. It’s intense. The

The Anima and Animus people we are extremely

animate us and give us the energy attracted to are the parts of ourselves
to live our lives. Because they are that we are missing. When we have

archetypes, we can never really and a strong attraction and compulsion
directly experience them, so we project toward another individual while
them onto a suitable lover whom we perceiving we are “in love”, it is a real

then begin to idealize. Idealization of clue that this is a projection of our own
the partner is how we first begin the unconscious contents.

dance of mating that has actually been
activated by the unconscious of each The feminine and the masculine
person. Jung says we don’t consciously principles, uniting as one, inside each

choose who we fall in love with. Our person is where we are headed in the Age
unconscious chooses for us. of Aquarius because the old paradigms of

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