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That which is above is like to that which is below, and that which is below is like to that which
        is above, to accomplish the miracle of one thing. —from the Emerald Tablet by Hermes

        Trismegistus This Alchemical dictum is a reference to the effects of the celestial upon terrestrial
        events. As the drawing shows that which is above is like that which is below in symbolic form
        which Carl Jung and Heraclitis called the Archetypes, Plato called Forms and we Astrologers
        know as Planets (representations of our psyche in symbolic form).


        Self realization was called the Opus/ is collective. For this reason it is felt to be
        the great work.                                        something alien to us, and we suspect it

        Learning about our shadow, which is                    of belonging to the particular person with
        a part of our personal unconscious is a                whom we have emotional ties. In addition

        prerequisite for eventually discovering                a man’s unconscious has a feminine
        and having a relationship with the Anima               character; it hides in the feminine side of

        (feminine in man) and Animus (the                      him which he naturally does not see in
        masculine in a woman). These archetypes/               himself but in the woman who fascinates
        soul images are not part of our ego so they            him. That is probably why the soul (anima)

        are much more difficult to see as being                is feminine. If, therefore, man and woman
        inside us. We see them in you!                         are merged in some kind of unconscious
                                                               identity, he will take over the traits of her

        Because the latter cannot be seen directly,            animus and she the traits of his anima.
        it is always projected; for, unlike the                —Carl Jung, The Practice of

        shadow, it does not belong to the ego but              Psychotherapy, par 469
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