Inner Child and Jung

[♀♥Lady Urania♥♀]

“The child-motif represents not only something that existed in the distant past but also something that exists now; that is to say, it is not just a vestige but a system functioning in the present…The “child” paves the way for a future change of personality. In the individuation process, it anticipates the figure that comes from the synthesis of conscious and unconscious elements in the personality. It is therefore a unifying symbol which unites the opposites.

It (the child motif) is a personification of vital forces quite outside the limited range of our conscious mind; of ways and possibilities of which our one-sided conscious mind knows nothing… It represents the strongest most ineluctrable urge in every being, namely the urge to realize the self.” ~ Carl Jung

[♀♥Lady Urania♥♀]

“Since the stars have fallen from heaven and our highest symbols have paled, a secret life holds sway in the unconscious. All this would be quite superfluous in any age or culture that possessed symbols. Symbols are spirit from above, and under those conditions the spirit is above too. Therefore it would be a foolish and senseless undertaking for such people to wish to experience or investigate an unconscious that contains nothing but the silent, undisturbed sway of nature. Our unconscious, on the other hand, hides living water, spirit that has become nature, and that is why it is disturbed. Heaven has become for us the cosmic space of the physicists, and the divine empyrean a fair memory of things that once were. But the “heart glows” and a secret unrest gnaws at the roots of our being. In the words of Voluspa we may ask:
     “What murmurs Woton over Mimir’s head?
         Already the spring boils….” ~Jung