Female Archetypes: Temptress
September 18th 2007 01:00
The seductress is one of the most potent female personas in existence. Though long misunderstood and ignored, she's the paradigmatic liberated woman, empowered with men and empowered in life. She's a threshold role model who can reinstate feminine sexual sovereignty and holistic happiness and remap the future.
Their chief artillery, though, was cerebral magic. Seduction is 99 percent mental sorcery, a hijack through the labyrinth to a fifth dimension and the conjuration of a constant state of emotion in motion. Without art, love sinks into stasis and ennui. The seductresses, par excellence, maintained the erotic dynamis, the perpetual light show of alternating solace and anxiety, quiescence and ecstasy, intimacy and distance, pleasure and pain. Like the early eagle-clawed love goddesses, they could be cruelles. At the same time, they delivered the balm of nurture and praise and the intoxicants of speech, nonrepression, festivity, and joie de vivre.
In short, they restored the life-death ever-whirling Goddess of Everything to men-her Way and the ongoing rapture and transcendence of her cosmic eros. Goddess avatars as they were, though, the love queens were far from perfect. Like all ultravital people, they contained flaws and contradictions and often disported above morality. Though sometimes great mothers, relatively few excelled at maternity or domestica. They were a fractious, tough lot.
Often the product of dysfunctional homes and early hardship, they had to fight for their lives and place in the sun. In the process they trampled feminine and cultural norms and usually ran afoul of the establishment.
Their chief artillery, though, was cerebral magic. Seduction is 99 percent mental sorcery, a hijack through the labyrinth to a fifth dimension and the conjuration of a constant state of emotion in motion. Without art, love sinks into stasis and ennui. The seductresses, par excellence, maintained the erotic dynamis, the perpetual light show of alternating solace and anxiety, quiescence and ecstasy, intimacy and distance, pleasure and pain. Like the early eagle-clawed love goddesses, they could be cruelles. At the same time, they delivered the balm of nurture and praise and the intoxicants of speech, nonrepression, festivity, and joie de vivre.
In short, they restored the life-death ever-whirling Goddess of Everything to men-her Way and the ongoing rapture and transcendence of her cosmic eros. Goddess avatars as they were, though, the love queens were far from perfect. Like all ultravital people, they contained flaws and contradictions and often disported above morality. Though sometimes great mothers, relatively few excelled at maternity or domestica. They were a fractious, tough lot.
Often the product of dysfunctional homes and early hardship, they had to fight for their lives and place in the sun. In the process they trampled feminine and cultural norms and usually ran afoul of the establishment.
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Comment by DuskDevi
Rugby World Cup 2007
I've just spent some time reading all the female Archetype posts.
These are great and all of us can recognise aspects of ourselves in all the archetypes yes?
It's possible to be a mix?...of 2?..
I wish you had *26 hours in your day Mis then you could maybe come up with a quiz
Which Female Archetype Are You?
*
Will leave comments on the other ones later Mis.
These are brilliant.
Hope you are well hon. Sorry I haven't been around.
Dusk
Comment by Miswanderlust
Killer Beats
Ramble On
Hipnotherapy
So good to see you! I have certainy missed you. I believe that there is some of us in all of the archetypes. I am glad that you have enjoyed reading these posts!
Hope you are well!
Mis
PS.... there are a few quizzes online regarding this but I am not happy with them. I will keep on looking!
Comment by Mrs M
Mum's Word
Love & stuff
Mrs M
Comment by Miswanderlust
Killer Beats
Ramble On
Hipnotherapy
I had a friend in college who could part the sea of men with a look or gesture.
Mis
Comment by Lilla
From The Home Front
Enviro Warrior
Dream Herald
Esoteric Bookshop
This game is fun too ... but as you so rightly say,
Back to the girl next door then.
Lilla ...
Comment by Miswanderlust
Killer Beats
Ramble On
Hipnotherapy
Oh I pay homage to the girl next door!
Mis
Comment by Anonymous