Random Archetype Insights

[Plenum]

I had previously conceived of the Enchantress archetype as being the dipole of attraction/avoidance. Both of these actions being a distortion of physical existence as it is.

but in the last few weeks, I have come to see the operation of the Enchantress as being even more subtle.

quite often, as a response to the impulse of Avoidance, one simultaneously creates an Attraction to something else, essentially creating a Distraction response.

it is almost as though, 'I don't want to deal with this', so to blot it out of my mind, and 'avoid' it fully, I will become 'attracted' to this, and fill my attention with it.

and so something like alcholism or other addictions or addictive behaviours can be seen as this Distraction Response.

it is attraction driven by avoidance.

and when queried, one will deny to their heart of hearts that there is any avoidance going on, as well as any attraction going on - 'I am not an addict. I can stop anytime'. To a lesser degree, all forms of distraction would seem to be based on this mechanism.

The Enchantress holds the position of being the Experience of the Body; and how much of our physical reality is based on this ongoing avoidance/attraction/distraction?

peace out

I have considered the emotion of 'nolstalgia' and what it might be.

my conclusion currently is that it is related to this "attraction driven by avoidance" mechanism.

what is nolstalgia?

it is a longing for a past, in which things were 'better' and 'nicer'. That 'past' is approved or accepted by the self. In contrast, the present moment is less 'nice' or less 'acceptable' (ie a form a rejection). So nolstalgia is a comparison of the present to the past in which the past wins out. ie, I don't like the now, don't want to be here.

through avoiding the present, one creates an attraction to the past. ie attraction driven by avoidance.

the same mechanism could apply to someone who overly looks forward to the future or future expectations. The future, in this case, is more 'attractive' and 'acceptable' than the present. Ie things are sh*t now, but will be better sometime soon.

again, attraction driven by avoidance.

lack of 'acceptance' is what drives all these processes