Wedding Dreams: Symbols of Sacred Union and Inner Transformation
This Jungian Life Podcast
Joseph Lee, Deborah Stewart, Lisa Marchiano
4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 14 November 2024
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
How does one reconcile and integrate opposing forces within to achieve wholeness?
Wedding dreams symbolize the union of opposites that spans psychological, spiritual, and alchemical dimensions. Encountering the wedding archetype in dreams constellates an inner marriage that calls for synthesis of known and novel traits and attitudes—depicted as the merging of masculine and feminine aspects or encounters with shadow.
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Alchemy called this process the hierosgamos, or sacred marriage, which fosters a state of wholeness. Archetypal images and themes surface such as light and darkness, the prince bearing the stone, and cycles of creation and dissolution. These images, and others, evoke fascination and prepare our waking mind to receive our emerging potential as the beloved. When projected onto others, these archetypal images—represented by anima or animus—complicate outer relationships. When we adopt a symbolic attitude the energy shifts to our internal relationships where radical change can revitalize every area of our lives.
Prepare to discover what uniting inner opposites reveals about personal transformation; how to engage with inner conflicts as a path to wholeness; which symbols guide the journey of self-integration; whether the psyche seeks balance through symbolic union; why confronting hidden aspects of the self is essential for individuation…and so much more.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this Jungian life. |
| 0:04.2 | Three good friends and Jungian analysts, Lisa Marchiano, Deborah Stewart, and Joseph Lee, |
| 0:09.7 | invite you to join them for an intimate and honest conversation that brings a psychological perspective to important issues of the day. |
| 0:19.4 | I'm Lisa Marchiano, and I'm a Jungian analyst in Philadelphia. |
| 0:23.4 | I'm Joseph Lee, and I'm a Jungian analyst in Virginia Beach, Virginia. |
| 0:28.4 | I'm Deborah Stewart, a Jungian analyst, on Cape Cod. |
| 0:56.0 | Thank you. Hello. Now that our new book, Dreamwise, is out in the world, I want to tell you about a few ways that you can get involved. First, we're going to be recording a live podcast book launch this coming Sunday, |
| 1:05.2 | November 17th, at 1 p.m. Eastern. You can catch me the next weekend, Sunday, November 24th in Chicago. |
| 1:11.3 | There will be a brunch, a book signing, and a workshop. Finally, there will be an event near Philadelphia, where I'll be the present to talk about the book and sign a book signing and a workshop. Finally, there will be an event near Philadelphia where I'll be the present to talk about the book |
| 1:14.6 | and sign books, and that will be Sunday, December 1st, |
| 1:17.9 | so you can catch me live either in Philadelphia area |
| 1:21.4 | or in Chicago. |
| 1:23.1 | Most importantly, read the book |
| 1:25.1 | and write us a review on Amazon. |
| 1:27.3 | Thanks so much. Welcome to our second |
| 1:30.5 | installment of our special year-long series that we're calling dreamography, where we're looking |
| 1:36.2 | at different types of dreams. We're asking you to submit your dream. And then we're going to |
| 1:41.7 | look at a bunch of dreams at that type and just see what they might all have in common, what we can learn about this type of dream. And then we're going to look at a bunch of dreams of that type and just see what they might all have in common, what we can learn about this type of dream. So today's dreams are |
| 1:50.3 | wedding dreams. Wedding dreams seem pretty common. I was interested that we got many, many more |
| 1:57.4 | submissions from women than men, although we did get some dreams from then, |
| 2:01.1 | and we will talk about some of those today. But so we're going to talk, first of all, |
| 2:05.5 | a little bit about the archetype of weddings, and what that might mean, the archetype of |
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