The Archetype of a Mother…

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Our Mother within

The image you wear is only yours but shared by millions of other
Maybe not even like your mother more like the other
A mother you can feel and see even if she is invisible
But still controls your destiny with an iron fist
or let you lean your head against the base of the life flow

The archetypal image of a mother is in all of us right from the start. It is to this mother archetype that the whole nature relate. The little child to her mother, the bird kid to hers/his etc.. Whether we know our mother or not we have a picture of a mother with a large M within.

We speak, in Sweden, about ” Mother Svea” as an archetype for the Swedish people to relate to. Mother Earth then is a universal variant. Yes, we can find this "prototype" in many guises. It's pretty powerful to think of the enormous force and charge that is in just that ”Mother complex”. How we relate to this then affects all our lives.
The small child have this prototype inside itself , long before it has even become aware that it has a mother. Life through we are the looking after many of its counterparts in real life.
The Mother Archetype, which, depending on the relationship we have to it , perhaps the most critical in terms of our mental development

For children, their mother almost always is ”The Mother” no matter how evil they have done their children. I think that may be related to that we can not always see our real mother really well. She is collared by this archetypal filterShe stands for the dream, longing, security, nursing care and the good earth, to grow from

She stands for the origin of life.

No wonder she rarely objectively assessed