Apollo
The Sun God

Apollo the sun god is the archetype of the one who finds life quite easy and enjoyable. Goals are realistic and worked towards logically and persistently but lacks drive to make it to the top.

The word archetype describes what Carl Jung identified as patterns of behaving that arise from the collective unconscious of humankind. The pattern of being is not unique to an individual; it is available to manifest in each of us because we each reflect a part of the whole.

To recognize Apollo active within your life look for…

• Curious and inquisitive about the world
• successful at anything the mind is put towards
• wants to master skills
• lives more in the mind and thoughts rather than body
  and emotions

Possible drawbacks to living the Apollo archetype…

• Inability and unwillingness to connect emotionally and
  intimately
• More concerned with own thoughts and judgments than
  emotions and communicating with others
• In later years may find all that was important up until
  then is now meaningless.

This information has been summarized from the book Gods in Everyman by Jean Shinoda Bolen.

If you recognize your patterns of acting and being in the world from the above list and are curious about what you can do to change, then first and foremost use this information as proof that you are not different, defective or a victim of your past programming.

The above shows the commonality in the human experience when certain innate energies are active. As such begin by accepting that you do indeed own these particular traits and let it be OK that you do.

This will slightly raise your self-esteem and self-acceptance for each trait you own.

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