A mother observes her child at a family gathering of "pass the baby." The family members are sitting in a circle chatting and some want to hold the new three month old baby for a few moments. The baby girl does not have sitters and so it is clear that with most of the relatives she is not very happy being held by new faces, but she does not cry. She especially does not like a certain aunt who quickly passes her on. The mother sees that her baby is approaching her uncle and hopes he knows how to hold her. To her surprise he does, and additionally the baby girl lights up with smiles and relaxation.
This uncle has connected with a certain type of niece archetype. She could be described as an ascending partner. The daughter of the mother is like her in this way and her behavior at the family event indicates she will grow to express this energy.
This generation possesses within them the archetypal theme of the powerful servant, i.e., the way they have gone about achieving their status in a paying job. Likely, this uncle, in order to be successful in his career, has had to learn to work with women who are more educated or promoted than himself. Did the niece and uncle ever work together? No, she is just representative of the archetypal energy in the connection.
The owner of this pattern is seeing the relationship as a projection because she is not identifying so much anymore as a niece and daughter. She will say to herself, that is the daughter of a mother of the ascending type, with my uncle.
Going back in time to when she was a baby daughter, why would this connection exist and why would it be stressful? Perhaps she inherited a strong supportive connection to uncles because father was absent. But, not her father as it would have to be a "father" who had already proved that he had done this. The most likely person to point to, as a father-patriarch who was absent, would be her grandfather, and it was true that he had abandoned his family.
Moving forward in time from the family gathering and down a generation level, what other relationship can satisfy the criteria described? The girl (once baby) and her uncle, who would be the husband of the owner of the pattern, would be the most direct and strongest relationship.
Uncle Pluto, as in the myth of Persephone, has a reputation of being malefic. He is known as the power archetype of one's greatest pain. Looking at another stressful connection in the pattern, what the uncle wants to do is use the ascending partner's energy for his own promotion, thus he can enter the triangle of father absent. It is like learning along with a schoolgirl being promoted from grade to grade, but the synchrony happens in the hidden realm. His motivation is rooted in a noble cause, partially, going back to the drama of the father abandoner. He wants to or had to, support the type of women who took care of the baby girl, the girl left detached to her father who left to be with another woman. But, understandably, the dependent women having to interact with, perhaps, condescending men and other family members, might have experienced much stress.
This connection exists in the part of the psyche having to do with an update. It will have to express itself repeating some of the events of the past. The more not helpless and dependent the woman owner is, the more her outcome is going to look like what a man manifests. Unfortunately, this is often a painful process of transformation.
This connection exists in the part of the psyche having to do with an update. It will have to express itself repeating some of the events of the past. The more not helpless and dependent the woman owner is, the more her outcome is going to look like what a man manifests. Unfortunately, this is often a painful process of transformation.
Uncle Pluto and Persephone
Future Link: The Father Absent Triangles