Adolescence & The Sacred Marriage

Image acknowledgements - Johann Daniel Mylius, 1622 (via https://www.anne-marie.eu/en/k...)

The Netflix series: Adolescence has been a world wide phenomenon. 

When something such as this has engaged so many people, across generations, we know that it's touching something in the Collective Psyche. 

Something is longing to be seen and heard. 

The series highlights the (toxic) relationships between adolescent girls and boys, caused, as some suggest, by the secret, hidden, online social media platforms.  

It's always the most vulnerable in the System that illuminates what's longing to be seen, heard and acknowledged. 

This vulnerability always represents something that is hidden and not being seen in the WHOLE system. 

It involves the splitting off and disconnection from something that's excluded and hidden. This is because it's too hard to look at, too dangerous to be spoken of or too scary to be seen.

One of our fundamental needs as humans is a sense of IDENTITY, which includes a sense of Belonging and Self Esteem. 

(A need is something that's is necessary for an organism to live a healthy life).

Adolesence is the transition to adulthood

• Adolescents navigate peer relationships, romantic relationships, and begin to establish their place in society.
• The transition to adulthood involves navigating new social roles, responsibilities, and expectations, including moving out of the family home, entering the workforce, and forming long-term relationships
• Adolescence is a time of heightened emotional sensitivity, identity exploration, and the development of a stronger sense of self.
• - Google AI

Adolescence is by its nature, a time of identity exploration and also rebelliousness as they start to explore their sense of who they are and where they belong. For this reason it can often be a more dangerous life stage. The loss of natural 'rites of passage' in the culture means that adolescents are often navigating this life stage alone, which makes it an even more perilous time. 

It is widely known that there's a huge Collective Void between the generations currently that is leading adolescents to search for their (new) sense of identity online, a place that can now be more dangerous through the lack of parental and community visibility and the lack of regulation.

What the Netflix Adolesents Series also illuminated though was perhaps a more hidden Collective Void, which is the relationship void between men and women.

It's these collective voids which relates to the missing Eldering function in our culture. 

The function of Eldership and Eldering in our Culture is connected to the "Sacred Marriage", it is the union of the Masculine and the Feminine Archetypes as they exist in each and every one of us.

Eldering therefore, goes beyond "Identity".

Our current culture, however, is driven by Separation and Division and encourages a focus on Splitting and Othering, rather than love, connection and cohesion. 

In this workshop we'll be exploring the Sacred Marriage and its role in Eldersing, alchemy, rites of passage and cultural transformation.  

We'll also be discussing the systemic keys to re-covering and re-membering that which has been split in order to bring us back into love and harmony as a human collective.  

We will begin with a short presentation of the subject and then open it up to the group for a wider discussion.

Cameras will be expected to be on; however there is never any pressure or expectation to speak or contribute to the discussion.