The Partner

in here the world is home for underneath it all you and I belong

Symbols

Dove, House, Ocean, City, Garden, Fish (Bluehead Wrasse), Blue Moon, Dawn

Keywords

Oneness: spiritual love (agape), altruism, at home in the world, trusting others, openness, full spectrum of experience (spring to winter), collective unconscious

Intimacy: love, affection, home life, co-existence with another or others, confidences, soul connection, loose boundaries

Agreement: understanding, forgiveness, cooperation, partnership, forming an alliance or marriage, commitment, peace, harmony, union of opposites (persona/shadow), needing one another, civility or manners

Examples

Movie Clips & Videos:

Marriage scene - Moonrise Kingdom

Couples interviews – When Harry Met Sally

You are home - Almost Famous

Blind Date (visual symbolism of the house and inner barrier),
Moonrise Kingdom: The Power of Rituals,
Blue Moon (lyrics) – Mystery Train,

The Yin Yang: Meaning & Philosophy Explained,
The Goddess Embodied - Joseph Campbell

Podcasts:
The Secret to Marriage (Modern Love),
Gonads: X & Y (Radiolab),
Best Laid Plans (This American Life),
The History of Marriage and Other Intimate Relationships (Life Examined)

Writings:
The Art of Loving (Erich Fromm), Co-Existing With The "Other",
Alchemical Marriage of the Stag and Unicorn, Love Is a Joint Project,
The Difficult Balance of Intimacy and Independence,
The First Lesson of Marriage 101: There Are No Soul Mates,
Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austin)

Personal Boundaries, Intimacy, Interpersonal Relationship, Love,
Logos, Eros, Anima and Animus, Courtly Love, Marriage, Nondualism,
Bluehead Wrasse, Syzygy, Aion, Sacred Marriage, Oceanic Feeling

"Love is possible only if two people communicate with each other from the center of their existence, hence if each one of them experiences himself from the center of his existence. Only in this 'central experience' is human reality, only here is aliveness, only here is the basis for love.

Love experienced, thus, is a constant challenge; it is not a resting place, but a moving, growing, working together; even whether there is harmony or conflict, joy or sadness, is secondary to the fundamental fact that two people experience themselves from the essence of their existence, that they are one with each other by being one with themselves, rather than by fleeing from themselves."

– Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving (pp. 95-96)