Coats of Arms, Family Crests and Seals and the Sacred Truth Behind the Symbolism
Coats of arms, family crests and seals, as well as genealogy, interior design, leadership and social etiquette, are based on much deeper symbols than most realize…
Almost always, symbols related to life, in the sense of life cycles of men, women, annual events and god (in some places and times, the gods). The field of Jungian psychology is the best approach to determining the inner aspects of symbols, and there is significant crossover of ideologies between myth and legend, alchemy, and our inner worlds; within heraldic art there are many symbols that are important images of individuation; the noun that identifies the progressive consciousness and the maturation process of the deep and archetypal Self and the internal structuring components; essentially you, at your core.
As we look at the key elements and delve deeper into the corresponding symbol, words, and distinct inference, one determines the relationship between the outer and inner worlds, thus:
Gold, the color of the sun and the main symbol of order and generative provider, and therefore the main symbol of royalty; as symbolized by the Mesopotamians with the winged solar disk, the earthly authority granted by God to the king, with the rod and the golden ring, the symbols of the king’s reign. From noble birth to dutiful service, the king leads through his health, generativity, and jurisprudence, and ensures the prosperity of the land.
The Symbol and Archetype of the King – The Life Imparting Masculine Values at the Top of the Chain of Leadership: Order, masculinity, imparting energy to the world by accessing sacred inner essence, divine energy, a place of tremendous energy, nuclear power-center plant dissipator of translated and regulated energies, creative power in the eyes, builder of worlds, conscientious, insightful and independent, hardworking, risky, brave, resistant, protective, autonomous, provider, procreator, will, contemplates the true value of others: a face that confirms, reflects and blesses, provides meaningful contribution, integrity, commitment, search for wholeness, real calm, self-confidence, firm limits, creativity, caring, wisdom, courage, insight, clarity, patience, benevolence and power, maturity, strong, decisive, aggressive, masculine, potent, powerful enough to overturn the world, stewardship, wholeness, relationship, compassion, m mercy, an enigmatic smile: a sign of supreme confidence, red eyes fierce friend and foe alike, dynamic and calm seal, stands up for others with great ferocity, authority, wealth, generous, bold in vision and voice, statement, fruitful power , source of life and blessing, abundance, wrathful judge, light and fire, swift hands and sure motion, forceful agency, generativity, inspired, empowerment, battlefield prowess, radiance, a producer builder, admiration, success, respect, generous, productive, effective, attractive, economic weight, natural ability to ‘maintain the transference’, loving stillness in the eyes, and so on.
To evoke these values is to be masculine: creating and inserting life-giving values into the world is masculine. The immature often see and attempt to forcibly hand over kingship rather than institute it with natural authority.
Queen’s Symbol – The Naked Truth of Sacred Femininity: Silver, the color of the moon, Luna and the symbol of femininity personified by the queen. The crescent moon, similar to the tusk of a wild boar, the animal chosen by the ancient Greeks to ‘fight’ at a moment of initiation and rite of passage for their young. Initiation is a time to translate the warrior energy of the youth into purposeful energy of greater value production. Femininity, more than a symbol of womanhood and womanhood -although a woman’s capacity to contain within her body a greater volume of feminine spirit tends to be greater- is a symbol of a ‘capacity to receive’ – from the depths of the earth and the great mother. But also to receive unconsciously repressed material, putting your energies into positive service, unless it lies dormant or recedes and manifests itself in life as unwanted feelings, pride, or depression. In the fight of the Greek initiate with the wild boar, his tusk pierces the candidate’s thigh, and the latter receives -painfully and truly- the information encoded at the cellular level: the sacred information that heals historical transgressions, that opens a vault of new capacities. and authority, and the drive to deliver a positive purpose with the qualities and character of royalty identified in the full archetypal expression above. The initiates’ fight with the boar is symbolic, of course.
The vault, filled with gold, lay in the shadows, in your unconscious: for the values of royalty to manifest, you must explore the unknown quarters of your own life; grievance, transgressions, responsibility, under or over compensation, fears, guilt, shame and anger; feeling it, naming it, consciously and sometimes ritually asking it to come into service; doing so produces natural authority and positioning for leadership. Thus only those who have begun the task of eating their shadow, carefully navigating the stories of the past, accumulate enough weight and presence of maturity and royalty. Priorities are always for bigger things, for the leader in terms of both a higher power or strong belief, and service to others for the good of the order. Complex lives, including working life, navigated with great skill, with care for the people involved and the process undertaken, also build, very honorably, healthy kings.
Thus, femininity is the reception of buried material, during the course of initiation, or through conscious day-to-day recognition of emotions and memories.
The use of symbols in heraldry – on coats of arms, family crest and seals – individually, you can also look at the nature of the beast or device to determine at a more basic level the interpretation symbols of the character, i.e. , a fox being sagacity, wisdom, or resourcefulness (according to Guillim’s interpretation), indicated on the right: note that this is not an exhaustive list and the deepest layer is the strongest interpretation, identified by discussion on the character of the king: they all lead to the same place through different coded routes.
In fact, it can be said that at the age of entering strong archetypal kingship, particularly at age 50, your impulse shifts from warrior energies to loving energies, and the generative cause of kingship, with the call to lead others for the good of the order. , created from her inner womb – another symbol of the feminine. Its fertility is the birth of royalty and an extraordinary level of value creation and abundance, on which future generations depend for the health of society.