Greek
God Hephaestus

The Greek god Hephaestus is the archetype within human beings that urges the creation of beautiful and functional objects.

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 Hephaestus active within your life look for…

• introverted and intense personality
• potentially creative and totally dedicated to life’s
• focused on life’s work to the exclusion of other areas
  of life
• creates functional and/or beautiful things

Possible drawbacks to living the Hephaestus
archetype…

• feels an outsider
• not part of the ‘in’ crowd
• feels rejected by society’s values
• if doesn’t find gratifying work or is not true to
  creative abilities then will have no natural outlet for deep emotions

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.   If you would like some guidance or clarification, please contact me, I would love to help.