the King archetype and the masculine identity

The genuine patriarchy brings down the sun through the Sacred King, into every man and woman in the culture; and the genuine matriarchy brings down the moon, through the Sacred Queen, to every woman and every man in the culture. The death of the Sacred King and Queen means that we live now in a system of industrial domination, which is not patriarchy. The system we live in give no honor to the male mode of feeling nor to the female mode of feeling. The system of industrial domination determines how things go with us in the world of resources, values, and allegiances; what animals live and what animals dies; how children are treated. And in the mode of industrial domination there is neither king nor queen. -- Robert Bly from "Iron John: A Book About Men"

Majora Carter

"... and they were amazed at her teaching (and her arms), for her message was with authority." Luke 4:32

There are two spiritual dangers...

"There are two spiritual dangers in not owning a farm. One is the danger of supposing that breakfast comes from the grocery, and the other that heat comes from the furnace
To avoid the first danger, one should plant a garden, preferably where there is no grocer to confuse the issue.
To avoid the second, he should lay a split of good oak on the andirons, preferably where there is no furnace, and let it warm his shins while a February blizzard tosses the trees outside"

From "A Sand County Almanac" by Aldo Leopold