| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Water | A birth symbol, mystery of creation; purification and redemption; fertility and growth; according to Jung, most common symbol for the unconscious; spiritual mystery and infinity; baptism; death and rebirth; timelessness and eternity. |
| Crossroads | A character encounters this place or time of decision when a realization is made and change or penance results |
| Tower | This strong place of evil, represents the isolation of self |
| Sun | Indicator of creative energy, law in nature, consciousness (thinking, enlightenment, wisdom, spiritual vision) |
| Rising Sun | birth, creation enlightenment |
| Setting Sun | death |
| Black | darkness, chaos, mystery, the unknown, death, wisdom, evil, melancholy |
| Red | blood, sacrifice, passion, disorder |
| Green | growth, hope, fertility |
| Blue | highly positive, security, tranquility, spiritual purity |
| Earth Mother | Symbolic of fruition, abundance, and fertility; traditionally offers spiritual and emotional nourishment to those with whom she comes in contact; often depicted in earth colors. |
| Supernatural Intervention | Spiritual beings intervene on the side of the hero or sometimes against him. |
| Platonic Ideal | A woman who is a source of inspiration to the ideal hero, who has an intellectual rather than physical attraction to her |
| Wind | Breath of the world, harbinger of change |
| Evil Figure with Ultimately Good Heart | Devil figure with the potential to be good; saved by the love of the hero |
| Garden | A place of paradise and life |
| Desert | This wasteland of spiritual aridity, death, nihilism or hopelessness is usually one of the hero's ordeals. |
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