The inner masculine side of a woman, one of Carl Jung’s twin concepts of human psyche (the other is Anima)
Ways of becoming aware of animus
- Dreams
- Active imagination
- Archetypal imagery
- Projections onto others
How to feed one’s animus
- Questioning borrowed opinions from familial or social pressure
- Sitting with own authority, taking up space
- Pursuing goals for their own sake, not for service or worth
- Cross-examining one’s inner critic (where is self-criticism or doubt coming from? what is the evidence?)
- Act from logos or yang (order, forward movement)