The original state of consciousness is one of unity with the mother -- the Static Feminine. Ego consciousness arises out of this unity and becomes aware of its separation as it moves to the Dynamic Masculine. The next stage of development of the psyche is the transition to the Static Masculine; this transition is marked by a fiery initiation. Next comes a move to the Dynamic Feminine as followed by a watery initiation as the psyche returns once more to the Static Feminine and is "reborn" in those waters.

Those are the four basic archetypes we're looking at here: Masculine and Feminine / Static and Dynamic.

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Static Feminine - Positive Qualities
- Organic, undifferentiated wholeness
- Uterus, nature-in-the-round
- Being and self-acceptance
- The Great Mother (Archetype)

Static Feminine - Negative Qualities
- Smothering entanglement
- Inertia, ensnaring and devouring routine
- Stupornous, mere existence
- The Devouring Mother (Archetype)

Dynamic Masculine - Positive Qualities
- Initiative
- Goal-directedness
- Grandiosity
- Linearity
- Technology
- The Dragon-Slaying Hero (Archetype)

Dynamic Masculine - Negative Qualities
- Order, organization for its own sake
- Complacency, rigid expectations
- Dehumanizing righteousness
- Inauthenticity, pettiness
- The Saturnine Senex (bitter, envy ridden old-man) (Archetype)

Dynamic Feminine - Positive Qualities
- Transformation
- "Altered states"
- Imagination and play
- Liminality and "potential space"
- Dionysos, the Dancing Maenad, the Trickster (Archetypes)

Dynamic Feminine - Negative Qualities
- Transformations and altered states leading to chaos, emptiness, despair and death including depression, alcohol and drug intoxication, hysteria, and identity diffusion.
- The Mad Man/Woman (Archetype)

Static Masculine - Positive Qualities
- Order
- Rules and regulations
- Systems of meaning
- Hierarchies of value
- Theories of truth
- Standards
- Persona
- The Great Father (Archetype)

Static Masculine - Negative Qualities
- Inflation
- Willfulness and determination
- Rape, directed violence
- Life-taking technologies
- Disregard for nature and ecology
- The Despot (Archetype)

Source: Masculine & Feminine: The Natural Flow of Opposites Within the Psyche