I would say that feminine and masculine are qualities of beingness, whereas mother or father is more a dynamic of care and nurturing. You could depict the feminine and the masculine in and of themselves, whereas a depiction of the mother or father would only make sense in relationship with the thing receiving the care or nurturing. Most obvious is a mother minding a child, but consider a man tending a garden. The Mother and father archetype transcends Child, Adult and Parental states of ego program, where they degrade into authoritarianism and disempowerment of the other. Would the loving gardener be scolding his carrots for growing wonky this year? The idea made me ponder, because we talk about Mother Gaia, and are encouraged to manifest as the Innocent Child, but this seems a little one sided. I imagine we’re called to Mother Gaia, to be Gaia’s Mother, at least symbiotically. The animals, the plants, the insects, the landscape, they’re like young children, defenceless. And when those times arise for us to step up or act out to protect those things that are Innocent and defenceless, if we have to power and wisdom to do so, we’re surely called to do it. And be in loving reverence and respect of those things. Mother and father transcends age, gender and species. You might see a man stumble, and steady him, an elderly person struggling, and help them, somebody lost or vulnerable, and guide them. It’s an archetype I call the Fairy God Mother because it discards that Child, Adult and Parental ego paradigm. It comes and goes like magic, blink and you miss it. It’s a dynamic loving act, not an entrenched behavioural pattern that potentially disempowers and encapsulates the majority of ones being. The etheric nature of the rays are depicted perfectly as rainbow colours. As always, thank-you for the space to share thoughts.