Up: [[Symbols]] Created: 2025-03-21 Our earliest home is the womb, so first homes were encompassing like that: caves, mud huts in Africa, tepees. We project home on to places that are not a house, such as being with a close friend or in a city we particularly love. Home is belonging, contentment, but also freedom — in its positive associations. To be homeless is associated with rootlessness, restlessness, emptiness, longing. Extensions of the Mother archetype > [!Orbit] ARAS, *The Book of Symbols* > Home is the goal of epic odysseys, spiritual quests and psychic transformations. (p.556) See also - [[House versus Home]] - [[Hearth]] - [[House Drawing Observations]]