The Juniper Spirit represents the archetype of someone who follows his or her own path, purified of hereditary, educational and social conditioning, with forza . The Juniper helps us to feel protected and safe on this path, defending it from the interference of others.

The Juniper Spirit helps to:

• feel free from the expectations of the family and those who came before us.
• Purifying oneself and one's path from unnecessary emotional patterns.
• freeing themselves through joking, laughing.
• recognise and choose their own path.
• defend their path.
• establishing a harmonious relationship with parents and ancestors.

The virtues of Juniper

The Juniper Spirit helps us to recognise our way, to feel clearly what our path is. It gives us protection and forza to follow it and defend it from external and internal interferences, helping us to purify the path from what does not belong to us. It facilitates the recognition of the expectations and projections of others that we absorbed as children believing them to be our own, and assists us in freeing ourselves from them.

Juniper helps to establish a harmonious and constructive relationship with parents and ancestors, to find the sense of union that binds us to them, meeting them with the utmost respect but without emotional dependence. We can learn to take from them what is useful for our journey and leave to them what we do not need.

The Juniper Spirit makes us feel protected and allows us to face difficult situations with the security of knowing that we are following our own path. With his burlesque and at first sight disrespectful manner, he is always willing to help and protect us, if we really want it.

The jester Juniper teaches us to laugh, to find the comic side of every situation. In this way, we can overcome even difficult situations with a smile, even an ironic smile, when we realise that life is too serious to be taken too seriously.

The relevance of the Juniper Spirit

At this particular moment in history, when we are witnessing a strong acceleration of human evolution, a huge gap has opened up between the old and the new. Until recently, change happened very slowly, with children growing up in a world almost identical to the one their parents grew up in. Today, however, things are changing radically at such a speed that each generation is growing up in a new context, with the effect that communication between generations has become very difficult. The new generations find themselves with behaviours learned from their parents and grandparents that on the one hand may be a hindrance to their own path and on the other hand may, even if appropriate, not be accepted because they seem to belong to a world now gone.

Thus a generation without roots and without goals is growing up, a generation that will have to take flight towards a new humanity if it wants to survive, but that struggles to do so without feeling the protection of the ancestors. The Juniper Spirit becomes very important to bring the generations together with mutual respect in a meeting where the "old" can be enriched by the fresh ideas of the young and the young can benefit from the experience of the old.