A review by jdintr
King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine by Doug Gillette, Robert Moore

4.0

When I picked up a copy of this book, I treated it like a Buzzfeed poll: which am I?

What I was pleased to find inside was a call for balance. All men have King AND Warrior AND Magician AND Lover elements, but when these get out of balance, or one trait is too strong, this can lead to problems.

Moore's book is a short (less than 200 pages) introduction to these four paradigms, but it's enough of one that I learned a lot about myself, both strengths that needed moderation and weaknesses that needed development.