Synopsis: One event causes two classmates to be at odds with each other until another event causes them to unite.
This episode can be seen as an illustration of the conscious ego and the unconscious coming together in the space between the two, a psychic opening that James Hillman called the metaxy.
In “Children of Mars,” we are introduced to two schoolgirls, Kima and Lil, who both have parents working at facilities that orbit Mars. Rushing to catch the shuttle for school Lil bumps into Kima, causing Kima to drop her knapsack, miss the shuttle, and be late for school. When Kima gets to school she trips Lil, Lil then shoves Kima, and a fight breaks out. The two are sent to what looks to be the principal’s office, when an emergency alert is received. Mars has been attacked and from the reports that are being broadcasted over large video screens, it looks like both the facilities that their parents worked at have been destroyed. Lil and Kima join hands as they watch what seems to be the death of their parents.
In this episode, Kima and Lil both start their days individually, with no regard to the other, until Lil bumps into Kima, causing them to acknowledge the other’s existence. Then when both their parents fall victim to an attack on Mars, their attitude changes and Lil and Kima realize they need each other. This can be compared to how the conscious ego and the unconscious exist in our psyches, together yet apart, until something happens that brings the unconscious to the attention of the ego. When this occurs a change in perspective is possible. Often this change occurs in a third area of the psyche, a place Hillman called the metaxy, where the two opposite ways of being can come together and create a new third way to be in the world.
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