Fourth, apprenticeship to a hurricane energy such as the Wild Man, or the Warrior, or Dionysus, or Apollo. When he has done well, the Jung man receives a drink from the waters of the god.
Bly identifies ‘hurricane energy’ as the fourth stage of masculine initiation, naming it a numinous archetypal force to which the young man must apprentice himself rather than merely survive.
, Iron John: A Book About Men, 1990thesis