Hillman is not describing a developmental achievement here — a stage you pass through on the way to maturity. The union of puer and senex is not a graduation. What he means by "remaining consequently true to the puer aspect" is something stranger and more difficult: you do not resolve the gambol and the sun-struck aspiration by transcending them, but by owning them as history. The puer's past is not an embarrassment to be metabolized into wisdom. It is the substance of whatever weight you eventually carry.

This is where the passage cuts against a certain spiritual habit — the one that reads depth psychology as a ladder, each archetype a rung toward some higher integration. Festina lente, make haste slowly, refuses the ladder. The slowing is not the result of effort or discipline or the cultivation of patience. It is what happens when consequences — actual consequences, the ones that follow from who you actually were — are allowed to catch up. History does the work, not aspiration toward the senex. Standing for your own past rather than revising it into a usable origin story is what brings the falcon back to the arm.