How many years of beauty do I have left? she asks me. How many more do you want? Here. Here is 34. Here is 50.
When you are 80 years old and your beauty rises in ways your cells cannot even imagine now and your wild bones grow luminous and ripe, having carried the weight of a passionate life.
When your hair is aflame with winter and you have decades of learning and leaving and loving sewn into the corners of your eyes and your children come home to find their own history in your face.
When you know what it feels like to fail ferociously and have gained the capacity to rise and rise and rise again.
When you can make your tea on a quiet and ridiculously lonely afternoon and still have a song in your heart Queen owl wings beating beneath the cotton of your sweater.
Because your beauty began there beneath the sweater and the skin, remember?
“But if we understand anything of the unconscious, we know that it cannot be swallowed. We also know that it is dangerous to suppress it, because the unconscious is life and this life turns against us if suppressed, as happens in neurosis. Conscious and unconscious do not make a whole when one of them is suppressed and injured by the other. If they must contend, at least let it be a fair fight with equal rights on both sides.
Both are aspects of life. Consciousness should defend its reason and protect itself, and the chaotic life of the unconscious should be given the chance of having its way too – as much of it as we can stand. This means open conflict and open collaboration at once. That, evidently, is the way human life should be. It is the old game of hammer and anvil: between them the patient iron is forged into an indestructible whole, an ‘individual.’ This, roughly, is what I mean by the individuation process.”
― C.G. Jung
Jungian and post-Jungian Clinical Concepts Certificate Course
This semester: ARCHETYPES AND INDIVIDUATION
Modules:
Individuation within the interactive field: Jungian clinical reflections by Mark Saban
Theatres of Individuation by Paul Attinello
Cultural Complexes in the Life of Individuals, Groups and Nation States by Tom Singer
Social and Political Issues (race): Cultural Complexes by Ruth Williams
Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious by Mark Saban
Semester starts 1 October 2023 Registration closes 30 September.
This weekend, several cosmic events combine to create a unique energy mix. These include the Equinox, the beginning of Libra Season, solar storms, and various planetary retrogrades.
The Equinox signifies a balance between day and night and encourages us to reflect on our lives, asking if we’re in sync with our true selves.
Libra Season brings a sense of harmony, emphasizing cooperation, reciprocation, and compromise in our interactions with others.
Solar storms, bursts of energy from the Sun, may intensify our emotions, disrupt our sleep, and lead to vivid dreams.
During solar storms, masses of radiant energy penetrate Earth’s atmosphere, and it is known to cause any of the following effects:
*Heightened awareness, enhanced intuition, and increased sensitivity. *Having insights that appear suddenly and seemingly out of nowhere. *Premonitions, intense dreams, or nightmares. *Temporary memory loss, forgetfulness, or misplacing items. *Seeing and feeling energy, such as orbs, sparks, or flashes of light, and sensing warmth in the palms of hands. *Noticing synchronicities, such as certain number patterns reappearing. *Being more consciously aware of other people’s energy fields and highly sensitive to negativity. *Feeling a desire to spend time alone for introspection. *Hearing certain sounds that others cannot hear, such as voices, music, buzzing, or banging. *Disrupted sleep and waking up at the same time every night, usually between 2:00 to 4:00 a.m. *Feeling disconnected from society’s norms while recognizing an unbreakable connection through energy. *Knowing things without knowing how or why and trusting that inner knowing. *Walking away from drama and conflict. *No longer feeling the need to force anything, allowing what flows to flow freely and letting what doesn’t flow fall away. *Having visions, premonitions, and the ability to predict future events or sensing great unrest, whether with a loved one or somewhere in the world, instantly.
Additionally, several planets are in retrograde, prompting us to reevaluate and make changes in our lives.
The upcoming weekend offers us a cosmic reset, an opportunity for personal growth, and the promise of blessings and opportunities as we step into the next season. It’s a time that will leave us feeling refreshed and in harmony with ourselves.
“In the Lakota/Sioux tradition, a person who is grieving is considered most waken, most holy. There’s a sense that when someone is struck by the sudden lightning of loss, he or she stands on the threshold of the spirit world. The prayers of those who grieve are considered especially strong, and it is proper to ask them for their help. You might recall what it’s like to be with someone who has grieved deeply. The person has no layer of protection, nothing left to defend. The mystery is looking out through that person’s eyes. For the time being, he or she has accepted the reality of loss and has stopped clinging to the past or grasping at the future. In the groundless openness of sorrow, there is a wholeness of presence and a deep natural wisdom.” ― Tara Brach
‘What people don’t realize is that some people are single in this generation because they are healed, which makes them incompatible with trauma bonds.
Unfortunately, trauma bonds are the template of our culture at this time.
Those who choose peace over trauma will have difficulty in relationships because most people that we meet are emotionally damaged in some way.
Healed people seek healthy bonds. These bonds hold space for authenticity and correction. It’s kind of like an oxymoron.
About 90% of the relationships/marriages that we see are actually trauma bonds. Those involved “need” the other person to make them feel whole because they’re both broken mentally, emotionally and/or spiritually.
Make peace with all the women you once were. Lay flowers at their feet. Offer them incense and honey and forgiveness. Honor them and give them your silence. Listen. Bless them. Let them be, for they are the bones of the temple you sit in now. ~ 💜🤎💜 (by Emory Hall)
Excitement doesn’t knock at your door any less when you’re older than when you’re younger. It’s just that when you’re younger, you’re more likely to open the door and let it in. With age, you start growing ambivalent about excitement. You might say that you want it, but at the same time you’re not sure you have the energy for it. Yet a surefire way to diminish your energy is to deny the Ultimate energy pill, which is participation in life itself. ~Marianne Williamson