What direction are you going? Head for a life of meaning.
I love to study archetypes, folk & fairy tales, Jungian psychology and dream journaling. These studies provide imaginational guide maps which ask you to be your own heroine or hero. Your personal story can be viewed as a mythological journey into the depths of your being. A story in which you can win or fail, depending on whether you are paying attention to “post it notes” from the universe. You are your own archetype.
We can cling to old narratives, dependency, inferiority, and deficit thinking; which can be so limiting, which will anchor us to ideas that don’t fit our personal paradigm. It is a comfortable place and most people resist leaving the cozy familiarity of personal history. Yes, faced with the liminality of not being able to see ahead, but knowing that you have to walk through the door, is daunting. But never the less you must persist. This is the heroines journey, to persist in the face of fears so strong you are left feeling shaken and insecure.
I have been thinking about liminality lately. Nothing seems certain anymore. The path I was on, had become precarious, unpredictable, filled with frustration and anger. So much has changed, ended, and no longer held true. The old ways were no longer viable. I find myself at the threshold, the curtains are drawn back but the light is dim and I cannot see the new path, yet I know with absolute certainty, I must walk upon it or die.
Sabian Symbol phase 230 (Scorpio 20 dg): A woman draws away two dark curtains closing the entrance to a sacred pathway. The deepest intuitions of the soul, a path to the mystics life is opened up once the darkness of fear, egocentricity and dualistic morality is removed. It reveals what a positive reliance upon faith and intuition can bring about. Courage is needed to go through the veiling darkness – the courage to venture beyond the familiar and the traditionally known, to plunge ahead into the unknown. ~ Dane Rudhyar, An Astrological Mandala
postscript: I had a dream last night, after writing in my blog yesterday. I am pleased with the dream and feel like I am being guided down the right path. Backstory to my journey over the last year has been working with my shadow complex, Saturn astrology, relaxing into owning my own shit and being okay with it. In other words, loving my self and not labeling my psychological being in a dualistic manner of good or bad.
I have actually had two days of dreaming, revolving around destruction of old homes and the reconstruction of new homes. The first dream involved exploring an old Victorian mansion, one in which I have had several dreams about. The place was old and was scheduled to be torn down, and the neighborhood was also being graded and readied for new homes. Last nights dream, found me standing in the wreckage of a building and watching a spiritual ceremony in which a new threshold was being established. The priests were dressed very colorfully, kinda looked like Peruvian shamans. They carried a door jamb to where the entrance to a new building would be constructed. There were steps up to the threshold, behind the threshold were the blackened remains of the former building. I was told by the priests to respect and honor this new threshold and it will honor you.
Sacred Spiral Design 