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Creating Balance






                   Lessons Learned with our

                     Shadow Dance Partners





        Maybe in your complex life experiences,                some of the most noble, kind and wise
        you had to finally take the steps to love              parts of ourselves onto others.

        and take care of yourself. You found the
        courage to walk away from psychological                Or maybe you set it up unconsciously
        abuse after person number three was                    to keep trying to change a parent by

        emotionally badgering you, using you                   marrying a partner who turns out to
        financially or maintaining another                     be exactly like your mother or father.

        relationship behind your back. You                     This may seem impossible, but it is
        may have even felt like a victim in these              extremely common in first marriages. It
        situations when they were over. When                   can also happen again as we may marry

        you look back, you realize the experiences  one parent and then the other one.
        were part of the ongoing relationship                  There is or was (if they are deceased)

        from day one. By being in denial, you                  an unconscious collusion that they had
        refused to see it and naively thought you              in their own relationship. They were
        could change the other person over time.               two people polarized into extremes.

                                                               Usually, we inherit their relationship
        Maybe you went through the complete                    patterns ourselves. Getting to a place of

        opposite — stick it out and take                       consciousness about this is profound and
        responsibility for a repeating pattern as you  eye opening. It makes you recognize the
        recognized that yes, you’re doing the same             inherent dynamic impetus in everyone to

        thing yourself. An example of that would               evolve. What they could not work out, we
        be self-centered, controlling behavior or              are destined to try to work out ourselves.

        anger which are commonly projected.
        Kudos to you — big insight! It takes a strong  Patterns exist because they are inherent
        ego to have the courage to recognize that              in our own Astrology (psychology) that

        the mirrors being held up by others are                we inherited from our parents. As we
        indeed purposeful. We not only project                 have all heard at one time or another,

        negative qualities but also what Carl Jung             like attracts like and opposites attract.
        called our Gold. These are positive qualities  Our shadow holds the keys to why this
        we see at first only in them. We project               statement is true. The hardest part is


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