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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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