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and/or learning about our Astrology can  out there. So we go wandering around with
        be enlightening and liberating.                        our bags collecting these things.”



        The Self (God within, Carl Jung preferred              — Edward F. Edinger, Mystery of

        the term, the imago dei) chooses the perfect  the Conuinctio, Alchemical Images of
        person to help us individuate (become                  Individuation, pg 87
        whole and complete). This takes time

        and no one does it overnight. Our psyche               Over time, in our intimate relationships
        requires experiences to repeat and they will  we come face-to-face with our complexes

        get difficult to the degree we blame others            and especially the one {that is the NOT I}
        and refuse to look at ourselves. We will               called the shadow. The reason for many
        only be attracted to those who can fulfill             divorces is that people give up when they

        this task with us because we both have                 become two polarized extremes. Instead
        remarkably similar energy. Both people are  of doing the introspective work of making

        pushing something out of their awareness               their shadow conscious and confronting
        that they need for balance and wholeness.              their situation honestly, they run away
                                                               in search of another Anima or Animus

        “Well, you see everything occurs on the                projection. It takes two to communicate
        exterior at first. The psyche is all found on          authentically and commit to the process

        the outside — that’s where the alchemists              of individuation. The 7th House is an
        found it, and tribal societies even more               air house. Air = communication and
        so. It’s all outside initially, because the            objectivity. We can learn to balance the

        outside and the unconscious are effectively            opposites occurring in the shadow dance
        the same thing. Whatever is unconscious                and rewrite our story together.

        is exteriorized or at least available for
        exteriorization via projection. we’re                  Rebeca Eigen
        constantly going through the world gathering

        up fragments of our own exteriorized
        psyche — taking back projections — and

        we discover where they are by our reactions,
        either positive or negative. Whenever
        we come across something that evokes a

        response, that means a piece of own psyche is












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